The jam perspective

Is this where the Wii Came from?

2007-03-02T13:03:00.000Z

Xavix looks mighty familiar to me

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2006-06-25T20:49:00.000Z

Russian street climbing

This is pretty darn cool, it makes me think that i should get up off my arse and actually get out there and start training and doing some form of exercise

I love anything that takes the piss out of chavs

2006-06-02T14:25:00.000Z

Google Mac

2006-05-31T21:54:00.002Z

Google Mac : Ok, this is really, really cool if you are a mac user. Google seems to have another back end on thier search engine devoted to apple mac searching.

So instead of returning results for programmes related to windows, it will only return info relevent to macs when you are searching for technical info.

Just bought a mac? This is your new homepage.

Im a Windows admin who likes Mac's - WTF?

2006-05-31T16:30:00.000Z

Now this is a very very odd feeling, not because of the hangover from the night before, not because of the fact that the air con is fully on and yet im somehow still roasting hot in my office.

No, this is an odd feeling as this is my first blog post with using my new computer, my new computer that is very white and still only has one mouse button on the trackpad. Yep, im using a mac.

This was kind of an impulse buy at the weekend as i needed to get a mew MP3 player (my last 3rd gen ipod packed up) so I thought to myself, ipod nano. I don't really have much time anymore to listen to music as I now drive everywhere and have a 4 wheel ipod with the ammount of CD's in the car. But i still needed somthing for those odd occasions where i fancy some music and there is nothing around to play it on. So, into the apple store with intentions of buying a nano, and out with a nano and macbook....Damn...how did that happen? Pesky apple with thier good looking computers.

Anyway, I actually kinda like this thing, i've never used a mac before apart from randomly jabbing at them in the apple store and PC world when i have been passing by. Yet ive now been using this as my primary system for 5 days now and I have to say that OS X really is far ahead of the pack in terms of ease of use for the end consumer. As a windows network admin by trade i should like things to be a bit more complicated yet OS X seems to just get the job done without moaning every 5 mins like windows does. For a day to day computer for surfing the web, checking e-mails, blogging ect.. ect.. basicly anything apart from games and .NET apps this is a perfect computer. I'm even posting this via the use of somthing called a wiget, all i need to do is hit f12 and a bunch of little programmes like this blogging tool, a clock, little post it note things, RSS feed reader, all just pop up out of nowhere and then if i hit the same key again they go away. But more to the point, it just happens, the hard drive dosnt click, it dosnt take a couple of seconds to do it, it just does it with no complaining from the hardware or the OS.

As much as i rave on about this being a really easy OS to use (and i could rave on about my new macbook for a couple more pages) you can still geek out, this is UNIX underneath the hood remember, and more to the point you have access to it via the terminal and after figuring out how to enable the root user you are away to bash away at a shell as much as you like (excuse the pun)

I have 2 weeks to return this bit of kit if i want to, but it is becoming more and more likey that I am going to be keeping it and e-baying off my old laptop to keep me afloat this month (£750 is a heafty dent in most peoples wallets)

newho, we shall see.......

Tesco Value Tennis

2006-05-31T10:11:00.000Z

2006-05-25T13:41:00.000Z

Ok, this is so cool. Its a small app that uses the motion sensor on the Macbook to flip screens, very very useful and so cool.

I have to say that i now really want a Macbook.

If there is anyone out there that will buy me one then please please please e-mail me.

Xbox 360 is a Dell

2006-05-24T14:25:00.000Z

Now I dont know if anyone else out there has noticed this, but upon taking seat in my office today I noticed that the Dell computer on the desk infront of me looks a bit like an Xbox 360. Well... in shape anyway. I know that Microsoft and Dell are good friends on the PC front, but would there be any chance that insperation for the xbox 360 was drawn from this shape? I'm throwing it out there, maybe the designers had dell computers in thier offices, maybe they were both designed by the same team, who knows. Or maybe even Microsoft used the same production lines for their 360 case as the dell cases so minimal modification to the machinary was needed, resulting in lowing costs. Who knows? I certainly dont.

If anyone would like to enlighten me as to why they look so much alike, I would love to hear from you,

2006-05-24T13:14:00.000Z

An 'unbreakable' wine glass made of a new material called Kwarx has been launched at Vinexpo in Hong Kong.

