January 29, 2004
January 28, 2004
January 27, 2004
Impulse Purchase Alert
Amazon.co.uk: Music: Electric Dreams [SOUNDTRACK] - you know I think the Moroder/Oakey track might be the best one by quite a long way
January 22, 2004
Music Plasma
Music Plasma - graphical music search engine
Marble Madness again
Raptisoft.com - Hamsterball - this games is SUPERB - download here
January 20, 2004
January 18, 2004
Takahashi-meijin
Video-fenky: Takahashi-meijin the real life inspiration for Master Higgins from Adventure Island
StartupMonitor
StartupMonitor is a small utility that runs transparently (it doesn't even use a tray icon) and notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup. It prevents those utterly useless tray applications from registering themselves behind your back, and it acts as a security tool against trojans like BackOrifice or Netbus.
January 15, 2004
MP101
Netgear wireless digital music player - retailing for about $150 in the US at the moment, an alternative to the squeezebox. Get it for £100 here
kick my dog
Your daughter kicked my dog! You kicked my dog! Hi, I was just calling because I live down the street from you, and your daughter come to my house today and she kick my dog.
January 14, 2004
elta 8883 DVD player multiregion
How to choose the region code on the elta 8883 DVD Player
Power ON
Press Setup
Move cursor to Preferences (Vorzugseinstellungen)
Enter 49540
Region-Code window pops-up
Move cursor up/down to choose region-code
Press Enter to select new region-code
done
Danger t-shirts
Am awaiting my 2nd t-shirt from Danger and am very pleased with the first one.
SkyOS
SkyOS 5.0 Beta Exclusive Preview - looks like a nice OS, more or less written by one person
tunes2html
tunes2html.pl is a Perl script that reads the data from an iPod's iTunesDB file and generates an HTML file
January 13, 2004
tsunami 2010
tsunami 2010 - looks like a nice version of tempest. Actually, atcybertopia.com has a few classic games listed...
January 12, 2004
Nice haircut as well
Easiest jobs in sport "These trainers aren't for show, I am an athlete" - no you're not, you're a fat b*stard
Mr Brain's...
Mr Brain's Faggots - The Doody family – true faggot fanatics – are the family recently chosen in a nationwide search to find a family to represent Mr Brain’s Faggots.
ez-ipupdate, linksys routers & NAT
Init script for ez-ipupdate that supports setting the external IP when NAT'ed behind a linksys firewall
Gertcha.January 11, 2004
Top 10 Sitcoms
BBC - Britain's Best Sitcom - The Top 10 Carol Vorderman will be making her case for 'Vicar of Dibley' on February 21st. The Vicar of ****ing Dibley?
January 09, 2004
Chav Scum
Chav (?) Scum - a field guide to Britain's Peasant Underclass. In a similar vein Hayez Squad
January 08, 2004
HMV & Soulwax
Looks like HMV has expensive Soulwax imports
January 07, 2004
Access your windows machine remotely
A good guide to setting up TightVNC and SSH on a Windows NT machine
January 06, 2004
New Mini iPod
These mini iPods look nice... but at £199 a bit too expensive for an impulse purchase...
Data Processing Protection Corporation are bogus
Just before Xmas I got an official looking letter & forms from the "Data Processing Protection Corporation" (DPCC, PO Box 36, Guisborough, TS14 6WT. register@emaildppc.co.uk; 01287 638111) telling me than I need to "register in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1988" and asking £95 for the privilege.
Well, you don't need to register (at least my business does not) and it is in fact a scam. In fact registering legitimately is only £35/year.
See namesfacesplaces for more details.
January 05, 2004
Redhat, Ximian & apt-get
Fix your Redhat 8/9, Ximian Desktop and apt-get problems "db4: Obsoletes: db1 but 1.85-0.ximian.5.1 is to be installed" here
EasyMessage
EasyMessage - another multi-protocol IM client for Windows (only 240K download). See also miranda, GAIM and trillian.
