Posts by CaptainBanjax

Given the amount

Of spam you get in a talk talk mailbox id imagine they've been penetrated millions of times.

Awesome

Chromium BSU is an excellent top down shooter. Glad its coming to Android.

I WAS FROZEN TODAY!

That is what Afterburner makes me think of.

If you cant..

Get a load of these rings and get together with your mates to summon Captain Planet...I dont want one.

Awesome.

Preordered.

Just have to figure out how to port the driver to Ubuntu on the Pi 2 because...reasons.

NES not big in the UK?

Are you people sure...almost everyone I knew had one. I wanted one sooo badly.

I used to play Mario before school at my neighbours house every day.

I didnt have a NES...but I remember the Christmas I got a SNES with Mario World and Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Epic.

Best chrimbo pressie I ever got...until Quake. Never had a console since.

If only...

Bear Grylls and Ray Mears teamed up.

They would find a way to survive on Mars. Even if it did require months of gargling each others space piss and running around with their bollocks out jumping up and down to keep warm.

Never mind...

...all the "is it right" bollocks.

How do you patent wardriving?

Id imagine hes using well known tools for harvesting the data and probably some sort of PHP-esque script to put it in a database all wrapped in some sort of bootstrap-esque skin.

If its the bits in the middle that hes patenting I am going to submit a patent covering piping dmesg into grep.

Grep exists and piping exists so im going to claim the bit in the middle. I will also trademark and copyright "|".

Ill then sue every software house that has the audacity to allow this so called "feature" in their OS builds.

Im also going to write a tool that looks for all these "bits in the middle" and automatically submits them for patenting then when its accepted automatically file a lawsuit.

P8NT [Usage: --scan-level "apple" --auto-file-patent true --auto-troll true --retries 9001 --invoke-reality-distortion-field true --appeal-on-failure true --flimflam-offset 0.1 --inject-codswallop true --ignore-existing-patents true --filter "round corners, air, candy crush .."]

Bruteforce patenting tool. By CaptainBanjax.

Id open source it but in its initial test it patented, sued and shutdown github.

It also threw an exception when it patented and sued itself.

Actually...

If you think about it, Twitter is basically a limited incarnation of IRC.

Its entirely possible to wrap Twitter into a front end and use each hashtag as a chatroom.

The only major differences are the 140 character limit and the fact you cant see who is in the room unless they send a message.

Loathesome Casuals

They didnt trybthe main words in any gentlechaps arsenal.

Quim

Cad

Bounder

Balderdash

Fiddlesticks

I suggest we start swaering like gentlemen immediately and start flagging things as NSFVE. Not safe for Victorian era.

Ffs...

See above.

We are...

Surrendermous...we never forgive, we never forget, alright we're leaving now.

Caption

I dont know why im screaming, this could have been the Viz up the arse corner.

Cost...

Is relative. The thing with well known brands is their stuff has resale value (and they probably know this) so its not quite as expensive as you might think to keep up with the latest branded kit (unless it is your first purchase).

Im using a Galaxy Note 3 which is a very expensive phone. Its served me well so far and apparently it will be getting Android M! In fact its such a good phone I havent felt compelled to upgrade at all for ages (I love my tech and I suffer from severe technolust from time to time).

Ive had this phone since launch (September 2013, happy birthday phone!) and I suspect ill have it for at least another 2 years...or until something compelling comes along!

I sold my Galaxy Note 2 to buy this phone so I probably ended up paying around £100 for it. The Note 2 I got by selling my Galaxy Nexus and so on...right back to my Motorola Startac in days of yore. Which I got as part of a contract.

I miss that phone scorching my skull.

I have no particular loyalty to Samsung they've just had a good run up until the Note 4. Not quite sold on the Edge or the S6.

Im hearing a lot of...

"Like a database" wishes here...

Have we forgotten about this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

I cant even remember why it was canned.

Hmm...

If it uses FPGA and can be utilised as a compute board as well as a GPU this will be picked up by crypto miners all over.

We might see more efficient mining clients if the board truly does end up being open.

I suspect some proprietary chips will creep in somewhere.

Afterall the Raspberry Pi was intended to be open source but it has proprietary chips on it. The broadcom GPU still has fairly naff drivers.

Didnt the raspberry pi foundation run a competition at some point to get Quake 3 running on the board at over 30fps?

Traditionally...

If you had a problem and nobody else could help, and if you could find them, you'd hire the A Team. No?

Problem is they escaped from a maximum security compound into the Los Angeles underground...might be tricky for them to get to Canada.

Can someone explain...

The purpose behind DDoSing github?

