Thanks alot

Thanks everybody for contributing to the 5 star rating of this blog!!!

Windoze users: happy activation!

But mac users: happy knowing that your supplier trusts you!

Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes

Off topic: Happy halloween everybody! :D

GIMPing around

gimp, gimp, gimpy gimp gimp. gimpy gimpy gimpy gimpy gimpy gimp gimp. gimping around, gimp gimp gimp, gimpy gimp gimp gimpy gimpy gimp.

Serious Mac Crash

This is a kernel panic on a Mac. I guess it's too messed up to even display the grey "Restart" message.

Supertux

Boing...BAM!!...squish...splat!...bounce. Do they have rehab for supertux addictions?! Lol.

CERTIFIED: We are geeks!

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Windows SUcks (BSoD)

Mess-up Function

You won't believe what we slipped into this blog's template, including this...

Ubuntu 7.10 Ad

Here's a quick GIMP...

OS X Leopard (10.5)

Apple's latest OS is out - here's what we think:

Leopard comes with over 300 new features, YAY!!! Our faves are stacks, time machine, and spaces. iUse a mac, but iWon't say anything about torrents cos they're iLegal. Say no more, say no more... anyway, iWan't Leopard, but iDon't have the iDough.
- rot13srynznfyra

Leopard seems to be a good upgrade if you have the money for it. I know a few people who will be searching for torrents ... iWon't because iDon't have aMac. And my internet speed is crappy (no, not dialup, just rather slow broadband). I don't torrent anyway. The "Stacks" feature looks like a nice improvement, and all in all, it looks like a solid upgrade.
- Malachy

My own digital blasphemy

Last night I made this on GIMP.

Vista Test Drive

OK, vista sucks. Pretty much everyone knows, apart from the n00bs...

But have you ever wanted to try it and see if it really does suck?
If you're on Windoze anyway have a look at www.windowsvistatestdrive.com in Internet Exposer. It installs a Microsoft ActiveX control and logs you on to a Vista virtual machine, courtesy of "Windows Live Virtual Labs". Then you can see just how much it sucks.

In the words of slashdot...

OMG PONIES!!

Pie-face Bill!

Someone had the guts to throw a pie in Bill Gates face - I say GOOD FOR THEM!!!

UNIX and windows

I was reading a book about UNIX from the library (as usual reading a programming book when i am board) and i decided to try the equivalent (DOS) out on windows.

First you go to run and type "cmd".

^ Like this

...And click OK

This should appear

then type "help"

It will give you a list of commands and you and get more details by typing "help command name"

and you can also do stuff like pipe () it ex. "help more"
which will give you:

press enter for the --more-- command to display the next line of text.

Have a play around and see what you can do.

douse this mean that windows kinda has a terminal like thingy? Maybe not it is a command prompt but still similar

WARNING: Hacking your startup tune can have bad effects!

OMG this is funny!!!

Find the Egg

Find the easter egg in this post!

Lynx

Fact: GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) are bad for geeks. The full-on GUIs of web browsers like Mozilla Firefox can be dangerous at times, + big on the memory req.s. So that's why there's lynx for linux. It's a very simple web browser that runs in - guess what? - the terminal. So now you can browse the web with 128k of RAM. Great!

Ubuntu 7.10 RELEASED!!

W00T!

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Still no Gutsy...

It's nearly 10am and Gutsy still isn't ready. Let's hope Canonical finish getting ready soon.

mac4lin

Mac4Lin is a good set of themes and stuff for gnome, that imitates OS X, and does it quite well. You can find the homepage on google, i can't be bothered to give it to you! Well, reccomended for any mac GUI nerds switching to linux! Also, here is another good site for that kinda stuff.

O crap.

That post below is wrong until some time in the night. I thought that they would release gutsy at excatly midnight, when the countdown stopped, but obviously not. I'll report back in the morning though!

Gutsy release

> Ubuntu 7.10 gets released ... ... ... NOW!!!

Get it here!

OSX Linux

Here's my Linux pretending to be Mac OS X: (click on it to get a bigger picture)

The wonders of Linux

Hey. I've finally sorted out an old pentium 4 with linux ubuntu. And it works wonders.

live.pirillo.com

start chatting with a geek called Chris Pirillo (and other geeks) here.

VMware campaign

Who wants to start a little campaign to get the developers of VMware to make a PPC-inside-PPC vmware package?

Fire review 1

I'm already falling in love with Fire. Here's a screenshot:

Fire

I use Mac OS X, and until recently I was forced to use M$ messenger for IM. But just now I switched to Fire, an alternative. Note that if you click that link it will automatically start the download from sourceforge.net. I'll give reviews later on, when I've used it and found bugs. I hope to stop using ANY Micro$oft software in the near future! (only got M$ office and M$ VPC to go!)

