labby.co.uk

Let’s see how many hits I get for the term “Bupa By You”..

Let’s go and see how many hits I get for the search terms “Real Steel”..

counter:

I have a .tk web address (I have several actually) and have had them for a good number of years.

This morning I received the following email:

The Dot TK Abuse and Copyright Infringement department has visited your website today.

Unfortunately we have to say that today we cancelled your domain LABBY.TK.

At this stage, anyone, including yourself, is able to (re)register the cancelled domain LABBY.TK.

However, upon registration, an actual working website is needed to complete the registration process.

We thank you for using Dot TK.

Dot TK Abuse / Copyright Infringement team

Don’t ask me what the infringement was, I have no idea at all.

As a matter of fact the site was pointing at my own server, which was hosting my own blog.

So, unless wordpress has suddenly become a copyright infringing product and someone has copyrighted my mindless ramblings I have to wonder just what thought crime I am guilty of.

There is no way to reply to the email as “noreply@dot.tk” is unmonitored.

I have recreated the labby.tk domain, but I would love to know exactly what infringement I have been accused of, and by whom.

As it stands the website now points to two words: “It works!”. Maybe the Apache Foundation have taken exception to me using the default page, although I can’t really believe that.

Feel free to complain about your own treatment at the hands of dot.tk, it would be nice to see if I am the only one this is happening to.

If you are here it is because you have googled the email address ninobrown023@ibibo.com.

This is a person claiming to have free pets to good homes.

However it is a classic “I have just moved from XYZ to SomewhereFarAway, please pay £whatever and I will get them shipped to you” scam.

This is the third email you get from them:

hello there,
sorry for the late reply okay.i have been at work.i can send any to you but it is way to far from my location as i am located in Aberdeen.if you can make it over then it will be nice as you will have the opportunity of making your choice.but if you cannot come over then we can use a pet delivery agency which does a door to door pet delivery.i am sure it will only cost you 80 pounds for the delivery of the puppy and 160 pounds for both.if you are okay with that,then mail me back the following details.

your full names

home address

phone numbers

zip postal code.

i will be needing this details so as to take the puppies to the delivery agency for registration and delivery to your place.as soon as i have this details,i will then take the puppies to the delivery agency asap.
thanks and waiting for your prompt response.

I hope this post helps somebody avoid being scammed.

Yesterday I noticed that ITV4+1 had disappeared from my Sky channel lineup and I was missing a great film.
The channel is still being transmitted but is not showing in the listings.
Here is how to get it back:

Services, Add chnls
Frequency (GHz) 10.832
Polarisation H
Symbol rate (Mbaud) 22.0
FEC 5/6

Press the yellow button to find channels, after a few seconds there will be a list of channels. Select the ones you wish to add (ITV4+1 in this case) and press the yellow button to store the channel. When you have selected the channel you want press Select to save the choices.

To view the channel press Services, Other Ch, you may be asked for your PIN number at this point, enter it. You will now have a list of channels that can be viewed. Press select to watch the channel.

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 (IP: 92.26.102.158). The harvester was
caught a spam trap email address created with your donated MX:

mail2.labby.co.uk

You can find information about your newly identified harvester here:

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ip_92.26.102.158

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 check for false positives or to see just how much spam your blog is being protected from.
The log file defaults to [yourserver]/wp-content/plugins/wp-spamfree/data/temp-comments-log.txt

I tried to read mine but I got a 403 forbidden error and couldn’t figure out why, I had a standard install.

I tracked it down to the .htaccess file in /wp-content/plugins/wp-spamfree/data/ which has[code]SetEnvIfNoCase Referer http://labby\.co\.uk/wordpress/wp-admin/ wpsf_access
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^my.ip.address$ wpsf_access

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from env=wpsf_access
[/code]Insert the line with my.ip.address above and add your own IP address, save and you should be up and running.

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 of you loyal readers beginning to get sore arms here is the solution which will only take a moment.

Go to your wordpress install directory

Edit the file wp-includes/js/quicktags.js

do a find and replace for "<code>", replace with "<code class=notranslate>", including the ”

There should be 2 occurrences in the file.

Save the file and you are done.

You will need to edit any existing posts in your database to change the contents of wp_posts again replacing <code> with <code class=notranslate> a simple php/mysql script would achieve this if you have a large blog.

If you can’t come up with your own php script to do this, leave me a comment and I will write one.

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 apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl

Here’s the script, enjoy.
p=$(pwd)

for i in *flv
do
echo Scanning $i
x=$(exiftool "$i" | grep Totalduration | awk '{print $3}')
x=${x%%.*}
let x=x+1
echo $i is ${x%%.*} seconds long.
f=$p/$i
echo LOAD $f >> playlist.plist
echo SIZE 160x120 >> playlist.plist
echo LOOP >> playlist.plist
echo OPACITY 100 >> playlist.plist
echo POSITION 0,0 >> playlist.plist
echo PLAY $f,$x >> playlist.plist
echo >> playlist.plist
done

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 stock.

Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused. We hope to have further stock available within 7-10 working days and will contact you again once your order has been dispatched.

If you have any further queries please contact us on 0844 854 0430 or email info@v-store.co.uk, quoting your order number as your reference.

Thank you for ordering with Vodafone.

Kind regards,

Vodafone Customer Care[/quote]

I spent over half an hour on the phone, 20 minutes waiting for someone to pick up the phone, 10 minutes venting my irritation that to me being told “You will receive the Nexus One on the day of release” actually means “You will receive the Nexus One on the day of release”.

I was one of the very first people to preorder the phone, I happened to be in a vodafone shop discussing the release date of the Nexus One just moments after the press release was announced and signed up immediately.

Guess who is not a happy bunny and even got the woman in retentions to agree to pay my landline bill for the time spent on the call:
“You should have dialled 190 from your vodafone handset and this would have been free.”
“No I was given the 0844 number in the email, no mention of 190.”
“Ah ok we will credit your bill for the cost of the call once you receive the bill.”