Christian Biggins - Latest Comments

Re: Using lftp to transfer a large site

Michal Wheelq — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:59:59 -0000

It turns out that timeouts will never timeout if I use the mirror option.

This works (ls command on the host that does not respond):

lftp -u a,a -p 22 -e "set net:max-retries 2;set net:persist-retries 2;set net:reconnect-interval-base 2;set net:reconnect-interval-max 2;set net:reconnect-interval-multiplier 2;set net:timeout 2;set ftp:list-options -a; ls;quit" sftp://192.168.0.12

and lftp exits nicely after 2 reconnects. But as soon as I use the mirror command, lftp retries infinitely:

any solutions ?:)

Re: Very poor scam attempt

chris rock — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:42:14 -0000

Just happened to me, took the alias of "John Lewis" lol

Re: Facebook is taking over the internet

James Army — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 07:00:03 -0000

Very true! This has come to my attention as it's almost impossible to post comments to articles online these days without a Facebook account. This means Facebook is interfering with an enormous number of online communications and media. This is horrendous monopolization of free speech and privacy rights. Facebook requires users to use their real names, so there is limited option to use a pen
name, which has been traditional for eons in Western Civilization.

Facebook, please, officially go to hell on this note. You're a disgrace to the online free speech community at this point. When I tried to use my Yahoo email to post a comment online today, Facebook interfered and blocked my Yahoo somehow. That was scary, even though I cleared
my browser and tried different browsers, e.g. Firefox and Google Chrome. This is really scary and is antithetical to the point of Facebook in the first place.

Re: Very poor scam attempt

Annon — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 10:33:55 -0000

Same here, I've had two separate attempts on my item, and they both have different excuses, but want to have money paid to them first. And I've just received the AFP email too, then I realised how atrocious the grammar and punctuation was, and realised that these people don't know when to quit.

Where the police able to do anything?

Re: Very poor scam attempt

Pierre — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 20:31:29 -0000

Same for me! I've put an offer on eBay for my iPad Mini 32 GB and i got this mail 2 or 3 days after the beginning of the selling. Same name: mark Smith. For his daughter who lives in Russia. Same conditions. Adding money because someone need to be paid before getting the product and so on. And I had to pay it via Western Union to a Nigerian adress... Plus! I looked on the Apple's Website and the iPad Mini Wi-Fi edition (same as mine) 32 Gig. Was at 369,00£. And he offers 400,00£! FOR AN SECOND HAND! But i still played the game, for seeing what he would say to me. And I get EXACTLY the same mails as you have. Really! These people are pathetic. And then you don't have to hate African people or Russian or else... But when you see this. You can't have another reaction...

Re: Using lftp to transfer a large site

sp — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 04:01:43 -0000

does lftp support sftp transfer for more that 2 TB files. I am having segmentation fault error after reaching 50% transfer.

Re: Facebook is taking over the internet

Leslie Trainor — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 00:26:29 -0000

Hi chritsian, how could i get in contact with your regarding the forum you own. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks

Re: Very poor scam attempt

Emily — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:38:44 -0000

I just had this same thing happen to me - I am in Australia and an "Anita Richard" was buying my wedding dress off me from Gumtree! I almost lost my money for the shipping company but luckily I twigged on before anything went further! Never trust people who hassle and intimidate you into buying things!!!!

Re: Very poor scam attempt

Patrice — Mon, 27 May 2013 17:19:40 -0000

Yeah same with me im trying to sell my prom dress, Mark Smith says he is in Ireland and wants to get the dress for his daughter in RUSSIA.

BEWARE of the prick he sent me aggressive emails and then a fake metropolitan police email -.-

his email is clefnjammy@gmail.com

and from info off another blog he uses johnsdge22@gmail.com on Gumtree Australia and his number is +61428465117

On a Ebay post apparently he goes by the name M. Beeley as well which made me think of Lisa Beeley the idiot who also tried to scam me. it might just be the same person or be in relation.

lisabeeleyx1@gmail.com I thought she was a nice person when she wished me a nice day and for god to bless me -.- lol

For those in the UK contact Action Fraud on 03001232040 or on their website at http://www.actionfraud.poli...

and everyone keep posting their names everywhere so they only come up on search engine as scammers to warn others.

lisabeeleyx1@gmail.com clefnjammy@gmail.com johnsdge22@gmail.com

YOU'RE GOING DOWWNNNN!! hopefully

Re: Very poor scam attempt

sl — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:51:53 -0000

I got same from clefnjammy@gmail.com

try to buy item through ebay

I have filed complaint in police to take stick action him. Police will find what IP address he is using and internet connection.

He will be in jail soon.

Re: Very poor scam attempt

Sophie Nicola Evans — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:37:55 -0000

I also have had this scammer contact me, plus 'Andrew Smith - cnzvdfgnfg@gmail.com' and Chieun Lee email address mkeg2003@gmail.com and David Burnham email address dianb136@gmail.com getting right on my tits, i'm playing along and am winding him up haha.

Is there anywhere we can report these fuckers?!!?

