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I made it onto the front page of CircleID today! | Notes from a Nerd
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Notes from a Nerd. Various ramblings about tech, travel and economics. My new (old) Speccy – Does it work? More Ant words →. I made it onto the front page of CircleID today! April 3, 2013. With all the fuss over the recent DDoS attack against Spamhaus, I wrote a blog article. For our web site. I was interested because it used a DNS Reflective Amplification attack, which is something I have been warning about for years (and wrote about 4 years ago on The Register. My new (old) Speccy – Does it work? DRAC ...
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More Ant words | Notes from a Nerd
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Notes from a Nerd. Various ramblings about tech, travel and economics. I made it onto the front page of CircleID today! Generating VAT invoices for Skype →. August 10, 2013. Air-be-blane – Aeroplane. Eb-be-gopter – Helicopter. Brink – Drink. Breen – Green. It not working Daddy. Boo-gumber – Cucumber. Mar-toe – Tomato. Not binished – finished. This entry was posted in Personal News. I made it onto the front page of CircleID today! Generating VAT invoices for Skype →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Trying to ...
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Lovely pic from evening cycle ride | Notes from a Nerd
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Notes from a Nerd. Various ramblings about tech, travel and economics. How to protect yourself against the Shellshock BASH vulnerability. Upgrading firmware and maps on VW RNS 510 SatNav →. Lovely pic from evening cycle ride. April 22, 2015. A beautiful evening again, so I took this picture of the rapeseed while out this evening (unfortunately my phone underexposed the pic due to the sun, but the colours were so vibrant, this pic doesn’t do it justice). This entry was posted in Cycling. Please ask IT to ...
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paulroberts69 | Notes from a Nerd
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Notes from a Nerd. Various ramblings about tech, travel and economics. Oracle, stop trying to install crapware with Java updates! April 8, 2016. If Oracle really want people to keep their Java installations up to date, they really must stop trying to trick people into installing crapware, it’s no wonder that whenever I visit my elderly Mum I find her laptop infested will … Continue reading →. Blocking PPI claims management company phone numbers. April 1, 2016. February 24, 2016. January 14, 2016. Like ma...
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IPv6 Resources | Notes from a Nerd
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Notes from a Nerd. Various ramblings about tech, travel and economics. This is a page I am using to keep track of various articles and RFCs I’ve found useful regarding IPv6. It is by no means complete, please use the comments section if you wish to submit other pages/links you find of interest. All links should open in a new window. RFC4291 – IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture. RFC6164 – Using 127-Bit IPv6 Prefixes on Inter-Router Links. RFC6177 – IPv6 Address Assignment to End Sites. Fill in your deta...
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How to protect yourself against the Shellshock BASH vulnerability | Notes from a Nerd
https://paulroberts69.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/how-to-protect-yourself-against-the-shellshock-bash-vulnerability
Notes from a Nerd. Various ramblings about tech, travel and economics. Have you noticed how slow or laggy Google Chrome is now? Lovely pic from evening cycle ride →. How to protect yourself against the Shellshock BASH vulnerability. September 26, 2014. So I read some blogs and checked out my system, sure enough the command below revealed it was vulnerable:. Env x='() { :;}; echo “vulnerable”‘ bash -c ‘echo “test”‘. The fact that the command managed to print the word vulnerable is the red flag. Processing...
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Have you noticed how slow or laggy Google Chrome is now? | Notes from a Nerd
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Notes from a Nerd. Various ramblings about tech, travel and economics. Generating VAT invoices for Skype. How to protect yourself against the Shellshock BASH vulnerability →. Have you noticed how slow or laggy Google Chrome is now? August 29, 2014. Anyway, I did actually manage to downgrade Chrome to v34 and all was fine for a while until I had to reboot my laptop, whence Chrome automatically updated itself to the latest version and the problem came back. But you can do it easier than that. You are comme...
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Notes from a Nerd | Various ramblings about tech, travel and economics | Page 2
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Notes from a Nerd. Various ramblings about tech, travel and economics. Newer posts →. Replacing HDD in RNS 510 with a SSD. October 24, 2015. Finally I got so fed up with this I started doing some research and came across a great forum post here. Turns out quite a few people have replaced the built-in 30GB HDD with a 64GB SSD. I purchased one from Amazon (spec here. But also available on ebay, and this enabled me to plug both the 30GB HDD and SSD into my PC’s IDE connectors. Here’s my RNS in bits:. I was ...
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Generating VAT invoices for Skype | Notes from a Nerd
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Notes from a Nerd. Various ramblings about tech, travel and economics. Have you noticed how slow or laggy Google Chrome is now? Generating VAT invoices for Skype. May 22, 2014. Skype, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to remove the ability to download VAT invoices – this makes it tricky for those of us who want to claim back the VAT or use our personal Skype accounts and submit monthly expense receipts to our employers to cover the cost of using this service. And tagged skype invoices. It is a Phish...
