Harry\'s Author Archive — Page 2

Database Input Sanitisation

024th Feb 2010Systems Administration, ,

A fantastic geeky joke but does illustrate the important fact that none-geeks will always use your interfaces, if you don’t bulletproof it you More »

Legs vs Legs & Sets

017th Feb 2010Darts, , , ,

This question has now come up a number of times, essentially matches in darts tend to be “X legs to a set and More »

Ping……….. PONG!!!

017th Feb 2010Darts, Life, Systems Administration, , , ,

I know recently I’ve been really slow to response to my Blog comments, messages on Facebook and not updating Twitter, this isn’t because More »

HOWTO Make Pancakes

016th Feb 2010Life,

Ingredients For the pancake mixture: 110g/4oz plain flour, sifted pinch of salt 2 eggs 200ml/7fl oz milk mixed with 75ml/3fl oz water 50g/2oz More »

Teaching Spam Assassin

016th Feb 2010Systems Administration, , ,

This was written about running Spamassassin, Exim on CentOS Linux As SPAM evolves the techniques used change over time, it is because of More »

Sender Policy Framework (SPF)

016th Feb 2010Systems Administration, , ,

Recently I have been receiving email bounces suggesting that I’ve been attempting to send people emails as it’s being signed with one of More »

Remove ^M in Vim

016th Feb 2010Systems Administration, ,

Often people upload plain text files to one of the sites that I work with and when I edit it through Vim it’s More »

PoundHost – BlueSquare Adding an IP address and IP’s to VMWare virtual machines

316th Feb 2010Systems Administration, ,

Add a virtual IP address to the host server. This is done on the loopback rather than eth0:0. 3.3.3.3 = This is the More »

Setting up a local subversion repo

016th Feb 2010Systems Administration, , ,

First create the repository $ svnadmin create /home/subversion/name_of_project Then checkout thisproject into the directory where you’d like to work on it. $ svn More »