PROPER KEYBOARDS by LOGITECH

Now THIS is a proper keyboard!!

Unfortunately it is old and I seem to have to have a long dangley lumpy transceiver plugged in and my systems will NOT see it without it?!

The early Bluetooth technology must have been limited in some way and I did think that the modern transceivers today would allow me to link this WITHOUT the long double lead and lumpy transceiver that comes with this one?!

LOOKS STATE OF THE ART DESPITE IT'S AGE!!

The LUMP that is the TRANSCEIVER

The accompanying mouse, on the LEFT, shows this models age even if the keyboard does not!!

The ugly and bulky transceiver is thrown onto my gadget and transceiver lamp!!

Now the keyboard I wanted is the Logitech K800, I think it is called, with backlit keys which are shallower than this old design. However it is really hard to judge how good a keyboard is in a store, except when I spotted this one!

I walked into the Cash Converters store in Waltham Cross and as I walked around I immediately spotted this and GRABBED IT and held it close and TIGHT!!

LMAO! Sounds veyr sad I know.

BUT I am sorry to say that many keyboards are absolute GARBAGE and really crap to type on and actually puts me off doing anything online, which is not good and anti-productive and slows down my journey to reach my goals.

Now the backlit Logitech K800, looks like this with backlit keys, is priced up at £85 odd in PC World, to you yanks this would be close to $100 or more and for a keyboard, albeit a decnt one, this is ridiculous.

Yes.. YES OK so I did buy a Logitech Lenovo when I bought my last computer and bought it at a knock down price of £110...hmm or was it £130?! But at the time I wanted to build a real fancy system and had the money and spent £3,500 on it in the end.

Still it is in essence a keyboard and lately I have had a great many budget ones, not THAT budget, with the lettering rubbing off after a short period of time, even Logitech ones?!

This has NEVER happened to me in 30 years of computing but has happened THREE TIMES in the last two years!!! This includes Laptops and by Hewlett Packard too which is really a surprise for them. In fact I am utterly disappointed in Hewlett Packard for a whole bunch of reasons and I cannot be the only one either?!

I would imagine that they had a big backlash which is why they threatened to leave computer manufacturer and therefore throwing their toys out of their proverbial PRAM?!

That in itself is also disappointing. It seems that the attitude of recent times is 'we will make substandard products that will not even last 6 months and charge you several hundred quid for them and tough titties you then give us another several hundred quid and we do it all over again!

Yeah well let me know how that is all working out for you?! LMAO!

Yes so £82 or £85 is the asking price of the one I want and I found this old one with a proper full keyboard for the princely sum of £12.50.

Of course I did not want the mouse, or the huge transceiver dangling on a double wire for KB and MOUSE ports.

Now I am happy to type again and do some more work with my blogs, only problem now is that the laptop is at right angles to me and though my typos have improved I know realise that because of the pains in my back, neck and shoulder I am guessing I have typed correctly and still making odd mistakes, grrr!!

Of course the plan was to BUILD a new RIG or two but I have not only given up thinking that the 25,000 odd visitors will pay off NEXT MONTH and I will make a start and now do not even think about it a great deal.

Oddly I do not check my account and visitor numbers as much as I did, like two times a day in the beginning to 2 or 3 times a week now!!

Also rather odd is the fact that I discovered that Google, who kindly failed to tell me over and over again, that they were not only utter crap with their Google Affiliate Network, now closing down and no surprises there, but that they were NOT the ONLY Affiliate Network and that others were far better at linking you to companies?!

In fact that is an understatement as in a matter of days I was contacted by c company requesting to advertise with me to do with PET PRODUCTS as they had seen my TWO BLOGS to do with this?! This was all done and set up within two weeks of joining that Affiliate Program and I have had over TEN CLICK since then.

Compare those 10 clicks in two weeks to 37 on Google Adsense in 10 MONTHS and it looks rather ridiculous for Google...AGAIN!!

SO I have mentioned this to explain that as I am now completely despondent with the moetizing blogs. But thatI have now Affiliated with other companies vie no less than THREE oother Afilliate Agencies, or DIrectories if you like, and that this may suddenly do in a matter of weeks what Google failed to do so utterly miserably in ten momths.

I love slave labour, don't you?!

LMAO.

SO something may happen out of the blue and if it DOES then this increases my work load over the following months exponentially and in so doing everyone benefits!!

Now you think that Google and some of the other slow burners in this field may have some mathemetician in theoir company that could actually work all this out?!

You would also be blamed for thinking that if you have an art to write, work and have a huge expanse of knowledge that they would realise that this person is going to become quite big and popular and will single them out to look after and nurture what they are doing?!

Like bullocks!!

That last one sound odd?!

Well consider that a SECOND company on the SAME Affiliate Directory that I linked in to other blogs, hmm could be the banner at the top of here, contacted me and said...

'We have noticed a greta deal of traffic coming form your blogs! How did you do it and can you provide screen shots?'?!

I kid you not!

