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WD MyBook Live
I discovered the other day that my WD MyBook Live is a lot more capable than I realized. It is actually running some flavour of Debian and has a fair suite of default unix commands. So what did I do with it? I didn’t go too wild… Due to the death of a previous MyBook […]
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More hack attempts
After my last experience, I checked my logs and noticed quite a load of failed attempts on my mail server. It looks like a brute force script kiddie attack, which I’m pretty sure will fail on my machine. Still, I want to kick out these morons. So after some research, I found fail2ban. The installation […]
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Hack Attack
Someone mentioned they got a bounce from my domain’s email. I went to take a look at the error and discovered a couple of hosts trying to brute force login to my SMTP server. Some quick config changes to create a blacklist, and a fail2ban install and it has stopped now. Lesson 1: check your […]
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Android… stuff.
So I didn’t pay a lot of attention to the Google I/O keynote. I just noticed the tweets. One thing I did notice was the Samsung Gear Live watch – that thing actually looks decent. The problem is a) Samsung and b) Google. Samsung is of course just annoying. I’m certain 6 months from now […]
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Arduino. Fine, and you?
I have long avoided Arduino, because “that’s hardware stuff”, and I just didn’t get it. Based on a request from a friend, I looked at it and I just knew I could write the code to get him started. Turns out I could and I did! Now I’ve got loads of ideas, partly practical, partly […]
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WWDC 2014
Apple had their WWDC keynote today, and announced, well, everything. Their user experience is converging like I couldn’t have imagined before. Continuity lets you transfer your work from mobile to desktop just by being close to your Mac. You can answer your phone from your computer. Mavericks looks awesome, despite my worry about flattening things. […]
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Canada domain name registry scam
I have been frustrated with this Domain Scam for a long time now. I have a few domain names, and I happen to be in Canada. There is a company called “Domain Registry of Canada” that mails out official-looking envelopes (it looks like a government-issue brown windowed envelope) to everyone that has WHOIS information indicating they […]
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Surface Pro 3
I’m not sure I have an opinion on this thing, just because it is so significantly out of my working style. That shouldn’t stop me posting though! It’s pretty clear that MS doesn’t get the tablet market. When they seem to say “hey we’ve been making these slates for 13 years now, let’s do the […]
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Bad Fleksy.
FYI “Fleksy Free” on the Google play store is actually “Fleksy Trial”. Way to misrepresent your app, folks. I’m back to SwiftKey. Update: looks like Swiftkey is just as bad. I didn’t realize it because I had the freebie from Amazon. Guys, can’t you just be up front about this stuff instead of wasting our […]
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DSLR Dashboard
I referred to DSLR Dashboard a while ago by at the time it did not run on my Kobo Arc, just our dog-slow LG phone. Well, it looks like the latest version runs! Huzzah! I had to download it directly from their website, and not use the Google play store. Totally worth it. I wonder […]