Category: geek

cryptostorm VPN

05/01/2014

#Cryptostorm VPN now live and accepting members, tokens available here. Structurally anonymous, token-based, opensource, unlimited bandwidth network security/privacy service: old-style “VPN service” evolved to something entirely new, qualitatively distinct. Combining the technological insights of Tor/#torsploit with production-class infrastructure & battle-tested OpSec expertise, cryptostorm is secure darknet communications for everyone: all protocols, all applications, all OS/platforms | unlimited bandwidth & unlimited usage. Properly-implemented Diffie-Hellman ephemeral sessions (discrete log function-based asymmetric re-key…

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OpenSuse

02/01/2014

An online friend mentioned OpenSuse this week, a distro that I have heard of, but not yet played with. So what a great geek treat, to have 2 new OS’s to get the grips of in one week 🙂 I’ve downloaded the 4.7GB iso and installed it via Virtual Box, opting for the KDE ‘Plasma Desktop’ over Gnome 3.1 It’s early days, I’m still updating the software, although already installed…

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ToeJam & Earl 3 beta brings funk to the Dreamcast

02/01/2014

Two words, Dreamcast and beta, that I haven’t heard used together before! Time to dust off my Dreamcast, although I think the challenge will be funding a TV that it will play on 🙂 ToeJam & Earl 3 beta brings funk to the Dreamcast 12 years too late

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Scientists tell us their favourite jokes

29/12/2013

Scientists tell us their favourite jokes – The Guardian My favourite: An interviewer approaches a variety of scientists, and asks them: “Is it true that all odd numbers are prime?” The mathematician rejects the conjecture. “One is prime, three is prime, five is prime, seven is prime, but nine is not. The conjecture is false.” The physicist is less certain. “One is prime, three is prime, five is prime, seven…

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Fedora 20

29/12/2013

Fedora 20 released at the start of this month, so I thought I’d give it a try via Virtual Box, and I liked it. I’m a fan of Gnome, so the GUI was a pleasure to use, although I now know Xfce can be used, and I’ve warmed to it over the last few months. Issues were Virtual Box related and not Fedora, e.g as always getting a wide-screen view,…

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i hate reboots

27/12/2013

Watching Kick Ass 2 ([Rating:3.75]) and clocked this t-shirt, derp deep 🙂

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PS3 fan clean function

26/12/2013

This was news to me, after owning my PlayStation for serveral years, today I found out there is a PS3 fan clean function 🙂 1. Make sure your PS3 is plugged in and functioning normally – You need to power up the unit to make this work, so return it to its normal home or bring the plug over to your cleaning space. 2. Make sure the power switch on…

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The Bridge

25/12/2013

If The Cave was too blase, The Bridge was just too out there. I love the concept, this was just too far reaching for my none sober brain 🙂 I will come back to it… although not sure when 🙂

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the cave

25/12/2013

Bored of the festivities and Queens speech, I have started playing The Cave on xbox live. Entertaining puzzles, pleasant risk free platforming, tongue in cheek humour… the perfect entertainment after a day of sumptuous consumption

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merry geek xmas

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…

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xkcd: undocumented feature

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

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freenect demos

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

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Kinect juggling

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…

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ubuntu kinect mouse working

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 🙂

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Solution to missing mouse pointer in Ubuntu Unity and Gnome

22/12/2013

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…

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Computer search engine

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/

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Ubuntu Kinect Mouse

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…

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Chilling out smoking a fatty

15/12/2013

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Steam OS

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?…

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Return of the 13th fantasy

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…

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