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So, my old External HD is now filled up, after a year and 3 months I needed a new one, was gonna buy a 2TB one and RAID it, but I’m skint so thats not gonna happen. After googling around a bit, I found this 750GB Western Digital (698GB formatted, ftl), and after googling around a bit more, found it on Play.com for £120 2 Firewire, one USB and one eSATA connection = win.

This is the new design one, but I think WD did an amazing job on the looks. The white bar is supposed to indicate how much space is left, but I don’t think that works at all. Its a nice cosmetic feature though, and when its turned off, you can barely see the white strip. Nice work WD My old HD has the blue rings which didn’t work at showing how much space was left either lol. Surprisingly, the 750GB is a bit smaller then the 320GB one , but not by much. Also, there is no rubber on the case like my old one . Hope its still as durable as the other one. :s
Overall the design is more or less the same, just the front has a different indicator and the power button is at the back. I wander how long this one will last……

The odd time I used a crack for the lulz, I wandered how to get some the music that played in the background, I used to find the tunes really good, and using Audacity or something to record made it sound really shit.

Anyhow, after some googling, I found KeygenMusic.net, where they have a MASSIVE collection of those tunes. I downloaded all their files, after going through about half of them, I found some tunes that I thought were the best out of the ones I heard, and I thought I’d share The files (in xm format) can be played in VLC or XMPlay. I converted them all to mp3, but 101MB is too large for me upload on my shit connection

You can find the uploaded rar (1.01MB) here. Enjoy!

Found an interesting article on Boing Boing about plans to “coerce” people to use ID cards, which basically sets the foundation for tracking people. A Government document has been leaked which shows these plans, you can find it here.

UK campaigners NO2ID this morning enlisted the help of bloggers across the world to spread a leaked government document describing how the British government intends to go about “coercing” its citizens onto a National Identity Register. The ‘ID card’ is revealed as little more than a cover to create a official dossier and trackable ID for every UK resident – creating what NO2ID calls ‘the database state’.

NO2ID’s national coordinator, Phil Booth, exhorted bloggers, freedom lovers and anyone who gives a damn about personal privacy to mirror the annotated document on their site.

“The charade is over. While ministers try to bamboozle the British public with fairytales about fingerprints, officials are plotting how to dupe and bully the population into surrendering control of their own identities.”

“Biometric ID cards are a sham; a magician’s flourish to cover the biggest identity fraud there has ever been.”

IMO, we are already in a police state and its gonna get worse with these ID cards. Read the doc and decide for yourself if you can trust the Government.

Haven’t written nothing for ages, so here is a quick post.

• Moved from A Small Orange to a Linode.com VPS
• Started a Uni code project to make a game in Java, our group 97.5% in the first increment
• Started learning databases as a Uni module, using PostgreSQL
• Started a rewrite of my php blogging engine, code was too messy. Haven’t had much time to focus on it
• I hate Joomla Administration backend, most complicated thing I’ve ever used
• The PC requirements for Assassins Creed is stupidly high, but thankfully, my pc should be able to get along ok

Probably the most exciting thing that happened is someone trying to look for commonly installed programs (like phpmyadmin) on teh VPS. Check the log here.

This story deserves a special seal of epic failness:

The HMRC has apologised about its seventh such loss of data and has told the Information Commissioner.

Since I couldn’t find a stamp image…..

BBC Link

For uploading a few copyrighted stuff, but they also disabled access to my own videos (the game ones) :/
Meh.

The Bones Season 2 Boxset was released a few weeks ago, and I got mine from Play.com (which was the cheapest place I could find it). This one included a few extras (unlike the Season 1 Boxset ), including the gag reels. Turns out its only 7 mins long, but I thought it deserved an upload to Youtube.
Enjoy

Bones aside, I also bought the Bourne Trilogy books, and the Bourne Legacy by another bloke, whose name I keep forgetting . It’s a really great read, if you like the film, then read the book as well. Play.com seem to also have a Deluxe Edition of the film Trilogy, which I’m gonna pre-order once the launch date is a bit closer

Finally (lol), I got to watch American Gangster , it really is one of the best films I’ve watched. If you want a film with everything added, without the film being a load of crap, then this is it. It has a 10/10 review from me.

/me adds to dvds to order list

Long story short, I’ve been meaning to upload my entire collection for ages, but kept getting put off at the idea of uploading 360MB+ worth of files. I finally got around to doing it, and you can find them all here. Enjoy

Didn’t think this would actually work (click for larger):

A new science show (lawl) called “The Universe”. If you’re like me, and are interested in the way the universe and planets works, this show is for you!

They have some cool animation as well, which is a nice touch I only found out about this show recently, but its nothing I can’t catch up on .