April 2012
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March 2012
2 posts
Hahahahahaha oh wow! Moron alert! @JonMwords claims:
SEO is about tailoring page titles, URLs, topic tags and body text to the words and phrases people use to search the Web. Google only has to match the keywords in the query to the keywords on the Web using a lexical database. That’s relatively easy, and it allows humans to game the system
Hahaha Protip: Learn what SEO is before writing a...
January 2012
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STOP #SOPA! rogerdavies.com, manchester-seo-blog.co.uk and michaelwharton.co.uk will be offline today in protest
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Blackout Protest SOPA Without Risking Your...
The Internet has chosen tomorrow for a day of blackouts in protest of controversial new SOPA laws designed to combat online piracy. Wikipedia had mulled the idea over, Reddit came out and lead the charge while Wikipedia closely followed with many other notable websites coming along. Even Facebook is rumored to have a media event planned while Google says it will use it’s homepage to inform...
December 2011
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Safe .htaccess 301 Redirects for SEO
Try including just one unsupported directive in the Apache’s .htaccess file and it is likely to take the entire site offline with: Internal Server Error 500. Yet this is rarely discussed in any SEO blogs when instructing people to setup 301 redirects this way.
The answer? Simply slap the IfModule statement around your rewrite rules:
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}...
October 2011
4 posts
Just treated my computer to a GeForce GTX 560 Ti Overclock (1Gb GDDR5) video card! Fantastic for gaming.
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Creating a Disk Image of a Jailbroken iPhone, How...
If you have a jailbroken iPhone and (like me!) absolutely hate iTunes with a passion - but are also frightened you may goose it at some point - leaving it non-bootable, do not fear! Here is a quick and effective way I found to use Linux to create and export a disk image from your jailbroken iPhone’s filesystem for backup purposes.
Firstly, ensure that you have SSH installed in your iPhone...
Possibly the strangest placement for a job advert: the HTTP header response from wordpress.com contains the following line: “If you’re reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header.” Lol
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:14:59 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Transfer-Encoding:...
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Beyond Raw FTP Access - The Folder With No Name
This week I had to remove a folder from a hacked server. The only problem? The file had no name at all! It was simply a blank whitespace character ’ ’ inside which the attacker had concealed an entire website frontend (The Santander’s banking login page, for phishing people’s details!)
It was clever, this folder could...
September 2011
4 posts
Couple of people giving away free Powerade energy drink bottles (375ml) on Oxford Road (near The Salisbury!) Woohoo, morning caffeine fix sorted :) Couldn’t believe my luck!
RESOLVE EXTRA : The fast, effective DNS hangover remedy!
August 2011
3 posts
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GNU C Compiler (gcc) for iPhone iOS
Exploring the limits of a jailbroken iPhone, I wondered if it was possible to get a full GNU C compiler (gcc) working so I can build my own programs natively on the iPhone itself. The package in Cydia’s repositories is mostly a writeoff that won’t even let you install it (and when you can trick it into installing it will be badly broken). Well, late last night I think I found the...
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Access Tor Dark Web through 3G / Edge with iPhone...
Ahoy thar Interwebs! Ever wondered if you can sail Tor’s Dark Web using your iPhone through 3G or Edge? First you will need to install Tor, and Sid77 has a great build for iOS and all iDevices (see the how to here).
Tor Onion Domains With 3G and Edge
However, while this is fine for Wi-Fi - how do I access Dark Web through 3G or Edge? There is no technical reason for not being able to...
July 2011
4 posts
http://bit.ly/oRQfK1 →
Curious! Former Police chief @andy_hayman deleted his Twitter, GO SUPER FREEZE SPELL: http://bit.ly/oRQfK1 #notw #thisisnowevidence
More Fun with Dark Internet - I2P2 Proxy and .I2P... →
Last week I wrote a brief bit about the Tor Routing Network and how to access .onion domains and one type of Dark Internet / Dark Web
Today I have been busy playing around with I2P2 as another great way to anonymize all transactions and also allow you to access .i2p domains (see Wikipedia here). It is very similar to Tor, but more flexible and can be used with a variety of different...
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Bitcoin Trademark Trolls
Oh lordy! It appears some NY based dimwit has attempted to trademark Bitcoin (Application for June 22nd 2011, which is surprising given that I’ve been using them for months before then). But the affair took a comical turn when the guy demonstrated his own idiocy in an interview:
“My understanding is that they are anonymous and untraceable,” the trademark troll said. “So how would one prove...
June 2011
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Leak Shows UK Copyright Lobby in Talks With...
In a shocking leak it has been revealed that the UK Copyright lobby has been in secret talks with Ed Vaizey over the arbitrary blocking of websites (see also here).
Besides the fact that users could simply use Tor, a VPN, a proxy or even Google’s own DNS to overcome this level of control, the broader question has to be asked: Do the copyright lobby really have your rights in mind? How are...
