Velocity Diet Day 5

May 5th, 2008 Mark No comments

Today’s Measurements (cold, not flexed):

Bicep: 15″ (no change)
Calf: 16.75″ (-0.25″)
Thigh: 23″ (-1″)
Neck: 15.25″ (-0.25″)
Forearm: 12.75″ (no change)
Waist: 34″ (-2.5″)
Lower Abs: 38″ (-2″)
Chest: 40″ (-1″)

Weight: 218lbs (15st 8lbs) / 98.8Kg (-4lbs / 1.8Kg)

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Velocity Diet Day 2

May 2nd, 2008 Mark No comments

Day 2 begins.. I’m going to do some steady state fasted cardio as I’ve just woken up

Weight: 219lbs (15st 9lbs) / 99.3Kg

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Velocity Diet Day 1

May 1st, 2008 Mark No comments

I’m going to be doing the Velocity Diet for 28 days, starting today. For the first 2 days however I’m having my usual 4 whole eggs (scrambled) for breakfast as I don’t want to waste them and I don’t think it will be a problem.

Today’s Measurements (cold, not flexed):

Bicep: 15″
Calf: 17″
Thigh: 24″
Neck: 15.5″
Forearm: 12.75″
Waist: 36.5″
Lower Abs: 40″
Chest: 41″

Weight: 222lbs (15st 12lbs) / 100.7Kg

I’ve already done a full (upper) body workout at the gym today and will possibly do some light/medium cardio later on

edit: did 45mins steady state @1pm

Another afterthought: I’m not using Hot-Rox as per the original V-Diet

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Vista Crash When Typing In Start Menu

April 21st, 2008 Mark 3 comments

I randomly suffered from this strange Vista affliction, however managed to cure it by uninstalling Adobe Version Cue CS3

Thanks to decheung.com for the heads up!

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Secpay, Actinic & SSL lameness

October 30th, 2007 Mark 1 comment

Currently when enabling SSL on shopping cart pages in Actinic, Actinic will no longer be able to link up Secpay transactions to orders.

After numerous hours debugging, I figured out what was going wrong.. when SSL is enabled on shopping cart pages, Actinic provides Secpay with HTTPS callbacks – as you’d expect. It also sets a parameter which Secpay needs if the callbacks are HTTPS. However for some reason at this moment in time Secpay won’t use the HTTPS callbacks – the request is never sent to the server

I don’t know why this is happening, I even used the alternative method of informing Secpay that the callback is HTTPS – via the ‘options’ parameter.. no dice

The solution I’m currently using is to modify the ‘OCCSecPayScriptTemplate.pl’ file, inserting a line after the following block of code:

# to enable Diners cards, remove the ‘#’ from the start of the 2 lines below
#$sOptions .= ‘,’ if ($sOptions ne ”);
#$sOptions .= ‘diners=true’;

the line to change the callback URLs back to HTTP is:

$::sCallBackURLAuth =~ s/https/http/;

Make Thunderbird Fly

October 29th, 2007 Mark No comments

Bleeding Edge has a few good tweaks for Thunderbird – I like Thunderbird but it can be seriously crap with large IMAP inboxes.. huge delays when doing things as it does some voodoo magic in the background etc.. and now that Google Mail have opened up IMAP access it’s even more useful

If you combine the above tweaks with Lifehacker‘s new ‘Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client‘ article, then you should be rocking!

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Lots of SSH dictionary attacks recently

October 23rd, 2007 Mark 1 comment

I thought I was getting a lot of DenyHosts emails recently and the statistics page on the DenyHosts website seems to agree with me!

SSH daily attacks via DenyHosts stats for Oct23 2007

I wonder what’s caused this sudden surge in attacks

Facebook finally remembers me!

September 25th, 2007 Mark No comments

Oh how many seconds I have wasted continuously re-logging-in to Facebook.. Finally they’ve added a ‘remember me’ to the login screen.. about time!

Facebook finally remembers me

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GoDaddy SSL (StarfieldTech) and Safari Issues

September 25th, 2007 Mark 2 comments

We’ve had a few customers over the past few months inform us of a ‘security warning’ with regard to our e-commerce websites checkout pages (SSL secured). Recently a kind customer sent us a screenshot of the problem and it became immediately apparent what the issue was..

Apple up until the most recent versions of Safari did not bundle the StarfieldTech root certificate with Safari. Therefore if a Safari user visits a GoDaddy SSL secured site (GoDaddy retail StarFieldTech Certificates) then a warning dialog will pop up informing the user that ‘Safari can’t verify the identity of the website “xxx.com”‘.

The easiest solution is to upgrade Safari to the latest version.. and alternative is to install the StarfieldTech root certificate manually by visiting the following URL: StarfieldTech root certificate

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Excessive Drive Thrashing in Vista

September 19th, 2007 Mark No comments

I recently purchased a nice Dell Dimension 9200 Quad Core machine with Raid-0 HDD, running Vista naturally.. I’ve not really had much experience with Vista yet but found that the machine would quite often burst into fits of hardcore disk thrashing for quite a while (i.e. more than 10mins).. this seemed quite strange considering how quick the machine is

Anyway, using the new Reliability and Performance Monitor I could see that a service was writing lots of data to the folder that System Restore uses (i.e. \System Volume Information). Disabling System Restore solved the drive thrashing, however as I am running Vista Business, it also disables the ‘Previous Versions’ feature (this may have been the actual culprit anyway)

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