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A guide to Essex Nightlife

Buzzbars.net has a guide to top quality Essex Nightclubs such as Duke's and Time and Envy. Remember: a shirt with collar is required, as are trousers and shoes. And it might be "couples only" (unless you're a woman). Oh, and they're all shit.

SMS Spam is illegal in the UK

Only just noticed this...

SMS Messages (from the TPS)
Since 11 December 2003 it is unlawful to send an unsolicited SMS marketing message to an individual. If you would like to complain about the receipt of such a message please contact the Office of the Information Commissioner. If the message contains a premium rate number contact ICSTIS. You will find contact details are under useful links

The Elvis Sighting Bulletin Board

Sighting Archive of The Elvis Sighting Bulletin Board - A Hunka Hunka Burnin' HyperText

I was in the porn shop buying some wholesome animal porn, when Elvis came in and bought a big blow up doll. He was big and fat like he was last time anyone could prove they saw him.

Eye Toy PC Drivers

How to get your EyeToy working as a webcam in Win2k & WinXP
(with thanks to Daniel Wild)

(from google groups)

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http://support.dlink.com/

Use drop down boxes to locate drivers for;
D-Link DSB-C310 (Rev B1)
Download driver from D-Link

Unzip to a folder
Go to folder, locate OV519.inf,
Right click file,
Properties>Untick 'Read Only'

Open OV519.inf in Notepad
Edit>Replace

Replace
VID_05A9&PID_8519
with
VID_054C&PID_0154
Select 'Replace All'
Save OV519.inf

Then, plug your Eye Toy into the USB port, wait for it to be recognised and
install the drivers' in the normal way using the Have Disk option at the
prompt and the modified OV519.inf file.
(double check which drivers you're installing as my Win2k attempted
to install its own driver)

During the installation, you'll get a system box with ???? in it...this is
the 50Hz/60Hz option setting. I set it to 50Hz for now.
That's it.
The software to view the webcam output is included in the driver pack...
AMCAP.EXE, Options>Tick Preview
You should now get a picture of whatever your EyeToy is pointed at.

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UPDATE: Well, just tried it, and it works, on XP with SP1 installed...


UPDATE 2: Fuller information on this procedure can be FOUND HERE


UPDATE 3: Please note that I am NOT providing a free tech support service for getting your eyetoy working on your PC so complaining that it doesn't work and asking for help will get you nowhere.


UPDATE 4: This blog has been discontinued, find this post and comment on it on my new blog
Get

EyeToy: Play from Amazon.co.uk for £29.99 (includes camera and free shipping)


Note Spammers: This page is spam-protected, so your comments advertising online poker will never be seen.

Brief-safe

The Brief Safe is an innovative new diversion safe that can secure your cash, documents, and other small valuables from inquisitive eyes and thieving hands, both at home and when you're traveling.

Bloglines

Bloglines is a great web based RSS reader

Eliminating the problem of spoofed from addresses

Eliminating the problem of spoofed from addresses with Reverse-Path Rewriting

RTNY 2004

Return To New York

RETURN TO NEW YORK RAVE 2004

Housin Room:
The legendary TODD TERRY
MARSHALL JEFFERSON
KURTIS MANTRONIK
PRINCESS SUPERSTAR & ALEXANDER TECNIQUE
WOODY WOODBURN

Electro Room:
2 MANY DJS (SOULWAX)
RICHARD X
ARTHUR BAKER
EROL ALKAN
ANDY FLETCHER (DEPECHE MODE)

Rap & Breaks & Hip Hop Room:
MARK RONSON
SCRATCH PERVERTS
SKINNY MAN / DJ FLIP
DISASTRONAUT

oh god... "toothing"?

Toothing sounds like a good way for geeky losers to send text messages to other men.

What am I listening to?

Thanks to listen-to.com you can now see what I'm listening to

terminatorX

terminatorX is a realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data (*.wav, *.au, *.ogg, *.mp3, etc.) the way hiphop-DJs scratch on vinyl records. It features multiple turntables, realtime effects (buit-in as well as LADSPA plugin effects), a sequencer and MIDI interface - all accessible through an easy-to-use gtk+ GUI. This software is designed to run under Linux, FreeBSD and the like.

CX London t-shirts

Cool t-shirts from CX London.

I like CX Love You Long Time (but it's for girls...)

