Category Archives: General

Firefox popup blocking

June 20, 2008 – 9:51 am

Wouldn’t it make more sense for firefox to allow popups based on the destination site rather than on the source? For example most popups I click on are for YouTube. Now some on these are on random blogging sites. Which means that to jump to the YouTube page for that video I have to allow [...]

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Google Analytics new tracking code

January 14, 2008 – 1:56 pm

As I was setting up a new site in Google Analytics today I discovered that there is now new tracking code you are supposed to use. The old code is now unsupported. Your javascript snippet should now look something like. var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + [...]

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Energy Australia social engineering attack

October 25, 2007 – 10:50 am

In the middle of a power outage at the moment, so I called Energy Australia to see what was going on. Me: Hi, I’m in Ryde and have no power. EA: Sure we are having a problem in that area. What’s your address? Me: 54 Blah St. EA: Thats under the name of Ferlito? Me: [...]

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Google Reader Subscribers

July 26, 2007 – 7:05 pm

I love Google Reader and have been using it for about 4 months to manage the 189 RSS feeds I currently care about. (Here are my shared items for anyone that is interested.) While browsing the Google Reader FAQ looking for how to get vquences embedded properly I came across the following. Does Google Reader [...]

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linux.conf.au brings about another change

March 26, 2007 – 8:06 am

Being Technical Guru for linux.conf.au 2007 was one of the most amazing experiences I’ve had in recent years. It was a lot of hard work but it was totally worth it. Having a room burst into applause at the penguin dinner when you say your the network guy is pretty unbelievable. I went up to [...]

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linux.conf.au payment gateway

December 2, 2006 – 11:59 am

Some of you may have noticed that we have been having a few problems with the linux.conf.au payment gateway. These have ranged from timeouts due to email and DNS issues to 500 server errors due to one or two bugs. For those of you worried about duplicate payments, don’t We were just sending duplicate receipts [...]

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just blame Pia!

September 12, 2006 – 9:02 am

At a couple of linux.conf.au meetings we kept coming across the same recurring theme, everything just seemed to be Pia’s fault So one dark and rainy night justblamepia.com was born. We even get to blame Pia for this post because the site isn’t even ready yet, it is supposed to get a spruce up (I [...]

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