May 18th 2012
RT @alanogden: going to introduce @madnexus to proper fish and chips for #fridaylunch @3dpixelnet @snetty

May 14th 2012
all servers are now upgraded to 1Gbit connections.

May 9th 2012
So your website has been hacked? #salvagemysite http://t.co/mOjhgegC

April 25th 2012
the cobalt platform is back up and running now.

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Carphone Warehouse to o2 iphone number migration port

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Ok, they’ve changed the tariffs now to something resembling useful. So we’ve decided to make the plunge and purchase an iPhone. Herein lies the rub; we’re told that number migrations from Carphone Warehouse (o2 contract) take 24 hours. Ok that’s fine. We’re given a PAC code, we go home, plug it all in and activate.
We [...]

When Business & Pleasure Collide

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

When we first started 3DPixel Ltd. we naturally had to ingratiate ourselves with everyone we could think of in order to generate business. This is how every business has to scrape at first to stay afloat. Anything and everything.
Forums are created, IRC channels are made, phone calls are made, less-than-perfect business is taken on. Naturally, [...]

Block Bad Bots Globally In Apache

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

There are plenty of guides around to block bots using mod_rewrite however on a shared system with many domains, if you want to block a spoofed bot which is changing IPs you can block it globally from the user-agent in the apache httpd.conf.
In this example, MajesticBot+ had their bot spoofed for the past several months [...]