Photo Backup

I am still searching for the best option to backup 40,000+ (nearly 200GB) of photos.

I would happily pay to increase my Skydrive storage to 200GB, but they don't want my money (125GB maximum).

Moving From BE LLU To PlusNet FTTC?

Anyone know if there's any difficulties with moving from an LLU service to FTTC? I've heard it used to be difficult switching ISPs once you were on LLU - is that still the case?

Nintendo Also Guilty

The new Wii-U 8GB has only 3GB available for users...

Addiction Leads To Sickness

I think it was spending so much time trying to complete Dark Forces 2 that first gave me motion sickness. I have been unable to play PC FPSs since. Even playing a console FPS on the TV gives me motion sickness now.

Mitac Mio a701

Probably the first phone to include a GPS chip (SiRFstarIII).

Helping Out

I'm going to buy an Panasonic LX-7 camera next month, so that should help them out a bit.

The article says... "convicted for signing and anti-Putin song".

Is that signing as in an a signature, or signing as in some kind of sign language?

2012

I just could not watch 10,000BC and 2012 after the first 5 minutes. I really did try. The same applies to Transformers 2 & 3.

Square(ish) Pictures

In the age of 16:9 monitors and TVs why are digital cameras still 4:3 by default?

The best thing about the LX5 is the multi-aspect sensor and you can select between 1:1, 4:3, 3:2 and 16:9 with a sliding switch.

I Am God

# Give life to 1 million kittens

for i = 1 to 1000000

{

create kitten(i)

}

# Kill 1 million kittens

for i = 1 to 1000000

{

delete kitten(i)

}

Anyone Remember Prestel?

I used my BBC micro to dial up Prestel. It worked a bit like Teletext as you typed in page numbers to access content. I remember downloading software and sending electronic mail. There was also a multi-user game that you could access through a gateway.

We had Commodore PETs at school on which I learned 6502 programming, although I had to writing an assembler and disassembler in BASIC first. This was the reason I asked my parents for a BBC B.

The most satisfying thing I did was disassembling and removing the copy protection on many games. One of them was encrypted on disk and decrypted itself in memory with some nasty self modifying code. Not sure if it was Elite or some other game.