The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Geekery / March 23, 2008 / John / 0
So, you know how it is. You have a CD collection going back god knows how many years, you buy some tracks from amazon or itunes, you have the whole lot ripped on your PC to stick on your portable device. And then you realise you have over sixty gigabytes of music, most of which
Geekery / March 22, 2008 / John / 1
After a fairly lengthy compile (hey, it’s a KDE app) I had 99% of my concerns addressed as soon as the application booted. Right there, on the home page, is exactly the information I was looking for – not just my current balances, but what they’ll be in 5,10, 40, etc days. I quick rummage
Geekery / March 22, 2008 / John / 0
One of the few things that keeps a windows VM lying around for me is Microsoft Money. It’s one of the few applications that Microsoft have actually made a pretty good job of. My judgment of this, though, is pretty superficial. Money provides a nice pretty cash-flow graph that lets you see, at a glance,
Rants / March 18, 2008 / John / 0
The Ministry of Defence have announced five days of depleted uranium (DU) weapons-testing on its Dundrennan range in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Despite numerous scientific studies proving the health and environmental damage of DU missiles, as well as growing international criticism of the weapons, the MOD continues to stick its fingers in its ears and repeat its
Geekery / March 17, 2008 / John / 0
Well, according to El Reg, BT have been Baaaaaaad Monkeys and have finally owned up that they carried out secret tests of the Phorm system they’ve “not decided to use” well over a year ago. Without telling the people whose traffic they intercepted. Something tells me they’re going to get a little bit sued. Full
Geekery / March 17, 2008 / John / 0
Well, at least BT are straight up about it. They replied saying “we don’t know anything yet, but when we do we’ll let you know.” Which is better than my mate RedSmartie got. He mailed Virgin pretty much the standard letter I put in my previous posting and in reply recieved a bunch of waffle
Geekery / March 12, 2008 / John / 0
If you’re a customer of BT, Virgin, or Carphone Warehouse, the chances are you’re going to see a change in your Ts and Cs at some point this year. That’s because these ISPs are planning to contract the services of an AdWare company called Phorm to monitor every bit of web browsing you do in
Books, Gaming News, Geekery, Ramblings / March 5, 2008 / John / 1
Gary Gygax, legendary co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, died today at age 69. For three decades, his work has allowed children and adults alike to escape real-life and take on the persona of mighty warriors, haughty magic users and sneaky rogues. To a lot of people, it seems like the man did nothing
Geekery / March 2, 2008 / John / 0
Well, that turned out to be less a drama than expected. So, I put a gNewSense partition on my laptop last night and here’s how it panned out: Wireless: obviously, the card has a working driver as it’s been in the kernel for a while. What we don’t have, though, is the firmware – a
Geekery / March 1, 2008 / John / 1
I had a nasty shock the other day when I ran vrms and discovered that half the software I’m running isn’t actually free. This seems to have happened by stealth – partly by the insidious creeping nature of the words “Open Source” and partly by my own complacency. The first one – this page will