This post is a follow-up to my post of February 2011 in which I talk of the potential issues of Net Neutrality sparked off by the Egyptian regime of the time cutting off the Internet in an attempt to control its populace. The Pirate BaySeveral ISPs have recently been forced by the British Courts to use technology, that they own for controlling child pornography passing over their networks, to prevent users of said ISPs from accessing The Pirate Bay bit-torrent indexing site.

We all receive them, and we all ignore them, but sometimes they can reveal interesting things. e.g. Don’t you love spams that come from a n00bie spammer who just paid for access to a “one-click spam everyone” tool, but didn’t read the documentation? What follows below is a true spam that I received today with no alterations whatsoever (excepting the headers which I’ve removed from the top of the message to try to reduce it’s size a bit – they have no bearing other than to detail how Google delivered it.

I’ve got a client who uses a third-party for their hosting and not allowing my company to do so ourselves. A problem arose recently due to this third-party having instituted a rate-limit on TCP Connections such as SSH and HTTP along with fail2ban. Because it’s a third-party, and we’re not contracting them ourselves, it’s difficult to get information about exactly what triggers the rate limit blocking. Now as part of my work for this client I need to update their site from time-to-time.

I’ve reached the grand old age of 30 years young. I’m wondering if the term “30 and Flirty” as featured by Jennifer Garner in the movie “13 going on 30” is a suitable term to give to a person of a certain age who happens to find themselves single. I don’t mind the odd flirt every now and then, but truth be told I don’t actually know when I’m doing it.

I run a WiFi hotspot using the ChilliSpot software. I have tried both HotSpotSystem.com and Coova.net’s billing services, over the course of two (2) years with about one (1) year on each service. I, unfortunately, did this backwards by moving across to Coova about a year ago in the hopes of finding a more manageable service. I am now going back to HotSpotSystem.com. HotSpotSystem.com has the benefit feature of allocating people a username and password which they may use.

A recent interview of Samba release manager Jerry Carter (25/mar/07) reveals some info on the upcoming 3.0.25 release which is currently in the RC phase of production (release candidate: code that is feature complete and packaged as final release to iron out any final bugs before the gold edition). published: true The result of the current round of testing prompted the Samba team to make Linux machines support disconnected log-on capability just like in Windows, Carter said.