Having access to a customised 404 page means I’ve been able to set up notification when someone goes to a missing page on my site and I can then correct the links. Its a practise thats worked well and I now get very few error messages coming in. However I am getting several links for various incarnations of formmail.cgi, formmail.php, and formmail.pl all in different locations such as /cgi-bin, / etc. All of them have had the referral page forged so it looks like its my site that has led them to this page (presumably because thats one of the first restrictions someone will use to lock down their mailing routine). I now have to do some more php work with those regex expressions learnt yesterday to not email me if someone requests a formmail page of whatever description. Ideally I’d want to put them in my .htaccess file programatically too so they wouldnt be able to get any more pages (or make them refer to a tarpit of some kind)
From the Stella Awards is a newspaper story of the police who are suing the makers of Tazer as the cop was too stupid to tell the difference between a tazer and a gun and shot someone she was meant to be tazering. The cops are suing Tazer as they didn’t train the cops well enough to tell the difference!
The nutter made it – flying over the english channel without an engine – although he did use one to get started. Pictures, video and commentary are available from the BBC news website
When someone sends a 176MB email which takes up your bandwidth, its advisable not to kill the email and send a NonDeliveryReport as the NDR contains the 176MB of data in it too……It’s taken 1.5days of our full bandwidth since this email was sent until I could see it in the mail queue and cancel it again. For some reason the email didn’t appear in the queue so I couldn’t see it attempting to be sent and therefore kill it. In the meantime I’ve had everyone screaming at me as their vpn connections into the office were unusable!
Now its time to go home at last!
Thanks to Jerry I can only wish that they still made these tazers for the car. I think I could have fried several lowlifes whilst living in Salford (I wonder if that could be tax-deductable) and a couple of toads in my local neighbourhood who vandalized my car on Boxing Day four years ago (which meant Kristen spent her first hour in England down the police station!)
I forgot to take a sleeping pill last night so I’m up at 5am again…..:-(
Lavasoft have announce the new version of Ad-aware 6.0 (but only in paid versions) with the freeware version coming out sometime next week. If you have already registered then you should be able to download a free upgrade. Otherwise you will have to wait a week or more. (This is software which checks to see if you have spyware on your computer)
My wireless mouse is still playing up – synching the two radio buttons is having less of an effect. The problem is very intermittent. I’m beginning to wonder if another company in the building has either brought a similar mouse or purchased a lot of RF equipment. In the meantime I’m going to have to reformat the pc as it’s getting slower and slower. My profile on the w2k machine is what makes the machine crash every other time I start explorer or attempt to browse in any way. Logging on as administrator has no problem. Spent part of the day preparing my w2k boot cd so I can install most apps off the one set of media. Shame office won’t fit on the cd!
Exchange is back and running in the office and all the users were really happy – for 30 minutes.. Then the other techie pulled the plug on the servers for the best part of the day whilst they were all cabled up correctly in the cable management trays (would have been nice if this had been done whilst the servers were unusable – but thats IT timing for you 🙂
Cross your fingers, cross your toes, cross your eyes, cross the road and anything else you can think of. I’ve *FINALLY* got to the stage that I can actually start restoring the exchange database back onto the server. I really hope this works and that I don’t have to do any more work *after* the database has restored.