The makers claim it is the most important revolution in glass since automated lead crystal production. Philippe Durand, Chairman of ARC International, the company which developed the process, would only say 'Kwarx is a new material' but jealously guarded the actual formula.

Kwarx glass is handblown crystal and is supposed to retain lustre and transparency as well as being unbreakable.

This is all well and good as i am sure that many wine glasses get broken each year, and who wouldnt want a set of 'unbreakable glass'. The price point is going to be the problem with marketing it, if you can mass produce this product on the same sort (or slighly higer) price tag than a normal set then there will be a huge market for this product, but, if the price point is somthing in the region of £10+ it will forever be consigned to sites such as firebox and iwantoneofthose.com.

Excellent idea in theory, it will be the production costs that hold it back.

Lordi At Eurovision

2006-05-23T15:11:00.000Z

I had to give a mention to Lordi, the winners of eurovision 2006. Acording to wikipedia they got the highest score from any eurovision contest. I'm not too sure what cause the win for this very different entry to the contest, but it must either be that everyone has finaly got bored of eurovision and voted the underdog for the comedy of it, or it was because that this was a very original song in comparison to the rest of the pop songs that are normally played at eurovision. What i cant understand about the contest is the fact that the UK can put out alot of good music acts, yet we and every other country always seem to let the nonce of the pack on stage. (you only need to look at the UK's entry into eurovision this year to prove that theory)

The Da Vinci Code movie

2006-05-23T12:11:00.000Z

Well.... i was expecting alot more.

The evening started out with a small gathing at the odean cinema in birmingham for about 60 people including myself and the boss who were invited by APC. The meaning of this, to see the Da Vinci Code (paid for by APC) and have a spot to eat from a buffet with champagne (also care of APC) the catch being that the trailers before the movie where replaced by an APC infomercial (the kind of thing you get on the shopping channel).
Myself never being one to turn down a free drink decided that this would be an excellent oppertunity to get a bit drunk for nothing and promptly proceded to down nigh on to 15 odd glasses of champers.

Well, a while after ariving. and after being guided into the cinema, and after watching the APC infomercials, the movie finaly starts.

This turns out to be one of the most over-hyped and un-forfilling movies that I have seen since A.I. (somthing you should avoid like the plauge). The movie is not all to bad, its not a bad movie, but it certainly isnt a good one. Its somthing that would sit in your DVD collection quite happily yet only ever get watched once. The whole feel of the movie felt plain, un-envigorating, and missing a sense of excitement. There where never any, on the edge of your seat moments so i dont know how it can be classed as a thriller. A much better example of a movie of this type would be "National Treasure" wich is much more exciting in the puzzle solving that must be performed on screen for the basis of the plot lines, and Mr Cage seems to be a man more into his role than Mr Hanks, who seems to play a zombie on set.

To sum up, if you havnt read the book, then go see the movie, but dont be expecting anything more than mediocre.

2006-05-22T11:19:00.000Z

Well, i have finaly found the right cable for my digi cam, wich means that the below pics can be published on the web. These pics are from the pub football event in aid of raising money for charity, the twist of the matter being that the guys had to dress up as girls. Making for a rather entertainig sunday afternoon.

Sorry for the quality of the pics as my camera is a bit pap, but you get the idea.

September 11 Pentagon Video (Angle Two)

2006-05-18T09:20:00.000Z

at 1:36 in this vid you can see somthing apear on the right, very small, very blurred, and not very far off the ground at all. no way can this be a plane, there is loads more footage that was confiscated around the area when the plane hit, and that still has to be released.

This really proves nothing, when i can see a pic/vid of the plane in its enitrety, of wich some of the security cameras in the surrounding area will of captured but they have had thier tapes confiscated. Then i will start to be swung around. Im not a conspirisy nut, but from looking at all the material, somthing just does not add up im really not too sure what, but there is somthing that is being hidden.

Rainbow

2006-05-17T10:37:00.000Z

Ive seen this so many times but it gets funnier every time i watch it. They must of been on acid when they did this.

Nintendo vs Microsoft vs Sony

2006-05-15T15:20:00.000Z

The internet is wonderful

2006-05-15T13:31:00.000Z

The internet is great, where else can you find a repeated flash of an anime girl spinning a leak backed by some poilish what sounds like folk music (correct me if i am wrong, as i dont claim to know much about the track, or speak the language) Neways, clicky on the linkey and you will see that it will make you smile in an odd sort of way.

