'Geeky Stuff' Category
The joys of installing a new operating system
Well the install of Fedora is complete and now we’re ironing out the issues. There would be no issues of course, if I weren’t wanting to run a web, mail or name server, but I am, and these require configuring. A configurer of these I’m not, so poor old Warren spent his weekend telnetted into […]
Uptime - 1 day
Well the problem with my linux computer was the video card, which has been unceremoniously dispatched and replaced, and I spent the afternoon installing Fedora.
Yeah, yeah, I KNOW that in every group of 10 linux geeks, you’ll get 10 different recommendations for different flavours of linux to install, but I have been running Redhat ever […]It’s times like this I wish I had a man….
It would almost be worth the cooking, cleaning and washing skid-marked undies to have a man (who likes fiddling with computer innards) in residence right now.
As those of you who know me would know, unscrewing the cover of my PC and fondling its innards is not my favourite passtime and today has been no exception.
In […]Emasculated! (oh, and Happy New Year)
First things first.
After 395 days of uptime, my Linux box died this morning. Of course the box was so old, it died a natural death. The death was electronic, so my old Redhat installation died while still on its feet. I have Fedora downloading as I write, and will be blowing the dust off […]300!
You know I’ve been dying to reboot my Linux box, or turn it off for good (goddamn, it is so old I wonder if it is still a 486!) as I want to replace it with my old desktop, the PC I updated nearly a year ago .
But
I didn’t want to do it until today […]Well bugger me… that was easy!
It appears, despite all my misgivings and trepidation, that my Wordpress upgrade was successful, at least as far as I can see!
I’m not usually one to wait to upgrade, given my zealous outlook on security, however, my last Wordpress upgrade was so stressful and broke just about everything, including my theme, I just didn’t have […]International Talk Like a Pirate Day is coming!
Aye, International Talk Like A Pirate Day is comin’ up on September 19.
Again, th’ developers o’ Wordpress Plugins (who, now have proven they CLEARLY have too much time on their hands) have developed a “Talk Like A Pirate” text filter plugin, where ye can have yer whole blog converted into pirate speak, or just individual […]Yeah, it’s pink (again)
Well in my personal tribute to spring, I’ve changed templates again. I know it’s pink and it will stay pink until I make the effort to bugger it up change the styling and background image. This theme is courtesy of the Wordpress Diva (who is mighty neighbourly helpful), and I like it because it’s full […]
It’s all about length baby…
well, length of time really.
I’m about to do that geeky penis-waving thing again (well, as a woman, it’s an e-penis at least).
So, here we go:This one’s the length of time I’ve been connected to the Internet. I had the pleasure of calling my ISP the other day to find out whether the fact that my […]
DON’T put your credit card number in a random email link dammit!
I was perusing the Dreamhost blog today and laughed and grimaced at the same time, reading an article by Josh Jones, CEO writing about how his wife blindly responded to a phishing email by handing over her credit card and social security numbers.
Oh, and just in case:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia“In computing, phishing is a […]
