hey, my mouse pwns, linux only!

My mouse (the logitech LX7 btw it's the only cordless that pwns), has 7 buttons. Ie. left click, right click, middle click, scroll, sideways scroll, back, forward. The sidways scroll works in Linux! It doesn't work in windows!!! So long windows suckers. I'm running ubuntu 8.10, and I didn't install any drivers to make it work fully. Linux works out of the box! In fact, my only hardware that didn't work out of the box is...let's see here....webcam worked...mouse worked...keyboard worked...sleep + hibernate worked...omg, EVERYTHING WORKED STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BOX FOR ME ON LINUX UBUNTU 8.10 INTREPID IBEX, 150% RECOMMENDED OPERATING SYSTEM!!!!!! goto ubuntu.com to download this terrific OS. Or you can request a free cd that takes 6 to 10 weeks to deliver depending on country, the free cd comes with stickers for your computer or anything else.

ye man

i bin offered 2 jobs makin websites, and already started one of dem........sum more cash for me soon :D!!!




an mi non profit home ed group website is at awe.gn.apc.org.

lots of stuff, read on...

Sorry i haven't posted for AAAAAAAAAAGES.

Alot has happened computer wise and not computer-wise:

1) I've learn't lots of skills in web design (and still more to learn ;)). Using these skills, I've made a website using the drupal content management system, you can access my website here. It's for a home education group called AWE that I go to, (I'm home educated BTW), and please do not make an account on it because it'll just get wiped off. Strictly having an account is for AWE members only.

2) My spanish teacher had to leave for Colombia, which was very unfortunate. So I enrolled to do a GCSE spanish course in Hackney college, and got in (of course :P)!!!!!! Next year I'll have my first GCSE, in Spanish.

3) I'm techically dual booting Windows and Linux, so i've partly joined the other side....but you'll be pleased to know that i'm writing this in Linux, and only use my windows partition for: a) gaming, b) starry night, c) Flash, and d) Google Chrome until they make a Linux version. (great browser BTW)

see ya soon
fela

8.10 Coming soon

I found that the Ubuntu countdown till 8.10 was not out yet so I have made a:
"Ubuntu 8.10 coming soon"
Image in gimp and uploaded it to picasa.

here it is



like it?

Linux magazines!!!!!!

As there have not been a few posts for a while i decided to post on Linux magazine and Linux format.

After seeing Linux magazine in WHSmith I decided I had to buy it, I read through the whole issue and really liked it. A couple of issues on I found out about Linux format (LXF) I got given an issue by a friend and read it, I found it more enjoyable than Linux magazine, magazines are supposed to be interesting/fun aren't they? So I got one more Linux magazine and LXF and decided that I would get a subscription to not Linux magazine but... LXF! I would have got a subscription to both if I could afford it but I can't so by entertainment value I decided to go for LXF.

They are both GR8 magazines but I would go slightly more on the LXF side if I had to choose.

You Linux lovers out there should REALLY get a subscription to one of them as they are really good and it is much cheaper to get one then to buy it in the shop.

http://linux-mag.com/

http://linuxformat.co.uk/

Tiddles (my cat)

Hey, i can't believe that I haven't done a post about Tiddles yet. I've had him for more than a year!!! OK, here goes, here's him as a kitten (btw he's still almost as cute as that!)















i think he's cutest here:
















all curled up:
















I don't actually have any pictures of him grown up, but he's the cutest cat in the world. (no really, i have not seen a cat cuter than him except a kitten)

Infinity Windows

I have changed the image of the moment because it was not an image of the moment!!

Here it is:



It is supposed to be an animated GIF in the sidebar but blogger is a bit weird so you will have to click it!!

Ratings

A week after putting the ratings back online we seem to have a farly good one, 4 star!

Ubuntu reinstall

I have had various problems with my Ubuntu installation:

Deb package installer not working, add/remove not working, compiz not working, etc.

So i decided to reinstall Ubuntu completely...

I backed up my user Dir onto my new 4GB (W00T!!) mem stick then made a Ubuntu 8.04.1 disk and tested it thoroughly then reinstalled Ubuntu (forgetting to make a backup partition :-( oh well...) and then installed Ubuntu studio and some other apps and walla!! It worked!!!

Few!!!

The only problem i had is forgot to show the hidden files when copying my user Dir so i lost my Uplink user file that i had been playing on (Dow!! :-[ )

NRM

me and mal are going to York in 12 days!!! we're going to the NRM (national railway museum), where Mallard is preserved.

