Category Archives: Internet Stuff

… a massively single-player game

There is a story up at Wired about Spore [flash heavy site]. Although spore is a single player god type sim game it will have some kind of internet access facility along the lines of the sims, you can place … Continue reading

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Explanation of the previous email

Well I feel stupid. I was notified today that marilac.malcolmhardie.com (ie this server) was apparently hosting paypal login spoof web pages. Somebody managed to crack one of the user accounts on the system and place a few files in the … Continue reading

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Strange email about spam?

Today, one of the email accounts at malcolmhardie.com received a very strange email just a line to let you know I have passed on you details to paypal and the police regards your scam emails trying to access my paypal … Continue reading

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Adobe and Macromedia Merger

Adobe are merging with Macromedia (read: buying up the only competitor). This is of course going to be as sucessful as every other merger from HP/Compaq (disaster) to Halifax/Bank Of Scotland (disaster). Daring fireball has an english translation of the … Continue reading

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Bricks and Morter Vs. Online for buying music

I’ve been thinking recently about music buying. When I can buy music online from the iTunes music store why should I want to buy it in a physical store? With the online store I can experience a sample of any … Continue reading

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Binary Thoughts is back

Binary Thoughts is back! I probably should have remarked on this before, but Dhruba’s weblog “Binary Thoughts” has reappeared. He was moving servers so it went down for a bit, but it has now returned. Which is really great news. … Continue reading

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chocolatereview

http://www.chocolatereview.co.uk/ Reviews of chocolate bars, with ratings and reviews !!

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Inquirer, HP and Carly Fiorina

The Inquirer has made a truly mischievous offer to Carly Fiorina, former CEO of HP. The company, resulting from the merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, is in considerable difficulties, as the inquirer has merrily written about in articles like The … Continue reading

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Windows XP advantages?

… with Windows XP I don’t gotta worry about emailing viruses to my friends and family at all. The built-in email client Outlook Express does it automatically, in the background. From divisiontwo.com via Macslash. Disclaimer: I use Windows XP sometimes … Continue reading

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Phantom Game System

Amazingly enough, despite appearing on Wired’s vapourware list, the Phantom game system actually appeared at CES. (Or at least a box appeared at CES) The Phantom offers a sort of video game on demand system, which I’m not totally convinced … Continue reading

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Amazon ads

I was just doing a quick search for Lemony Snicket books (of which there are apparently now 11) on Amazon.com Oddly enough when I did the search I got the following within the search results: It appears that they are … Continue reading

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PalmOS future?

Weird things seem to be happening in the Palm OS sector. PalmSource recently bought China MobileSoft which is a Chinese linux smartphone developer. This comes after spending about $11 million to buy BeOS from be back in 2001. One obvious … Continue reading

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Ethical Hacking: A BCS Talk

This evening I went along to the Edinburgh BCS talk on Ethical Hacking. It was really eye-opening and made me suitably paranoid about my own security. Peter Wood of First Base Technologies gave a remarkably useful, informative and funny talk … Continue reading

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Ebay Suspension

Weird thing happened today. I was checking my email and I saw a message from ebay stating that my account had been suspended. I assumed it was fake and went to visit ebay itself. But it seems real. The whole … Continue reading

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Word press spam and comments pages

I’ve got tired of people spamming my web log. So I’ve changed the name of the comments posting page. I’m going to see if it makes a difference. If it does then the people spamming are automated, if it doesn’t … Continue reading

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Integrate flyspray with CVSWeb

Currently I’m using flyspray for bug tracking. I use cvsweb to view the cvs tree online. One thing that I really wanted was to be able to click one bug numbers in the cvs log reports and see the bug … Continue reading

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Amazing looking computer

The people over at mini-itx.com have a picture of a most amazing looking pc. It is mounted vertically in a table like case. With amythtv software, a video projector and a wireless keyboard it would make a wonderful, stylish and … Continue reading

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FireFox PR1 Released

Zdnet and others are announcing firefox PR1 will be released later today. The mozilla homepage is already showing download links but the Mac OS X links aren’t actually working as I write this. Firefox 1.0PR1 will probably be a defining … Continue reading

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Binary Thoughts (Dhruba’s Weblog)

Lots of fun new features have just appeared over at Binary Thoughts. Dhruba’s site now has loads of really clever new bits. I really like the css3 link icons.

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Missing Email

I just had the thought that there is email that I should have, but can’t find. Which is bad, given that I’ve been trying to archive all of my email. The key question obviously is where has it gone? And … Continue reading

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