Webcam programmed to capture your face while playing Xbox: gauges your excitement

Check out the graph! I'd never of guessed the game as I loved the one in question. My money would definitely have been on a frustrated FPS player!

Engadget:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/05/webcam-programmed-to-capture-your-face-while-playing-xbox-gauge/

Technical books and corrections

Todd Lammle is considered a bit of a god to some networking engineers but even good teachers (I do consider him a good teacher ) make mistakes. I'm going through his CCNA book currently.

So when you get that occasional question wrong that you were dead certain was right you go exploring for the truth....

http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470901071,miniSiteCd-SYBEX,descCd-ERRATA.html

I guess it keeps you on your toes...

Lesson: Always check the publishers website for corrections!

BT Wholesale want to look green, I call it cost cutting.

See the think broadband article here .

From a diagnostic standpoint it's a potential nightmare without well formatted readouts from diagnostic tools, Root cause analysis will not just involve simply looking at the individual line, but more increasingly their neighbouring lines as well to see if there power state changes are effecting your customers line.

Yes it is green and good but if it's causing a bigger headache then I feel it'll not be worth. Think about all the petrol consumption of those SFI (Special faults Investigation) engineers. With the switch to fibre surely they should be concentrating of reducing power output there with increase performance instead of tampering with what will hopefully be a redundant technology in the next 20-30 years.

http://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-202.pdf

BT SIN 470 External NTE

Below is a picture of the external NTE that OpenReach will install in some instances, that is external to the premises. This looks to be only used in newer builds. The SIN is 470  (dated 2008) and looks to be a similar approach to what Verizon do in the US with FiOS although that is a fibre product. 

Virgin Media’s updated Traffic Management policy

I'd be pretty annoyed at Virgin right about now, The no restriction policy is what made those premium costs half  decent value on their products.  To be honest they'd be better looking at improving functionality such as static IP's, reducing jitter & increasing the stability of the service.

Virgin Media’s updated Traffic Management policy

RasberryPi has been ordered!!!

Woo hoo, I got my e-mail to advised I could now order my RaspberryPi.

Now just got to wait for stock allocation :)

Bohemia Interact sale

I was a massive fan of Operation Flashpoint back in the day. This wasn't your Modern Warfare sort of game. This was serious! Serious as in one shot and your dead serious... I loved the planning, the intensity and the refrained approach to it! If your the sort to run in all guns blazing then your in for a shock with this.

Well Bohemia have a sale on and you can get all the games or just the more modern ones. Also you better have a very well specced PC as these are benchmark games and with test your system at the higher settings.

Ars Technica - IPv6 coming in force this year!

Article:

With World IPv6 Launch, IPv6 on by default will be the new normal

Engadget review the HTC One X

Getting a bit bored of my iPhone 4S.. Coming from a Windows Phone 7 device (HD7) saw improvements but I missed the size and quality. This has me looking at what's on offer at the moment.

The smartphones I really like the look of at the moment are the Samsung Galaxy note, the nokia Lumia 900 and this HTC:Link

GAME UK gets a small lifeline.

Looks like OpCapita has agreed to buy the remaining stores and deal with a large potion of the companies debt.

I personally think the publishers should be doing what they can to help out (obviously if they get certain financial assurances) as this has the large benefit of retail space providing free advertising for them. GAME will need to focus on competitive pricing though as they really flag there.

BBC link: here

Proposed UK law would monitor all emails and web access

Totally understand the concern for security but this is a little extreme really:

BBC link: here

Google + Maps + NES

Brilliant!




Dun-da-errrrrrrrrr "Blow on the cartridge to fix bugs!" :)

The Register has a IPv6 rant...

Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/31/ipv6_sucks_for_smes/

It very much does sound like a rant and although there are some fair points buried in there, as well as some interesting links, be sure to read the comments as well! It does also neglect the fact that the alternative is sticking with IPv4 and having to deal with large scale NAT (LSN)

Packet Tracer not opening on Ubuntu (LInux)

I figured it out.

So I tried various versions 5.3.2 / 5.3.3 etc and nothing was working for me.

The program would happily install but would not run when I tried to launch it.

It would seem that the program has some dependencies it requires that it doesn't bother to check for from what I can tell. luckily these are easy to obtain although I've not been able to specifically identify them (lack of time).

The simple fix is to just install something like Wine and this will have packet tracer loading up (not in Wine before you think I'm cheating!) in no time.

I've created a bug report but it looked like there were similar reports for other versions of Linux and also they have some newer revisions of Packet Tracer in the pipeline which will hopefully remedy this.

http://ptbugs.ptnetacad.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10628

Epic licenses Unreal Engine 3 to the FBI

GAMES DEVELOPER Epic Games has announced that it is licensing Unreal Engine 3 to Virtual Heroes, which in turn will license the engine to US government agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the military.

Source: The Inquirer (http://s.tt/18rzw)

GAMES DEVELOPER Epic Games has announced that it is licensing Unreal Engine 3 to Virtual Heroes, which in turn will license the engine to US government agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the military.

From The Inquirer (share this quote)

GAMES DEVELOPER Epic Games has announced that it is licensing Unreal Engine 3 to Virtual Heroes, which in turn will license the engine to US government agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the military.

Source: The Inquirer (http://s.tt/18rzw)