Binary

There are only 10 types of people in the world............







Those who understand binary and those who don't!!!

Announcing... The Victoria Line in Trainz!

Victoria Line
A new project for Trainz
designed for cab view only.

Also, please remember "Spanner" has also created a Victoria Line route, so check out his version  on the DLS.

Some tunnels at some kind of junction(?)

Train opens its doors at Victoria

Zooming into Victoria

Approaching Victoria

Switching to single track for a small section

The District Line connection at Victoria

a single tunnel

A station

The reversing sidings at Brixton

The buffer at Brixton



Another shot of the District Line connection

Through another station

Speeding into Brixton

Slowing down

Stopping.

Leaving.

Pimlico!

SPECIAL THANKS TO: everyone who made LU objects for trainz

Compiz

my compiz is broken!!!!
GGGRRRRRRR
i *** this really annoying ****ing compiz!!!!
lol
but still GGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Euro-Gin (lol)

Me and Mal's latest interest (read: obsession) is trains...Mal just ordered two hornby eurostar power cars (well one's a dummy) from ebay for £16. Here's a video of it.

Mac vs PC

And another:

Mac vs PC

Heres a funny youtube video if you have not seen it yet:

Infinity windows!.... 2!!!

Remind me to do Infinity windows!....

...2!!!

some time soon.

Linux hang?

KDE on Linux hasn't hung on me once (not ONCE), for that i make this gimpy:

some gimpies

cartoons of different OSes crashing, here they are:






















































gimp is a very good tool, i made those images with gimp. Hope you like 'em.

changed display name

I've just changed my display name from rot13srynznfyra to Colonel Panic (fitting as i only run UNIX or UNIX-like OSes on all of my computers)...but my real names fela (as you should know)

cool KDE dynamic wallpaper

I have a cool dynamic wallpaper that i use on KDE3.5: xplanet. It displays a picture of the earth over the longitude of where you live (presumably, as it's over the prime meridian on my one) and it gets dark and light according to the time of day (and the date of course), and when it's night, it shows the artificial light pollution.

turns out konqueror does have adblocking

until now, i've faced the problem of no adblocking on konqueror (my personal browser preference), but after having a look in the preferences (aH...) i have found it, and after a quick google even found a adblock subscription service for konqueror :)

Update

I just thought that i would post a random update to say that i was still here.

Back From SA

I have arrived back form south Africa after approx 23 days of no PC interaction what so ever!
I suppose it is good for PC geeks to have a break now and again, we should not take every thing for granted. Any day soon there could be a thunder Storm that hits the power lines and you/my PC goes boom!!!

Any way the reason for my posting is that i came back yesterday night and have been on my PC all morning installing ubuntu 8.04, it is grate, but after the long troublesome installation all sorts of things stop working. GRRR! but i have fixed it and it is really COOL!
Thanks to Mal and fela who helped me earlier on, if they did not then i might not have been able to fix it.

hardy is GR8!!!! Try it!

Sorry for lack of posts lately

I've switched* to KDE by the way. I used to bash it a bit, but I've grown to like it, and logs in way faster than gnome (haven't tested with compiz yet though)
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My main reason for posting was that I'm going to Spain in 3 days - by boat and train (I don't travel on planes as I am awake to climate change - that is also the reason that i don't leave my computer on when it's not in use (something that many people do and i honestly think is completely outrageously energy wasting.)
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* i haven't actually completely switched - i use pretty much all of the desktop environments/window managers (apart from very obscure WMs), including: Gnome2; Xfce4; KDE3; KDE4; Enlightenment 17, Fluxbox, JWM and XFWM (IIRC)

Away to SA...

I will be going to SA (south Africa) for 3 weeks and 4 days and will probably not be able to post during that time (but i will try to send a update) but when i come back (on the 17 or 18 of may) i will be able to post again.

Till then Buy from me, LikesLinux :-D

P.S. you just have to play BZFlag, it is soooo fun and i captured the enemy's flag for the first time ever!

And...

I am the proud owner of a Logitech LX7 Wireless 1000dpi 9-button mouse + Labtec Y-RAE68 wireless keyboard.

New Logitech WIRELESS keyboard and mouse!

After fela insisted that i get a new mouse so i got a now wireless keyboard and mouse. I am now a proud owner of a Logitech^(r) Cordless Desktop^(r) EX110

W00T!

