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Linux worse than drugs for kids – says Teacher on crack …

Othello — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:20:09 +0000

Parents, be VERY worried about sending your children to school, unscrupulous IT literate students might be getting them hooked on a drug called Linux …

This is both funny ( I dare you to read the letter outloud and not smile) and sad (because if peple like this really are in positions of power, the human race will be extinct shortly through it’s own ignorance)

Linux holds our kids back.

Twitterers Gets Phished

Othello — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:42:33 +0000

Thousands of people have fallen for a fake DM (Direct Message) Email claiming to be from the micro-blogging service Twitter.com and proceeded to hand-over their passwords/usernames.

I wonder if the complete muppets that fall for these scams will ever learn to READ the url’s of things before randomly clicking on them !

See more on the oficial twitter blog … http://blog.twitter.com/2009/01/gone-phishing.html

Microsoft say upgrade or die … The end of 32bit computing ?

Othello — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:03:09 +0000

Microsoft have announced that the forthcoming Windows Server 2008 R2 release will be available ONLY in the x64 version.
- leaving all users of the current release of x86 W2k8 Server (Web and Datacentre editions) with a near-immediate upgrade issue for both hardware and software.

With many of the initial problems of the 64-bit version still not fully been addressed…

missing driver issues
no compatibale backup software
antivirus/anti-malware software not fully converted to 64-bit
random crashes of W2k8 Hyper-V Virtual Servers

it seems we’re basically forced to migrate and update, or simply stop offering M$-Windows based hosting solutions At least R2 appears to offer some useful and necessary upgrades/fixes …

Hyper-V improvements – fixed Quick/Live Migration, bringing it up to what we already have with our XEN Enterprise linux systems.
Completed PowerShell – powerShell best 2 finally brings the Windows Server command prompt upto scratch
Multi Core Support – ability to assess the amount of processing across systems with multiple cores, and under certain hardware setups, to dedicate work to certain cores, or shut cores down completely – true SMP at last, only 6 years being Unix !

Cheers MickeyMouseSoft – a novelty supplier, of minimal use at best – just what we need in the current climate, you forcing a Â£150k hardware and software upgrade plan onto us

Impressive Household Gadget…

Othello — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:48:44 +0000

Are household chores cutting into your social life ?
How many important calls have you missed whilst doing laundry ?
Dont want to take two appliances into the utility room ?

Then you need …. An Iron Phone

Cleverly combining two of a womans favourite things ( ironing and talking ) into one handy little tool – yes the Iron-Phone really is the social-life saver you have been waiting for.

Now you need never miss that crucial chat with someone you’ll see in person later anyway, about the spotty guy from work and his small dinkle problem …

With 30 minutes of steaming, and 11 hours of talktime on a single charge, it’s powerful enough for even the most dedicated follower of fashion …

Tags: laundry, utility room, ironing, talking

Fashion Accessories for Geeks

Othello — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:52:56 +0000

I like gadgets – devices to perform a specific function/purpose, to make my life easier, more enjoyable, or just different.

I’m not alone in this – which is why every high-street has a gadget-shop of some kind.

Sadly the human brain is wired so you can only think one of:

“bling” is fashionable
technology is clever
voting Liberal Democrat is a good idea

Sadly, those always on the lookout for stupid people to buy utter crap for lots of money (aka snake-oil peddlers or marketers), have decided to once again combine tasteless “bling-bling” and hi-tech wizardry into the absolutely F-ing stupid concept that is …

The Google Vanity Ring

Yes, now you can look an utter prat and billy-no-mates at exactly the same time, simply by
displaying a counter of how many times your name has been “googled” on your finger.

Updated nightly by docking station, or probably sync’d real-time via a premium rate SMS message for the seriously desperate

Watch the THRILLING
Promo Video clip of Google Ring and decide for yourself.

Expect to see one on the hand of the kind of bozo who actually buys their Alexa Ranking on a t-shirt shortly …or more likely given away free with some sort of nerdy tech-mag (where free translates into “nothing for the item, but 84 times the actual postage and packing real cost, so we still make a profit”) send-away coupon redemption offer thingy.

Markus Kison

the designer is looking for investment …
- If he’s prepared to embed a gps system into each one, so we can track the wearers on google-maps I’ll invest … even better if there was some sort of real-time method to herd the wearers off a cliff lemming style …

Tags: gadgets, The Google Vanity Ring, Markus Kison, Designer e-Jewellery

Romans, Gauls and Teutons – All out war in 1 A.D.

Othello — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:48:38 +0000

I’ve recently discovered a MMRPG (Massive Multiplayer Role Paying Game) browser based and free, very reminiscent of the early sim-city type programs. This wonderful gem is called Travian, and available to play right now

It’s been around for a while, with active forums, comprehensive wiki, clans (alliances) and so forth, but takes a bit of planning and forethought to get into “late in the game” as I have – so here is a shortcut guide to getting your Empire up-and-running as quickly and efficiently as possible …

Get a good initial resource base

field workers need feeding, building staff need feeding, an army marches on it’s stomach … etc
so start by producing more food … and don’t forget buildings use clay, weapons are made from wood and iron … so your “fields” and the resources they produce are your lifeblood.

