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ext4 options for a media drive

At the moment I am reinstalling my desktop PC, and setting it up to be a media server / HTPC. One of the things that has baffled me is the best options to use for ext4 on the media partition. A quick search revealed nothing definite, hence this post. It is mainly as a reminder [...]

Getting Social

If you are reading this post on the full site, you will notice a new bar at the bottom of the page. I’ve added the Meebo Bar which lets you do cool social-shary stuff.
At the moment it isn’t really that impressive, however it looks like they are going to be doing some cool stuff with [...]

How I used Twitter to harvest 8000 email addresses in twelve hours

After arriving home from work this evening I turned to the Twittersphear to see what was happening in the Blogosphear. I came across an article detailing how some guy got sued by Facebook for scraping their site. It is a rather interesting read, and rather eye-opening at how easy it is to do such things [...]