It must be a sign of my age or something like that, because yesterday was the first time for a long time that I’ve not been able to solve a problem with windows! I was trying to fix a computer for a relative, what you would expect to be a simple problem that it was [...]
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Review of the Noughties
A really great review from the register of the last decade or is it the last decade! Anyway a great read about how things have changed in the world of technology. How the mighty have fallen and the once little start-up seems to be taking over the internet.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/noughties_review/
There is a flaw…
Well its taken me almost 6 months but I’ve finally found a flaw in my lovely iPhone! With all the “cold weather” that has hit the UK I’ve been having to wear gloves when being outside (understandably) unfortunately the iPhone does not work when wearing gloves. So the screen on an iPhone works [...]
Millennium Bug Update
Looks like the Millennium bug hit 10 years later than expected… after thinking about it last year I thought the next one was going to be a long way off but turns out it was 2009 -> 2010. Looks like a number of companies and countries have been effected by problems when everyone was shouting [...]
Eurostar and The Register
It was not just me commenting on the strange going on with the eurostar!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/22/eurostar_eurotunnel_fiasco/
Spam comments
After upgrading to the latest version of WPMU, I had a look around to see where there was a way of stopping spam comments since I was forever trying to delete them. Doing a quick search on wordpress.com (why didnt I do this eariler) there are a number of plugins available that force the user [...]
Using Bind 9 for Home DNS Server
I’ve been with 02 for just over a year now and after having a fantastic setup from them and to be honest a really good connection (over 9MB most of the time). One thing has really disappointed me… their DNS servers never seem to be as reliable as they should be. I thought it was [...]
Regular Expression
Its been a while since I’ve ventured into regular expressions, and I always seem to find it a nightmare when I come back to it. But I’ve found a great tutorial which gives a really good overview of each of the magic commands / syntax that you can use when performing the matching:
http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/regular_expressions.html
epfw testcase=validation/invalid-chars/epval-invalid-chars-bind36.xml trace_leve
l=3