gregs » tumble http://gregs.tcias.co.uk helping me remember what I figure out Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:45:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 IOGraph http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2010/03/14/iograph/ http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2010/03/14/iograph/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:58:06 +0000 gregs http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/?p=482 Stumbled across this little app today IOgraph and the tag line “Do your business, Do art” tickled my fancy, so I decided to give it a whirl this afternoon.

being creative while writing code… ;)

]]> http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2010/03/14/iograph/feed/ 0 I took it http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2008/07/30/i-took-it/ http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2008/07/30/i-took-it/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:07:40 +0000 gregs http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/?p=471 I took the 2008 survey

Now you should too!

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]]> http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2008/06/03/goosh/feed/ 0 Restricting FTP passive ports http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2008/01/10/restricting-ftp-passive-ports/ http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2008/01/10/restricting-ftp-passive-ports/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:18:16 +0000 gregs http://gregs.teacupinastorm.com/2008/01/10/restricting-ftp-passive-ports/ After a full day of messages going backwards and forwards between myself and our firewall admins, here’s a gem of a post with a script to restrict the port range used by passive FTP on Windows 2003 server (as well as telling Windows Firewall to leave those ports open). Who would have thought securing FTP would be so involved…

]]> http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2008/01/10/restricting-ftp-passive-ports/feed/ 2 Bad Network Solutions, bad http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2008/01/09/bad-network-solutions-bad/ http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2008/01/09/bad-network-solutions-bad/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:26:00 +0000 gregs http://gregs.teacupinastorm.com/2008/01/09/bad-network-solutions-bad/ Courtesy of Slashdot, news that Network Solutions are front running domain names. I don’t care much for their response that this is to protect us, the customer, from evil do-ers. Especially when they charge a premium ($34.99) for their domain names, whereas services like Go Daddy offer them for $9.99. Way to go Network Solutions!!

]]> http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2008/01/09/bad-network-solutions-bad/feed/ 0 Happy New Year… http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2008/01/04/happy-new-year/ http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2008/01/04/happy-new-year/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:46:44 +0000 gregs http://gregs.teacupinastorm.com/2008/01/04/happy-new-year/ … to one and all.

New year, new look, search engine friendly URLs, fresh apache 2 install, ditto for MySQL. Add to that an additional 20% of RAM (thank you Linode!!), all in all a good start to the new year, promises to be a good one. :)

]]> http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2008/01/04/happy-new-year/feed/ 1 Software engineering explained http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2007/12/12/software-engineering-explained/ http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2007/12/12/software-engineering-explained/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:05:43 +0000 gregs http://gregs.teacupinastorm.com/?p=459 Great image courtesy of  Coding Horror:

Software Engineering Explained

]]> http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2007/12/12/software-engineering-explained/feed/ 2 Only in Russia http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2007/12/05/only-in-russia/ http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2007/12/05/only-in-russia/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:27:40 +0000 gregs http://gregs.teacupinastorm.com/?p=458 Communal juice glass, Moscow, 1990

Entitled “Communal juice glass, Moscow, 1990“. Brings back memories of my time spent studying and working in Russia, many, many moons ago. The site has a great collection of shop front photos from the communist era.

]]> http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2007/12/05/only-in-russia/feed/ 0 Google Maps links http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2007/06/26/google-map-links/ http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2007/06/26/google-map-links/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:01:52 +0000 gregs http://gregs.teacupinastorm.com/?p=453 A bit late to the game, but to save me looking these up again, here are a couple of links with some great explanations on how to use the Google Maps API and the Geocoding functionality:

UPDATE

Nick Tong sent through this link by email, which is specific to UK based Geocoding, however it also contains a wealth of additional information:
UK Geocoding Now Available in the Maps API

]]> http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2007/06/26/google-map-links/feed/ 3 “We have a policy that we are not being hacked.” http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2007/03/06/we-have-a-policy-that-we-are-not-being-hacked/ http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2007/03/06/we-have-a-policy-that-we-are-not-being-hacked/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:01:24 +0000 gregs http://gregs.teacupinastorm.com/?p=447 Probably an old hat for most, but I just stumbled across this post from Kottke. Classic!

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