Recently, someone fairly well known in certain circles committed suicide. People commit suicide all the time of course, but this person could fairly be described as a form of genius, a polymath, hero to many. Since their sphere of influence was (is!) strongly Internet-based, the net has been alive for weeks with people feeling the [...]
I use Firefox web browser, currently on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. For many years I have set the config option middlemouse.contentLoadURL to true so that middle clicking anywhere in the page (that does not accept input) will load the URL that is in my clipboard. After restarting my web browser somewhere near the end of January [...]
Right, System Integrators – those companies that buy components from Supermicro et al and build you a server out of them. You guys seem to have a bit of a fascination with screwing. Screwing things in as tight as you can. Please stop. It’s 100% true that vibration of components like hard disks is bad. [...]
On November 2nd I received this spam: (some headers removed; xxxxxxxxxxx@strugglers.net is my censored email address) Received: from mail15.soatube.com ([184.105.143.66]) by mail.bitfolk.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from <bounce@soatube.com%gt;) id 1RLikr-00070I-6U for xxxxxxxxxxx@strugglers.net; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:53:57 +0000 Received: from [64.62.145.53] (mail3.soatube.com [64.62.145.53]) by mail15.soatube.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B324181CFF for <xxxxxxxxxxx@strugglers.net>; Wed, 2 Nov [...]
The saga so far I have a phone line from BT. I only use it for ADSL (which I get from Zen Internet). I gave my email address to BT because they offered to tell me useful things about my account via email. I now wish I had never done this. I use extension addresses [...]
The first season of Game of Thrones finished this week and I have to say, I found it compelling entertainment. Given its strong British cast (Sean Bean, Mark Addy, Michelle Fairley, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, …) and filming locations predominantly in Northern Ireland, why could this not have been a British production instead of an [...]
A nice email from Tuscany Networks in my inbox the other day: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:19:36 +0000 From: marketing To: <elided>@bitfolk.com Subject: DNSSEC- Become Compliant Reply-To: marketing@tuscanynetworks.com Your email client cannot read this email. To view it online, please go here: <URL elided> To stop receiving these emails:<URL elided> So what happened here? [...]
I’ve got this server in my loft at home that’s mainly a file server for the data we use/view/listen to here. It looks like this: A bit of a beast. When I bought it over 4 years ago I somehow thought I’d be adding a lot more drives. Anyway. It’s been a good, reliable bit [...]
I’m on a couple of fairly busy mailing lists which by their nature have loose or no moderation. It’s natural that some mailing lists work well with tight moderation, even perhaps requiring every post to be approved, but it’s more common for there to be little or no moderation. This is not a bad thing; [...]
Feltham Airparcs leisure centre has for the last 2 weeks — and ongoing — closed at 4pm, instead of 10pm, because the emergency lighting doesn’t work. The actual lighting works fine, it’s just that if the lighting did fail then there’d be no emergency lights directing the shallow end of the gene pool to safety. [...]
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