As promised here's a picture of my new pc for gaming (and serious development) as it left the factory.

Well a guy put a digital camera inside a cardboard box and rigged it so that it would snap a photo every ten seconds through a small hole in the box. Then he sent the box through the mail. It recorded a total of 6994 images and he made a movie with them. Link

Georgia Brown of Hampshire, England, has a 152 IQ and is the youngest member of MENSA. She's two years old. Brown's parents noticed how clever she was after she started crawling at five months, walking at nine, and chatting with people by the time she was eighteen months old. From the BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6229738.stm

The first supercomputer capable of crunching through a thousand trillion mathematical operations every second has been announced by IBM.

This is roughly equivalent to the combined processing power of a 2.4-kilometre-high pile of laptop computers.

Blue Gene/P will be capable of a peak performance of 3000 trillion calculations, or floating point operations, per second (3 petaflops). But its sustained performance is expected to level out at around 1 petaflop.

So thats where all the company laptop go when we are finished with them!

The Wellington Arms pub in Southampton is fighting back against a smoking ban in England by becoming the official embassy for the Caribbean island of Redonda. If the loophole works, then the pub will be considered "foreign soil" and the ban can't be enforced.

Redonda is a "one mile square remnant of the cone of an extinct volcano." According to Wikipedia, "The current title of 'king' of Redonda is disputed by at least nine people." Here's "king" Leo's site.

At last count, Bill Gates had an estimated net worth of $42 billion dollars ($42,000,000,000.000).

He has earned since his birth an average of $32.31 per heartbeat, and this is escalating. Here are some things he could do with his money:

Give every man, woman and child on the face of the Earth $7.46.
Pay every California Lottery prize for the next 34 years.
Fund 158 Mars Pathfinder missions.
Fund the US Department of Education for 19 years.
Pay tuition for the residents of Seattle and Tacoma to go to the University of Washington for four years.
Fund the US presence in the Persian Gulf for 11 months.
Fund the US peace keeping forces in Bosnia for 157 years.
Buy 233,346,297 copies of Microsoft Windows 95.
Buy 1,680,000,000 copies of his own book, buy more with his royalties from those sales, continuing the cycle and becomming easily the best selling author of all time.
If he wanted to challenge George Lucas (worth only $2 billion), he could make 227 sequels to "Waterworld," or 35,000 sequels to "Sling Blade."
At the median donation for spending a night in the White House, he could stay in the Lincoln Bedroom for 46,300 years.
If he wanted to go on a killing spree in Los Angeles County, at the rate that Simpson was charged, he could kill 3,360 people and pay all his attorney fees and punitive damages.
At the rate of 1/2 ounce per $27 million, he could pay Mike Tyson to eat 1/5 of Evander Holyfield.
He could fly from Seattle to Paris and back on Air France 45,258,621 times.
If he wanted to go to a local baseball game, he could buy Seattle Mariners season tickets, all of them, for 411 years, and with his spare change could buy the team and the Kingdome.
At Denny's, he could buy a "Grand Slam Slugger Breakfast" for 9,150,326,797 people.
If he couldn't get service, he could buy every man, woman and child in China a Big Mac Extra Value Meal, as long as no one "Super Sizes."
If they preferred, he could buy 17 billion packages of Top Ramen noodles.
He must like coffee, and could buy over 6 billion pounds of French roast at his local Starbuck's.
Speaking of a cup of coffee, he could support one of those Sally Struther's foreign kids for 113,341,969 years.

Perhaps what he need to spend money on most is a new pair of glasses and some hair conditioner.

I dont know if this is related to Vista. I thought I'd post how I fixed it to save someone 2 hours of their lives. I just went into the Window Local Computer policies and disabled rollback and set Windows Installer to always run with Elevated permissions. Insecure I know, but if Microsoft cant write MSI correctly what chance do we have. Lifes too short.

Now its the weekend, I can finally blog about my new PC that I got this week.

Here's the numbers (careful they are hot):

My quest to improve my scratching technique lead me to find some very silly videos recently of some very good turntablists. One in particular DJ Keltech.

DJ Daft Fader <- this made me cry

World of the Worlds

PacMan - this guys fingers are FAST.

Knightrider

If you ever need to create a log file for an installation that was built for Windows Installer. Maybe you used InstallShield (the product I've promised to resign over if I have to use it again).

Here's the command line you want:

For the setup.exe

         setup.exe /V" /l*v c:\log.txt"

Or direct to the msi

         test.msi /l*v c:\log.txt

You should now have a text file in c:\log.txt. Now comes the hard part - working out what the fuck went wrong this time!

On some networks, Windows Vista may not allow you to download large email messages or file attachments to a POP3 account. Instead, you get a message that the server has timed out.

Until Microsoft releases a patch or fix for this issue, you can disable autotuning.

To Disable Autotuning in Windows Vista:

1. From the Start menu, select All Programs > Accessories.
2. In the Accessories list, right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator.
3. At the command prompt, type netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable and press Enter.
4. When the command prompt returns confirmation of OK, close the command prompt window.

You should now be able to download your email in Windows Vista without issues.

I dont normally subscribe to all these networking social sites, I have too busy a lifestyle to keep up with them all. But due to several friends and family joining, I have joined also.

http://www.facebook.com/p/Ryan_Stevens/633497399

If you want to keep in touch, visit me page^^^

If you received "The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted" message when you try to logon to a Windows 2003 Terminal Server then the following is worth a try. It fixed my problem.

Basically, Windows is trying to recieve the user TS profile settings and if you domain isnt reachable (mine wasnt when I found this - I was offsite) it will throw up this error. Fear not if you apply the registry change: