In the Alpha and Delta Quadrants
I had no idea it still existed. It must be the best part of 5 years… or more… since I even thought about it, let alone logged into it ! Everything is done via Facebook, twitter, etc. these days, so I doubt it will be missed. Friends Reunited website to close down – BBC News …
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This may be obvious to many, when we think of it – hopefully not in hindsight, but as one of the most popular “blog/CMS” systems WordPress sites are the subject of daily crack attempts. Whilst the Wordfence plugin will help you to find and block such attempts, amongst other things, it is also important not to …
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May be it’s time for the organisations that have long-allocated /8’s to return some of their address space: 3.0.0.0/8 General Electric Company 4.0.0.0/8 Level 3 Communications, Inc. 8.0.0.0/8 Level 3 Communications, Inc. 9.0.0.0/8 IBM 12.0.0.0/8 AT&T Services 15.0.0.0/8 Hewlett-Packard Company 16.0.0.0/8 Hewlett-Packard Company 17.0.0.0/8 Apple Inc. 18.0.0.0/8 MIT 19.0.0.0/8 Ford Motor Company 20.0.0.0/8 Computer …
If you backup Linux files to Windows 10 (and earlier versions with robocopy) there will be times when Windows allows you to download and extract the tarball… then does not allow you to delete the resulting files due to “too long paths”, etc. “Normal” Windows tools don’t let you bypass this, but command prompt does. Launch …
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Google makes it official: Chrome will freeze Flash ads on sight from Sept 1 • The Register Source: www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/28/google_says_flash_ads_out_september/
How to Make a Raspberry Pi Web Server – wikiHow How to Make a Raspberry Pi Web Server. If you are looking for a way to make a cheap web server, primarily to be used as a testing environment or to store files, then the Raspberry Pi is perfect for you. What is a …
This plugin fetches an excerpt of an external website link. The exert contains the title, description and image. V2.0.0 Added URL validation and XSS checks. If this breaks and valid URL’s please let me know via the WordPress support tab. V1.5.2 Update: Added option to place the button in the “Media Button” row above the …
Installing WAMP on Windows 8.1 on an alternative port. WAMP on Windows 8.1 As Windows seems to hog port 80, this is a useful guide to installing WAMP under Windows 8.1: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/47548d/how-to-install-wamp-server-on-windows-8-1/
It seems that someone at clicknames.net forgot to renew their own domain name. Over recent years, with all of the changes that have taken place, there have been problems with Clicknames renewing their customers’ domain names late or only after several reminders. Although it will be awkward for anyone with domains still at Clicknames (me …
Once upon a time there was a difference between a domain name that existed and a domain name that did not exist. It was very simple to find out if a domain existed, you did a DNS lookup on the domain and the DNS server either told you the domain’s IP address(es) or it told …