Vodafone/Hauwei USB HSDPA Modem & Vista
We “upgraded” our Vodafone PCMCIA data cards for USB versions when we bought new laptops with ExpressCard rather than PCMCIA sockets, only to find that the rebranded Huawei E220 was not recognised by...
View ArticleNintendo DS has region-locked online play :(
Sometimes, you discover things that realy make you blood boil – especially if apparently motivated by thoughtlessness rather than by design… Take, for example, the Nintendo DS: an excellent handheld...
View ArticleInappropriate images…
I’ve just seen this image on the the UK Government’s Consumer Direct Trading Standards website, here. I’d love to know the thinking (if you can call it that) behind that one… or not (And who says that...
View ArticleVodafone illegally intercepting 3G-users’ email?
Some of the guys at work have been reporting for several days that they haven’t been able to send email when working off-site and connecting to the internet by their Vodafone 3G dongles. Specifically,...
View ArticleServer change
Perhaps WordPress has become slower in recent releases, perhaps I’ve broken something by running a non-prelinked system – but in any case, running this blog from my trustworthy SGI O2 was just getting...
View ArticlePC Engines ALIX-based m0n0wall
I noticed recently that when certain house-mates turned on their computers, suddenly my internet connection would become very slow and highly unreliable – ah, the joys of Bittorrent and P2P traffic...
View ArticleSpeed test: 802.11n vs. HomePlug AV
I have a somewhat complex home network setup consisting of seperate 802.11n and 802.11b/g wireless routers, HomePlug AV (which is supposed to present a maximum throughput of 200Mb/s to 100Mb ethernet...
View ArticleBlog update…
I’ve just added a new top-level page named Downloads in a first-pass attempt to provide the framework to allow the migration of all of the data from my (old, off-line) O2 server to this new Mini-ITX...
View ArticleGentoo Linux ebuild for SilverStripe 2.2.3
We’ve recently been working on remodelling our corporate website, and the decision has been made to make use of the SilverStripe CMS. Given that we are a Gentoo Linux shop and that SilverStripe hasn’t...
View ArticleWide-spread exploitation of security hole in Windows Live Mail
Yesterday, April 5th 2009 at approximately 4:30pm (BST), several messages were sent from my HoTMaiL account to every single one of my MSN contacts. Luckily, this account is long-dormant – but...
View ArticleYikes, I’m on slashdot!
Hotmailers Hawking Hoax Hunan Half-Offs Server seems to be coping for now (and saying that’s likely the kiss of death…) Original post here – be gentle
View ArticleGetting Jetpack to work with WordPress
For what must be many months now, my local installation of WordPress has been hassling me to install the Jetpack plugin. It sounded sorta useful, so I dutifully clicked on Install and was told:...
View ArticleDyn SLA Update – or, How To Lose Friends and Alienate Customers
I today received an email from Dyn (previously DynDNS), stating: Starting now, if you would like to maintain your free Dyn account, you must log into your account once a month. Failure to do so will...
View ArticleDon’t update Google Authenticator for iOS!
On Tuesday, Google released an iOS update for it’s Authenticator app, which adds support for the iPhone 5′s screen-resolution, an iOS 7-like user interface… and wipes all of your existing tokens. This...
View ArticleAdBlock source-code on github.com
At the end of July, Wladimir Palant of Adblock Plus wrote a blog post which criticised Michael Gundlach‘s AdBlock for several reasons, but most worryingly: AdBlock has no scruples to assign unique IDs...
View ArticleAdBlock Censorship :(
On the 13th September, the AdBlock team posted to Google+: We at AdBlock believe that our users should have freedom. That’s why we block all ads by default and release our code for anyone at...
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