Feckoff.net

I haven’t posted here in the last few days for several reasons, including in no particular order:

• UTV being skinflint tight-arses and charging me through the arse for breaking their stupidly low traffic cap.
• Being busy as fuck in work.
• Breaking my balls in the gym. Not literally, you filthy bastards.
• Spending too much of the little available free time playing games (Mostly Tie Fighter and emulated fun on the PSP, now that clever bastard Fanjita and pals have enabled such toys on later firmware versions)

Also, wrt the title of this post - I’ve been listening to the song of the same name a lot recently. One of the best songs ever written, in my opinion.

Legendary PSP hacker Fanjita has released his EBOOT loader for 2.01 and 2.50 Sony PSP’s, which allows users to run the majority of homebrew software out there. (Well, in time it will - the list of working software with the GTA eboot loader is still quite small, but growing)
(via PSPUpdates)

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This interests me, as a long-time sufferer of UTV’s poxy 8GB traffic cap, which mars what is otherwise quite a good service. Full details of the new package can be seen here. The cap increases are fairly miserly (8GB to 12GB, and 16GB to 20GB), but they do offer an “unlimited” option for an extra €5.99 a month. I’m going with that, since I’m already paying an extra €32 this month for breaking my old 8GB cap by a measly 2GB.

It’s not really unlimited, as they have some terms and conditions on it, but it should suit my needs fine.

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AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(Requires QuickTime)

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Several months ago I was looking for help getting ancient DOS game, TIE Fighter to work on Windows XP and modern hardware. I never had much success getting it to run in SVGA (woo!) mode - i.e. 640×480, until today. Back then I was using an ATI graphics card, which apparently no longer supports the ancient VESA graphics modes TIE Fighter uses. Now I have an nVidia 6800GT, and after some faffing about, it works flawlessly.

I spent many, many hours on that game when I was about 13/14, and now I’m doing it all over again

What makes it possible is VDMSound, a great piece of free software that emulates the typical soundcards of the DOS days, and also throws in support for joystick emulation - i.e. any joystick you can use with Windows XP, you can use with your DOS games through VDMSound. VDMSound can do VESA emulation as well but it doesn’t work properly with TIE Fighter, which is why I could never get it to work with my old ATI cards (9800 Pro AGP and X800 PCI-E).

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I guess the DSL speed upgrades went ahead last night then…

			Downstream	Upstream
Line Status	ADSL Link Speed		2048   kbps	256   kbps

Up from my paltry 1Mb/128k. Now we wait for UTV to announce something about their download caps.

TV is Crying - I came across a link to this site whilst reading an article on TCAL earlier. I’ve since added it to my favourites.

I love the silly shit that comes to me by email, its great!

This is brilliant. Ever had a tune stuck in your head but you just couldn’t figure out what it was? Well, song tapper will let you tap it out with your spacebar and give a list of possible matches. Flash required. Read more »

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - that’s the president of Iran to you and me - is our latest bell-end of the week. He’s decided to hold a conference in Iran on the holocaust, which he described as “a myth”. This coming so soon after his recent nuclear chain-yanking earns him his first bell-end of the week award. I suspect its the first of many. Ahmadinejad also recently spoke about how Israel should be wiped off the map. Pleasant chap isn’t he?