25/12/2013
My darling wife picked me up Grand Turismo 6 🙂 So I’ve had a morning of upgrading PS firmware, and screaming the tits off of virtual Toyota Vitz! Happy days, now time to party and get pissed! Hope you all have a merry geek Xmas! & it has just crashed on my after the 5th race, maybe updating the firmware will help? Hopefully the file system isn’t corrupted, eh oh…
23/12/2013
I’m not sure where this space was embedded, and neither are the posters at xkcd forums, although there are some cute ideas. Although quite ironic that I found there non linked space while they were discussing it being less popular 🙂 One of the posts there toolk me back to my first infatuation with the web, alt.fan.pratchett and the now resurrected Spooky’s Unexplained Mysteries and X-Files Chat Room
23/12/2013
freenect demos located in /user/bin freenect-cppview freenect-glpclview freenect-glview W/S to zoom in/out and C to toggle colour. Click and drag model to rotate
22/12/2013
I’ve found this fantastic video (bonus that the sound track used sounds like Kid Koala), together with the code… but it’s for Windows 🙁 Projects like this sometimes tempt me back to the darkside. Looking on through the list of projects I found another that I would love to give a try: Keyboard Anywhere I started out putting the project together, although disappointingly I ran into a wall trying to…
22/12/2013
After some playing about today with this guide from developKinect.com, I got the the app to work 🙂 I was missing libusb-1.0 on my installation! apt-get install libusb-1.0 later and it’s all go. The app behaves ok, pity I can’t click with it, Off to find what I can do more with it now 🙂 w00t I’ve got openkinect.org working 🙂
Since I last updated my Ubuntu ATI graphics driver the mouse pointer in Ubuntu Unity and Gnome has been missing. I could still click on objects, and mouseovers would show, just no pointer! This hasn’t been too bad, as I’ve taken the opportunity to get familiar with XFCE.. but I sometimes missed the shine of Unity and Gnome. Today my GoogleFu paid dividends and I found this solution, thanks to…
21/12/2013
Find things online, that google can’t: Shodan And here is what Google can find: http://www.exploit-db.com/google-dorks/
20/12/2013
As much as I love the functionality of the xbox 360 kinnect, and there have been some cool games, I don’t use it too often. So I got thinking about what would be an effective use for this sophisticated bit of kit. My first thought was as an alternative cursor controller. And being the 21st century, and having google available at my fingertips, I found that someone had done the…
15/12/2013
After reading this post on Reddit about the unboxing of a Steam Machine, I’m very eager to see how well my own Linux machine will handle the Steam OS. All boxes below ticked, except for the NVIDIA graphics card. I’m hoping that the Steam OS will be the catalyst to get AMD drivers sorted for Linux… we can all dream 😉 I wonder how much the controllers will then cost?…
15/12/2013
This weekend I’ve started playing FF-Xiii-2, after grinding through the first one I was a little reluctant to begin the sequel. The graphics are more easy on the eyes than ever, and I love the lullaby like theme. Watched the ‘Begginer’s Primer’, it brought back fond memories, and I swear I had something in my eye 😉 The quick time events work well, and the plot seems more love story…
15/12/2013
After a week of evenings spending time trying to get my Pirate Box project working, on a TL-MR3020 I’d acquired. I finally got to test it this weekend in public. Following David Darts guide, I couldn’t get Pirate Box to install on the USB. Initially I wasn’t using a 2.0 stick, but even when I switched to one PB wouldn’t install fully. So brave me tried a different approach 😉…
11/12/2013
Unitag Cool site to generate arty QR codes Although it’s in French I had no problem creating a couple of codes, one for my home wi-fi network, and the one below for the site 🙂 Think I might see if this can be my new online icon!
10/12/2013
linux format usb drive as fat32 go to super mode by typing “su” followed by super mode password fdisk -l that will show all the volume in your pc or you can also use the df to see the usb flash drive suppose it may be /deb/sdb1 umount /dev/sdb1 that un mount the drive mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 to format drive into fat32 format AskUbuntu
08/12/2013
Fantastic, Gamer Geek has now achieved a Google Page Rank of 2 🙂 I’d like to thank my followers, readers, and the others who publish material on line that I plagerise! Check Page Rank of your Web site pages instantly: This page rank checking tool is powered by Page Rank Checker service
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08/12/2013
I’ve been enjoying the pirate life via Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag. Although not following the narrative plot, but by capturing bounty from anything else that dare invade my naval region. Sharks bleed out, as I harpoon them through the tropical blue waters, and various sized ships are scuttled for their bounty and crew. The FMV’s after each event are getting repetitive, not sure why this brings back old school memories…
07/12/2013
There’s a script, actors willing to perform, sans Rufus 🙁 Hope a way can be found to make it happen. I’ve loved Bill and Ted since my teens, scary to think it’s so long ago, I would really like to say a third installment, closure 😉 “It’s basically that Bill and Ted haven’t been able to create that song that’s supposed to change the world and what that’s done to…
04/12/2013
An hour into LEGO Marvel Super Heroes [Metacritic 80%] and I can’t understand the great ratings. Yeah the Hulk transformations are cool, but the repeat battle animations aint I’m not a fan of Iron Man films, but the game pulls off the essence of Robert Downey Jr. The humour is there; “Dr Doom’s, doom ray of doom!” The graphics are nice et al, it’s just that the game doesn’t flow…
02/12/2013
David Darts – PirateBox DIY Open WRT Stuff You’ll Need TP-Link MR3020 (Newegg) or TP-Link TL-WR703N (DX) (eBay) USB Flash Drive (formatted FAT32 with a single partition) Ethernet cable 5V/USB Battery (optional) Leaving this here, plans for next project 🙂