Virgin Refunds Me $200Virgin Refunds Me $200
Virgin Mobile Excessive Billing In my previous post about the Xperia X10 I mentioned being billed excessively for bandwidth use [1]. On Friday when I phoned Virgin I was repeatedly[...]
Category: Networking
icmptx – Tunneling IP over ICMP Echoicmptx – Tunneling IP over ICMP Echo
I’ve just been playing with icmptx, a system for tunneling IP over ICMP Echo which could be handy if I ever find myself blocked by firewalls. Unfortunately the documentation is[...]
Dynamic DNSDynamic DNS
The Problem My SE Linux Play Machine has been down for a couple of weeks. I’ve changed to a cheaper Internet access plan which also allows me to download a[...]
Is Pre-Forking any Good?Is Pre-Forking any Good?
Many Unix daemons use a technique known as “pre-forking”. This means that to save the amount of time taken to fork a child process they will keep a pool of[...]
Ethernet Interface NamingEthernet Interface Naming
As far as I recall the standard for naming Linux Ethernet devices has always been ethX where X is a number starting at 0. Until fairly recently the interface names[...]
libcsoap/libnanohttplibcsoap/libnanohttp
Recently I have been doing a bit of work on libcsoap (the C library for making SOAP XML calls over http) and the libnanohttp library that it depends on. The[...]
Mailing List Meta-DiscussionsMailing List Meta-Discussions
It seems that most mailing lists occasionally have meta-discussions about what is on-topic, the few that don’t are the ones that have very strong moderation – authoritarian moderators who jump[...]
Does Every Serious Mailing List need a Non-Serious Counterpart?Does Every Serious Mailing List need a Non-Serious Counterpart?
One practice that seems relatively common is for an organisation to have two main mailing lists, one for serious discussions that are expected to be relatively topical and another for[...]
New Portslave release after 5 YearsNew Portslave release after 5 Years
I’ve just uploaded Portslave version 2010.03.30 to Debian, it replaces version 2005.04.03.1. I considered waiting a few days to make the anniversary but I wanted to get the bugs fixed.[...]
3G Broadband for Home Use3G Broadband for Home Use
I have just installed an old Three mobile phone with 3G broadband for my parents home network access for the reasons described in my cheap net access in Australia post[...]