The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Geekery / 12 March 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 / 5 March 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 / 2 March 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 / 1 March 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