Archive for June, 2005
Thursday, June 30th, 2005
So been noticing an increase in trackback ping spam this last couple of weeks. Anything new I post doesn't allow pings or comments without first being logged in. But it is annoying, but at least MT-Blacklist is doing it's job and blocking most of the trackbacks and allowing me to ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
So it is after 3am here in Madrid in a datacenter of the client doing some testing and we’ve about 2 hours to go until we finish and we’re running low on things to look at.
Found some stuff, nothing too major but at least they are findings and that is ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
It seems seagate have announced an interesting addition to their Hard Disk line, a 2.5 inch hard disk with built in Triple DES encryption at a platter level. However the key for the encrypted contents is stored on an area of the disk platter which according to Seagate no one ...
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
So this morning almost failed to catch my flight, there was an accident on the A4 out of London and it took an hour to get from home to A4 at Hogarths roundabout. Managed with luck to do the last bit from there to Heathrow in 30 mins, then a 20 ...
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
Hmm.. Seem to have located a Belgian Beer Cafe of the same group as the ones we found in Australia and New Zealand.. It can be found here…
Belgian Beer Café ‘Cafeeke’c./ Cuchilleros, 328005 MadridTel. +34 91 366 98 42
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
Well it is the calm before the flight where I sit and drink my coffee and figure out if I left anything.
Done the packing, got x pairs of socks, boxers and t-shirts, pants and suit. Oh, don’t forget the shoes for the suit and the washing and shaving stuff.. I ...
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Sunday, June 26th, 2005
The OpenRBL service which many have used in the war against SPAM closed this week. The site reports that it has been pretty much running on auto-pilot for the last two years and finally after losing the backend databases the site has closed.
The site recommends two alternatives here and here. ...
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Sunday, June 26th, 2005
Well off to Madrid tomorrow for 10 days, not especially looking forward to it. One, I’m away from home. Two, Fat, White English man in Spain in June/July I’m going to be sweating for the next 10 days like a pig. Three, I hate Heat and Sun and unless Spain ...
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
So I'm still amazed at the whole US GP situation, I cannot understand why the F1 powers that be don't understand the big picture. Just in case they are reading this, it is ENTERAINING THE RACE FANS!!!!! Without the fans watching the racing there would be no ticket sales, no ...
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
Right well I switched over the mail handling from the old Virus.Org server to the new one today after setting it up over the weekend. Everything seems to be up and running okay and mail is flowing. If your reading this and you had an account on there for mail ...
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