Well I’ve moved the blogs over to https… it was a bit of a pain and I was really starting to bash my head against the wall with Lets Encrypt’s utilities. But then I stopped trying to be clever and used certbot-auto –manual certonly I then provided a list of the subdomains I wanted to […]
Yet more stupid spam arrived in my inbox today. Lets just take two examples from the small tsunami that arrived. What spammers forget is that sending TWO emails from different people to the SAME address with similar messages in it really does give the game away. Then why on earth should someone send Security alert […]
I’m planning on being on holiday later in the year (see Liverpool in the Autumn for more details ) and I’m planning on doing some blogging whilst we’re underway. So I want to be able to write my posts on my laptop when I’m disconnected from the internet and then connect and push the post […]
The mobile browser news feed for Facebook includes a section featuring “sponsored” pages which they think you might want to like. You can’t hide this section but their selection criteria is totally crap.. So lets start with this – I drive a Volvo…. A super car it isn’t and I’ve no real interest in […]
I got a lot of hits with a referrer of keywords-monitoring-your-success . com Lots of different IP addresses – all in Brazil… And guess what : yes its the scum at Semalt up to their old tricks again. Why can’t they just fuck off and stop pissing people off. Re-write rules added to block them […]
It’s pretty obvious that spammers (i.e. the people controlling the compromised machines that are doing the work) are a bunch of stupid fuckwits… This site gets between 10 and 20 spam comments a day… None of them have appeared because I use Askimet : But they obviously never check that its working – mind you […]
The weather was good with temperatures in the low 50’s °F – its often much colder at this time of year. There were going to be 13 of us for Thanksgiving Dinner and as we wanted enough left overs to go round we’d decided to cook two turkeys. But how do you do that with […]
A few notes on how to restore dual boot after a Toshiba BIOS update.
We’ve got a pretty good routine working for flying to America. It starts with driving down to Heathrow the night before the flight and staying in a hotel close to the airport – usually the Park Inn as it does park and fly deals where you can get a room and 15 days of parking […]
The following emails arrived in exactly the order they are shown here…… something tells me the University has a bit of a botnet going on.