Friday, June 20, 2014

Music of the day - The Polish Ambassador

Really digging this song I just came across yesterday called "Let The Rythym Just" by The Polish Ambassador, really reminds me of some old school De la Soul or even A Tribe Called Quest


They have a mp3 album for sale on Amazon and its supposedly available on cd as well but haven't been able to find it anywhere yet.


Anyway....happy Friday





Monday, June 16, 2014

51% bitcoin

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/bitcoin-security-guarantee-shattered-by-anonymous-miner-with-51-network-power/







Such a bullshit article written by some one who either doesn't know or is purposely obscuring the facts...., the 51% only matters when they decide to do something devious......lol kind of like the USA govt and USA dollar.


You don't see people asking for a hard fork of the USA dollar do you (well apart from Russia and China....)

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Shakespeare in the park

A perfect sunset this afternoon for Shakespeare's Hamlet down by the water in the Brooklyn Bridge Park   


Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love









Saturday, June 14, 2014

Comcast is turning customer wifi cpe into access points


I haven’t seen many posts about the recent Comcast announcement - http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/11/comcast-is-turning-the-us-into-its-own-private-hotspot/ but wondering if that’s because people don’t understand the ramifications of it (or don’t care).

 

Although Time Warner hasn’t announced they are doing this here in New York ….you can bet it wont be long before they do so.

 

Basically what this means is that “from the central office” they can “flip a switch” so that your home cable modem/wifi access point is now not only serving traffic to you and your family but also anyone who wants to sit outside your house and log in with their time warner username/password.

 

Your choices are basically….accept it – or purchase your own hardware from Amazon or similar (btw this means you no longer have to pay the $5 per month cable modem rental fee which saves you money after 1 year), if you are looking to purchase your own hardware this SB6121 is the type of device you are looking for -  http://bit.ly/twsb6121   as its wifi free and once you own it cant be controlled by the “central office”

Thursday, June 05, 2014

Music of the day

I think its one of those kind of days........

http://bit.ly/Run_Lola_Run

If you don't own this cd you should check it out -  http://bit.ly/Run_Lola_Run

Alternatively I added a few of my favorite tracks into the Mood Music box on the left.

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Running the Always On Top app on server 2008

There is this great little app called Always On Top that does exactly what it says, basically you can run or designate a "window" on top of all other windows using the command Ctr-Alt-T


Apart from that it just sits in the background doing nothing....... (lol probably a CIA monitoring app....I hope its doing nothing but these days who knows).


Anyway like I said I love it and its one of the first apps I install when setting up a new pc.
- http://download.cnet.com/Always-On-Top/3000-12565_4-10674027.html


Long story short I found in Server 2008 it stopped working, it would run no problems eg in the ProgramFiles (X86) folder but hitting Ctr-Alt-T didn't cause windows to stay on top.


The solution and although obvious I'm posting it here for SEO reasons in case anyone else gets caught out is to simply right mouse click the exe file then click on Compatibility tab then  check the "Run this program in compatibility mode for - Windows Server 2003" check box and hit apply.


The restart the app......sweet all good again :)

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Inflations a bitch

Stole this from a ZeroHedge.com post

Modern economics does not have a monetary policy.
Modern economics has a counterfeiting policy.
Counterfeit enables thieves to not have to produce anything because they steal from those who do.




Awesomely simple and accurate.
:)

Light/Matter conversion

I wonder how much faster we could do this research if we got rid of all religion and wars and stopped blowing the shit out of each other at 2-4% of our total GDP


I guess there is always hope that humans will actually evolve.....but probably not in my lifetime.




When you look at how much potential there is in the light/matter conversion (unlimited energy for one) it makes you realize we aren't much more evolved than stick wielding cavemen.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/18/matter-light-photons-electrons-positrons