The Serpent

// Cursing the Internet since 1998

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Cities Skylines II Out Now

Published Oct 24, 2023

Choose your Clouds Wisely

Published Sep 25, 2023

Debian 12 "Bookworm" arrives

Published Jun 19, 2023

A Satisfactory Easter

Published Apr 10, 2023

systemd and WSL

Published Apr 5, 2023

Kali Linux goes on the defence, turns purple

Published Mar 14, 2023

It's official, we're getting a Cities Skylines 2

Published Mar 8, 2023

Cyber Resources from UK Policing (and Virgin)

Published Feb 24, 2023

Signal to end SMS support for Android client

Published Feb 20, 2023

Happy New Year, you lovely people

Published Dec 30, 2022

Rufus Beta makes Windows 11 install a dream

Published Jul 5, 2022

The Pi Pico W

Published Jul 3, 2022

Internet Explorer finally Bows out of the Race

Published May 26, 2022

Digging up the Past

Published Apr 20, 2022

Windows Subsystem for Linux

Published Apr 16, 2022

Python f-strings Rock

Published Apr 8, 2022

Notes on Kaspersky

Published Mar 20, 2022

The Many su's of sudo

Published Mar 5, 2022

New Cheatsheet - cURL Basics

Published Feb 26, 2022

When IoT Goes Bang

Published Jan 9, 2022

Happy New Year, Folks

Published Jan 1, 2022

Phishing Protection on Mobile

Published Dec 29, 2021

Azure DNS Basics

Published Oct 26, 2021

Home Automation, on the Cheap

Published Sep 22, 2021

Exploit attempts - Yearly roundup

Published Jan 28, 2021

Diagrams.net - An essential tool for techies

Published Jan 23, 2021

The speed of Powerline adapters – A common mistake

Published Jan 2, 2021

The state of Mobile Security

Published Dec 31, 2020

Virgin Media and Modem Only Mode

Published Jun 7, 2020

Lockdown fun – The Home Bandwidth Monitor

Published May 10, 2020

Windows Terminal Preview

Published Apr 12, 2020

Synology NAS Encryption, the Basics

Published Oct 21, 2019

DNS over HTTPS or DNS over TLS?

Published Sep 23, 2019

Debian 10 "Buster" Released

Published Jul 10, 2019

Enterprise Mobile Management; MDM vs EMM vs UEM vs MTD vs MARS

Published Jun 4, 2019

Predictions on Backdooring Encryption

Published May 31, 2019

Shopping for Websites

Published May 6, 2019

Simple steps to making your online life a little less, snooper-friendly

Published Nov 29, 2016

Setting up a Certification Authority using OpenSSL

Published Jul 20, 2016

Reviving the Old NES

Published Jul 7, 2016

Incredibly Slow Windows Updates? You'll Want This...

Published Jul 6, 2016

Rollercoaster Tycoon World Vs Planet Coaster

Published Jul 5, 2016

2016 - A Year Without Flash

Published Jul 4, 2016

A Word On SSL Authentication

Published Jul 3, 2016

Checking Windows Firewall Using C#

Published Jul 1, 2016

TrueCrypt Lives On As VeraCrypt

Published Jun 25, 2016

Windows 10 Giving you Grief? Run SFC

Published Jun 24, 2016

Malware Analysis and Password Protected Files

Published Jul 29, 2015

BeamNG Physics Engine Tech Demo

Published Jul 23, 2015

Tech Support and the Kübler-Ross Model

Published Jul 15, 2015

You Might want to Upgrade OpenSSL

Published Jul 9, 2015

Theme Park on DOSBox

Published Jul 8, 2015

Worst (Or best?) User-Agent Ever

Published Jul 7, 2015

Reviving The Commodore 64

Published Jul 6, 2015

Introducing Friendly USB, USB-C

Published Jun 29, 2015

So Long, SSLv3

Published Jun 26, 2015

Chatty MS Games

Published Jun 23, 2015

Anker Astro E7 Charger

Published Jun 22, 2015

Ping Isn't Always Your Friend

Published Jun 17, 2015

Move Over SPDY, HTTP/2 is Ready

Published Jun 13, 2015

Here's a PCAP, Fix it...

