Time to Kill
School has officially ended. My girlfriend is either far away or will be far away for the coming month. That means I have more time to get in touch with my inner gamer.
I tried some games that I had lieing around. I tried Black and White 2: Battle of the Gods. I guess it is too hard and the fact that I can’t do multiplayer sucks. Nothing would be better than one human god pwning another. To be fair it is supposed to be better and I guess it is. I figure I have grown out of the God game genre and just want to go back to regular rts or rpg. Now that I have all this time maybe I should take up WOW. I probably won’t because it isn’t like I am going to be alone forever, she is coming back.
The next game I am taking up is Civilization 4: Warlords. Civ is a turn based strategy. I didn’t like it, never did, but I couldn’t stop myself from playing it. My excuse is I wanted to see if it got any better and the game was a little cool. What I really want is to work my way back to Starwars. That is the REAL game.
Anyhow, gaming. Priority is to be a big waste at home and work hard at work.
Riding Dirty
Finally I am where I want to be with Cable and Wireless. They just successfully installed my brand new 3mbps internet connection. I downloaded an episode of Naruto (170mb) in approximately 10 minutes. I was getting a steady 314kbps most of the time. I feel really really bmobile (it feels good). I hope the fluctuations are minimal and that the service continues to feel this great.
Wonderful stuff!! I may get flow for redundancy but I doubt it. I can live with this. 6mbps would be too much unused speed- yep, i am getting flow too.
You Tube Addiction
The thing I like most about youtube is the Jamaican content.
One of my favourite artistes who is going to be at Reggae Sunsplash- what a coincidence I will be there too. Difference is I pay to go and they pay him to attend. Check out one of his first songs/videos.
IT in a Box ™
So I had to go to some training seminar. They paid me to go anyways IT in a Box. Ever wanted to run everything yourself- Radius, DNS, DHCP, Web Server, Email etc. but you lacked the expertise? Did you ever want to just have an all in one device to do everything for you so that you can fire that stupid computer guy who overcharges you? Well, it will soon be a reality.
Check out EmergeCore. They are the people who made it possible. I did some pretty standard tests on it- my favourite being the RADIUS and VPN. Radius isn’t ready just yet but the VPN connection between two of these babies is seamless. What I am most interested in is the pricing of this device because a technophile who just wants stuff because it is there (me) could use something like this. It is designed to work with any internet connection- Flow or CandW- and can be used with Static or Dynamic IP addresses. It is quite customizable, minus one or two little quirks. The device is a hardware firewall (using SPI- Stateful Packet Inspection) which is pretty much like my Netgear. Come to think of it, the only thing this device does that I really want natively is the Radius.
It has a file server of 20GB, only 20GB. That is 1/4 of my movie collection. It is for business people, not idlers. You can register a domain and watch it host your mail server- and it is excellent for intranets and internal mail systems. If you have a small business of 10 in a shop and you want to add some sophistry this device may do it.
It runs a GUI on top of Linux Slackware. HANDS OFF- you can’t touch the Linux. But atleast it is a stable OS. In the event it all goes to hell you can easily restore factory defaults through the serial port and Hyperterminal.
Cool device. I want one to play with. Built in WIFI (G) at 300ft.
My Phone
Pictures of my phone.
Nokia standing tall. Notice the colour screen on the front and how it looks like a brick.
After you get through the initial brick/heavy appearance it all makes sense when you open her. Everything just seems to get brighter as you behold the full qwerty keypad. Notice the trackball?
She opens all the way out upon request. Welcome to a world where paper is truly unnecessary.
Full HTML browsing, full remote access capability. It is my microlaptop.
This is the KingPhone. Badder than all other Symbian phones IMHO. I know you are probably going to want to talk about pocket pc or the more flamboyant Japanese phones- but for this little island called Jamaica this is the real fiber-glass and bluesteel badman.
