Internet / text laughter scale

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First of all, I probably knew what 1337 meant before you were born, so some of the items on this scale will be a little too geeky for your taste.

If that’s the case, you are hereby excused to your social life of gyms and nightclubs and water coolers and philanthropy. For people who spend the majority . . . → Read More: Internet / text laughter scale

Fix “Session timeout” in Juniper Network Connect with Ubuntu 11.04

So you’ve made the move to Linux and everything has been going perfectly (well, pretty much!) but the one thing that you can’t do is access your corporate Juniper VPN?  Well worry no more, as this article gives you a step-by-step guide on how to achieve this.  Thank you to Rob’s BLOG for the useful information!!!!

 

Instructions

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Building a PC – Cost-saving, useful, educational and … fun?!

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[Note that we wrote almost all of this on November - December  2010 but never published it.  Whilst the PC specs are no out of date you will hopefully get the idea in terms of the bigger picture]

Nowadays, owning a computer in the western world is as important as most other appliances around the . . . → Read More: Building a PC – Cost-saving, useful, educational and … fun?!

Sony PSN – A complete farce

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Well (unlike the other idiots worried that on the sunniest weekend in British history they were unable to play Call of Duty all day and night) having suggested that Sony’s PSN had been fully infiltrated and all our secure information stolen on BBC Radio’s ’5 Live’ breakfast show early last week, it seems that I was absolutely right.

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Natty Narwhal – Ubuntu 11.04 first impressions

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This new post comes to you from my latest Linux upgraded laptop; Natty Narwhal 11.04. First impressions are not very favourable, although there are also some new features that I really like as well.

In order to make this a little more productive, I will break things down into the good, the bad and the ugly. Continue reading Natty Narwhal – Ubuntu 11.04 first impressions

5 Reasons why the music and film industries fail in the digital era

Having seen article after article showing how 95% of all music downloads are illegal and with revenues declining at double-figure percentages each year the music industry is continually blaming consumers for not respecting copyright and pirating album after album that they’d have otherwise bought in the ‘old world’ era.

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US Navy Sub-Hunter Drone Unvelied

actuv_conceptIt’s not every day that the Astonished Ape team get excited about a piece of military hardware (the last one being the spy-snake invented by the Israeli military).  However, this one looks to be a game changer!

Following on from the success of their UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) drones, the US have now created a water-based equivalent to search tirelessly for submarines.

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Random bike-lock that climbs lamp posts!

Up it goes!

We’ve all been there.  Park your bike up in a city centre and then when you come back to it you either find that there’s just a wheel left or no bike at all!

However, that’s all about to change as a group of German designers from Conrad have created a ‘limpit’ lock that you attach to a lamp post and it slowly but surely inches its way up there until you’re happy that it’s up and out of harms way!

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Robotic killer snake on the loose!

Perfect for the girl's showers ...

Israel creates terrifying serpent robot for military and civil duties … . . . → Read More: Robotic killer snake on the loose!