Author: sroot

  • Caught in my spam trap – buildingmergers.co.uk

    I’ve decided to start naming and shaming the people who spam me. I have an email address hidden in the code of one of my web sites. It doesn’t display to visitors but robots will read it.  To give the spammers a sporting chance, the email address is nospam@….mydomain… I then email them to ask…

  • BT Openzone, Mac OS X connection problems

    I’ve had a problem for a while connecting to BT Openzone from my mac.  I get an IP address. I can ping the gateway, but I can’t get online.  Using my android phone the connection always worked first time.  I read one forum post that the problem for one mac user was the DNS not…

  • Grey text on a web page not visible when printing, how to fix it

    Edit: what a rubbish title! I probably should have written: How to change light grey text to black when printing a web page Sometimes you need to print a web page and sometimes that becomes quite a challenge.  In an ideal world the designer will have foreseen you might print some pages and will add…