Posts by DJ Smiley

Re: Dyslexic analysis disorder

As someone with depression, I can understand the link quite easily.

Its rather more effort to make coffee than reach down and open up another can of that lovely sweet cola I have sitting beside me.

Re: i hope the store crashes and burns then i hope the ashes crash as well

Shame for RHEL/Fedora then.

On gentoo I can install UT2k3/2k4 quite happily, Quake3 as well - I know these work as I've done it. There's likely other commercial software too.

Re: What a waste of a morning

I'd like to see a study on how they change during the process of drinking. My friends have noticed an amusing trend that the more I drink, the better I become on FPS's.

I've come to the conclusion that this is due to me relaxing, and being less twitchy while aiming and so getting better at aiming....

Few years later we'll see the argument for giving all the troops rations of beer when out in the field ;)

How many browser frameworks you got?

How many Porn Apps?

How many changable batteries?

Come back when you realize what choice actually is. Its the ability to choose freely, not be given the option of "death by drowning or death by lack of oxygen due to water inhalation".

Re: Biased article

Legally a phone line provider must provide the ability to call 999 i believe.... or something to this effect. VoIP has no way of ensuring this, and so no one seems to provide "just" that - however I think you could register for skype/google talk or something?

BT and others do offer *some* voip stuff, however you might not of been aware it was using voip at the time, and as it still requires the line to your house, you wouldn't make a saving there?

Re: Goog.TV

I think we have a winner.

Youtubes latest upgrade which you can play with if you manage to get lucky (I've had it appear once) with a pop out window.

Basically its a controller-less interface which you then control remotely by pairing another device to allow you to skip videos, and navigate totally from else where.

It wouldn't take much to push this out further, having any TV run a simple "google" app that is controlled like this, via phone, or tablet which you do all your browsing on.

Re: Useful at all?

Anyone needing to protect their data that badly...

1. Doesn't host it locally

2. has self destruct mechanisms for wiping the data in an emergency. (Yes, i believe one hosting company attempted to design a system which used thermite for this purpose).

Re: Dead on arrival...

The fact isn't that the game is shit - the fact is the blurb for the game claims a lot of things about the game which simply aren't true.

Number of players is wrong, in game area is wrong, there is no buyable experience points, but they do have buyable (with real money) weaponary, many many more things.

It was clearly more fun to poke fun at someones comment than actually doing the small amount of research required. As for GAME, I'm not sure who'd be liable if they sold a game which advertised having things it didn't as most of the staff wouldn't have the means to check ( I worked there for awhile) however we'd prob refund it as faulty.

Maybe the stream only ever really tries upto about 3Mbps?

Re: RE: 6 women and a man?

As a bloke who regularly got followed by security guards I know exactly what he looks like.

He'll be scruffy looking, with long hair. He'll be slightly geeky.

He'll walk in wearing a long leather trenchcoat or something simular, walk around the store looking at random products.

Why do I know this? Because all security guards seem to be idiots who ignore the ladies and follow the guy who "LOOKS" like a thief. Mean while they empty the place.

Ah AC, do you have an example? I've been using G+ from an early invite and I've never gotten any spam about it.

Then again your posting as AC so I suspect trolling is afoot.

Re: I wonder...

Well salt doesn't make it harder to crack at all, it just means your rainbow tables are useless.

As for how long to crack SHA-512....

Well a post on stack overflow puts it at 10^128 years, if your using a standard "desktop" - while this machine is designed specifically for these kinds of attacks, it still in no way puts a dent in the time taken to brute force a SHA-512 for now, as long as no exploits are found.

~(All figures are off the top of my head/off random pages on the net).

Re: Do they ?

Hmmmm

So what is quoted is in fact correct - VM have no control over which content is provided to you, they just push the service down their network.

Re: Oh Dear. Another target for the Virus writers to go after

When was the last time you actually saw a destructive virus?

The virus writers are just rubbing their hands in glee at the mess which is windows 8, causing everyone to stay on 7/XP

Made me giggle considering Brian May has a PhD in astrophysics.

Re: Making a stand.... or just thick ?

Good luck.

The encryption is done with software, which is on the disk.

Unless he was using an external boot disk (and lets be honest, so far the hackers in the news don't appear to be all that ;)) then the software for decrypting is clearly visible on the disk before the encrypted data.

Re: Horribly complicated and over engineered

Yup, because you've never ended up with whole neighborhoods on the same wifi channels, as all our access points are clever and all check to make sure that the channel they are using is relatively empty before going ahead.

They spend how many years going to uni, and then training as astronauts, "simply" for the reason of going a few hundred miles above the earth.

Most people would jump at the chance. I would.

(Some people "waste" a year or two traveling around the globe).

Or he's hiding something and trying to go anywhere else will cause too many questions.

Clearly the police are incompetent - they didn't find him on the beach under a cardboard box? I'm sure thats not the first time I've heard of someone hiding like this, and in a place with lots of beaches I'd expect to have expected the police to have heard of it too.

The point stands however, if he's really innocent he can easily seek refuge to many countries, Belize is hardly a place I expect that most places have a extradition agreement with? Especially if he thinks he'll be killed upon arrival.

Re: Anyone else..?

I once spilt rather a lot of coke on my logitech keyboard - its a cheap one - randomly I have exactly the same model at work.

Anyway I took it as it was, and placed it into the bath. I then filled the bath with warmish water. I shook it slightly and bits of dirt started to float out, and the coke appeared to dissolve (I think I actually split it while drinking late one night and left it to the next morning, at which time it'd solidified) freeing up some of the keys.

I removed some of the large keys - spacebar, return key, enter on the numpad and shook it some more - more bits of dirt floated out.

I repeated this on and off for about 3 hours. Then turned it over so the keys were facing down, changed the water and left it another hour or so...... some more rubbish floated out.

Then I took it out, wrapped it in a towel and left it on a warmish radiator for 2 days - it was and still is perfect...... however its about time it was cleaned again. I just need a keyboard to use in the mean time.

Re: Try tomorrow.

Was going to post it, but you beat me to it.

People are dumb. This is a fact anywhere. They will complain about anything also.

Re: What's really dumb about some of these jackasses..

I'd mark you informative if I could - didn't know that.

Re: Aloha?

Well everything it scopes up and finds interesting gets blasted with xrays and then heated to check composition, so it could easily be goodbye as well

* Gotta be the nuke logo for what the poor microbes are undergoing.

Terrible troll

iOS is the mobile version of the of Apple provides.

So your going from a full featured desktop OS, to a mobile OS? lulz.

Re: Have they spoken to the phone companies?

If your UK based; both skype and google talk work for me on my htc one x....

Fire.

A librarians worst nightmare.

Oh, and they were insured you say, but the insurance asks for the receipts, which were.... paper.... and paper burns....

Roads are black.

Trees have green leaves.

Lrn2scienc.

(This is a stupidly simplified explanation.)

Re: Malware authors ....

7. Forced to code in Visual Basic.