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Bomberman on a grand scale

have at you

THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANY OTHER QUESTION. GO PLAY

Al | 27th Feb '13 21:32

my little notepad isn't powerful enough to run it

I'll have a bash on the work machine tomorrow.

new_matt | 27th Feb '13 22:00

it's utter madness

especially when the game-chomping Pacmans turn up just as everyone in the vicinity turns into nyancat

Al | 27th Feb '13 22:17

I am confused

but then again, have never played this game

so this might be perfectly reasonable

scoffcruddle | 27th Feb '13 22:23

even if you had played it

you'd be confused. I keep getting confused.

Al | 27th Feb '13 22:26

Fairly

muff

scoffcruddle | 27th Feb '13 22:39

Correct.

Addictive

DrVonGoosewing | 27th Feb '13 23:15

New Person!

*points*

Tabazan | 27th Feb '13 23:23

Old person

*cowers*

[edition] by which I was referring to myself, It would appear there have been numerous quakes since my last visit here so I couldn't rightly remember what my old login was

DrVonGoosewing | 28th Feb '13 18:25

We have moved and everything

at least new registratons work now

Welcome back :)

Tabazan | 28th Feb '13 22:43

Thanks

I'll pull up an uncomfortable chair, never pays to get too settled...

DrVonGoosewing | 28th Feb '13 23:18

Enjoy.

Hanging out here is pleasant and undemanding.

Chaotic_illuminator | 28th Feb '13 23:45

WHERE'S MY DINNER

meepmeep | 1st Mar '13 8:43

You're not my Billy!

...

thirdman | 1st Mar '13 9:26

Tino?

scoffcruddle | 28th Feb '13 0:27

I guess it's just goosewing

in a fancy dress.

tiexano | 28th Feb '13 7:54

It is a lovely gown

I think it might be Valentino

thirdman | 28th Feb '13 9:36

you'll appreciate this ad

GoT

rigby | 28th Feb '13 12:50

I made a version of bomberman in Turbo Pascal

at school so we could play during IT practical lessons.

There's another health scandal, in Bolton this time. It feels like they're closing in!

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 9:00

apropos of nowt,

the boss of Borland (turbo pascal creator) Philippe Khan invented the cameraphone. Fact. The first pic sent over the internet was his newly born daughter.

witchy | 28th Feb '13 19:07

Awesome. I loved the Borland TP dos based IDE,

possibly because it's the only one I've spent a serious amount of time with, but I knew it well and loved it.

I keep meaning to try free pascal but suspect that either it'll be a time sink or I'll hate it because of the inferior ide.

cowjam | 1st Mar '13 8:00

QUESTION TIME!

My wife would like an 'internet radio'. A small device capable of playing iplayer radio programmes and probably mp3s too.

Any suggestions?

Edit: Also, free photo editing software? Nothing as fancy as photoshop and needs to be straight forward.

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 9:09

you can get Pure radio ones, they're the only ones I have had any indirect contact with

it worked.

new_matt | 28th Feb '13 9:17

They look good, but it doesn't explicitly

state that it plays iplayer stuff and that's essential. I'll have to dig deeper.

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 10:38

As new_matt says, Pure are decent

as are Roberts, & I've read good things about the Logitech Squeezebox range. Or get a Sonos.

Re edit: Gimp?

thirdman | 28th Feb '13 9:30

My father in law wants to crop, etc, photos

I think gimp might be overkill and a bit beyond him. I'll have a play with it this evening though

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 9:32

There's a load of free cloud ones

or copies of PC Pro / PC Plus magazine always have an older version of one on the cover DVD.

thirdman | 28th Feb '13 9:35

paint.net then

new_matt | 28th Feb '13 10:23

paint.net

is much easier than gimp

mosschops | 28th Feb '13 10:23

I'll give it a go. Not at work though, it's not loading here.

Actually, nothing new is loading. Looks like the DNS has fallen over.

