Computing – Page 8 – Jonathan Gazeley

WHOIS

A matter brought to my attention just a few minutes ago – visibility of personal data in WHOIS info. I registered the domain jonathangazeley.com with No-IP. It worked, and I thought nothing more of it. But this morning one of my colleagues received a personalised scam and it seems likely that the scammers retrieved hisContinue reading “WHOIS”

MSN Messenger is 10 years old

Well I never! From an advert on Hotmail I was linked to a page which proclaims that MSN Messenger (more recently known as Windows Live Messenger) is 10 years old. I would have guessed it was older than that. I can’t remember precisely when I first used MSN Messenger but I’m fairly sure it wasContinue reading “MSN Messenger is 10 years old”

Deprecated vs Depreciated

One thing that often annoys me, particularly in my line of work in IT is the frequent muddling-up of the words deprecated and depreciated. According to Wiktionary… Depreciate Verb (intransitive) To reduce in value over time. (transitive) To belittle Deprecate Verb (formal) to express disapproval of. (computing) to recommend against use of. (archaic) to prayContinue reading “Deprecated vs Depreciated”

Mobile broadband in the sticks

I recently bought (and blogged about) an O2 mobile broadband USB stick. As I was on a camping holiday in a remote part of Pembrokeshire last week, I decided to take my Eee and the USB modem, just to see how it would work. I was aware that there would be no HSDPA coverage, sinceContinue reading “Mobile broadband in the sticks”

The worst cabinet ever

Recently at work I had to go out on site to visit a comms cabinet. I followed the directions to the cabinet, but when I got there I found it was in a tiny closet, not deep enough for a rack. So it seems that whoever installed the network improvised. There’s an ancient 10Mbit hub,Continue reading “The worst cabinet ever”

Moving away from Windows

I’ve dabbled in Linux for several years now – I’ve looked after Linux servers at work and at home, and I’ve had a secondary desktop PC running some version of Fedora or other. Two years ago I switched over my PC at work from Vista to Fedora, and I haven’t looked back. I didn’t haveContinue reading “Moving away from Windows”

A blast from the past

This evening I stumbled across my first web site. I put this together using Publisher 97, probably in the year 1997. It looks rather, uh, dated these days. While browsing the tree of that site, I also found my brother Oliver’s website, and a site I set up in 1999 about my year 9 classContinue reading “A blast from the past”

Batch conversion of images on Linux

I recently had a need to convert 3,000 scanned TIFF images to a more sensible format for distribution, such as JPEG. I’ve been using GIMP to edit the individual photos but sadly it doesn’t have a batch format conversion tool. So I wrote my own little script in bash. You will need to install ImageMagickContinue reading “Batch conversion of images on Linux”

O2 Mobile Broadband

Note: This article is under development. More info and screenshots will be added later. Keep checking back! I decided to buy a mobile broadband USB modem yesterday. For those of you who don’t know, I work as a wireless network & VPN specialist for the University of Bristol. At the time of writing, there areContinue reading “O2 Mobile Broadband”

Mac OS X security flaw?

I think I may have stumbled across a security problem in OS X on my Macbook. To recreate it, you need to satisfy the following conditions: Enable locking the screen after waking from sleep or screensaver Connect to an 802.1x-authenticated wireless network. Don’t set to remember password. Shut the lid to put it to sleepContinue reading “Mac OS X security flaw?”