Month: January 2008
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Automatic backups of my windows laptop
Backups are important. This tenet will be learned the first time you lose important files. Knowledge in itself is useless, it’s the application knowledge that reaps rewards. Having learnt many years ago the cost of losing data from a computer, I’ve become a dab hand at setting up backup routines for my laptop, desktops and…
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The Floating Madhouse (Alexander Fullerton)
A pre world war one novel of… well, little interest to me as it turned out. The ships are the early ironclads of the 1900’s and although there were sections of interesting detail the story as a whole just didn’t hold my attention. The setting was clever, a Royal Navy junior officer with Russian family…
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Spam wars – "determination of damages" hearing date set
Taking a spammer to court to get them to stop isn’t for the faint of heart. Here’s the history: A company, “Cybernet Media” (stick .co.uk on the end of that and you’ll find their website, I’ll not give them the benefit of a link) started sending spam way back in 2006. I asked them to…