Gamer Geek Game of the Year awards
11/01/2014
For what it’s worth, here are the GG-GotY awards for the past few years 🙂 In descending order… Year Game 2013 Grand Theft Auto V 2012 Dishonored 2011 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 2010 Red Dead Redemption 2009 Street Fighter IV 2008 Fallout 3 2007 Portal The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 2006 Okami 2005 Shadow of the Colossus 2004 Halo 2 2003 Project Gotham Racing 2 2002 Grand Theft Auto:…
Hi ho Silver
11/01/2014
This evening I sat through The Lone Ranger… I now have a need to play Red Dead Redemption 🙂
IGN GotY awards
11/01/2014
Today confirmed I’m not part of IGN’s core market. Why’s that you may ask, you’re a gamer? 😉 Funny you should ask, it’s their Game of the Year nominations. Year after year I have a WTF moment when the winner is released, this years shock caused by The Last of Us (PS3 only), coming out the winner over GTA V! I found TLoU too much like a Resident evil clone;…
Linux Command Line Tips: Become a Master
09/01/2014
Here’s a very useful guide from require-‘mind’: Linux Command Line Tips: Become a Master
Playstation Now
08/01/2014
Sony Demonstrates PlayStation Now Streaming Game Service, Coming To Phones And Tablets Eventually Android Police This could be interesting 🙂 Sony is a huge electronics and media company, so of course they aren’t limiting their CES presence to phones. But there’s one item that should be of interest to Android gamers: PlayStation Now. This newly-announced service will stream PlayStation games over the Internet to compatible hardware, and includes more than…
Bitmessage Statistics
07/01/2014
I don’t know for how long Bitmessage will be usable, I fear that it will go the way of the BitCoin wallet, and take forever to update. Until then here’s I’ll use it where I can, and here is a summary of just how many messages are sent, down to the hour granularity. Bitmessage Statistics
bitmessage
06/01/2014
While reading up on Cryptostorm I’ve stumbled across bitmessage: Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide “non-content” data, like the sender and…
Bootstrap
05/01/2014
I’ve just discovered Bootstrap as a new distraction from my current projects 🙂 A couple of ideas spring to min of how to play with it, off to dabble with WordPress templates
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…
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…
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
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…
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,…
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…
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 🙂