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Archives: January 2006


  • Anti-Phishing Toolbars

    Thu 26 January 2006

    Protect your savings from Phishing attacks.

    Anti-Phishing toolbars are trendy at the moment, google and ebay are a couple of the big players.

    I agree with tool bars for security, in fact, one of the best things about firefox is the fact that you can extend it so easily, the ...

  • Thoughts on a revision blog ?

    Tue 24 January 2006

    I've decided to take charge of my technical development, I'd like to progress my cisco knowledge. As a CCSP I've got two choices: CCIE Security or CCNP. Now the CCIE is the better one, but I've looked through the material, and although I've got 5yrs ...

  • Simple Desktop Wallpaper

    Fri 20 January 2006

    I thought it was time to clean up my desktop, you know had the usual mess of temporary files & shotcuts ! So to complement my cleaner desktop I thought I'd make a new gnome wallpaper.

    My first draft was very plain, but then I remember this bottle top lid, I ...

  • Debug Packet command missing on PIX 7

    Wed 18 January 2006

    I've been googling & searching through cisco release notes to find out what happened to the pix debug packet command after I upgraded from v6.3 to v7, you know it really shouldn't have taken that long because the first answer on google groups found it :\$

    The message suggest ...

  • Fedora Core 5 Screen Shots

    Tue 17 January 2006
    [ ![fc5](http://linshots.com/shots/thumbs/17/1.gif)](http://linshots.com/index.php?id=17)

    News on digg shows that FC5 Test2 is out !!.

    Now I don't usually care about test releases - FC is unstable enough ;) - but what is cool is the screen shots with the new FC ...

  • All About Mice .co.uk

    Mon 16 January 2006
    [ ![All About Mice](http://www.allaboutmice.co.uk/wp-content/themes/allaboutmice/images/twilight.jpg) ](http://www.allaboutmice.co.uk)

    I thought it was about time to announce my wifes new website - http://www.allaboutmice.co.uk

    It's her personal site dedicated to providing "pet" mice lovers information on how ...

  • Stickman by Georgia Aged 3 years

    Wed 11 January 2006

    Is it just me being a "Sad-Dad" or is this really cute ?

    I don't know why but when she did is (in the gimp, I might add) I was really taken, maybe it's because I see him ninja kicking :cool:

  • A strange big warning when you upgrade pix 6.3 to 7

    Tue 10 January 2006

    When it comes to cisco pix's, I'm not a gui fan; the cisco command line is soo straight forward that I've never found the need for the PDM.

    Anyway I came across a pix 6.3 with PDM installed that needed upgrading to v7, surprisingly this has ...

  • Calcylator - Now with added ebay !

    Mon 09 January 2006

    What did you do this weekend ? - Me, I made my first ebay api call :) - kinda geeky, and kinda cool at the same time.

    You may notice that the home page on calcylator now boasts the ebay compatible logo, that's because the SELL page on calcylator has changed. We now ...

  • Testing my MS-SQL username and password

    Thu 05 January 2006

    I forgot my sa password today for our Microsoft sql server :( - I knew roughly what it was, but needed to just keep trying until I hit the right answer... now it took me ages to find this wid google so I thought I'd share it....

    On a sql box ...

  • Google Adsense code (javascript) in wordpress pages / posts

    Mon 02 January 2006

    For ages I could not work out why google ad's included within a wordpress page didn't work (in fact this applies to a post too). When google support pointed out that there was \<br/> 's in my code the penny finally dropped.

    So here's the deal, I ...

  • 2006 - Year of calcylator ?

    Sun 01 January 2006

    So It's the new year, and I wanted to post an update about what's happening over at calcylator.com. I guess it's been nearly a month since there has been any visible activity, and I'd like to explain the reasons why.

    The site was launched in ...

 
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