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More benchmark madness
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 supposeĀ 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 [...]
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Keeping the spambots and crawlers at bay
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 [...]
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New Adventures in WiFi
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 [...]
Jul 24th, 2008 | Filed under Blog, Curiosities, Hardware, Interesting, Networking, Personal, Routers, Technical, WiFi -
Good news from AVG
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 [...]
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AVG Antivirus sending me lots of unwanted traffic and how I dealt with it
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 [...]
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An Irish Botnet? Extremely strange and I have no idea what’s causing it.
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 [...]
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So long and thanks for all the blocks
Back in the first week of May I wrote that I was getting an error from one of the disks from the RAID array on my main workstation. Well it has finally died on me. I configured them in a RAID 0 array for a boost in performance and one of them has just given [...]
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7 hours, 7 long hours and still not finished
It’s enough to drive you to drink. A friend bought a new laptop for his son recently. Nothing special about the laptop, an Acer Extensa 5220 but quite nice nonetheless as a surfing, mail and watching DVD’s machine. They bought in mid April and it went kaput 5 days ago so he asked me to [...]