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I believe Ubuntu 6.10 is due out 1st of October so it might be worth holding off till then. However maybe they don't out cds so early, I'm not sure?

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Living Room / Re: Amazing VR setup for R/C airplane
« on: September 25, 2006, 02:42 PM »
Excellent choice of music too, seems so surreal.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Commentary: Linkware licenses can go awry
« on: September 23, 2006, 10:33 AM »
Yeah fascinating read, the points he makes had never occurred to me either.

Even with his suggestions for cleaning up ambiguities in the license there is still the problem that if the domain changes hands how many people are going to realize that and change/remove their links with could otherwise end up pointing to very unsavory sites.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why I Prefer Procedural/Relational Over OOP
« on: September 23, 2006, 03:58 AM »
Hmm, I couldn't understand a word he was saying.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best jukebox that is NOT iTunes?
« on: September 23, 2006, 03:46 AM »
I use musikCube but not sure if it's powerful enough for what you want.

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Living Room / Re: Blattophobes, click not...
« on: September 22, 2006, 04:48 PM »
Yeah a bit freaky.

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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?
« on: September 21, 2006, 10:34 AM »
I suppose in terms of what I use every single day I'd have to say;


Thats all I can think of off hand. Nothing too exciting really, notice they're all free? I'm not a cheapskate, honestly.

[edit]Oh I forgot Subversion using RapidSVN.[/edit]

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Yeah I tend agree with want you're both saying.

I think perhaps maybe looking back at knowledge gained years earlier which can seem so trivial now that you underestimate how difficult it was getting to where you are today.

Nudone; I suppose I'd liken your idea of layers with the concept whereby you work and try to understand all the parts which make up a system, and then one day it just clicks with you how those parts go together and all of a sudden you start think about the system at a higher level not worrying about each individual piece.

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Hello, I’ve noticed a trend in the rate at which I’m acquiring knowledge for programming, certainly over the last few years and it seems to follow an exponential-style graph of knowledge.

I better explain what I mean be ‘knowledge’ and this is tricky so feel free to suggest alternative definitions; I’d like to narrow this notion down better. I’d be referring to the planning stage of a new project/feature to existing project whereby you work out, in your head or through ‘cowboy’ programming, what the problems are which you’ll be likely to face. I’m defining ‘knowledge’ to be the cases where you already know a very good solution to those problems. I want to be very general here and so solutions could be something you solved before, or perhaps you know a third party library or maybe you simply know a book or site that will aid you.

The key thing I’m getting at here is the rate at which this knowledge increases. I’ve been programming for over ten years, I started young perhaps but that may not have made any difference. What I’ve noticed is that over the past year I feel like I learned more than in say the previous nine. In the year before that I think I’d learned more than the previous eight.

See what I’m getting at? Anyone else get that feeling too?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Text editor with good spell checker
« on: September 20, 2006, 06:45 AM »
That does seem nice alright, but $60 is a bit expensive for an editor.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting Links
« on: September 20, 2006, 06:38 AM »
That program is genius. All you need is imagination and probably a bit of creativity.

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Living Room / Re: The boy who lived before
« on: September 20, 2006, 06:29 AM »
While I think the report, as it reads, is very convincing I don't necessarly believe it to be honest. I'd be a sceptic at the best of times and this whole story could have just been made up.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Text editor with good spell checker
« on: September 19, 2006, 02:53 PM »
This thread prompted me to go looking for a new general purpose editor, one which has a spellchecker would be especially useful for making webpages.

I tried the mentioned PSPad but when spellchecking was turned on the whole app slowed tremendously, scrolling through a file was particularly bad.

So I went searching for alternatives and I found

RJ TextEditor
CPad
Syn Text Editor

Personally I settled on CPad but all are worth checking out.

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Living Room / Re: Ben Franklin's Lightning Experiments Digitized
« on: September 19, 2006, 01:20 PM »
Very interesting.

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Living Room / Re: Weird Al New Video - White And Nerdy
« on: September 19, 2006, 08:15 AM »
First class, you're right he has kept the quality up consistently.

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop
« on: September 19, 2006, 07:55 AM »
Funny I never made the connection with it looking like a Devil head. One thing about that I really disliked was that if you have the box on the floor the power button is just low enough that you can easily clip it with a chair wheel or your foot shutting the pc down. That said at least it wasn't the reset button you could accidently hit, that could really mess things up.

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop
« on: September 19, 2006, 05:03 AM »
Here the home system.

19092006(001).jpg

On the left is the main PC and on the right is the file server. Can't remember the specs of the main PC. The server is a P4 2.4Ghz and 512 ram.

This however is my alter

19092006.jpg

Its a reasonably decent Dual Core Athlon x64 3800, with 1Gb ram and Radeon X800 PIC Express graphics card. Not top of the range but it serves my purposes with having cost an arm and a leg. The monitor on the left is a Philips and has a really annoy in flicker problem if you move dark windows around the screen, Or if you scroll text :( . The one on the right is a Sony with X-black and really is my pride and joy, have never regretted buying it.

It's interesting to see how many other dual screen setups we have here, I don't think I could go back to living without it.

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If you're starting off then Ubuntu without a shadow of a doubt. If you know what you're doing then Gentoo or FreeBSD are very viable choices. Personally I run Zenwalk which is Slackware on Xfce in stead of KDE but thats just for the moment probably, I change very frequently.

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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.3 beta thread
« on: September 18, 2006, 05:31 AM »
Small suggestion: How about adding a right click context menu for copy, cut and paste functions. Sometimes they're more useful than the keyboard shortcuts.

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I use Thunderbird myself. I don't actually like the program all that much but it does everything I need :) .

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Living Room / Re: media icons - suggestions please.
« on: September 17, 2006, 03:04 PM »
One place that was mentioned here at the forum and has fantastic artwork is www.dlanham.com . Not only icons but also wallpapers. Definitelly worth looking at.

Fantastic site.

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Living Room / Re: media icons - suggestions please.
« on: September 17, 2006, 01:58 PM »
There are many excellent icon sets to be found on deviantART. Here's a direct link to the relevent category.

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Living Room / Re: [Video] 4 year old drummer
« on: September 17, 2006, 08:36 AM »
Very impressive, plus he seems to be enjoying it so its probably not a case of parents pressuring him to do it :Thmbsup:

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Hmm, link doesn't seem to be working at the mo. I must say in my case, internet fasting as opposed to complete pc fasting would probably up my productivity. The pc itself I think contributes more than it takes, I think.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Font Creator
« on: September 15, 2006, 06:36 PM »
Very possibly, I haven't tried it myself, just remembered seeing it. I wonder if Mizraim is still around?

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