Monthly Archives: July 2005

Hacked again (pt.2)

Posted on Friday 29th July, 2005 by Gareth J M Saunders

I got back from Cellardyke tonight to discover that my site had been hacked once again. This time I didn’t delete the files they’d dumped on my server; I’ve zipped them and sent them to my webhost for examination. I’m … Continue reading →

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6th Wedding Anniversary

Posted on Tuesday 26th July, 2005 by Gareth J M Saunders

Yesterday was Jane and my 6th wedding anniversary. Iron and sugar, seemingly; Mum and Jenni gave us some chocolate raisins. I spent the morning and early afternoon at a funeral in Selkirk; Jane spent the morning at the vets, and … Continue reading →

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Hack source found

Posted on Tuesday 26th July, 2005 by Gareth J M Saunders

The nice folks at Pipex emailed me this evening to say that they’d located the source of my website hack, from my website logs. It appears that on 9 July someone exploited a vulnerability in an old version of phpBB … Continue reading →

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I got hacked!

Posted on Tuesday 26th July, 2005 by Gareth J M Saunders

I’ve just sent an email to my webhost, HostEurope/Pipex, to ask if they can shed any light on how/why my website got hacked. This morning I received this email, written at 19:42 last night: Check this address – some one … Continue reading →

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Geek ‘porn’, pt.1

Posted on Sunday 24th July, 2005 by Gareth J M Saunders

Optimus keyboard … … isn’t that the most beautiful piece of geek ‘porn’ you’ve ever seen. Today. On the internet. On my blog. (Can you tell I’m filling time waiting for my mate Jonny to arrive from Bristol?)

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CPU-Z: freeware detection software

Posted on Sunday 24th July, 2005 by Gareth J M Saunders

Here’s an amazing piece of freeware software for identifying your PC’s CPU, motherboard and memory: CPU-Z. CPU-Z runs on just about any version of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 to XP, and beyond (including 64-bit versions); and gathers the following … Continue reading →

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It was all going so well, too

Posted on Sunday 24th July, 2005 by Gareth J M Saunders

Today was going so well, too. And then: We went to Ikea and Argos out at Straiton. Bad mistake. I’m usually too holy-ed out on Sunday afternoon to go shopping, but we needed some bits and pieces for the Cellardyke … Continue reading →

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