Sending SMS with a Huawei E220
Today I decided to play with an old Huawei E220 I have lying around. After getting it setup and recognised in linux by following the first 5 steps from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3656717...
View ArticleUbuntu on HP Compaq Mini 311c-1030SA
I recently purchased a HP Compaq Mini 311c-1030SA with nvidia ION and built in 3G, unfortunately the 3G card is a "UN2400" which isn't supported right out of the box as it requires proprietary...
View ArticleGreasemonkey script for hp.com forums
If you've ever visited the hp.com forums you'll know that any links in the post get enclosed by a call to "javascript:openExternal('')" in the href rather than doing it properly in onClick. Amongst...
View ArticleA tale of two monitors
So, a while back (just under 3 years ago) I obtained 2 of Hyundai's W240D monitors. These monitors had (I believe) PVA panels and worked fine for most of their life so far. A while back they both...
View ArticleIPv6 with Endian Community Firewall (EFW) 2.4.0
First post in over a year! Oops. For a while now, my home ADSL provider (EntaNET) has provided me with an IPv6 allocation, but I've never really used it (Its been on my todo list for some time)...
View ArticleUpdate iptables on Endian Community Firewall (EFW) 2.4.0
Compiling ip6tables on Endian Community Firewall (EFW) 2.4.0 Unfortunately the version of ip6tables available at the time of fedora core 3 doesn't support the 'state' or 'comment' modules for use with...
View ArticleMicrosoft Lync on Linux
Update: This post still gets a lot of search traffic hits, but is now over a year old, and I no longer have a need to use lync, so haven't needed to keep this working. I believe that the ubuntu repos...
View ArticleGMail – apply labels to email from group members – Redux
A while ago I posted a python script that allowed automaticall adding labels to gmail messages based on contact groups. Unfortunately, a side effect of this script was that Google occsaionally would...
View ArticleWebsite Reshuffle
Over the past few weekends I've been (slowly) working on moving my websites around a bit so that things are all in once place, and in the case of this blog, no longer hosted on my home ADSL connection....
View ArticleLimiting the effectiveness of DNS Amplification
I recently had the misfortune of having a server I am responsible for used as a target for DNS Amplification, and thought I'd share how I countered this. (Whilst this was effective for me, your mileage...
View ArticleIt’s been a while…
It's been a while since I updated this. Not through a lack of wanting to, more a combination of things - lack of time, lack of anything worth writing, hating the old blog theme... So I've replaced the...
View ArticleCaptcha Woes
Even the most complex captchas can be bypassed, if not tested thoroughly enough. Some time ago, I implemented a captcha on my comments form for news posts, to stop spam bots. My captcha is quite...
View ArticleDelphi/FreePascal MySQL.pas
Due to a recent need in a project of mine for mySQL access from delphi/freepascal I have adapted the version of mysql.pas from http://www.fichtner.net/delphi/mysql.delphi.phtml to load both...
View ArticleLinux Desktop
With the release of windows vista, comes the start-of-the-end for Windows XP. with its EOL (End-Of-Life) date now set at January 30th 2008 (that’s less than a year away), people (by people I mean...
View ArticleDMDirc
I (Along with Chris ‘MD87’ Smith and Greg ‘Greboid’ Holmes have recently started working on DMDirc (again, only this time its in Java to help towards the original aim of the project to be a decent,...
View ArticleEmail Woes
On a daily basis, I get around 800 emails to my email accounts, of which most of it is spam. Now as good as thunderbird is at detecting spam, even it fails at a lot of the spam I receive, leaving me...
View ArticleOpenID
Recently I finally finished adding support for AuthGate to be an OpenID Provider. This prompted Chris to develop Poidsy, which I have also implemented into AuthGate. This allows people to login to...
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