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Living Room / Re: Things your kids will never know - old school tech!

« on: November 09, 2008, 06:59 PM »

Don't worry Darwin, I wouldn't mind betting that most 'kids' who are older than you either didn't learn it when it was taught or have forgotten the experience entirely (saves your sanity, post traumatic stress and all that), or are deranged physicists in a dark room somewhere.

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Living Room / Re: Donationcoder in a timezone of its own?

« on: November 07, 2008, 12:12 AM »

mine had been wrong since we changed to daylight saving time, so i went and changed it yesterday, earlier today after you did whatever you did it was wrong again, so i went and auto detected again and its now on the right time

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: New Getting Organized Experiment?

« on: November 04, 2008, 04:13 PM »

At a quick look it seems interesting, thanks for posting it tomos

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Living Room / Re: Apologies

« on: November 04, 2008, 04:03 PM »

Good idea for the t shirt Carol, I'll part with some money for one like that, might make one of those fun razor thingies lol

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Living Room / Re: Apologies

« on: October 31, 2008, 02:23 AM »

 

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Living Room / Re: Apologies

« on: October 31, 2008, 01:46 AM »

Good choice Glenn, welcome

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General Software Discussion / Re: ThreatFire - aka Cyberhawk - free behavioural blocking

« on: October 30, 2008, 07:52 PM »

Necromancer warning lol, but threatfire have released a new version, V4, released just very recently.  They claim to have fixed many problems with it. http://www.threatfire.com/updates/ 

I have always liked the idea of threatfire but found in the past that it interfered with bootup and seemed to slow things down a lot and I would remove it, this version, while only a few hours old on my laptop seems to be behaving much better.  Claims of reduced annoyances are yet to be seen bit so far so good.

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Living Room / Re: Why social networks are a threat to life as some know it

« on: October 30, 2008, 07:06 PM »

Well, its pretty small beer on the fraud levels, lol, anyway my bet is he is still employed, after all, its not easy to get people to work in call centres, even if they do take the odd unauthorised day off   

Edit - Perhaps they should sack him for being ever so stupid though 

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Developer's Corner / Re: If and when can you be sued for open source? Donationware?

« on: October 30, 2008, 03:07 PM »

It may be worth your while contacting a lawyer who is expert in this area.  Being a lawyer they probably won't be cheap but if you have concerns about that type of thing then the cost is probably easier to bear than a resulting court case.

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Living Room / Re: Things your kids will never know - old school tech!

« on: October 29, 2008, 06:06 PM »

Don't forget outdoor TV aerials

I wish i could forget them, mine blew down a couple of years ago and was a little expensive and time consuming to get repaired

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Living Room / Re: Things your kids will never know - old school tech!

« on: October 28, 2008, 08:30 AM »

must be an age thing, if it isn't normal writing, what is?? 

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Living Room / Re: Things your kids will never know - old school tech!

« on: October 26, 2008, 07:15 AM »

stone tablets and a chisel?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: October 24, 2008, 10:11 PM »

  a Super Curt 

Edit spelling thanks Darwin

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: October 24, 2008, 07:39 PM »

  its not that grim curt lol

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Living Room / Re: Rats! MS Auto Updates Got Me Again!

« on: October 19, 2008, 02:06 AM »

No problem here in 5 years - once there in! 

-CleverCat (October 19, 2008, 01:17 AM)

Yeah, I have run into only one problem with sound a year or so ago, but apart from that its been only install issues, the damn things just won't install sometimes. 

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: 42

« on: October 17, 2008, 06:47 PM »

Good selection Ehtyar, well done, your work on this is appreciated 

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Living Room / Re: Selectively Print Only What You Want From Webpages

« on: October 15, 2008, 05:06 PM »

I just tried, it doesnt seem to do those special characters well, or at all really.  I got it to full width by making sure all the bits around it were removed, then I selected it all and clicked the expand button. and this is the result

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: XYplorer File Manager

« on: October 15, 2008, 06:53 AM »

'Tis a wonderful thing, gets better almost weekly and the regular major release is always a nice one.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mathematics symbols OCR

« on: October 15, 2008, 02:49 AM »

PDF annotator is on Bits du jour 51% off today if anyone interested.http://www.bitsdujour.com/

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Living Room / Re: The eyeballing game

« on: October 14, 2008, 09:55 PM »

  >14 just goes to show i guess, i have no idea what I'm looking at 

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Living Room / Re: My computer is older than YOUR computer!

« on: October 14, 2008, 04:54 AM »

I got an abacus 

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Living Room / Re: Should Microsoft become an OEM (PC manufacturer)?

« on: October 13, 2008, 09:14 PM »

I guess I'm saying - so long as they don't become an apple, but some much friendlier fruit.

-Grorgy

Kumquat? Mango? Kiwi?

-Edvard (October 13, 2008, 04:43 PM)

Hmmm hadn't really got that far, perhaps a mango, sort of squishy and soft   

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Living Room / Re: Should Microsoft become an OEM (PC manufacturer)?

« on: October 13, 2008, 03:42 PM »

It wouldn't worry me one way or the other so long as they don't make it necessary to purchase their hardware with their software.  I guess I'm saying - so long as they don't become an apple, but some much friendlier fruit.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Where to start with computer programing

« on: October 12, 2008, 07:30 PM »

It was posted about here somewhere sometime ago, why not start with looking at the Stanford School of Engineering free computer courses.  They sound pretty good

Introduction to Computer Science
Programming Methodology CS106A
Programming Abstractions CS106B
Programming Paradigms CS107

The methodologies uses java as the programming language to teach, the next ones use other languages.

here is the link http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx

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General Software Discussion / Re: Reorganizing music library

« on: October 12, 2008, 07:06 PM »

I did something similar recently with J River Media Centre, though I didnt use album artist, I used album but still, if you have it it could be worth a try, its a bit pricey just to do that with in my opinion.