I changed my Xbox Live password recently and found I couldn’t login to GFWL this evening. “No problem”, I thought. Just change the password to my new one.
No, I can’t change the password. I can select the password field. It’s active, I can move the cursor back and forward but I can’t type or delete the * characters.
Luckily it was a simple, if non obvious, fix to get around this. Uncheck the “Save my e-mail address and password” and “Sign me in automatically” checkboxes. Now you can select the password field and change it. Don’t forget to “remember” the password again..
Yes, Games for Windows Live is a POS.
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A street performer in Galway City last September. Put money in his box and he’d shake a bit and make some noise. Only kids stopped to watch him.
Adults hurried by.
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If you’ve had enough of SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, bailouts, the Euro defaulting, rising oil prices and the rest of the bad news you’ll enjoy this video.
By chance we have a Shitzu at home and a black and white cat (daughter of this cute little fella). They’re friendly but not like these two!
I expect this video will be pulled from Youtube just as soon as the copyright holder matches the song.. Oh well.
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Remember how Lamar Smith, sponsor of SOPA, used a copyrighted image for his website’s background image without permission? Sean Sherlock, the junior minister preparing Ireland’s SOPA did something similar on his website (which is currently down).
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Before the end of this month the Irish Government will introduce a very vague copyright protection law. It won’t be debated in the Dáil as it will be enacted by a ministerial order. Protection of copyright is a laudable endeavour but when so little is known about the amendment or how it’s implemented it’s impossible to figure out how it will affect us. Once IRMA get a whiff of any more power or influence you just know they’re going to abuse it! Remember the infamous “3 strikes” rule?
Before I go any further, here’s how you can help. Sign this petition or use this contact form or this list to contact your local TD to express your misgivings and anger at this law being pushed through so quickly.
From the stopsopireland.com website:
SOPA is the...
There was a man who worked for the Post Office whose job was to process all the mail that had illegible addresses. One day, a letter came addressed in a shaky handwriting to God with no actual address. He thought he should open it to see what it was about.
The letter read:
Dear God,
I am an 83 year old widow, living on a very small pension.
Yesterday someone stole my purse. It had $100 in it, which was all the money I
had until my next pension payment.
Next Sunday is Christmas, and I had invited two of my friends over for
dinner. Without that money, I have nothing to buy food with, have no family to
turn to, and you are my only hope. Can you please help me?
Sincerely, Edna
The postal worker was touched. He showed the letter to all the other...
Android has had VPN support for donkey’s years but I could never get it working. I tried pptpd and xl2tpd but pptpd didn’t work (and has security holes) or the configuration is daunting and lengthy when all I want is a simple proxy.
There’s also HTTP proxy support built into Android. It’s exposed in Samsung and other ROMs at Settings->Wireless and Network->Wi-Fi Settings, Advanced. Apparently this app sets things up correctly too. I’m not sure if it’ll do authentication however unless you add the username:password in the hostname. I also don’t want to install Squid on my public internet server!
So, the holy grail of proxying would be doing so through ssh. Nothing else to install on my server and I get an encrypted tunnel through the internet and...
Are there Skyrim fans in the house? Sure there are! You’ll recognise the town of Whiterun in the video above, all built in Minecraft. It looks pretty good too! Download link for the map in the description of the video!
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This really shows how infinitely small mankind is, view of the milky-way from the space station:
Leo Burnett’s letter to his staff telling them to believe in the products they do ads for. Makes sense today too.
Watched this documentary about the Eames (blocks anyone outside of US from watching unless you have a proxy). It’s fascinating and inspiring. A 90 year old architect in it describes being “really fucked off” when desert at one of their dinners was a few vases of real flowers and it was a visual desert. It’s hilarious. The architect is Kevin Roche, Irish born, Cork reared and went to the States and designed the UN Plaza amongst many other things. And he has a book out.
I’m sure people will think it’s horrid but Katie Price tweeting as part...
I've just completed The End of the Universe as Red, a follow-up to Dark, Plastic, Reversal. Like that earlier film, it's a minimalist ten-minute Super-8 piece made exclusively for performance on 8mm, with a soundtrack on tape. An immersive experience designed for a small audience in a small, very dark...
I forgot I uploaded this video in 2010 and never posted it here. If it weren't for some silly hashtag thing on Twitter just now, I wouldn't have even thought of it. Here's my blurb from the video's Youtube description:
"Automatic Pilot perform "Are you In love." The audio on the original recording was quite thin and poor so I overdubbed the audio with another live performance taken from their "Live In Broadway" album and edited the video to roughly match. Some of the original audio is left on the soundtrack to keep it sounding "open" and "live". At the very least, it makes for an ad hoc music video.
Copyrights (1982) owned by Karl Brown & Matthew McQueen."
Enjoy some of the finest classic 1980's Erotic Jazz Wave you will ever hear!...
