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I can only assume that the official Big Brother 4 website is down today because of the hacking competition thingie that was on. Because of this, I have resorted to going to O2's BB WAP site to get the updates, and here's a snippet from an entry that I thought was quite comical...
"Lookalikes"
Day 45, 19:38 Scott, Lisa, Ray, Steph and Steph were chilling in the Reward Room when the subject of look-alikes came up...
Did you notice the mistake?
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Today was the day of the infamous worldwide hack where, over the course of 6 hours, many hackers around the world will try to hack into as many sites as they can. The prize? 500Mb of webspace...
...which brings me to this post. I received an e-mail today from Notnet, the peeps who host my websites. Take a look at this.
Andrew,
Today was the date for the alleged website hacking contest where over 6,000 websites were to be hacked in a matter of hours, just so someone can have a little more webspace (sigh).
I thought it'd be in your best interest that you be notified about this. Just over 2 hours ago, 57 attacks were made at Notnet's servers, 38 of which were targeted directly at where your website "andrew-irvine.co.uk" is kept. Thankfully, all of the attacks had failed and there has been no disruption to the servers.
I hope this is a good way of showing how safe websites are when they're hosted by Notnet
--
Dan Brusca
Notnet Webhosting
Indeed it does, and I sharent be moving for quite a while.
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Before I left for my trip to Doncaster on Monday, I locked my room and left my webcam on in there so that I could keep an eye on it while I was away, using my Nokia 7650. When I checked it while on my way home on the coach, I noticed that I had an intruder: my mum!
After some interrogation, she says she went in to collect plates (As you can see, there's one in her hand) but here's the strange thing... When I found out I had an intruder, I checked the times... the picture was from just over 24 hours before I checked, which means either the webcam was unplugged or the pooter was turned off. After finding out my FTP server was off, I figured it was the latter and, indeed, the pooter was off when I got back... She denies turning it off, so I can only assume she accidently knocked the button. That power button is awfully sensitive, I really should take a look at it.
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Yes folks, all my exams for the second year of Uni are now over. I only had the one this semester, and that was yesterday. Wow, and everyone else is working hard, revising
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To cut a long story short, I bid for a P3 800Mhz CPU and won. It was the Coppermine socket 370 style, so I had to get a new motherboard cos the one I had at the time was a slot 1 (totally different)... but that wasn't the only reason. The board I had turns out it doesn't support any higher than 650Mhz. So anyway, I went to bid for a new motherboard that supported up to 1.3Ghz. Yesterday it came through the mail... so now I've got a nice P3-800Mhz machine in the new sexy box. Quite an improvement from the last one, it's almost double the speed than before (MORE than double if the last one wasn't overclocked).
I wonder what kind of speeds I can get outta this one when I overclock it. I'm guessing at most 1.1Ghz, but I'm not doing that just yet. I wanna see if the system will stay stable for a while first. The CPU's staying at a nice constant 31°C which is pretty good. Hopefully it'll stay that way.
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Get this! I went to the pooter fair this morning in Stockton and got myself a Soundblaster Live 5.1 Digital sound card and the pooter case I've always wanted!!! Click here to see pics of it. Oooh, so sleek and sexy
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My student loan came in on Monday, so I've been a little happier this week. I got myself a pair of trainers - Adidas Galaxy 6 White/Blue (Brilliant design!) - and a 16x DVD-ROM for my pooter, replacing the 52x CD-ROM. I'm popping to the computer fair at Stockton Sixth Form College tomorrow to see if I can get myself a new CD storage thingie, a new case for my pooter and a wireless keyboard/mouse set. It has to be a natural ergonomic one mind, they're so much easier to use!
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I've got an FTP server setup at home now. People can now download from me pretty much 24/7. The IP for the FTP server atm is 213.107.173.97 but that won't help atm. I won't allow anonymous connections to it. E-mail me to request a username/password.
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Sorry folks, my sites went down for a couple of days but everything's sorted out now, thank god!
Christ I'm bored!
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