Hardy Heron Candidate Release

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu
8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) on desktop and server. Codenamed "Hardy
Heron", 8.04 LTS continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the
latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality,
easy-to-use Linux distribution.

BZFlag

Battle Zone capture the Flag

BZFlag is a cool exiting multi player game to play online or over LAN.

You drive your tank around shooting opponents and helping friends.
You can collect flags to give you special abilities.
In a Capture the Flag game you try to protect your teams flag and capture your enemies flag

there is a whole lot else that i could tell you but i will leave you to fine out on there website

Monitor

My monitor adaptor arrived last Wednesday and i got a cable for it last saturday (or was it friday?)
And now i can finally use my Ubuntu PC!!! W00T!

Here are the (basic) specs:

VirtualBox

I just upgraded to hardy beta a few days ago (when my harddisk came), and now i use linux-generic (the only kernel compatible with virtualbox). Before i was running VMware server for my virtualization, and i'm telling you, virtualbox-ose (open source edition) just rocks. VMWare sucks if compared.

I am typing this under a windows VM in virtualbox, running Windows XP specialized for ultra portable computers (i also have the main, more sucky one, in another virtual machine).

With VMWare Server, it was noticeably slower virtualizing than running a system natively. With VBox, you hardly notice the difference.

My current virtual machines go as follows:
1) Damn Small Linux
2) Fedora Core 8
3) Fluxbuntu 7.10
4) gOS Rocket beta
5) Windows XP specialized hacked for ultraportables
6) Windows XP

And PS. I DO NOT work for Innotek. I am speaking of my own experience.

ubuntu hardy beta - 3 installs in one morning

The HDD came w0.ot :D

I put Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy LTS Beta onto it. That's what i'm running now. Oh and btw, there seems to be a little bug in the partitioner of the hardy beta installer - i tried partitioning keeping a older partition intact (result of breaking my system within 5 minutes and having to reinstall xD). It seemed to install fine, but when i tried booting into the system my machine kernel panicked just after the 'Starting up' message. I think it was trying to load / as a block device - and obviously failing - I can't remember exactly what it said though, after 'Kernel panic - not syncing:'. One more reinstall later (that's 3 clean installs in one morning lol) and here I am - with a perfectly functioning install of Ubuntu Hardy beta on a 160GB HDD - yay! :D

HDD upgrade

OK I've finally gotten round to getting a new HDD for my Linux box...it should be coming next Tuesday (15 april 2008) at the very latest (it's already been dispatched). Here's the specs:

Western Digital Caviar
160GB
8MB cache
ATA 100
8.9ms average seek time
2ms track-to-track seek time
7200 RPM
rated 50,000 Start / Stop Cycles
3.5" form factor
3 year warranty

I would've got Serial-ATA, but my motherboard's way too stone-age for that...the good news is: it cost me £35 with VAT+postage. Yippee! :) i would really reccomend the seller (novatech.co.uk) for it's low prices.

windows 7

apparently Microsoft are gonna do what Apple did 7 years back, for windows 7. They're gonna make everything incompatible, hopefully for the best, like what Apple did when they released OS X. READ THIS for more info.

binary blobs

apparently, GNU have said that Linux is a breach of the terms of the GNU General Public License, by far the most popular license for open source software. The reason is that Linux includes 'binary blobs': drivers and whatnot for hardware, namely video cards, that the source code isn't freely available to view, study, modify and redistribute of, as the GPL states it should be. But the companies that provide these closed source drivers are NOT willing to release the source code (read: don't give a sh!t about linux). This causes a dillemma: either we have closed source drivers and breach the true open source spirit, or we stick to open source software, at a price (e.g no hardware video acceleration). It's a choice that us Linux users have to make.

animation

me and Mal made a kick ass lego animation today, called 'cross country lego'. Should be up on youtube within 24 hours :)

EDIT:
ok it's finally up on youtube, here it is...

Powered by Ubuntu stickers!

I sent of a SASE (self addressed stamped envelope) only two days ago to system76 for some free "powered by Ubuntu" stickers and they arrived today!

Here is a scan of them:If you would like to get your own "powered by Ubuntu" stickers send a SASE to:

The Linux Emporium
Bridge House
17a Maybrook Road
Sutton Coldfield
Birmingham
B76 1AL UK

or go to system76 for other countries

I EATEZ BRAINZ

arggggghhhhhhhh!!!

