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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Some of you may be aware of the setup that I have here at home that dishes this blog and several other sites out onto the world wild web. I have probably an overly complicated setup in which I have no less than 3 backend servers with a Squid Proxy server acting as the front [...]

What on earth were Microsoft thinking? Take the screenshot below. It is from an installation of Windows Server 2008. More specifically it is the window that pops up when you click on the icon that tells you that updates are available. What is wrong with this picture? Well for a start it lists the updates [...]

Given the battering AVG have recieved and the battering a lot of web servers have received, my own included, AVG are finally pushing out a new update to all of its users to disable the Link scanner feature. It will take a few days before all users get the update so we should see a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]