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 10:46

Microsoft Office Picture Manager

crops, rotates etc.

new_matt | 28th Feb '13 11:41

iPlayer is the complicated bit

for that you'll need something that runs a web browser or at least Android, so need more than just a small internet radio

alternative would be a dab/wifi radio that can stream off e.g. a smartphone

meepmeep | 28th Feb '13 10:28

We have phones and laptops but it's a pain using them due to

battery life. Those Pure ones look good, but it depends whether they play the iplayer stuff. The expensive one does facebook and twitter so is presumably capable of iplayer, but I think it's going to be a trip to Lewis's to have a look at them.

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 10:45

I believe the iPlayer content is available via feeds (that aren't generally published)

but as you suggest it's going to be very device-specific as to how well those are implemented and accessed

the devices won't say iPlayer as that's not what they're running, but you should be able to access the same content. I'm not sure any of these Pure-type devices are that good at it from what I've seen.

I'd just get an old android phone and a speaker docking station myself.

meepmeep | 28th Feb '13 10:51

they are

stuff like get-iplayer which is linux CLI does the job.

mosschops | 28th Feb '13 11:03

playing or streaming?

playing i'd get a cheapo tablet or even a kindle and grab/sync.

streaming is always going to be a batter hog so like other say an older android with a new (bigger) battery or a cheapo tablet again or theoretically you could fire up a usb stick into a tin with a battery and use xmbc with a tiny remote

mosschops | 28th Feb '13 11:05

Any tablets that you'd recommend?

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 11:11

tbh

i'd have to have a mooch around. if i was buying, id get a nexus 7
flan'd be your man for the more esoteric and cheaper stuff

mosschops | 28th Feb '13 11:19

POST EATING MINGEFACE

Aye, I'd ask flan but I haven't seen him yet this morning.

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 11:32

i doubt he's doing anything productive

so i presume he's ill

mosschops | 28th Feb '13 11:38

post vodka and weed

fugg

FlanFlinger | 28th Feb '13 13:56

having said the above

im suprised we dont have a 3.8" form factor android none phone mini-tablet doing the round akin to the USB sticks but with a screen stuck on

http://www.notebookche...

mosschops | 28th Feb '13 11:39

The web here is still playing up, I can't get to that link

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 11:46

a phone without the phone on it

i'm not sure if that's brilliant or mental.

new_matt | 28th Feb '13 12:09

hooked up to a TV

with dual switchable output for displays? that'd be good

mosschops | 28th Feb '13 12:14

You mean an ipod touch?

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 12:23

but without being an ipod

so much easier to use?

new_matt | 28th Feb '13 13:25

There's a 4.3" one at scan:

http://www.scan.co.uk/...

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 13:09

*waves*

*goes and does the school run*

FlanFlinger | 28th Feb '13 13:55

They are letting you near

the school again?

Tabazan | 28th Feb '13 13:56

That's why he's running

...

thirdman | 28th Feb '13 13:58

Flan has an android powered HDMI dongle

that would do the job I'd have thought. May involve some hackery but was cheap as chips.

jackofspeed | 28th Feb '13 14:11

I just bought an Acer A210 10" for £205

Not cutting edge, but good screen, good battery life, decent memory & an actual proper-sized usb connection

They've gone up a bit since I bought mine - http://www.debenhamspl...

thirdman | 28th Feb '13 12:09

That's more than I want to spend.

Asda are selling the acer iconia for about £100 but I don't have a clue as to whether that'd be any good or not.

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 12:57

The A200 is an Iconia

It was worth the money for a 10", so I guess the 7" would be similar quality.

thirdman | 28th Feb '13 13:56

Thanks.

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 14:02

*cough*

http://www.amazon.co.u...

FlanFlinger | 28th Feb '13 14:40

Ta. What's the battery life like on that?

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 14:42

I don't personally know

but judging by the 91 reviews on Amazon it's pretty good, the RK3066 chipset is the best of the dual core budget SOC's at the moment.

The USB dongle approach is another option, but steer clear of the MK802 (single core), MK808 (dual core, but shit wifi) ones, the MK808B is the better one, or there's some quad core ones starting to appear now, not got my hands on one of those yet as it's chinese new year and his missus has just sprogged.

FlanFlinger | 28th Feb '13 14:49

Shame that dongle's wifi

rather than wired.

