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Are we swimming in space?
What side am I on in the ‘flat earth’ debate? I took a look at the facts, and it’s incontrovertible. The earth is flat.
If Earth really was spherical, helicopters would be able to hover in place and wait for their destinations to come to them.
Stay woke, people. Don’t believe blindly what you are told.
Posted on May 16, 2017May 16, 2017
Today I am happy to announce a new column to the blog – ‘Certified Mint’
We will be going through all things IT related, and you laymans will get the best tips from the best in the business. First up: new market!
Since the closure of the Spoons near us, we’ve had to branch out to new exciting places for Friday lunch – you can imagine how fun that is with Phil walking with you…¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We have found a great wee Japanese place with the nicest owners. Shit ton of beef, katsu, rice and salad for £6.50. Tastes great too. We do feel a pang of guilt that we are cheating on themarket guys, and yes we all still hope all salads yes is feeling better. I will update you on the emotional situation on Thursday.
Anyway, if you are near Victoria, Tachbrook Street Market is simply:
Posted on May 15, 2017
Well, where to begin? Sorry for taking so long guys, and thanks for the letters, I appreciate it. Let’s get started.
One of the largest cyber attacks in history, Wannacrypt has literally swept the continent. So what is it? Basically, it is a virus that encrypts your personal files. This can be thought of as locking them, and a password needed to get open them again. The password can be purchased for around $300.
If you get hit, and you lose things, you probably are safe to pay the money. To be fair, the guys doing the scam are very helpful in getting the files back – much better customer service than some other websites *cough* *Ryanair* *cough* *cunts* *cough cough*
“I don’t have anything on my PC I care about, I don’t need to be protected”
Do you have personal photos? Documents? All these will be lost together, unless they are backed up somewhere else.
Have Dropbox/Google drive as a backup? Is it a linked folder on your PC? Bye-bye.
How can I protect myself?
DO YOUR WINDOWS UPDATES. IT’S THAT SIMPLE. DO THEM TONIGHT. GET OFF FUCKING XP. DON’T OPEN RANDOM FILES FROM THE WEB.
Backup your photos properly:
This is going to be a big one. Our company hasn’t been hit, cause i’m the man. Get your GPOs, SMBv1 disabled, FSRM, Canarys in check admins.
Bangkok:
NHS:
If you can’t afford Windows, I’ll put a guide and some links to get it free*
Stay safe homies!
Posted on May 14, 2017
We have two new young feeks that hang out in the backyard some times, look how cute!
Posted on May 12, 2017
The amount of times I go to peoples houses and ask for the wifi details…
“Oh its name is voda-12aec5 and the password is in our flat chat…hold on I’ll try find it…
Yep found it so the password is 36c88d6ccb”
It almost infuriates me as much as waiting in a Finsbury Park self-checkout line. (Mongs)
When you are on your wifi, in most cases, just type in 192.168.1.1 into your phones browser. It will be written on the router which number to put in. From there, use the username and password provided on the router. Now you get an easy webpage to change the name and password! It takes about 1 minute.
Go the Black Caps!
Posted on May 12, 2017
Currently sitting in the Czech embassy, about to hand over my citizenship cert to get my passport! They don’t speak any English here but no matter, I’ve played enough CS to know a bit of Russian.
Cyka blyat!
Posted on May 10, 2017May 16, 2017
Hi FTB, I’m new to London and don’t know which mobile carrier to choose. Who should I go with?
P
Hi P,
I’m currently sitting here, celebrating a triumph – we got an AWS Lambda instance to resize images on the fly when people want different sizes. But anyway, don’t want to get you too into that 😉
Answer: Three or Vodafone.
Need a phone? Go with Vodafone. They give you an iPhone 7 or Galaxy S7 + good data allowance for £30-35 a month. (And have a good network)
BYO phone? I’d go with Three. 12gb data for £20 a month. Service is average though. You also get free data in 20 countries!
FTB
UPDATE:
Vodafone have a flash deal now for 12 months sim-only contract. £20, 20gb data, free roaming in all of Europe. Get on it!
Posted on May 9, 2017
Time to reflect, and relax
Posted on May 9, 2017
