Posts Tagged “General”

Keepin' it simple – Grrrr, be aggressive!

Over at A Whole Lotta Nothing Matthew Haughey gives a simple example to explain why aggression might not be the best policy. I wish more Bush supporters could read this and grasp the idea that America isn’t any more special than other countries. Not likely however. Republicans Switch!

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Woo! Look at those wages!

So, where the hell can I go to be payed as much as the people surveyed in this report? What do I have to do? Sell my soul? (aka – use Windows )

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From the Deadly to the Bizarre!

This guy had a lucky escape! Builder survives nailgun accident – see the xray! 6 nails in his head! Wow! And then there was the woman who bought 10,000 Mars bars.. Won’t need to worry about breakfast for a while! hehe. And it seems IRC is under attack! Still, I.R.C. perhaps most closely resembles the [...]

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Dangerous Driving.. in Cork

I had to leave the office at lunchtime, and on the way back to the office I saw what was almost a very serious crash. Note, I said “crash”, it would have been no “accident”. Two lorries were in front of me, a heavy earth moving one and a container lorry. The container lorry driver [...]

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Data Recovery from a Hard Disk

Some of you may remember my bad luck with hard disks during the summer. One was a Fujitsu drive that died hours after I plugged it in when I got home. I lost a month’s worth of photographs from Chicago and that was obviously upsetting. Of course, after the rest of what’s happened it’s small [...]

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Poisonous Legacy

Don’t watch this flash animation if you’re squemish, you have been warned! It’s a protest against the use of depleted uranium as ammunition. (Thanks Paul for the link.)

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Spamassassin – scoring on DSL lines

Since upgrading to Spamassassin 2.60 yesterday I’ve noticed a (small) increase in false positives. There were only 4 out of 132 spams caught overnight, but almost all were from dsl or dynamic IP addresses. The default score for this test is 2.5, but if you add the following to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf you can change the score: [...]

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A PHP Application Installer

Wez is working on a generic PHP app installer which I’ll keep an eye on. I’m working on the same thing for b2 so we might be able to swap ideas around. Good luck! (via Simon) UPDATE – The project has it’s own website now!

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Hello world !

This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging !

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The Bible code I'm reading the …

The Bible code I’m reading the Bible Code by Michael Drosnin. The above article is a good critique of the book incase you’re worried the world will come to an end in 2006! (Google search I used to find that link)

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