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ahdkaw
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Joined on 23/01/1999 and last visited on 18/09/2011
ahdkaw has posted 229 articles and 426 comments.
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This post was last edited on the 22nd of June, 2011 at 8:53pm
Remember, remember. Protect our Internets.
Our time is coming. If you can help, then please do so.
Note that we do not support DDoS attacks, but we do support defending our Internets.
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This post was last edited on the 30th of October, 2010 at 7:03am
and has 3 comments, the last was posted by ahdkaw on Mon 8 Nov 2010 at 2:54pm
Times, they are a-changing
It may take me a while to get the official licenses in place, as I have to study up on these things, and work out if I need to pay anything. If I do have to pay something to do this, then I will do so, but don't let that stop you from rifling through our content and doing what you want with it.
I believe in free culture, and this site has always been about free culture, that's why we started it in the first place. We just didn't realise that was what we were doing at the time (we started back in 1999 when there was no copyright war).
So if you enjoy any of the writings on this site, or any other parts of this site, then we kindly request that you do something with it. This is no longer about swapping links, it's about sharing culture, and even though we are such a small fish in a huge ocean, we hope that more interesting stuff can be brought forth from our initial ideas. For example, have you read The Great Wave of Change? Did you enjoy the bizarre happenings, the 80ft giant Iron Lady wreaking vengeance upon the inhabitants of Thud for promoting the consumption of Young Conservative Strips? Want to to make a video of it? Please do. We are shit at graphics, but maybe you aren't.
Whatever, just share, mix, and let us know the results. We'll even feature it on this site (as well as share it across Twitter and other mediums). You may even end up forcing a change of focus for this site, which let's face it has been dead in the water for many years now. I don't want this site to end up being discarded at some point in the future, but for this site to work we need your help! Not money, I can still afford the hosting costs. Not programming skills, we can change the code (although any help would be highly appreciated).
It's time we came out from the darkness of the Internet and stood up for our rights to mash up and share other peoples work without being criminalised.
So, want to help? Want to do something with our stuff? Do it, for dogs sake, do it! We need you!
Thanks for listening.
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This post was last edited on the 18th of October, 2010 at 1:33pm
and has 4 comments, the last was posted by Horab Fibslager on Wed 3 Nov 2010 at 7:30pm
So it's 42 Day Today
Nevertheless, I wholeheartedly support 42 Day as it is also a reference to The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by the sorely missed, Douglas Adams.
Now I did say on twitter that I would start my programming exercises right away, but 42 is hard to drag oneself away from. Here's a link I found while scouring the twitterfeeds.
http://www.fortytwoday.com/ with thanks to @hannahpaigevick
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This post was last edited on the 10th of October, 2010 at 3:06am
Pope visit to the UK?
Thank you, Tim, you made my day. :)
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This post was last edited on the 16th of September, 2010 at 4:36am
Independent Insurance Company Research? Nope
And what wise sage words of wisdom can these companies give us?
Quote:
The scams cost insurers about £350m in 2009 and added £44 to the premium of every driver in the country.
Of course, that's why our premiums constantly rise in cost, always outpacing inflation, year on year, nothing at all to do with insurance company greed (insurance companies, as we all know are some of the most trustworthy private organisations in the world - LIES!). Yes, better to list legitimate claims as scams, because this stuff eats into their profits - can't payout, that would just be wrong.
And I believe everything private insurance companies say, it's obvious to me that if someone drives into the back of my car, it's my fault and I'm just fraudulently claiming that I was in front. BULLSHIT! You greedy, trough-snuffling insurance companies. At the end of the day, if you are riding up someone's arse (too close to the car in front), and the driver in front does slam all on, then it is the driver to the rear who bears all responsibility for not stopping in time. Can't do that? Get the hell off my roads, I don't want your car in the back of mine thanks.
Even if I slam on my brakes intentionally, it is still the driver behind who is to blame. Sorry, but if you disagree you should maybe re-sit your driving test (or maybe we should get the government to take away your right to drive - at the behest of private companies).
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This post was last edited on the 20th of August, 2010 at 11:26pm
A political splurge
Hmm, that's not long enough for here, I might get away with that on twitter, but not here. Must add further content irregardless of the relevancy or value.
As a "pirate" I suppose I should maybe provide some of my political views on all the copyright madness going on right now (and frankly has been going on for quite a long time now).
I am opposed to disconnecting in any situation. The Internet is now vital in many peoples lives. If I lost my connection for example (will never happen), it would ruin me as most of my work is based on this thing (and has been for a long time).
