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Monthly Archives: August 2009

On the (ab)use of DNA evidence

22/08/2009 – 19:20

An interesting thread started up on a /. article about how handwriting style “fingerprinting” is easily fooled. Since I made some of the posts, I’m mirroring it here: amimojo: This should not really come as a surprise to anyone. Like all evidence that has to be interpreted, the interpretation can be flawed. Shows like CSI [...]

By mojo | Posted in law | Tagged law | Comments (0)

Virgin Media hijacking DNS!

22/08/2009 – 19:16

Looks like VM are getting in to the data-rape game by hijacking failed DNS lookups. Perhaps this “upgrade” is the reason their DNS servers have been rubbish of late. Luckily, you can opt out here and it seems to be based on modem MAC address so it should stay off, unlike Phorm which uses a [...]

By mojo | Posted in Internet, privacy | Comments (0)

Update on kNET hosting

20/08/2009 – 23:15

Just wanted to say that it’s been a month or two and kNET are still going strong. Their server is always fast and so far has had no downtime (I use Montastic to check). In contrast, Weycrest had weekly periods of downtime and ignored support requests. I can’t recommend kNET enough. Usually it’s a case [...]

By mojo | Posted in Internet, networking | Comments (3)

Final Retro Adapter PCBs arrived!

16/08/2009 – 23:36

The final production Retro Adapter PCBs arrived yesterday. I made one up and it works perfectly. I am very happy with the world Seeed Studio did on them, especially considering they are cheap and accept files in Eagle format (so they do all the conversion or Gerber and any panelization etc). I will put together [...]

By mojo | Posted in avr, electronics, hardware | Comments (0)

FileTypesMan, a useful little tool

16/08/2009 – 23:17

I discovered FileTypesMan from Nirsoft today. It’s a handy little bit of freeware that gives you more control over file types than the built in Windows configuration tool. In particular, you can exclude certain types of file from the “Recent Files” list. Simply open FileTypesMan and select the type of file you want to change: [...]

By mojo | Posted in software, windows | Comments (0)

Tabs Open Relative (modified) Firefox add-on

14/08/2009 – 23:55

I put together a modified version of the TabsOpenRelative add-on which combines the features of that add-on with a fix for the removal of separate preferences for external links in Firefox 3.5. See the links below for more details. It is also the first thing to be posted to soft.world3.net, where I will be putting [...]

By mojo | Posted in software | Comments (0)

More BNP nonsense on BBC Have Your Say

03/08/2009 – 18:59

It seems that the BNP has been making a big effort lately to push their views via the BBC Have Your Say forums. It’s not surprising really, as the forums get millions of page views but you only need ~150 votes for your comment to rise to the top, something any interested group with more [...]

By mojo | Posted in idiots, politics | Comments (0)

In search of the perfect text editor

02/08/2009 – 14:21

I mainly use Notepad2 as my text editor, but it lacks a couple of useful features. In particular, there is no support for tabs and no spell checker. As with most Scintilla based editors, there is no “hard” word wrapping either (where text is wrapped to, say, column 78 with line breaks). In my quest [...]

By mojo | Posted in software, windows | Comments (0)
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