Over the past few days a Coleraine based company, Lotus Chinese Medical Services, have been systematically spamming a LOT of Irish companies. While spam may be annoying and I'm no stranger to it, what makes this spam a little different and more annoying is the payload. The idiots are sending out a rather large PDF attachment with each and every email! The file is about 2 … [Read more...] about Lotus Chinese Medical Services Are Spamming Scum
OpenWRT
As I mentioned before, I have been using a number of different linux firmware versions on my LinkSys WRT54G. For the last few weeks I was using SveaSoft's firmware, as the previous firmware had caused me headaches. The Sveasoft solution worked quite well, but I had some crazy routing issues which left me rather confused. It was as if certain blocks of the internet simply ceased … [Read more...] about OpenWRT
Julian “MailScanner” Field On The Mend
As I mentioned a few days ago, MailScanner's Julian Field is currently in hospital where he is in a serious condition. According to a posting today from one of Julian's colleagues he is on the mend: Hi again, Today's news is that Jules is very awake and alert, and is drinking tea. Those who know him well know he gets through a fair few gallons of tea, so this is a good sign … [Read more...] about Julian “MailScanner” Field On The Mend
Another Elder Lemon Blogs
First there was HeadRambles, now his wife has started a blog. What's going to happen next? Is my mother going to start a blog? Though I think it's really cool that an older generation is getting online. Maybe there is hope after all :) … [Read more...] about Another Elder Lemon Blogs
Irish State Funded Agency Sends Internet Business Overseas
A couple of days ago I came across a post on Ken's blog about the new Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann website. It seems that it's now being talked about in other places. I'm not a designer, so I won't get into the entire debacle about whether Irish designers are "good enough", though you won't find me using non-Irish designers anytime soon... What does rile me however are a couple … [Read more...] about Irish State Funded Agency Sends Internet Business Overseas