In my youth (I'm not old now though, I mean younger youth) I bought a lot of music, mostly vinyl; imports, white labels, small indie labels (probably around £10k or more over the years), and repeats on "new media" like cassette and eventually CD. I used to be quite the vinyl junkie. So I already have more than enough music thank you. Nowadays I tend to spend on gaming, merchandise, and gigs.
I used to spend in the cinema's and buy DVDs too, but due to the way that Hollywood views it's fans, I chose along time ago to decline to fund such an industry. The same is true for the music industry. Their "fight against piracy" is the one thing that stopped me buying.
However, I still do buy DVDs, because I have no choice but to buy Four Lions (I'm a relatively big fan of Chris Morris, but I hate the word "fan" when applied to myself, so I use it with this disclaimer). I'm not going to wait for it to turn up on iPlayer (which it likely never will). I will buy independent stuff, I love it when people try new ways of doing things - The Yes Men and Pioneer One being two prime examples.
Notice how I didn't say TV back there? That's because I haven't watched TV in a year now, I prefer to watch my programmes on the Internet. I get no adverts, no enforced breaks, and I can pause it, rewind, ffwd. That's what I like, and I really think that anyone who thinks it should be different is living in the Stone Ages.
Admittedly, at the moment I actually can't watch iPlayer on Ubuntu x64 or frankly any other x64 *nix OS (although the news and sports work, which is odd), thanks to the wonderful world of closed source Adobe Trash. We have a better one now BBC, you can stop feeding in to the Adobe machine. You already know about HTML5, right?
Instead, I have to use get_iplayer, which the BBC doesn't like, but I don't like what the BBC is forcing me to do to watch the shows I have paid in for.
There, I think that should do it, I've gone on long enough now.
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This post was last edited on the 20th of August, 2010 at 3:17am
and has 6 comments, the last was posted by ak on Fri 20 Aug 2010 at 8:00am
Quick fix to login script
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This post was last edited on the 6th of August, 2010 at 12:34am
and has 2 comments, the last was posted by ahdkaw on Thu 2 Sep 2010 at 2:07am
Everybody wave Wave goodbye
Google drops Wave because of lack of users
sensibilium.com had heavily tested the platform for numerous tasks and projects, of course, and were a dab hand at constructing waves and finding problems.
It was kinda shitty, so we won't miss it. :)
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This post was last edited on the 5th of August, 2010 at 2:15am
Ubuntu x64 as a desktop replacement?
At the moment I am going through an installation and test setup with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Lucid Lynx (x64), after a successful dry test of 10.04 x86. This will be an informational post that mostly details my tasks, and how they were completed, mainly for my own use when it comes to trashing my w7 install (I will be keeping my w7 games OS and dual booting via the BIOS). If other people find this useful, well that's just a bonus.
First up, install from the ISO/DVD, set username, etc. and login once done.
Either wait for the Update Manager to appear, or run it yourself from:
System -> Administration -> Update Manager
Install all updates. Restart if required.
Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions (this only applies to Virtual Machines)
If using VirtualBox, the Guest Additions must be installed to get a decent screen resolution. Open a shell prompt and install the dkms package first:
sudo apt-get install dkms (press enter)
Wait for install to finish.
Mount the Guest Additions to the CD drive, locate the folder using your shell prompt, which is usually:
cd /media/V* (press enter)
followed by
sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run (press enter)
Then wait for the install to finish (takes a little while). Restart computer.
Upon reboot, Guest Additions will be running as expected (hopefully - does for me).
Install additional software requirements
Use Ubuntu Software Centre to add further software, below is the list of software I need to install each time. Search and you will find:
Wine (all this for one tiny program I need)
Eclipse (software development environment)
Gimp (image manipulation)
Flash (obvious really)
ntfsprogs (access Win NTFS partitions)
Eclipse Plugins Installation
I'm not too sure about this, and whether any further development tools are necessary (especially in the case of the C++ development environment - though this knowledge will come with usage over time), but below are the plugins so far required for myself.
Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools
PHP Development Tools (PDT) SDK Feature
Eclipse Java Development Tools
JavaScript Developer Tools
Install each of the above individually, and restart Eclipse after each install.
Configure stuff
Configure the system (Firefox, Gwibber, Eclipse, Wine, etc.).
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This post was last edited on the 29th of July, 2010 at 12:33am
and has 8 comments, the last was posted by ahdkaw on Thu 5 Aug 2010 at 2:18am
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