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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)

You have to give it to those Dutch folk - they sure know how to make super aces trailers! Especially the ones for ID&T! Here's the aces one for Sensation Black!



And here's the awesome flash site for Sensation White! Amsterdam Arena 5 July 2008! Be there, or be at home!

Time for an 80's classic! The main memory I have of this track is the Only Fools And Horses episode where Del Boy and Rodney end up on a TV game show called "Gold". You're indestructible!! Aces!

Hehehe - Rickrolling. Richii.com approves of Rickrolling as it's good clean harmless fun. 21 years after Rick Astley's pop hit topped UK charts, it's online, on the radio and on TV again! Aces. Even those Nooooo Yawk Mets fell victim to the latest Rick Astley online prank this week. Keeping it fresh n' chewy for you, here is a woofer doing his bit to help out this techie interweb phenomenon:

Time for another uptempo vid to keep you kicking it towards the weekend! The track itself is a few months old, but it's only just now that I've caught the video. I guess this video emphasizes that everyday sort of moment you have when you're walking around a concrete jungle like Barbican (actually, this happens to me quite a bit, but that's another story), you find a note in a playground which urges you go up on the roof of a towerblock, and then wonder what it is you are doing up there. Make sense? The video explains it better than I.... fresh n' chewy n' widescreen!