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Spamwise.org – Spamming Us to Tell Us About Spamming
Just received the below email from Spamwise. They harvested one of my email addresses from my blog, so they could send me an email, to tell me my email addresses could be harvested by Spammers, with the stated intention of reducing unnecessary emails. So anyway, I try...
Gallery 3 Super-Large Thumbnails
Problem: The G3 RC2 Gallery, in album view, displays random `thumbnails' that are full sized. (e.g. the size of the real photo). Cause I am trialling Gallery 3 RC2 hosted on Dreamhost shared hosting. I think the way Gallery 3 generates thumbnails is that it takes the...
Encryption Overhead – Sometimes Good Ol’ FTP is the Answer
I just started copying some files from a Windows XP Pro VMWare VM to a Redhat 3.1 Server VM hosted on their own private network on a VMWare ESXi 4.x server. Using WinSCP from the XP Pro Client with SSH as the transfer protocol I was seeing ~5,000KB/s. So I stopped the...
Roof Restoration
Our humble timber cottage has an old tin roof. We can't afford to get it replaced at the moment but have gotten it pressure washed and painted in Shale Grey Colour. So now we are waiting for Google Maps to update it's...
Back to Ubuntu 10.04
I have for several months been giving Fedora 13 a go as my primary OS. Fedora is what it is— A beta release for a product that will be rebadged and released when it's finished. As a distribution it's not really playing in the same league as Ubuntu. The polish...
Bluefish for Windows
Attempting to install Bluefish on Windows XP Pro SP3 I went here http://code.google.com/p/bluefish-win/ Which sent me to here http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluefish/files/ Which gave me a download link here...