Samba, SMB Master Browsers and IPTables

I recently discovered the source of an intermittent problem I was experiencing on the network at home. When browsing the SMB network my PC would timeout and not find any other servers, though trying to go directly to those servers would succeed. I thou… more »

Firefox Spellchecker

I was just posting on a forum I frequent that it shouldn't be too hard to write a spell checking extension for Firefox, seeing as how all the required components are available in the parent Mozilla application. For those who struggle with spelling, or j… more »

Mouseover DOM Inspector

Now this is just a very neat trick. more »

Yum, del.icio.us

Now I realise this could make this linkblog basically obsolete, but it is a pretty cool site (and a good idea - my bookmarks, accessible from anywhere!). more »

The Blog of Rob

I've started another blog, this one is intended to be less technical and more, erm, drivel... more »

Trying again with Gentoo

Since both my laptop and my 'spare' laptop were running the same distro (Ubuntu) I decided there wasn't enough variety in my life so I've installed Gentoo again, this time on the 'spare'. The documentation is still excellent but a few steps were missing… more »

Mono Ports

Just discovered this resource, some Mono ports of some free .Net web apps. more »