September 2012
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A good mix – http cups and windows
Windows network printing sucks – move off local* (usb), and smb with nmb then things that might have worked before then don’t in windows on rebuild not that i do then very often. I got rid of samba and used cups direct in vista. Our old server finally died and i did not have to… Continue reading
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More thicker than bricks Liverpudilains
‘Wass that’ i hear from a young northern voice who is visiting the monkey house in the zoo*, a more older northern voice from liverpool says to the first ‘dont know’. Bloody Liverpudlians… they be seeing the monkey house. That brings me to the artist an film where there is no talking in it. In… Continue reading
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The linkedin question – do i have a fake user pretending to be me
linkedin is something i dont use, however i have an email addresss that you can look up, and guess who uses that ? spammers and so that makes linkedin complicit and something to be avoided. If linkedin ever gets a stock market listing i wonder if me as a domain owner role will be claimed… Continue reading
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Was,Geoff Ryman
isbn: 9780575081475 is by an author i particularly like who will make me tell you of how much i hate the wizard of oz [should i mention Australia ?], a certain Andrew theatre darling and talent show winner(s) failures* who cant hack it after pimping theatre tickets for many weeks on prime time tv. Only… Continue reading
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Not the victim of a ‘revolution’
I read that the Period House Shop in Warwick, England cannot compete with the modern*, The problem is that the stock of Mr Collett is very niche take the latches you see which indicate the problem. Since most Britons do not live in Victorian era housing, or need latches, or if you do how often… Continue reading
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Missing the plot on the tv stream catch up service
I was beginning to catch up with the vague tv schedule of something I have mentioned and somehow missed one by a schedule reschedule , so I catch up the thing time and any ‘sexy’ moment* was edited out on the web site version. i know this since somehow the reveal about x & y… Continue reading
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Humour of ‘bt openzone’ and fon wifi ala the ‘cloud’
‘Ping’ and i notice an new openzone wifi signal, its unsecured so i try and connect – it fails on my linux box, but gives a bad rfc 1918 dhcp in windows when i borrow a zoo visitors pc. Another marketing failure from British Telecom. As i originally wrote this (in the middle of royal… Continue reading
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dial m for murdoch, Tom Watson & Martin Hickman
isbn: 9781846146039, details the mind control methods which i have mentioned but cannot be bothered to link to at Rupert Murdochs news international. In a couple of pages the culture of this beast is unravelled. I was a little surprised that the politicians take lurid headlines to heart, (the monkey house does not get murdoch… Continue reading
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Adjustment Bureau pissing on PKD
Humans can be bad, and good Adjustment bureau as a film (imdb: tt1385826) compared to the short story by Philip K Dick is all style and religious. By shifting it from dogs to politicians and dancers it infers that god is a good idea – yes you read that right. It has no ‘faith’ in… Continue reading
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Umbrella, Will Self oh and the 2012 Booker prize.
isbn:9781408820148 and Will Self on a booker prize longlist must mean something bad. Self varies and being me i could not grok this book or his last and Mr Self can be a author worthy of mention. However the booker prize thing does not help. 0/5 bananas unfinished That also concludes my coverage of the… Continue reading
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Dark Market, cyber… buzzword galore, Misha Glenny
isbn: 9781847921260 is an Orwell prize award nominee. Strangely my library had it on a shelf – so this is result of that. It tells of Adewale Taiwo whom fell victim to a bored windoze admin, and confirms the mainstream view of uk organised crime policemen (tony blairs fbi) that there a bit useless if… Continue reading
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An community idiot and a videoblog
Evangelical christians’ are an odd bunch when it comes to the internet, ok there a lot better than they used to be but in a new video blog and its forum i see a christian loony has started a thread about books ‘you’ hate. Naturally a book that slews his favourite religion is his book… Continue reading
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Facebook post ipo -1.
Bananas has a ‘harry spike’ type* account on facebook, i log into it every two or three years, and since you humans all have been doing facebook, and the Goldman Sachs (my blog) of this world have scammed investors all in the name of because they can. It was time to login again. To my… Continue reading
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Professor versus the gps device.
Professor popped by the monkey house and said he had bought a gps thing for his car, so being bananas in the falklands that meant an inward groan and a future visit to his office to fix the bloody thing. I discovered later that it is not the latest device and its a refurb model… Continue reading
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Leanne Mitchell and the television talent show problem
I have no idea who Leanne Mitchell is apart from an item on a bbc news site some moons ago about a failed talent show concert tour that failed to get enough people to actually pay to see her in real life and other failures while singing a cover of a song we have all… Continue reading
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ology’s in the mist
Are you intelligent ? maybe ? and do you have a peice of paper that says your an a****. well that only measures one side of the brain, not the other and can you do what your piece of paper says. That is the problem according to many while they might be a***** but cant… Continue reading
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No one here belongs more than you, Miranda July
Welcome ! (joke) isbn: 9781847671165 is a set of shot stories published elsewhere before ending up as this abomination. I picked up the title but i did have reservations on it. Writing short stories is not easy which is something the author proves. 0/5 bananas Continue reading
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dumbing down wordpress with post formats
post formats came to my attention after this (my blog), except they dont appear to work until i used the correct marker to indicate a quote with the template which the back end of wordpress indicated as say quote post. Is a blog is not that hard ? Continue reading