Archive for March, 2010

Virgin Media 50Mb Broadband Update

By nick | Personal, Uncategorized

Now on my fourth month with Virgin Media 50Mb Broadband and I’m starting to notice problems popping up more frequently.  For the last 24 hours I’ve been suffering from huge packet loss, this is ranging from 10-35%. Packet loss is a nasty thing and makes everything feel as if I’m on a slower than dial

Fallout3 Bug – Mothership Zeta Exploding

By nick | Gaming, Uncategorized

Last year I played Fall Out 3. This has got to be one of the best games I’ve played to date with it’s hours of voice acting and interactive story.  Just a few months ago we saw the release of Fallout 3 – Game of the year edition, this features the original game with all

Free File Hosting

By nick | Tech Support, Uncategorized

I’ve added a page to the navigation menu above where you’ll be able to upload any files you need to share with friends, family or colleages.  A free file hosting service.  I expect the service will get very little external use so you should get good download speeds, there currently aren’t any bandwidth restrictions.  Enjoy.

Google Stopped Censoring China Search

By nick | Thoughts, Uncategorized

A few hours ago Google announced that negotiations with China regarding censorship had failed although they intended on removing any existing search result filtering for their users located in mainland China.  Over the past few weeks China’s government have publically stated that Google will be held accountable for their actions if they decided to disobey the

Just a few reasons why Adobe Flash sucks

By nick | Thoughts, Uncategorized

Recently I’ve been taking more and more of a dislike to Adobe’s Flash.  I keep wondering why in this day, the  age of “web 2.5″ we’re still using this nasty software.  There are many reasons to hate flash and perhaps a couple to like it a little but don’t get too excited. Last month as

Overclocking your IPhone 3G

By nick | Tech Support, Uncategorized

Like many other smart phoners out there I own a jailbroken IPhone although have recently been noticing more recent applications and the OS it self have been feeling fairly slow.  I’d imagine this is down to lazy software developers making the most out of the IPhone 3GS’s superior processor and not spending time to optimise

Windows 7 Wow Latency Fix

By nick | Gaming, Tech Support, Uncategorized

For those of you who enjoy end game content of World of Warcraft you’ve probably at least at one point suffered from a laggy connection.  Here’s a quick fix that should seriously reduce your in game latency.  This fix works for Windows 7 / Vista and possibly XP. Open Regedit Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces Find the interface