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 14:56

There's a few custom roms

that will allow you to use a USB to RJ45 doofah, but you also need to plug it in via a powered hub.
The wifi problem on the 808's is in the kernel and there's no source code been released, so no fix, but you can slap a USB wifi adapter in there

FlanFlinger | 28th Feb '13 14:59

I see.

I was talking to mrsjam about a small thing for iplayer (rather than using a console) and that'd probably do though a pi might be cheaper.

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 15:15

Pi is cheaper and more geeky but...

is a piss poor CPU and GPU compared to the RK3066, the 3066 is virtually a Galaxy S2, but running at 1.6 instead of 1.2

FlanFlinger | 28th Feb '13 15:37

I see. How much is it in real money?

`
edit: that third one you mentioned

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 15:52

the getting rid of stuff thing didn't

last that long ;)

rigby | 28th Feb '13 16:16

I'm not getting rid of everything

just stuff I don't actually use, which is most of it.

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 16:50

Which one ?

it's been a looong day

FlanFlinger | 28th Feb '13 16:33

MK808B

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 16:50

Here

http://www.amazon.co.u...

But, as I said, the wifi caps out at 65 if you use the built in wifi, the B has bluetooth, the stock 808 didn't, but I just use an RF MCE remote on mine

FlanFlinger | 28th Feb '13 16:57

Ta for the info, but it turns out that

the 100mbps upgrade means the consoles stream iplayer HD stuff well enough for us not to need to try something else.

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 20:19

55 dorrers

me love you long time

mosschops | 28th Feb '13 16:42

Say what?

You've had an additional child?
I had no idea you were expecting!

jackofspeed | 28th Feb '13 17:23

Not me numbnuts

my mate out in China

FlanFlinger | 28th Feb '13 17:35

Jesus,

I can't read and digest information anymore.

jackofspeed | 28th Feb '13 17:37

funny.. that's what most builders

say about architects

rigby | 28th Feb '13 17:42

*polite applause*

FlanFlinger | 28th Feb '13 17:57

this is

fair comment

jackofspeed | 28th Feb '13 19:42

free basic and online

http://www.ribbet.com/
http://picasa.google.c...

rigby | 28th Feb '13 16:19

there is a need for a question:

normally for damaged filesystems I use EasyRecoveryPro for getting back deleted files but the drive I'm trying to get stuff off has too many errors and keeps barfing.

Anyone got any alternatives? Your prize is no tomatoes.

witchy | 28th Feb '13 10:16

I don't bother with recovery.

I once had a 60GB drive die on me. I spent a long time recovering all the data onto a second 60GB drive I had. The next day that second drive died. I found a third 60GB HDD and spent a long time recovering all the data onto that third drive. It too died the day after.

The drives had sequential serial numbers, and rather than making sure I don't back up a failed drive onto one from the same batch I simply don't recover data and I don't buy IBM drives any more.

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 10:24

a "Deathstar"

perchance?

mosschops | 28th Feb '13 10:26

No idea. It was years ago.

I remember a wailing and a gnashing of teeth though.

cowjam | 28th Feb '13 10:40

urgh there is a little command line tool

that everyone recommends but i can never remember its..

now i have..

photorec

http://www.cgsecurity....

mosschops | 28th Feb '13 10:25

trying that

one now, ta. It doesn't like unpartitioned disks though :/

Still, put a basic partition on it and it should find all the deleted files!

witchy | 28th Feb '13 10:53

I know it is obvious but

have you tried applying limes?

Tabazan | 28th Feb '13 10:28

no, that'll

kill the pc but at least afterwards it'll be VERY clean.

witchy | 28th Feb '13 10:56

Depends. I the drive has servere errors

(like loose parts of the disks flying around inside) you should remove it from power and ask a professional recovery company. I had a mate of mine blowing 600€ on the only copies of his wedding pictures once.
Otherwise, here are two programs mentioned in Koroush Ghazi's Tweak Guide, who I trust:

http://www.piriform.co...

http://www.snapfiles.c...

tiexano | 28th Feb '13 10:56

tried recuva

but it wasn't a happy bunny. photorec is currently winning and restoring my cow-orker's videos \o/

witchy | 28th Feb '13 11:02

I did use something good

but I'm fucked if I can remember what it was. it was called No somethingorother recovery or something like that.

