Archive for February, 2007

Omg such a cynical world we live in.

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

I was reading some of the responses to this story on The Reg and this comment has to be the best... -- "it has taken this long to decipher the names and to confirm the identities using DNA analysis".WTF?Did they do a direct comparison with someone in particular (TB the PM would ...

Just have to blog this…

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

This is one of those things you just sometimes need to blog, got an email this morning from Nik more of a forward of a post from another place. It had me laughing for a good 20 mins.. WISDOM - FROM THE MILITARY MANUAL"A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade ...

Added a new scanner

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Well added the F-Secure Security Platform to the VDot Malware scanner. It replaces the Ikarus Scanner which is being removed due to poor performance.

VMware Fusion

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

So been playing playing with the VMWare Fusion on the Mac it it pretty handy and works pretty well. UI isn't finished yet so there are a bunch of things you just cannot do from it, such as adding multiple disks or new hardware to the virtual machine. It is possible ...

Scanner Version 2.0

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

So the scanner is now over a year old, I'll be adding F-Secure's scanner to it in the next few days. But I think it is nearly time for version 2.0 of the Scanner. My plan is a total rewrite, and this time in Ruby, actually it will probably be ...

Apparently Tony Blair Isn’t Leaving Office

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

In a comment I heard today apparently Tony Blair wants have Gun Crime dealt with before he leaves office.. I'm beginning to think he thinks he may be in office for the next decade or so.. I bet Gordon Brown is going to be pissed.. But seriously making statements like this ...

Ok…

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

So today I moved the box for secondary mail relay, webmail and DNS for the VDot domain. This has been on the cards for a while, the old box was a little money drain to be honest. The plan it was on was had a 10Gb per month usage plan ...

Moving the Blog

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Well the blog should be moved to a replacement server as the old one has problems... At the same time, DNS, Mail Secondary and webmail for the VDot domain should be moved too..

Hmm.. Almost a year

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Well the scanner on VDot has been online almost a year, it seems pretty popular. Added google analytics to give me a better picture of the visitor flow. I also had to swap out the quarantine disk for a larger one, the original disk was a 17Gb disk and was ...

Ruby….

Friday, February 9th, 2007

No don't mean rhyming slang for a curry... I've been teaching myself to script in Ruby the last few days... I had a small problem, basically I use a Mac and I need to access some calendaring information held in Exchange, I need a reliable means to dump the information ...