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There is an annoying amount of rubbish traffic to my website and below is a selected (grep’ed) portion of it. The documentation URL logged describes the masscan tool as similar to nmap, its purpose is to find open ports on … Continue reading →

Interesting article on the register about Microsoft being fined for not being able to intercept skype calls back in 2012. Microsofts appeal failed and the fine stands. The reason that Microsoft was unable to intercept the skype calls for the … Continue reading →

Interesting article on Reuters. U.S. judge rules search warrants extend to overseas email accounts. A summary of the effects of that are covered in that article as well as getting a mention on the UK register site. Basically all those … Continue reading →

Interesting article on stuff, http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7054878/Dotcom-info-not-physical A few direct quotes from that article FBI agents who copied data from Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom’s computers and took it overseas were not acting illegally because information isn’t “physical material”, the Crown says. However, … Continue reading →

The trouble with microsoft is they think they know what is best for people. I had an external maxtor 1tb USB drive that just stopped working after a windows (win7) update; it still worked fine when plugged into a linux … Continue reading →

First of this is for Linux, specifically I did this on Fedora Core 16. Secondly I was using a Brother DPC-150C printer. On the actual server the USB printer was to be connected to I updated the /etc/cups file /admin … Continue reading →

Synergy is a free application to allow a ‘server’ to provide the mouse and keyboard input to other machines. So if you have a lot of machines around you and can see all their screens then synergy will allow you … Continue reading →

My main development server had 80Gb unused in one of the PVs; so I thought how can I use that. It wasn’t needed on that server but it was part of a large internal disk so I couldn’t just physically … Continue reading →

Found another bargain PC on trademe to replace yet another I have blown the video chip on a motherboard on. Looks like my 17inch LCD is what was causing everything to fry somehow, it just made the new one beep … Continue reading →

Yes, I still have one, a super non-powerfull P100 with a whole 128Mb of memory, running Fedora Core 3 (I think, been a while since I had that going). It’s been gathering dust for a while, suppose I better blow … Continue reading →