ShiftyBloke » Personal http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog ¬.¬ Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:20:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Been too long http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/been-too-long http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/been-too-long#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:53:00 +0000 Al http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/?p=225 Well, well, well…my last post was in March, how time flies, thought I’d put something on here…

Not much to mention tbh. Still at the same job which will probably finish in December. Ramadan is just about to end, it hasn’t been as tough as I thought it would be, especially in the long summer. And I’m almost 24…damn I feel old ;( Need to settle down….

Had a car accident in December, also got my first nephew in the same month! My 2nd nephew was also born recently!

Can’t believe I’ve been blogging for 5 years, time has flown by.

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Dell Studio 1558
Intel i7-720QM(1.6GHz) Mobile CPU
15.6in High Definition (1366X768) WLED
Integrated 2.0 Mega Pixel Camera
Black Chainlink
4096MB (2×2048) 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel
500GB Serial ATA (7200RPM)
8X DVD+/-RW Drive (slot loading)
1 GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
Europe Dell Bluetooth 365 Card
Internal UK/Irish Qwerty Backlit Keyboard
Windows 7 Home Premium

Luckily, I got a hefty discount because my employer is part of some Dell purchase program D . The spec I was originally going to buy had an i5 CPU, no bluetooth and was more expensive so I’m glad I used the purchase program instead. D

I didn’t even know the laptop included bluetooth, found I can control my Nexus One’s music and phone calls from the laptop which is pretty neat.

Formatted the laptop to get rid of all the crap that came installed with it and am going to use my new Technet subscription to get Windows 7 Ultimate on it (Anytime Update accepted my Technet key D ). I can’t be arsed to find a copy of Ultimate via ‘other’ means ninja but Windows 7 is so epic anyway, I don’t mind paying for it, not to mention I get access to Office and various other software, so it all works out in the end.

Now to get my docs and stuff copied over (hello Windows Easy Transfer!) and give this old laptop to my niece. Lets hope she doesn’t treat this laptop like her old one, the state of her old one is enough to make any geek techie cry.

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No wonder my insurance company wants to raise my premiums by another £25 a month, even after being a customer for 3 years and having no claims! angry Lame, real lame.

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]]> http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/found-work-finally/feed 0 Free Nexus One – courtesy of Google http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/free-nexus-one-courtesy-of http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/free-nexus-one-courtesy-of#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:01:54 +0000 Al http://www.al1uk.com/blog/?p=207 Received my free N1 from Google today, as part of the device seeding program. Phone is sweet but I don’t think I can survive with only a soft keyboard so I’ll keep my G1 on me for now… Also, AndChat really flies on the N1 compared to the G1. Looking forward to solving the problems specific to 2.1 that I’ve never been able to reproduce on the emulator but users keep contacting me about.

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Shadow of Power by Steve Martini. Really great book, gonna read more stuff from this author.

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]]> http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/holiday-snaps/feed 0 AndroidIRC Multiserver screenshots http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/androidirc-multiserver-screenshots http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/androidirc-multiserver-screenshots#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 20:52:12 +0000 Al http://www.zer0day.com/blog/?p=184 I’ve been doing some work on getting AndroidIRC to support multiple servers and have made good progress. It’s not fully usable at the moment but I decided to put some screenshots up of the work in progress.

The chatwindow GUI hasn’t been fully implemented yet, I’ll put up a mockup that was done for me showing what I eventually want it to look like a bit later.

As usual, feedback is appreciated.

On a side note, I’m well into my exam period, wish me luck )

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