http://blog.oddy.net The ramblings continue... Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:57:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is a given side effect of blogs that as soon as you have one, the spammers of the world find you're out there and start posting inane and useless stuff as comments on your site. Wordpress has a very good span filter in the form of Askimet, but ... http://blog.oddy.net/item/69 I've recently switched my Gallery to use the excellent Zen Photo web gallery. This is simpler than Coppermine, but retains enough of smart navigation to be very usable. The presentation is very slick too, with lots of interchangeable themes to choose from. In making the change, that meant I ... http://blog.oddy.net/item/68 There are an increasing number of network attached storage (NAS) devices, each of which offers at the minimum access to a hard disk drive in an external enclosure. Some devices also offer additional facilities such as active data redundancy (see the earlier post on the Drobo storage robot), but ... http://blog.oddy.net/item/67 This site has been hosted using the popular blog publishing system from Wordpress. It's very easy to use, the themes can be customised easily, and it doesn't try to be all things to all people. However, in the interest of keeping all things fresh, I have been looking ... http://blog.oddy.net/item/64 I have been looking to install a net nanny type application for sometime on my home network, mainly to provide some protection for the kids against the less salubrious websites that are out there. Received wisdom (mainly from the local ISP) is that I should install a dedicated nanny application onto ... http://blog.oddy.net/item/63 I have been using Wordpress for the past couple of years, and I'm pretty happy. It certainly makes writing new articles for this site nice and easy. To make life even easier, as I'm scouring the web for useful bits of information, I often want to blog some ... http://blog.oddy.net/item/60 After many years of decent service out of the Horde webmail application, I've found an alternative.  The RoundCube webmail project attempts to bring all the convenience of AJAX to the web application - an email was always the application in need of this treatment.The GUI is quite simple, clean and ... http://blog.oddy.net/item/59 If you have a website, and need to upload file, you usually use FTP (secure or not) or some local web file manager. The web file managers are usually fairly lame, so I've been on the lookout for an AJAX based one for a while. The Relay Directory ... http://blog.oddy.net/item/58 The buzz around this new product has been astonishing - and it's only just been released. For $499 US you get a small black USB 2.0 unit that can hold up to 4 SATA disk drives. So it's a big off-host data store? Well, that and much more. This isn't ... http://blog.oddy.net/item/57 If you need to have an email address to join a website, but want to avoid all the spam that can accompany that action, then you might be interested in this website.  Guerrilla mail allows you to create a temporary email for 15 minutes, which should be just long enough ... http://blog.oddy.net/item/56