xkcd – 6 words
29/07/2013
xkcd, NASA and KSP… these guys know how to generate traffic 🙂
29/07/2013
xkcd, NASA and KSP… these guys know how to generate traffic 🙂
29/07/2013
Still no Android 4.3 for me on either of my Nexus devices 🙁 Update: It arrived this morning for my N4 🙂 Update 2: Half way through the day and I’ve noticed a considerable improvement in battery life. One great reason to update, looking forward to seeing how this improves the N7 usability Update 3: Aug 1st finally receive the OTA update for the N7, off to tinker
http://kotaku.com/watch-the-biggest-space-fight-in-history-go-down-944457494 As cool as looks it’s still not enough to entice me back to Eve. Sad to see the Reddit guys get beaten though, I’ll catch up on the politics and gossip later. Here’s a link to a word from the front line /r/Eve/TheFountainWarof2013 And here’s my favourite KSP guide Scott Manley‘s Fountain War Diary… I love his passion and excitement, punctuated with his little giggles. I find watching this…
28/07/2013
Wow, who is not excited by this? The graphics look fantastic with the first person view signature white / red colour pallet, and Faith’s moves look more stunning and fluid than before. Although Mirror’s Edge 2 will be a first-person action adventure, it “will be a different Mirror’s Edge than you have seen before”, according to Patrick Söderlund, executive vice president of the EA Games Label. And if this isn’t…
28/07/2013
After the retro music of D-rock this afternoon, I was surprised to come across another blast from the past via Ubuntu Software Centre, a game I first played back in the late 90’s Abuse Here’s the intro from the wiki, last updated 2 years ago! Kudos to Sam for keeping it alive. Abuse is a dark 2D side-scrolling platform game developed by Crack dot Com in 1995. It features beautiful…
28/07/2013
Writing the last post on Space Marines took me back to some distant memories, and I started singing an old favourite ‘Get out of My Way’ 🙂 The band D-Rock, a hard metal British group released the album Oblivion, with lyrics inspired by 40k… this was one of the first CD’s I purchased! & TIL that Brian May played guitar on a couple of tracks too, Get out of My…
28/07/2013
And this time I’m not posting about KSP, although I am enjoying the new 0.21 updates Space Hulk is available on pre-order from Steam, release date 15th August. This was the board game that won over causal players, the ones who would watch you play a game of Blood Bowl, but would never commit to rolling up a team. The Space Hulk scenarios were quick and fun, not too much…
27/07/2013
I’ve finally been able to end spam subscriptions to the blog with BestWebSoft‘s Captcha plugin for WordPress. No more stream of hotmail sign-ups by spam bots 🙂
27/07/2013
Nearly a month has passed since Google Reader was taken away from us 🙁 I’m still officially in mourning, and have yet to find a decent replacement. Currents is my go to now for news feeds on my Nexus devices, but it’s just not the same. So I decided to take more advantage of RSS feeds offered by the web sites I visit, and update the menu to easily provide…
27/07/2013
I’m never keen on this time of year, the dry spell between E3 and the pre Xmas push, where there are no new title releases 🙁 Thank the digital gods that Far Cry 3 has longevity, and Kerbal Space Program 0.21 update as landed September’s GTA5 release can’t come soon enough!
25/07/2013
Reports of the OTA arriving are coming in fast and furious The 4.3 OTA for the Nexus 4 seems to be rolling out en masse, as I’m getting reports from everywhere that it’s now available. To check for the OTA yourself, open Settings, scroll down to About phone, and tap the System updates line item. If you’re just not having any luck, the link location has been uncovered. You can…
24/07/2013
Here are a couple of really nice tools I was linked to today Whisper Systems free encrypted communication tools Red Phone Like privacy? Secure your calls for free with RedPhone. It’s that simple. RedPhone provides end-to-end encryption for your calls, securing your conversations so that nobody can listen in. RedPhone uses your normal phone number to make and receive calls, so you don’t need yet another identifier. Use the default…
23/07/2013
Hands on Official Akira motorcycle – Kotaku From my teenage years of playing Cyberpunk RPG, and watching manga, Akira‘s bike has been the epicentre of cool concept… and today I’m stoked to say it exists 🙂 Probably not the best ride, but for sure the coolest! diablo 2003
23/07/2013
Lack of Indy developer support from Microsoft is another reason that I’m been pushed towards the PS4 for my (first) next gen console. I’ve had a long time love affair with Sony, only enticed to the xbox as Microsoft offered online games first. Now times have changed, this feature is no longer unique, and what benefit have I had from paying to play online all this time. Don’t get me…
21/07/2013
Here’s a link to a guide I’ve nearly completed… if I could only get Vidalia to use the EC2 instant I’ve created as a bridge 🙂 How to Protect your Internet Anonymity and Privacy/Your own TOR node on Amazon EC2
21/07/2013
Today I have been trying to work with Tor via AWS… I have installed Tor ok, it seems to be running, I am currently having issues connecting to the bridge from Vidalia. So while trying to achieve this I’ve come across some cool Linux commands htop – I use this ofter but thought I’d list it, as one of my favourites. It lists the current processes and system activity ps…
21/07/2013
Is no site sacred? Ubuntu Forums Ubuntu Forums is down for maintenance There has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums. The Canonical IS team is working hard as we speak to restore normal operations. This page will be updated regularly with progress reports. What we know Unfortunately the attackers have gotten every user’s local username, password, and email address from the Ubuntu Forums database. The passwords are not…
21/07/2013
Although I’ve been using linux for years, I’m still quite a n00b when it come s to command line prompts 🙂 leaving this here for future reference: How to close VIM from the command line In vim there are 3 different modes: Insert – allows typing and editing as normal Visual – used for selecting copy/paste etc. Normal – used for commands To get back to Normal mode, you can…
18/07/2013
This page finally gave me the script to connect to AWS via ssh Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts After following these sage words: Try going into your EC2 Management Console, find the instance you’re trying to connect to, right click it > select “Connect” > choose the tab to connect via console > copy the command line they provide > paste it into your…