It’s dying it’s dying, it’s dead

By notanerdmoar nota · December 14, 2005 · 13 comments

NH is now dead. The blogging bubble has burst.

Nerd Herd June 2004 - December 2005

RIP

Leastways, I’m fairly sure it is.

SOo now I know…

By notanerdmoar nota · December 11, 2005 · No comments

I often wonder what makes my harddrive churn and gurgle randomly, so I ran this proccess checker to see what. I was suprised to see that the biggest users when I was doing nothing were my USB card reader and my modem program. This was suprising seeing as my Anti-virus spent less time running! Though I still wonder why it takes so long to detect a CF card being inserted.

Windows Live Local

By notanerdmoar nota · December 8, 2005 · No comments

It’s meant to be like Google Maps, but made by Bill. It does do maps quite well, although I can say I like the drag scrolling, which feels like trying to drag the earth around with a pin. It also has satellite pictures called birdseye, which are taken from a different angle from Google’s on top view, although they only seem to have pictures for New York. So, it’s not as bad as it might be, but still not great…

Easy Free OS’s

By notanerdmoar nota · · No comments

I like the idea of free OS’s, but they are a bit pointless (if you already have an OS), and a bit of an unknown quantity. This site happily makes them much more accesible, by using virtual machines, so maybe I can have a crack at SuSe after all.

Back Up FF Bookmarks

By notanerdmoar nota · November 30, 2005 · No comments

I often store lots of useful stuff as Firefox bookmarks, essential sites, cool tutorials, programs I will download… one day. But, I keep thinking what if I lose all my data, I can re download the programs, but I will never remember all the bookmarks. So I found this tutorial, that has lots of faff, but basically tells you that you can back up bookmarks, by going to Bookmarks-> Manage Bookmarks-> File -> Export and there you are, all your net life saved, now I need to remember all my passwords.

Firecat

By notanerdmoar nota · · 1 comment

I like cats more than dogs, that’s why I got Firecat!!!!! Very sweet!!!

Firefox 1.5

By notanerdmoar nota · · No comments

It’s here, more or less a year after 1.0. Wow… All that seems to have changed is the website, the number in the about screen. Oh yeah and there’s a new marketing campaign. Firefox 1.5, I haven’t noticed any difference from 1.5RC3, or RC2, or 1. Oh well, enjoy the hype whilst it lasts.

An Adblock, that works

By notanerdmoar nota · November 27, 2005 · No comments

Nuke Anything Enhanced, is a tiny little extension for everybodys favourite browser, that allows you to block anything and bring it back, with just a click on the right-click menu. Although this is fairly useless, it can be quite fun for bored people like me, and at least unlike adblock or all the rest, you can bring it back.

This will make you feel dumb

By Abby Emery · November 26, 2005 · 1 comment

Did you know that in the average human lifespan of 80 years, your brain processes only 10 terrabytes of data? That means that in your whole LIFETIME you could only go through the information held in a mere TEN hellacious riders email accounts.

Free Flight Sim

By notanerdmoar nota · · No comments

Once upon a time, it was possible to pay £60 for Microsoft Flight Sim ‘04, now you can get an open source flight sim for free! Flight Gear, is an open source multi platform flight simulator, or so it says. Anyway, it is hardly stingily provided for, there are hundreds of planes to download, scenery for most of the world, and it all looks pretty good. I think that anything open source has got to be good news (Blender, sadly stops me from just saying good), and this one looks particulary so.

Update: Just forget it, any initial expectation vanish, when you soon realise that the controls are impossible.