Leaving, not because of Murdoch

The whole point of me signing up to BE Broadband was that they were a good company with an excellent customer service team, and that they were going to be a million times better than Sky (previous provider) were. And in the times I had to call BE with a problem they bent over backwards to fix it, unlike Sky who were about as useful as a conscience is to Murdoch.

I'm sad that BE will be no more, I'll miss those Bulgarians an awful lot.

Conversion

I've been using Red Hat/Fedora since I first got in to Linux back in 2005. I remember trying Debian back then, and I hated it. Right now, I don't remember why, I just remember not liking it. But since then having stayed loyal to Fedora, I do feel it's time for a change. It was ok when I first started as Linux wasn't my main operating system, I just used it as something to learn and mess about with. Now though, I use Linux all the time (except for when I'm playing Football Manager), but Fedora continues to become less stable. I often find Evolution, for example, crashes like a bitch without warning. It disrupts my work with applications just crashing. I am getting on with it, but why should ?

So, I read this article and the other Debian article with interest, especially in terms of it not being updated all the time. The idea of Debian, how it works etc, right now appeals to me. I want something that will just work, like an old Toyota. I'm not one for fancy graphics, or fancy ways of doing things. If Debian can provide me with a platform whereby I can just work and not worry about updates etc affecting the system then I'm going to be converted from being an .rpm type of guy to a .deb. So, it's currently downloading, and later tonight I'll be installing it on to my PC at home.

Amazing how people are so in awe of these developments when Linux has been rocking these very same improvements for the last 12 months.

Carry on with your Fisher Price computers guys!

Roast Lamb

Guaranteed to give you glow in the dark shit anyway...

I've been mislead all my life

Here was me thinking that when it came to todger size that it was in reference to when the penis was erect not flacid. Now I find out that it's actually down to the flacid size? This explains why I've had no action wearing the mankini...

Filling the void

Fair play to them. Every government in the world seems to back or ignore Israel for some reason. At least someone is taking some sort of fight towards them.

iPhone Sales Point

iPhone development has been stagnant for years, it's desperation to try and stick a "Designed by Jobs" label on to the new iPhones just to make consumers think they were designed by a visionary rather than a committee.

SimTower + Streets Of Sim City

After cutting my teeth on Sim City 2000, I was in my local Cash Converters years ago and bought SimTower. It's awesome, and I still play it now. So simple, and you could loose hours playing it. The only thing that annoyed me with that was you were limited to the number of lifts you could have.

As for Streets Of Sim City, if you can find this on eBay BUY IT!!! You need Sim City 2000 to play it, and essentially what it allows you to do is drive around the city you've created. A bit like the way Sim City 4 Rush Hour works, but this is totally first person and you can't switch it off and go back in to Sim City. It is it's own beast.

Just a shame then, thinking of these three games I've mentioned, as well as the games mentioned in the comments, that the new Sim City will be a leap year away from the simplicity of the originals. I personally don't want a game that forces me to be online. I want a game like I fell in love with years ago. So really, I'll be stuck playing the original Sim City games instead of it's new incarnation.

"Hello Microsoft?"

"This is the EU Anti-trust people, remember us?"

Well hello there...

I'm quite impressed with what's been said so far. I'm not a Sony fanboi at all (I cut my teeth on the Nintendo 64), and have been out of touch with gaming really. But this has got my interest, especially with the inclusion of a proper processor. This is key, as the PS3 was too difficult to develop for, now that it has an x86 processor maybe now it'll be easier to develop for and we'll receive PC-like games to a console.

Yes, I'll be getting one.

This reminds me of a quote from Quadrophenia when they're in the bath:

"Why don't you just f**k off?"

That's exactly what I'd be saying to Intel if they dared put any bloody camera in their set top boxes.

Aren't you forgetting something?

Checking out the link you gave for Windows Phone 8 and iOS, there's a strange image on the right. An image, of four phones: Android phone, Windows phone, Apple iPhone, and BlackBerry phone.

But! What is this? There is no BlackBerry app to download!!!

Parents are the problem

The NSPCC, for some reason, have this all wrong. While it's good to educate the kids, this isn't actually the cause of the issue. It's the parents.

