Logitech G27 on Special @ LogitechShop.com.au
HERE: http://www.logitechshop.com.au/logitech-g27-racing-wheel-pc-ps3.html Don’t ever say I don’t help out my fellow nerds! 😛 Their normal price is $489 but in the description it has: The Logitech G27 Racing Wheel $344.95 Delivered The Facebook G27 Promotion Conditions As follows 1 per customer – PayPal verified addresses only Allow up to ten working days for Processing and […]
iDefrag for OS X
Just a quick post showing an iDefrag before and after (iDefrag is an OS X defrag app, basically Disk Keeper Pro for Mac, minus some of the more advanced functionality I guess). Ran an offline defrag, using the “Optimize” algorithm. I wanted to add a Bootcamp partition to my drive, so this shifted all my […]
Sphinx Search for Invision Power Board
I’ve toyed with Sphinx before. It blew my socks off… Until it broke. Sphinx is an Open Source indexing engine, which is supported out of the box by the forum software, Invision Power Board (IPB). Essentially what Sphinx does, is run a bunch of queries against the IPB database, usually hosted on MySQL, pulling the […]
Shoppers vs Shops – Online Buying Debate
As a small business owner, I’ve witnessed first hand the effects of overseas online retailers. I have lost numerous sales because an overseas dealer can offer the same product to customers for around 10% less. One of the products I used to sell was 20% off cost price to me, including GST. An overseas retailer […]
Getting More out of Google AdSense (And a bit of SEO 101)
There’s lots of gimmicky “make a quick buck” packages, scams, or whatever you want to call them, floating around on the internet. It sums up the dream really, to sit at home and earn money, whilst merely sitting on the couch, or for the responsible people, spending time with their family. A good friend of […]
WPAD & Proxy Timeout Issue
If you’ve been following, I’ve recently been playing with Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010, the “new” ISA Server. Now, for all intensive purposes, everything is configured correctly. There’s a virtual IP for the proxy array (let’s say, 192.168.0.10), and the WPAD file is published, and contains the IP addresses of both proxies (let’s say, 192.168.0.11 […]
WSUS, TMG & WPAD – Making the Proxy Bypass List Work!
I got tasked with a problem today which was plain weird… New servers being deployed, are unable to contact the WSUS distribution point to check for updates. The file C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log show the following errors: 2010-11-23 11:03:45:106 800 634 Misc WARNING: SendRequest failed with hr = 80072ee2. Proxy List used: Bypass List used : <(null)> Auth […]
My iptables “base” ruleset
I’m not 100% sure if this is correct in a security sense, but thought I’d post this. For my web/database servers, it’s a pretty basic setup really. Drop all inbound packets not specifically allowed, and allow all outbound unless specifically denied. Open for comment / feedback. It’s for all intensive purposes, pretty secure in my […]
Getting your foot into the IT industry & my history
I get asked a fair bit, do I know of any jobs going in the IT industry, by mates looking to get into IT. I occasionally get asked, how I got to where I am today also. So I’m writing this post for anyone out there, who’s just finishing school and wondering what the next step should […]
Makeshift Anonymous (aka always encrypted) Browsing
In light of all the “omg, people can hack into my Facebook/Twitter account now” rubbish that’s been headlining around the world in the last week, I faced a similar situation, in constantly being prompted to allow access through a firewall, which seemed to think my access to brain dump material was actually an attempt to […]