The invaluable MUBI Daily Briefing round-up of film news has favourably featured the latest issue of Experimental Conversations, especially Fergus Daly's article 'Sidney Lumet: Experimental Filmmaker?'http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/daily-briefing-experimental-conversations-8Experimental Conversations is Cork Film Centre's online journal of experimental film, art cinema and video art, which I...
This post is one of a 10-part series of posts, the rest of which can be seen here.In this post, I shall address some issues which have been raised by comments made (on this site, Twitter and elsewhere) querying my overall thesis.Common-Law Crimes A "common-law crime" is one which was not voted into existence by the legislature. Many things have been recognised to be criminal for thousands of years. For example, murder, rape and theft were all recognised by the police and by the courts as crimes, even before statute law (that is, laws enacted by our elected representatives) defined and refined the details. It has been suggested by Fintan O'Toole, for one, that what caused the insolvency of our banks was the commission of common-law crimes by bankers. He refers favourably to what happened...
A dichotomy has formed between technology, and the obsession with perfection. On one hand we want a dehumanising levels of flawless blemish free skin, as smooth as plastic or porcelain. Hours are spent in digital darkrooms, airbrushing away our biological markers, and yet, camera resolutions keep increasing, allowing us to see finer and finer details. Ironically, as we enter deeper into the Ultra High Definition world, and resolution depths increase, we will once again look towards fine details and "imperfections", for it's these imperfections that will bring a new level of realism to our viewing pleasure.
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High resolution photography,
Increased spectral allure.
A new viewing fetish
For the modern voyeur.
Fine details...
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WAT via Holy Shmoly! January 19th, 2012 at 22:05
One for the programmers.. WAT (via, RT by SimoRoth)
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If you want to load a large file in Vim you should disable the swap file to speed things up. It’s simple to do as well:
Vim -n file.txt
If a file is over 4096K or so and I have enough system RAM (not usually a problem) I’ll do it this way as it avoids Vim creating a potentially huge .swp file.
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Today is the day kids have to read books to do their homework. But seriously, SOPA and PIPA, bills being considered by the U.S. Congress could have far reaching implications for anyone who puts content online. It’s really going to hurt the U.S. economy and by extension any country that exports into that country. If you live outside the U.S. many of the websites you use every day will be affected by this law, and if a non U.S. website is blocked then they could lose significant website traffic and suffer financially.
Broadsheet.ie (who have gone black along with other well known websites) quoted this Boing Boing post which you can’t see either because it’s gone black today:
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WOAH! Do not put symlinks to your uploaded files in a temporary cache directory. Nginx users running WordPress should beware if they followed these instructions and put a symlink to uploaded files in the wp-content/cache/ directory. I’m going to rewrite that page right now suggesting they use a different directory, possibly wp-content/uploads/ or maybe wp-content/files/.
WP Super Cache (and I presume other caching plugins) will delete everything in the cache directory. It’s like putting important files in /tmp/ where files are routinely cleaned out on reboot.
My replies on the thread above might paint me as a cold heartless bastard but I am sorry those websites suffered data loss. However I’m shocked that they put links to uploaded images in a folder containing temporary...
Dear reader,
Please stare at the looping gif image and listen to the music provided [dopplereffekt gesamtkunstwerk].
How does it make you feel? Do you have an increased sense of self worth? Increased apathy? Suicidal, perhaps? If I said the word "Erogenous", do you see the colour purple? If you have the equipment at home, take a measurement of the serotonin levels in your blood; I think you'll find that they have increased.
Write down your reports and send them to Dr. James O'Reilly, Fine Gael Offices, Dail Eireann.
Your government loves you.
Enda "Jesus" Kenny....
One of my favourite Amiga games of the 90′s was Syndicate. The PC version will be available on GOG.com from next Thursday. Great little shooter, go buy it! (via)
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I’m pretty sure bingbot doesn’t live at 184.171.245.160 and wouldn’t hit /wp-login.php 509 times in a row.
deny from 184.171.245.160
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"Dying to know"
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There it is, a beauty is it not. It merges the best of all possible worlds: a modified Nokia 7110 running Android. I've chosen the body of the best phone ever made for ergonomics. This is still the only phone that I've ever owned where texting was a joy and not a trapeze act for my fingers to go through, where the eventual outcome is a complete state of spastic digits. It has that "Maxtric" flip-down part you see, which not only looked cool but if gave your bottom fingers something to grip while your thumb did it's textual magic. The concept is much the same as a violinist holding the violin with their chin and not their hand.
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I think this game is the reason I bought a joystick for my PC. I still have that joystick (or maybe it’s the second one I bought) up in the attic but I haven’t used it this century yet and I don’t have a PC with a joystick port/parallel port any more! Remember the joys of calibrating your device so your game was simply playable? You young ‘uns with your Xbox 360 controllers have it easy these days! I never understood why joysticks had to be so fiddly on PC when they just worked on the 8 and 16 bit machines.
This game ran in 320×200 pixels and 256 colours. I do remember when that was and impressive screen resolution. (via)
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