Monthly Archive: February 2007

Feb
26

Lovely Lycra

Pearl Izumi have released quite a nice Lycra cycling bib (sort of combined cycling shorts and, er, "suspenders") which combines my love of gadgetry with my lycra sports kit fetish. I give you the cycling shorts with integrated MP3 player! At $500 I think I’d just get myself some regular lycra gear and a Nano… …

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Feb
11

Living with Vista – part 3: a poor sleeper and an early riser

I’ve written before about how Vista’s new power management sucks. Since then I’ve found that getting it to go to sleep (even with the modifications to the advanced settings) is a bit flakey at the best of times. I think I’ve tracked it down to uTorrent – if it’s running (or even has been running) …

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Feb
09

A spam quandary

At the moment I make use of Exim’s sender verification callout feature which tries to work out whether the (supposed) sender’s email address given in the HELO is legitimate or not. For this is connects to the remote mail server and tried to do a RCPT TO for that email address. If it can’t find …

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Feb
06

Talk Talk arseholes

I just got cold called by someone from Talk Talk broadband trying to flog me ADSL. My home number has been on the the TPS for well over a year which legally requires companies not to make marketing calls to me. It takes a maximum of 28 days for it to take effect, and I’ve never …

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