Merry Christmas!
It’s been another great year for thelongmile.net. With a server move, upgrades and significant improvements to my photography. It’s also meant I’ve gotten out and met new people, seen great new things and of course learnt so much a long the way!
This site alone has seen three rebuilds and no-one has helped me more on [...]
Thinking Different?
I’ve been using my Mac now for about six months, having never used a Macintosh before, but there are a few things that still seem alien to me, and of course some things I miss from Windows. For those of you who have never used Mac before, I thoroughly recommend it, there is no real [...]
Read MoreThe problem with ‘Googling it’
Right now I’m sat here waiting to go to the emergency out of hours doctors appointment I’ve made for my ear infection. I’m not telling you this because I want to, I’m telling you this because it’s going to come up later in this post, be patient. Here in Cardiff, we don’t exactly have the [...]
Read MoreSome News about the recent downtime
As you know, the site went down for an hour on the 7th of December, but this wasn’t for maintenance or for spring cleaning, This was in fact something far bigger.
Previously the server that was hosing thelongmile.net was hosted in the United States. In Newark, New Jersey on server newark149 if your interested of course.
Now [...]
Read MoreISP’s and P2P… It’s going downhill
We’ve been aware for some time now of the government and indeed the ISP’s increasing awareness of that newfangled technology known as P2P (Peer 2 Peer file sharing).
Over the past few months the publicity on this subject has grown rather dramatically as ArsTechnica recently broke the news of one particular ISP in the UK [...]
