Month: June 2005

  • How to enable directory listings in Apache

    Wanting to prevent directory listings that were enabled on my server I needed to do a good google. The result for prevent apache directory listing or “disable apache directory listing” was that the option Indexes allowed directory listing and placing -Indexes in its placed resolved the issue. M

  • WEP Key Generator

    WEP Key Generator Needing to generate a wep key thats easy to remember – base it on a phrase and use this site to convert it into hex. Intel Proset accept ascii for the passphrase but some routers (like the DLink G604T with current ADSL2/2+ firmware) do not. Easy type your ascii phrase in, click…

  • ADSL2+ W00T

    Internode have placed in their advisory and outage’s list one for the exchange that I am currently connected to with 1500/256 ADSL service. I will soon be cut over to ADSL2+ which will give me (theoretical) speeds of 24MBit/1MBit – but more realistic for me (based on distance from exchange) would be 3MBit/0.5MBit which is…

  • VServer can’t ping localhost

    Currently having an issue with “openxchange” running inside a VServer – guest instance of Fedora Core 3. Issues were as follows: ldap and other services :- referring to localhost but it (127.0.0.1) is unreachable – no loopback interface. Rather than working out WHY there was/is no loopback interface, I modified /etc/hosts so that 127.0.0.1 was…

  • Improving the performance of a 2.0 8V VW Golf (MkIV)

    Well as you might be aware I used to have a 2.0L MkIV Golf (8-Valve engine) which in it stock form did not go all that well in terms of outright speed. I looked seriously at various options for improving its performance. The options I found were 1) Replace the engine 2) Turbo or super…

  • Puma Racing – An excellent source for – flow development, engine building, technical and tuning articles

    Puma Racing Main Menu Page – flow development, engine building, technical and tuning articles Confused by Torque, Power what mod to do to improve your car? I was, well really I still am – but after having a read of this site above I certainly knew enough to tell me that anyone suggesting that a…

  • Review: Subway “Cookies”

    Subway sell various cookies available for sale near you. This review pertains to the “cookies” (aka Biscuits for .AUians) sold at the O’Connell Street Subway in North Adelaide South Australia. The palate cleanser used between each cookie is Coca-Cola(tm) . #1 – Double Choc The double-choc is a chocolate biscuit base with while chocolate chips…

  • AudiWorld News – B6 S4 Dyno Shootout

    AudiWorld News AudiWorld test various chips using a single vehicle to ensure that the comparison is accurate. Quite an interesting read. The S4 is a yummy car! A “chip” in automotive terms is a software program/settings that is uploaded to the ECU or replacs an existing chip within the ECU. M

  • SyncML – OPEN-XCHANGE Wiki

    SyncML – OPEN-XCHANGE Wiki Current project is to get a decent calendering application. Open Xchange is a nice calendering app, but it does not quite place nicely with SyncML and Syn4j just yet. Will post most as work progesses. M

  • Update your windows install

    Microsoft have recently released a swarth of updates into the wild. If you are not running XP SP1 – Begin or upgrade to SP2 – Yes its icky and has that stupid bloody limited number of simultaneous outbound connections that any hyperactive ferret like myself will find extremly irritating, but is supposedly more secure. Oh…