http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn DaynotesForum wikidn.xml Copyright en-gb http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?CurrentUpdate http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?CurrentUpdate (Saturday, 5 Jul 2008) Having a moderately bad week and have had to increase my painkiller dosage. I did really think I was over this kind of thing, but evidently not. Just for spice, my mother paid a... Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:37:51 UT http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?JavascriptValidationAnnoyance http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?JavascriptValidationAnnoyance (Monday, 30 Jun 2008) We run into it often enough, and have for many years now: the webpage input form with javascript validation of certain fields. And we also see the same nonsense with validation c... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:55:08 UT http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?TheyAlwaysBanDeatils http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?TheyAlwaysBanDeatils (Saturday, 28 Jun 2008) Ever notice how legislators always manage to find new obscure acts of stupidity to make laws against? Nevermind that there may be existing general laws that well cover the situ... Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:41:03 UT http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?ItGetsWorse http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?ItGetsWorse (Friday, 20 Jun 2008 at 17:03 UTC) Barely over the visceral shock of the surveillance vote scandal (ToVoteOrNot), we today learn that the government has in secret commissioned a study on being able to... Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:11:23 UT http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?ToVoteOrNot http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?ToVoteOrNot (Wednesday, 18 Jun 2008) Things have been unusually strained in the Swedish parliament since before the weekend, with long party closed-door conferences and yesterday a massive public debate. The ruli... Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:54:42 UT http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?ToRepairOrNot http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?ToRepairOrNot (Monday, 16 Jun 2008) This morning I turned on my work notebook -- only it didn't, not so much as a BIOS POST even though backlight and screen react to power up. It's the DellPrecisionM60, delivered i... Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:50:25 UT http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?HowToFilterJunkMail http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?HowToFilterJunkMail (Wednesday, 11 Jun 2008) Given that I have been away for a month, and despite running a 24/7 instance of Thunderbird to regularly remove junk mail, my various mailboxes were still filled with thousand... Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:00:27 UT http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?DenialOfServiceAttacks http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?DenialOfServiceAttacks (Tuesday, 10 Jun 2008) On the server that runs this site, among others, I have during several occasions this year experienced intervals of extreme SYN-flooding, one form of denial of service attacks. ... Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:47:40 UT http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?PirateViewSummary http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?PirateViewSummary (Saturday, 3 May 2008) Although I have not posted much about it here, there has been considerable activity among the "anti-piracy", fortunately not all of it successful. I thought it might be useful t... Sat, 3 May 2008 17:17:38 UT http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?MayFirstAndTeetotalThursday http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?MayFirstAndTeetotalThursday (Thursday, 1 May 2008) In a rare convergence of holidays this year, we have The 1st of May and Ascension Day, both public holidays in Sweden, on the same date. The Swedish umbrella organisation agains... Thu, 1 May 2008 08:22:54 UT http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?HackedUserAccount http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?HackedUserAccount (Wednesday, 30 Apr 2008) Hackers keep busy, day and night. Several weeks of recurring SYN-flooding had been the only annoyance until I parallel with my other weekend problem of a MajorServerCrash, dis... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:56:08 UT http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?MajorServerCrash http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?MajorServerCrash (Wednesday, 30 Apr 2008) My oldest rented server (in Canada) dropped offline sometime before Sunday morning, something I discovered doing my routine mail checks. Because my remote-reset attempts faile... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:24:14 UT http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?LifeAsMountainClimbing http://leuf.net/ww/wikidn?LifeAsMountainClimbing (Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008) My attitude to life was once characterised as being that of an energetic but somewhat too casual mountain climber. I would fearlessly and regularly set out to reach some new p... Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:50:54 UT