Nurm’s blog

I don’t normally repost articles, but via primidi.com I came across AutoStitch. It rocks!

Yup, Google X is back but not where you would expect. There are also a few links hiding the the googlex group

Firefox has had over 46 million downloads!
I’ve been meaning to add a link on my blog to the Spread Firefox site for a while, and today I noticed that Download Counter was back and with a feed! I had a quick look at the WordPress plugin, but both Infocraft’s Firefox Counter and SFX@CP.NET’s Firefox [...]

For a long time I’ve had an apache honeypot set up for common requests for specified files (all identical, but hardlinked) in the scripts, msadc, msdac, _vti_bin folders etc, etc. If the honeypot got hit then it would email me and feed the offending ip address into the firewall blocklist filter. (Makes the [...]

I setup MRTG to monitor my ADSL connection, but what I was really watching was the network card on the pc with the pppoe client. Unfortunatly mrtg doesn’t seem to have a way of monitoring an ip that can change, you have to go on MAC address (pppoe mac is undefined), or interface number [...]

After the install of SP1 on our routing and remote access box, all inter-device routing died. You can ping and traceroute within the same network, but as soon as the server has to route the packet between interfaces it just drops it. Oddly pings happily leave the network (routed correctly), but the [...]

After serveral phone calls I’d practically given up, but just after 9pm the ADSL installation tech phoned to ask if he could come and install. Thanks to Mr. Sampie and Mr. Molab I now have ADSL, YAY!

It rained (and hailed apparently) a lot on Sunday, so on Monday morning work was without power. So I got to spend the day at home harassing the ADSL installers for my ADSL that was supposed to be installed on Friday (8th April 2005). If I’m luckly i might be able to get [...]

While I was sorting through my various pictures the other day I came across a screen shot I had sent a friend before my pc died. I noticed the font I was using, it was a font I had installed days previously, and had yet to store in my must-have box. I searched [...]

We were having some weird threading issues with database access. Turns out that the new threads were not acquiring the impersonated identity of the parent thread, but in fact the original identity. After quite a lot of digging using reflector, I checked the web for thoughts:
khanna suggests re-impersonating in the new thread, which is [...]