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Due to having copious amounts of time since being being made redundant I’ve been trying to keep busy as best I can. Of course Lucas keeps me busy at times but I also need to feed my inner geek. So for the past couple of days I’ve made a cantenna and have been busy circling [...]

I wrote last month about an enormous amount of traffic being directed to this blog all of a sudden. The culprit is the latest version of AVG antivirus which installs a module called ‘Linkscanner’. Essentially what this does is when someone searches Google for example, Linkscanner will automatically check every link in the results. The [...]

The first ethernet switch has arrived on the international space station. They now have their own fully functioning network on board. No wireless for them. The reason I’m mentioning this is that the switch that they chose was none other than the very same that dished out this page that you are reading now. You [...]

Maybe someone might be able to enlighten me? I’ve been observing some really, really strange behaviour while looking through my log files. Two posts that I put up a few months ago are getting a lot of traffic. 896 hits alone on one and 154 on the other. in the past three days. Now that [...]

Moving things around here today. Upgrading operating systems and moving servers about the place and so on. So there will be some interruptions to the normal service. Tasks to get done are in no particular order: Move all my hosted sites to another server here. Setup new server to move sites to. Retire my elderly [...]

In keeping with the endless tinkering of my various sites, I’ve relocated my blog over to one of the two Sun Sparc Blades I got last week. So this is now being dished out to you via Solaris 10. Migrating was quite simple. Once I moved the database and my WordPress installation over I was [...]

Another hard drive has gone to wherever it is that hard drives go when they die. This one however was in my firewall/router/outgoing proxy server. I noticed lots of disk thrashing going on and couldn’t connect through ssh. Once I hooked up a monitor there were loads of filesystem errors flashing past the console. I [...]

I’ve been debating this with myself for a while now and I’ve decided to forge ahead. When I originally started this blog almost two years ago I originally envisaged it as mainly technology and I.T. related. However as time marched on it has become more of a personal blog. And I thank you my dear [...]