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Too much furniture

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Steve

So all the furniture arrived. The New England dresser has replaced the sideboard. We have a dry-sink unit to replace the butcher block – when we can work out where to put that. The “new” dining table is still propped … Continue reading →

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Spring Cleaning

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Steve

We’ve got some furniture arriving from the USA in a week or so and so we’ve been working on making space in the house for it and also making sure that there is space to bring it into the house … Continue reading →

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Botnet stopped…

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Steve

Either its been taken off line or I’ve blocked all its IPs. No more new additions for over 24 hours:   Status for the jail: dovecot-disconnect |- filter | |- File list: /var/log/mail.log | |- Currently failed: 0 | `- … Continue reading →

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Out with the old …. and in with the New

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Steve

Its time to say goodbye to the Renault Megane RT Sport DTi: First registered in 1999 old age has suddenly started to catch up on it. The MOT was due and I knew it needed: Driver side passenger door fixing … Continue reading →

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Totally lost for words

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Steve

I use Akismet on this site to trap spam. But even if I didn’t and I just relied on manually approving comments what sort of stupid idiot pays people to post rubbish like the following: Obviously its junk and would … Continue reading →

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So first it was the Chinese, then it was the Brazillians. Now its Capita trying to break into my site.

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Steve

Capita – that company who the UK Government think can be trusted to run so much of our infrastructure can’t apparently stop their own network from being used to attempt to hack servers: 31.222.208.86 – – [03/Dec/2014:01:22:43 +0000] “GET /wp/wp-login.php … Continue reading →

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Scribbled notes on fixing bad blocks

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Steve

#smartctl -t short /dev/sdb then #smartctl -a /dev/sdb SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 20% 50556 1132724807 # 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 50556 … Continue reading →

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Facebook full of nothing….

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Steve

Sometimes there is a lot of nothing on Facebook. Today there is nothing at all on Facebook:

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And even more uselessness from the arses at EE

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Steve

So not only does their mobile app not work – they’ve also screwed up their SSL certificates…

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Semalt really don’t get it

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Steve

I posted on Semalt’s facebook and they deleted my posts. I made another post suggesting that deleting my posts simply confirmed that they were a rogue element. Then they tried to friend me… I have a rule on Facebook : … Continue reading →

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