Rowan McCabe aka The Neo-Victorian Gentleman spills some beans.

Bring on the wall!

Get your fix below

Welfare is a Dirty Word: How People Turned Against the Welfare State

Spakas!

I fucking love banks me. They rip the planet into parts. If it wasn’t for those damn whelks.

Switch your bank account – SCREW YOU!

Newcastle Upon Tyne Freedom Of Information

I’m really not sure about Google all days!

The amount of clicky go lappy people in the world these days are just odd.

I fucking love science bacon me!

Total fools!

But is it all that simple?

Blessed are those who thirst for justice

** Watch for something like this is you’re a page owner **

The scam works like this…

They send you the first message, which actually looks almost legit. There are no shady links in there, so most users lower their guard. Then they use the threat of losing your page to make you comply.

They then ask you to update your name and address for the page and then reply back to them. This is where the scam gets a little clever. When you reply back, they will ask you to confirm the name and address that you used to update the page.

Once they have this, they can begin the process of reclaiming the Facebook page from you, by using your full name and address that you provided.

Know of the Raspberry Pi?

No – Head over to www.raspberrypi.org then come back here for more goodies.
Yes – Read on dude.

My truly amazing friend (bloody genius) Karl Lattimer dropped me a call one day telling me he had designed a new peripheral and wanted me to help out with the assembly of the first batch. I jumped at the opportunity even before I knew what it was (which is very like me) and I said I’d help out.

Turns out he’d created a cooling system, IR reciever and an internal clock for the Rasberry Pi. I didn’t know much of the Pi at this point and so I was generally intrigued into what I, myself could do with one. The plot thickens!

“There’s 40 Raspberry Pi’s, hundreds of components and hotpi boards getting delivered next month.”

They arrived! I met up with Karl! We started assembling these things!

Get your hands on a HotPi at The Pi Hut

Drivers at Github

HotPi on Failbook

Bloop!

Change your router channel for better speed and to avoid interference.

You will need:

Wifi channel analyzer (Android App)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.srm.wifichannelanalyzer

There is also an online channel analyzer at https://tools.meraki.com/stumbler which does not work with Linux so I haven’t had any results with but it might work for you on your windows machine.

Access to your routers wireless settings

I’m assuming you use windows, and the router is up and running and in use. If these are both true, type “ipconfig” from the command prompt.

This will show up:

Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.100
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

“default gateway” is probably your router’s address.

(Linux/mac – In terminal type “route -n” or “/sbin/route”)

Instructions

1. Load up the android app/online tool and find which channel is strongest.
2. Log into your routers settings page using the address found.
3. Find and change channel settings to recommended channel.
4. Hit apply or save.
5. Happy surfing.

Many routers have an auto channel setting which can be very handy or down right stupid depending on how it’s feeling on the day. Most of the time leaving it set on auto is best but it’s up to you to manage these settings.

Whilst you’re in the router configuration I advise you take a look at your security settings too, and change them if needed to something more secure. Wifi networks get cracked all the time so keep it safe with WPA/WPA2 (WEP is definitely not secure) and a strong password. Using your house number, make of car in the driveway, your name or date of birth is asking for it and just plain silly.

Have a nice day.