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  • Morgins back on-line

    Morgins is back up and on-line (as of 15.30 today). Looks to have been compromised via the recent issue in cmd.php of Cacti. I’ll post full details shortly, there is some funky perl involved.

  • Morgins compromised?

    Can’t speak to ISP yet, so I can’t confirm, but apparently the hosting ISP took Morgins off-line because “morgins has apparently been compromised and was sending out a DoS attack”. Bugger.

  • Morgins is down.

    The colo at Greenheys went off-line late this afternoon. When it came back Morgins didn’t. I assume a power failure and a fsck is needed. Arse. NN, Al

  • Oh yes, iBlog…

    Sorry, seem to have forgotten the whole “type things into blog, bore the world” thing… Some topics I keep thinking I should make comments about Moving. Dell’s “energy smart” servers. Macworld Expo. Santa Cruz Bicycles. Cheap LCD TVs / Widescreen TFT Monitor Joomla / SMF, SDH v0.7 That should help me remember to do something…

  • Happy New Year!

    Happy New Year to one and all! 🙂

  • Morgins returns

    Thanks to the lovely Morgins is back up. No idea why it went AWOL though…

  • Morgins MIA

    I don’t know where Morgins has gone. It was fine one sec, then it just dropped off the network. Will have to see tomorrow whats up. NN, Al

  • News readers laptops

    So I am at home today ‘cos I am ill. Crap day time TV ahoy. BBC2 has The Daily Politics on, hosted by Andrew Neal and the quite lovely Jenny Scott. Amusingly, in one shot, they get the screen of Jenny’s laptop in shot – with a clearly sellotaped piece of paper attached to it.…

  • the dot in dot com?

    Am I wrong, or is the end dot on a domain name / host name technically the correct form and the lack of the dot a technical incorrectness that is tolerated? If so, please explain why the BBC can’t manage http://bbc.co.uk./ Anyone?

  • Parallels and Nokia?

    If I bought Parallels for my Mac, would all the Nokia software work and would I be able to upgrade my phone with their software update stuff? Or shall I just abuse a Windows box at work? Work it is. In other news I have a lurgy and feel like poo.

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