Been away in the caravan this weekend and my wife??who??HATES, with a vengance, any gadgets and not to mention the fact I hold a Radio Amateur Licence,?? ??spent the weekend reading my stuff magazine and chatting to random people on the camp site with PMR446 walkie talkies ………
[UPDATE: 2-Aug-2006 16:45]
Bizzare behaviour continues, she is now reading and commenting on BLOGS !!!!
Due to some lack of forsight and planning on my behalf, this blog site was not configured correctly as a subdomain of species5618.net??on my web server
After some backups and some very carefull deletetion and recreation of the domain on the web server, all is now correct, and yet more amazing still working !!
Whoooo Hoooooo !!!!
A campsite with WiFi internet
Some FUC*&%$# \/\/ankers are spoofing my domain to send spam, AAAARRRGGGHH
As I run some fairly heavey and successful anti spam measures for my domain I run catch all, really useful for the web forms where you need and email address but don’t want to use the main one !
however over the past few days it has been filling up with bounced spam, ie stuff which is rejected and returned to its “apparent” sender
so much for sender policy framework 🙁
I have got my self a virtual dedicated linux server hosted in a pucker internet datacentre,
A virtual dedicated server is a entire real installation of a linux server to which i have full root access but on a shared hardware platform, making it cost roughtly 50% less than a proper dedicated box
So this blog is no longer coming from a old DELL desktop stuffed under a desk in my home……
Now all I need is a few customers to help cover the costs
If anyone is interested it ony took me about 90 minutes to migrate this entire blog and my mambo site
I have even started to use VI line editor to make minor config changes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now for the impressive bit :-
The ISP took 87 minutes to deliver my server after I placed the order.
now that is impressive !
Had a fantastic time away over easter in the caravan, weather was OK, Did absolutly nothing, which was the whole point
only issue was the pitch, right next to some 30-40 foot trees, and guess which way the satelite dish needed to point
🙁
I have recently been called to a friends house to look at an issue with their broadband connection being very unreliable, dropping out etc.
Having been on site for an hour broadband seem to work fine, line stats were good etc etc,
and then the phone rang…. and the ADSL dropped
Hmmmmm. Faulty filter? I thought, Pull out a few cupboards to get to the phone socket
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AARRGGHH !!!?
All of the Phones etc where plugged directly into the wall socket, the only thing connected to the filter was the USB modem !!!
Apparently they had SKY+ and SKY multiroom installed, and the so called “Engineer” had added some extra sockets etc and reconnected everything in the wrong order and in the process completely screwed the ADSL connection !
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Just read this “Big Brother & email”
Which to cut a long story short , links to an interesting vnunet artilcle, which goes on to say
China Bans Running Your Own Email Server, outragous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The girlfriend has been badgering me about doing a proper web site for her after the wedding count down expires. however she can’t be bothered with layout, html, css etc, so I figured I need a CMS (Content management system) !
Hmmmm, main site is windows, windows CMS systems are either expensive or crap. So I looked at LAMP based CMS, afterall this blog and my wiki project is LAMP.
Enter mambo,
download, untar, unzip, setup virtual site in apache2, run install, WOW it worked first time !!!!
Add a shocking pink template and we are up and running with a site she likes, all in less then and hour
http://home.theresahampton.com
Check this out? http://www.helpwinmybet.com/
Basically the story is this,
Jim said to his girlfriend that any stupid website could get tons of hits, simply because people are bored all the time. She said that He was an idiot and couldn???t make a website that could get tons of hits if he wanted to. After a long argument (mostly centered around the fact that she called him an idiot) they made a bet:
If he could not make a website to get 2,000,000 hits, he would agree that I was an idiot; however, if he could make a website to get 2,000,000 hits, she would have a menage a trois (that’s a threesome to you non french-speakers) with him and another girl. he thought she was kidding at the time, but then she said she was so sure of herself, that she would even put it in writing.
Current hits at the time of this blog 2,892,899
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