GAME will likely go next, despite attempts to save it, then who knows. Soon the highstreet will just be clothes shops and empty premises.

Electronics Boutique (which became GAME in the UK), when I used to work there had a great tie up with Barrys World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarrysWorld http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1192857.stm) where if you worked for EB you got a certain size server that you could host games on etc. It was great, but I seemed to be the only person asking about it at the time.

I think this was back in 2003. Back then places like UK2 were popular, hosting your own server, public or private for Clan matches and just fun on games like Counter Strike. I don’t seem to hear of that much often anymore, if the price was right, I’d play on a GAME server or a Blockbuster server.

I’ve just installed Skype (skype-4.1.0.20-fedora.i586.rpm) on my Fedora 18 Beta version of Linux and I thought I’d share the dependencies with everyone as I have done in the past.

If you get a root terminal up and execute this command:

[code]yum install alsa-lib.i686 qt-x11.i686 qt.i686 qtwebkit.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686[/code]

that should pull in all the relevant dependencies required to get skype installed.

Then, download Skype from their website and install that RPM and it shouldn’t complain about missing any files.

I can’t see them making a much larger device as the Galaxy Nexus, their current Nexus phone is already on the cusp of being too large, even though the Galaxy S III is slightly larger and selling well.

At the moment, I’m on the fence about an Intel based Nexus device, personally I would prefer another ARM based version, not least because of the ties to British engineering.

What do you think? Would having Intel x86 as the CPU powering the next Google Nexus device sway you?

I had a look and it was true, it wasn’t there, I checked then menu to see if there was a way to turn it on, and stumbled across what seems to be a bug.

Here is how to repeat it, this is on my UK Galaxy Nexus running stock Android 4.0.4.

Go to settings and choose Data Usage

As you see, no prediction line.

Select Show Wi-Fi usage from the menu.

Press the Wi-Fi tab and then go back to Mobile

There you go, the dotted prediction line is visible.

I found I had to install these items seperatly:

yum install -y libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686


you might find others though. To find it, do the following:

in terminal as your account, type skype and press enter. If it doesn’t load it will tell you something is missing.

In this example what’s missing is libXss.so.1

To find what has that you run this command:

yum whatprovides */libXss.so.1

It will tell you all the packages which include that file, however as Skype is 32bit, its looking for that library.

So, you tack on .i686 at the end, as above and it should deal with that minor issue.

Tested on Fedora 16 32bit, Fedora 16 64bit, Fedora 17 64bit. All fine so far.
No uninstall script just yet though, I’ll likely incorporate it into this script anyway and have it as an option. -i install -u uninstall maybe.

#!/bin/bash
#
# This script will download the .deb packages, unpack them and put the bits where they need to go.
#
# This does not have an uninstall element to it, nor does it keep it up to date. Sorry.
#
# Updated to just work and grab everything required rather then searching out a specific
# This needs to be ran as root, because it extracts files into /usr/bin and /usr/share which is root only. sudo should work.

echo "Done, you should now be able to excute the spotify command succesfully. If not, something went wrong. Sorry"

I’ll put up another download at some point, but for now, that should work if you put it in a script and execute it as root.

As such I have recognised I need to make some serious modifications to my Spotify Linux Client Upgrader script.

This will come in time, here is what I had to do to get it work on Fedora 17 though as a quick and dirty notes section, I’ll script this at some point as when they change the file names, its breaking the script:
{after changing the download links in my script and running it again}

yum install qtwebkit-2.2.1-4.fc17.x86_64 nss-3.13.3-3.fc17.x86_64 openssl-devel
ln -s /usr/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8 /usr/lib64/libssl.so.10
ln -s /usr/lib64/libssl.so.10 /usr/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8
ln -s /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.10 /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
ln -s /usr/lib64/libnss3.so /usr/lib64/libnss3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib64/libnssutil3.so /usr/lib64/libnssutil3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib64/libsmime3.so /usr/lib64/libsmime3.so.1d
ln -s /usr/lib64/libplc4.so /usr/lib64/libplc4.so.0d
ln -s /usr/lib64/libnspr4.so /usr/lib64/libnspr4.so.0d

This has left some people questioning if Facebook is worth the $100 Billion it was valued at.

My opinion is they are, and more still. The reason as we all know is that Facebook sells your information by way of targeted ads. So a company says place my advert on females pages between the ages of 18-24 if they are in this area and have ever mentioned” diet” in their updates for example.

Fair enough, I have no problems with that, if a targeted ad shows up for me, I probably still won’t buy it. Saying that though, I DID buy my home server from a targeted ad on Facebook I seem to remember.

I have no problems unless the advertisers step over the mark. If they start to sell funeral services based on someone recently having suffered a bereavement, then that’s just TOO far. Will they know where to stop though? Will they care?

This was explained in a recent resolution email I’ve received:

“Master Update: On Tuesday evening (17th January), Virgin Media Business experienced a network outage that impacted customers using IPVPN, Managed Internet, National Ethernet and broadband services. The problem was quickly traced to a failed cooling unit that had caused a core backbone router to overheat. Due to exceptional circumstances, other backup equipment also failed to activate properly. We’re are now working through a thorough investigation as to why this happened.

Engineers resolved the fault in about an hour. Virgin Media Business would like to apologise to all customers impacted by this outage.

If you have any queries regarding this update – please contact Technical Support.”

The issue was resolved mostly later in the evening on Tuesday but additional load issues due to having to bypass the problem was still causing issues for some people.

Hopefully Virgin will be able to identify why their contingency plan didn’t work.

Turned out to be something simple.