Monthly Archives: August 2007
Are Daily Backups Really Sufficent?
Monday afternoon we had a critical failure of an Oracle database at work. Within a few minutes of the fault taking place, I started seeing block corruption errors whilst I was reviewing some information in the production environment. At this … Continue reading
Helpful Domain Utilities
It used to be quite cumbersome and slow to perform domain research, then the domain registers became a whole lot smarter by providing you with a list of alternative ‘suggested’ domains. While the suggestions that the domain registers were suggesting … Continue reading
Winning The Fight Against Spam
I hate spam, I hate it in email, I hate it in paper mail, I hate it in instant messaging, I hate it in forums – I just hate it. For a long time, I have struggled with comment spam … Continue reading
Windows Live ID Web Authentication
Today, Microsoft released the Windows Live ID Web Authentication service to the world for public consumption. The Windows Live ID service is an evolution of the familiar Microsoft Passport system. Over the last few years, Microsoft have been extending the … Continue reading
Samsung Blackjack (i600v) User Agent String
In case anyone is ever wondering what browser a Samsung Blackjack (i600v) uses: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 6.8) SAMSUNG-SGH-i600V/1.0