HSBC Site not Working? _#

Interesting - the HSBC website www.hsbc.co.uk appears to only deliver content in GZip. Any user agent trying to get to it that does not support GZip (through the Accept-Encoding header) will just get nothing from the server (it holds the connection but delivers nothing).

If, for whatever reason, you're trying to get to the HSBC website with a simpler (ie. non-mainstream) browser this might be why. I've been getting very slow and funky (ie. corrupt) images in Firefox for a while - wonder if it's related?

Flock _#

Been using Flock for about a month now. It's very good; highly recommended. The browser is built on Firefox and comes with a decent RSS reader, Flickr & PhotoBucket support built-in and blogging capability (from where I'm writing this).

Blogged with Flock

Hack Attempt _#

Just noticed an attempt to find unprotected admin/phpMyAdmin interfaces on one of our servers. The script appears to try common URLs (below) for PMA, presumably in the hope that the admin has left it wide open. As ever, keep those doors locked and secured!
/phpmyadmin/main.php
/PMA/main.php
/mysql/main.php
/admin/main.php
/db/main.php
/dbadmin/main.php
/web/phpMyAdmin/main.php
/admin/pma/main.php
/admin/phpmyadmin/main.php
/admin/mysql/main.php
/phpmyadmin2/main.php
/mysqladmin/main.php
/mysql-admin/main.php
/main.php
/phpMyAdmin-2.5.6/main.php
/phpMyAdmin-2.5.4/main.php
/phpMyAdmin-2.5.1/main.php
/phpMyAdmin-2.2.3/main.php
/phpMyAdmin-2.2.6/main.php
/myadmin/main.php
/phpMyAdmin-2.6.0/main.php
/phpMyAdmin-2.6.0-pl1/main.php
/phpMyAdmin-2.6.3-pl1/main.php
/phpMyAdmin-2.6.3/main.php
/phpMyAdmin-2.6.3-rc1/main.php
/phpMyAdmin-2.6.2-rc1/main.php