Final shot of the short-film game-prequel “Ghost Recon Alpha” implies some threat to London… of the mid-90s.
“Computer says no.”
When London gets attacked in the G.I.Joe Retaliation trailer, you can see the Shard (top right) but… in an earlier state of completion (mid-2011?).
LinklogI was given a brand-new iPod shuffle this weekend (thanks Che!). Not only do I now get the fresh experience of owning technology that’s not already considered obsolete, I also haven’t owned a piece of personal stereo technology since the crappy generic-brand personal cassette player I had when I was 13. While I’m not a Apple design fetishist, it is [...]
I recently needed to setup the networking on a Debian box with three network cards on three different networks, each assigned three IP addresses – two of which would be assigned to taps for UML hosts. It was actually a little more complex that I was expecting. Of the few configuration examples I’ve seen on the web, none [...]
It’s nearing the end of the year and the annual festival of dumping data to CD, possibly in advance of the traditional New Year Computer Reinstallation celebration. Of course, if you’re tracking Debian unstable or testing you probably don’t have full installation CDs. These are too dynamic to make it worth creating full CD installation sets. Usually buring a [...]
Checking the spam bin today, I came across an interesting, and new to me development in the Nigerian scam (in which “cleared” checks later bounce). I’ve seen the Dutch lottery wins and those goofy widow-of-deposed-general emails for a while now. But the emails from Vincent Gravens are the next step in the scam’s evolution. The email you receive [...]
My favourite part of The Rules of Attraction is the high speed European-vaction video-postcard that introduces Victor. (A full length version, Glitterati, is expected next year.) I found transcripts of both the movie version and original Bret Easton Ellis book version from an idle web search. Then I added some wikipedia love for no apparent [...]
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that every email I received from a gmail user came via a secondary MX rather than being delivered directly to the primary. If there’s no operational problems with the mailserver in question delivery via secondaries usually occurs for one of two reasons A) it’s a spammer attempting to bypass some anti-spam measures; [...]
Back in the late 70s a modem manufacturer took a name inspired by the stories of Isaac Asimov, “US Robotics”. When the the movie “Bicentennial Man“ was made in 1999 (based on the Asimov story from 1976) about a benevolent robot servant who gains his humanity, the real USR requested that the name of the fictional company (originally [...]
I’ve just installed a recent development build of the Debian installer and it’s coming on quite nicely. Debian still has a reputation for being a tough install, and I’m not trying to disabuse anyone of that. But, actually, apart from the disk partitioning newbie-nightmare (natch), my install mostly consisted of hitting “return” (what’s known as a “chicken peck” installation). The [...]
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