GEEK Test

I was on the GEEK Test getting 100% as usual when i found the following:

Of the Computer Geek Quiz Takers:
17% are scared of links
17% of Windows users curse it
4% of Linux users selected Bill Gates as their hero

LOL!

Ubuntu PC

I have been borrowing the monitor from our home XP so that i can try out my Ubuntu PC and check that my ram works. while i was at it i found out that my Celeron D was actually 3.2 GHz not 2.2 GHz. Celeron D is definitely a big improvement to the old Celerons.

And while i was at this post i found out that you can get Celeron dual core!

Open Movie Editor

Open Movie Editor is a pretty self explanatory, open source movie editor. You can get it here (http://www.openmovieeditor.org/). I tried compiling/installing it from source last night, managed to get it installed after compiling a few dependencies, then when I tried to execute it it gave me an error, some shared library missing or something, that should've been installed with one of the dependencies. So, unless you know what that problem could be and know how to fix it, If you're on Ubuntu if you want to get it installed quickly and easily then just type: sudo aptitude install openmovieeditor in a terminal to install it. It's also in Debian and OpenSUSE repositories.

Right now OME is only available for Linux, the developers are looking for people to port it to OS X and possibly Windows (the only reason there's no OS X version is that the developer doesn't have access to an Apple Mac :S). I guess porting to OS X would be easier than windows as OS X is pretty similar to Linux anyway, at it's core.

New Human theme

I'm testing Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" alpha 6, and I've noticed that the default Human theme has vastly improved. Here's a screenshot of thewidgetfactory: (and btw, the progress bars are animated :))

GTK hack (mac-menubar)

I hacked my GTK to have a mac-menu applet that places the menu bar on the main gnome panel like Mac OS X (I did this for two reasons: I find it easier, as I used OS X before Ubuntu and not Windows; and I want as little as possible resembling windows on my Ubuntu installation ;P). You can follow the guide yourself if you want. Be very careful and don't miss a step (unless you know what you're doing) as it could mean fucking Gnome up ('scuse my french ;P). I used apt-build; you could try compiling it yourself without such an automated tool, but don't say I didn't warn you (E: Corrupt dependencies; please install lib-with-100-dependencies etc....) I used apt-build cause even though it compiles the thing, not install from binary, it's incredibly automated and easy to use. (although i wouldn't reccomend hacking your gtk for the average joe computer user..) and BTW as of time of writing, this hack won't work with OpenOffice.org apps and Firefox/Thunderbird. (as in, the apps will still work, just with the menu bars in the same place as usual).

OK I couldn't resist uploading a screenshot (yeh yeh, taking ur bandwidth :P lol):















Do you notice that the menu bar is at the top like OS X? Pretty cool, huh? ;)

WINE

I am using WINE to run some Windows apps under Linux, and some of them run surprisingly well. Cut to the screenshots, first we have Macromedia Flash 8 (Adobe Flash CS3 doesn't like WINE):















Adobe Audition also works surprisingly well:















I also have Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 working under WINE aswell.
In both of those screenshots, you saw Windows apps running seamlessly under a Linux Ubuntu installation, without the need to run Windows in the background while making it look seamless. Goto winehq.org for more info, download, etc.

Ubuntu PC!!!!!

My Ubuntu PC is now working but i can't tell you anything yet because it is not connected to the Internet and dose not have a monitor, and so can't send posts from it.

My notebook

I got a notebook as a birthday present.
It is a Toshiba with 128Mb ram(OK if you only run one app at a time), 18G hard drive, CD/DVD, and floppy. Running XP Pro.

BUT:
I can't install Ubuntu on it AND i can't connect it to the Internet! (well i can at JD's house but not at mine)

So the two most important things i can't do!

GGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR I HATE PC'S GGGGGGGRRRRRRRRR

well they aren't so bad so long as they aren't MY notebook!

Compiz

I've had compiz disabled for a while now, due to the fact that I run Source games under WINE.

However, It's becoming rather irresistible now, especially with the widgets layer.

*drools*

1337

73h 71m3 1s 1337!!1!!1! 10L

Amazing origami models

Found this site stumbling and I thought I might share it with the rest of the blogosphere.

New: graphics card + screen

A few days ago my screen came in the post, and yesterday the graphics card came aswell. (see post below). Until now I haven't been able to use Compiz Fusion special effects (opencompositing.org or compiz-fusion.org), as my old graphics card was a nVidia Vanta with 16MB RAM (!). Here is a screenshot of me running the desktop cube and fire (compiz fusion plugins):

Running DSL in a VM...

