Ever wondered how those sneaky spammers got your email address. Well they use robots to scan the internet and pick up email addresses off web pages. So if you ever publish your email address on a web page, sooner or later (most likely sooner), you’ll find you Inbox filling up with spam. There is however another way.
Using the following piece of script, you can dynamically write your email address onto the page. It still creates a link, yet spammers robots can’t read it. Brilliant.
To use simply insert the script into the HTML code of your web page and change to reflect your email address.
<script language=”JavaScript”><!–
var name = “name”;
var domain = “domain.com”;
document.write(‘<a href=\”mailto:’ + name + ‘@’ + domain + ‘\“>’);
document.write(‘TEXT TO DISPLAY ON WEBPAGE’ + ‘</a>’);
// –></script>
Or use this one to display the address as the email link.
<script language=”JavaScript”><!–
var name = “name”;
var domain = “domain.com”;
document.write(‘<a href=\”mailto:’ + name + ‘@’ + domain + ‘\“>’);
document.write(name + ‘@’ + domain+’</a>’);
// –></script>
Originally taken from http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/unspam.shtml
Register Hardware just posted a very interesting article reviewing some popular PC Tune-Up Software. I’ve never been a big fan of them, I always prefer to do any tuning myself, but it made for a very enlightening read. Check it out.
So I’ve set up a VPN server at work. Great for connecting from home to access the network. I’m using just the built in VPN server in Windows Server 2003 and creating a VPN connection from Windows Network and Sharing Centre. It’s a piece of cake to set up.
The only extra thing you need to do is open the ports in the firewall to allow the connection. Windows VPN by default uses PPTP, which uses port 1723. We have a Juniper firewall which comes set up with lots of predefined services so you can quickly and easily open all the right ports for the application you are using. Great. So I allowed the PPTP service for the mapped IP address the server uses. Done. Or so I thought.
It just wouldn’t connect. I turned off the firewall, tried it again, and it worked straight away. So why wasn’t it working?! After a quick search on the internet I read that you also need to pass GRE. Quick check on the Juniper, GRE was listed on predefined services, added that to the policy for the VPN server. Bingo, it works!
Not sure if that applies to other firewalls. I’ve set this up before and never encountered this problem. Maybe it’s just on the Junipers?
If your firewall doesn’t have predefined services, for GRE you need to open protocol 47 on any port, or ports 0-65535 (all ports).
I get asked for one of these all the time at work, the one I always recommend is PDFtoWord.com. Check it out.
I know that 32bit x86 versions of Windows can’t use more than about 3GB of RAM, but I’ve often wondered, if you install more than the OS can use, can the rest be used by the shared graphics that is common on most laptops and a lot desktops these days? Well I just came across the answer. No. Bummer.
However, I also found out that if your 32bit CPU has PAE, you could possibly have up to 64GB RAM. Sweet 
You know how when you get a new pen and you want to test it, so you write some random rubbish on a piece of paper. Come on, I know you all do it too.
Here’s one I found Charlotte had written earlier, using a Cancer Research pen that came in the post:
Hello. My name is Charlotte Jay. And this pen is very difficult to write with. Considering this I’m doing pretty well. It’s bendy. Bendy Bendy Boo Boo.
NetMeeting is a brilliant piece of software. We use it at work all the time, for connecting to computers across the world or showing users in other countries how to do stuff. Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn’t think so, because I just tried to run it in Windows 7 only to find it isn’t included. Apparently it wasn’t included in Vista either, but was available for download after people complained. Hopefully the same will happen with 7.
Anyway, I’m posting because if like us, and pretty much everybody else, you have a firewall, you’ll need to open the following ports to accept incoming connections:
TCP: 389, 522, 1503, 1720 and 1731.
UDP: 1024-65535.
If you don’t believe me, it says so here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158623