Another funny 404 page – requires flash and sound – courtesy of homestar. From what I can tell this is part of a a series of cartoons and not really a 404 – but it is quite good though!
Month: August 2003
What sort of ISP blocks pings and traceroutes on their routers (allegedly to cut down on virus traffic) so you have no chance of troubleshooting connectivity problems?
My year of hosting with Amenworld was up yesterday. They had been sending me warnings for the past month and I had already moved my web and email to another company, Redirection.net but hadn’t changed the tag on the domain. It took 4 repeated emails, each one more snotty than the previous one, to their support site before someone actually answered my question and said that yes I would be able to modify the tags if required after the years hosting was up. This sounded great…..until the day before the year was up when they tell me that actually all details will be removed and the domain detagged! A VERY snotty and upset email was sent to them explaining that I would therefore move away from them but this process could take more than half a day. An email was sent back saying that they wouldn’t detag for a month. Today I tried to log in and was told that I couldn’t modify anything as the domain had expired…fortunately by this time the tag changes had already taken place. I wouldn’t recommend AmenWorld for hosting as you get conflicting answers from their tech support (and this is not the first time either) and then they wait until you have less than 24 hours to make your changes – probably so that you would normally have no choice but to extend for one more year…..Grrrrrrr
My year of hosting with Amenworld was up yesterday. They had been sending me warnings for the past month and I had already moved my web and email to another company, Redirection.net but hadn’t changed the tag on the domain. It took 4 repeated emails, each one more snotty than the previous one, to their support site before someone actually answered my question and said that yes I would be able to modify the tags if required after the years hosting was up. This sounded great…..until the day before the year was up when they tell me that actually all details will be removed and the domain detagged! A VERY snotty and upset email was sent to them explaining that I would therefore move away from them but this process could take more than half a day. An email was sent back saying that they wouldn’t detag for a month. Today I tried to log in and was told that I couldn’t modify anything as the domain had expired…fortunately by this time the tag changes had already taken place. I wouldn’t recommend AmenWorld for hosting as you get conflicting answers from their tech support (and this is not the first time either) and then they wait until you have less than 24 hours to make your changes – probably so that you would normally have no choice but to extend for one more year…..Grrrrrrr
It was London’s turn for a powercut yesterday, occuring at 6.20pm, right in the middle of rushhour. Thankfully though most places got power back after 30 minutes and power fully restored after 2.5 hours. Government ministers are squawking noises demanding to know how it happened but noone mentioned that at least it wasn’t as bad as America’s blackout with only a few areas of London affected.
I’m fed up with having my lap heat up every time I use it at home so I’m on the lookout for a decent laptop cooler. The ByteCC looks good and has had favourable reviews but it doesn’t look like it would be any good on the lap, but good for a desktop holder. The Acrylic cooler looks a better choice and similar to the CyberCooler. The Laptop desk does not need any power as it doesn’t actually use fans so I’m not sure how effective it would be. I really need to see/try one before I purchase it. I wonder if Argos do one? (no they don’t)
I couldn’t get my hosting site to read the update_quiet.php file on a scheduled basis so I’m using wget to retrieve it every hour from one of my pc’s permanently connected to the internet on an hourly basis. This means that my feedonfeed page is up to date and it works great!
Its all very well Microsoft and other companies offering a MS03-026 scanning tool to check for vulnerable computers, but they’ve all identified one Windows98 pc on my network that is vulnerable, yet 98 is not affected according to their sites. This is a bit annoying when doing a double check scan of the local network.
At first glance, the Security Readiness Kit sounds great, with a copy of the latest service packs and bug fixes all in one place. However, its not available until Early August 2003 (erm – its 3 days from September) – I guess this is Early August in Microsoft Terminology just like Copying files only ever takes two minutes to run – and the blurb says it will have patches up to June ’03. Not very helpful with all the patches that have been released since then and all the virus hassles we’ve had in the past couple of weeks!
Added Feed on Feeds to my website to have my own RSS reader hosted on my server. This works like Bloglines but has the advantage that its hosted on your own server (requires Mysql/PHP) so not relying on a third party. I’m just trying to get it to work as a cronjob but can’t find the location for get on my hasweb hosting.