Snoopers Charter, a photo by blacknight on Flickr. I was interviewed earlier this week for an article in the Irish edition of the Daily Mail on the UK's proposed "snooper's charter" . Unfortunately they don't seem to publish the articles from the Irish edition online, so I've ended up scanning it in instead. Related articles An Irish SOPA to an Irish Problem … [Read more...] about Daily Mail Article – Snoopers Charter
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Ubuntu PHP Bug
I upgraded a couple of servers to the latest version of Ubuntu a couple of days ago and noticed something really odd when checking the running processes post-upgrade. For some bizarre reason there were literally thousands of "fuser" processes running. Odd, but I didn't think too much of it, as they disappeared after a reboot .. or so I thought .. This morning I … [Read more...] about Ubuntu PHP Bug
Going Digital Campaign Site – Taking Dire Websites To New Lows
Irish television will be 100% digital within the next 12 months. Analog will cease to exist. A lot of people supposedly don't know about this, so our "beloved" government decided to spend taxpayers' money promoting the switch to digital. This is the "dog's dinner" of a website that they're using for the campaign: I guess I should be happy that they didn't spend any … [Read more...] about Going Digital Campaign Site – Taking Dire Websites To New Lows
Bypassing Inane Web Filters On Hotel Wifi
The hotel I'm staying in has a rather annoying filter on their net connection. Basically it won't allow me to connect to any URL with the string "xxx" in it. It's probably blocking other "content" as well, but since I'm a registrar trying to sell .xxx domain names I noticed the "xxx" filter pretty quickly! Circumventing the stupid filter didn't take much. Using SSH and a … [Read more...] about Bypassing Inane Web Filters On Hotel Wifi
IPv6 and Dual Band Wifi On FritzBox 7390 Rocks!
I've been using a Fritz!Box 7390 for my home network for the last few months. It's not a "dirt cheap" piece of equipment, but it has a lot of very nice features which make it well worth its price tag. I originally got it, as I was looking for a DSL modem / router that would support IPv6 natively. I had been using a Linksys WRT54G with an open source firmware, but configuring … [Read more...] about IPv6 and Dual Band Wifi On FritzBox 7390 Rocks!