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GOG have games that'll tend to run on pretty much anything... Or you could develop a sudden interest in photography... There'd probably be something picturesque nearby, or at least quaint...

How about opera mobile? Can't get much lighter browser wise but I'm not sure if it'll actually be that faster given it's really only a development tool. (Plus I can't see any way to turn off the on screen keyboard)

I feel the sudden need to recommend the game Bayonetta to you...

Yeah, pot calling the kettle black in response to a completely unrelated comment, based on that snippet... Adobe - Apples new rules block developers from cross compiling from flash. Apple - Flash isn't an open standard... Html and css are open standards! I can guess what the Adobe statement...

Rough translation to Australian-ish: A standard drink is a stubby or can of beer, a girly drink*, most of a glass of wine**, or a shot***. *Or "poofs drink" depending on the company (Or if you're somehow transported back to the 80s which is roughly the last time I saw a wine cooler in...

Well Windows 7's restrictions do just seem to be a straight copy of everything which was wrong with the iPhone (Most of which still is, but some of which even Apple have fixed) so yeah, that seems like copying since I can't imagine 2 people or groups coming up with an identical list of such...

If only driver issues weren't likely to be a problem you could load Android on to them. Sure it's still just Linux, but it's a hip new Linux that people may have actually heard of. Plus it's easier to explain, just tell them you can turn the machine in to a giant phone. (If only you could make...

McAfee is definitely the devils work... We use it at work too, for now, but we just ditched our corporate overlords (or they ditched us, either way is fine) so we'll almost certainly be getting rid of it. For us, McAfee and Tortoise SVN made for a perfect storm of file access and file scanning...

Xubuntu, Fluxbuntu, or Ubuntu with enlightenment? Modern, relatively lightweight and will happily run a browser, email client and maybe some light word processing. If you need Windows for something then that implies that you actually need to do something. You don't want to do something you...

But then again if the concern is quality or performance then surely they need to set a bar for that. I'm sure there are plenty of examples* of iPhone applications which perform perfectly well and have perfectly adequate interfaces which fall foul of these new rules. Likewise I'm sure there are...

Any idea how hard it would be to get shutter glasses and 3 separate 3d displays synced? I would think you would need displays designed specifically to do it since I think the glasses sync with the display rather than the PC, so you would need the displays to communicate directly and sync their...

These days everything is VOIP by that definition. All major telecoms providers use internal packet switched networks and most of them seem to be based on SIP. The only real difference is how much analog connection there is between you and the VOIP network. In the case of Comcasts network there...

If the 2 NICs on each box have different IPs (Probable) then you could try putting the host name of the server in the hosts file on the beast against the IP for the gigabit NIC and the beasts host name in the host file of the server against its gigabit NICs IP. I.e.Beasts host file contains...

I had the same problem with that switch (although I did have slightly bulging capacitors but only slightly) mine was just under 3 years old so I called up Netgear, sent them the switch (just by itself) and they sent me a new one still in the box (Total cost was about 5 pound for shipping). It's...

The thing I find almost unbelievable about Adobe is their steadfast refusal to fix the most glaring flaws in their software. Flash, Acrobat/Reader and their update software are still shit for exactly the same, blindingly obvious reasons they've always been shit. I just wonder at what point in...

Not especially, but there is no real downside if it doesn't work on a particular site, you're only out a couple of seconds.

I'm not sure I've got your network topology right but I think you have: A router connected to the Internet doing DHCP for your network (Or all static IP addresses). A server connected to the router (100mb) and the beast (1000mb) The beast connected to the server(1000mb) and the router(100mb)...

It does have turn by turn, although I can't really tell you how good it is (It doesn't work very well when you are indoors and not moving...). I don't really use turn by turn because I don't have a car... Perhaps ironically it's only checking that it works for you that caused me to discover that...

Surely it can't be too late to take it back to the store... Fixed, right? Seriously I actually like the lack of Flash. It's already having an impact on reducing the use of Flash on the web. And even if I liked flash and would miss it, (Which I really don't and wouldn't) short of serious blunt...

All recent Nokia phones can have the Nokia mapping app loaded on to them for free. It doesn't require a data connection for most things (Things like live traffic updates obviously do). Voip on the iPod touch might be a bit dependent on what you want to do. If you just want to make calls then...

I do, I remember the make a wish foundation gave him an Amiga 500, the chemo's given him a decade in remission and counting... Not that I don't agree with some of what you're saying I just don't think we should start packing people off to the glue factory because you don't know anyone who...

QoS is definitely hard, but I don't think it's an insurmountable one in the long term. And honestly I don't think it's anywhere near as big a problem as many people think it is. Sure if you have an ISP with a 50+:1 contention ratio and you're trying to make calls with wideband codecs and video...

If you use end to end VOIP then you should be able to get better quality audio, but that relies on the cooperation of everyone you want to call or who wants to call you... The sooner telephone providers become data network providers with QOS that we can just run our own calls across however we...

4G won't inherently sound better, what you need is wideband codec support (AMR, also known as G.722.2). It's in the 3G spec but isn't yet deployed by carriers. As far as I know (From Wikipedia) T-Mobile Germany have done tests, Orange UK will be deploying it in 2010 and no one else has made any...

recursion... My spending on photography gear breaks down to roughly: Bodies: 20% Lenses: 60% Support: 20% But the support is a bit out of whack because I just bought a Z1 ball head, L-bracket and lens collar. (Predictably the Z1 arrived today just in time for the weekend, but I won't be able...

