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General Software Discussion / Re: vibe streamer - your own personal mp3 server software
« Last post by Eóin on June 13, 2006, 10:58 AM »
Excellent find, I have set it up to run off of my fileserver.
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Living Room / Re: SourceForge - wtf - now it's harder to download??
« Last post by Eóin on June 11, 2006, 04:55 AM »
Note: one person suggested to copy/paste the url as it is displayed on the page. While this works, it’s not as easy as it sounds, since most browsers will treat dragging over the url as trying to make a shortcut, not to mention it’s just more unnecessary effort

I think he's overeacting a bit, the copying the displayed url on the page is a rather simple solution.
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fSekrit / Re: Congratulations on fSekrit
« Last post by Eóin on June 10, 2006, 02:37 PM »
Congrats
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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for advice maintaining a small computer network.
« Last post by Eóin on June 08, 2006, 07:51 AM »
Thanks for the link, that looks like what I'd be looking for, they are a bit expensive when though taking into account the school would need about 50 licenses.

I'd be interested to hear about similar products, after all its the school that will be making the decision when it comes to the price at the end of the day, and it'll be good to offer them some alternatives to choose form.

Only problem is you have done yourself out of a job ;)
-Carol Haynes (June 08, 2006, 07:38 AM)

I realize that but its a local school, my dad teaches there and they've always been good to me so at the end of the day I'd like to do whats right for them, not myself.

m_s, just seeing your post now, I'll look into it too, thanks.
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General Software Discussion / Looking for advice maintaining a small computer network.
« Last post by Eóin on June 08, 2006, 07:28 AM »
I've gotten myself a small contract maintaining a local schools computer network, its nothing too serious, whenever a computer goes down its usually just formatted and setup fresh on the network.

The thing is I know there are better ways of doing this. I'm going to list a couple of techniques which I can think of and would very much appreciate if anyone who has experience could point me to the right software. The ideas I have would be;

  • Starting with a fresh machine all setup perfectly and then making a copy of that setup which could be used to restore a downed PC without tediously reinstalling all its software.
  • Taking the above a step further and have have the PCs automatically restore from a clean image on every log-on or reboot.
  • Well actually I haven't thought of a third idea yet but if anyone can suggest one I'm all ears :) .

P.S. I not being cheap but I don't think I need the bigger solutions with all the bells and whistles, a simple affordable solution would be ideal. And much more palatable when/if I suggest it to the school management.

I'm eager to hear your ideas, kind regards, Eoin.
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Living Room / Re: SPAM reaching epidemic proportions
« Last post by Eóin on June 08, 2006, 07:09 AM »
I'm lucky to have two accounts protected by tmda which is very powerful when you get the hang of it. As for the other I rely on Thunderbirds Junk mail scanners and look in the Junk folder periodically to check for false positives.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Free PDF creation (PrimoPDF)
« Last post by Eóin on June 07, 2006, 05:01 PM »
Personally I like PDFCreator, no nags or similar annoyances. Also that reminds me I should upgrade to latest version :) .
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Want to play a game without putting the CD in place
« Last post by Eóin on June 05, 2006, 07:51 AM »
There's always Daemon Tools.
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Living Room / Re: Mr. Tumpkins - cool flash adventure
« Last post by Eóin on June 03, 2006, 08:35 AM »
Very nice game, too short though.
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Living Room / Re: So....How many processes do you have running on startup and during normal us
« Last post by Eóin on June 01, 2006, 06:31 PM »
Personally I think memory usage is a better goal to aim for. With careful pruning of services I used to get sub 70mb for XP usage after boot. Now though I'm using XP x64 which boots into over 250mb usage but I haven't bothered to try and tune it as the difference isn't noticable anyway.
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Living Room / Re: Structured Procrastination - hahaha
« Last post by Eóin on May 31, 2006, 10:03 AM »
If on day 1 you read over what was covered on day 1, and on day 2 read over what was covered on day 1 and day 2, and so on...by the time you take that test you know it by heart. And if not you can close your eyes and practically read it from the images burned into your memory, knowing where the info you need is, what 'page', and even down to the color of the text. (good note takers use multiple colors).
-app103 (May 31, 2006, 04:41 AM)