I said 'Look I am STILL trying to get my head around all this after ten months. All I do is be as honest and straight forward as I can be. I also try to be myself with no falsifying anything. I say it how it is and I tell it how it is. That has always made me popular wherever I have been or worked and I am hoping it pays off here for me finally.'

Or something LIKE that but that was it in a roundabout way!

I see patterns, I can work out pretty soon if something is crap or not and just like here if I pick up a right old keyboard which has knocked spots of the last four I bought BRAND NEW then I will say.

That's it and that's all!

Now with a bit of luck I may FINALLY be able to plant the building of TWO computer rigs before very long?!

Of course being able to do all that means the purchasing of lots of gadgets and gizmos along with peripherals and internal hardware all put together in a loving way, well I am a perfectionist at heart.

This provides lots of material for my blogs and this one with no end of material, reviews, photos, videos and more. It also will not stop when the rigs are built either!!

This therefore provides content that will attract many more people who will read what they need to or want to and everyone is a winner!! Think if it as being a snowball effect but do not think hard and fast. A snowball continues to build no matter at what speed it is pushed! Presently it gets pushed now and then but hopefully I can start pushing it at a much greater speed and pretty soon?!

It is hardly rocket science now but Google managed to make it so, lol.

I am fussy and whatever I get has to be the best or very close to it, lol. Now hopefully visitors will get to see this and relish in what I do next?!

Here is hoping with fingers CROSSED!

CAPTCHA SECURITY PAIN IN THE ARSE

Well this never occurred to me?!

I have found these Captcha security measures and similar ones really bloody annoying and implemented as if ten year old children have coded them.

I myself have scratched my head at how these can even get to being offered to webmasters let alone actually being chosen?!

I have 20/20 vision and I cannot read the characters half of the time?!

It never, yes shamefully so, occurred to be difficulties that would arise for those whose eye sight not very good. Or anyone else with reading difficulties!

Really should be done common sense and regulating by someone with an ounce if common sense for these types if things being implemented.

Not only badly done but done by narrow minded people and purchased by narrow minded companies and public offices with no forethought at all.

The National Federation of the Blind? Now there is an organisation that actually does something unlike many others. Good for them!

Yup a lot of that about lately, lol.

XBOX ONE SPEC REPORTS & MY THEORY

There are many details flying about but I hope to find out something in my researching that I suspected of the Playstation 4.

However I am now doubting I will find this which is starting me to wondering whether this path will lead me to something else entirely. Not sinister so much I think but could sound it.

Anyway by all accounts it is reported that the XBox ONE will start up more or less instantly and that tyhis can be done by voice by simply saying "Xbox One". This can be performed because the microphone is always on while the machine is in a sleep mode.

Hmm well I do not own one of these things and never have, though this could possibly change this year, so I hope games can all be installed on the hard drive?!

Otherwise asking it to switch itself on from the comfort of your armchair and then dragging yourself off your sorry arse to go over and put the disk in would be somewhat....SILLY! LMAO.

AMD 8 Core (JAGUAR) APU Custom Specifications

AMD 9 Series Graphics (Odd one this as 8 has not come out but it is reported out there that eight will be mobile specific which makes a lot more bloody sense lmao)

8GB RAM

500GB Drive (seen no reports about different versions as yet but have about the drive being NON user serviceable)

USB 3.0

WIFI 'n'

WIFI Direct

Controllers look the same but have 40 (according to Microsoft) improvements but new 'Impulse Triggers'. Hmm. Oh and a built in battery pack.

There is some clue to the typical Microsoft shenanigans that a user cannot change the drive on the machine. This alone could put me right off as you are being forced to PAY for the labour in the event of a failed drive.

Unless they give me a 5 year warranty specific to the drive of course?!

Sound too expectant that one? Well Western Digital Raptors used to state a 12 million hour running without failure. That was 8 bloody years ago so as long as my hard drive was big enough and did not fail I would personally have no issue with this.

Or a warranty for 5 years, lol.

On another and last note I still see this 8 core Jaguar APU being banded about but something just is not right about this. No mentions of the graphics other than this 9 series malarkey. But 4 cores is all they make currently with the integrated graphics.

So if you could make an 8 Core APU tp place inside a games console why would you only have ONE graphics silicon and 8 CPU cores?! Especially when SLI and Crossfire have been around on the PC for NONE YEARS give or take a few months?!

Either there will be two GPUs or these Jaguar cores have a trick up there sleeve.

I mean anyone considering building a PC gaming rig and waiting to see what happens with the two big name consoles before building their AMD Crossfire or nVidia SLI rig would be reading these reports and scratching their heads.

There is one possibility of course and that is that AMD have been a little slow of late on the Graphics Cards front and I expected to see a Radeon HD 8970 by now and added to this the Radeon HD 7990 too an inordinate amount of time to appear...

Maybe, just maybe this 9 series card is so called because it is as big a leap as TWO generations of graphics cards?!

This would highly likely not be available in mobile for awhile and why they are using the '8' moniker for mobile and this '9' moniker for this new silicon.

