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Living Room / Re: ALERT! FreewareBB shutting down. And with a warning from Marko?
« Last post by tomos on January 09, 2015, 04:13 PM »
Impressive journey, Tao.
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by tomos on January 09, 2015, 04:13 AM »
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o

The amount of work to do this is STAGGERING.  As is the fact the he was able to do it.

it's great to be able to see how it's done (it almost makes it look easy).

The author, Sir Mashalot (that gave me a laugh) posted just an hour ago to celebrate 10k views - it's now at 1.1 million !
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It's unclear to me:
does it do dual-pane - or are the multiple panes always showing the same location?
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by tomos on January 09, 2015, 03:45 AM »
Society doesn't have expectations of people. That feeling you get about what society wants is your brain trying to predict what people will like. So when you complain about society's expectations, you are either complaining that people like the wrong things or that your warped brain is misinterpreting the desires of other people. Good luck solving either problem.

Comment of the day.

they've got a great word in spoken German - Yein - it's a cross between yes and no.
Society is peoples' expectations that have been enshrined in various ways, and made into the 'norm'. So, I'd say it's not all (just) in your head.
Otherwise I agree, and reckon the easier one to solve is what's going on in your own head.
Not saying it's easy though...

One new head here please ;-)
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Living Room / Re: Space Travel ... sort of:
« Last post by tomos on January 09, 2015, 03:25 AM »
There's more images at the Hubble website:

Top 100 Images:
http://www.spacetele...ages/archive/top100/

All Images (thumbnails):
http://www.spacetele....org/images/viewall/

Browse images by category:
http://hubblesite.or...rchive/browse/image/

and,
another very impressive collection of "Free Creative Commons images" from European Southern Observatory (ESO) here:
http://www.eso.org/public/images/
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Living Room / Re: If Only Once, If Only For A Little While - Comic about loss
« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2015, 05:06 PM »
Weird. None of the images will load for me.
it's loading okay here atm.

Someone close to me died last month. I didnt get to meet them that often, maybe once, or twice a year if I was lucky, but we phoned fairly regularly. It could have been a lot more difficult - they were ready to go, and it happened quickly. But I think it's always more difficult for those left behind (or maybe not).
Then my elderly neighbour across the road died, his wife seems pretty stunned. Met another elderly woman today at a small birthday party, her partner died recently after 46 years together. That must be hard - it was for her anyways. Funny, my father died a few years back, and my mum didnt find it that difficult - she felt like he was still in the house (not like as a ghost, more like a feeling, I guess).

What I wanted to say in my first post above, (but didnt), was that sometimes it's hard to let the feelings out, to express it, whatever-it-is: pain, missing, love. And that the comic helped. Thanks :up:
I find people sympathising difficult, maybe that's why I didnt write anything about this earlier. But, like with the comic, sometimes it's just gotta get out there.
'Night all.
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Living Room / Space Travel ... sort of:
« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2015, 04:32 PM »
Travel posters - "Exoplanet Travel Series" from JPL/NASA
Available from source as *very* high resolution images:

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Screenshot - 2015-01-08 , 22_50_00.png

If you want to read a bit more about Keppler 186f, try this g+ post:
Kepler-186f, the one pictured below, is my favorite because it captures some interesting physics. It orbits a red dwarf about 500 light-years from Earth, and it was the first planet discovered which is potentially suitable (in terms of things like temperature) for life as we know it. But life would be different in some interesting ways.

One of the reasons is that photosynthesis would be a bit different. Plants on Earth are green because their leaves contain chlorophyll, a chemical which absorbs sunlight and turns that energy [explains why plant green here and red there]


Further afield (I dont honestly have a clue if it's further or nearer :p) there's been a new picture of the "Pillars of Creation" released by Hubble.

Screenshot - 2015-01-08 , 22_49_26.png

Screenshot - 2015-01-08 , 22_49_44.png

Article here:
http://www.thisiscol...s-of-creation-photo/

Download high-res version here:
http://www.spacetele...rg/images/heic1501a/

Some interesting info about how the colours in the image are mapped:
For those wanting technical details, the picture below was taken in visible light, using a "false-color" technique to make it more visible. It was photographed through three filters: an Sii filter (673nm, a fairly dark red color which is characteristically emitted by Sulfur), a H-? filter (657nm, a brighter red which characterizes Hydrogen), and an Oiii filter (502nm, a blue-green characteristic of Oxygen). Those three colors are then mapped to red, green, and blue (respectively) to form an image that clearly highlights the gas distribution to the human eye. This particular combination of light filters is the one most commonly used when photographing astronomical gas clouds.
via:
https://plus.google....50/posts/DN2FhnpJSqX
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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2015, 04:25 PM »
^ ;D ;D ;D ;D
laugh of the day - the week, maybe :up: :up:
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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Mugs designs?
« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2015, 01:09 PM »
I dont have any particular talent (that I know of) in this direction, but if there were some vector files available, I could have a go - maybe just do a variation or just mess around and see what comes out at the end. Dunno, is there anything in some vector format anywhere (preferably openable by Illustrator CS4) ?
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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)
« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2015, 07:20 AM »
And while we're being picky [...]