Woo for the net

Clicky link!!!!

The nintendo booth stampede

2006-05-15T10:57:00.000Z

This was the last day of E3 with the last chance to play the nintendo Wii, since the last 2 days have been 6 hour lines to play the console people where not taking any chances on missing thier go to play the Wii. From the comments on the net ti seems that it was, run, or dont play.

This shows 3 different angles from the stampede, one from above, one from the showroom floor, and another from a guy in the crowd with a camera.

I think nintendo have ticked off both sony and microsoft this year, as i cant rember any E3 when there was this much exitement for playing a new console. The nintendo shareholders will be laughing all the way to the bank come Q4 2006.

2006-05-12T15:44:00.000Z

must stop posting odd vids

2006-05-12T14:32:00.000Z

I really must stop posting stuff like this, its runining the readable content. But i just cant help it!, maybe i should start another blog with just really odd and funny vids.

Oh well.

Dont ask me how

2006-05-12T14:24:00.000Z

Dont ask me how i come across stuff like this, i just do, OK?

pope marcus

read the article

Oozinator - Questionable Super Soaker

2006-05-12T13:08:00.000Z

This is a promotional video for a rather questionable super soaker called the "oozinator." One really has to wonder what they were thinking when they made this

Total and complete 0wnage

2006-05-12T13:03:00.000Z

walsall mayhem

2006-05-12T10:24:00.000Z

Well, thanks to a friend of a friend of a friend who nicks stuff i have my own copy of the walsall mayhem DVD that is currently making the rounds. For those who dont know, this is basicly a collection of security camera footage of fights in the walsall area from about 98-2000, many are involving some serious punch ups with major injurues.

Basicly its like bumfights in walsall but with pissed up chav's beating the living daylights out of each other for no reason.

This DVD has not yet been released to the world via the medium of the internet, or at least not to my knowlage. I dont know where the original came from, who who edited the original soundtrack on it (these security cameras have no mic's so some music was implimented over the top) all I do know is that is current method of distribution is by copied DVD. One person will copy the disc and pass it to 10 people then those 10 people will make more copies and so forth.

The quality really isnt anything to write home about, imagine long-play VHS, but worse. I plan to be ripping this disc and running it through some conversion filters to tart up the quality a bit and maybe even release a few clips onto the internet for all to see. The original discs and the full unedited version i think should really stay underground to the point of staying away from internet distribution even though it highlights the current situation of the country come fri/sat night in most major town/city centers around the country.

Maybe when i figure out exactly what to do with this footage and track it back to the source i will format it in a way that the general public in walsall town can get a feel of what is really going on when their back is turned and the dangers the town now faces from drunken idiots on a sat night.

Nintendo Steal E3

2006-05-12T08:21:00.000Z

Have a look at this article, and the below vid, and i think i was right when i said that nintendo could steal the show.

Woo nintendo me thinks

Sex addict

2006-05-11T16:30:00.000Z

I am a sex addict: This is a small indie flim, but the trailer is on apple.com so its not porn, dont let the title fool you. It looks like a really good movie tho.

Very original, I must track it down

I'm sorry

2006-05-11T15:38:00.000Z

I feel sorry for posting so much on the Wii, it makes it seem like this is the only thing happening at E3 atm. But from the E3 to the web link via 1000's of people there blogging away and releasing vids and pics, there really dosnt seem to be anything else there!

It seems that nintendo have done what they set out to do by stealing the show. Sony have been ripped apart by consumers and developers alike because of thier inclusion of tilt sensors in thier new pad that only one game has been modified to work for so far, Microsoft really dont seem to have got a look in as what they really needed to show was some halo3 and forza 2 in-game footage and all they have come up with so far is pre-rendered teasers for them and nothing to play. Not a good thing.

It seems that thanks to this mass amount of publicity and driving the market ahead with new ideas rather than making older ones look pretty add this to the potential price point of $150 at launch and i think there is a real winner here.

Well, when i say real winner i mean IBM who are making the main processing chips for all 3 next gen consoles, they must be laughing all the way to the bank to make thier huge pile of cash just that little be bigger.

