Author Archives: billy

About billy

Senior IT Technician working in Edinburgh, Scotland.

New York Marathon 2012

Posted on January 12, 2012 by billy

Got a guaranteed place in the New York Marathon this year, Yehh! Perseverance does pay off it seems.

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Making outgoing IRC DCC work with NAT and XChat

Posted on November 9, 2011 by billy

This is basically a reminder to myself in case I need to set this up again, if you want to do this for more than one PC behind a NAT firewall-router, then you will of course have to use a … Continue reading →

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The Register

Posted on October 25, 2011 by billy

It looks like the tech website “The Register” has managed to accidentally send my e-mail address to 3000 other people. Thanks for that! *sarcasm*, I do understand that these things happen, and nothings fool proof, still, if you slag other … Continue reading →

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Secure Shell login attempts

Posted on July 11, 2011 by billy

After getting the following secure shell login attempts, I’ve decided to remove winbind from my home linux boxes. It’s not a big deal as I’ve only got a few workstations and I’m not running Active Directory at home. They are … Continue reading →

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Just playing about with QR Code’s

Posted on April 26, 2011 by billy

I’ve just been reading all about QR Codes and I’ve generated on for this website, makes for an interesting read (if your technically minded otherwise I wouldn’t bother). I also noticed that they seem to be getting popular as tattoos … Continue reading →

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