Category Archives: Net stories

on capitalism, is something I never realised I wanted to do until fate gave me the chance. Now, every time I sneeze, banknotes burst out of my pockets and credit cards rattle on the desk. I had expected lots of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A selection of slashdot readers’ part-time jobs: Throughout my years as a Unix admin, I have been a working blacksmith and woodworker in exotic woods. Recently I have branched into selling BDSM gear and sex toys, but that’s beside the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Looking through the firewall logs on my backup machine, I discover that someone from a computer in the State administration of Utah (168.178.120.104) has been trying to break in here. That makes a change from the usual Bulgarians and untraceable … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Perhaps the spookiest thing about my DNS adventures is that they showed me again how much spam is out there. When I slaughtered the darwinwars.com domain, I took Pair’s advice and set almost all mail there to be dropped rather … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Had one this morning which made me think twice, because I had in fact used paypal yesterday, and forgotten my password for a moment when I was doing so. It has come to our attention that when logging into PayPal, … Continue reading → Continue reading →