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Graphics Card 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Well, I was in the middle of a game of World of Warcraft (as usual) the other day, when my screen went blank and displayed, "RGB No Input Signal", I just thought that the cable had been disconnected or that I had hit the off switch, but that was all snug. I then restarted the computer and the screen regained conciousness, so I thought nothing more of it, until I started World of Warcraft again, and as soon as the game opened into full screen (after pressing Play) the screen did exactly the same.I again, checked the cables, restarted and this time did not load anything, I waited around 1 minute and the screen went dead. I bellowed "What ever the hell is going on?!" I suddenly had a brain surge, "It could be my Graphics
Card!" That may actually be it I thought as I ripped my computer apart, took out the Graphics Card and inserted a Nvidia GeForce MX 440 as a replacement. That did it! My old Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro card had packed up after only 8 months of hardcore gaming (yeah, okay th
Bull3t in Beta! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Wahay! Finally I have moved Bull3t's Blog to Blogger Beta, new features here I come. Maybe now, if I can find the time I can start posting more, I have also stopped using Flock, so you won't see so many technorati tags anymore. Also I shall be using the new Labels feature to Blogger in Beta as categories for my posts!Anyway, enough about Blogger in Beta. I have recently viewed the video for the Microsoft Office 2007 suite and realised that it doesn't seem to be that newcomer-friendly, yes The Ribbon replaced menus and toolbars with one, easy place to find all of the commands you need, but is it really that easy? What ever happened to all the menu bars, were they not easier for newcomers to navigate? There are some very nice features that have been added, but I am not sure that newcomers would find this all as easy as it seems.Well, that will have to do for now as I have to go and do some other stuff...
Internet Explorer 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Had to make some changes to my blog today because some things were messed up, added a new translation bar on the right. Made the comments and "send this post" image float on the right of the post footer.Some minor problems occur with the translation, because Google thinks it is clever it tries to translate every page that this blog links too, but of course that causes some errors because you won't then be able to swap between languages, you will have to press "View Original Web Page" on the Google frame at the top, or re-type the blogs URL manually. May have to remove or remake it later.InternetExplorer
6 (or lower) users may find some issues with both of these edits, but frankly all Internet Explorer
users should find an alternative browser, because Internet Explorer just plain sucks. Not sure whether Internet Explorer 7 shows it correctly, but you will find out soon enough.
World of Warcraft: Gold Guide 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Okay, so I am writing a World
of Warcraft
Gold Guide
, for legal and legitimate ways to earn easy gold in World of Warcraft, the guide should be complete soon, but I wouldn't count on it being out before Christmas, I am just too busy!Anyway, I can give you all a sneak preview of a part or two of it, so that you know what you are looking forward to.Page 1, paragraph 4.During your World of Warcraft experience, you are going to be tempted to blow your money on low-level items from the Auction House or vendors. These items will, in a few levels time, be replaced with quest rewards, drops or will no longer be worth the money for your level. In my opinion I would wait until at least level 40 before you start buying any new items, there are many other ways to get your character some good gear for these levels most of them can be obtained from instances and quests.Page 1, paragraph 6.Right from the beginning of the game up until the very end you should loot everything you find, inclusive of gr
World of Warcraft: Before the Storm [Patch 2.0.1] 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Woohooo! World
of Warcraft
is getting ready for The Burning Crusade expansion pack. The new patch was installed over night and continued into the early hours of this morning, then all hell broke loose, the servers filled up as quick as possible and the channels where spammed with: "Where can I join the arena?!". It seems that Blizzard has removed the arena battlemaster until further notice due to some last minute issues.There was a major server crash. Yep, that is right everyone experienced a weird crash or lag spike, where no-one could interact with the world, but they could still chat in the channels. Seems they buggered up the install. Oh and, never stand in starting zones or major cities when a new large-scale patch is released, you will get people spamming the General channel, running around screaming and generally asking some things that could otherwise be found out by reading the patch notes.Anyway, now I really can't wait until The Burning Crusade release! Going to go play and Read more:Patch
, Storm
