Mister Ian's Weblog

Category: Geek

  • I’m Back

    Hooray the site is coming back now on Firefox. So the cleanup worked.

  • Hacked

    Damn. This site was hacked probably because I had weak passwords on some ftp accounts that I don’t use. So some malicious files were put on the site. Lesson learned. Hopefully it comes up soon. You can currently get at it via MS Explorer but Firefox gives:

    I’m going through the steps to get it off the nasty list. Let’s see how long that takes.

  • Adobe Flash

    adobe flash screen capture

    I will be glad when Flash is gone. And frankly Adobe deserves it to go away as they do things like this. Look at what you get when you download flash. Look closely at the McAfee Scan checkbox. Make darn sure you don’t have it checked or McAfee will install and will be a pain as it is very hard to uninstall. McAfee is a legitimate anti-virus company but this is not reputable in my mind. I could accept it if the default was to not install it.

    The anti-virus companies are getting more and more desperate since Microsoft is now offering a free anti virus solution which I use everywhere.

  • Environmentally Friendly Font

    ecofont

    Ecofont has holes in it to save ink. And it is a free font.

    Interesting comments on it on Slashdot

    I forget where I read about it today.

  • Cord Chaos

    This is one way to organize the cords.

    plug-wall

    But, it isn’t so easy here with so many devices and all different kinds of plugs, British, European and American and most of the stuff at 240 volt but some only running on 120.

    Rats nest of cables

    Thre is an ADSL Router with a second router and hub on top. And a spare ADSL router which I’m working on putting online to see if it is more reliable than the once I’m using now. But I do believe the un-reliability is from my ISP not my hardware. And below there are two Western Digital 1 TB NAS drives, an old NAS drive and an old USB drive. My USB hub is also overloaded! And some devices won’t work through a hub. Argh.

    Network and Storage

    This post and the first image were fully 100% inspired by this post on Book of Joe.

  • Nice Photos

    I spend way too much time online. So here is a short post of links to some cool images:

    Here are some stunning photos.

    And here are some very nice photos of Bolivia from National Geographic. It is nice to see such nice photos. I’ve bought a couple of print issues of National Geographic magazine lately and been underwhelmed by the photos as you expect much more from National Geographic.

    And there is also JPG Magazine with quite a variety of photos.