Either way, i would love to be at E3 right now, and I will be buying a Wii on launch, and maybe even a PS3 (the lower end one) if the games are right.

One more point i have to make, there will never be a winner in this console war as all 3 companies will be around with another console in 5-6years time, and the game starts all over again.

Super Mario Galaxy at the nintendo E3 booth

2006-05-11T15:12:00.000Z

Somone playing the new super mario galaxy at the nintendo wii booth at E3, looks very cool but i can see my head spinning when i get my hands on it due to the 360 nature of the running around asteroids and planetoids.

Still very cool tho, and its mario so i will be buying a copy when i comes out, just like everyone else who will buy this console.

The most realistic virtual reality room in the world

2006-05-11T14:49:00.000Z

More than $4 million in equipment upgrades will shine 100 million pixels on Iowa State University's six-sided virtual reality room.

That's twice the number of pixels lighting up any virtual reality room in the world and 16 times the pixels now projected on Iowa State's C6, a 10-foot by 10-foot virtual reality room that surrounds users with computer-generated 3-D images. That means the C6 will produce virtual reality at the world's highest resolution.

Nintendo Press conference

2006-05-10T15:22:00.000Z

Talking of the nintendo press conference,

here is the download link for the whole of it in wmv format.

There is lots of footage for wii games in it and the intro with the conducting is very, very, cool

Wii Sports

2006-05-10T15:17:00.000Z

Check this out, wii sports, and some tennis action with the wii controller. This is a small extract from the 1:30h long nintendo press conference.

Looks so much fun, and really shows off the range of motion you can achive with the wii controller.

But there is the slight problem that i forsee, of things getting broken in the living room, and also confuses me as to how nintendo will be able to make booths for shops floors without the controller getting broken all the time.

I hope they figure that one out.

The PS3 Pad

2006-05-09T12:54:00.000Z

The most integral part of any console is the controller, its what allows to you interact with your virtual persona and is one of the highest rated bits of kit on a console. Now looking at what sony have done with their PS3 controller is it just me or have they done this twice before.

I dont mean the design of the controller, but I mean blatantly ripping off nintendo.

When there was the SNES there came shoulder buttons, so sony thought, right, good idea, well have 4 instead of 2.

N64 comes around, hello analog controls in the mainstream consoles, so sony thought, right, good idea, lets bodge 2 onto our current-gen consoles controller and sell it off again.

PS3 comes along and the best they can come up with is a boomerang, and now since nintendo announce motion tracking and tilt sensing, sony think, right, good idea, lets put it in our controller too.

I really dont think that sony have anything in the way of innovation, yet they seem to really know what they are doing when it comes to marketing. If they get the games right on the PS3 in the first 6 months then the xbox 360 does not stand a chance in hell of winning this console war, thanks to it coming out a year early all that is available to it is current-gen titles with tarted up textures and rez.

I own a 360 and I bought it on launch, I also own a stack of games for it, buying them just hoping that there was something that my 360 could do better then the others on the market apart from making things look pretty. But the hard point is that it is really really hard to make new games and not just re-hashes of old franchises if you dont have a new method of interacting with the virtual world infront of you.

Motion sensing confirmed for Revolution Nunchaku attachment.

2006-04-26T08:40:00.000Z

It has been confirmed that the Nunchaku attachment for the Revolution controller will be capable of sensing motion as well. This opens up even more advances strafing techniques in FPS's and think about being able to throw actual punches and blocking in boxing games with both hands.

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Jesus does "I will survive"

2006-04-24T13:23:00.000Z

Woman to build house out of 747

2006-04-21T08:23:00.000Z

A California woman is going ahead with the construction of a house made of elements from a 747 Jumbo jet.

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GMail Drive v1.0.10 Released

2006-04-20T09:15:00.000Z

GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer.

Latest Changes:
Fixed: A change in the Gmail.com login may cause a "Disc is full" error

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Places to telnet too

2006-04-18T09:14:00.000Z

If you havent already check out the star wars animation, just copy the command into your run box and hit enter

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Fun Stuff!

