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Russian Knights of Spamalot!
Posted on September 4, 2009 | 2 CommentsThere seems to be a surge of “Russian” spamming these days. I’m getting daily “comments” from spammers linking to “somesite.ru” and customers with HTML forms, especially the “contact us” variety, are getting inundated. The customers complain that they’re getting a lot of spam via their... -
Broken gcalctool bit shift in OpenSolaris 2009.06
Posted on August 31, 2009 | No CommentsWhile working on some low-level OS code, I needed to juggle with some bit fields and it’s often useful to use the logical operations on OpenSolaris’ bundled calculator accessory. However, I thought I was going mad when I tried to shift left or right! Check... -
Windows ftp getting “425 Unable to build data connection”
Posted on August 31, 2009 | No CommentsIf you are using the command line ftp client within Windows and getting errors like these… 500 Illegal PORT command 425 Unable to build data connection: Connection refused Well, don’t worry – you’re in good company. This is probably one of the most commonly encountered... -
Freeing hidden space in the “System Volume Information” folder
Posted on August 29, 2009 | 3 CommentsI was cleaning up an external USB drive that had a bunch of old data that I didn’t need any more. The drive was fine but had been used between a number of systems so I thought to do a quick “chkdsk” (this is an...