[edit] Zero Assumption Recovery. It pulled tonnes of stuff off a knackered SD Card.

new_matt | 28th Feb '13 11:40

Bollocks . . .

Hit a badger tonight . . straight kill (luckily) but Sarah is pretty cut up about it and the front of the car isn't too happy either :(

I'll throw TOTD in here now: Chrome Hoof - Krunching Down (On The Skull Of A Newt) - http://youtu.be/8KcgVE...

Tabazan | 26th Feb '13 22:54

Bugger

sorry to hear that...

BBQ at yours this weekend?

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 22:59

Now if it had been a deer . . . .

. .

Tabazan | 26th Feb '13 23:00

you could have stocked the freezer

but on the other hand, I suspect the car would be in far worse condition

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 23:03

We only tend to see

the little Muntjacks around here, I think the badger was bigger

Tabazan | 26th Feb '13 23:06

yeah, got them around Cambs too

always sounds like a swear to me:

"feck off, ye little muntjack!"

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 23:13

a friend was telling me

that local butchers here have them in. They're cheap (he got a whole one, minus head, hooves, skin and innards, for £30) and tasty apparently. And shot as vermin.

Al | 27th Feb '13 6:43

Blimey!

They are good eating and that is cheap. They need a game licence though.

Pedantichrist | 27th Feb '13 10:05

there are quite a lot of deer in the grounds of our office

if you are in before half 7 you often see one or two.

Apparently deer population has doubled over the last decade or something

alistair | 27th Feb '13 11:26

don't blame me

I made (wild red deer) venison haunch en croute on sunday. It was great.

meepmeep | 27th Feb '13 11:40

Got any good

badger recipes?

Tabazan | 27th Feb '13 12:21

aux champignons?

...

thirdman | 27th Feb '13 12:43

My 22 yo cubicle neighbor knows the badger-mushroom song

He has no clue what b3ta is.

tiexano | 27th Feb '13 12:45

take one large mixing bowl

and combine 3 boxes of instant mash with an equivalent amount of water

serve across the face of the lodger

meepmeep | 27th Feb '13 12:54

mosschops | 27th Feb '13 13:12

I keep meaning to try to get to a proper butcher

as ever, it is time that's the factor. For many of them the only point when they're open and I'm not at work/commuting is Saturday morning. When I'm often either busy or too bone-idle to leave the house.

Al | 27th Feb '13 12:55

are you allowed to mount it (fnar)

i know you can't eat it (good reason to travel in tandem in the sticks.. free food!)

rigby | 27th Feb '13 0:18

I'm still not convinced

that actually exists in law

Al | 27th Feb '13 9:07

A quick google suggests you're right.

You're not allowed to take dead wildlife whether you run it over or the chap in front of you did.

Either the animal is owned so it's "theft by finding" (Larceny Act, 1916), or it's not owned and so it's wildlife which is covered by either poaching acts or the Countryside and Wildlife act, which makes it illegal to take or possess almost anything wild, no matter however you came by it.

cowjam | 27th Feb '13 9:53

Doesn't

the laws change depending what animal it is, deer, for example, are specifically covered by the 1991 Deer Act, it's unlawful to let deer meat enter the human food chain after an accident, only properly hunted or farmed ones are allowed.

Other animals, especially those classed as vermin, can be fair game.

thirdman | 27th Feb '13 10:28

Whilst 'sticks' is undoubtedly correct,

I use Styx, because I like the 'edge of the world' parallel.

Pedantichrist | 27th Feb '13 10:06

and because you love

shitty 80s hair metal

http://tinyurl.com/abj...

scoffcruddle | 27th Feb '13 20:28

How to pick the perfect video game:

http://2f43ed46b464e2c...

cowjam | 27th Feb '13 11:14

We killed a kitten last summer.

Still hurts now.

Banana | 27th Feb '13 13:52

I remember, years ago, hitting a dog in East London . . . it was late, dark and none of us in the car was brave enough to get out to see if it was OK . .

Tabazan | 27th Feb '13 13:55

I got a Red Kite a few years back

which felt pretty bad

nothing I could have done though, needed new pants

meepmeep | 27th Feb '13 13:57

So now you have Red Kite pants?

