Sytone's Ramblings

The occasional posts of a guy who plays with technology.

Merry Christmas!

2004-12-24 1 min read General
“A merry christmas to one and all. I hope santa brings you all the gifts you want. Im just hoping that Natural Selection gets ported to Half Life 2 :) After Anja has opened her presents I will HAVE put some christmas photos up!”

I got hacked

2004-11-08 1 min read General
Wow I got HACKED BY RHIFAT on my sytone.net domain… Perhaps I should have upgraded PHP nuke at some point in the last year or so ;) Anyway, congratulations and Hacker and Cracker have meanings…

Blowing Stuff Up!

2004-11-08 1 min read General
Well Guy Fawkes day has come and gone, and on last friday we decided to celbrate. Nick, Than, Ginny and Tim all came over for the night and we set off a range of explosives. I managed to take some picture during the evening and they can be found here. Anja enjoyed the show of ‘stars’ and didn’t really want to go to bed and miss all the fun. The rest of the week end passed quietly and no compaints from the neighbours yet about plastic on the roof :)

How to Keep a Healthy Level of Insanity

2004-10-31 2 min read General
" At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars see if they slow down. Page yourself over the intercom. Don’t disguise your voice. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want Fries with that. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it ““IN.”” Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso. Continue reading

UK License.

2004-08-11 1 min read General
I updated my address today and I still do not get it… Why do they go to all the trouble of issuing a plastic license and still require a paper one? In Australia we have had a plastic one for years, surely it cannot be that hard!

Down with Spamers

2004-08-05 1 min read General
Especially when they use my domain! I have about 2000 auto responses for email I didn’t send.. They decided to use *@40.91.120.192 as the from address. SO I have dropped any mail to sytone.dev for the mean time. It will bounce around the internet for a while but at least my mail server will survive. I wonder what happenes to a bounced bounce. I do not have the time to look at the RFC. Continue reading
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