Spam Mail 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Everyone gets spam/junk mail once in a while, whether it be a random email from someone you don't know, or a repetitive message from a changing email address offering to sell you Viagra. We all get them, one of my email accounts get them so bad that I had to delete the damn thing, even now with it deleted it is still being sent endless emails. So anyone that creates an email address with the name of "email.philip@ntlworld.com" will get spammed, and yet it is a fresh email address, to them atleast. I created another email in place of that one, which I now use as my secondary. My main email however, is also starting to get spammed, by so-called "traders" offering me to buy things from them and then sell them on. One email that stands out, I thought was rather strange, it was sent from "BrentMcguire <BrentMcguire@1000champagnes.com>" to "bulldog009@ntlworld.com", to start with the address that it has been sent to does not match mine, yes mine is an NTL email address, but the pref
Sony Bravia Television Advert 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The first Sony
Bravia TelevisionAdvert
with the 250,000 "superballs" I thought was amazing, but now on a Glasgow tower block another amazing Sony event is about to take place, this time with 70,000 litres of paint! The empty multi-storey high rise in Queen's Court, Toryglen, will have thousands of gallons of paint blasted across it by fireworks as part of a multi-million pound campaign for Sony's high definition Bravia LCD TV. The advert has already been filmed, and we are awaiting release, they used: 70,000 litres of paint 358 single bottle bombs 33 sextuple air cluster bombs 22 Triple hung cluster bombs 268 mortars 33 Triple Mortars 22 Double mortars 358 meters of weld 330 meters of steel pipe 57 km of copper wire I posted, on the Bravia Advert website the following comment: First the 250,000 "superballs" and now this 70,000 litres of paint! This will surely make Sony be remembered, not only by its unique extravagant adverts, but by it's colour! Two very good choices to
Blogger FTP IOException Error 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Okay, I was fiddling around with Blogger
today and created a new blog to test some things on, I saw that Blogger has the feature to publish and upload your blog to another host through FTP. So I tapped in my ntl account information and pressed Save Settings, it saved correctly, and all was well until... I pressed Publish to upload it and Blogger said the following: There were errors.001 java.io.IOException: EOF while reading from control connection. So I typed "001 java.io.IOException: EOF while reading from control connection." into Google and found that it means there is a problem on Blogger, go do something important and fiddle with it later. The following FAQ created by Alan, should help you: It's a generic error that blogger spits out when someone trips over a cable. There is nothing you can do to fix it at your end so go rant at Blogger. I highly recommend just saving your post to a text file and trying again several hours later, or even the next day. So that is two things
Holiday 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I will be on holiday (or vacation for all you American folks), camping for two weeks so I won't be online or posting for atleast two weeks. So don't expect me around, just thought I would let you know incase you got worried. I don't think anyone will miss me too much, but I had to tell you. Anyway, I will see you all when I get back and am able to post, bye! technorati tags:holiday, vacation, camping Read more:Holiday
Blog Active Again 1970-01-01 00:59:59 So, I am back from camping and my blog is active again! After not posting for a while, I have lots of catching up to do. I will start by telling you how to 'hack' a snooker table, which funnily enough I learnt at my camp site.I found out how to 'hack' a pool table, when after I had paid for a game it chucked out 2 black balls and not enough reds, so I stuck my hand up the ball shoot and pulled out the red! At first I didn't think that it would work, but you can see your hand through the plastic at the front. Anyway, after we had finished the game, I put my hand back up the shoot and pushed down the metal release bar, which drops the balls after you have paid. All the balls fall out and you have yourself a free snooker game!The only problem is that this only works on certain types of tables, the ball shoot and ball holder/container must be on the same side and there must be a bar of some sort that can be pushed down. The table I played on was a Superleague Pool Table, but there are Read more:Active
, Again
PSP Console 1970-01-01 00:59:59 So I have purchased my PSP and it will arrive within the next day or two. I haven't yet purchased the game of my choice as if I were to do so online I would be unable to use my £15 Gift Card. The current status of my shipment is as follows: Your order has been dispatched on: 08/08/2006 15:39:28 I got it from Game and was told that the delivery would be immediate, meaning that they have it instock, but I doubt that it will arrive today. I will tell you all what it is like when it arrives! technorati tags:sony, psp, console, game Read more:Console
New Year 2007 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The New Year
is an event that happens when a culture celebrates the end of one year and the beginning of the next. Cultures that measure yearly calendars all have New Year celebrations.January 1 has been celebrated as a holiday by Western nations for only about the past 400 years. Less than the 35% of the world population celebrates January 1st as the begining of the New Year.Traditions of the season include the making of New Year's resolutions. That tradition dates back to the early Babylonians. Popular modern resolutions might include the promise to lose weight or quit smoking. The early Babylonian's most popular resolution was to return borrowed farm equipment.
