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Living Room / Re: Tofu Makes You Gay
« Last post by Eóin on December 15, 2006, 01:40 PM »
Ah tomos your Irish, greetings :)

I'd be very wary of that article given the source.
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Developer's Corner / Re: What non-programming tools do you use for programming?
« Last post by Eóin on December 12, 2006, 07:45 AM »
Does a music player count ;) ?

Two very simple things I use is a window and a couch. Sometimes when you know what needs to be done, but not how to do you need to get away from the screen for a bit. I find either staring out a window, or lying down on my back with eyes closed is just what I need to clear my mind and get some proper thinking done.
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Developer's Corner / Re: What Programming Language have you USED THE MOST over the past 12 months?
« Last post by Eóin on December 11, 2006, 05:04 AM »
C++ for me most definitely.

Minor quibble, probably shouldn't lump C and C++ together, from a practical point they have become very different languages.
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Living Room / Re: Myer-Briggs Personality Test For Programmers (or anybody)
« Last post by Eóin on December 11, 2006, 03:24 AM »
I got INTP and given that it is the only result which mentions Mathematician as a recommended career (ignoring Math teacher from ISTJ which isn't quite the same thing) I would have to say that is an accurate result.
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Living Room / Re: Real code vs. Code in the movies
« Last post by Eóin on December 08, 2006, 10:12 AM »
I remember a scene in a film, I'm convinced it was Chain of Command where a fancy UI used on one of the computers in the film was clearly just a word processor document with some large coloured text and the hero interacted with it by pressing 'page down' to move on to the next screen mock-up.
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Living Room / Re: Winterbells - Orsinal does it again with today's Flash Game of the Day
« Last post by Eóin on December 08, 2006, 06:27 AM »
...and the fact that they don't feature any violence.
-jgpaiva (December 08, 2006, 03:36 AM)

I don't know, I mean if you do too well the bunny has a long way to fall :'(


 ;D :D :P
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Living Room / Re: Zamzar - Free online file conversion. (up to 100 MB)
« Last post by Eóin on December 07, 2006, 03:23 PM »
Wow, that's really cool.
1208
Living Room / Re: Nine Ways to Combat Spam
« Last post by Eóin on December 06, 2006, 08:17 AM »
Some interesting points, I'm surprised though that they didn't mention using Tagged Message Delivery Agent which my mail provider supports and I find to be very useful.
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Best E-mail Client / Re: Can you spell e-mail?
« Last post by Eóin on December 06, 2006, 07:57 AM »
“If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad” - Oxford University Press style manual :D
1210
General Software Discussion / Re: musikCube 1.0 Final Released
« Last post by Eóin on December 05, 2006, 08:33 AM »
I've been using musikCube for a long while now and I think it is a fantastic piece of software. Gonna grab me this release while it's still hot :-* .
1211
Living Room / Re: What's your "Autism Quotient"?
« Last post by Eóin on November 30, 2006, 06:43 AM »
Ok so I took the test again trying to be as honest as possible and this time scored 10 :huh:

That surprised me as I suspected the first time I was picking answers that would steer me away from the higher end of the spectrum.

A question for any psychologists in the house- Regarding the two questions about playing pretend as a child, what age do you think they were referring to and does having enjoyed playing pretend push you in the direction of autism or away from it?
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Living Room / Re: What's your "Autism Quotient"?
« Last post by Eóin on November 30, 2006, 05:39 AM »
Excellent point Carol and that's why I suspect my real score would be higher. For most questions it was clear what direction the different answers would push you towards.
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Living Room / Re: What's your "Autism Quotient"?
« Last post by Eóin on November 30, 2006, 05:06 AM »
14. But I know myself I should be a bit higher, not too much so (I hope).
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the longest filename possible in Nero?
« Last post by Eóin on November 28, 2006, 03:41 PM »
Well that is a bit ambiguous.  Windows 1,2,3.1,95,98,ME,2K,XP,2003,Vista ?  FAT12,FAT16,FAT32,NTFS ?

