Category Archives: Technical

Account reactivation

In the last hour I have had 10 messages from Lloyds bank. Lloyds TSB – Account reactivation form, Because of possible unauthorized access, we have temporarily deactivated your account. To remove the suspension, please confirm that your card was not stolen. To do this, please download and complete the attached html form. We are sorry [...]

Affiliate link

Celebration time. I have just earned my first $15 by someone signing up to a website accessed by one of my affiliated links.

Laptop battery died

My laptop battery suddenly packed up. I only really use it to keep the laptop running if I accidentally pull the power cord out, which is how I discovered it had broken. So onto EBay, £40 for a replacement!

IMAP error message with Courier

I have just installed ISPconfig3, a hosting system on my Debian Linux machine. I created an Email account for myself, but when I tried to connect with Thunderbird-IMAP I kept getting the error message “Filesystem notification initialization error — contact your mail administrator (check for configuration errors with the FAM/Gamin library)”. The strange thing was [...]

Apache website not working without www

This problem caused me a few headaches but I found the answer eventually and I reproduce it here to help any others with a similar problem. I am running apache webserver on Linux with virtual hosting and had the following in my sites-enabled folder, in a file called example <VirtualHost *> DocumentRoot /home/www/web ServerName www.example.com [...]