On the subjects of Backups

Posted on Wed 11 October 2006 in geek

I got caught in a massive rainstorm on the way into work this morning. I'm still not fully dried out. As a consequence my Palm pilot decided to forget about everything. This wouldn't be a massive problem except at some point* the sync software decided to stop syncing the address …


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Spam Tweaks

Posted on Tue 10 October 2006 in geek

I've been troubled with a rather large amount of spam recently. I had a bit of a dig around today to see if I could improve the situation. The first mistake I found was in the exim directors which didn't verify the user. This meant I was getting a lot …


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Burning

Posted on Fri 29 September 2006 in geek

I've just burnt another 5 CD's from my newly re-organised and re-tagged collection. Hopefully I'll have a nice selection for all possible moods for my drive down to Cambridge for my Grandma's 90th :-)


DRM Link

Posted on Fri 22 September 2006 in geek

Another good piece on some of the brain dead DRM implementation in Microsoft's new Zune media player. Bill expands on the wider implications of DRM on the public domain. What? You thought DRM would only be applied to big media's own licenced content? Of course any player that can play …


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Yarr

Posted on Tue 19 September 2006 in geek

It be the last of the evening badminton sessions last night. Me scurvy opponents knew the cut of me jib a little too well. Arrgh I was too tired to cook when I got back aboard so I nibbled on some crusty bread before heading to me bunk.