Live Linux bootable CDs – a very large list
Courtesy of /. comes an extremely large list of Live Linux CDs. We’re big fans of these cds on this site with Knoppix being our tool of choice. If you haven’t used one of these cds before then they’re amazingly useful tools to have – simply burn the image onto a cd and then you can boot pretty much any computer straight into a basci Operating System of your chioce (NB: the list above are all flavours of Linux but you can use BartPE to create a windows-based version). The advantage of these images are that nothing gets installed – the whole operating system is loaded into memory so they’re great for fixing/recovering broken computers, hacking or just to learn how to use a different operating system without having to install anything – it works even on systems with no hard drive in!
Proof of alien life!
can be yours for just $1,300,000.00. Unless, that is, someone out bids you.
Not only that, but the same guy is also selling “proof” of time travel and the existance of the Devil.
/me twirlls hand next to head whilst making cookoo noises.
Happy Tree Friends
A lovely selection of cartoons from ‘Happy Tree Friends’ where cute and fluffy little creatures get splatted in various ways. Bit dark but very sweet!
Yawning Animals make me laugh
Loathe as I am to not the superb Crimson Room site off the top of the blog now, I feel I have to share the hilarious Yawning Animals page with you all. It would cheer up even the most suicidal lemming. I’m grabbing a load of these images to use as buddy icons on msn messenger.
Hack to square one
A while ago we blogged hackquest, a site that contains shed loads of computer related challenges and puzzles.
It’s a site I revisit every month or so, do one more challenge, get stuck, and give up for another month.
When I visited last night I was excited to find it’s undergone a facelift and re-release.
However, excitment soon turned to horror when I found that (although the old accounts are still valid for this new site) non of the completed challenges have been migrated. So the fourty of fifty challenges you spent all that time doing, will have to be done again. Sods law dictates that at least 60% of them you’ll have forgotten how you eventually did them last time.
*Warning*
If you are interested in this type of thing, don’t expect to get any sleep for the next few weeks/months, this site sucks time striaght from your life without you even realising.
Escape from the Crimson Room
Aaarrghhh! Someone please tell me how to get out of the Crimson Room. I can get quite far but then I realised that it’s 1am and there’s no way my brain can take anymore. This tricky puzzle game was brought to you by our reader Sven and the letter ‘Q’.
One of these images is not like the others
One of our most popular features are the regular ‘One of these …is not like the other’. Today, courtesy of NTK, we can bring you the Google Image Search for street sharks – as to be expected, the odd one out is NSFW.
Find the pr0n
Gutted! As a follow up to Jenny’s post a few days ago (find the pr0n, 6th Feb) I am very disappointed to discover the after promising to relaunch the site after ‘reburbishment’, financepage.co.uk has gone offline! And I didn’t even get to spot the pr0n!
Hark – is that the faint creak of a web designer swinging from the gallows after the MD discovered their ‘hidden’ image?
NICE TITS
oh yes… mmm… lovely… I just love tits! Do you like tits? If you do, check out nice-tits.org. Nothing beats a nice bit of Ornithology! (Perfectly SFW)!
Unreal Tournament 2004 demo released
Busy day today!
Just announced – the Unreal Tournament 2004 demo has been released. It’s free to download, is just over 200Mb to d.load and contains 5 fully playable maps. You can even jump online and play the demo in full multiplayer mode.
What’s yer excuse? Get Fraggin’!
INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK
I know it’s been blogged before – probably several times – but this Flash clock is just super!
Shark attack update
Dan P trawled t’interweb and found a pic to go with the story bellow. (If it’s not on this page when you view, Rueters have added more pics and it’ll be a page or two further back).
Australian drives mile with shark attached to leg
This story sounds amazing! An Australian was attacked by a shark whilst out snorkeling. He swam 300 yards then drove for a further mile to get help – still with the shark attached to him!
Fish Piercing?
I’m very undecided about this but maybe Solomon’s years of experience can enlighten us on some of the more technical aspects of Fish Piercing. I don’t think it would actually be any problem for the fish – it’s just not able to give an opinion which is why I don’t think this is a particularly good idea – since someone’s already done it, I can’t see any reason to repeat the experiment & believe me – I’ve seen far worse things pierced!