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There's a really good binary encoder/decoder at http://www.nickciske.com/tools/binary.php
You'll never have to randomize binary again.

Hi

hi this is me!!!


hi this is binary:

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now idea what he is saying?????!!!????

nice meeting you

4oD

4oD is the UK Channel 4's On Demand TV show download manager.

It sucks.

Reasons to use:
You can watch TV shows

Reasons to avoid:
Uses an incredibly slow IE shell, looks like HTA.
Flash + IE = :(
Intergrates Windows Media Player
Is insecure - Runs an IE shell in the background.

warning: funny!

I should post this up on worse than failure!!!

Applemist

Apple is fading away, fast! BTW, I'd give 1000 points to anyone that can guess how I got this picture. Clue: I used photoshop to change it to Black & White and change the brightness/contrast levels. You've got to work out what I took to get it.

Getdeb

If you use Ubuntu, you might want to check out Getdeb, a site like packages.ubuntu.com. You might even want to add it to your repositories file, if you enjoy a bit of hacking and don't mind potentially mucking up your system.

Ubuntu 7.10 Beta Review

Ubuntu 7.10: Gutsy Gibbon


















The install went OK, after a couple of tries - VMware problems?













Startup hasn't changed very much. No splash?
















The default desktop. There's a Deskbar by default and a new user switcher.


















There's a new settings manager - "Appearance". Looks like Vista.

















The Themes manager, similar style...
















Firefox, without the latest update.

















The new Places menu.

















New default Home folders


















The stripped-down version of Synaptic seems to have been improved.


















Asking for a password...


















Synaptic itself seems to have no obvious improvements.



















The User switcher seems similar to the one in OSX...


















Shutdown options!




















Final shutdown.

Ubuntu 7.10 looks like it is going to be a brilliant upgrade.

Some alternatives

MICROSOFT. Because you have no choice. MUA HA HA HA HA!!!

But is it? NO. If you bought a PC and the windows OS is annoying the sh*t outta you, there are plenty of alternative OSes, most notably linux. Our fave distro (although you get plenty of others) is Ubuntu, who's slogan is "Linux for human beings". This is because Linux used to be an OS that only geeks could use, but now it is very easy to configure/use it even if you have limited technical knowledge, and there's even a forum for getting answers to your problems with ubuntu. The word "Ubuntu" is an ancient african word that means 'Humanity to others'. And linux is free, so no more 30 day free trials, activating, and the like. And its not just free as in beer, its free as in speech, so anyone can get access to the source code and edit it themselves, free of charge. More of this in the GPL general public license. Another point: If you switch to linux, you can safely say that you won't get viruses. This is because for every Linux computer there are 1,000,000 windows computers. A virus maker's not going to make linux viruses if there are 1,000,000 times the amount of windows machines.

So no more of that stupid Operating System, Microsoft Window$!!!

NOTE: Ubuntu, unfortunately, is only an option for people with a reasonable amount of computer knowledge. (mal)

live.pirillo.com

You can talk to Chris Pirillo at live.pirillo.com, but Chris himself won't always be there.

microsoft are stupid

Complete bullshit.

Next time, be more careful with your query strings

Oh yes, I SHOULD blend my iPhone...

http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=safe&video=iphone

FLOZ

Floz. Check it out. It's a site where you can run OSes within your browser (mostly linux i think).

I sue google earth, their images are too hi-res!

The latest update to google earth has brought super hi-res 3D panoramas that you can see peoples' faces as clearly as you would face-to-face. Get ready for the new spying era!!! lol.

HA HA HA!!!

Just some more macgeekiness!!!! lolz!!!



BTW, -1000 points to apple for their Leopard Beta THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR!!!!!!! WTF!!?!?!? even MICRO$OFT don't stoop that low.

Just to make you jealous...

If you use Windoze, here's a reminder that Linux ROX MY SOX:

Detour

A great li'l app for mac os x that you can configure to mute/turn down/switch output of sound for certain applications. Have you ever been surfing the web at the same time as listening to music, gone on a site that goes BLAH BLAH BLAH!!! and rushed for the mute key? If so, this app is for you. Click on the title of this post to download.

(GNU)Linux LIve CDs

The LiveCD List

A pretty useful list of GNU/Linux LiveCDs.

Debian and its crap

I'm not dissing the Debian GNU/Linux OS in any way whatsoever, but I am going to say that it must have a lot of crap on it, as the full set requires 21 CDs!!! Even Ubuntu (highly recommended for the newbie linux user) is just small enough to fit on a 700MB CD, which includes cool apps such as the GIMP image editor, lots of games, and stuff.

rand( @anything );

int main( void )
srand do {
whatever( thisParam, thatParam ) [srand()];
}
while
{
get( !inWindoze() );
}

if( inWindoze() )
{
crash();
}

Some random source code, based on C and my imagination (geeks HAVE them, you should know!!! lol)