old stuff from January, 2006

probing my firewall

Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:58 am by noel
posted in firewall

last night i noticed that there’s a little more activity on my firewall. i took a look at the logs and i noticed someone was doing a portscan on me — first was a distributed portscan next was a decoy portscan. i deliberately erased the reported ip address in the screen shot below because it [...]

site updates

Sunday, 29 January 2006 6:32 pm by noel
posted in site, theme, wordpress

i’ve started adding some pages namely the services page which is still in the process of being made and the contact page.
i found that going to certain posts can be a little hard so i did some php sharpening and tinkered with the theme. the main blog pages are now listing the 10 latest posts [...]

can receive but cannot send e-mails in outlook express

Tuesday, 24 January 2006 8:26 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, support

if you can receive but cannot send out e-mails then it is likely that your mail server requires you to give your username/password combination before it will allow you to send out e-mails. this is sometimes called smtp authentication. the username/password combination would be the same combination you would use when receiving e-mails. this is [...]

computer not connected

Tuesday, 24 January 2006 7:08 pm by noel
posted in network, support

in a couple of instances i found one or two workstations has no access to the internet or local area network. in those instances i found out that the local area network connection in those workstations has been disabled. to enable the lan connection again just follow the following:
open control panel and look for “network [...]

protecting your yahoo id

Monday, 23 January 2006 8:27 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, stuff, support

most of us have a yahoo! mail address and quite a handful of us use it for business purposes. we usually access our yahoo! mail account either from our houses or from our place of work. but sometimes we would access our yahoo! account in an internet cafe which most security people say may or [...]