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The problems I was having with all comments automatically being flagged as spam has been fixed. (I hope!) I’m not exactly sure what happened but I shutdown my reverse proxy to reconfigure it and cleared it’s cache and all seems to be well again. Now for the neat stuff. Unfortunately most of you will never [...]

Some family members were greeted this morning with letters from the Irish Blood Transfusion Service. Not me though as I haven’t been able to donate for a few years. The letter was a notification of a laptop belonging to the IBTS had been stolen in New York recently and that records of some of my [...]

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 [...]

This exploit is no longer viable and the issue was resolved not long after discovery around November 2007. As is the case with almost all software, it always pays to keep your software updated.. Firstly, before I continue this post you do change your passwords regularly don’t you? I was having a look over my [...]