I just dont see it...people arent hosting valuable things on there are they?

Just like Backup Exec itself

Theres no reliable way to restore things to the way they were.

Just out of interest though since we're vaguely on topic.

Raise your hand if you've ever successfully done a complete restore from tapes using Backup Exec to bare metal?

This does make sense.

In this so called scientific study did they take into account rule 29 of the internet?

Im calling shenanigans.

Back when I was at school...

We had a Novell based setup and the IT teacher had a disk that contained all of the management tools.

A quick copy of that disk later and almost everyone was able to "manage" everytbing on the network.

Took them months to figure out why were able to keep getting Doom installed.

Mind you even after we were found out we still managed to get doom installed into the print spooler folder.

It'd cause the network to churn out endless printed pages of crap but it worked well and at the time there was no way to lock that down.

Years later at college we had an RM based network which was even worse, there used to be a site called "crash dummies" with all manner of tools for modifying the network and granting yourself extra priviliges.

Each time I found ways to get games on various networks it was heralded as an era based on the game I deployed. Novell was the Doom era. RM was the Atomic Bomberman era.

Ah I miss those days. Innocent times when fun loving hackers got a slap on the wrist and asked politely with respect how they managed it rather than the modern equivalent which is lawyer-mageddon, multiple death sentences and 5 generation curse on your family that doesnt exist and previous generations of ancestors. Plus their dogs.

May I ask...

How many of the people hating on Bitcoin have ever held any Bitcoin?

Just wondering if you're part of the same crowd that sasy "you dont need more than £1million or a car that goes faster than 70mph theres no point".

Im personally on the fence with bitcoin with a slight bias towards being pro BTC. I see both its merits and drawbacks but I cant quite see how to make something like it mainstream yet.

People entirely against trying out a new system for currency must still trade in eggs and worms.

Why the fuck would you stop using perfectly usable stuff as currency when you can use metal discs and paper? Ker-razy!!!!

There is definitely something worthwhile in Bitcoin given the investment that is still being put towards blockchain R&D. Theres a couple of banks (including Santander) who have a real hard on for Bitcoin and blockchain tech at the moment...they're chucking money at it!

Still using...

My Galaxy Note 3. With Lollipop. Had it over 3 years now I think.

Its fast and solid. Never had any problems, battery is still going strong.

It has bo cover, ive dropped it loads of times and there isnt a scratch on it.

Im starting tobturn intonthat dude in the Nick Cage movie that keeps trying to smash up his own ambulance.

This phone is a warrior, it wont die.

Oh man

Imagine the conversation setting up a bank account.

Banker: Ok please set a pin.

Punter ok. Smileyface Smileyface Cumface Clownface

Banker: Excellent. When you use your card for the first time you will be asked to change your PIN.

Hah!

Ugh AMD laptops?

I had a Samsung 535U3C. It was certainly powerful but the heat and battery life were intolerable. The screen was shit as well. Started fading in one corner after a month. Suspiciously close to the epicentre of the heat.

Also, is it just me or do AMD based laptops always come with massive powerbricks?

Lastly, ive yet to find an AMD laptop with an excellent screen.

I agree with an earlier post...AMD stuff seems to get shunned by OEMs. Ive never seen a flagship AMD laptop. Its usually the poor mans version of the Intel model. Always with some sort of catch.

In the days when I was strapped for cash I was an AMD fanboy but in recent years ive come to understand why Intel charge that little bit more.

Ita not simply the power of the device that matters.

AMD is like the American muscle car of computing.

Raw power is there but sub standard everywhere else.

For a short drag race through the benchmarks its awesome but when you put it through a real world test its a bit lacklustre.

Ugh...so weary...

That is all.

I use VBox

Rather than VMWare because it is better and less of mess ocross the system. I hate the vmware kernel modules.

Plus with VBox you have the rather nice phpvirtualbox frontend.

I know VMWare has their alternative but its cut back the vbox web front end is fully featured from what I can tell.

All I want

Is drivers for DisplayLink docks for Linux...sooo fricken bad.

SSH in Windows?

*climbs back on to chair*

*rubs eyes*

Could be too little too late. Ive been playing with Windows 10 on the Pi2 recently. I can see they're trying hard but its not enough.

SSH will help but not much.

I like

New Xeon announcements.

They show me what ill be buying off ebay for peanuts in 5 years time to build a workstation with.

Currently rocking two hex core 5690s and 128GB RAM.

For no reason other than it cost less then 300 quid to source the parts.

Runs like greased up buttery sh*t off a shovel.

Steves not dead though.

I saw him in a Lenovo advert recently.

lol

What? This is bollocks.