Interesting Links for 16-07-2013

• In times of change, make tires
  (tags: change innovation )
• Mathematics: human invention, or built in to the fabric of the universe?
  (tags: mathematics )
• Gangnam Style Is One Year Old, And Music Is Forever Different
  (tags: music )
• Engineers, and the Managers they Make
  (tags: management engineering )
• Why I’m hiring graduates with thirds this year
  (tags: work education )
• The road to peace on the internet is a hard one.
  (tags: funny )
• Seven short stories about drones
  (tags: drone shortstory )
• The incredible embroidery of Game of Thrones (worth following back to the original site for more).
  (tags: clothing gameofthrones design )
• 20 years after Windows 3.11, Linus unveils “Linux for Workgroups”
  (tags: funny windows linux )
• Apocalyptic Scooby-Doo Daphne and Velma Cosplay
  (tags: ScoobyDoo cosplay viaDrJon )
• They're making a comic of the original Star Wars script. Iiiiinteresting.
  (tags: comics starwars )
• Pacific Rim's hilarious “fourth-string” Jaegers revealed
  (tags: robots mecha movies funny )
• Disney Princesses Redesigned with Historically Accurate Outfits (Cue the historian snark...)
  (tags: clothing disney )
• Five things Iain Duncan Smith doesn't want you to know about the benefit cap
  (tags: uk welfare )
• The is the most insane programming feat I've seen in a long while.
  (tags: programming )

I need to know how you have fun

You have £500 to spend on fun. You have to spend it all, and it has to be on fun.

Go!


(Question courtesy of eatsoylentgreen

The WiFi works better

I found the settings on my router, and discovered that the Network Mode was set to "Mixed" - so I set it to "Wireless-N Only", on the grounds that backwards compatibility with B/G was probably slowing it down.

I then had to tell both laptops to forget they had ever spoken to the wireless connection (because they were both failing to connect, and not allowing me to do anything useful) - which would have been easier on my laptop if Windows 8 hadn't removed the "Manage Wireless Connections" option, requiring me to download an app to do it.

And then I connected, and my speed has increased from around 20MBit to around 40MBit. Which still isn't earth-shattering speeds, but will make copying video files around less painful.

Cheers to various people for their suggestions!