Someone recently asked on the Sussex LUG list about whether most spam comes from malware-infected Windows machines or misconfigured Linux/unix mail servers.
The question as posed is difficult to answer, but as it happens I have for the last 10 days or so been running p0f against all port 25 connections to mail-in-01.lug.org.uk, the mail server […]
Thanks Intarweb, just when I thought I had seen it all.
Tyneandthyneagain becomes the 9th horse to die during the Grand National, and the 32nd horse to die at Aintree in the last 10 years. Tyneandthyneagain suffered a fatal spinal injury and had to be put down.
Only 9 of the 40 horses managed to complete the race.
Please think about this next year when you’re asked […]
D-Link: Don’t understand how not to abuse a public service, and then would rather use a metric fucktonne of lawyers as opposed to a nanoteaspoon of clue.
Last night we finally got around to having our Strugglers Poker Night. Unfortunately I did not do anywhere near as well as in my first poker game!
There were four of us present: myself, Matt, Phil and Simon. We started playing just after 8pm, and stuck to the plan until just after 10pm when […]
A few weeks ago (yes, I suck at blogging on time) I took a brief trip up to Birmingham to visit my parents. I think the last time I was up there was Christmas 2004; I’d missed out last Christmas because of work committments, and I was under a lot of pressure to make […]
Following an extremely ill-advised and abusive April Fools “joke” by Rob Levin, who basically runs freenode, I have decided that I cannot support a network that condones such behaviour.
My main problem with the “prank” is that it completely disrupted the help channel of another network for a long period of time. In fact the […]