Neil Duffin Blog

I was watching ‘Click Online’, a program on BBC New 24 (carried on Sky satellite) and they had an interesting report from Symantic (the makers of Norton Antivirus) about the changing trend in viruses and online attacks (as well as reporting that Windows PC has 10,000 new viruses in the last 6 months).

Apparently there is an increase in the number of viruses and other malware intended to extract money or steal indentities - ultimately for…

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It would have been really nice to put a helpful link into the ‘Passive mode FTP’ entry above (now here) to the entry in the Mac Switch blog (and visa-versa) to make it easier for readers of the site. The problem is that I’m not (currently) using any kind of blogging software on this site and the way the site is setup / maintained would make the internal hyperlink unreliable when I archived off this…

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I’m using GoLive CS2 for my web site design and I’ve had a bit of trouble with uploading the data to the web server. It turns out to be a combination of 2 things. Firstly, I needed to set the publish server’s advanced setting so that the ‘passive mode’ check box was set to unchecked (ie off). Without this change, GoLive wouldn’t even connect to the web server.

Secondly, there was a less obvious problem. I…

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I’ve recently changed my ISP and now have hosting included with the new broadband connection. Having just completed my first upload to their servers, I’ve noted that the settings needed (or recommended) are different from that of my other hosting service.

The difference being that one has passive mode enabled in the GoLive FTP setup and the other not. I’m only mentioning this because I placed an entry on turning this off in the Mac Switch…

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I uploaded the latest version of this site the this morning and a friend, Steve, pointed out some very odd formatting on the site. When viewed in GoLive ‘layout’ view and ‘preview’ view it all looks ok. Even when it’s previewed in Safari (from the local hard-drive) it still looks fine. But look at the version on the server (as you are) and I was getting lines with odd text, such as “…is {4eonly{5e a…

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