October 05, 2005
Everything Else
Apostrophe Protection Society
Um, yes, there is an Apostrophe Protection Society. A quick look at the forums reveals it's quite active too! To each their own I suppose. Myself, I often forget the rules on when to (not) use an apostrophe, so a website that lists them in a readable format is sometimes handy.
Posted by Adam Boddington at 11:46 AM | Comments (0)
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Wireless Security
Well last night I finally turned on my ADSL modem's wireless access point and enabled my laptop's wireless network connection. Voila, instant wireless surfing. What took me so long? Didn't I realise it's 2005 and not the dark ages? Well up to now wireless is just one piece of technology I haven't been too eager to try. I read a long time ago about the serious problems with wireless security: fundamental flaws in protocols, high hackability, etc. Since then wireless has been put in the "too risky to try" box, and I've essentially stayed away from it like the plague.
Posted by Adam Boddington at 10:20 AM | Comments (0)
October 04, 2005
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Home Connectivity
Here is a fantastic guide on setting up secure access to a home network (or any network for that matter) using SSH and Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) or VNC. I recently found the need to get into my home workstation from remote locations, and after looking at a PPTP VPN with RDC, a L2TP IPSec VPN with RDC, RDC by itself, and finally SSH with RDC, SSH with RDC seemed to be the most secure and easy to setup option.
Posted by Adam Boddington at 11:57 AM | Comments (0)
May 19, 2005
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Culture Shift
Living on the South Coast is... different. I just did a quick run into Bateman's Bay to do some shopping. The purpose of the trip was to pick up a new phone that I've been waiting four weeks for. And not from some small country shop either, this was from the local Telstra Shop, a supposedly homogenous shopping experience wherever you are.
Posted by Adam Boddington at 02:54 PM | Comments (0)
April 13, 2005
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New Email Address?
I've been trying to think of a new email address for myself to go with www.adamboddington.com. Tradition usually dictates some part of my name, but here that would mean something like adam@adamboddington.com. No thanks...
I briefly reasoned that my domain name represents me, and there is only one of me (so far, insert evil laugh here), so why not implement the singleton design pattern? Something like instance@adamboddington.com. Yeah, cool! Then reality kicked in -- who wants to be called the instance guy? No, it's not cool.
I'll be using my other new email address for now, adam@sevencamels.com.
Posted by Adam Boddington at 08:29 PM | Comments (1)