DSL stands for Damn Small Linux and is a Linux distro with a GUI that fits in roughly 50MB. Thought I might share this screen shot of me running it in vmware server:

VMware: Hardy Alpha 4

I just compiled VMware server and have done a quick test of the latest build of Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy". Here are the inevitable screenshots:

















^ The default desktop. The theme looks like it's still an embryo in development.

















^ Add/remove, the more user-friendly version of synaptic
















^doesn't include Firefox 3 beta yet, but give an alpha a chance!

































^ Two new GUI apps: top one is GParted, a partition manager tool. Bottom one is Seahorse, a Keyring/Password manager that so totally smacks of Apple's Keychain Access utility. UPDATE 9/2/08: according to Mal, Gparted is a standard LiveCD app that doesn't get installed on a standard HDD install (not new in hardy). Credit goes to Mal for informing me.

This is just an alpha, and I can already see quite a few new stuff just from a five minute test. I'm sure when Hardy comes out in April it will be a swell upgrade.

MalFela Supertux world

MalFela Supertux world
beta version

We've been working on a SuperTux level for a while now.
With both levels from me, Mal, and srynznfyra (fela),
this worldmap is getting pretty big.

With creative solutions to problems:

















Nice-looking design:
















And much, much more.

EnemyFactory is not compatible with supertux 0.3.1.
Please use the 0.3.1 archive if you plan
to use this with 0.3.1.

Download:
0.3.0 Package: 0.3.0-supertuxworld
0.3.1 Package: 0.3.1-supertuxworld

My screen came, except...

Yeah, the 19" Samsung Syncmaster 920NW widescreen came yesterday, but until it gets replaced by a GeForce FX5200 128MB (which should be coming very soon), the nVidia Vanta 16MB in my linux box is going to have a hard time driving it! That's right, my graphics card is using all the same drivers etc. as before, it's just that it doesn't like screens as big as mine. It works fine, just the graphics is a bit slow.

My webcam specs

Here are the specs of my Pico iMage webcam that i can think of off the top of my head:

640x480px;
USB 2.0;
Officially supports Mac OS X and Windows;


I might fix this post some time in the near future to include stuff like refresh rate and advanced things like that.

My web cam! Few

As a birthday gift i got a web cam:


Here are the specks:

Image Sensor:	1/7" color progressive CMOS, 352 x 288 pixels 10 bit RGB raw data.
Sensitivity:	15 Lux @ 7.5 fps
Lens Specification:	F2.4, f=2.9 mm, view angle 52o
White Balance:	Auto
Exposure:	Auto
Frame Rate:	320 x 240 pixels @ 30fps 160 x 120 pixels @ 30fps
Focus Range:	Manual focus, 1cm to infinity
Depth of Field:	50cm to infinity
PC Interface:	USB 1.1
Video Format:	AVI
Video Capture Res.:	320x240/ 160x120 pixels
Snapshot:	Hardware
Still Capture Res.:	Up to 320 x 240 pixels
Flicker Control:	50Hz, 60Hz
Power:	From USB port
Bundled Software:	Ark Soft VideoImpression 2.0

B-Day

It was my birthday yesterday and this is what i got:

USB Microscope up to 1280x magnification;
1GB RAM for my Ubuntu PC (so that now I have 1.1GB or 1152MB RAM in it :));
Snakehead (the seventh Alex Rider book developed by Anthony Horowitz);
£90;
DVD (can't remember what);
Chocolate thingy saying Happy Birthday;
A tent;
A backpack that you fill with water (called a 'bladder');

I've also ordered for myself (partly with the £90):

Samsung Syncmaster 920NW 19" Widescreen 16:10, up to 1440x900 @ 75Hz;
nVidia Geforce FX5200 128MB PCI Graphics card w/ DVI, VGA, S-Video out;

I'm very happy about the screen and the graphics card, those right now are probably the lowest spec things in my Ubuntu PC (apart from maybe the Intel P4 1.8GHz, i hate to say).

14" CRT 1024x768 @ 60Hz ==>> 19" LCD 1440x900 @ 75Hz;
nVidia Vanta w/ VGA 16MB ==>> nVidia Geforce w/ DVI+VGA+SVideo 128MB;

the first ones are the specs i have now, the second are the ones i'm upgrading to.

