Archive for November, 2005
EDS coughs up over Tax Credit debacle
“EDS is to stump up £71.25m to settle its dispute with Her Majesty’s Revenue & Revenue over the disastrous system the services giant built to support the UK’s Tax Credit system in 2003.”
Lost Rhapsody
A tribute to the TV show Lost, set to Weird Al Yankovic’s “Bohemian Polka” (his version of Bohemian Rhapsody).
Free E-Book: "God’s Debris" by Scott Adams
Scott Adams announced on his blog that he is giving away the e-book version of God’s Debris. “Imagine that you meet a very old man who—you eventually realize—knows literally everything. Imagine that he explains for you the great mysteries of life—quantum physics, evolution, God, gravity, light, psychic phenomenon, and probability—in a way so simple, so [...]
EarthCore And Ancestor: Two Free Podcast Novels
Following my Podcast theme, I’d like to introduce you to two Podcast novels by Scott Sigler. EarthCoreDeep below a desolate Utah mountain lies the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill a world’s record, three-mile-deep mine shaft. EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources [...]
Big Brother is watching: 1984 becomes a reality in the UK
I can’t believe this is being allowed. The UK police are using taxpayer’s money to build a nation-wide network of cameras to issue speeding tickets to taxpayers. All your movements will be monitored, logged and stored for two years, in order to tackle ‘serious crime’ such as speeding and identifying untaxed and uninsured vehicles. This [...]
The Dilbert Blog
Scott Adams has a blog! I think this might make it onto my daily links.
Tape It Off The Internet
The future of television, or the next Grokster? Watch this space…
Virtual Machines
Commercial Virtual Machines:Microsoft Virtual PC 2004VMware Workstation Free Virtual Machines:Bochs IA-32 Emulator ProjectXen virtual machine monitorQEMUWINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator)
How to crash Windows on demand
I just watched Hak.5 episode 1×03.5 and got this handy little ‘developer’ tip for crashing Microsoft Windows on demand: Open Regedit.exe Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servicesi8042prt\Parameters Create a new DWORD Value called “CrashOnCtrlScroll” with the value 1 Reboot Now when you want to force a Blue Screen Of Death, just hold down the right CTRL key and press [...]
My Favourite Podcasts
Since iTunes integrated Podcasts I’ve been trying out a few to see whether I like the idea of listening to people rambling on about various (mainly tech-related) subjects, much to the annoyance of my girlfriend. Some of the podcasts I’ve tried are truly awful, some aren’t so bad, and others are really quite good. Here [...]