old stuff from March, 2006

my web page at google

Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:17 pm by noel
posted in firewall, internet, stuff, web development

i recently got an invitation to create a bunch of web pages over at google. its a new beta thing (again) they call google page creator. here’s my first page. as they said, its pretty easy to set up a page. there are a handful of design templates to choose from and i was able [...]

got dos’d

Wednesday, 29 March 2006 8:06 am by noel
posted in firewall, internet, network, stuff

my firewall got dos’d (denial of service attack) yesterday. according to my firewall logs it was a dos teardrop attack. cute. i did a little digging and found out that it only affects machines running windows 95, windows nt and windows 3.1. fortunately the firewall (smoothwall) is linux-based. ha!

curiosity got the better of me and [...]

upgraded to 2.02

Sunday, 26 March 2006 7:58 am by noel
posted in site, software, wordpress

i just noticed it this morning. wordpress in yahoo got upgraded to 2.02. yey! this time it just took them 16 days to upgrade from the time of the official release. i’m not being sarcastic here or anything. the time it took to upgrade from 2.0 to 2.01 was twice longer.
but hey, its there and [...]

dsl problems

Saturday, 25 March 2006 10:17 am by noel
posted in firewall, internet, network, stuff

yesterday afternoon my isp went bonkers. i couldn’t login. the connection just gets cut and i couldn’t login anymore. i didn’t change any of my settings or moved anything so the problem is coming from them. for the record i don’t connect my workstation directly to the internet. the connection goes to the dsl modem [...]

pissed at some vendors

Thursday, 23 March 2006 8:10 pm by noel
posted in hardware, stuff

today i’m pissed at a vendor. no, i’m not going to name names. they know who they are.
before getting quotations for a project, i specified the hardware components that i needed and in what quantity i needed them. one of the items i listed are four (4) units of a 300 gigabyte sata hard drive. [...]