In one of his books: The Hour of the Dead was when men died. And when a man died, they sent him home by clacks. Moist’s mouth dropped open. ‘Huh?’ ‘That’s what they call it,’ said Harry. ‘Not lit’rally, o’ course. But they send his name from one end of the Trunk to the other,
I recently got sent this Skrillex Piano version of Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites and was blown away by the different Here is the piano version And the radically different original
I was trying to find an open source licence that would fit my purpose for my Trend Analyser project. After some googling I found a wonderful website “Choose a Licence” This showed specifically what each main licence does and gave templates to use. It made it easier than reading through and trying to understand all
If your computer is recent and has an i3/i5/i7 intel core and a Nvidia graphics card it likely uses Optimus technology. This smart piece of software turns off the power-hungry Nvidia graphics card and runs most programs on the integrated intel graphics chip. In laptops this can save a lot of power. However this solution
After i installed Fedora 18 XFCE i found that it by default doesnt show the icons on the application menu. I normally navigate it by checking the images and not reading the words, so this inconvenienced me. On checking the properties I found that “Show icons in menu” was checked but it did not seem to
During Christmas I got a raspberry pi and I have been waiting to start playing around with it for ages. Finally I decided to order the remaining pieces for it such as the power cable and SD card. Since I didn’t have a HDMI TV around I decided to plug it into the router and
A 20-year-old hacker has been recently arrested in Amiens, France after allegedly stealing 500k euros from unwitting victims. The hack worked by downloading and modifying android applications with a trojan which would call premium rate numbers in exchange for SMS codes for playing online lotteries. Central Office for the Fight against Crime Linked to Information
On the left you can see the WikiLeaks “paywall” image that you currently see when visiting some of the released leaks. The “paywall” is now simple to get around just by reloading the page however it encourages you to donate, spread the word by sharing the video or posting to twitter. However in the first
I recently was recommended Breaking Free to listen to as background drum and bass music, but when downloading (available for free at the above link) it I found it was a single mp3 with a “cue” file. The Cue files tells a media player how to split up the mp3 into different tracks, and has information
I eventually decided that i would start a blog that would document various things I do, if not for everyone, but myself. Numerous times over the past year I have felt I wanted to write long posts about certain topics that I meet, but haven’t had a medium to do so. The search for a
