Archive for January, 2006

  • Spam Prevention - Installed

    Thursday, January 26th, 2006

    Having spent last night investigating and experimenting with CAPTCHA’s as a way of preventing spam entries in my guestbook and blog comments I have just in my lunch break installed them live [biggrin]
    Hopefully that will not only cut down on the spam entries, but also cut down on amount of emails I get.

  • Guestbook / Blog Spam

    Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

    Arrrrh - spam! It gets everywhere these days! Having updated both the guestbook and blog comments recently to give each entry a status, (the default being unpublished) to try and put a stop to spam appearing on my web site, it would appear that I now have even more spam appearing. This morning I had […]

  • Linux Server - Update

    Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

    Over the last few days I’ve been playing around with my Linux server trying to get email up and running. I have succeeded in setting up qmail and can send emails no problem [biggrin] although one slight issue I do have is that I can’t send them using PHP. I’ve updated the php.ini and pointed […]

  • New ADSL Router

    Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

    I got home last night to find a card from a courier stating that they had tried to deliver a parcel, but there was no answer. It informed me thatI should go and collect it. Just as I was about to leave the house to get it, there was a knock at the door and […]

  • Broadband router - broken

    Sunday, January 15th, 2006

    I sit here in the study on Sunday afternoon whilst doing some website development work and thought I’d take a few minutes out to write in my blog [biggrin]
    Thursday afternoon just after I had finished work I tried to log on to my broadbad router via the usual method - http but to no avail, […]

  • Development Server - Progress

    Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

    I’ve just knocked off work for the day and thought I’d take a few minutes to update my blog! I spent last night messing around with my new Linux development server and I’m pleased to say I have worked out how to transfer my website development files from my Windows box to my Linux box […]

  • New Development Webserver

    Friday, January 6th, 2006

    Over the last few nights I been building and installing Linux on what is now my new development webserver running, Apache, MySql and PHP [biggrin]
    All I need to do now is find a way of moving all my old stuff from my Windows PC to the new Linux server [eek]