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Transistion to Cloud Servers
I'm moving all my locally hosted content to cloud based servers. So far I have moved my email to Google Apps For Your Domain and I have created a new blog (no content yet) to replace this one. The Gmail move went pretty well as all I had to do was update Read More...
How to get the latest build of Chrome
Hacked off by the fact that IE8 has stopped responding my system, and not wanting to reboot right, I decided to start using Chrome again. I has been using the beta builds before but forgot how to get them. You can find out how here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channe Read More...
D-Link DCS-6620G - HTTP 400 Bad Request
After the install of Silverlight - My D-Link DCS-6620G camera started returning HTTP 400 Bad Request errors. After a bit of investigation, I found this: http://silverlight.net/forums/p/7452/77779.aspx Locating the key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Read More...
BBC iPlayer on Windows Vista
I had worked out sometime ago how to install Sky Anytime onto my Laptop (useful for those stays away), but I wanted to install the BBC iPlayer back onto my desktop after an upgrade to Windows Vista (I have no need for 4OD as it is delivered through my Read More...
Greylisting on Exchange 2003
A massive increase in Spam, particularly PDF attached stock scams, has happened here recently. I decided to look for something different and found this free Greylisting product for Exchange 2000\2003. Read More...
How to Display SCL (Spam Confidence Level) in Outlook 2007
Firstly, download and install this Exchange Event Sink as described here: http://www.ivasoft.biz/showscl.shtml Secondly, create a custom formula field to display the SCL as described here: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=739718&SiteID=17 Read More...
ebay Broken?
Good start to the day, I need to buy some stuff for Christmas and ebay seems broken for me: That's happening for every item so I wonder how much money they are losing? Managed to see the item a few seconds later, bought it but got this: Read More...
Windows Genuine Advantage - Internet Connection Problem [0x80080293]
It's all well and good having Windows Genuine Advantage so that only licensed users can download products and fixes but surely the servers should be highly available or it defeats the purpose? I have a problem with Windows Defender not carrying out Read More...
Blocking hackers access to SSH
Since putting a Suse 10 box on the internet and allowing SSH through the firewall we have been getting attempts like this on a regular basis: May 27 09:14:20 nprobe sshd[689]: Did not receive identification string from 140.136.158.182 May 27 09:20:40 Read More...
Firefox Font Problem
Does anyone know why Firefox has started doing this? It's not just on the rendered pages because it's doing similar weird font things in it's own dialogue boxes: Read More...
How to prevent Squid caching .asp pages
We need to access a (poorly behaved) website at work and it doesn't play nice with Squid. I've put the following in to try and force it not to cache .asp pages no matter what the cache settings are. refresh_pattern \.asp$ 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern \.aspx$ Read More...
Using MRTG to monitor Cable Modem Bandwidth
There is a really good readme to be found here: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/windows_nt_idiot.htm This allows you to setup mrtg to monitor any single device. Read More...
Capturing RM media files
I found a nifty little prog to capture Real Media streaming files today called Stream Down. http://stream-down.cocsoft.com/ Read More...
Comment Spam
Got my first blog comment spam today. Shame I subscribe to this way of thinking. ;-) Read More...
Free eMail certificates
You can obtain them from here: http://www.thawte.com/ Read More...
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