(I now have the Mr Burns, See My Vest tune stuck in my head - http://youtu.be/7nYbKi...)

Tabazan | 27th Feb '13 14:02

Aye, I've had that in my head all afternoon

cowjam | 27th Feb '13 17:56

MrsJam once saw a badger which had been hit but wasn't dead

dragging itself along the side of a road. So she smashed its brains in.

cowjam | 27th Feb '13 14:49

Was that before or after

she'd defiled it in the WRS ?

FlanFlinger | 27th Feb '13 15:35

It was before we took ownership of the WRS

cowjam | 27th Feb '13 15:37

I once ran over pigeon

stupid fucker ran under my wheel.

Al | 27th Feb '13 15:01

FAO Londoners or near-Londoners

I have a sofabed, a chest of drawers and an Ikea armchair for sale. I'd link to my Facebook post but I can't work out how. But the details are on Facebook.

amerella | 27th Feb '13 15:15

Hit a possum in New Jersey once

we didn't stop as very drunk

thebear | 27th Feb '13 19:05

I hit two possums shagging in the middle of the road

in New Zealand.

Chaotic_illuminator | 27th Feb '13 19:16

were you driving?

or just offended?

thebear | 27th Feb '13 19:34

Driving at night.

Came round a bend, headlights caught two possums fucking in the middle of the road, mr possum looked round as he banged away... I saw his eyes widen just before the car hit them.

Chaotic_illuminator | 27th Feb '13 21:51

well, that's a good thing

we're positively encouraged to kill the little 'Stralien shits

I once had to help finish off (with a large rock) a possum that a colleague was trying to kill with an ice axe, up the top of Mt Ruapehu. What the fuck a possum was doing 2600m up a large volcano, fucks knows.

scoffcruddle | 27th Feb '13 20:27

what was your mate doing

hunting them up there, that's the question.

jackofspeed | 27th Feb '13 20:33

we were up there, going for a nice walk up the mountain

ice axe was an accessory, plenty of snow/ice up in the crater

having spotted said possum trying to make good its escape back under a hut, said colleague improvised

the funniest thing about it all, was the horrified look on the the face of ze German we had with us...he was not a happy bunny

scoffcruddle | 27th Feb '13 20:37

I hit a squirrel

on my bicycle years ago. Was an awful thud, stopped pretty sharpish and looked back to find it flipping around on its head. Figured I was going to have to finish it off when it shot up into the air and then ran up a tree.

DrVonGoosewing | 27th Feb '13 23:06

Madness are playing Haydock in June,

anyone fancy it? There's some horse racing then madness play. We can put people up.

edit: I've listed my broken kindle on ebay. I've realised what particularly disturbs me about considering it dead is that the screen doesn't die. It looks like it's alive and well.

cowjam | 26th Feb '13 16:11

I don't like Madness.

But then again, I'm a miserable old sod.

jackofspeed | 26th Feb '13 17:00

I like them as long as they're doing it 20 years ago.

Feels a bit weird now.

Chaotic_illuminator | 26th Feb '13 17:56

ah, they're doing that sort of thing elsewhere now

we used to go to Newmarket for some racing and a band in days gone by, which included Blondie (excellent) and the Hollies (meh). We couldn't go the Quo year, which would have been awful, but entertaining

More to the point, Half Man Half Biscuit are playing the Junction in Cambridge on July 4th...and we are planning on being there. So should you!

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 18:02

I saw the Quo

it was great but they didn't do 'In the Army Now'. Bees and Witchy were talking about HMHB on that twitter, I didn't register.

new_matt | 26th Feb '13 18:55

I should probably send out a proper invite on FB

I had only mentioned it in passy to Witchy and Violetlobster...

hadn't said too much about our trip back to Yurp yet, as we haven't really worked out what we are doing (other than arriving into Dublin on Jun 24th, and leaving Barcelona on Jul 27th)

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 19:08

I''ve put it in the diary

I'm trying to convince the wife to not go so I can get pissed :)

new_matt | 26th Feb '13 19:36

jolly good

[edit] although though you could both come, and use a bus/taxi

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 19:45

she's seen them twice

she's not convinced. or about witchy for that matter.

new_matt | 26th Feb '13 21:04

fair enough

probably best she doesn't meet me as well then!