The Case of Mistaken Gamedenity 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Long time no post, sorry but I have just not had the time lately. Anyway, today, I came accross a very good read about someone in search of a Super Mario Brothers game on the XBox 360.The Case of Mistaken GamedenityEnjoy this and I will try to post a little more.
Blog Template 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It took me a hell of a long time to do, but I finally managed to create a Blogger template that works with the new Blogger. I would advise you to use a good browser to view the website though - such as Firefox or Flock - because Internet Explorer does not display items and widgets on this page correctly, the post footer will be all jumbled up and the sidebar may have some overlapping issues. A top-bar has been added along the header showing the time and date along with a graphical navigation from which you can access the blog's homepage, my Blogger profile, my deviantART portfolio and my World of Warcraft add-on, LevelRange.If you find anything wrong with the website such as dead links or template issues and you are not using Internet Explorer (simply because there will be so many), please feel free to leave a comment or contact me.I still don't have much time to post things, but I have also noticed that I don't seem to get many people visiting here anymore, so I don't think it wou Read more:Blog Template
Review: Neverwinter Nights 2 1970-01-01 00:59:59 As many of you may already know I recently obtained my own copy of Neverwinter Nights 2 for Christmas. The dynamic storyline and new races/classes make the game very entertaining as once you have completed it from a combination of say Human Warlock, you can then follow the whole story again but with a different combination. The story would, of course get repetitive and you would start to remember things, so that is why there is also a Multiplayer as well as Single Player, where you can play in persistent worlds (that is a world where the game's plots and events continue to develop even while some of the players are not playing their character), player versus player arenas and other stories that people have created for your leisure.With that in mind it can be a very good game, although some aspects of it can be rather annoying. For example, the Graphical User Interface of the game is not what I thought it would be, in my opinion it actually looks like it is one step behind the first Ne
New Portfolio 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Okay, so Squarespace is only a trial, which I didn't know when I first signed up for it, but after I found out I had 4 days to create myself a new portfolio and host it elsewhere. I started by opening Photoshop and sketching out a few ideas, I fiddled around with the colours pallette and came up with a 4 nice colours that looked good together. The 4 colours are as follows: Dark Grey [3d3d3d] Light Grey [595959] Light Blue [4f79a5] White [ffffff] The two grey colours were chosen from my old Squarespace account and so was the layout, the journal footer was taken from this blog and the Windows logo and the exclamation mark icon were from a PNG icon pack but everything else I did myself. First of all I created a new document, 800x600, filled it with the dark grey and created a fixed selection in the middle, filled it with the lighted grey. Added the title with the Fonce Sans font from deviantART, coloured the title and added in the Verdana font my quote, underneath the title. Then I ty Read more:Portfolio
Blogger vs. Wordpress 1970-01-01 00:59:59 When I created a blog for the very first time I went straight to Blogspot (now Blogger
) with no hesitation but now that it is near enough a year since that time I am having second thoughts on the host I chose at the beginning. I was browsing through some of the Wordpress
blogs and noticed that they seem to be more like small websites with a weblog as their homepage than one-paged weblogs, not including the archives and post pages. I actually liked the idea of adding your own pages to your blog so that you can add information to it that otherwise would be useless in a post because the post would get lost in the archives somewhere. Then again Wordpress does have it's negative points too such as not being able to edit the CSS of your blog without paying about £7.70. So why can't Blogger be more like Wordpress and Wordpress be more like Blogger?There are some features that Wordpress has which I feel Blogger should have, for example one of the best features of Wordpress is the page crea
Excuses to Stay Home from School 1970-01-01 00:59:59 All of these are excuses that people have written to "excuse" their children from school. Some of them are pretty unbelievable but I don't think that they are all legitemate nevertheless it is still a good read.read more | digg story Read more:Excuses
, School
Hacker Hire to Change College GPA 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This idiot tried to hire a hacker to change his college GPAs, not sure whether this is real or not, but it is a very good read nonetheless. In my opinion the hacker makes up the last 2 emails he sent (starting from the bottom of the first page), if this is true it would make it even more funny because Todd is believing every word of it.This Todd character must either think he can get away with stuff like that or is just plain stupid, someone is bound to find out even if the whole thing went ahead and the grades were changed.Attrition Going Postal - Todd ShriberEnjoy the read and don't forget to Digg it and let me know what you thought. Read more:Change
, College
, Hacker
Real Life Bumptop Document Desktop 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This is a very nice prototype of a future desktop known as Bumptop
. It makes your normal desktop and icons into a real life desktop where you can organise, arrange, tidy and select your default icons as if they were actually on your workspace desktop. A must see!Bumptop Prototype Read more:Desktop
, Real Life
Dieing? Never! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Well... That depends entirely on what you think is dieing. No, my blog is not dieing, it is just not as active as it used to be, solely due to the fact that I am less active on the PC and more active elsewhere. Yes, my internet is dieing, don't know why, don't know how, but it is! It seems to be going really slow and yet says that it is running at 100Mbps, which it obviously isn't. I have NTL 1 Meg Broadband and they have just recently upgraded their digital television boxes, so it could be something to do with that, but I am not sure. I am still waiting for Blogger to be able to allow me to merge my own blog into Blogger Beta, which they said they would be slowly allowing people to do, along time ago now, but I wasn't expecting it to be this slow. Maybe when I am able to do that I will start posting more, but I doubt that merging with Blogger Beta will give me anymore time. Anyway, I have nothing else to say, as you can tell, this is why my blog is not as active, I have alr
Long Time No Post 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Ok, so it has been a long time since I have posted, I know. I haven't posted here, on forums or anywhere for that matter for a little while now, all because of one game, World of Warcraft. So what happened was I started to play my old Warrior and got him up a level, then got bored again, but instead of not playing I decided to create a new character, a Rogue this time and I got involved in the ways of World of Warcraft once again, if I had known about all this tanking stuff with Warriors I would never have chosen a Warrior as my first character. I find Rogues allot more fun to play and I can play them more effectively than I can Warriors. My Warrior is not quite high enough to be able to "twink" my Rogue, as it is now so famously or should I say infamously called, not that I would want to anyway. I just find it fun to play a character from scratch with not much help at all from other characters that you own. I will try to start posting again and maybe create something new, until th
Blogger Migration 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Blogger are now starting the migration process, so that you may transfer your current account and blogs over to the Beta Blogger. They have decided to let people migrate in an incremental way, so as not to create a massive mad rush. If you are one of them, you will see a blue box in the sidebar of your Dashboard. The only down side to the migration would be that you have to convert your Blogger account into a Google account, or log into your current Google account and have that one converted. Hopefully they will make it so that you can login with both your Google account and your Blogger account, to make it easier. For now, once you have switched, you must log into beta.blogger.com instead of blogger.com to access the new features.technorati tags:blogger, google, beta, migration, switch Read more:Blogger
, Migration
Blogger Beta 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Yes, that's right the famous Blogger
, weblog publisher has started a new beta phase! With a more-user friendly atmosphere, by making it easier to edit your page template, being able to make your blog private, adding new templates, adding more feed options, updating the Dashboard and no-wait instant publishing! You can create a blog with the current beta, once the beta phase has ended all blogs will be merged into the newer version. Along with the new features, settings and options, Bloggers own API has changed to a Google Data API, which means there is loads of sample code, downloadable client libraries for C# and Java, authentication is fully documented, and you can swap and change between other GData applications, such as Calendar. It is just a shame that Visual Basic is not included in the libraries and source. Nevermind, now all we have to do is wait for the beta to become the new Blogger! If you would like to see my test blog, which to be honest is nothing, because most of the
Gigantic Hole Appears in Guatemala 1970-01-01 00:59:59 A giant sinkhole measuring 40 meters in diameter and 60 meters deep, swallowed 12 homes and killed 2 people including at least one truck early Friday in a Guatemala
neighbourhood, likely due to a burst sewer pipe. The crater appeared in the capital's San Antonio neighbourhood on Thursday night. Authorities evacuated around a thousand people on Friday fearing more land could collapse into a fast-flowing river of sewage below. There were, at first 3 missing people who had lived in a house that was claimed by the hole almost as soon as it started to open. Two bodies showed up about a mile downstream. Neighbours said the ground had been shaking for weeks after a huge sewer pipe burst, making the ground underneath the houses unstable.Unbelievable pictures of the gigantic hole are available from the 'read more' link below.read more | digg story Read more:Appears
Blogs and Feeds 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It seems like only yesterday that weblogs and feeds were introduced (or, at least made popular) in the internet world and yet there is apparently a blog born every second and what do you get along with a blog? Feeds. They are everywhere now, I would say at least 75% of the websites I visit in a day have at least one feed. This blog has more than one feed and is also getting burnt through FeedBurner. Much of the time I don't really see the point in feeds so I haven't use them until now. I visit a few blogs regularly using the Flock tabs as an easy way to swap from one to the other and then I realised that if I had a feed reader I could view all these blogs in one place - so I suppose that is what feeds are used for.If you search Google for feeds you will get nearly 20 million results! So how many total feeds and blogs are there currently? I would love to know the statistics for such a thing, but surely nearly everything you post has already been posted somewhere else on the web (exclu Read more:Blogs
Transferring to WordPress 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I have been thinking for sometime whether I should swap to WordPress and blog on their from now on and have not yet come to a decision but I did manage to import all of my current blog posts and comments from Blogger over to my WordPress account, which is currently set to mirror my Blogger account. I am not sure which one I am going to use as my main blog, but for now I will stay on Blogger as I cannot edit the CSS/HTML of my WordPress blog unless I pay for it, so I cannot add a custom template like I have on Blogger. I will have to review both and see what one I think would be best for me. Read more:Transferring
Wikipedia Defamatory Remarks 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Fuzzy Zoeller, a renowned golfer has filed a lawsuit to try and track down the author of a defamatory paragraph about him, posted on Wikipedia
. Scott D Sheftall, Zoeller's Attorney, has filed the suit against a Miami-based education consulting firm, Josef Silny & Associates. He says he did so because the law would not allow him to sue Wikipedia and allegedly someone used a computer from Josef Silny & Associates to post the defamatory remarks.Commenting on the lawsuit, Sheftall said the courts have made it clear for him to go after the source of the information, and that the Zoeller family wants to take a stand and put a stop to all this. Otherwise, Sheftall asserted, they would all end up as victims of these Internet vandals, who ought not to be able to act with such impunity.Although the defamatory paragraph has now been removed from Wikipedia, it has been picked up by other Web sites. Josef Silny of Josef Silny & Associates expressed shock at the incident, and said he could not
Guess What? 2007-03-01 21:04:00 I managed to buy myself a domain and web hosting from Streamline! My new website and blog will now be located at the following addresses: Website: http://www.bull3t.me.ukBlog: http://blog.bull3t.me.uk Soon I will get my portfolio/website uploaded to bull3t.me.uk, but for now you can visit my blog directly through the blog link. Both of my old blogs (WordPress and Blogger) will not be active anymore and I shall not be posting on them anymore unless I state otherwise. Read more:Guess
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