ashleyknowles

  • UVB-76

    I briefly posted about the UVB-76 radio station a while ago, as it’s transmissions stopped. Was a bit of a “oh noes” moment for all the radio enthusiasts around the world, as the station is often referenced as being a part of the “dead hand” nuclear doomsday system which the Russians are said to have…

  • iTunes + iPhone 4 + pre-populated credit card fields

    Okay. So I had this song stuck in my head while I was on the bus this morning, and it totally got to me… Me being the MacFag that I am, with my iPhone 4 and all, jumped on iTunes and downloaded the album, a minute later I had it all right there, playing through…

  • 1′s, 0′s and electronics

    I loved electronics when I was young, and was lucky enough to have a Dick Smith Fun Way electronics kit. Sure, I had no idea what I was doing, but playing with all the little transistors and capacitors and what not, was cool… Now I’m a little more grown up, I’ve come back to this…

  • Windows Event Logs to Syslog – Update

    I came across this site earlier, seems to have a good amount of resources linked for anyone looking to implement Windows event log to syslog. http://www.loganalysis.org/windows-to-syslog/ There’s not much in terms of documentation, but it lists a number of tools which may help people in implementing this. Good luck! EDIT: Seems in linking to this,…

  • iPhone Data Recovery

    iPhone needs to be jailbroken to do this (tested on my iPhone 4, with iOS 4.0.1 using the www.jailbreakme.com jailbreaker). You don’t need OpenSSH installed, but I prefer it. If you install OpenSSH, connect using root@iphoneipaddress, password ‘alpine’ – I suggest changing this using the `passwd` command while you’re at it. MobileTerminal currently doesn’t work…

  • There’s always a better way – Windows Fixes

    It really annoys me when people say, “oh, why don’t you just re-install Windows” or “do a repair install”. Over the past few years I had numerous machines come in that plain wouldn’t boot in to Windows, and even other technical colleagues would comment that it needed Windows reinstalled or repaired. To me this is…

  • HTTP Referrer Spam

    My web stats for one of my larger websites is full of referrers which look to be spam… Today’s brief stats below shows the highest referral counts coming from a page titled “how to open an offshore company”… Cause I need to know how to do that… Quick search: http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2005/01/referrer-spam-proposal http://chris.quietlife.net/2005/01/16/referrer-b-gone/ – BAHHH DEBIAN… need…

  • My Facebook Idea

    …. was implemented!!! As per pic below. I filled out the suggestion form last week asking to see a pop up box when you roll over someone’s name, showing a picture of the person, and an indication of mutual friends, and an Add Friends button if they aren’t your friend… Tonight, I jumped on Facebook,…

  • S15 Update

    After just over 2 long years of having my S15 off the road, it’s slowly getting closer! A few weeks ago I decided I would get stuck into it, and got everything all setup and ready to turn over. Put the key in the ignition, and nothing. Damn! I’ve been doing a bit of research…

  • Cold War Reading Material

    I read an article, maybe 2 years ago, regarding the Cold War, and Russia (or the USSR, whichever), having built a doomsday system. I somehow raised this in conversation the other day with one of my colleagues, and searched for the article again… I’ve started to take a bit of interest in the Cold War,…