Which one are you speaking of generically there?
-mse-ron (November 28, 2006, 02:37 PM)
:huh: I'd better bite my tongue on that one.

Not sure exactly what versions of Windows suffer from it as I only have access to XP at the mo. If you dig around the PSDK headers you'll find a "#define MAX_PATH 260" crops up in a number of places and I'm sure that limitation extends back to previous windows incarnations, though this post on the subject caught my interest as it suggests the limit wasn't always enforced to the full.

As an experiment anyone can run a quick test. Create a folder in C: or wherever and create a folder of 64 chars in length. Inside that put another, inside that another and finally one more giving 4 nested folders. The last will get truncated to 50 chars. Then fire up notepad and try to save a file with a name 8 chars or more (excluding the added ".txt").
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the longest filename possible in Nero?
« Last post by Eóin on November 28, 2006, 01:58 PM »
Windows itself has a max of just 260 characters :o
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General Software Discussion / Re: Use Gmail to Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses to identify spam source
« Last post by Eóin on November 27, 2006, 10:43 AM »
Ah, this is something similar to what I do for my mail accounts protected by TMDA but I never knew you could do it with Gmail too :Thmbsup: .
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Living Room / Re: Gold Miner Joe: Flash Game of the Day
« Last post by Eóin on November 25, 2006, 06:16 PM »
Neat game, it plays very well.
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Living Room / Re: I'd like to express thanks to the DonationCoder.com community today
« Last post by Eóin on November 24, 2006, 09:01 AM »
Yeah this is a great place; active forums, friendly people excellent software what more could I ask for.

Thanks mouser, and thanks to everyone else. I don't know what I'd do online if there wasn't this place :D :up:
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Official Announcements / Re: THE N.A.N.Y. CHALLENGE - New Apps For the New Year
« Last post by Eóin on November 22, 2006, 07:27 AM »
I unfortunately cannot make a pledge as I just don't know if I'll have the time.
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Official Announcements / Re: THE N.A.N.Y. CHALLENGE - New Apps For the New Year
« Last post by Eóin on November 21, 2006, 08:31 AM »
it might if it was a truly major new release that is first going public on jan 1; but if it's a "normal" update to a previously released program, it probably shouldn't count.
-mouser (November 21, 2006, 08:13 AM)

I tend to agree. I've had a second idea on the back burner. Might try and see if I can get that off the ground. Still nonetheless this challenge idea is a great one, congrats mouser :Thmbsup: .
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Official Announcements / Re: THE N.A.N.Y. CHALLENGE - New Apps For the New Year
« Last post by Eóin on November 21, 2006, 07:33 AM »
Does completing a work in progress count?
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Living Room / Re: Software Competition
« Last post by Eóin on November 20, 2006, 08:55 AM »
If you've any vested interests then you should disclose them openly. If you hide them and then are 'found out' you will lose any respect people may have had for you.

But 'morally right' may be a bit strong of a stance to take. Most people are biased in some way or another and it's difficult to always acknowledge that, hell some people may not even realise that they are biased to some extent.
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Living Room / Re: Wiki of the Week: Wikimapia
« Last post by Eóin on November 18, 2006, 09:34 AM »
Yeah that's really cool.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your Favorite Recent Computer Game, and Why?
« Last post by Eóin on November 15, 2006, 08:34 AM »
Haven't played too many games myself recently, between college and programming I don't get too much time for gaming. Bought Battlefield 2142 which I really like and havn't even played it online yet. Trackmania 2 kept me occupied for a long while, mainly just the puzzle mode though.

Going back further then the stand out game would be Homeworld 2.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Writing perfect software
« Last post by Eóin on November 15, 2006, 07:56 AM »
Reviving an old thread I know but this is interesting.

http://news.yahoo.co...m/space_shuttle_dc_1

[If] the launch is delayed for any reason beyond December 17 or 18, the flight likely would be postponed until next year, officials at the U.S. space agency said on Monday.

To build in added cushion, NASA may move up the take off to December 6.

"The shuttle computers were never envisioned to fly through a year-end changeover" space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale told a briefing. (my emphasis)

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