Feb 2008 29 th
Help… I’m adicted to domain names
Okay, I think this is getting out of hand. I am addicted to domain names. It seems that whenever I have an idea, the first this I do its register the domain name. Its gotta stop, its gonna become an expensive habbit.
The last few domains I registered were;
- hosting386.com
- noyahoomerger.com
- noyahoomsftmerger.com
- ishotsheargar.com
- whoshotsheargar.com
- networkonce.net
- spamberry.com
- mailberry.com
And thats just the ones I’ve registed with myself, never mind the ones I registered with Adam or Michele. I don’t even remember those ones! Ohh god I have to stop.
And it just does not end there, I just thought after performing an update on Druid DNS, I would come up with a new name for it, so what did I do… yeah, I now own
- domain-junkie.com
- domain-junkie.net
Will it ever end?
4 CommentsFeb 2008 28 th
The best (and quickest) $30 I have ever spent
I was having a quick conversation with Donnacha about a few things today and I mentioned something about Amazon S3. Which of course led to the inevitable discussion about the recent outage there. So we chatted and he sent me a few mails and a link to Barry’s blog on Wordpress.
What I was interested in was the AWS post, but as I read the comments/trackbacks I noticed a link to http://blog.animoto.com/. The name was cool so I said I would check it out, as I sometimes do still “surf round” from time to time.Alas I got a 404 for the post, but me being curious persisted and I substituted the blog for www and have never been so happy that I did. Animoto is a cooler than cool web service that allows the user to upload photos or point them at their flickr/facebook photos then they select or upload their own mp3 and hey presto a few min later you have a video montage of your photos.
1 CommentFeb 2008 23 rd
Google Hacking .IE
Considering this week the Irish government have been pushing is “Make IT Secure” (I wonder how much and how long that took to come up with), I decided to put out something on one of my interests, Google Hacking (g.H.). Google hacking is simply the construction of a search to find information that is available to the public that really should not be, or that provides information about software products running on sites that may pose a security threat to the integrity of the site. It is not limited to the use of the Google search engine as almost any major search engine can be used to find this content. It is legal to run such queries so long as you do not posses the intention to use that information in the furtherance of a crime, however it may be against the site owners terms of service to access such information. It is against all major search engine vendor terms of service to automate such searches. It is also quite stupid to leave this information available to the public.
Add a commentFeb 2008 22 nd
Goodbye Drupal, Hello Wordpress
Well, finally after ages of messing around, I feel comfortable enough with my theme to switch over to Wordpress instead of Drupal. Note, its not complete, but it is getting there. I hope you don’t find too many things broken.
Before I get hit with a lot of mail asking why I ditched Drupal, let me say it was not for any other reason than time. Something which I have very little of these days as projects come in by the truck load.
Dec 2007 27 th
Avoiding excess luggage charges when checking in…
Later on today/tomorrow I am flying from a central European destination back to Cork. The worst thing about flying back from a destination is that you always have more luggage than when you went. This is especially true, if like me you love food and do some local shopping before you leave or its Christmas time and you are laid down with gifts.
So below are the things I do that normally help avoid the excess charges (20KG is not realistic IMHO). While these will not work all the time, the majority of the time I have found one or more of these in combination has allowed me to exceed the baggage allowance by a few kilograms (maybe 5 or 6KG if you are pushing it)
Nov 2007 30 th
Testing Wordpress Super Cache Performance on SLES 10 SP1 using Siege
I was reading a post by Donncha recently on the new Wordpress plugin, WP Super Cache. He mentioned that he did not know what the performance would be like, which got me thinking about running my own tests to see for myself (I was doing some basic ones anyhow for another idea I had). There are many bloggers using Wordpress whom do not know one technical thing (nor should they!), but they should know what its gonna be like for them when their site gets busy.
N.B. My intention here was to just see what would happen. This should not be regarded as a complete proper test, but rather an indicative one. I had limited time and was not arsed doing this 100% correctly.
Nov 2007 27 th
A Google Earth for your network? - Paglo, interesting idea, but could go places?
Recently I have been doing lots of work in the area of asset management. Its a pain in the ass but it is necessary for any business to carry it out especially after a period of growth.
At the moment I am using the excellent Novell ZENworks Asset Management software. I’ve used many asset management solutions over the past few years. Some were great at windows, some at UNIX based systems, but some just plain weird and crap (I think Dell just acquired them *cough*). I won’t go into the wonderfulness that is ZAM (like Unix and Windows management), go and download a free trial for yourself, its not difficult to setup and runs itself quite well with little interaction required.
Nov 2007 26 th
Toothache & Tablets
As I was reading Donncha’s blog recently, I noticed that one of his posts was on toothache. It brought me back to my situation last Sunday when I had a pretty severe toothache.
Severe is maybe too nice. Lets just say, I was thinking about putting a shotgun to my mouth and getting rid of the problem that way. Of course there is no Emergency dentist in Cork on a Sunday evening!
I don’t like doctors and dentists but the pain was so bad I was actually getting physically sick from it, so I decided to go to SouthDoc. Two hours later I get a shot in the ass and despite telling the doctors otherwise, tablets.
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