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Bitcoin GPU Mining Statistics
I know there has been some interested in #Bitcoin mining, so I wanted to publish here the stats from our little network over the last few days. We joined this bitcoin mining pool, configured all machines to run the Python OpenCL miner (poclm_py2exe). (See the News Lobster tutorial on how to setup GPU mining, and be sure to install the latest video drivers for your cards too!). Here are the...
LulzSec - Just for Lulz?
In two swash-buckling weeks, @Lulzsec and their jolly Lulzboat have boarded and sunk many an unsuspecting server. They broke into Sony’s PSN network (again) and forced Nintendo.com and an FBI affiliate firm Infraguard to walk the plank before posting the details of the CEO Karim Hijazi. Pleased onlookers threw Bitcoin donations at the fine old chap until he amassed a 7000$ collection But...
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In "borderless" cyberspace, nation states struggle →
A great article about the powerlessness of nation states to enforce law unilaterally on the continuum of thought that is the Internet.
“The Apple iCloud… a great new service that ensures ALL your data is lost...”
Sold 5 Bitcoins for £37.50
Just sold 5 #Bitcoins for £37.50, making back more than half of the money I invested on all my coins. I have more than 18 Bitcoins remaining, a worthwhile investment!
Just checked this morning … 1 Bitcoin is now valued at around £8 #Winning!
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Superinjunction Information →
Anyone who wants further information about existing superinjunctions should follow @Legal_AIDS Lol
May 2011
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Tutorial : Securing Blogger Anonymity, Exercising... →
This helpful tutorial will show you techniques on how to blog with near-complete anonymity. It is my response to recent events. This is a useful tutorial showing how you can exercise your online civil rights to free speech on the Internet without fear of prosecution by using techniques such as Proxies, VPN and fake email addresses.
“I feel like a native American or African watching colonial powers sailing in to...”
– Jeff Jarvis at the eG8 ‘forum’
Wow! There’s just been a single #Bitcoin transaction worth $2.3m dollars http://bit.ly/lDeXXr here’s the top 100 rich list http://goo.gl/fb/7Zvjl crazy stuff!
Watchjlgrellier:
eG8 - Jeff Jarvis - CUNY Professor in Journalism (par OWNI)
“The real world is a place to conquer and civilize by the
netizens.”
– Jeff Jarvis at the e-G8 Forum
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“The internet is the new frontier, a territory to conquer.” says Sarkozy, and I...”
– John Perry Barlow, Founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
“Technology will move faster than governments, so don’t legislate before...”
– Eric Schmidt - Executive Chairman of Google
Sarkozy Invites Internet Chiefs of Facebook,... →
It appears Sarkozy has invited some guests to share an e-G8 forum to discuss the ‘future of the Internet’. What he may not realise, is that this will not necessarily give him back any of the control that online empowerment has endowed the individual Internet user with.
Yes, the guest list might look impressive - Google’s Eric Schmidt, Mark Zuckerberg and John Perry Barlow (a...
Getting Around O2 Network URL Blocking
Disappointed to find that O2 now asking me to verify my age to continue browsing? Some non-porn websites such as pastehtml.com have also been blocked! What to do if I do not have a credit card to verify over the phone!?
Their customer services said I should visit them in store with some proof of ID, but I found that configuring Virtual Private Networking (VPN) on my iPhone worked just as well!...
Freeman of the Internet: An Open Letter To My...
I am a freeman of the Internet and this web space is my home. The friends I make here are no less real than in your world, the discussions are no less important and the citizenry is just as valid. Within this place, I am free. In this domain, you have no sovereignty, nor do you possess any moral right or technical ability to decide my intake of information nor can you regulate what I write. ...
Facebook Caught in anti-Google "Whisper Campaign" →
Interesting news from Google’s Matt Cutts this morning - that apparently an anti-Google “whisper campaign” wasn’t Microsoft, but actually Facebook! There are reasons why Googlers would suspect Microsoft after it jointly filed an EU anti-trust case with several other companies. Microsoft’s typical bullying and aggressive style seems to have come to nothing, but that...
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New Roger Davies .co.uk Domain is Online! →
Yes, I finally managed to acquire the badboy this morning. I’ve been keeping my eyes on this domain for a while, interestingly the previous registration expired on the 11th of Feb 2011 and has only today been turned over to the public to register! I’ve read on multiple blogs that the process should take a maximum of 75 days, where this has taken 90 or so. Weird, but well chuffed I...
“There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the...”
– Douglas Adams, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Anti Super Injunction Twitter User
What is everyone’s take on this Twitter super injunction abuser? The Twitter account is @injunctionsuper for those interested. A lot of contending theories being kicked around… either a journalist using Twitter to anonymously leak this information or possibly a world class troll. Who knows! That is now for the courts to decide Lol
(Super and Hyper Injunctions are a ridiculous idea,...