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 21:26

HMHB?

Junction?
When I'm not in France?
*buys ticket*

Al | 26th Feb '13 22:37

Good show, old chap

there will no doubt be beer in/around that date also

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 22:48

blondie at the races is a horrible thing to imagine.. how the great have fallen

(i heard a blondie cover track in a shop and asked who it was.. i already hated it.. "1direction innit".. cruel cruel world)

hmhb sounds like a brilliant idea

rigby | 27th Feb '13 0:21

im skint

but i do commend them live and also the wearing of a pith helmet / explorers outfit... much better than the fez

mosschops | 27th Feb '13 10:08

I have purchsed one of said outfits

for this year's Secret Garden Party, it may also do service at the Chap Oympiad

thirdman | 27th Feb '13 11:01

Book recommendation

KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money

For now, only on Kindle as far as I know though there's a paperback in the works.

It is a history of the KLF. It is therefore a rambling mindfuck that explains the financial crash of the early 21st century. Sort of.

Al | 26th Feb '13 6:59

A "Wildly Unauthorised" history

does seem like the only appropriate kind of history...

Chaotic_illuminator | 26th Feb '13 8:33

going to have a plough through the Illuminatus! trilogy next

which should be fun

Al | 26th Feb '13 14:41

I fucking loved the Illuminatus! trilogy

A right rollicking read...I just feel sorry for anyone who thinks they're trying to tell people something serious. It's just crazy Pynchonesque nonsense...

...or is it?*

*yes, yes it is

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 18:04

the KLF book

goes fairly heavily into the history of the books and discordianism in general. Especially to do with who shot JFK (probably not Bill Drummond)

Al | 26th Feb '13 18:27

Hail Eris!

see also:
http://en.wikipedia.or...

one of whose founders was a man named Drummond...coincidence? I think not!

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 18:37

hah, Bob

I remember that.

new_matt | 26th Feb '13 19:41

Yes indeed

I must dig out my copy of the book...

plenty of Slack going down round here at the moment

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 19:46

I used to sort of know Grimmo

(the guy who filmed the money burning) when he roadied for Killing Joke . . Odd bloke

Tabazan | 26th Feb '13 8:43

Odd?

Who'da thought it?

Chaotic_illuminator | 26th Feb '13 9:29

one would imagine so

though probably less odd than Drummond or Cauty

Al | 26th Feb '13 14:22

Cauty is quite normal

I haven't met Drummond though

Tabazan | 26th Feb '13 15:27

My speed test teen minutes ago:

My speedtest now:

That's the blistering difference a new modem and upgrade to 100mbps has made!

To be fair the chap did say it'd take about 48 hours to get up to speed and I'd need to be wired in for it rather than wiffy.

cowjam | 26th Feb '13 11:17

TBH that speedtest is a bit... icky

or rather.. if i run that speedtest now, i'd get about 30mb. if i go and download a file from a site that is unlikely to be cached i can easily hit 50 seconds later, also pings are rarely quicker from test sites one would deem closeR presumably due to routing and the like

mosschops | 26th Feb '13 11:54

also, wifi is shit.

I've just gone and wired myself into the modem and topped 87mbps.

edit:

- it got over 98mbps on that one

cowjam | 26th Feb '13 12:10

Well presumably

the very best you'll achieve over wifi is 54mbps, assuming your router is wireless g. The higher speeds of wireless n seem to be mythical, or atleast very rare. Then you've overhead, error correction and other usage on the network, and once you have 30-35mbps seems pretty good.

jackofspeed | 26th Feb '13 14:43

I'm not a wiffy expert

but I think that you can get great speeds on n, but the chances are that your n-capable router is in fact configured to run g, and even if it was set up for n, it would default back to g (or worse) if you have any non-n compatible device on the network.

I think.

meepmeep | 26th Feb '13 14:49

Agreed.

I simply abbreviated it to "mythical, or at least very rare"
In reality, you don't need much more than G, but I'd be mighty pleased if I could get my two APs to run their wireless backbone in N.
Sadly, as one of them doesn't support N, this is more than just unlikely.

jackofspeed | 26th Feb '13 15:11

I had presumed it was N but I've not had a decent firk around the settings.

