Are you an extremely intolerant, puerile bigot?

Then Daily Mail writer James Delingpole can cater just for your needs!

Daily Mail is known for its pandering to a certain demographic and estimating that there are 6 billion immigrants living in England AT THIS VERY MOMENT IN TIME, and they are all out to steal YOUR job. Yes, you, the highly trained technician in a specialised job. But anyway, onto the article which gives away all its coming content in the title: “An A-Z guide to the PC madness blighting modern Britain”. That PC madness! I mean promoting tolerance and good nature towards each other, what fucking insanity!

Let us look at a few choice paragraphs:

While the Crown Prosecution Service can always be relied on to prosecute you if you use racist language, show signs of homophobia or defend yourself against burglars breaking into your home, it appears hugely reluctant to bring cases against genuine criminals.

Racism? Homophobia? Seriously injuring or killing other members of the human species? Forget that, go after the proper criminals! Blacks and Asians and those left-wing fucking hippies! I could imagine James frothing at the mouth in rage as sparks flew from his fingertips on the keyboard, I am actually very scared at this point to know what sort of fascist paradise James Delingpole would like this country to become. But this is just the tip of his insane, white, middle class only iceberg.

Let us move onto “D”, yes that’s right, Mr. Delingpole is going to take a pop at “Diversity”.

It’s also why, if you apply for any kind of state funding for your church hall, cricket pavilion or bowling clubhouse, you won’t get it – because the people who would benefit don’t press the correct ‘diversity’ buttons.

This had me laughing quite a bit because it seems Mr. Delingpole can’t help but fall into the same old bigot stereotype. Everything is a conspiracy against the white middle class. I wouldn’t be surprised if he thought the British Empire was a good thing and would probably give me a good slap across the face for not saying “Great” in front of “Britain”. James doesn’t like all conspiracy theories though, oh no, only the ones that fall into his single minded hatred. For example… (more…)

A new kind of idiot

I saw this post earlier, I don’t think it needs much explaining… enjoy.

A new idiot

Various C++ algorithms

All code is released under GPL. If you wish to use, modify, hack it etc, please attribute me.
All of the following code is cross-platform certified on Win32 and openSUSE Linux 10.2.
Maximum algorithm

Unique algorithm

Greedy algorithm

Composition algorithm

Recursive algorithm (Collatz conjecture)

RIAA sues and loses

A recent RIAA court case in the US against defendant Debbie Foster has turned into an very important and interesting one.

The case started out when the RIAA filed legal proceedings against Ms. Foster. The RIAA found her public IP address to be the address of a shared folder on a ‘well known file sharing network’ (limewire then).

She however claimed to be completely ignorant of file sharing, let alone the accused action. She however stated that her daughter and her daughter’s estranged husband also had access to the same account.

The RIAA, instead of simply dropping the case, decided the sue Debbie Foster’s daughter, leaving her as a co-defendant. That makes sense! Both mother and daughter refused to settle (most people do not however), so the case went to court.

The US district court judge, Lee R. West decided that both defendants were not liable to be sued, and so demanded the RIAA to pay their legal fees – which they are in turn refusing and requesting it to be reconsidered.

Even more unbeleivable, the RIAA’s main evidence boiled down to (and I quote) ‘… the defendant heard music coming from the computer when admitted infringer Amanda Foster was using it.’. OH MY GOD! That must mean she’s stealing music, and leaving poor children in Africa without food tonight! Gosh, I feel dirty; I’ll turn my music down shall I?

The RIAA: The irate 70 year-old man of a organisation.
“Turn that music down, or I’ll sue. And get a job, ya bum.”

Incitement to Religious Hatred Bill, stuff you might not have seen about it.

Hello again, was going to post this around a month ago, but things happened.

The Incitement to Religious Hatred Bill last year created a lot of controversy on what could be said and what couldn’t. Anyone who has there finger on the pulse of what insane laws parliament tries pass through should know all about this one. However, I’m not here to rant about what is good and what is bad but to rather show you two things related to this bill or created in direct response to it.

The first is a rather good debate held at the Guardian Hay Festival last year on blasphemy between warmonger Christopher Hitchens and insanely articulate Stephen Fry. (Maybe I’ve let my allegiances show a bit early here, but Mr Hitchens does make a good point, maybe two)
Anyway you can download the whole thing by clicking here. It’s 78mins long, but just to hear the speech/rant at the end from Stephen is worth the whole download.

The second thing you should have looked at when it was on was comedian Stewart Lee’s “Don’t Get Me Started”. A very funny one off about blasphemy that is also very intelligent at the same time, but expect nothing less from the seasoned funnyman. You can only find it on youtube now but take a look anyway by clicking here That is the first part of 6 parts, so make sure you look at all of them.

Enjoy.

