Rob Gallagher
Archive for October, 2009
Domain renewal scams
Oct 28th
Some of my domains are coming up for renewal, right on cue the scam letters start arriving in the post. The scammers trawl whois information and send out demands for “renewal” to unsuspecting domain users. Send enough of them and somebody, somewhere will pay up.
They’re getting pretty sophisticated compared to the ones from previous years, an accounts department could be easily tricked into paying them.
DWM config
Oct 16th
Recently, I started using dwm as my main window manager. At less than 3000 lines of C, it’s somewhat more lightweight than others I’ve used in the past.
The automatic window placement and stacking is really handy, especially when you tend to have a lot of terminals open, it keeps things nice and organised. There is very little to configure, but I did modify the colourscheme a bit to make it darker. I also added some handy key bindings and a few wrapper scripts to allow the window manager to run in a loop so you can restart it without killing all your applications. My config.h and associated scripts are in subversion.
Lisbon lulz
Oct 1st
He wants your minimum wage.
So with the big vote tomorrow, it’s time to get away from the boring debates, talking heads, crazies/nutjobs and inject some humour.
- Anti-lisbon spoof posters.
- Spoof posters that made into the papers!.
- No poster generator.
- And last but not least, the spoofers guide to Lisbon. This is actually useful and a laugh and a half at the same time.
