Massive bargain! 11″ MacBook Air just £510!
Or not. Spot the deliberate mistake? I even rang Misco, the purveyors of said incorrectly priced item, to order it. Sadly, they told me it should be seven hundred and something pounds instead. Rubbish.
Changing the default sshd port on Snow Leopard
Many years ago, I needed to change the port that sshd listens on on my Mac. Which I managed at the time, but I don’t remember how I did it. As is usually the case, I “hit up” Google (as the kidz are wont to say, I think) and after a bit of trawling I found the solution: Open Terminal and as edit the file /etc/services (as root) Add a line at the bottom: secret-ssh 43539/tcp # secret SSH port …
Massive 128K Memory
Look at this amazing 1984 advert featuring a very energetic Sir Clive Sinclair jumping over the QL’s closest (and more popular, though more expensive) rivals – the IBM PC, the Apple Macintosh and the BBC B (no, really). £698 for a QL? Bargain! That’s about £1700 in today’s money. Compare that with the £3325 PC (£8300!).
Let’s Play! Gauntlet
Warrior is about to die! Elf needs food badly! Eat your food, don’t shoot it! Try this level now! So many quotable speech samples, none of which appear in the Spectrum version I have here. Tch, eh? My first memories of Gauntlet are when my cousin Richard came to stay with us, and him and I played Gauntlet for about zleventyfivesix hours non-stop. Both on the same Spectrum keyboard. With the Symbol Shift key sellotaped down because that activated the …
Warranty void if opened
There’s a sticker on the box for my just-arrived copy of Snow Leopard that proclaims that my warranty will be voided if I remove the sticker. Only, the sticker is on the outside of the shrink wrap, so I have to remove it in order to open the box. Genius! Posted via email from deKay’s posterous
2010: How You Found Me
As with previous years, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of the most popular search terms with which you found my site. By “you”, I don’t necessarily mean you specifically, but rather the royal “you”. As in everyone. Not that everyone found me, of course. Um. I present to you, The Top Ten Things People Searched For And Found Me Instead. Hurrah! Search Hits the loyalty awards club 1,046 surveys.co.uk scam 411 imac 24 408 happy mrs chicken 352 …
Sonic Adventure (360): COMPLETED!
You know what? I actually really rather enjoyed that. I mean, it’s short, and the camera is a work of wonk, and the bit with the stone water snake in the ruins near the end was just stupid (mainly because of the camera) and the end boss was a pain because Sonic would glitch through him rather than homing attack him (so I’d die) but it didn’t really seem to matter. I had fun, and for all of its faults …
The £18 Game Challenge
A year ago I dropped the bar on The £25 Game Challenge – prohibiting myself from buying any game that was more than £20. It was called (amazingly) The £20 Game Challenge. Now, the bar drops lower – to £18! Why? Two reasons. Firstly, I broke the £20 Rule once last year, by buying the Collectors’ Edition of Fallout: New Vegas. The lovely, lovely Collectors’ Edition of Fallout: New Vegas. For this impudence I must atone! Secondly, I think it’s …
Sonic Adventure (360)
I’ve completed it $hlmun times. I still think it’s the second best 3D Sonic game. I bought it last week when it was on offer, and have been playing through as Sonic. At first, I thought, what? This is utter rubbish. I don’t remember it being this rubbish! I fell through the floor in the same place on the first level on my first go and lost all my lives. WHAT? RUBBISH! But then, despite Tails’ appearance and the (let’s …
Homefront
The year is 2027. The world has suffered a decade-long energy crisis, and economies have crumbled. Reduced to a mere shadow of the super power it once was, the United States became the target of a North Korean takeover. In a land stripped of freedom, the brave will fight for their home.
2010: The Games
So it comes the time to round up my top five games from 2010. As is always the case, a lot of games I actually played in 2010 were, in fact, from previous years. The result of which means that my Top 5 Games of 2010 is really my Top 5 Games That May Have Come Out In 2010 But There’s A Chance They May Have Been Released At Some Point Previous And For That I Apologise. Oh yes, and …
The 2010 Gaming Expenditure Horror
I’ve been tracking which games I play, on my Gaming Diary, for 6 years now. It’s helped me realise how many different games I play, and how many I complete. This year, however, I’ve additionally started tracking the games I buy, and how much I paid for them – the aim being to scare myself into how much I spend on gaming. Thing is, just knowing that it’s logged has actually made me more frugal with my spending. Not only …
A World of Keflings (360): COMPLETED!
It’s more of the first game, only with minor irritations removed, the way you build things made clearer (it’s now more obvious which factory you get specific items from), less to-ing and fro-ing (you get helpers that can carry building parts, and even build buildings, for you), and three different kingdoms to help out. So, really, it’s the same as the first game but nicer to play. Which is all you want from it! Lovely and relaxing, genuinely funny, and …
Fallout: New Vegas: Dead Money (360): COMPLETED!
Now you see, I wasn’t going to buy the first lot of DLC for New Vegas for two reasons. One, I thought I’d give another game a chance, and two, if Oblivion and Fallout 3 are anything to go by then it’ll come down in price in a few months. Of course, since when has saying I’m not going to buy something ever meant anything? Of course I bought it the day it was available. And today I completed it. …
Fallout: New Vegas (360): COMPLETED YET AGAIN!
After spending an hour or two learning the rules of Caravan and then rinsing No-Bark Noonan of all his caps, I got the Win 3 and 30 Games of Caravan achievements. That left me with 4 achievements – one for getting banned from all the casinos on the strip, one for completing the game in Hardcore Mode, and the remaining two for the two final NCR quests. So, after almost 100 hours total play, I finally completed New Vegas the …