We’ve changed servers: The Epic Tale

Whey! I’ve finally changed my server over to a US host. It’s an epic story, which i will relay to your in epic form…

In the beginning, there was ukHost4u.co.uk. Microplop.com was hosted there, and all was good…

(Okay, I can’t keep this up, as it’s too difficult! (well it is the Bible I’m trying to copy!) )

I setup a reseller account at a US based hosting company, under a different website name (i’ll release this later, when it’s finished). Then I created private nameservers to use under this new domain, which all my customers would use. I transferred all the data from ukhost4u to the new host, and all was dandy. I did this using cPanel’s backup and restore feature. I could see the site perfectly on it’s IP based name.

I then tried to change the nameserver info on 123-reg.co.uk. All my domains were registered with them, but they didn’t allow nameserver updates. (for me anyway, they never worked)

… so I transferred all my domains over the www.iyd.com (which costs a hell of a lot, especially to a poor lowly student). This sounds like an easy task, but 123-reg refused to give me my EPP auth codes without either ringing their non-existent-50-pence-per-minute number, or by emailing them. After waiting a few days I emailed again, and kept emailing them. After 13 days, they responded to all 9 emails at once, each one getting humorously more and more sarcastic!

Once I got the codes I transferred all the domains over to iyd.com, and was able to change nameserver info.

After all this, the websites weren’t directing properly using the nameserver info:

• My computer in Reading Uni had no problem viewing any of the sites on some days. On others, nothing was seen -404 errors. And on others, the 123-reg.co.uk holding page could still be seen! Rudeness!
• My computer at home in Kent, had similar problems but on different days!

This confused the hell out of me! The nameserver settings were all correct, and a whois showed the correct nameservers listed.

After much stress and much changing of settings, I deleted the accounts on my reseller server to begin from the top. When I tried to remake the accounts, WHM said that the DNS zone info already existed so it couldn’t possibly make an account of the same name. When I went to delete the DNS zone from within WHM, it didn;t load for ages (literally left overnight!) – so I emailed my new host for them to complete it for me.

Much to my surprise, they replied 3744 times quicker that 123-reg as they replied and fixed my problem in 5 mins!

So here we are now. All grown up but slightly limping from the hideous experience of changing hosts!

Morale?
123-reg and nameservers: EVIL!

Reduce spam with Guerrilla Mail

Found this service:

www.guerrillamail.com

You create a temporary email address which expires in 15 mins for your use on websites which need verification etc.

C++ project: Battle royale and mind warping avatars

This is the most recent C++ project that i’ve completed – got 100%! Woot!

It involved using classes and OOP to create a kinda mini-game where a set of Avatar (12) are assigned random IQs, then battle and the winner is based on probability between the two avatars.

My next project will be my end of term practical: either designing an SDL based Mastermind game clone, or an intellegent chat-bot.

Enjoy this for now though!

.tar.gz sources
Avatar C++ project source

.tar.gz binary (Win 32)
Avatar C++ project executable

.zip sources
Avatar C++ project executable (zip)

.zip binary (Win 32)
Avatar C++ project source (zip)

To use the executable, call it from the command line.

This code is released with no warranty. You can use, change and learn from my code but if you use it, please attribute the code to me, Andy Callaghan.

Apple sets iTunes music free

It’s been announced that Apple, will begin to sell all of it’s music from it’s iTunes music library DRM free. They chose to do this, as on average only 3% of music on iPods is encrypted with Apple DRM, and this restriction stop people from legally downloading music. It was clear that DRM is not and will not ever work to curb illegal music downloads.

This is a huge step towards ridding all music of the DRM infestation, and heading towards a future of universal and non-proprietary formats (ehem, Sony).

Hopefully, we’ll see more of the big names do this, to boost their downloads.

Dual-head nVidia powered displays on openSuse linux: Simple!

Recently I told you that I was scrapping Windows. Well a few weeks down the line, I had a few problems with my multi-headed setup with my graphics card – the nVidia Geforce 7600 GT.

I installed the new version of openSuse without any problems; Setting up an Apache server with php, cgi and ruby on rails all in the drop of a hat (not a fedora here, sorry Dr. AAA).

On first boot it displayed only on one of the screens, giving a dark off-centre shadow on the other screen – oh fudge I thought.
A quick look on t’internet was no good, as the hard Linux nerds told me to get down and dirty in the X11 configuration files.

Before I even thought about considering this, I checked with nVidia themselves, and they gave me the closed-source Linux drivers – which didn’t download properly: parity errors. I then added the legendarily named ‘packman’ repository to YaST2 – openSuse’s software manager.

A quick tick of a box and the nVidia drivers installed. When I rebooted, a little pop-up box came up helpfully saying, ‘Multi-head configuration found. Would you like to enable it?’. openSuse you beautie! It was as simple as that.

As a whole, Linux treats two screen setups a hell of a lot better than Windows does – it is a lot smoother in maximising windows and video across both screens, much more considered controls and configuration, and the openGL effects look mental on it!

So there you have it, openSuse, Linux and nVidia on Linux all rock as far as dual-head configs go.