Archive for December, 2010

DavidsFarm YouTube account terminated / cancelled

By nick | Uncategorized

I decided to post this as I’m getting a lot of people land at this site when searching for info on DavidsFarm account being terminated. It seems YouTube have finally listened to those in opposition of the Davidfarm YouTube channel and terminated his account. This seems a little extreme as he was apparently generating over $15,000k a

WikiLeaks EveryDNS problems

By nick | Thoughts

On the 3rd December 2010 American DNS provider EveryDNS decided to drop Wikileaks.org from their systems, leaving any new visitors to the main site, wikileaks.org left in the dark.  Now on the 7th December 2010 it still seems that the wikileaks.org domain is pointing to EveryDNS’ servers despite lookups to that domain being dropped by

Wordpress update blank screen

WordPress update blank screen

By nick | Tech Support

I’m ashamed to say that due to limited time I’ve recently moved away from using my personal CMS system for this site in favour of WordPress.  This was done for multiple reasons although primarily that my CMS was evolving into more of a site creation tool than a blogging platform.  I have limited time to

Freebsd jail ping: socket: Operation not permitted

By nick | Tech Support

If you’re experienced problems using a few commands including ping under your FreeBSD jail here’s how to fix it. Problem: ping: socket: Operation not permitted Solution: On the host machine do the following: echo security.jail.allow_raw_sockets=1 >> /etc/sysctl.conf sysctl security.jail.allow_raw_sockets=1 Now restart your jails and the problem should be fixed

Finally, a decent vim configuration (backspace included!)

Finally, a decent vim configuration (backspace included!)

By nick | Tech Support

In recent times I’ve been a big fan of Vim (VI Improved), although I’m still not a pro I’ve found this mighty text editor to be one of the best I’ve come across in my 15 years of computing!   I’ve traditionally used pico followed by nano on nix systems and Emacs before that back