Last Friday, Skype posted this notice to their status pages indicating that they were contacting users who had bought 0207 London geographic numbers for their SkypeIn accounts. SkypeIn is a service that allows Skype users to have a normal UK phone number that people can dial to reach them on Skype. There’s been nothing more around […]
Some time ago, I was a religious reader of UserFriendly (about the same time I was reading BoyMeetsBoy and a few other online cartoons). When I came back from the states, my internet access changed and eventually it dropped off my radar. Having recommended it to Sean a few months back, I’m catching up. It’s […]
In response to the growing VoIP industry in the UK, Ofcom have released a new consultation. This investigates whether it should mandate certain types of VoIP provider to carry 999 calls. this could have far reaching impacts on a number of providers, but does it mean the end for Skype?
I was going to write a post on how thanks to someone deciding to upgrade Xorg in the FreeBSD ports tree, it caused me a problem or two. After two days of compiling, installing, tweaking, and generally spending time on trying to a desktop system working at work, I really couldn’t be arsed. I appreciate […]
First, an apology. For those of you who hang on every word I write (yes, both of you), I apologise for not updating you. Things have been quiet recently. Well, no, not quiet – because I have been manically busy, especially at work where we have far more work than time. It’s just there’s not […]
Yes, thanks to all who let me know the formatting is borked – that’s the last time I write it offline in Word. Thanks Microsoft. I’ll fix it shortly… Update: All the recent posts are now sorted.
So the time has come. I need to upgrade from php4 to php5 – mainly because Sean’s bitching at me, but I kinda wanted to do it for a while and PHP5 is fairly stable now. So, I head on over to the ports tree and see what’s what. Right, so there’s a php5 port. […]
[13:48:16] Jon Pearse says: mysql> delete from table WHERE foo=’a’ AND tableId=8169; Query OK, 1 row affected (4.39 sec) [13:48:21] Jon Pearse says: Holy shit [13:48:27] Jon Pearse says: That scared the crap out of me Yup, that’s a crap and very busy server. (For the non-techies, a simple query like that should take a […]
On Friday I had a conversation with a supplier that went something like this: Me: Hi, I need a quote from you guys for a managed server, with foo disks for the OS and bar disks for the Database, dual Xeon, 4Gb RAM, Supplier: Sure. I’ll email it to you. Me: Thanks. This morning I […]