Geraldine McEwan dead: Actress known for playing Miss Marple in ITV series dies aged 82 http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/31/geraldine-mcewan-dead-actress-known-for-playing-miss-marple-in-itv-series-dies-aged-82-5044189/
My first attempt at LPIC-2 fell short by one question. Oh, the frustration….
Nonetheless, I can revise my material and try again.
I got an email over the weekend from the organisers. The race this year takes place on Sunday 11th October. You can register your interest and be advised when the ballot opens by going to the site or going to http://www.royalparkshalf.com/Take-part-ballot/. The ballot opens tomorrow (27th January) and runs through to 4th February. You get notified on the 6th Feb if you got a place.
I tried to get into the race last year, and lost out during the ballot. Nonetheless, I’m going to try again this year. Currently trying to build up my mileage again after an extended down-period due to work pressures. Yes, as much as magazines such as Runner’s World and medical professions dispute that, work does impact your mental state and that in turn carries over into your running. Some may find it easy to ditch the work mindset and run, others (like me) don’t find it so easy…
The first major update since I started playing FFXIV is imminent, and Square Enix has put up videos on their YouTube channel in English, French, German and Japanese (English one below)
Hire People Smarter Than You - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2015-01-19 | Dilbert by Scott Adams.
Super Pumpedness - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2015-01-16 | Dilbert by Scott Adams.
Do not try this at your local gym ^_^
..it seems that Jelly Bean devices are simply too old to support -- supporting old software versions is fairly unusual, after all. But in this case, he asks Google to reconsider, due to the wider consequences this security flaw could potentially unravel. Until then, however, it might be a good idea to upgrade to Android 4.4, or perhaps get a new phone altogether.
Google won’t fix a security bug that’s in almost a billion Android phones.
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I’ve been finding the same driver driving at 10-20mph on 30-40mph roads on the way into work in the morning, and it is driving me (and a lot of other drivers) nuts. Sure, I can overtake him (and I do, just like lots of other people), but he just doesn’t seem to get the hint. Dangerous overtaking? No, there’s pretty much no-one on the road at 6am in the morning where I am.
Sure wish I could report this guy somewhere…
Links to related new stories:
www.eprfinancialnews.com/2011/07/2…
www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/…
A while ago, I posted of my frustration with Google Music when it refused to download my tracks. Well, I did some digging around and found that someone had written an API to expose the Google Music backend. The link is at
and has spawned several other tools including
Which is a set of scripts designed to sync, upload and/or download from the Google Music collection.
I wrote my own Python script using the Gmusic API to bulk delete albums from my Gmusic account (it’s easy to bulk upload using Google’s MusicManager, but not to bulk delete), and the gmusicapi-scripts enables me to download most of my tracks.
When the world's biggest technology companies start playing rough with each other, it's normally consumers who wind up suffering. This time out, it's Windows users who are feeling the pain after Google publicly posted the details of a Windows 8.1 flaw before Microsoft could fix it. In a public response to the disclosure, Microsoft's security chief Chris Betz says that Google's decision to publish and be damned before his company's scheduled patch was less about "principles" and more about getting one over on its rival.
Microsoft says ‘no fair’ after Google exposes Windows flaw early.
facepalm
An informative article form Linux Journal on Docker.
Docker: Lightweight Linux Containers for Consistent Development and Deployment | Linux Journal.
Graduate? Soon-to-be graduate? Then you better read these….
So they aired the leadup to the journalist’s death as part of the show. As long as the family are okay with it, I have no qualms. Journalists have a bed press (pun intended), with some seeing them as the cause of many deaths and suicides, not naming any names or celebrities. And plus, I can’t see anywhere in the article whether or not the walk was for charity or not. If not, and the walk was solely for the fame, then the question that needs to be asked is “was the fame really worth the cost of Matt Power’s life?”
A ginger cat missing for seven years has found its way home for the first time ready for 2015.
Garfield disappeared after going on the prowl from his home in Bridgend, South Wales, in 2008.
Despite not going far Garfield's CAT-nav apparently malfunctioned and he eventually ended up going back to a different home in the same area.
He was taken in by another family who believed he was a stray before they decided to take him to the Cats Protection Bridgend Adoption Centre.
There it was discovered Garfield had a microchip and despite an old address being listed the centre was able to track down his original owner Julie Calder.
Missing cat Garfield reunited with owner after being lost for 7 years - Telegraph.
Steam have been running a sale with different games discounted every day. Current collection includes the original Final Fantasy VII. A classic game, although now showing its graphical age (this was during the time of the original PS1/PSOne/PSX console, and I played that game to death on my original brick/fat/phat PS2 – which I still have, mind you.) So take a look if you want.
Link to news article here.
Link to game page here.
I am seriously considering studying for a CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) certification. Given the recent spate of cyber attacks, being able to lock-down and test the security of your own network is proving to be more and more crucial…
Experimenting with video game capture, and here’s my capturing of the pre-game movie. This is referred to by Square Enix as the “Prologue” video. For those (like me) who joined the game late, this short movie connects the first version of the game (Final Fantasy XIV) with the second version of the game (Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn). The end of the first game showed the first part of this movie (up until where the heroes get teleported), and it cliff-hanged there. With the release of the new version, they released this updated version of the movie, which added the ending to the movie.
As you may recall from an earlier post, I discovered my broadband connection at home was horrendously slow compared to my 4G/LTE connection on my phone. Now, I regularly tether my laptop to my phone and enjoy download speeds in excess of 1.2Mbps, compared to 300-400kbps over my home broadband. However, if you try to turn the phone into a WiFi hotspot, then my MNO (Three) doesn’t like it and asks me to pay £5 for a 2GB allowance. However, there doesn’t appear to be a restriction on physical tethering (and I’ve downloaded more than 2GB).
So, the question is, is it possible to tether my phone to my laptop and share that connection to other machines on the network? I suspect so, but it will involve me tinkering with my internet settings, and disabling settings in my broadband router, so it behaves more like a hub than a router.
My thoughts are (and this is subject to my tinkering):
If I can tear myself away from my newly found Final Fantasy XIV questing, I may try messing with my settings and see if I can get this to work.
