As an active, but not necessarily keen, participant in the facebook and twitter social networking craze I feel that more should be done to allow me to have control over my OWN data. Why should I give up full control over, essentially, who I am as a person and who I like to be with socially, to one all-encompussing do-no-evil company? It’s not just Google who want all knowledge about myself to be under their control, we increasingly see it with facebook.

I’ve just placed an order for a pack of these “Alfa 9dBi WiFi Booster RP-TNC High-Gain Screw-On OMNI-Directional Swivel Antenna”. I will be putting them on my Linksys by Cisco WRT54GL Wireless-G Broadband Router which I’ve got set up as a public hotspot. I still need to tweak the iptables rules on the hotspot a tad, as the way it stands at the moment my entire network is visible to anybody connecting to the wifi hotspot.

These instructions are taken from here and updated and formatted a bit by me. They assume that you are installing the server version of Ubuntu 10.04 and the release version of Citrix XenServer 5.6. Install Ubuntu 10.04 onto XenServer 5.6 Create a VM First create a VM in XenCenter using the other install media template. Install Ubuntu Install ubuntu to your liking and reboot into the new system. Get GeTTY running on hvc0 Tell getty to display on hvc0 (This does do the trick of getting a display on the console, but I am still unable to login or get any key-presses to work at all.

There is a group telephoning unsuspecting computer users telling them that they have a virus/trojan infection on their PC. They claim that they are calling from Microsoft and that you have sent them error reports as part of Windows Error Reporting feature that they have used to identify said virus. To prove that they are correct in identifying a virus on your computer they tell you to: open the “run” dialog from the startmenu or by pressing the windows key and the r key together.

I’ve just updated the version of “FriendConnect” available on IND-Web.com’s Free Blogs service. This is only a small version number change, but the actual differences are quite sweeping. You should have already noticed the new FriendConnect bar at the top of my site, which allows you to submit comments and join my “community”. Also the WordPress inbuilt commenting system is circumvented in favour of the google-powered comments. Unfortunately, this means that all pre-existing comments are hidden from view until I find a way of re-enabling the display but not submittal of them.

So, it would seem that Deadpan110 (Martin) is fiddling around with a new theme for the IND-Web.com Free Blog service that will hopefully replace all the current themes with one super theme. The idea is that we utilise a single base theme that isn’t enabled for any user to select in their control panel. Then we create a sub-theme of this which includes all our custom functionality, but only the custom functionality.