Why not try out my freshly re-installed webserver at http://80.193.33.22/ with new bigger hard drive.

do you know there are people out there that want to ban comic sans the font!. good on em i say, it's the crappest font in the world

huh!?! microsoft to pay AOL $750 million. AOL to USE IE for 7 years. MS to HELP AOL distribute CDs with new PCS! How is this a resolution to MS's anti-competitive-ness? it's win,win for Microsoft, apart from the money going to AOL, MS get IE used by AOL, instead of Mozilla or Netscape being used (which is rediculous considering AOL own Netscape), and MS get IE put with all PCs, in the form of the AOL CD... sheer craziness, especially how we already get WAY too many AOL CDs on the front of nearly ALL UK PC magazines... enough is enough already, I don't want another AOL CD, I've already chucked 12 in the bin this year alone!

"In its lawsuit, AOL alleged that Microsoft used anticompetitive business practices to ensure the dominance of its Internet Explorer browsing software over Netscape's software" - Are AOL really that stupid? To claim MS killed netscape, and then to decide to use IE in AOL, instead of netscape!!?! It sounds to me like AOL are the one's trying to kill Netscape now! anyway, /. waffle more and more. most interesting post basically says : who cares which browser is the best, IE has 90% market share, and as if the general user cares enough to change browser. don't be daft.

Redhat 9 is out, you can download the 3 iso CD images from redhat.com, and PC Pro has this to say about it : "This is the second version of Red Hat's Bluecurve interface, and in terms of visual appeal it's superb - more elegant and refined than Windows XP's Luna and more subtle than Apple's Aqua." It's requirements are a bit hefty, requiring a p2-400 machine with min. 128mb / recommended 192mb Ram and min. 475mb of HD space... it includes : httpd 2.0.40 - Apache HTTP Server, httpd-devel 2.0.40 - Development tools for the Apache HTTP server, httpd-manual 2.0.40 - Documentation for the Apache HTTP server. plus much more stuff.

ASDA at the moment, have "Vivitar" Digital cameras, for �120 for a 2.1 mega pixel camera and �140 for a 3.3 mega pixel camera. They also have a "jentopik" 1.3 mega pixel camera for �68. (with a TFT screen in the back). Whether they're any good or not I don't know, but it's good to see prices of digital camera's coming down more, so they can start competing with standard cameras more. Then there can be a fresh interest in PCs, and more will be sold.

http://www.whatismyipaddress.com/ could be useful to someone somewhere out there. also i've setup a webserver here : http://62.30.21.232 so see if you can access it. if there's anyone out there? i know matt's in spain, but there must be other people out there with internet access?

there's another Joshua Waller out there, and he's doing computer science, and knows about asp and .net.

bob goes to africa. (bob geldof, goes to ethiopia, to raise awareness of the 14million people facing starvation).

an illegal rave. gang violence in nelson, lancashire! between 2 asian gangs. (update: 25 people charged) and talk of people in liverpool, wearing pyama's in the street! bbc website. what is the world coming to? (that link should work, but if it doesn't, you should be able to find the link here). more craziness : cheese chasing.

broadband for all using hot air balloons. details at the beeb.

random website generator. some of them are potentially useable.

matrix thoughts and philosophy...

PS2 super computer, using a cluster of 65 machines running Linux. also here you can read about how the PS2 is faster than a P3-600!. you need the linux kit from sony. more thoughts at slashdot.org (including about how nintendo are considering using the Gamecube, (with it's faster CPU), for the same kind of clustered super computer - but this could just be made up by some guy)

AMD to sell more 64bit CPUs in one go, than Intel have sold in 3 years!

i've added a link to a very funny 40mb movie on the left. about learning disco.

mac adds now. eee. who's been talking about macs on here then? is there anybody out there?

this is great. i love it. go there now. best thing ever. *FACT* check out the atari's on this page

the matrix reloaded - too many adverts. too many trailers for other films, notably : terminator 3 - looks ok, but maybe not spectacular (looks like they've concentrated on special effects a lot - someone else commented "perhaps they should have just stopped with the second one"). the hulk - looks ok-ish, but a bit too cartooney / computer generated. cinema far too hot. screen too small. generally films seem to concentrate too much on special effects, and it's getting to a point where i think we'll start getting a bit fed up of them, because they can basically generate any image they want, and just render it on a computer / farm etc. anyway...

some thoughts about the matrix reloaded. if you are watching it, and haven't seen AND understood the first one the I don't think you'll cope AT ALL with the second one. it gets much deeper (perhaps too deep, especially as it goes without explanation), but doesn't really (this is where i spoil bits of it) answer the questions you want answering, but maybe that's the point?

the "product placement" ,eg, ducati, and the cars (didn't really notice any others, which is more than i can say for other films) isn't too bad. but there is a lot of the film where it does seem like it is just a load of special effects adverts - some of them are Very impressive, but it'll come to a point where I don't think we'll get anything additional or new in the special effects arena without yawning (because we already know they can do everything). Some parts of the film (you can watch the agent smith (x100) fight in the trailer) look just like certain parts of 3dmark benchmarks.

this film links far too heavily into the other films, whereas Lord of the Rings 2 (for example), I think, could quite happily be watched without first having seen the first one, and you'd still understand what's going on. Fight scenes are good, and do have you on the edge of your seat... which is good. Overall I don't think it's really a feel good movie... but if you loved the first Matrix, you've no choice really, but to watch this one... I'll leave it at that, I don't want to spoil it too much. Overall I have mixed feelings about how "good" the film is, but I think once I've seen the 3rd I will know how I feel about the 2nd. (because it's tied in so much).

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