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Operating Systems! I love them! You can't beat that feeling of booting up an installer, blasting the partition table, selecting your applications and watching the estimated time to completion box count down to zero. Exciting stuff. And then you get to try out all the new whiz-bang features. But would I go as far as hosting a party for this process? Apparently you can.....

Whilst searching for some previously un-heard (to me) Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis tracks the other day, I discovered Crash by The Human League. The 1986 album features 3 Jam & Lewis tracks: Human, I Need Your Loving and Love Is All That Matters. Lots of good stuff on the Wikipedia page about this album: 3 of the band members left during/after it's creation due to conflicts with Jam & Lewis, but it also spawned a US Number One with the track Human.

Anyhow, here is the 3rd single to be released from the album. According to Wikipedia "The music video was a result of Virgin Records beginning to lose faith in the Human League and being reluctant to invest in any further elaborate music videos; so the video was kept deliberately low budget." The track was written and produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and carries their distinct sound. Enjoy!

I've kinda got into NCIS recently, so here is the super aces theme tune and opening credits for seasons 1 thru 6! Thanks to Cazza for this link!



Want more info? Wikipedia's NCIS Soundtrack page has lots of great detail about the music in the show!

Monday morning on 13 July 2009 can only mean one thing: James Bond! This weekend I rented The Best Of James Bond - 30th Anniversary Collection because I really wanted to hear my fave JB theme: Licence to Kill. (PS it's licence in the UK, but license in the US!)

Time for some fun facts about it c/o Wikipedia: The song (one of the longest to ever be used in a Bond film) was composed by Narada Michael Walden, Jeffrey Cohen and Walter Afanasieff. It was based on the "horn line" from Goldfinger, which required royalty payments to the original writers. The music video of "Licence to Kill" was directed by Daniel Kleinman, who later took over the reins of title designer from Maurice Binder for the 1995 Bond film, Goldeneye.

More hits from Narada Michael Walden to appear here later, but for now, here's Gladys:

Time for a techie good-stuff video! I know that you're already reading the title and thinking how can a credit card payment be interesting? Well, with some fancy graphics and a lovely young lady describing it, it's super aces! Watch he journey of a credit card payment as it travels 30,000 kilometres in 1.4 seconds!

Bringing you the sports news, regardless of the rights holder.... Tuesday 23 June, 1800 BST:

Last week I attempted to upgrade my Thinkpad T60P from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. Initially I decided to use the excellent LIVE USB image to perform a brand new install, as I had done in previous releases. As usual, I appended selinux=0 reiserfs on the grub command line and expected all to go well. To my dismay, it refused to give me an option of installing ReiserFS on any of my partitions. I really didn't want to use ext4 as it it still isn't provided by GRUB (at least without a patch) and I really don't want an extra /boot partition.

I do not usually get involved with these, but I think this one is VERY serious - so please take note.

This is serious. Please BEWARE!

Over the last month I became a victim of a clever 'Eastern European' scam while out shopping. Simply dropping into ASDA's for a bit of shopping has turned out to be quite traumatic. Don't be naive enough to think it couldn't happen to you or your friends.

Here's how the scam works:

Happy New Year! Wow - seems like the last 6 months didn't really happen on richii.com - no updates at all! Well, time to bring it back for 2009 with an old beat which has been in my head over Christmas thanks to the Curry's adverts! Not quite sure what "In My Arms" has to do with electrical appliances, but hey, I guess it's nice to have them in your arms (well, the smaller appliances, not the 60 inch plasma's). Hey notice how everything in the UK is mainly metric except for TV sizes and speed limits! Fascinating! Anywhere, here is "In My Arms" by Mylo. Watch for the samples of Bette Davis Eyes and Waiting For A Star To Fall:

Last Thursday I attended the Red Hat Tech Forum in London - the first event of it's kind. Here's some of the notes from event which was introduced by Dave Russell (Senior Consultant - Red Hat Global Professional Services):

The agenda was as follows:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Real Time(Demo)
Red Hat Cluster Suite (Demo)
Cutting Edge Virtualisation (Demo)