From www.blinkenlights.nl:

Star Wars asciimation -- telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl (port 23)
Marvin (eliza-like bot) -- telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl:42
The Bofh Excuse Server -- telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl:666

Directories

Hytelnet is an old (an now unmaintained) directory:
http://www.lights.com/hytelnet/

Muds

For the moment, we will not attempt to give a complete listing of Mud's or Moo's. Instead, check out:

http://www.mudconnect.com/

Some muds that have been submitted by readers:
shadow-lands.com -- port 4000
shiva.ml.org -- port 4300
dr.nostrum.com -- port 2000

Libraries

Go forth and gather knowledge. We present libraries:
(Some addresses are followed by a login and password)

CANADA
calcna.ab.ca guest
access.cn.camriv.bc.ca
chebucto.ns.ca guest
ciao.trail.bc.ca guest
clias.org guest
wtp1.eastman.freenet.mb.ca guest %guest
freenet.edmonton.ab.ca guest
freenet.hamilton.on.ca guest
telnet.ncf.carleton.ca guest
strider.pgfn.bc.ca guest
freenet.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca guest
sea-to-sky-freenet.bc.ca guest
infonet.st-johns.nf.ca guest ENTER(key)
torfree.net guest
vcn.bc.ca guest
victoria.tc.ca guest

FINLAND
login.freenet.hut.fi visitor

GERMANY
freenet-a.fim.uni-erlangen.de

NETHERLANDS
dds.nl gast

UNITED STATES
locis.loc.gov (Library of Congress)
freenet.akron.oh.us visitor
aztec2.asu.edu guest visitor
bigsky.bigsky.dillon.mt.us bbs
bcn.boulder.co.us bcn
freenet.buffalo.edu freeport
capaccess.org guest visitor
sawdust.cvfn.org guest
freenet-in-a.cwru.edu visitor
telnet.coin.missouri.edu guest
freenet.vcu.edu guest visitor
danenet.wicip.org guest
128.175.63.164
telnet.efn.org guest ENTER(key)
www.fortnet.org guest
genesee.freenet.org guest
grfn.org visitor
glfn.org
detroit.freenet.org visitor
gnofn.org visitor
heartland.bradley.edu1 bbguest ENTER(key)
grex.cyberspace.org newuser
jackson.freenet.org visitor
clarion.korrnet.org visitor
telnet.llion.org guest
freenet.lcfn.org guest
lafn.org opt. #2
macatawa.org visitor visitor
midnet.csd.scarolina.edu visitor
omnifest.uwm.edu visitor
ns1.maf.mobile.al.us visitor
gator.naples.net guest guest
omahafreenet.org visitor
telnet.orion.org guest
prairienet.org visitor
rain.gen.mo.us VISITOR
rgfn.epcc.edu visitor
scn.org visitor
bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us visitor
dc.seflin.org visitor
bc.seflin.org visitor
pb.seflin.org visitor
sendit.nodak.edu bbs
seorf.ohiou.edu guest
scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us visitor
tlcnet.muohio.edu visitor
tfn.net visitor
fnet.cc.utoledo.edu visitor visitor
traverse.lib.mi.us visitor
tso.uc.edu visitor
freenet.msp.mn.us guest
vergin.usvi.net
pen1.pen.k12.va.us guest guest

Talkers

Here are a few talkers to get you started chatting:

Abbes === chardonnay.niagara.com:3000
Blackhawk === ouabache.abcs.com:6000
Elgin === step.jbu.edu:7000
Enchanted Village === user1.megalinx.net:5000
Eye of the World === jordan.megalinx.net:9001
Promised Land, The === zeek.murlin.com:4321
Seventh Heaven === lod.com:1998
SpauMUSH === spice.per.iap.net.au:9999
Speedway Talker === funcity.ml.org:6500
Utopia Parkway === blacktape.cs.uchicago.edu:3000

Kermit servers

telnet://kermit.columbia.edu:1649 --> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/cuiksd.html

A webhost that can survive the digg effect

2006-04-18T08:28:00.000Z

http://pages.google.com

Here you find another one of googles beta projects (do these things ever come out of beta?). It's called google pages and allows you to use google as a webhost for pages designed by their browser based page creator software. Its a pretty neat tool, nothing to match dreamweaver but it does allow the amateur to create a page in very little time at all, and for the more advanced web monkey there is the option to edit the code manually. The most useful thing that I can think for this service is that google should be a webhost that can handle such things as the digg and slashdot effects. If it seems that you are going to be posting a link on digg or slashdot that might make front page and therefore sercum to this problem, why not try ripping the content or the code from the site and use your google account to post it onto your googlepage. Its not a blog, but more a fully featured webs site, so it should take the kind of formatting that you would be throwing at it. There are no details as to bandwith limiting or total traffic cap, but if google cant handle slashdot and digg traffic, who can?

