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Why I Am Being Forced By VirginMedia’s New Spying Tactic Cview DPI To Encrypt My Overall Internet Connection
Christmas should be a time of joy for most people but if you are a VirginMedia subscriber like myself their latest attack on your privacy will bring very few Ho Ho Ho’s from customers. VirginMedia have recentley admitted to testing out CView a DPI “Deep Packet Inspection” system that looks and opens your Internet activity/traffic to substantiate if you are downloading or uploading copyrighted music content. Not only is this interception technique most probably illegal it is also a deception and monitoring feature that many uneducated/tech savvy VirginMedia customers will be unaware is taking place on their Internet connection.
Hotaru CMS A Truly Modular Content Management System
Hotaru CMS is a modular CMS that can be used to launch almost any kind of website, the use that interested me though was the fact that Hotaru CMS can be configured to build a Social News website similar to Digg or Wpscoop the second of which I own and is built using Drupal. Being that Drigg for Drupal hasn’t really been developed or maintained since 26 Jun 2009 now I was looking at possible systems for the future in case Drigg never makes it to a Drupal 7 release.
URL Shortners And Should You Trust Your Links To Third Party Services?
With services like Twitter only allowing 140 characters as it’s input limit more and more users have turned to URL Shortening services like tr.im, tinyurl, bit.ly etc. A few days ago however tr.im announced on it’s blog that they would be closing the service in December due to not being able to find a buyer for the startup. This begs the question of “Should You Trust Your Links To Third Party Services?”.
Is India the spam capital of the internet?
Owning several social websites we have to deal with spam on a daily basis nearly all of which originates from the Asia Pacific Network specifically India, this begs the question what does India actually offer the Internet aside from spam, inexpensive outsourcing and Shilpa Shetty?
Welcome To My New Blog
Welcome to my new home on cyberspace that i finally got round to setting up, on this blog you will find things that i find personally interesting or have created and may want to share with you. I currently live in Glasgow, Scotland and am 32 years of age. My two main passions in life are Music and Web Development/Design related subjects, i have been writing electronic music/djing for around 12 years now and started becoming interested in web development around 3 years ago.
Over time i hope to release some of the music i have created and share any web development tips i have gathered over the years with you on the blog. Sometimes it might also be used to air my views or just to simply have a rant on any subject that i may find interesting.
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- @wptaverncan you imagine dealing with every customer support request by email each day \o/ at least with a forum old answers solve issues
- @wptavern it's a very competitive marketplace and if you enter it without a great support network your going to have headaches in my opinion
- @wptavern cool see it now :) their support setup looks ropey to me? fill in a form seriously? at bare mimum i would expect forum support.
- @wptavern do you know if they are following the GPL approach on their themes like others have done, Couldn't see any info on their site.
- @wptavern didn't notice that. strange i would just have used ejunkie for everything, maybe they don't like the ejunkie aff settings.
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