Amazing freebie unboxing!
This came in post for me today! I didn’t buy it, so it’s free! Hurrah! I think. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from deKay’s posterous
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Why I’m buying a 3DS
Since the release of the original Game Boy Advance, I’ve leapt on every Nintendo console on (or before!) launch. Why should this change with the release of Nintendo’s new 3D fancy DS followup? Answer: it shouldn’t. And here’s 5 reasons why I’ll be getting one on release day: 5. The games. If you believe, they will come. The same is always true of Nintendo consoles. New Super Mario Bros, Professor Layton, Ouendan, Hotel Dusk, Another Code, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. …
Why I’m not buying a Nintendo 3DS
When the Game Boy Advance came out, I was there. Day one. New console, imported from Japan. MINE. Gamecube? Queued up at silly-o’clock in the morning outside Game. GBA SP? Day one. DS? Imported from Japan. DS Lite? Day one pre-order. Wii? Freezing December queue. I’ve never bothered with any other consoles on release – only Nintendo ones since 2000. So why not the same with the 3DS? Here’s 5 reasons why: 5. £££ £229 is a lot of money. …
Mindjack
AD 2031… When Governments no longer govern, and corporate giants hold the power, who can the people trust?
I may have broken Windows Activation
Not sure how, but for some reason I have -1298407765 days left to activate XP. Best get on that, then. Posted via email from deKay’s posterous
Let’s Play! Virus
One of the things I certainly never did when I was at high school was play games on the Acorn computers at lunchtime when we weren’t allowed to do so. And one of those games I certainly never played was called Lander. Lander was a free game that came on one of the RISC OS disks, and was, in fact, a demo of a bigger game called Zarch. Imagine my surprise when I found out that Zarch was actually an …
The Best of Comment Spam
I get some amazing comment spam on this blog and my Gaming Diary. It almost seems a shame that Akismet swallows it all up before you lovely fellows get a chance to see it. Thankfully, they’re all still archived away – so here are some of my favourites, sanitised so as not to be actual spam any more. I know this is off topic but what should I study in the autumm 2011 -? any advice pls email me ? …
Network dropping out on VMWare guest
One of our virtual servers, which runs Apache and serves up a booking database, had been having intermittent network issues. It would be working fine for a few hours, or days, and then would “drop off” the network. Rebooting the host server fixed it for a while, but then it happened again. It’s odd, as another VM running on the same VMWare (2.0.2) server was seemingly fine. Anyway, it turns out the issue is due to VMWare not liking the …
Nintendo: A Sad Story
Probably the most important animation in cinematic history. Probably. Try not to cry.
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