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First off I better explain what a WISP , it means Wireless Internet Service Provider. For this sorry tale the WISP in question is OceanTelecom who operate in West Waterford/East Cork. I got a call the other day from my friend’s wife who was having problems receiving mail from her eircom.net account when using POP [...]

I’ve just had 7 IP addresses from Verizon crawl through almost every page on my domain. That is blog.sweetnam.eu, tech.sweetnam.eu, www.sweetnam.eu and sweetnam.eu. A total of 5368 requests, in 3 hours! Odd things is that none of the IPs in question were typical crawlers as each IP requested an entire page at a time. Given [...]

Just checking my logs – Hmm “not a single visitor since 10pm last night?” Strange. “I know my DNS server was down for maintenence but I definitely recreated my DNS Zone.” Quick check, “Bugger! I forgot to add an entry for blog.sweetnam.eu!” Oh well, I’m back now.

Over the weekend I was in conversation via e-mail with The Other Fellow. Over the course of our correspondence I mentioned my setup here at home. Later on that evening I began to realise just how ludicrous my setup has become. I have four different networks, three wireless access points, and an unearthly amount of [...]

I think I have finally had enough of the festive cheer. Combined with the fact I still have almost three weeks holidays left I think I have gone a bit mad. I was clearing out my computer room and came across an old PC that served me well in the past. It was a faithful [...]

As I will be off to college on Monday I won’t have anywhere near a fraction of the time that I used to for messing about with all my various servers here. I figured it would make a lot more sense to consolidate my various sites onto the one machine if at all possible. So [...]

I’ve been on and on about using Squid as a reverse proxy that at times it must seem that I’m bordering on being completely obsessed with it. Well I suppose that is partly true. The performance boost that it can deliver is staggering and to get an idea of how well it performs look no further [...]

Eircom promised to upgrade their customers broadband speeds by the end of July and with just 5 days to go I noticed my connection restart. A quick check of the router homepage and sure enough – I’ve been upgraded to 7.6Mb. I thought I was supposed to have been upgraded to 10Mb as I previously [...]