Upgrade some fields up to production level 1… * food
* food
* clay
* wood
* iron
Hide your stash now build a cranny to protect produce in case of a raid and to get your tribe resource bonus
Upgrade remaining fields up to production level 1 * food
* clay
* wood
* iron
* food
* clay
* wood
* iron
* food
* clay
* wood
* iron
* food
so all fields now produce 5 items/hour

Implement rapid resource growth

spend some of your free gold on the 25% wheat production bonus
spend some of your free gold on the 25% clay production bonus
spend some of your free gold on the 25% wood production bonus
spend some of your free gold on the 25% iron production bonus

increase one food to level3
increase one clay to level3
increase one wood to level3
increase one iron to level3
bring remaining fields to level2 * clay
* wood
* iron
* food
* clay
* wood
* iron
* food
* clay
* wood
* iron
* food

Get some sleep

you’ll need somewhere to keep your resources when offline (you do sleep ?)

Upgrade your main building to level3
Build a Warehouse
Build a Granary
Upgrade Cranny to level3

Note: Your Granary, Warehouse and Cranny should be regularly upgraded to be able to hold as much in resources as you create during your offline time (say 12 hours * hourly production of your highest producer – not cumulative)

Get more stuff

Bring all remaining fields to level3 - due to the resource requirements of field workers and upgrades you should always now upgrade your fields as:
clay – wood – iron – food
Take one wheat field all the way to level5 ready for a mill (a permanent wheat production bonus)

Prepare for the unwashed hordes

Build rally point
Build barracks to level3
Get all food production to level4

Need more munchies

Build mill
Upgrade all Wheat Fields to Level5

Here come the squaddies

Upgrade rally point to level3
Build blacksmith to level3
Build academy
Build stables
Get making equal numbers of each available type of soldier, and upgrading the academy to research new ones

Now the direction you take for Raiding, War, Farming, etc is entirely down to you …

How to give yourself brain damage

Othello — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:01:06 +0000

(or at least cause an epileptic fit)
Chuck together

One dark room
100 helium filled balloons
100 white LEDs
Some string and servos
Music by a Kraftwerk Addict

This simple formula of light, sound and acrobatic bubbles by designers “Electric MoOns” is either a masterpiece, or an experiment in causing people to up-chuck – you decide …

Electric MoOns Atom Dance Video

Tags: ballons, led lights, dance, acid techno, video

The most punchable Housemate ever !

Othello — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:04:44 +0000

“Punchable” is how the tabloids have been describing online scammer Liam Young of OXYUK.

For those that missed his entry into the Big Brother House here’s the video summary …
Habitual Liar Liam Young Enters The Big Brother House

And for completeness sake, here’s link to the video of the lttle bollock-sucker getting evicted from the Big-Brother-House …
Liam Young BB Con Artist Gets Booted

Big Brother and the Deluded Web Host

Othello — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:00:22 +0000

Well, C4′s Big Brother series has started again, with a selection of Endemol hand-picked “characters” to represent a cross section of the UK’s up-and-coming lads and lasses … presumably some attempt by the program makers to “appeal” to a new audience, as the viewing figures continue to decline.

One of the contestants (HouseMates as they’re called) is getting oxycuted by blogs and forums – Mr Liam Young of OxyUK / OxyTechnologies / OxyMorons etc…

I bumped heads with this pOXY muppet back when he was 16, claiming

We currently serve over 70,000 UK customers, and over 10,000 users from worldwide locations

which actually translated into

I’m a shitty little unknown affiliate for Lycos and I get paid a few $ if you sign-up under me

see Liam Young of OXYUK.Ltd

the following day he’d moved the few real clients he had and magically transformed into being a HostGator reseller
Oxy just a HG Reseller

18 months later business is going so well, on some forums he’s claiming 2 million domains on his servers, and on others he’s begging for $2 support jobs … Please employ me

You’d think someone with millions of domains, would be a Nominet member (www.nic.uk) rather than just a 1und1 customer … http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=oxyhost.co.uk

After getting shortlisted for the role on BB as an entrepreneur, he then reappears on the same forum that banned him for his bulshit last time – WebHostingTalk.com, asking How to lie about Turnover

The general thread on WHT is good background …
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=660543

Various forums are all now getting cross-posted to each other, the now (almost) infamous Liam Young Big Brother Celebrity Hijack Lier Housemate is getting discussed over on DigitalSpy

As yet unconfirmed – and I REALLY am not going hunting for evidence on this – but there are multiple posts and comments about Liam Young doing himself Anal’y with a glowstick dildo – nice !

The DS:BB thread is already over 5 pages long, and currently if you’re not a member shows multiple adverts for gay dating agencies throughout the threads on Liam – do they know something we dont perhaps ?

edit I just checked back after fixing a typo and the DS:BB thread is touching twenty-nine pages !

Google begins plans for replacing life-on-Earth…

Othello — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:43:19 +0000

Deep in an underground bunker, mad scientist geeks are working night and afternoon (real geeks are like vampires, alergic to sunlight) on the next google launch …

ANDROIDS

This week the big-G registered and drop-caught a number of new domains now sitting on the G’s nameservers including…

androidhandset.com
androidhandsets.com
androidmobile.com
androidphone.com
androidphones.com
androidplatform.com
androidsdk.com
androidsoftware.com
androidtechnology.com

Plus all the usual org/net variations.

No official comment has been made yet about the rumoured launch of the first human looking g-phone.

Personally I’m hoping it looks a lot like a cross between the current bionic woman, seven-of-nine and Caprica-6 with big buttons