P.S. As before if anyone needs gmail invites, just drop me an e-mail.

Very Funny Firefox Ad

2006-04-13T12:38:00.000Z

Rig your 360 hard drive to your computer

2006-04-12T09:55:00.000Z

http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/games/xbox/the_limitless_xbox_360_hard_disk

Take a look at this, produced by datel, it sit's inbetween your 360's HDD and the console itself and hooks to your computer via usb so you can transfer files from the 360 and save content to your computer.

I would love a gadget like this if only it was ethernet and not cat5 as most people who have 360's have them in a seperate room to the computer, and you can be damnned if im going to run 50 odd meters of usb cable round my house, im not even shure the usb standards would cope with the attenuation.

Make a networked version and you have a sale right here datel.

Your own ewok village

2006-04-11T08:29:00.000Z

http://www.freespiritspheres.com/

This page may be a little old, but it seems to have been pushed back into the public view of the internet again after surficing on the discovery channel site and on digg.com. It seem one guy like the ewok village concept just a little too much and has made somthing that looks like the modern equivilent of an ewok treehouse. It is compleatly spherical, but the insides look a bit like a caravan (or camper to you yanks) that you would take away on a weekend trip. Seems like the pricetag is $45k+ so i think i would be buying the flashhy car or the extention to the house rather than a tree, pod, caravan, ewok tree house, thing....

Quake 3 in a Browser

2006-04-11T08:19:00.000Z

"After putting Half-Life, Quake 1, Doom, and other gaming classics in a browser, Necromanthus has now started work on a Quake 3 version. It is still a work in progress, so there are no weapons or bots to play against yet, but it features the first level with a similar look to the original."

This guy has used shockwave to recreate some classic games from the past few years in your we browser with really impressive results, There is deus ex, hlaf-life, warcraft, mortal combat and a few others. Seems like a good site if you need to kill a couple of hours while at work.

Oh. And ive just noticed that dizzy is on there too.

Well done to this guy to take the time to make flash and shockwave games that arnt contained in a banner and ask you to commit acts of violence against small furry animals that swing in trees for the prize of an ipod. He has made somthing truly worth the effort and that is browser based games that are worth playing.

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Making the Switch from Microsoft to FREE

2006-04-10T15:23:00.000Z

"Here is very useful list of Linux Operating systems and tons of software to replace all those Windows programs people are using. This is proof that Linux can replace Windows in Desktop and Workstation environments."

The jam perspective :-: Another day, another digg story to get people to move to linux and away from microsoft. Dont these people understand that linux is no where near a commercial desktop OS yet, its just way to complicated and the differnences between different distros is just too great. It will never replace windows in the home user set up, it may gain a foothold on business desktops if the IT team knows enough to configure the distro they way they want and to get all the apps designed for that company up and running on linux. Linux over the next few years will only succeed in the server and tech-savvy user markets and will no take over the desktop market untill either SUSE or Red Hat get thier advertising hats on and start pushing it.

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Free ADSL in the UK

2006-04-10T09:43:00.000Z

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4893194.stm

It seems like carphone warehouse are brancing out with it talk talk service even more, they now want to provide free ADSL connections to people who sign up to its talk talk phone service and there does not seem to be any mention of it being an ad driven service. Now the thing is, the talk talk phone package is supposed to be free between talk talk customers, and quite competitive in its pricing when it comes to calls outside of that network. So how the heck do they plan to make a profit on this? and will it go the same way as the totaly free dial up services from a few years back and never acutualy materialise, or could it be a whole new busniness model? more people on your service, more people directed to your homepage/portal by default, build up the advertising revenue that way?. I really dont know, but what i do know is, i hope it works and other companies catch on, as a free net service for everyone in the UK would bridge the digial divide better than any of the current scemes. (this gives me an idea...... i'll write it up later)

Google Pack Beta

2006-04-09T14:22:00.000Z

http://pack.google.com/http://pack.google.com/

Some more free beta software from google (probably 3-4 years to get this out of beta). This time its the google pack, a collection of software mostly made by google all wrapped up in a self updating programme, its free, so there is no reason not to try it. You get things like google talk ad adware and a 6month trial of norton anti-virus 2005 thrown in with a whole host of other things.

