The G33k Archive.

When I went to university I paid for it. I got a loan that wasn’t enough to cover my outgoings, a job, two overdrafts and a credit card. I graduated with honours around £18K in debt. A new poll out from (push.co.uk) shows that students graduating in July 2011 will do so with an average [...]

Hello there! I was working on Saturday afternoon, providing network support for a project at work that was finally “going live”. As usual with these things for the most part it went as planned and I only had to make a couple of firewall-rule changes for hosts and ports that none of the server or [...]

SO! That familiar feeling has returned, it’s been creeping up for a while and then the other day I caught myself scouring Pistonheads *with intent* and it hit me… I think I want to replace the six. It’s very hard to even write those words. The problem is what do I go for? I thought [...]

About a year ago I deleted my facebook account. What this entails is submitting a delete request then refraining from logging into the site for two weeks at which point your account will be removed. If at any point during those two weeks you buckle and log back in, your delete request is cancelled. This [...]

Wanted to put a quick note about the packet-tracer command on here for a while but never got around to it. Pretty much it’s the most awesome command ever invented. What it does is show you a detailed breakdown of the flow traffic is taking through an ASA/PIX without actually having to make something on [...]

Hello one and all! I have had five days with the iPhone now and after an initial period where it was almost un-put-down-able whilst sat on the couch it has already fallen into the “fucking phone!” category, where you shout at your device for refusing to complete the most basic of tasks and long for [...]

iMovie 09 could be brilliant but it’s not, it’s riddled with glitches and for me by far the most annoying one is the “greyed out share menu”. Picture the scene, you work on a movie for three days straight and you’ve finally got it doing exactly what you want. You’ve even managed to cajole the [...]

Why do technologies sometimes go backwards? Take the humble mouse. Years ago they had three useful buttons. Then they dropped down to two and got scroll wheels. There have been exciting forays into side-buttons, built-in rollerballs, mice that accept gestures or squeezes and of course there was the truly terrible mighty mouse which only had [...]

I wish I could get rid of MSN and just stick with Skype. The client is cleaner, it’s designed for voice and video so it’s better at them and you can use it to talk to people who aren’t near a PC. Plus it’s all either free or just awesome value. Everyone do it now, [...]

A while back I reported that my iBook had died. Sad news indeed, but mourn no more because I almost instantly got a replacement and I’ve had a brand spanking new MacBook for the last two weeks! I’m pleased to say that I’m still as impressed with it as the first day I picked it [...]

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