13/11/2015
I’ve been having fun playing Dark Souls 2, progressing slowly, got to a point I couldn’t pass (caves spiders, then multiple dark cleric boss), so thought I’d take a break. So booted up Bloodborne, played around in the Dark Forest levelled up a couple of times, and ended up opting to have a look around the Gaol. Joy of joys, after several attempts & ringing the beckoning bell each time…
29/10/2015
I’ve just had a revelation! Dark Souls is just like Elite:Dangerous, except you exchange credits for souls Might sound a simple concept, but it’s quite profound to me ATM, and the key to a compelling game 🙂
29/10/2015
So after getting Elite:Dangerous to play well I’ve lost 3,500,000 credits, the last encounter in a war zone with a T9 of all ships! So I decided to cut my losses, and not in the manner of unplugging my ‘net connection, I took the hit, just time away to read up and contemplate 🙂 So I’ve now gone back to Dark Souls 2, and have the usual love hate thing…
25/10/2015
After 6 months or so away from playing, I’m back in the Elite:Dangerous universem I thought I’d go back and visit space, see if much had changed. After spending 3 evening trying to establish and fix when my PC would randomly boot while running Win7. After checking everything from BIOS t, drivers, and the PCU, removing and refitting the memory seemed to fix the issue… for now. I then installed…
15/10/2015
There must be a portable version ‘cos I hear this everywhere!
yubikey-neo + KeyPassX + KeyPassDroid + OwnCloud portable secure password vault Searching through F-Droid for yubico I came across a link to KeyPassDroid; I’d come across a password safe solution on the yubico site using KeyPass, but was shied away as it mentioned the premium version… I don’t mind paying for shit, although if I can solve the issue with free open source alternatives I’ll spend hours trying 🙂 So…
14/10/2015
Android 6.0 downloading for Nexus 9, how exciting 😀 Sad eh?
14/10/2015
So in a spurt of geekdom the other night I changed all of my passwords to work on a combination of different passwords for each login together with one of 2 static passwords, and 2 factor authentication, that I’ve set up on my new yubikey-neo. Within 8 hours I had locked myself out of 2 Google accounts, a Reddit account, PayPal, and I’ve just gained access back to this blog…
12/10/2015
I’ve just been playing with a yubikey I picked up a couple of weeks ago, and have gone a a binge of changing online passwords. Wonder how many I’ll have forgotten the setup to by dawn 🙁 On the upside have unlocked Quiet on MGSv, and enjoying the more relaxed powerplay style completing missions again to max out special troops
03/10/2015
2 thoughts for the weekend: I’m enjoying the pace of MGSv, how missions have to be planned and you can’t simply rush into every objective. My 5 month old boys first words were: Dagobah
01/10/2015
With the limited playtime I have I’ve been working my way through the MGSV: Phantom Pain missions; enjoying the challenge of each encounter and stoked as d-dog has just joined the crew 🙂 Thinking he might be more useful than the horse… I’ll cover my interest in the horse inclusion when I have more time. I’ve also been learning the Major And Minor Pentatonic Scales, I can feel the callous…
18/09/2015
First impressions of MGSV How do I get off this horse? 🙂 I made the school boy error of picking up a weapon with no ammo before entering the last part of the intro, so regrettably I had to play through again… although I then scored an A, which was nice. I’m now out in the wilds of Afghanistan, which is visually stunning, although I’m not sure how to get…
Here is a script that I found this week that allows you to remove all sheet and workbook passwords in Microsoft excel, bonza! Anyone that has worked in a corporate environment long enough will need this script, who has inherited reports from an employee who left the company 6 months before you arrived… or maybe just like to use it 🙂 Great news; it also works in the latest Office…
14/09/2015
I’m eager to start MGSV after completing Batman Arkham Knight, but here’s the biggest challenge initially playing MGSV – How to control snake? As I’m still waiting for the full game I thought my time would be better prepared with time spent playing MGSV: Ground Zeroes, rather than Rocket League 🙂 Controls for my reference, I’m not finding it intuitive as yet Really enjoyed the couple of hours it took…
13/09/2015
This is going to be posted so often on social media pages… could it be a catalyst to stop the petty corrections in spelling and grammer? Nah, I don’t think so either 🙂
11/09/2015
Today I ordered a YubiKey, mainly motivated that I keep forgetting passwords 🙂 I hope this will allow me to step up the complexity of passwords that I use, and free up a little personal RAM One key. Two form factors. The Standard and Nano deliver a one-time passcode (OTP) with a simple touch of a button. No SMS-like passcodes to retype from one device to another. Our most basic…
11/09/2015
I was so stoked Friday to find Cyanogenmod 12 arrives for Nexus 4! The boards said it was stable, or that snapshot is the new stable, so I thought why not. I’ve been doing this since the Nexus 1, so I dropped into the usual update process; I backed up everything and took advantage of being able to install direct from my copy of CM 11. Everything went well, apps…
So between learning my way around an acoustic guitar and trying to finish the main story of withcer 3 before Metal Gear Solid 5 arrives, I’ve been trying to set up my Raspberry Pi as a VPN router… again 🙂 Here’re a few of the links that have helped my journey To run the initial config at any time: [code]sudo raspi-config[/code] Raspberry Pi – Static IP address Essential, so I…
Another distraction away from Witcher 3; I’ve acquired an acoustic guitar and Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin. Both heaps of fun, hard to believe I’ve left it so long to pick up either one of them earlier 🙂
24/08/2015
I was reluctant to pick up the next gen of console, cautious that there were not enough quality original titles available. True, I have have been playing ported versions of GTAV and Street Fighter IV, but the 2 games that have been impressing me lately are the 3rd part in trilogies, begun on the last generation of hardware; Batman: Arkham Knight, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. I’ve still yet…