January 04, 2004
Bent Soup
Bent Soup - Welcome inside, please wipe your feet - funny, but wrong
January 03, 2004
RedHat 8 on a Thinkpad x24
How I installed RedHat 8 on my Thinkpad X24
There are some useful guides elsewhere on the net such as:
http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr/~polcher/X30/installation_x30.html
http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mjh/thinkpad.html
http://www.hero.com/public/x24.html
http://dag.wieers.com/howto/thinkpad/links.php
1. Used Partition Magic 8 to reduce size of XP partition to 15GB
(alternatively you could use http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html)
2. Used PM8 to create extended partition to use all remaining disk.
3. Changed BIOS settings to allow booting from CD (via docking bay).
4. Booted with RH8 CD #1.
5. Chose text mode install (graphical mode bombed out with GNOME error).
6. Created 8GB ext3 / partition & 450MB swap partition.
7. Chose custom install and the packages I wanted. Installed boot loader (grub) on MBR.
8. Chose "get TCP/IP settings from DHCP/BOOTP" (network cable connected to my router)
9. Completed installing RH8 (takes a while)
10. Rebooted into RH8 and logged in.
11. Installed new up2date packages (see http://linuxtoday.com/security/2003082901926SCRHSW)
12. Ran up2date & registered on the Red Hat Network
13. Chose "all" updates on up2date, downloaded & installed them (takes a while)
14. Reboot with new kernel
15. Download & installed Yellow dog Updater, Modified (http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/)
16. Downloaded & installed Ximian Desktop 2 from http://www.ximian.com (~200MB takes a while, didn't install OpenOffice)
17. Downloaded & installed tpctl http://www-hft.ee.tu-berlin.de/~strauman/tp4utils/
(RPMs from http://dag.wieers.com/packages/)
Can't yet get it to work - unsure if it works on X24
18. Install mp3 support for XMMS
(from http://havardk.xmms.org/dist/xmms-1.2.7-rh8-rh9-rpm/)
19. Install tpb for media keys support
(http://dag.wieers.com/packages/tpb/)
20. Removed GL lines from ~/.xscreensaver
21. Most difficult of all, setting up wireless networking which I worked out with
http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/index.html
(RPMs here: http://prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us/)
and this forum post: http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2003-March/002179.html
I eventually managed to get it working...
Namely replace /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless with
###########CUT HERE##########
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
/sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=YOUR_ESSID authtype=opensystem
/sbin/dhclient wlan0
###########CUT HERE##########
and read all the other docs VERY carefully...
IMPORTANT
Machine started cutting out when under heavy load, updated the bios here
IBM thinkpad x24 updates
Thinking about:
installing Linux Trackpoint Utilities (http://www-hft.ee.tu-berlin.de/~strauman/tp4utils/)
install modem support (http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-third/msg00152.html)
Forthcoming Album Releases 2004
DJ Martian: Forthcoming Album Releases 2004
Revolution: Making of the Beatles' White Album Review
Interesting review of "Revolution: Making of the Beatles' White Album"
Snippet: "...David Quantick is obviously a fan of the Beatles, but from reading this book you get the impression that his sole aim is to protect them (especially Lennon) in the best way possible... by simply castrating anyone who ISN'T the Beatles.
For example, Eric Clapton plays guitar on the track "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Later, George went on to marry George Harrison’s wife (who was married to Harrison at the time of the White Album). The author of this book therefore seeks some kind of vengeance for George's "wrongdoings" (even though Harrison remained strong friends with Clapton)."
January 02, 2004
quicksub
Added a fancy new XML/RSS feed button (see lower left) thanks to quicksub
Subtly Simpsons
Subtly Simpsons - "a list of lines from The Simpsons that we, your editors, have found to be particularly witty, often with their humor derived from subtleties of language, esoteric allusions, or just plain wit."
January 01, 2004
UK TV Guide
UKTVGuide - the best online UK TV listings site
DJ Otzi's caned himself
Ananova - DJ Otzi hurt in car smash - let's hope it only affects his ability to make records
RSS Reader for PocketPC
Looking for an RSS feed reader for PocketPC, I found PocketFeed. I use FeedReader for Windows. There doesn't seem to be many particularly good Linux RSS Readers.