Re: Very poor scam attempt

Tinaa — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:19:36 -0000

Im in England, looks like this is still going around, I got the daughter in Russia story too, I woke up to find 7 abusive emails from 'Mark Smith clefnjammy@gmail.com' with instructions to send money to Africa. His poor english caught him out....

Re: That damn insulation scheme!

Sal Sharla — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:39:02 -0000

I'm saving this! The world is indeed coming to a very dark moment!

Re: Very poor scam attempt

tomigun — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:48:18 -0000

yes thanx i nearly got caught out on a ukash scam a couple of weeks ago and i dont trust no one so like u said i hate to think of how many gullable and trusting people have fallen for all these different scams!but thanks to people like you its easier to catch them out and i'd love to get my hands on some of these people.thats it im gettin mad.lol thanx

Re: Very poor scam attempt

charliegirl — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 08:46:27 -0000

I had diana the hostie too! We're selling a gas wall furnace on gumtree and "diana kelly" contacted me within 5 minutes of the ad going up. Got first contact by SMS from the UK (which was odd but not ouside the realms of possibility) asking me to respond via email. "Diana" said she'd buy the gas heater sight unseen but insisted she pay by paypal and ordered me to open an account so she could pay me (who talks like that to people?). I used my PayPal account to send her an invoice, got a one line email saying she'd sent payment - nothing came through. Then I got the long involved whiny email with the demand that I pay her shipping agent via Western Union (I never send any money by Western Union). A quick google search showed it was a variation on the "I can't pay you until you pay my shipping agent" scam. I cancelled the money request without "diana" getting notification.
Phone number text was received from: +44 7955 273488
Email for "diana kelly" was kellydiana54 at yahoo.com
Shipping agent I was supposed to send money via Western Union: Lennon Steven, 46 Barons Court Road, hammer smith w14du, United Kingdom

Re: Very poor scam attempt

Lonnie — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:55:35 -0000

Just happened to me as well except that they were using joanneblair this time. I was about to move forward when i googled uk private couriers western union and found this. Thanks a million for saving me !

Re: Very poor scam attempt

Carol L — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:53:38 -0000

Happened to me today, almost got suckered in! Have a cabinet to sell for $400. Ron Austin said he would put $1000.00 into Paypal. I was to send his Pick up agent, Sane Aletoni Mataitus $500, for shipping, silly me sent it, but cancelled the transaction right away. All of a sudden the buyer was able to reach me, before he said he was offshore. I also received a threatening letter, saying that if I don't respond within 2 hours I will be reported to the FBI. It is scarry and can understand why people fall for theses scams.

Re: The common grep –exclude problem

disqussion1 — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:20:51 -0000

The awesome thing about ack is that if you cant install it somehow - its has a "ack-standalone" single plaintext perl script file - so all you have to so is to put it in your perl/bin directory or even just /home/user/bin directory and done!

Remember, its just a plaintext perl script!

Re: Very poor scam attempt

emmaB — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:36:45 -0000

im going through the same thing now they are getting stressed now and threatening legal action lol. ive told them to stuff it and if it is legit its not very straight forward so they should contact paypal n withdraw the transaction.

Re: Very poor scam attempt

Mike — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:32:51 -0000

Im really glad i searched the email address listed i almost fell for it, they have my name and address is there anything they can use that for?? i dont want them showing up at my house or opening stuff in my name!

Re: Facebook is taking over the internet

Christian Biggins — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:17:13 -0000

You misunderstand me, Robert.

Using only a Facebook login system monopolises the use of external logins. And, yes, I think Twitters, or even just Google's is equally as good. The phone book exists, but so do online directories and your phone providers 'help' line - ie, a range of options. Not just one.

I'm all for businesses promoting their services/products/whatever on Facebook, but to use it as the only medium to do this, again, monopolises Facebook as a service provider. Theres no option. You're not forced to sign up to use the phone book, are you? Of course not, that's preposterous! You don't need to sign in to use the internet either, so why advertise your business behind a screen that only a percentage of the internet are willing to sign up to see?

Re: Facebook is taking over the internet

Christian Biggins — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:13:10 -0000

I already have. :)

Re: Facebook is taking over the internet

Look — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:21:31 -0000

How do I share this on facebook?

Re: Facebook is taking over the internet

Guest — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:53:12 -0000

Facebook is making it easier for people to get their business' and ideas out there via pages. Their "pages" functionality has amounted to billions in revenue for companies who have set them up.

Usually businesses do not care if their information is made public. If you criticise Facebook for this then you must also criticise things like the phone book.

Facebook gives you all sorts of privacy options and their security is second-to-none. They use your information, but so does everyone who has a profitable site. The whole point of having uses is to use their information.. for something. The point is not to piss them off. I can't think of anything Facebook has done with my info that I don't like.
Do you have an example of a log-in system that works better than Facebook's?

Re: Very poor scam attempt

Tommy VERCETTI — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:51:23 -0000

Yep exactly the same series of e mails he sent to me (word for word), I will be reporting him to paypalspoof.com. Hopefully they can make more people aware or something....

I did send him the money request via paypal as I was finally excited to be selling my item, but the terrible grammar is what did it for me.

All that effort for $250 but I guess it must work sometimes.