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Hypnosis for Beginners

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:08:31 +0000

I wrote a tiny website many moons ago and never got back to it at isntthat.greatnow.com. Mainly I was hacking away the ugly ads that are injected into the free website’s page, but there was one gem of info, and I think it belongs here so that I will maintain it. The following is copypasta…

Wer (2013)

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:23:11 +0000

Wer Overview Just watched Wer there. I was not expecting much from this, but Wer turned out to be pretty watchable. Wer is a modern werewolf movie, with the usual modern minor twists on what a werewolf is, no silver bullets though. It started off looking like it was going to be yet another mockumentary,…

Cheap Thrills (2013)

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:18:30 +0000

Cheap Thrills (2013), wow that was some intense shit! Strange to see David Koechner (AKA “Whammy!” sportscaster guy from Anchorman) in a darker movie. I am guessing the premise of this movie may have been inspired as much by Bum Fights as the reality shows that are hinted at in the film. Pretty well done…

UPC (Ireland) upgrade [edit: Fuck UPC Technicolor]

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:54:00 +0000

I recently did a UPC package upgrade. They insisted on giving me a new modem. hopefully these Technicolor modems aren’t a pile o shite n start crapping out on me like the dodgy Cisco they tried to peddle to me until i got it replaced with an older model… …so far so good. [EDIT: NOPE!…

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Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ V2 (RND4000)

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:13:00 +0000

Just bought one of these for €200. It’s a compromise on price performance. I wanted 1 gigabit read/write, but would have to shell out a lot more to approach these figures. The unit looks good. As you may have read in other reviews the drive bays are way too accessible and easy to take out.…

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I’m back with UPC!

mcmonkeys1 — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:26:00 +0000

O joy of joys! In the last 10.5 months I’ve had to suffer with a data connection ranging from 40k thru my nokia phone with bad drivers, to ADSL on a 2Mb connection that at best connected at 1800kbps and was completely intermittant.But finally I’m back with UPC!!! check it: Prepare urself UPC, acceptable usage…

Just got a Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000 !!

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:16:00 +0000

Just received this by courier! Fantastic, it’s huge! Right hand side is level with a UK / IRL size electricity plug.<p>right hand side </p>

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Viewsonic VG2436wm-LED

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:33:00 +0000

My awesome new Viewsonic VG2436wm-LED monitor (pics pending). Another fantastic gift to myself ;-) Thanks Ros! No problem, anytime Ros. 24″ 1080p, colours look vibrant, contrast ratio is high. Viewing angles are no great shakes, but no worse than other monitors. The most stand-out feature is pivot support (rotation) so that monitor can go into…

OCZ Agility 3 60GB

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Santa’s been! Actually I bought this one myself. I have a Lenovo R400 Thinkpad, it takes about 4/5mins to boot up and hard drive always seems to be thrashing. Seemed to be getting 40-60 MB/sec moving large files off the hard drive which is pretty shit. Bought myself an OCZ Agility 3 60GB and fuck…

Firefox v4

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 08 May 2011 17:27:00 +0000

Upgraded to Firefox v4 there last night. Seems to want to crash all over the shop. It’s also using a whopping 400+ MBs of ram. I’d recommend any Firefox users delay their upgrade until next incremental release, at least (version 4.1?). Other than that, the GUI interface now resembles Google Chrome. There is also built-in…

700GB of data gone :-(

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 03 May 2011 01:39:00 +0000

The hard drive in my Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive (hmnhd) has died with the loss of 700GB of data. This is extra annoying as i was in the middle of collecting data from all of my machines into the one place (the dead drive) with the idea that i’d then make a backup…

“C Programming in Linux” by David Haskins. An alternative to “The C Programming Language” by Kernighan and Ritchie

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:41:00 +0000

I found this great book for learning C. Lesson 1 is the usual “hello world” console app, but literally the next example dives into using it as a CGI script. It teaches all the usual C console output stuff, but concentrates on web programming with C and apache web server. This is great, as the…

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Skyline (2010)

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:24:00 +0000

Great space monster b-movie, with plenty of action and other eyecandy. This is the sort of shit they wish they could’ve made in the 1950s.

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Put Archlinux on my eee pc 901

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:21:00 +0000

I decided to wipe eeebuntu 8.04 from my eee pc 901. I have put on archlinux which turns out to be great! you have a lot more control of ur installation with archie, and i’ve gone for a very lightweight approach to suit my netbook. No desktop environment, just using openbox window manager, and carefully…

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Predator Ultimate Hunter Edition

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:44:00 +0000

Nice 2010 50GB blu-ray remaster of the original 1987 arnie classic film. Not to be confused with the 2008 blu-ray version which was the mpeg2s from the DVD upscaled. Available for sale and download now from the usual outlets, e.g. Soft-copy http://www.katzforums.com/showthread.php?t=2235921 Hard-copy http://www.amazon.co.uk/Predator-Ultimate-Hunter-Edition-Blu-ray/dp/B003JSRSR8/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1290466389&sr=1-1 My new wallpaper:!blogger.com shrank my hi-res caps!

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Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive Review

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:30:00 +0000

I’ve owned a 1TB Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive (hmnhd for short) for about a year now. It’s damned handy for sharing media files between my computers (and housemates). In fact, if it was feasible, i would use a network hard drive for all my data across machines and OSes. There are however drawbacks.…

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Stanton Final Scratch 2

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:47:00 +0000

have had the stanton box, timecode records, and a zillion leads sitting in it’s box for nearly 3 years. just got the correct firewire lead for it, *and* ditched trying to get the software that came with it to work. i don’t like using illegal software, but in this case it was actually the only…

thomann.de delivery!!!

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:49:00 +0000

excitement overload as this box appears GOODS! YAY! playtime!gotta fix up my big PC box first tho.. update: installed new system fan and disabled on-board graphics. still givin me jip. unpacked my new AKG 601s. incredibly comfortable so far, nice big cushions, circumaural design covers the ears well. con: lead is well embedded in there,…