Like all of my reviews this one shall be short and simple.

The buffalo LinkStation 500GB cost me about the same (including shipping etc) as the WD MyBook World 1TB that I got from PCWorld a couple of months ago. i.e: £150 or near-as-dammit ( Read more... )

I think that this 24-core linux cluster is something I should just file away under "things-yeti-won't-be-allowed-to-build" #1.

I've still got a bit of this lingering cold but that didn't stop me going out for booooze after work with thedarkproject, terrorhol, freeky_boy_al, tao_rich, kirkichi and others-but-by-god-I-hate-tagging-people-this-much... so yeah was a good night but after 2 pints and a ( Read more... )

irrlicht got it installed just fine, all of the Linux samples compiled fine and ran right off the bat.

irrKlang well I got it downloaded... and the binaries are 32bit. Now how am I meant to link against those dammit? Only tried to get it made/installed so I could build the irrlicht "Demo" example. Sadly there seems to be no option or distribution ( Read more... )

There's something marvelous about being able to lose yourself in something simply geeky. That's mostly an observation but also a fairly good description of late last night and this morning ( Read more... )

It's ALLIIIIIVE!

Plugged the hdd from work with "FOOKED" written on it into my linux box last night and battle my way through to get it recognised, formatted, etc etc etc then got it doing a checkdisk... I make this easier than it sounds, last night has reminded me why linux is still shit. Usability is some kind of foreign concept that they've ( Read more... )

yark

taken entire day off work for sickness and death

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used it to write part of a game engine and play with linux, someone kill me.

however this made me smile:

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So i'm sat here browsing da' interwebn'net-thingy when i try and Ctrl-Tab a new browser window (Firefox) ... and nothing happens, wtf? So i'm hammering away and nothing seems to be responding. My main PC has been behaving oddly for a while so i run through the obvious things like checking the things plugged in ok and that firefox actually has the ( Read more... )