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I have a domain which is receiving lots of junk mail; perhaps "backscatter" from some spamming. I thought I'd share my experience dealing with it. This was seriously hammering my server: top - 02:09:37 up 60 days, 10:11, 1 user, load average: 22.36, 85.27, 83.81 Tasks: 197 total, 2...

If the forum produced a suitable RSS feed and your website used a CMS like Joomla or Wordpress then it would be "just" a case of picking a suitable plugin and configuring it. If you are after a customised script - I can write scraping scripts in Perl quickly and fairly cheaply. You...

Any text editor which allows you to use regular expressions Search: Email \b[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b Replace:

Another consultation is now open: July - October 2008 Have your say grey Where do you want the visitors centre? Do you want park and ride? Should visitors deciding to break long journeys at Stonehenge be accommodated or deterred? Where should the security fence, the point at which you...

Francis Maude of Horsham paid £460 in the 3 months that's £1840/year - he's getting a politico's site for a 1/4 what Tony Baldry is paying for his very similar site. Fancis Maude is actually using his site. Richard Benyon of Newbury has his website hosted, and updated daily for just £576 -...

Reading though the Conservative's "Right to Know" forms (There Parliamentary Expenses) I came accross Tony Baldry - MP for Banbury's entry for: That's only between April and June 2008 - 3 months. So is he renting tonybaldry.org.uk for £7531.76 a year from the registrant h a e c c e i t a...

They're not a big consumer product like CO detectors, but CO2 detectors are used in pubs and labs: CO2 Detectors (Carbon Dioxide) TDL Sensors Ltd - Gas Monitors is in use directing people to TDL Sensors Ltd - Gas Monitors

Anyone can buy a "Current Appointments Report" for a company which lists the directors for £1 via the companies house website.

From the Telegraph today: 'Faceless people' revealed as marketing stunt for new Lotus Eagle - Telegraph The phrase: "internet directory WhoIs" grated with me; a "whois lookup" would have been accurate. I looked up this "Claudine Beaumont" the author of the article and quickly got my...

A non-money making idea for the site - links to listen again, and the live feed for the local radio stations BBC - Hampshire - BBC Radio Solent - Radio Solent Isle of Wight Radio People might not realise they can get connection to being on holiday from anywhere with an internet connection...

Oldborough Retreat A fishing licence is £25 I just entered the competition which looks legitimate - coverage in the national papers today. Though they could increase the appearance of legitimacy by naming their solicitors, and in the interests of transparency a counter of number of tickets...

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I have tried a number of restarts I have ensured there are no basedir entries in mysql.cnf I have also performed a forced upgrade of MySQL and restarted.

Permissions on the mysql.sock file look fine

I tried running mysqlup (updating mysql without success) No other mysqld : I don't know about the "permission denied".