There are exceptions to every rule. I'm certainly not saying every free service exists to profit from it's users. I believe in charity and people doing things for the common good. Wikipedia and the Linux Kernel are great examples.

But even with Wikipedia, I would say the "customer" are people …

There is an experimental build of LineageOS 14 which can upgrade from CyanogenMod 13 but I thought this was a good opportunity to clear some of the cruft off my phone and start again.

Backing up the phone

There were only a few files on my phone I wanted to …

There must be hundreds of diffrent strategies for dealing with the constant flood of requests that come in through out the day. My personal favorite for email is Inbox Zero. If you havn't come across it before you should go and check it out, it might not be the one …

Installing Python on Windows is not that hard, but I want the 64 bit version and I want it installed system wide and neither of these are defaults so we need to change things a little.

First we go to python.org and navigate to Downloads > Windows

Then we need …

Since I've started hosting my own email server I've been using spam assassin for my spam filtering. All in all it does a pretty good job of stopping spam but unfortuantly without the volume of mail Google has to train it's filter it will simply never be as good as …