Pal - calendar for unix

pal is a command-line calendar program for Unix/Linux systems that can keep track of events. It has similarities with the Unix cal command, the more complex GNU gcal program, and the calendar program distributed with the BSDs.

Setting up Mandrake 9.2 with urpmi (UK)

Thanks to urpmi.org

urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz

Freaky trigger - 24th March

This was very good last time

Arcade Machine On A Disk

With the advent of huge multi-game emulators of the likes of M.A.M.E., gone are the days of having a quick game of Space Invaders etc. in your lunch break. Hiding over 50Mb of software from the prying eyes of network administrators and all the new operating systems & tools that they have to play with these days can have its effects on your time and pleasure.

The concept of AMOAD is to revert once more, back to single arcade machine emulation software which can be booted directly from your floppy drive, thus leaving absolutely no trace of any of those lunchtime treats.

Funky Japanese Watches

Funky Japanese watches from TokyoFlash.com

iPod Used In Domestic Homicide

A Memphis woman was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after she bludgeoned her boyfriend to death with an iPod.

Update: this is a hoax Still, nicely done

GNU Screen

A handy tutorial on GNU Screen

Tomcat 4 & Virtual Hosting

Tomcat 4 Virtual Hosting from the Apache Foundation

UT2004 vs Tribes

Noooo! UT2004 can never replace tribes

That joke isn't funny anymore

A song by seminal 1980s band The Smiths has been voted the best track to listen to when you are down in the dumps.

I Know It's Over topped a poll of tunes which people turn to when they are miserable in The Songs That Saved Your Life poll by BBC radio station 6 Music.

AND Bowling For F**KING Soup - "Girl All The Bad Guys Want" is #2?

How gay is your site?

Hmm, Microsoft scores very highly for gayness for some reason.

Bleb.org TV Guide

Nicely formatted UK Terrestrial TV Guide from bleb.org

mt-comment-stop.pl

mt-comment-stop.pl - a script that marks movable type entries as clos\ed when they have been running for a certain amount of time and haven't been commented on recently.

Stops the MT spam-bots from choosing random old entries on your site to comment on.

A better alternative to realplayer

Get the HelixPlayer from HelixCommunity

Decent Bluetooth headset for 40 quid

The Jabra BT 200 Bluetooth Handsfree Kit looks like a decent bluetooth headset and is supposed to work well with the T610.

Putty for Pocket PC

PocketPuTTY-v0.1-prealpha-0.53b
- free ssh client for Pocket PC

Greylisting

A new method of stopping spam: greylisting.

The Greylisting method is very simple. It only looks at three pieces of information (which we will refer to as a "triplet" from now on) about any particular mail delivery attempt:

1. The IP address of the host attempting the delivery
2. The envelope sender address
3. The envelope recipient address

From this, we now have a unique triplet for identifying a mail "relationship". With this data, we simply follow a basic rule, which is:

If we have never seen this triplet before, then refuse this delivery and any others that may come within a certain period of time with a temporary failure.

The Raccoons

The theme tune to the racoons: Run With Us from The unofficial racoons home page

Engadget

Another gadget blog: engadget

Miserable Sod

Spot the positive comments left by the FormlessOne

Tellyguide

TellyGuide is a custom channel for offline Web browsers such as AvantGo, iSilo, or Plucker. It was designed to provide you with detailed UK television listings for both satellite and terrestrial channels for up to five days in advance. It is an alternative to the (now defunct) free version of DigiGuide which gave you only one days listing and no synopsis.

It can give you seven days of listings and full details of the programmes (when available). It can also let you tag programmes that you like and flag them to you in the listings or within your own special "my favourites" view.

The Fedora Legacy Project

The Fedora Legacy Project is a community-supported open source project. It is not a supported project of Red Hat, Inc. although Red Hat, Inc. does provide some support services for it.

The goal of The Fedora Legacy Project is to work with the Linux community to provide security and critical bug fix errata packages for select End of Life Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core distributions. This will allow for a longer effective life for those releases.

Skeletor Beastman

Skeletor Beastman mp3. Rather rude. Found via malbec

Autoroute 2004 is very poor

Oh dear, looks like Microsoft Autoroute 2004 is very poor. Pocket Streets doesn't even support viewing London Maps....

Brown Sauce

Yom HP Sauce bottles at the moment have a play.com competition running where you can win a home cinema system. At the very least you get a 50p voucher!

Dshield.org

Getting a lot of port scans? Check on Dshield.org - distributed intrusion detection system.