This is an excellent addition to your google computer, it compliments g-mail and google desktop perfectly, and if you have a gmail account and use it on a regular basis you really arnt making the most of it untill you download the google pack.

There is one or 2 things missing that would be nice to add tho, namly win rarwin rar and open officeopen office (i use microsoft office, but open office is perfect for doing homework or writing a letter)

For anyone reading this, go download now, and if dont have a gmail account. Drop me a mail and ill sort one out for you.

Your Anus Has a Ring

2006-04-07T11:48:00.000Z

The scientific community have announced with great excitement that uranus has a big blue ring.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4883848.stm

Well, i found it funny when i read it out loud anyway.

Funniest Pic ive seen in a while

2006-04-07T09:09:00.000Z

New Pilotwings Sequel on the Way!

2006-04-07T07:57:00.000Z

The latest issue of EGM has confirmed that Nintendo is hard on work on making a new Pilotwings sequel. Get your jet packs ready!

Finaly, i will get to fly again, and if this is on the revolution it should be a whole new experience with that funky looking new controller.

Woo Yay to the hills and back!

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Told you so

2006-04-06T13:38:00.000Z

http://www.google.com/finance?q=AAPL

Apples stock has jumped 10% becuase of the announcement of bootcamp.

i relly should start investing with my predictions

Microsoft snaps up Lionhead

2006-04-06T11:48:00.000Z

Well, Microsoft have whipped out the old cheque book again and have now bought lionhead studios.

Good move I say. This is another point to make to back up Microsofts vision of making quality games and not churing out loads of B grade titles and selling them only on a mass marketing push. They realise that all they have over sony in the race for the topspot (nintendo is irrelivent here as they are not in competion with sony or microsoft, they are making way more money than both on selling game snad consoles) is way more money. The war between sony and microsoft is going to be won with exclisive titles, becuase most games will be created for both systems and whatever way you look at it and however many fanboys say how l33t or awesome one of them is, they are both the same console and will both play the same games. Sony is relying soly on developer loyaly, were as microsoft is slowly stealing all the developers from under thier feet. If microsoft can aqure shares in Rockstar, Square, Capcom and Blitz games. I do think it may well be all over for sony, and not just on the console front. The amount of mony they would loose would cause serious damage to the rest of thier company.

2006-04-05T16:09:00.000Z

Apple Boot Camp Beta

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

Take a look at this, remember the first announcement of an intel based x86 mac? The very first thing i thought when reading about that was, can I run windows? Now I dont own a mac and i never have done, i have never had the chance to sit down an play with one either. I'm a windows guy with a dash of linux thrown in for good measure and would of never even considered a mac untill the x86 announcement. I dont think that switching to OS X full time would be a good idea as im a windows admin and we work on a soley microsoft network, and my home servers are based around fedora core. Yet i am in the market for a new laptop.

This threw up a couple of questions, could i go for a mac? and would it be rewarding in the long term to use and master yet another OS platform?

When the first mac running windows hacks started floating on the net a couple of weeks back it really got me thinking, but i wouldnt want to make the dive with some unsuported software no matter if 1000's of people have got it to work, many others havnt. But now apple have release thier version of this bootloader to get xp up and running, wich is alot more an atractive prospect than a hack to get windows xp up and running. It also means that apple knew how to do this for a long time but wanted to see how the community delt with the propblem, maybe to see how many security holes they could discover on the way, maybe to just watch them sweat with hours and hours of trying and failing. All i know is that apple has gone down the right path and this will push up thier share prices even more (not as much an impact as say itunes and the ipod).

There is one final problem before i make the switch though. I will be buying a laptop, or powerbook, or whatever you wish to call it. If i knew how to right click with the trackpad. That is the one final thing that apple now need to sort out, make a right clicking trackpad. Just call it somthing like the mighty-pad, i dont really care. Then there really is no reason to buy a dell or acer laptop or any other make if you are using it for office and home use and not gaming.

I for one, would then be buying a mac, for the sole fact of linux, OS X, and windows XP all booting on the same machine naitivly.