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Living Room / Re: Only one way to beat the summer heat: Fla-vor-ice

« Last post by Eóin on July 31, 2006, 06:18 AM »

In Ireland they're called Freeze Pops.

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Living Room / Re: Math is an Attitude

« Last post by Eóin on July 31, 2006, 05:56 AM »

Needless to say I loved this site, great find.

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Living Room / George Bush singing "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

« Last post by Eóin on July 28, 2006, 05:01 AM »

This is quite well done. BTW Sunday Bloody Sunday is a U2 song for those that didn't know.

http://video.google....=6805063692754011230

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Living Room / Re: What are your best working hours?

« Last post by Eóin on July 27, 2006, 05:50 PM »

When I worked in the local cinema my best programming hours where 10pm to 3am. These days though I get very tired about midnight so only program from about 6pm until then.

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: How to compile a program to not need any external dll and bpl files

« Last post by Eóin on July 27, 2006, 07:02 AM »

I don't want to bring things off topic but I've a question related to distributing runtimes along with a program:- Will you always get the advantage of processes being able to share DLLs or those it only work if the DLLs are placed in the System directory?

I ask because I noticed recently on my PC that I’ve an awful lot of programs with contain say msvcr71.dll or equally popular ones within their own directories. Does windows spot that all these copies are identical and shares the memory or is each one loaded seperatly?

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Developer's Corner / Re: The Top 10 Ways to get screwed by the "C" programming language - old but good

« Last post by Eóin on July 26, 2006, 03:19 PM »

Accidental assignment/Accidental Booleans
        if(a=b) c;

I think that's one of those everyone did at some point!

-jgpaiva (July 26, 2006, 03:06 PM)

I had one of those errors recently. It took the addition of a serious lot of logging code to track down where the error was originating, needless to say when I discovered it was a simple typo I was fit to scream .

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Living Room / Re: World's cheesiest fight scene?

« Last post by Eóin on July 26, 2006, 01:05 PM »

I liked this one, it seemed to lose the plot a bit during the middle but the final lines brought it right back on track .

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Living Room / Re: GOLDEN Mermaid Found DEAD on Lonely Florida Beach

« Last post by Eóin on July 26, 2006, 12:52 PM »

Clearly a fake from looking at the pictures. If you read to Q&A's the finder claims its covered in real fish scales which of course makes no sense given that it swims like a mammal. Also the lack of an anus means it msut be as full of s**t (sorry for my language) as its seller .

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Living Room / Re: Humans recreate Space Invaders in a lecture hall (video)

« Last post by Eóin on July 21, 2006, 04:42 PM »

Just search for human space invaders, there are several copies on there

-Josh (July 21, 2006, 03:32 PM)

Indeed there are, thanks.

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Living Room / Re: Humans recreate Space Invaders in a lecture hall (video)

« Last post by Eóin on July 21, 2006, 03:31 PM »

Hmm, I get;

This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner Guillaume REYMOND because its content was used without permission

when I search for it on YouTube.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Poster Printer - free (open source)

« Last post by Eóin on July 18, 2006, 02:18 PM »

Looks nice alright, but that has got to be the ugliest site EVER.

Heres a similar but definitly not idenctial app;

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

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Living Room / Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game

« Last post by Eóin on July 14, 2006, 02:45 PM »

Just finished the game myself. Its tough but wholly enjoyable.

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Living Room / Re: video game company hoax: long video

« Last post by Eóin on July 13, 2006, 07:45 PM »

Thats hilarious . I came across the full twenty miniute version after a quick search.

http://video.google....=2160274336768161175

Mind you having watched to highlights I couldn't sit through the the whole thing again.

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Living Room / Re: finally! - rubik's cube solver

« Last post by Eóin on July 08, 2006, 02:47 PM »

I used to be unable to refocus, but invented a technique where I crossed my eyesight - worked instantaneously, but meant I saw images inverted (where normal people see things popping out, I saw holes).

-f0dder (July 08, 2006, 02:11 PM)

I was exactly the same when I first learned to see them, in fact most people I know started seeing them this way. In my opinion this is an easier and more natural way which begs the question why don't they invert the images instead of relying on people to learn the harder technique.

