It’s Pi day!
No, I did not mistype Fri day [sic].
Today is Pi day - 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 (to 50 decimal places anyway….)
Click the BBC News logo for their story.
Say hi to GENE - my MacBook Pro
OK - So my (PC) laptop died on Christmas eve.
I borrowed a friends old Powerbook to tide me over, plus I spent a few blissful days using someone else’s MacBook Pro.
The result being that I am now a confirmed Mac convertee.
So….
I have done it….
Meet GENE….
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I named it GENE after the IBM supercomputer called Blue Gene/P.
Blue Gene/P is, as far as I know, the worlds most powerful computer, and seeing as this is the most powerful computer I have owned it seemed appropriate.
Geeky, I know - but I am in love already.
GENE kicks ass!
Service interuption
Well guys, I may be offline again for a while….
On Christmas eve my recent technology woes reached a new peak.
My laptop has died.
It seems converting some DVD content to ipod format was too much for it and something went pop inside.
So please forgive yet another reduction in posting.
I am beginning to think it may be time to make the switch to Mac.
Hmmmm…. a MacBook Pro maybe?
ISPs can suck, but hackers are c*nts!
For somebody who embraces technology and doesn’t usually have many problems with it, I have had a week or so of disappointing geekiness indeed.
We are having rather crappy service from our ISP chez 200feet right now, which doesn’t look like resolving itself very soon, as our ISP blames the telephony network, and the telephony network says it has already improved the line.
But you already knew about that….
However, a little while ago my webhost got hacked into and they suspected that somebody had accessed all the password files for the webhosting, FTP access, shell access, MySQL databases and email servers.
I have been slowly changing all my passwords since but had not got around to all….
On Thursday last week I get an emergency email from my webhost saying there had been intrusions to several of their customers accounts using the details stolen previously. As a result they had forcibly changed all passwords that had not been changed since the original breach - including my FTP and MySQL database passwords.
The email also said that they were having to snail mail out the new passwords as they couldn’t guarantee that email was secure due to the intrusions.
So, as my back end software now had no way to access its database, it promptly fell over.
It has taken me 4 days to get the right access and re-set up the passwords by manually editing files via FTP.
Inconvenience for me, but costly downtime to the businesses on the same webhost.
So, my opinion of hackers….?
Do I admire their skill?
A clue….
NO!
They’re CUNTS!
Music Tank - Music 2 Mobile
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Attended the above Music Tank seminar this evening.
Controversial and interesting indeed!
There seems still to be a huge difference of opinion between the people who make and publish music and the people who exploit it as a means to make money.
Yet ideally, should it not be a synergistic relationship? The music makers and publishers needing the marketeers and platform developers to distribute their work in new areas; and the marketeers and platform developers needing the content to exploit (and here I use the term exploit without the negative overtones with which it is often attributed).
No quick answers, but I will say this…. It’s an interesting time to be getting into the music business with all the advances in technology and the new markets that open up as a result.
iPhone to be on O2 in UK - Apple press release
I want one! Yet I am not a fan of O2! But I want one! Yet they’re so expensive! But I want one! ….
(I could be here for some time!)
New iMac - mmmmmmmmmm!
All I have to say is mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Oh, and I WANT ONE I WANT ONE I WANT ONE I WANT ONE I WANT ONE I WANT ONE I WANT ONE I WANT ONE I WANT ONE!
Any rich sugar daddies out there….?
Tokyoplastic
Met a guy called Nic recently through a friend in the pub and he is a jolly interesting chap. (To say nothing of his talents as a photographer - check out his Flickr site by following the Floyded2 link in the ‘200feet knows….’ section on the left)
Was chatting to him online tonight and he pointed me at tokyoplastic.
It’s a fab site - well worth a look - you can click the image above to visit.
When the page loads click on the ‘enter tokyoplastic’ link - and explore as each image takes you to a different animation.
The archive is worth a look afterwards too.
Enjoy!
World of Warcraft killed my PC!
ARGH!
I was quite happily selling items I had acquired in a run through Zul’Farrak - when I smelled a funny smell and heard a funny noise!
It was at that point I realised I was sitting in a cloud of smoke and my desktop PC was blowing up at my feet!
WoW killed my desktop!
It’s an outrage!
My room now smells of ozone and fried electronics….
….and not only that….
….HOW AM I GOING TO PLAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT NOW? HUH?
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