one way to cause havoc

Aug 03, 2010 Comments Off by majs

Well done has to be given to the lovely organisation that is the BBC. They ran an article today about how webpages could be booby-trapped, and by the way they have worded the article, it comes across as though we’re all doomed. In summary, the BBC article states that you can fool a webpage via [...]

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facebook fiasco

Jul 29, 2010 Comments Off by majs

Today I found out that my name, date of birth, relationship status, religious views and my hometown have been web scrapped by Ron Bowes, however I’m not annoyed in the slightest, there are plenty of tools out there which web scrap websites, why is it that someone spending hours leaving his tool web scrapping Facebook has got himself in the papers because he posted it on Pirate Bay?

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Web Development

Dec 06, 2009 1 Comment by majs

I was directed to The Oatmeal website today to read a comic posted up about Web Design and how it goes straight to hell. Every little point made was correct and unfortunately shows just what it’s like to be apart of the web development industry. Most of the best web developers/designers have years of experience [...]

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The Apple iPhone

Aug 31, 2009 Comments Off

Apple have released three generations of their iPhone, amazingly their 3rd generation iPhone has just now caught up with other smartphones.

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Dell Mini 10 Review

Aug 13, 2009 3 Comments

The Dell Mini 10 is the perfect specimen to present to your girlfriend because her stance of, “I can’t believe you spent ~£300 on another computer you did NOT need!”, immediately gets converted to, “awww!! it’s so pretty, I want to use it to look at my facebook!!!” with just one glance. Sure, you lose YOUR netbook in the evenings but it keeps them off your real pride and joy; your main laptop or desktop!

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Webserver Setup – Debian 5 (Lenny)

Jun 17, 2009 5 Comments

Apache 2.2, MySQL 5, PHP 5, ProFTPD, PHPMyAdmin, Webmin APACHE 2.2 aptitude install apache2 apache2.2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils libexpat1 ssl-cert Test: http://ipaddress Should say ‘It Works!’ PHP 5 aptitude install libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-imagick php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-mhash php5-mysql php5-pspell php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl /etc/init.d/apache2 reload Test: nano -w /var/www/test.php Inside of this test.php [...]

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Closing open sockets to SQL Server Database

Jun 17, 2009 Comments Off

I had this problem 6 months ago and blogged it on an old site I used to have. I got an error asking me to look at Microsoft Knowledge Base for Q196271 with the following code: Statement stmt = null try { stmt.execute(“select * from table where field=value”); stmt.close(); } catch (SQLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); [...]

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