The Foley House

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 MX, SPF and some CNAME records. The only non-working part was the start page as ...

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-channel 

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 Settings\Accepted Documents, I removed a couple of ...

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 Virgin Media cable). It turns out that all you have to do is to change the user agent (UA) ...

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.

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 The use of Right([Comments],5,2) allows an SCL of -1 through 9 to display ...

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:

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 scheduled scans and I deceided to reinstall it as a troubleshooting step.  Despite ...

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 nprobe sshd[816]: Invalid user aaa from ...

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: