I don’t even think it’s worth trying to explain this one, but it had me laughing. This is from barebones.tv again; looks like this family hasn’t really got to grips with 4chan yet.
Anyone who’s aware of the new meme ‘shoe on head‘….
Shoe on the head - barebones.tv
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I recently heard about www.barebones.tv, a small family from a Liverpool suburb who have converted their home into a ‘big-brother-esque’ surveillance house with cameras in a lot of their rooms on the lower floor. Live streams let anyone in the world see what the Walmsley family are doing at any time of the day. A great idea for a social experiment, so why is it the single worst idea for an internet project ever devised?
The problem with being just a regular family putting their lives on the internet is just that.. they’re a regular family who have just exposed themselves to the world. Granted, a fairly dysfunctional family with a bit of money behind them, but still fairly regular. The kids go to the local school, the eldest sons work at local firms – word was going to go round town pretty fast and it wasn’t long before they started to show their faces on the internet.
You could probably say that it was looking well for the Walmsleys until 4chan’s anon heard about it (a cleaned up thread can be found attached to this post – that was some job!). There’s not much that goes on that 4chan’s /b/ doesn’t hear about, this wasn’t much of an exception, and when a “localanon” (not myself, I hasten to add) leaked their home phone number, the show suddenly became more promising. A family with a relatively short fuse to receive phone call after phone call from the rectum of the internet…… pure gold. There’s no greater delight than to hear memes bellowed cluelessly down the phone and to a live audience over the internet (even if they are mainly from 4chan)
“WHAT? WHAT’S OVER 9000?”
That is until rule number 1 is broken.
“My home phone number has been publicised on a website called 4chan.org?”
I believe they cancelled their phone line, or blocked incoming calls much after this point… or perhaps it was after the request to marry the 14 year old daughter of the family.Either way, the plug was pulled on the phone party. 4chan needed new ways to torment them.
Another problem with broadcasting your house to the internet is that it makes it very easy to get an idea of the layout and style of your house – even more so if you broadcast your back garden. In fact, it’s probably the best way to make sure you house can definitely be identified from google maps and aerial photographs. Nice move. With a little help from “localanon”, their address accompanied their home phone number.
So, if you’re ever thinking of putting live streams of your family on the internet, take a quick scout of 4chan’s /b/…
4chan thread - barebones.tv
EDIT: They also like putting shoes on their heads.
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I’m proud to say that after a long time of having the worst internet connection in the country, it feels so good to be able to open firefox and not have to sit with my fingers crossed hoping that my home page won’t 404.
We’ve moved over to Be, which seem to be one of the only providers of ADSL2 in the area which apparently means that as I’m not the closest person to the exchange and my line quality isn’t the best, I should be able to expect a slight speed increase over normal ADSL. This seems to be true, but it’s so hard to tell whether it’s a result of Supanet screwing us over, Be being a good provider or ASDL2.
Should be said, Supanet didn’t make any attempt to keep us there. They fumbled around a bit with the MAC code and took a little bit longer than expected to send that out to us, but we got it with relative ease. They’re expecting us to pay for the modem and the cancellation fee (which we’re happy to – anything just to get away from them!), however after reading your comments on my previous posts re: supanet, I see that a few people are contesting it. I’d love to hear how you get on, best of luck! Supanet don’t deserve to treat anyone at all like, but at the moment we just want to distance ourselves from them as much as we can.
Compare that to about 2.5-3 Mbps we were getting on Supanet for roughly the same price with a 30GB cap (Be have an unlimited service).
So far there’s been no problems with Be. They sent the modem out a couple of days before line activation, and as soon as our Supanet service cut off we were able to connect the Be modem which was provided free of charge (hopefully will be genuinely free this time) and we were on our new package straight away. About 10 minutes downtime, excellent.
We’ll have to see how things go, but I’ve got high hopes about Be. They seem altogether more competant than Supanet, and even just providing a freephone customer support line is a luxory we weren’t expecting. I’m not in a position to suggest Be to anyone just yet, will probably have to wait a couple of months for that, but I’ve no hesitation in saying that every single Supanet customer should consider looking elsewhere for a much better ISP.
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Happy new year!
As promised, here is the source code for my little Xfire application last year. The code isn’t the tidiest in the world and isn’t commented, but it shouldn’t be too hard to follow, but I’ll happily explain if you leave a comment. The main form compromises of two timers – one to keep the handle of the Xfire window up to date, the other to grab the Xfire status regularly. It seems a bit of a waste to use a windows form for this purpose, but it was the quickest way to do it and since I’ve no intention of expanding upon this project, it’s stuck. Everything you need to know about how it works, including code snippets, can be found just by googling the appropriate terms.
Hope this helps someone somewhere, and feel free to use it or adapt it for any purpose what-so-ever.
Xfire/WLM Addon Source Code (C# .NET 2008)
Also tested on new versions of Xfire (1.102) & WLM (2009 Build 14.0.8050.1202)
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Google’s new browser, Google Chrome, was released for Windows PCs earlier this month however many in the open source community have objected to the lack of a version of the number one open source operating system, Linux.
Google have said little about when a Linux or OSX version should be expected. In light of this Codeweavers, the company who brought us CrossOver Games and CrossOver Linux – two popular packages which aid in running Windows Games/Applications on Linux platforms, have put together a derivative of WINE and a build of Chromium (the codebase used for Google Chrome), enabling Mac OSX and Linux users to get a taste of what Windows users have been graced with this month.
Whilst in this state it’s not going to be any quicker than say, Firefox, but it’s at least going to give Linux and OSX users a glimpse as to what’s to come. Unlike the Windows version, it’s not feasible to run it as a main browser, and in fact Codeweavers have mentioned this in their FAQ:
Q. Should I run CrossOver Chromium as my main browser?
A. Absolutely not! This is just a proof of concept, for fun, and to showcase what Wine can do. Chromium itself is just beginning. As the Chromium project progresses, they will be providing more compelling support for Mac OS and Linux, particularly with process security and memory management. Those future versions from Chromium will be better suited for daily use than this version
As for Windows users, If you haven’t tried out Google Chrome yet, I’d strongly suggest you consider it. You’ll probably be amazed at how fast it is compared to some of the other browsers out there (*cough* IE *cough*).
Google Chrome: http://www.google.com/chrome
Chromium: http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/
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