stevekemp

Ditto for me. I shoot hookers for money, photographically. The kind of mid/high-end ladies that have their own sites and galleries. They're a hard market to get into, but frequently one gir…

At some point I need to steal contact details from you - How awesome would it be to have the real Brian Blessed record a voice-mail greeting?

> It always amazes me how the ridiculuous old fashioned non-electric kettles are still popular in USA. One thing that I find genuinely amazing is that power-companies can spot when there are commer…

I've seen precisely one stove-top kettle in my life, here in the UK: My grandmother owned one before she died, but she spent most of her life on a farm with outdoor toilets and no electricity, an…

I tend to wear a clean (buttoned) shirt and "nice jeans", along with a stylish leather jacket. I've not worn a suit for an interview in 10+ years. (To be honest I've ruled myself o…

I tend to listen to 80s goth/metal/industrial music, on the basis that that's what I used to listen to, go clubbing with, and enjoy the most. There are times when I'll listen to ra…

Imagine the internal monitoring that a hosting company might need. They'd have to manage: * All the (virtual machine) host boxes. * All the routers, switchers, and firewalls. * Status-checks, on…

I tend to wear "nice jeans" and a button-up shirt. All wrapped up in clean boots, and a clean leather jacket. Though I have a memory that my last interview I might have had a plain black f…

I wrote a distributed monitoring system a while back, and it has to be said that when you're testing "ping + ssh + ftp + http" on a few thousand servers nagios won't alert before y…

You might enjoy looking at Bigv ( http://bigv.io/ ) from the well-known UK company, Bytemark. They offer a cloudy-type self-managed virtual machine platform which is close to your £12 b…

I grew up in a terraced house that was immediately adjacent to the back of a convent/nunnery. There would be frequent bell-ringing to call the sisters to prayers, etc. I slept right through it. …

It's not so hard. I do this myself, I just ran: adduser one; adduser two; adduser three I have about ten UIDs all running their own chrooted copy of thttpd, and then I have a nodejs pro…

Part of the reason for choosing rental-based income is that tenants would give me "a job". I'd go insane with nothing to do, so I'd probably find myself working for a coffee shop o…

I think I once decided I could live happily from £3 million. To pay off the current house would cost me £50k, then spend half a million to buy a huge house to live in, along with all the gadgets, furn…

Your site looks interesting, but note that https://elipsis.io/status is a 404.

I remember Football Manager - as you say it was written in BASIC, one of the few games that I owned which was. I started hacking on a ZX Spectrum, initially via the orange manual, later with books fro…

I'm not familiar with such a plugin, but for a small donation I'm sure myself/others reading here could write it for you :) UPDATE : I've written the trivial plugin, but only t…

Typically they'll submit links in the "Link" or "Name" field. But as you say the majority of spam submissions will actually include a link in the body of the comment too. (Act…

I love this Canon (camera) advert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg-9LuCQXrk

Yeah these lists are a bit futile without pricing ranges. Last time I saw a post with a domain I fancied I replied back with a £XXX amount and was told the price desired was £XX,XXX which was both ins…

Yes I wrote something similar, presenting a JSON API on the folders in ~/Maildir for all the local users of a server. It only does the basic things: * Listing folders/Maildirs. * Retri…

Plain-text by a significant margin; to the extent that my console mail-client treats HTML as an after-thought.

One minor issue is that you don't escape the user-input provided when people submit titles to their image. * Create an album. * Upload N images. * On the result page click the "Edit&…

The last time I wrote a C project I used "cunit": http://cunit.sourceforge.net/ It was nice that I could both compile the test-cases as standalone executables, and also buil…

Years ago I sent a message to a stranger. I received an auto-reply saying "I got your mail, spam is hard, click this link to deliver it and prove you're human". For a second I thought …

I think my story pretty much echos yours; I'd stopped using paypal for a couple of years, and stopped using Ebay. I cancelled and about three months later I was "compromised". At that …

It took 120+ days for my ebay account to get deleted, but thankfully I could delete my paypal in only a few weeks.

The best way forward is to look at open bugs against software you use, whether it be "less", "screen", "ssh", or something more large. Standalone applications that you yo…

A language is pretty much ready when it has a compiler, some examples, and similar. (Obviously not all languages compile, but there should be working tools to build/run the code.) But it is on…