Published Jun 11, 2015

RollerCoaster Tycoon on Windows 7 64-Bit

Published Jun 9, 2015

RollerCoaster Tycoon World

Published Jun 8, 2015

INetSim on Debian "Jessie"

Published Jun 7, 2015

Fallout 4 Awaits

Published Jun 3, 2015

BackTrack is now Kali

Published Jan 7, 2014

Interrupting Windows 8

Published Oct 14, 2013

Travelling Woes

Published Jul 30, 2013

Opera Next

Published May 29, 2013

SimCity comes to the UK... Tonight!

Published Mar 7, 2013

HDMI Ripoffs

Published Feb 28, 2013

Adobe Acrobat Alternative

Published Feb 7, 2013

Chrome > Opera?

Published Jan 11, 2013

Happy New Year

Published Jan 4, 2013

Windows Live Messenger switch off

Published Nov 7, 2012

4G and Excuses

Published Oct 2, 2012

Screw FTPS, SFTP is way better!

Published Aug 17, 2012

Metasploit on the Pi

Published Jul 30, 2012

If you know Debian, you know the rest

Published Jul 23, 2012

DynDNS no longer offering free, um DynDNS

Published Jul 11, 2012

Pi Kernel Compilation

Published Jun 28, 2012

IPv6 Host Scanning

Published Jun 13, 2012

Happy World IPv6 Day

Published Jun 6, 2012

VMware Player Vs Oracle VirtualBox

Published Jun 5, 2012

The Pi Has Arrived

Published May 28, 2012

Sky Fibre (Via BT) Now Available

Published May 22, 2012

SimCity is Back

Published May 16, 2012

Tor Project - Anonymity Online

Published May 9, 2012

Raspberry Pi en-route

Published May 4, 2012

Virgin Blocks Pirate-bay

Published May 2, 2012

Windows 8 Editions

Published Apr 17, 2012

Internet Monitoring

Published Apr 2, 2012

Ping doesn't solve all your problems

Published Mar 14, 2012

Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Published Mar 1, 2012

Windows Phone NFC

Published Feb 16, 2012

Get your memory, quick!

Published Feb 1, 2012

My New R.A.T Mouse

Published Jan 29, 2012

My Take on SOPA

Published Jan 19, 2012

Night Night, Google Wave

Published Jan 10, 2012

Servers ain't so tough

Published Jan 4, 2012

Ubuntu Unity

Published Dec 27, 2011

Dead Space on Win7

Published Dec 22, 2011

My Solid State Adventure

Published Dec 13, 2011

Instant Support Joust

Published Dec 8, 2011

Killing Windows Live.. Adverts

Published Nov 23, 2011

VMWare Player 4

Published Nov 21, 2011

What Happened to OpenOffice?

Published Nov 16, 2011

The Joys of NMAP

Published Nov 7, 2011

Nmap - The Ultimate Scanner

Published Nov 7, 2011

Holiday's Over

Published Oct 31, 2011

QR Codes - Ripe for Click Jacking

Published Sep 22, 2011

Messing About With Facebook Places

Published Mar 12, 2011

Windows 7 and Matroska

Published Oct 13, 2010

XAMPP for Windows

Published Aug 23, 2010

Linux Shared Libraries

Published Apr 13, 2009

A Play with Google Chrome

Published Sep 10, 2008

Windows Home Server

Published Jul 3, 2008

Troubleshooting Blue Screens

Published Jul 2, 2008

Vista Startup problems Explained

Published Jun 18, 2008

HTTP - The Guts of WWW

Published Jun 13, 2008

Guide to Windows Vista Editions

Published Feb 17, 2008

The Linux Boot Process

Published Oct 5, 2007

The Art of tar.gz

Published Oct 5, 2007

The Great Browser Wars

Published Mar 13, 2006

Understanding how Email Works

Published Jan 16, 2006

An Introduction to Linux

Published Oct 1, 2005

CEbit Hannover, Germany 2005

Published Jan 19, 2005

Year 2004 Roundup

Published Dec 31, 2004

Year 2003 Roundup

Published Dec 31, 2003

My Mobile Adventure

Published Jan 29, 2003

Year 2002 Roundup

Published Dec 31, 2002