Fatmas

Get the Fortune's Edition just for the silent shotgun. It's brilliant. It's well worth £7.49, I put so much time into that game when it came out.

Whereas Amazon have some control over the prices they charge for games, Steam actually has no control over regional pricing. The publishers agree to the sales but as you can see on the holiday sale, very few Activision games are reduced. (COD:MW being the exception but it's been reduced to the price it should be considering the age of the game). That's not Steam's fault, publishers control the pricing. That being said, keep an eye on daily deals. Just Cause 2 is only £5 today, there is a good chance RUSE will appear at some point during the holiday period.

Deus Ex Collection is only £1.49!

Welcome to Steam Get on there and spend some money. Battlefield Bad Company 2 is only £6.79 today! Massive sale on until 2nd January, look out for daily deals too.

I knew it would cheer you guys up

Some thoughts: A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two tired. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion. Local Area Network in Australia - the LAN down under. Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.

So this XFactor song is a crap cover of a song that is from Biffy Clyro's weakest album? No thanks. I'll stick to the likes of 57 and Glitter & Trauma.

Looks like Andy Dufresne has been working hard.

If you spin a Chinese man around a hundred times… Does he get disoriented?

I've only seen the first one but that's quite a cool idea put forward in that trailer. The film itself will probably be a pile of **** though

With Amazon books any authorised seller can upload books without Amazon's knowledge. I'm sure it will be taken down before too long!

An open letter to governments, the media and the population has been written by anonymous: Linky

I thought the bad joke telling was my job on this forum! *groan*

What really gets me is how governments and certain officials are angry with Wikileaks and are claiming this was irresponsible on their part. Do you think there would be this witch hunt if the leaks had been provided by the BBC, CNN or even Fox news? (Fox news would never report something like this on their own but anyway...) Governments are scared because they have no control over the internet. They can censor traditional media outlets all day long but they cannot censor the internet. They are terrified that they cannot control the distribution of information the way they used to. The balance of power may be starting the shift.

Nice try FBI agent

I love how the US are expecting Wikileaks to be taken down and for these cables to disappear. I don't think they understand that once something is on the internet, that's it.

Thanks for all your input and advice. I'm currently playing with/building a DIY NAS box using some spare hardware and FreeNAS and it seems to be going quite well. FreeNAS is very easy to use and since I'm just testing I'm only using a Dell 210L as a test rig with an 80gb SATA drive. Thanks again guys, I'll update when more progress is made.

Could be Essex or Swindon mate based on the writing style

It seems Newcastle are taking the Manchester City approach to Managers.

New Vegas is well worth it. I loved Fallout 3 and love NV as well. Unfortunately I have sunk over 45 overs into New Vegas in a month. Ouch.

I know this has been mentioned before but let me explain: We currently use tapes as a backup solution. Our main backup consists of a differential each day (Approx 55-60 GB) and a full backup each Friday evening (Approx 1.2 TB). We also backup the SIMS data every evening (About 100 GB). We use Symantec Backup Exec 11d on each server. It's an older version but we don't pay a support contract and it still works. If we wanted to replace the tapes as the backup medium, what would be the best alternative. Would something like a NAS unit with swappable drives be adequete? We currently store unused tapes in a safe at the other end of the building so I would imagine the same would happen with HDD's In terms of software, would Backup Exec be fine for that or are there any solutions that would be more suited to a NAS style backup system? Obviously cost is a factor but I know NAS units have come down in price big time (for populated and unpopulated).

Woah Woah Woah... Our crystal ball works when it's clean.

Since our head of curriculum ICT bought a Wii last year and hasn't used it once, it probably won't make it into our classrooms for a while..

It was very funny but the man in question did end up killing himself from the fall. Hence why it is in the Darwin Awards.

"All I want for christmas is my two front teeth"... Wait..... A new Xbox 360 Slim (even though there is nothing wrong with my 2 year old 20gb ol' faithful Premium), a big(er) TV. a car? People I know to have a good christmas? I think I'm being too hopeful.