Hmm do you know what, as I got further into typing that last theory the more I liked the sound of it and thought it the more plausible reason to what is coming up. ITS MY BEST FIT.

LMAO!

WIRED does a good and comprehensive preview of the XBOX ONE

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/xbox-one/

UNVEILING OF THE XBOX ONE

Best pictures if the unveiled XBox One I have found here in wired...

Close Up With Xbox One: Every Photo You Could Ever Want | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Well the slab of plastic does seen to have all but grown up?!

I must admit to being somewhat surprised at the pictures I have seen if the upcoming games console! It is very stylish to the point that it is the first gaming console I have actually thought "I want one!"

The Kinect looks very cool too as well as sounding like it is a big improvement on the first instalment. However I am surprised as I did think that this would be built into the console itself. But then this could have had its own problems I suppose with placement of the console itself I'm the optimum location could be tricky in certain situations.

Still it has taking Microsoft the attempts to produce something oozing cool let us how it is quiet too?!

Let us also hope that there are no shenanigans like the Windows refusing to cone out and play when LINUX is around?!

UPGRADING TO RARING RINGTAIL VIDEOS

Some videos of me attempting to upgrade.

UBUNTU 12.04 LTS UPGRADED TO UBUNTU 13.04

Well everything was working OK for awhile and I enoyed working with it but some odd things have started to happen.

Now I am sure I am being watched closely and that my many blogs on here and the one on Wordpress is being...interfered with in some way is I get impossible numbers.

But lately I have had this version of Ubuntu start having... odd prblems not only with speed but when it comes to CRASHING it is actually beating Windows 2 points to zero, lmao.

Firefx keeps stopping and freezing making posting to these blogs a pain in the arse so I am going to update it to 12.10 and THEN update it to 13.04 of Ubuntu.

I ran the 13.04 version from a USB key and it seemed to run OK and had proper AMD drivers listed in details.

SO hoping that the rumours and things I read about this being faster are true. I also think that little news snippet that came my way, about Canonical going out of business is far from the truth but let us see.Oddly the person that told me of this then said a few days later that he was going to install Ubuntu?!

Anyway right now I am well into the 12.10 version update and hopefully by tonight 13.04?! So I am going from Precise Pangolin, whatever that is, to Raring Ringtail and I will not even know the name of the version that will not be on y laptop for 2 minutes, lmao!!

Woohoo!!

LINUX IN EVER MORE FLAVOURS

I am BEGINNING to try out over flavours of Linux and I did like the Mint one, at least to look at?!

Now..not sure how far I can get into this as I need more, not to mention faster SD Cards and/or USB Memory STUBS, lol, and time but I have ha both benefits cancelled so could be homeless in a few weeks putting an end to all my blogs, the ones with the false numbers presented to me, and my pursuit eo acquiring an income JUST...as I was about to start getting it...THREE MONTHS LATE AT LEAST, LOL.

Still I have managed to put PORTEUS on a memory card with a multi boot program called YUMI.

Alongside Porteus, which I thought was quite night and diminutive size and truly FEELS portable, I also added Linux Mint 11, which went wrong, and changed it to version 14.

I also installed Ubuntu 13.04 and that has been it for now.

I also have, and tryiing and managing to get my head around what they are, KUbuntu, XUbuntu, MythUbuntu, Zorin, PC Linux OS, SMS, SentOS, Fedora and likely a few others besides.

Now Porteus is designed to run from a USB Memory stick long term but I thought I could check out the others.

I did kind of like the GUI for Linux Mint with its Aero like look if I am honest but it oddly REFUSED o connect to my wifi hotspot and has been the ONLY Linux OS to do that?! A shame.

The trouble with other versions of Linux is that I am interested and hoping that something comes from the Linux Steam Client! As far as I know it is only available on Ubuntu and I presume this is ALL the Ubuntus?!

I was also shocked at the Ubuntu 13.04 as a look in the details section showed I had an AMD driver installed which probably means I can get Counter Strike to work as it refuses to under 12.04!

So I may do an upgrade especially as I keep reading that 13.04 is speedier that 12.04, which in all honesty can make Windows 7 look quick at times which for a Linux OS is somewhat shocking, lol.

I seem to have come to the conclusion, finally, that KUbuntu is a KDE Ubuntu and XUbuntu is a simplified X-Window driven Ubuntu?!

I am hoping to check them all out over the next few weeks and I would not mind having a go with Arch too!

I have to admit that outside of Ubuntu the two that caught my eye was Mint and Arch in all honesty. Now I have seen Mint I do thinks it is a better GUI but I want to play around to see if I can get the damn WIFI to connect and if the colours can be altered from the drab grey default colour.

I do like the way you can add widgets on it too. Had the more polished feel and look to it I found in Mint and oddly although I like the Unity Ubuntu look I did feel it needed work on the launcher as it is very limited in personalising it and that folding of icons at the bottom is annoying and fiddly and I had hoped that you could turn that off and just scroll with it.