Nice tip ddrueding, I often close tabs I'm not looking at so the single button isn't ideal but, like timwhit, I use the middle mouse button so the button is just wasted space (Ironically that means that option number 2 in Firefox, which is identical to the scenario Tony is complaining about is...

If you can hold out the new Ubuntu LTS release is due next month... And apparently it's purple... (Which is admittedly not a great endorsement but it should be good anyway) I use Ubuntu (8.10) and connect to it with Windows 7 via smb quite happily. I remember having serious smb performance...

It's the Something Random thread... Doesn't that mean that in this case the signal is noise, and the noise signal?

We use VMs to distribute software to testers, during the development cycle the installer tends not to keep pace with the features so installing an alpha or beta release can involve a lot of messing around (Especially when the software is being developed by 6 teams on 4 continents). If we stick...

If you're on a DSL connection does your smoothwall handle the PPP authentication? If not then even releasing the IP manually may not work as it is probably held by the modem and you'll need to log in to the modem to release it. If you're on a cable connection then you might have to experiment...

They would have been filtering on your ip address which, assuming you're using smoothwall as a NAT proxy, would be the same on your laptop and the desktop. My first thought given the DNS oddness combined with this issue would be something nasty having wormed it's way in to your network stack...

The OCZ $100 SSDs seem a bit rubbish anyway, the extra cost for OCZs existing SSD of the same size, which is almost twice as fast, is in the order of $30... I guess if the only factors are price, impact resistance, and power consumption it's worth it but for most people I'd have thought speed...

My first thought was cheap immigrant labor, but I came up with similar numbers and decided it probably wasn't a practical solution. In the end I was thinking more along the lines of de-soldering the flash chips and reading the raw encrypted data then applying a brute force attack to that. So...

For my money (job, whatever) you might be asking the wrong questions... I don't remember ever hearing/seeing the name WAIK before but I doubt I'd have any trouble finding and using it if I needed a custom install disc for Windows. Similarly I studied the OSI model (briefly) at Uni but I'd have...

It's been many years since I've had to remember a phone number, pretty much ever since phones started remembering them. (It's actually a bit of a problem every time I need to give someone my number... But that's another topic...) On topic though the best case for this thing is 10^10 possible...

I just have my camera and the 300mm, my plan was to get some cheap plates so I could use the ball head until I could get a good L-bracket (Probably a Kirk or RRS one) and the Kirk tripod ring, just so I could spread the purchases over a few months and have the head a bit sooner than if I waited...

Thanks Lunar the M-10 was top of my list already mostly because I can get it reasonably easily, I doubted that there would be a cheaper option that would do what I wanted but there was always the chance I was missing something. The thing that's really getting me is the quick release plates...

Ball head? I got a Nikon 300mm F4 AFS just before Christmas, I'm hoping I'll get to use it a bit more than I have been now that the weather should be improving and I can get enough bright days for it but my tripod head isn't quite up to handling the weight... I've looked around and it seems...

When Wales was buried in snow twitter was a handy tool for keeping track of which buses were running. It has it uses... They're not what it's usually used for and probably not what it was designed for, but they are there...

My current phone runs Symbian, and there isn't really anything wrong with it but it can't really be compared with Android. Nokia have Maemo (Or I guess Meego now that they're merging it with Moblin) as an Android competitor. Symbian, even the OSS version isn't targeted at the same market. My...

When I came to the UK I was a little stunned by the taxation. As a renter I was used to not paying any council tax in Australia (It's paid by the property owner) so going from that to almost 4000GBP/year for a 1 bedroom apartment in Cardiff was a bit of a shock (It's a shoebox. A very nice...

I just got one (a 5850) last week and so far I'm happy with it. My 2900HD had a memory problem (Cracked solder joints, baking it fixed the problem but for a shorter period every time I did it) and I eventually got sick of it. I've only really played Fallout 3 on it so far and at 1360x768 so I...

Really? I can see why you might want the special features (I don't think much of them but I know some people like to watch them) but the menus on DVDs and BDs always annoy me. If I stick a disk in then I want to watch a movie or an episode of a show now! The menus are just slow and annoying...

Maybe you need to share the virtual G drive over a virtual network since your on a separate virtual machine. That's what I generally do with VMs... I'm wondering if I can get the word virtual in to this post one more time but it seems that would be virtually impossible... Sorry... Really...

I guess one of the downsides of not consuming TV, radio or newspaper media is that you do tend to miss finding out about stuff like movies that you'd like to check out... I would trot down to the nearest cinema and see this immediately (well probably tomorrow, but close enough) based on Mercs...

It will be open source but not GPL.

So I hadn't really looked at the official site to see just how little info it gives... Basically this product is a tiny notebook PC with a 7" screen a ~900Mhz Intel processor 512MB of RAM and a 4GB flash drive for $199 that runs some variety of Linux. There are more expensive versions with...

http://event.asus.com/eeepc/ So it's a terrible name (I think they're trying to cash in on the success of the Wii or something) but at $199US I can think of several uses for one of these things. In fact as lame as the name is the link to the Wii is spot on in my opinion, this could appeal to a...

Aren't F@H frames of variable size (in terms of work to do) you probably just got a bigger one at 300Mhz... My overclocking methodology lacks finesse compared to you guys. I just push the FSB up a random amount each time based on what he machine "feels" like it can handle, then when I can't...

It could be the optical drive... Unlikely, but no more so than anything else you haven't tried...