As many of you know, I’ve been involved in the link development business for quite some years.

I’ve compiled a report of the paid links for 5 bluechip companies. Outlining the page, cost, placement style, PR and such like.

Download: Link report

Keep-Dead DoS

I spent some time reading through the HTTP protocol, for another project. After playing around, I discovered that even with very limited bandwidth, you can perform an effective denial of service(DoS) attack against a web server.

Back in the day, when botnets were a rarity and bandwidth came at a premium, most DoS attacks relied on tying up services (e.g Apache) with fake requests. It didn’t take long for software makers to adapt to these attacks and come up with effective filters.

Continue reading Keep-Alive DoS Script…

For many years I’ve wanted to build a robot/man out of beer cans. I’ve finally made that dream come true. Although I need a little help deciding on what to do with the head. Right now It’s just a balloon. Also, what do I do with him now? Does he become a constant passenger in the car? Put a suit on him and take him down the pub? Who knows!

If you don’t want to make a robot man out of beer cans then you could use soda cans, the cardboard from the middle of rolls of tissue paper or just about anything that you have around the house.

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I bought a slingbox early this year. Watch and control your sky/cable box over the internet from anywhere in the world. Great!

After a couple months of using it, it started to play up, not connecting to the network and such like. Usually a reset would fix this.

About 9 months on and the box now refuses to connect to the network and won’t even reset. Before contacting Sling Media for support, I take a look around online and found forums full of people with the same problem. A hardware issue that means replacing the unit. Sigh, not ideal. After leaving it plugged in (not working) for a few weeks, I came back and now no lights come on. The unit is dead.

Continue reading Slingbox sucks…

For the last 6 months or so, I’ve run into the same problem across a range of different mac computers. I go to change an application or open a finder window and it just wont work.

I have a second window changer installed which is called witch. I highly recommend using this if you don’t already since it lets you change to a specific window rather than just an application.

I originally thought the issue was with Finder but after a bit of searching, it turns out to be a problem with the Dock. I looked around for apple scripts which could restart Dock but the only one I could find was a bit hit and miss in its success. So I put together my own very simple script.

Simply create a new apple script and put in this:

do shell script "kill -HUP `ps -aux | grep Dock | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`"

Save it to your desktop and next time your system stops letting you change windows and such like, simply run this script and it will restart your dock.

I used to reboot every time this happened so I’m glad I finally got around to putting a proper solution together.