Best Game of BFBC2 So Far...

Not best in terms of kill/death ratio or score... was just a really enjoyable Rush game on Arica Harbour (favourite game mode, one of my favourite maps) with a couple of clan mates. The attackers were 1 man up pretty much the whole time, with less than 20 players on the whole time which was nice - the right amount of players for a good game.

We managed to successfully defend mcom station B on the very last stage, resulting in a victory and a new PB of 14 pins for me (note the double Combat Excellence pins, and the Best Squad pin ;)!

Nice bit of all rounding there too, if I do say so myself :)

Secure, Anonymous Browsing With Your Own EC2 Proxy Server

One of the things that has blown up in the past few years is Cloud computing, and specifically Amazon Web Services. One of the other things that has blown up has been the invasion of privacy, particularly with regards to the Internet. So here's how you can send a big "fuck you" to any peeping tom governments, corporations, or individuals.

The post will take you through the process of setting up a stateless proxy server on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and show you how to tunnel into it via SSH from your home PC. All in 6 easy steps.

I'm Back, Motherfuckers...

How ironic that my last post was about making the switch to Linux... and then I dropped off the face of the earth for 3 years. Well a lot has gone down since then, but no point in boring you with the details.

So I'm back with the hacks that don't make me stacks, but I don't share what I know to try and make some dough... peas.

Taking the plunge...

I've lost count of how many time I've heard people say "I installed Vista, but I'm back to XP now". People who know enough to be comfortable with rebuilding their own systems of course, one wonders how many of the general population would do the same if they knew how.

I'm going one step further now... today I received a free VMware Workstation 6 key (being a VCP and all), and I redeemed it for the Linux version of Workstation. I'll keep a disk around with XP on it for when Team Fortress 2 comes out, but otherwise I'm sure any other app I'd care to use (that doesn't have a Linux equivalent) will run fine within a VM... Visual Studio 2005 is about the only one I can think of in that category to be honest!

VMware Workstation 6.0 finally released....

Yes sir, the latest major revision of VMware Workstation has finally gone gold. The revision number is not far above the RC, so I'm guessing there haven't been many changes between the RC and the final product. I found the RC to be rock solid, and was running the various betas for quite some time (and submitted my share of bugs, which were fixed over the course of the beta). Go grab it now!