Hopefully sometime in the near future i should also upgrade my CPU (as it's upgradeable, i have a Compaq Evo D500 Small Form Factor), and the 20GB HDD. Then it would basically be a new computer! so far (as in when the graphics card comes) it's new/upgraded:

RAM;
Graphics;
CD-ROM (upgraded to DVD+-RW DL);
USB 2.0 card;
OS (from Windows to Ubuntu, i consider that an upgrade ;))

The GIMP

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a open source program for image editing that rivalls Adobe Photoshop in features. If you are thinking of getting Photoshop®, I suggest that you try the GIMP first, as it's totally free (and you can get the source code if you want to help develop it). If you want to run the GIMP under OS X, you will have to install Apple's X11 (if not already installed). You can do this from the system disk that came with your Mac. (or PC if you hackintoshed ;D). Download page is here.

The other Adobe program that there is a very popular open source alternative for is Adobe Illustrator. The alternative is Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/), which I have found to be in a way better than Illustrator (the version that I use is CS3), as when I opened an image that was 4707x4000 px in Illustrator it just wouldn't open, whereas in Inkscape the same image would work just fine on my PowerMac G5 2.5GB SDRAM. Both the GIMP and Inkscape are multiplatform (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux), and other UNIXes such as FreeBSD, and of course the source code tarball is available.

Free commercial software

Found this in my computer magazine today:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

Probably some neat stuff available.

Open source always has the original ideas

Apple is so, so totally ripping off open source stuff. For instance, compare the new features of Safari 3 with Firefox 2: 1) Rip off tabs. Firefox has had them for a while. 2) Web inspector: Firefox has a very popular extension called Firebug, and the new Safari web inspector is so totally ripped off straight from Firebug, with a nice iTunesy GUI. 3) Restore previous session. I believe Firefox 1 had this, and Firefox 2+ definitely has it. So totally ripped off. In fact I think apple is very into open source, as you can see: 1) The Mac OS X kernel, Darwin, is open source. You can get the source code straight from apple. 2) Mac OS X uses OpenGL graphics software, which is self-explanatarily open source. 3) The apple developing software, XCode, uses GCC C compiler for compiling (which I believe is developed by GNU and is open source). 4) Mac OS X's shell is GNU Bash, and alot of other GNU tools come with OS X, such as: nano; emacs; and a few others. So to a certain extent, Apple is incorporating open source into their own software, and also incorporate features into their proprietary software that were originally in open source projects a long time ago. See what I mean? Open source always has the original ideas. But when you take microsoft into the argument, apple suddenly seem like the open source people. Microsoft, undoubtedly, rips off apple and that doesn't even need any examples, work them out yourself. So you can think of it as a kind of chain: first open source projects such as firefox develop the original ideas; then apple rips them off; then M$ rip off apple. Now that's what I call third rate, literally. Hooray for open source!!! And fuck M$.

Funny MS stuff

MS make a real fool of themselves sometimes. Here, have a look.

Swear words.

I have NEVER, NEVER EVER seen why the word 'f*ck' isn't as bad as 'fuck', and get very annoyed when people use it on forums to avoid 'swearing'.

Portal anomalies

Here are some weird and/or interesting things I've found in Portal:

Chamber 19:

1. The energy ball that blocks your way to the fire-pit. It's green.
2. The large fans you have to portal behind after the fire-pit. Pick up a barrel and throw it in. The fan breaks.
3. A load of things glow that probably shouldn't - look at the Aperture logo on the GLaDOS speakers. It glows.

All chambers:

1. noclip into some of the observation rooms. Blue doors.
2. Objects can get carried to the next level. Noclip into the elevator room at the end of chamber 17, portal placement never fail, and shoot the wall next to the emancipation grid. then go to the start where the companion cube is, and fire the opposite colour portal. put the WCC through and go in yourself. Proceed to level 18 with the cube!!

This post was vandalized on 07 January. Changes were revoked same day. Vandalism will get you denoted.

Hard flash game

The only way I can make any progress in this game (click the tux to play) is to use my graphics tablet, it's too hard even with my 1000dpi Logitech LX7!

ISP

Our home hub went down and i was off line for a while but we got it fixed it (finally) and i am back online now

Cool animation

I made this animation using my Pico iMage webcam; a tripod; Photo booth; Final Cut Pro; my PowerMacG5; and a few toys. Hope you like it!

P2P

P2P file sharing goes fast in the middle of the night. Right now (1:20AM) it's going in the 500s KB/s for 2 files! :)

Happy new year!

Happy new year everybody and I hope you have a wonderfully geeky 2008.