Monthly Archives: March 2011

Another day, another unknown email spammer brought down. Gregory – Regardless of how the rest of your day goes, here’s something to be happy about — today one of your donated MXs helped to identify a previously unknown email harvester … Continue reading →

My wordpress blog has wp-spamfree installed and protecting me from spam comments. It does a great job and I heartily recommend it. One of the features is a log file with the contents of any spam comments so you can … Continue reading →

Hands up if you use a plugin for automatically converting your wordpress blog content to other languages. Now keep your hands up if you add scripts to your blog that google happily munches through and translates for you. For those … Continue reading →

Amend this script for your own needs Note that it converts filenames to lowercase and replaces spaces with _ The playlist is saved as playlist.plist You may need to install efixtool if it is not included in your distro: sudo … Continue reading →

From an email I received this morning: [quote]Dear [redacted] Thank you for placing your order, reference number [redacted]. Unfortunately we have suffered a surprisingly high demand for the Nexus One From Google, which means that it is unexpectedly out of … Continue reading →

Last night I moved my V+ box from the living room to the bedroom. I assumed that the box would detect that there was no HDMI connection and fallback to a scart output.  I was wrong. A quick google (15 … Continue reading →

I just had a card delivered from Virgin Media with the following message (see my thoughts at the bottom of the article): THANK YOU Hi there, Because we think you’re a great customer we’ve added a little something special to … Continue reading →

I just received the following reply to an email made to Gamestation UK regarding Sony Playstation 3 OtherOS removal in firmware version 3.21: Hello Gregory Thank you for your email. Thanks for your email, may I at the outset apologise … Continue reading →

Somehow, somewhere along the line my number pad stopped working as a number pad and instead started controlling the mouse cursor (in Windows it is referred to as mousekeys). I use my number pad on a very regular basis and … Continue reading →

I have just received the following email from Gamestation regarding a partial refund under EU law over Sony Firmware version 3.21 and OtherOS removal: Hello Gregory Thank you for your email. We are currently investigating your query further and would … Continue reading →