BT just enabled Infinity in my residential area, so I quickly contacted my ISP to see if they could upgrade me. They said they were still working on their fibre rollout and couldn’t estimate when they might be able to provide a fibre to the cabinet connection. Obviously I dropped them like a shitty stick, [...]
Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
BT Infinity with Linux Router
Posted by arcana on November 26th, 2011
Posted in Computers, Linux 
Tags: BT Infinity, Linux, Modem, PPPoE, pppoeconf, Router, Ubuntu 
No Comments »New Server, New Desktop Computer :)
Posted by arcana on January 2nd, 2011
Over the past month, I’ve experienced truly wonderful customer service from Apple and the complete opposite from Easyspace / virtualservers.com.
Posted in Computers Tags: 1and1, Amazon EC2, Apple iMac, AppleCare, Easyspace, virtualservers.com 2 Comments »What a cock up!
Posted by arcana on November 13th, 2010
Well after a monumental cock-up by 1and1, I’ve found myself trying to cobble my site back together. I have most of it except some blog images that I didn’t back up. Doh!
iptables: PPTP Passthrough and UPnP for Xbox 360
Posted by arcana on October 28th, 2010
iptables: PPTP Passthrough and UPnP for XBox 360 I recently decided to replace my nice Draytek 2820 with a Linux box for purely geeky reasons. Since then I’ve come across a couple of little ‘gotchas’. Firstly I found that I couldn’t open any PPTP connections from computers on my network, despite GRE being allowed to [...]
Mac OS X Lion Sneak Peek
Posted by arcana on October 23rd, 2010
Gah! No! OS X Lion looks naff. Why would I want my computer to behave like an iPhone? An iPhone has limited screen space and you poke with a finger. My computer has a huge monitor and a proper keyboard and mouse instead because… it’s a computer! I hate the idea of all those icons [...]
Dealing with Image Hotlinks & Bandwidth Bandits
Posted by arcana on October 21st, 2010
How to deal with other sites hotlinking your images and making you pay for their bandwidth.
Posted in Computers, Featured, Programming Tags: .htaccess, apache, bandwidth bandits, hotlinking, image, mod_rewrite, php, referrer No Comments »Getting your Ubuntu server to show up in Finder on OS X
Posted by arcana on October 15th, 2010
An easy guide to get your Ubuntu machine to show up in the Network window in Finder on your Mac without using Windows File Sharing.
Openswan LAN to LAN IPSEC Tunnel to Draytek 2820
Posted by arcana on October 15th, 2010
My Openswan to Draytek 2820 LAN to LAN IPSEC tunnel config.
Battle.net security is a wipe-fest
Posted by arcana on April 20th, 2010
A while ago, World of Warcraft players were forced to merge their accounts in to new Battle.net accounts. These Battle.net accounts can hold several Blizzard accounts. In my case I now have 5 different WoW accounts merged in to one login, including a mix of US and EU accounts.
Posted in Games, Rants Tags: Battle.net, iPhone, Mobile Authenticator, Security, world of warcraft No Comments »How to determine if an NSTextView is scrolled to the end
Posted by arcana on March 29th, 2010
I found a several articles explaining how to scroll an NSTextView to the end, but I didn’t find any that explained how to do it only if it was already at the end before new text was appended. Consider this scenario. You have an NSTextView scrolled to the end and as new text appears in [...]
Posted in Mac, Programming Tags: Cocoa, NSScrollView, NSTextView, Objective-C, scroll to end, scrollbar, scrollbar position, scrolling 1 Comment »