Illegal Art – The Grey Album
Dj DangerMouse (I assume this is the same guy as DM & Jemini but I might be wrong) has been served with a ‘Cease & Desist order for his recent Grey Album, which remixes Jay-Z’s The Black Album and the Beatles White Album despite only 3000 copies being printed. Luckily, if you want to hear it just click on the link above.
Honey, that naked lady looks just like you…
A Greek man is being reported as not the happiest person on the planet after finding his wife naked on an exhibitionist website.
Random Name Generator
One of the first uses of the internet seemed to be random name generators. Whilst most of these were for your ‘rock star name’ or your pr0n star name’, there weren’t any that interesting ones that just made random names. Mostly because there isn’t much point. Or at least that’s what I thought until I realised that it’s useful for authors who need to ensure that their characters don’t actually exist and might sue. That’s just one example of when you might need a Random Name Generator.
Linux distros, through the roof
Number of Linux distributions greater than number of Linux users
Windows “live” CD
If you’ve been visiting GromBlog for a while you’ll have seen various posts about Linux “live” CDs (Knoppix, etc.) i.e. a working operating system on a CD/DVD that requires no installation.
Now someone has given us the tools to create a similar working Windows CD.
Very useful for us M$ admins, alowing us to chuck away that knackered old 98 boot disk in favour of something a little more heavy duty.
Highest profile divorce Since Charles and Di
Astonishing! A marriage that has lasted 43 years is coming to an end – albeit an amicable one. Barbie and Ken have decided to call it a day the day before Valentines Day… perhaps Ken forgot to get a card.
YETI SPORTS part 2
Remember the Penguin tw@ting game we posted (several times) a couple of weeks ago? Well part 2 of YETI SPORTS is out now. This time there are snowballs, an orca whale, suicidal penguins and a big hairy behemoth of a yeti involved. It’s every bit as addictive as the first one. This is starting to become one of the best series of web games out there.
Think you know your metal bands?
I’m pretty knowledgable about most kinds of music but it seems my knowledge of the latest metal is somewhat lacking. Dark Elucidation came to my resuce with a listing and discography of loads of bands I hadn’t heard of – it’s worth s visit even if just to laugh at the funny names – they’re like the output of a ‘random heavy metal band name generator’
The Dukes of Hazard explain the SCO/Linux debacle
Any geek worth his (or her) salt will be aware of the SCO/Linux debate and the issues surrounding it so I won’t go into it here since it’s not the easiest of things to explain. I’ll leave that to the Dukes of Hazard – mind you, Daisy Duke could explain molecular biology to me & I’d listen for hours.
thanks bruvver!
SHAUN OF THE DEAD – trailer
Last year we blogged a chance to be an extra in Shaun of the Dead. The film is a spoof zombie movie starring the cast of the British comedy tv show “Spaced”. Check out the newly released trailer here – if you don’t think it looks funny then you must have had a humour bypass.
Microsoft Source code leaked
Big news in the geek world today is that Microsoft (not to be confused with MikeRoweSoft!) have publically admitted that some of their hallowed source code has been leaked onto the internet. The code seems to be a substantial chunk of the NT4 and Windows 2000 code. Even though these are older Operating Systems, this could have major ramifications on MS’ push on security. The BBC cover the story here and expect to see it as headline news on every geek website within minutes.
AARRGGGHHH!!!
Ha ha ha haaaaa!! Let’s laugh at the ugly American! (disclaimer to our American visitors – don’t worry, we know you don’t *all* look like this)
KILL HIM NOW
That’s the hidden message within this page, if the cryptographever is to be believed.
This seems to be a bible code like decrypter.
Just goes to show if you look hard enough you can find “hidden” messages within anything.
Ta Dan
Flight Club – an interactive glider game
Flight Club is an interactive glider-sim which can get quite addictive. Stick some chill-out music on your headphones and try not to get too angry learning the controls.
Stickman RPG
Don’t click on this list unless you have at least ten minutes free when you’re boss isn’t looking. Stick RPG is an online Role Playing game featuring you as a stickman. Buy cocaine, rob a bank or get a job – the choice is yours.
Free MSN/Trillian encryption
If you use MSN Messenger or even better – Trillian for your Instant Messaging needs then you should really install SimpLite for MSN. It’s a doddle to install but and it’s free. It automatically encrypts all traffic sent between you and your friends if they also have SIMP installed. If they have it installed then it encrypts – if they don’t then it doesn’t – simple and requiring no input from you, the end user.
There isn’t a simpler way to stop anyone eavesdropping on your conversations.
