Recent content by Jive

I was actually surprised they didn't sting me with the 20ish cent ICANN fee that some of the big names do. Nice to have consistent pricing from browsing to checkout. These guys might actually be my new goto registrar.

I stand by this as well. With the likes of Let's Encrypt and probably others providing SSL certificates for free we don't really have much reason not to use SSL. Unless of course you're working for Big Corporate using 25 year old COBOL scripts to keep a company alive and with Java 6's...

Hmm, from what I can gather internetbs got bought out buy some bunch in the UK and will charge VAT on top of their prices if you're in the EU. Namesilo perhaps? https://www.namesilo.com/Support/Reseller-Options

If you have a WHMCS license you should be able to get better rates iirc. Not sure what it will work out to given tax in your area. https://www.whmcs.com/partners/resellerclub/ / https://www.whmcs.com/partners/enom/ Also Internetbs looks kinda cheap...

Used to update our machines Wednesday mornings. Us Australians are future sailors so had to leave it until the day after patch Tuesday to have any real benefit for the few Windows boxes I was looking after at the time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday

This is definitely a write-off for some drug/people smuggling ring right? Reminds me of the fakery from Weeds but less appealing. "We don't offer telephone support to our clients. ...That's support in our book!" http://www.lentl.net/ - just in case there are any vegans around these parts.

The most delicious form of incest.

You could probably script something that works similarly to mx toolbox and is command line friendly. Give the script a list of the IP addresses you care about, loop through and use the dig command do a DNS lookup for each of the major DNSBLs from mx toolbox. I'm most of the way through...

I recently used Bitcoin to pay for hosting as a client for the first time and it kind of validated the fact that I have this cyber money I probably can't do much else useful with. It was painless and provided I still have enough in a month I'll likely do the same. Its fairly unlikely I'll do...

Penny for your thoughts? A good few years ago when the SolusVM web interface (and most of the rest of the internet) looked like balls on mobile devices  I released VPSMon - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.texh.vpsmon&hl=en. It seems to still work just fine even though I...

Don't really listen to podcasts so much anymore, but I did used to listen to Naked Cantonese. Cecilie's teaching methods are quirky, but they work - http://podcasts.rthk.hk/podcast/item_all.php?pid=45 Generally (for ambience) just try to find something that suits my mood on 8tracks. Tried...

Very sexy. Have to say I saw this earlier today and while I haven't looked as closely as the others who've posted here, the first impression of the makeover is definitely a great one! Edit: My only gripe thus far is that images aren't very crisp on mobile (Nexus 5)

88 - Dagnabbit

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