Improving KittenAuth
Having had tremendous feedback and support on the first implementation of KittenAuth I had pushed out, it seems only fair to push this project further and bring it to a stage where everyone can use it.
Oli’s Blog
Father of three, seasoned web developer (Django, Vue, Astro, etc), Ubuntu Member, photographer and woodworker. This is my blog, covering a raft of topics, mostly technical.
KittenAuth Goes Prime Time
Firstly the response to KittenAuth has been IMMENSE! The kind people (look to the right now) that have donated have helped me an amazing amount by allowing me to fend off the evil bandwidth bill that will be heading to me at the end of the month.
Digg Meets KittenAuth
Well its been an interesting couple of days. I invented KittenAuth (the single cutest human-verification method ever), published a write up on it and within hours the server was swamped in what can only be described as “the internet”. Been getting lots of hits from Digg, Reddit and a billion other blog that’ve linked here from those stories.
The Cutest Human-Test: KittenAuth
Spam is a problem and with the recent upsurge in blogs and places where you can leave your 2 cents, its not getting any better. "Clever" online entrepreneurs have always been up for making money from nothing and have relentlessly plagued our inboxes…
France to apple: “No DRM”
It’s a common view that the EU and all its member states hate everything to do with software patents when it comes to bit US companies. MS has been hit in the past with millions of dollars of fines and forced to release new SKUs of Windows XP to conform with EU anti-trust rulings but now France is taking on Apple.
Houston, We Have A Problem
Six-wheeled space rovers need more than five working wheels
March’s Updates
Another big month for site development
Cats Taking Over The Roads
It seems the streets of Southampton are no longer safe after cats recently hijacked a scooter and took it on a joyride of chaos and destruction.
Chef Quits South Park
The ever popular character from South Park, Chef’s real life counterpart, Isaac Hayes, has decided that he wants no more to do with the show due to the stance on religion that it was taking.
1973 British Rail Space Train
A patent from 1973 for a “controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction”, UFO-like train has recently been uncovered and published on the BBC web site. The same article surfaced after some BBC Radio 2 research a while back that I found through google.
Star Wars 1978 Holiday Special
A holiday special broadcast in 1978 with all the stars and some extras
Massive Security Hole In Ubuntu
Turns out all the data entered during installation is logged. Including passwords.
Chuck’s Favourite Norris Facts
Chuck Norris reading his favourite 10 facts about … Chuck Norris
The First Rule Of Fight Club…
… is remember to beat the crap out of your bug-writing colleague before the time runs out. Some software developers in Silicon Valley have implemented possibly the best stress relief they could have.
Copy Protection Is Killing The Industry
Treating customers like criminals isn’t going to fix things for anyone
10 Worst Gaming Controllers
IGN think these are the 10 worst game controllers, but they’re wrong.
Nominet are worse than Verisign
There’s been a lot of badmouthing the company the effectively owns the .com top level domain. They’ve somehow managed to keep a relatively unmonitored grasp on the TLD and even renew their contract to 2012.
When Windows Met Ubuntu
Seopher has a fun time trying to install Ubuntu
UK Anti-Piracy “Virtually Impossible” due to GPL
Trading Standards seem to suggest they can’t do their job if people go around giving software away.
UK Government to make Vista EVEN worse
This week the British government in their infinite wisdom have started eyeing up the upcoming Windows Vista. More specifically, the encryption systems that are used in it.
MS Retrofitting OEM Licences
I’ve just read an article at Aviran’s Place saying Microsoft have retrofitted their OEM Windows licences with a new caveat for upgrading users
MSN Live Messenger Memory Leak
Just how much RAM could a messenging client possibly need?
Why the RAID5, God?! WHY!?!
My investment in RAID5 was well intentioned. Have a mammoth sized volume and redundancy if one of the disks fails. I thought I was in heaven and nobody or nothing could touch my unsinkable ship, the HMS Titanic.
Bootable USB Flash Drive
Nate explores the unnecessarily complex world of creating a bootable USB drive and shows you how to make it a lot simpler than it may have seemed.
Passwd Files
A quick introduction to passwd files, what they are, and how you can abuse unix systems that use them to gain access.
Raising the dead - Undeleting deleted files…
Have you binned five years of work by accident? How about destroyed your entire music collection?
Pointers in C
C is a pretty easy language to understand but there is one topic that scares the daylights out of beginners: pointers.
My PSU Hell
Arent computers great? The way they Just Work™ without fail
Your hard drive is failing
It happens.. it always happens… right when you want it: your HD crashes, refusing to boot…