Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

h/t to Jodie at work for this one - as he said “Makes you think differently about Facebook doesn’t it”

This came out of my FireStats program today. It’s the sort of thing that makes me nervous. I’ve seen a lot of attempts to hack in via SSH on my server from Vietnam. It could be they’re getting tired of brute force dictionary attacks and are now trying to discover what security I use. Sigh, [...]

Today we received our copy of Shelley Powers‘ book Painting the Web and it’s great. If you have any interest whatsoever in improving your website I can’t urge you strongly enough to go and order this book. I don’t say this because Shelley and I are old friends, I say this because even though I [...]

Why is Shaw Cable (my provider) blocking tracerts to US mililtary IP addresses?
Looking at some recent referrers I noticed
http://30.37.216.2:15871/cgi-bin/blockOptions.cgi?ws-session=1128512130
and thought I would see who that was
C:\Documents and Settings\Doug>whois 30.37.216.2
OrgName: DoD Network Information Center
OrgID: DNIC
Address: 3990 E. Broad Street
City: [...]

While I’m having fun playing with Ubuntu it has become abundantly clear to me that it isn’t ready for prime time yet. It’s the most user friendly of all the Linux distros and there is a tremendous amount of awesome help available in the Ubuntu forums but you see that’s the very problem; anyone moving [...]

Here’s a way to deal with Image Spam if you are using Thunderbird

Open Tools —> Message Filters
“Create New Rule”
The default in the first rule will be Subject. Click on this then at the bottom of the drop down select customize
Name it “Content-Type” and hit OK
Select “Content-Type”
set “Contains” to “multipart/related”
Click + to add a new filter [...]

It took me awhile but I finally figured out how to move all my mail from Thunderbird on XP to Thunderbird on Ubuntu. The biggest challenge was figuring out where Thunderbird keeps things on a Linux file system. If anyone reads this trying to figure out how to do it

Copy your Thunderbird profile in [...]

Well i’m still working on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron installation. Thanks to the user forums I was able to solve my wireless connection problems and am now able to use my Acer monitor as well as the laptop monitor in different views. However I just discovered that once I move the mouse cursor from the [...]

While I still haven’t solved the whole “you don’t have administrator rights” thing in XP Pro, I thought I would go ahead and get crazy last night and install HardyHeron (Ubuntu 8.04)desktop edition on my laptop using Wubi to install it inside XP as a virtual environment.
The installation is pretty slick, and once done [...]

from Digistan
The Hague Declaration
Adopted and proclaimed
by the founders of the Digital Standards Organization
in The Hague on 21 May 2008.
Whereas almost 60 years ago the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, established in international law these rights and freedoms:
1. Freedom from discrimination by government or law (Article 2, Article 7).
2. Freedom [...]