I’ve added a new blog to my MovableType installation – Absocachinlutely which will have details on Geocaching and everything related to this. This means everything will be in one place and will not clutter up this blog as much. The blog, as usual, has a RSS Feed so it will still be easy to keep up to date with it.
A quick visit to Matalan was very profitable this afternoon. I got a waterproof jacket, with inside pocket for mobileGPS, another one for headphonesPDA and other pockets for the pens, paper, mobile and goodies. As it was only £17.50 it will keep me warm and I won’t have to worry too much about damaging or getting it dirty. I also got some waterproof tracksuit bottoms so I can wear them alone or over my work trousers and go caching without worrying too much about getting muddy. Just need a portable shoe/boot cleaner now and I’m set!
Just spoke to the Where’s my Rebate helpline on 1-800-390-2344 to see where my $50 rebate is for the GPS that I purchased on the 24th November. Apparently it’s been approved and will be sent out on the 25th Febuary….now call me cynical but I don’t remember signing up to be a bank for Magellan for three months….now let me see – $50 at 19.7% APR for three months is…… (I’ve no idea)
Yesterday was apparently Personal Firewall Day which is weird that I only heard of it today (as I didn’t read my rss feeds yesterday). I would have thought this would have kicked off before the actual day….Anyway – yesterday I was asked to go to a friends who told me they had welchia or blaster on their pc. When I got there I did a quick check of the startup folders and registry and saw nothing suspicious. That and the fact they were running 98 did make me wonder HOW they got infected (as these are nt platform virus’s) Needless to say they had no real a/v software on the machine. PC-Cillin98 which had never been updated – so probably 6 years old. NAV was “installed” on the machine – the cd was copied onto the hard disk – so that wasn’t helping much 🙂
I ran through my various fix_virus.exe files downloaded from symantec, found nothing and then installed the free Computer Associates firewall/AV combo on their machine. All went well until it told me I HAD to update the definitions, reasonably enough, except for some reason it was coming up with 550 errors on the ftp. But a manual download of the file, from the same url worked fine! A standard home user would have had NO idea what to do and would have been left with an annoying popup every time they booted and no a/v protection.
After scanning there were no virus’s found but 50+mb of windows updates (not including WMP9 etc) and I wasn’t going to download them via dialup!
An upgrade to MovableType 2.66 2.661 is now available with some good hacks to stop comment spamming. I’m still getting about 1 a day on average which probably means these hacks won’t stop my spammers, but it should hopefully stop them if I get targeted by the scums.
Anyone got any theories on this? One of our customers has a box where task manager icon is showing a high cpu usage, the bottom of taskman shows 67% used, yet the cpu usage on the processes window shows 97% idle at the same time. Screen shot shown. If the server is rebooted the problem goes away for about a week before it starts to happen again. tl_server is our telnet server application so it is normal behaviour to have lots of copies running.
Went up to the Angel of the North Cachethis afternoon. The statue isn’t that big and very rusty. There was a plaque by it, giving a description of the statue, but no details as to why on earth they decided to commission it and stick it on the top of a hill!
Loads of neat desktops and some free stock photo’s. I’m blogging this for future reference although Kristen got me (another copy of) digital photographer magazine which is really inspiring for photography.
If your password is on the Default Password List you really are asking for trouble and should be shot! Thanks to Lost Olive
The US airforce drop a practice bomb, but its’ ok – it was inert……..still caused an 18″ crater though!