I'm sure we've all seen it at some point, but parents let their children have laptops or iPad's with no parental controls and don't supervise them. They go to their rooms, alone, with just the laptop/iPad and themselves. They can go on whatever they want, when they want, and the parent doesn't know. Of course, the parent finds out when their child is the subject of "sexting" or finds an indecent image they have downloaded off the internet. Then it's everyone's fault BUT that parent for not taking a damn in what they are looking at.

An example of this would be my girlfriends 9 year old sister, given an iPad for Christmas by her mother. She never looks at what she's up to, and as far as the mother is concerned all she is doing is using FaceTime to speak to her friends. So on Sunday, I'm walking up the stairs and I can hear that Miranda's woman's voice (I can't stand her, and no one in the house can stand her either). I pop my head in the bedroom of my girlfriends sister and she's watching an episode of Miranda. I asked her what she was watching, and she said she was watching Tracey Beaker (LIE!). I told her that Miranda wasn't suitable (not because it's crap, but the language etc) and told her mother. The mother in law asked the 9 year old, and apparently she wasn't watching it although it was a good third of the way through the episode judging by the play bar at the bottom. The mother, like an idiot, took her word for it and didn't check it.

This mother in law isn't an isolated case, there'll be millions of families like this up and down the country. They need back bone and to stand up to the child and say "We're having a desktop down here in the living room, and you will go on it when I'm around". That is really the easiest way of combating children seeing things they shouldn't see, but alas for some reason this country/society seems to think it's the responsibility of others, not themselves, to police what their children see.

It's an absolute joke.

This Is The Day...

"This is the day, your life must surely change", as sung by The The (and also by the Manic Street Preachers). Quite an apt song for today.

I really, REALLY, hope this phone kicks arse. I'm sure it will, and I'm excited enough about it to be planning on buying one outright when it's released here in the UK. My last BlackBerry was a Curve 2 years ago, and I switched to Android because I was young and wanted Angry Birds. Since then, I've gone through an Android 2.3 phone, an Android 4.0 phone, and a Windows Phone 7. None of them match the feel of security and quality the BlackBerry gave me. As my last phone met it's death down the toilet, I bought a BlackBerry Torch. Instantly I fell back in love with the brand, and couldn't understand why I ever left.

Say it quietly, but this could be the iPhone killer we've been waiting for.

This will make...

A great Air Crash Investigation/Mayday episode when they find out what's wrong with it.

I think because the press have been alerted and have gone in to panic mode regarding the frequency of these events (the Daily Mail will be proud of it) they have had to ground the planes. Nothing more.

What did I just read?

Bit confused by this article to be honest. Right now, on my laptop I have Fedora 17 with GNOME 3 on it. Without any tweaking (because for me it worked right out of the box) when I click on the Activities button it automatically shows me all of my open windows. I stress, I haven't tweaked Fedora to do this, it has been doing this from the moment I installed it. This leads me to wonder what sort of background or past experience the writer has with Fedora.

The general feeling I get from this article is that the writer really didn't hold much hope for Fedora, and would rather be using Ubuntu or something with a bit more polish. By all means, if you want a Linux OS that looks lovely and pretty use Ubuntu or Mint. But, in my honest opinion, Fedora is aimed for the developer and/or system admin who isn't after screen candy.

Hopefully

I last used a BlackBerry device in 2011, and the only reason I stopped was because the Samsung Galaxy S2 looked so impressive.

Since then, I've gone through 4 phones (Galaxy S2, Samsung Omnia 7, Galaxy S, Alcatel OneTouch) and none of these phones fill me with the confidence that the BlackBerry handset delivered. I sincerely hope that these BB10 devices are the ones to restore confidence in BlackBerry's again. There is still a place for BlackBerry hardware in the workplace, as a physical QWERTY keyboard is just far superior to anything being offered by Apple, Android and Windows at the moment.

About bloody time!!!

What's the problem?!

The kit is identical to last seasons strip.

I can see this pissing people off more than the usual BSOD's. The new one makes light of the situation, and does raise a smile. But imagine if your working on a document and half way through it you get that?

Delia Smith, Nigella Lawson

So Facebook is taking offence to the word Shagbook, what happens to poor old Delia and Nigella when they release their cookbook?