Archive for February, 2007

Just A Thought…

Date February 27th, 2007 Comment No Comments

Now I don’t want to seem insensitive to the person who died after the most recent train crash in the UK, but I was abit worried about one of the findings in the preliminary accident report.
A preliminary probe into a fatal high-speed train crash focused on a pair of points just ahead of the site, [...]

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Server Upgraded

Date February 27th, 2007 Comment No Comments

Since I bought my new gaming rig, I’ve used my old machine to upgrade my web server so hopefully you’ll notice some increase in performace.

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Sony r00ts it’s EU Customer Base

Date February 26th, 2007 Comment 1 Comment

The Euro model will be designed differently from the US and software will take over some of the functionality that was originally taken care of by dedicated chips. Dedicated chips cost a bit more than software so Sony is actually skimping its EU customers despite charging them more.
But the result is that if EU people [...]

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Whiteboard Clearance

Date February 19th, 2007 Comment 2 Comments

We thought it was about time to clear the “Take the Piss out of Gary’s Pronunciation” whiteboard, so here are all of the sayings so far…

“forward-slange” (forward slash)
“orthurised”
“klekshun” (collection)
“widify” / “widify to the max”
“deletify”
“amendicate”
“rehearsificate”
“specsification” [sic]
“remembrin” (remembering)
“krodid” (corroded)
“eastrin” (eastern)
“modrin” (modern)
“ire-in” (iron)
“modrit” (moderate)
“krekt” (correct)
“krupt” (corrupt)
“ire-nin” (ironing)
“pattrin” (pattern)
“krupshun” (corruption)
“webbed-based”
“web-thingmies” (web services)
“friver” (forever)
“johnra” (genre)
“oglin link” (login link)
“lerin” (learn)
“furum” (firm)
“westrin” [...]

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Blu-Ray’s Worst Enemy – PS3?

Date February 19th, 2007 Comment No Comments

This isn’t so much a PlayStation 3 hack as it is a Linux operation. The process, as outlined by author “hacked2123,” involves decoding and ripping movies from Blu-ray (or HD-DVD) discs onto a Linux-based PC, and then re-encoding the files into an unencrypted MPEG format that could be played on the PC, or further tinkered [...]

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