I've checked and the connection thinks its 18mbps so I might have to play with the settings, or possibly run the "superhub" in modem mode and use my dd-wrt router instead.

I'll see how the powerline adapters play with the 100mbps.

Edit: I'm pretty sure VM wouldn't supply me with a new hub for the switch from 50 to 100 if it only did wireless g. This laptop, on the other hand, might only be g.

cowjam | 26th Feb '13 19:52

I've checked my facts

and I'm right, the speed of any n router will be halved if you have any g (or some older n, i.e. pre-2010) devices attached, as [science noise]

http://www.itworld.com...

meepmeep | 26th Feb '13 20:07

[science noise]

great name for a geeky band. Including the square brackets

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 20:12

Well, what ever it did

it worked on your ping.

tiexano | 26th Feb '13 12:17

I now have a noodle stuck in the back of my nose

you git.

Pedantichrist | 26th Feb '13 14:09

Much to my shame it wasn't intended to be funny.

What did I say?

tiexano | 26th Feb '13 15:00

also

try using a different browser. i.e. IE

mosschops | 26th Feb '13 13:43

I'll try firefox

but I don't hvae ie on this lappy

cowjam | 26th Feb '13 13:50

so, you were really fucking fast

and you're still really fucking fast

/FWP

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 18:05

It seems they are still using carrier pigeon round here:

Ruffgeezer | 26th Feb '13 19:27

I'm off to see skunk anansie next month.

cowjam | 26th Feb '13 12:55

I saw them quite a lot

in 1996 when they supported Killing Joke on the Pandemonium tour . . good live band

Tabazan | 26th Feb '13 13:09

Never managed to see them live

but I thought they were a very underrated band. Skin had an awesome voice too, if a tad scary

scoffcruddle | 26th Feb '13 18:06

So far

this has made me laugh today -
http://sniffpetrol.com...

Edit: Quiet today . . . . TOTD - http://youtu.be/6E8FlG... (Opeth - Nepenthe)

Tabazan | 25th Feb '13 12:11

LOL

thats good.

the whole ad baffles me.. "scrunch" wtf?

mosschops | 25th Feb '13 12:17

I'm more of a

wad person myself

Tabazan | 25th Feb '13 15:17

You don't fold?!

cowjam | 25th Feb '13 15:26

paper cranes?

Chaotic_illuminator | 25th Feb '13 15:30

Seashells.

I see this place isn't much better than the last for post eating.

cowjam | 25th Feb '13 15:36

fixing such bugs

is still as high a priority as it's always been

meepmeep | 25th Feb '13 15:38

did I say bugs?

I meant charming quirks.

meepmeep | 25th Feb '13 16:47

glad to see the SLA is being maintained.

Chaotic_illuminator | 25th Feb '13 16:57

I don't know

how to use the three shells!

/Demolition Man

Tabazan | 25th Feb '13 15:44

You gotta know when to fold.

Know when to hold 'em.

Chaotic_illuminator | 25th Feb '13 23:11

Know when to walk away

if you've got the runs

I'll throw TOTN in here - http://youtu.be/Nz8CpY... - Cardiacs - Pip As Uncle Dick But Peter Spoiled It

Tabazan | 25th Feb '13 23:12

my american friends really have a hardon for teh oscars

i don't get it.. it's possibly like the eurovision pisstake thing over here but fuckinghell most of those films reallyreally sucked..
at least with eurovision we acknowledge that

oh another 'try this music if you like that music' thing www.letsfathom.com/#/a...
be warned can give off some weird results (nww != chris)

rigby | 25th Feb '13 17:36

also

with eurovision you haven't already seen the songs so it's relatively new.

have oscar obbsesives seen all the filums?

alistair | 25th Feb '13 21:12

they usually have (maybe not all the doco's or animation)

i think it's the red carpet and onstage screw-ups they're really into

hollywood is their 'royalty' after all and even if they hate it as much as we do our royals i guess there's some perverse attraction/rubbernecking

rigby | 27th Feb '13 0:24

what you all need to do

is watch an hour of sailing coverage (video autoplays)

Al | 25th Feb '13 22:40

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