I think this applies to exams where there is a load of information which you need to regurgitate. Exams testing understanding such a math can be crammed for, very effectivly too 8)
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Living Room / Re: Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?
« Last post by Eóin on May 30, 2006, 02:26 PM »
The comments of people who believed it was real are almost funnier than the article.
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Living Room / Re: What's your significant other's favorite key on the keyboard?
« Last post by Eóin on May 30, 2006, 11:31 AM »
My keyboard has a Power button, I find it very convenient to avoid bending down to reach the case.
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DonationCoder Projects / Re: Flat File Mini CMS in PHP
« Last post by Eóin on May 28, 2006, 07:00 PM »
Did you ever look into CMSimple?
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Living Room / Re: Thread for time-wasting flash games.
« Last post by Eóin on May 27, 2006, 09:39 PM »
I've got two links; War Bears and Grid Wars 2 form BlitzBasic.com.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista, Up Close and Personal
« Last post by Eóin on May 26, 2006, 05:47 AM »
Reading this thread I feel like I'm the only one completely won over by the eye candy. I can't wait for vista.
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Living Room / Re: he-man: the sensitive side
« Last post by Eóin on May 23, 2006, 12:58 PM »
Thats just brilliant.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sorting mp3/audio files into a folder hierarchy based on their tag informati
« Last post by Eóin on May 22, 2006, 12:42 PM »
I'm after using Media Monkey (Free version) to both sort out the remaining songs which I hadn't tagged correctly and then sort them into folders and I must say it worked like a charm. Thank you JeffK for pointing me to it :Thmbsup: .
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sorting mp3/audio files into a folder hierarchy based on their tag informati
« Last post by Eóin on May 20, 2006, 03:29 PM »
Automatically organize and rename files on your hard drive into a logical hierarchy. Instead of storing your files haphazardly all over your hard drive, MediaMonkey's auto-organizer can organize them into folders and filenames of your choice based on attributes such as artist, album, track title and track number.

If you need to organize a music collection exceeding 10,000 files, MediaMonkey is the music organizer for you.

That certainly sounds like what I want, I'll give it a twirl as soon as I can.
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General Software Discussion / Sorting mp3/audio files into a folder hierarchy based on their tag information.
« Last post by Eóin on May 20, 2006, 08:45 AM »
Hello, I've a large music collection which I used to be very anal about keeping in check :) however a couple of months ago I lost my hard disk collection and had the recover the files from my Nomad Zen (which I then promptly lost but thats another story). I had painstakingly setup all the artist tags when copying the music to my Zen initially and when copying the music back off to the computer it neatly organized files into folders according to artists names.

Since then I been using the excellent musikCube and have been slowly but gradually been correcting album titles, genres, etc. Now I'm wondering is there an easy way to replicate the organization of the tags in the folder structure. For example if a program could look at a file and organize it such as <root folder>\<artist>\<album>\<artist>-<title>.mp3 but ideally this would be customizable.

Ideally this organization would be "in place" such that two copies of the files wouldn't be created but this is not a necessity. Also a level of robustness would be nice such that if a file doesn't have an album tag then it would be placed as follows <root folder>\<artist>\<artist>-<title>.mp3

Anyone know of a program which does this? I could probably write it myself if I knew a neat way of reading the tag information.
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Developer's Corner / Re: The Hunt for the Best CMS
« Last post by Eóin on May 20, 2006, 06:55 AM »
Rover is right, mono is an excellent opensource .NET implementation. However I've read there are some legal ambiguities over its attempt to implement ASP.NET and the Windows.Forms as they are not part of the documented open standards core of .NET (such as C# and the System modules).

I had read this in a Linux Format Interview: the men of Mono however the snippet online doesn't contain the relevant parts.
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Living Room / Re: Beakins' Mango Quest - fun funny flash game with tons of character
« Last post by Eóin on May 19, 2006, 08:29 PM »
Can't get past level 12 :mad:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Fyre, a tool for producing computational artwork from chaotic functions
« Last post by Eóin on May 19, 2006, 01:00 PM »
Thanks, but it could be a while. Being honest my project is meant as an extension to Apophysis not a replacement. The idea was that you'd design your fractal in Apophysis as it is a really excellent tool for doing so (as is Fyre possibly, I hadn't heard of it before this so havn't tested it). Then you export the .flame file and load it into my app for rendering and output tweaking. At the end of the day though my renderer gets less and less special if you have enough RAM to throw at Apophysis as you just render a larger image and resize in any old app which will also get rid of the aliasing pretty well.

Also unfortunately I was overly ambitious with the project in the beginning, I made it completely modular so that people could rewrite the entire rendering process with plugins. I got it working but it feels a bit like a kludge, I'm sure all developers can empathize when have a program which works, but your still not happy with how it works.

I may yet go back to it, but my current project is happily occupying my time for the moment.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Fyre, a tool for producing computational artwork from chaotic functions
« Last post by Eóin on May 19, 2006, 12:02 PM »
To give some background :) this type of fractal has been dubbed Flame Fractals. It is an evolution of more classic chaotic fractals such as the Sierpinski Triangle or Barnsley's Fern. It expands on these in two key ways, first it adds shading based on the log density of plots, secondly it adds trigonometric transformations on top of the linear ones.

This technique was apparently developed by Scott Draves of Cosmic Recursive Fractal Flames but popularized among fractal artists with the release of Apophysys. There are some really lovely examples to be found in the fractal sections of DeviantArt.

I'm a big fans of these fractals myself (obvious from the above :D ) and have written a renderer myself called Amethyst which I believe produces technically superior images through the use of anti-aliasing, but of course different people will have their own opinions on image quality. My work on this app has currently stalled. I finished the rendering DLL and started learning WTL to design the interface but got sidetracked. Just thought I'd let ye know :drinksmiley: .
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Developer's Corner / Re: Speech Recognition for Programmers - Tell it what to do
« Last post by Eóin on May 19, 2006, 10:12 AM »
It looks like you can access the source through CVS on SourceForge :)
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