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The new MacBook Air and the dongle debacle
For my day to day travel, I often take a 3G dongle as my own personal internet connection which does not get monitored, filtered and restricted, unlike the wifi connections available at the places that I am currently working. I … Continue reading
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The dilemma of password security
This is a topic that has been written about many times before, but so far there is no good replacement that I have seen, other than oauth. Password security has been proven to be the weakest link in many organisations’ … Continue reading
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There was no rape
According to this story, there was no hint of the two complainants involved in Mr Assange’s case that they were raped. In fact, they sent text messages boasting of their conquests the very next day. If they did not feel … Continue reading
Wikileaks editor arrested in London
One of the editors of Wikileaks.org, Julian Assange, has been arrested in London at the request of Swedish police for rape charges which allegedly occured in August this year. While rape charges should be regarded as serious, the circumstances of … Continue reading
New Server!
After nearly eight years of near constant running, the server on which the agit8.org website has been hosted, is now officially retiring. The website has been running on an old and outdated (!) hardware that was Pentium II 400Mhz with … Continue reading
Domain seizures by the US Department of Justice is a concern for all website operators
The US department recently seized up to 82 internet domains. The operators of which have been accused of selling counterfeit goods. While the websites are still operational, the manner with which this event unfolded is a definite concern for all … Continue reading
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Linux Mint on HP2133
I have not used my HP 2133 for a few months now. I used to use it a lot for writing documents and stuff on the bus or train during commutes, but that was only after I got a larger … Continue reading
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Working with my head in the clouds
I have been working with a lot of documents since late last year and I must say that over the last few months I’ve grown accustomed to working on my documents online using Google Documents. It is the one application … Continue reading
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Tagged browser, cloud, computing, document, google, location, Technology
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Update your WordPress installation before it gets hacked
A couple of friends have got their WordPress blogs hacked over the past week. If you are running an older version of WordPress, you should update it to the latest immediately.
Low spam count
I have noticed that in the time I have had WordPress 3.0 installed, the volume of comment spam has dwindled quite significantly. It seems that the use of captcha and a few other plugins has somehow reduced the amount of … Continue reading →