Archive for December, 2006

First Time in a While

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

First time for a long time I've had a virus via email manage to hit my mail box before the scanner got a signature update. In the mail config on sugargrove we have Sophos Sweep running on there and it missed copies of a worm that poses are a New ...

Hack attacks from China Fall

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

Why, well the earthquake in Taiwan has restricted access to the Internet for a lot of chinese.

I cannot move.. Ho Hum…

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

Hmm.. Second day I cannot hardly move... That will teach me for eating so much Turkey... There was a time when you'd only have Turkey on Christmas and maybe at Easter, these days you can pretty much have it any time so it seems to have lost it's novelty. I ...

Increase in SPAM

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

I've noticed something of a fairly large increase in the volume of spam I've been receiving over the last 3 days. For instance in the last hour my DSPAM on my VDot email had stopped over 50 spam mails. With the previous 4 hours it stopping over 400. Been debating switching ...

Feed Misuse

Friday, December 15th, 2006

I've been watching for a long time someone that has been scraping the RSS feed off VDot and then using on their link farm site. Now to a certain extent I tolerated this because they would keep a link back to the full article on the VDot site. Thus ...

Still can’t sleep

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Although the news on the job front is positive at the moment, I'm still having trouble sleeping. I'm basically having to make myself exhausted before I can sleep, which seems to mean at the moment spend 48+ hours awake and then collapse in bed. Liza thinks I've gone insane... I'm starting ...

Victoria Cross

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

Been watching the show on Channel 5 about the history of the Victoria Cross, it was quite interesting. I was looking around and was looking at the details of various people who have been awarded the honour. There have only been 3 people who have been awarded it more than ...