we now qualify as what my mum used call fussy beggars :-)
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2015, 07:14 AM »
[youtube]The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm (The Netherlands) 2014 Eurovision Song Contest[/youtube]

about as 'un-eurovisiony' as you could possibly get -
which is probably why it's a good track :)


EDIT//  here's another, a bit more country (or less Americana - whatever):



Common linnets- Broken But Home

EDIT(with apologies for all the edits)// - the lyrics are distinctly odd at times ... (guess it happens when English not the native language)
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Mouse-wheel zooms reverse
« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2015, 07:05 AM »
Yeah, I noticed that (use zoom a lot in Adobe Reader which also follows the the usual setup).
So,
a plus one here.
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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)
« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2015, 12:01 AM »
minor: in the dark theme preview above, satellite should have two L's
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by tomos on January 07, 2015, 02:58 PM »
Coincidentally been listening to this song today



came across it via the Alberta Hunter version
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by tomos on January 07, 2015, 07:41 AM »
A video showing the drummer Mike Terrana. [...] from the time 4:40 turns into a fun unexpected music:

yeah that was fun alright when the music got going :)
(http://youtu.be/efXGNwJ0SVI?t=4m40s)
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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: The OEMer
« Last post by tomos on January 07, 2015, 07:20 AM »
Hey there Mouser.....
I am trying to attach an image using the 'Link Inline Image' tag and it is not working for me. I have attached a .png file and I use the ' (see attachment in previous post)' tag (with # replaced with the attachment number, in my case, the 2nd attachment, since the first attachment is the zip file of my program)

What am I doing wrong?

I guess you mean the [attachimg=#]
In my experience, the best way to do it is to leave the '#' as is, and make sure the attachments are added in the correct sequence.
So if you e.g. want the png image first (showing within the body of the post - using above tag), and the zip file as attachment at the bottom of the post, add the image first, then the zip file.

Does that help any?
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Living Room / Re: If Only Once, If Only For A Little While - Comic about loss
« Last post by tomos on January 06, 2015, 03:31 PM »
For us non musicians, what does that music mean in the context of the thread?
I guess this may answer that:
https://en.wikipedia...t.27s_use_of_G_minor
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And again today (13hrs to go)
http://www.bitsdujou...in=todays-deals-home

+ Pro version @ 50% 0ff
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Living Room / Re: If Only Once, If Only For A Little While - Comic about loss
« Last post by tomos on January 06, 2015, 06:14 AM »
touches a chord alright  :up:
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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by tomos on January 06, 2015, 06:09 AM »
^agree.
Enjoyed the film,
also because Henry IV was the main play we did in school (long time ago), but would have to watch it again - and read the play again - to see how similar in plot they are. I think it was more based on /inspired by the relationship between Falstaff and Henry than on the actual plot.

(Just checked, that film was out in 1991, so I probably saw it 1992, like 23 years ago - seems a reasonably excuse for a vague memory ;-)
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Thanks for the heads-up :up:
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InfoQube - looks like it has new limited calendar
http://www.sqlnotes....ndex.php?q=node/1215

Calendar is functional (disclaimer: dont use it myself). Planned is sync with google calendar - that'll be a big boost for it, dont know when exactly that's due though (was expecting it to be 2014, so hopefully will be soon).
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How can I not try a utility named Splat?
Yeah, don't hang around here if you don't—it's either SPLAT or split!
-cranioscopical (January 04, 2015, 05:57 PM)

My grammar is rusty.  Is it Slpit, Splat, Splut?  :)

that'd be the present, past, and past participle tenses
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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2015, 01:42 PM »
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=3XjUFYxSxDk

That buddy is funny! I've seen a few of his vids. Worth a watch.

good find Panzer :up:
there's a two hour version (but I might save up that till I'm doing some mindless work).
A problem for me, and probably many others, is that the 'nothing box' has been replaced with the internet, which is about the opposite of nothing.

Re the 'fixing things' approach (when someone tells you their troubles), that's not just a men thing - a lot of women do that too.

And going back to men doing 'nothing' on occasion, and women not understanding it - here's a sketch from Loriot (unfortunately I couldnt find any version with English subtitles) so only accessible if you have a bit of German:



called 'Feierabend' - man home from work, sitting in armchair, woman keeps asking what he's doing/thinking/would-he-not-like-to-go-for-a-walk/or-do-something-fun etc etc till he loses the cool at the end
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Coding Snacks / Re: The Best Way to handle finding and removiong Duplicate Files
« Last post by tomos on January 01, 2015, 05:32 PM »
2nd.  Tomos:    I can't see a way to change th tile of an existing post?  Maybe here is one but nothing  I clicked on would get me there.
I appreciate everyone's good advice and even if it doesn't help ME, I am sure someone who reads these posts can use something of it.  Tough I agree I should have been more on topic when I named it :(

guess I'm being a fussy beggar, but when you click on 'unread posts' and each time you cant remember what a particular thread is about :-[ (and you are not alone in using vague titles...)

Click 'modify' on the first post in the thread, and edit title thus:

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