The different between the techniques is the spot on which the eyes focus. In the cross eyed technique you look at a spot closer to you and than image, to achieve the other technique you point your eyes to a point behind the image. This is hard initially but one trick is to focus on an object approx 1-2 feet from your face, then while continuing to to keep your eyes fixed on that point you move the image in question between you and the object. Then move it back ad forth all the while keeping your eyes fixed on the original object, at some point you'll see the 3d image. Tricky, but as I said once you get used to it it becomes really easy.

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Living Room / Re: finally! - rubik's cube solver

« Last post by Eóin on July 08, 2006, 06:52 AM »

Do you think it is related to my inability to see these "magic eye" 3D pictures?

-housetier (July 07, 2006, 06:47 PM)

Seeing those images is just a question of being able to refocus your eyes to either behind the image or in front of it depending on the specific image. Once you get it once you'll wonder how you ever had any difficulty .

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Living Room / Re: Spain outlaws ALL p2p file sharing.

« Last post by Eóin on July 02, 2006, 09:09 AM »

Shocking

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Living Room / Re: video on sushi etiquete

« Last post by Eóin on July 01, 2006, 03:00 AM »

Very good.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Small utility for finding Wireless Networks?

« Last post by Eóin on June 28, 2006, 04:13 AM »

Unfortunatly netstumbler doesn't seem to be working with our laptop, an old win2k pc with a pcima wireless card . I'll play around with it a bit more and see if I can get it to work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Small utility for finding Wireless Networks?

« Last post by Eóin on June 27, 2006, 12:25 PM »

(By the way I'm pretty sure it is illegal to connect via a wireless network without the owners knowledge and permission.)

-Carol Haynes (June 27, 2006, 11:35 AM)

That's a fair point, but there are also open networks out there, such as in hotel lobbies, which you can connect to. I don't think my folks are looking for unprotected networks to abuse .

netstumbler

-mouser (June 27, 2006, 12:02 PM)

Thanks, looking into it now.

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General Software Discussion / Small utility for finding Wireless Networks?

« Last post by Eóin on June 27, 2006, 11:26 AM »

Hi all, I'm just wondering are there any nice utilities for discovering wireless networks available or are you limited to the software which comes with the adapter?

I'm asking as my folks are off to USA for a holiday and want to keep in touch with home via Skype. My Dad was just wondering is there a nice app which makes finding available networks quick and simple?

Kind regards,
Eoin.

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Living Room / Re: Coolest superhero... ever!

« Last post by Eóin on June 26, 2006, 05:16 PM »

Ah yes, that arrogant pose, so full of condifence, very much like myself in real life .

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Living Room / Coolest superhero... ever!

« Last post by Eóin on June 26, 2006, 01:17 PM »

http://www.captaincopyright.ca/ 

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Living Room / Re: new Futurama series! finally!

« Last post by Eóin on June 23, 2006, 05:16 PM »

I own all the Futurama boxed sets so far and have watched them numerous times with and without directors commentary. I've loved every episode and can't wait for the new ones.

As for Simpsons, well I tend to make a distinction between old Simpsons and newer episodes. Early Simpsons are excellent cartoons and my fondness towards them is similar to the views expressed by others here. However later episodes are abismal affairs indeed. Its hard to nail down when the quality began to drop but I would put the U2 / Garbage Man episode as one of the turning points where things went sour.

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Living Room / Re: So THIS is what the Titanic looked like going down?

« Last post by Eóin on June 20, 2006, 04:54 PM »

Perhaps it was cleaned before sinking it, it looked pretty stripped from the images maybe they removed most (all) of the pollutants.

Just an idea.

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General Software Discussion / Re: vibe streamer - your own personal mp3 server software

« Last post by Eóin on June 16, 2006, 03:44 PM »

A lot of my mp3's are 320 kbps and 256 kbps...

-superboyac (June 15, 2006, 10:29 AM)

This has nothing to do with vibestreamer, but if your a bit  of an audiophile maybe you should look int Musepack. It supposed to be the best at higher bitrates.