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DC Gamer Club / Re: Defense Grid 2 launched via Kickstarter

« Last post by 4wd on August 13, 2012, 09:02 PM »

Edit: The final tally.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Spikes

« Last post by 4wd on August 13, 2012, 08:42 PM »

And if you try running Firefox/Cometbird in Safe mode, (ie. all add-ons/plugins disabled) ?

Does it do it when in Private Browsing mode ?

Have you checked the Eventlog for any problems and/or run the Resource Monitor to see what's happening at the time ?

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... audio mavens

« Last post by 4wd on August 13, 2012, 08:09 PM »

TOSLINK -> Analog Stereo converter - then just use your basic RCA<->RCA stereo cable

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General Software Discussion / Re: Arranges in a txt file

« Last post by 4wd on August 13, 2012, 02:52 AM »

and the commas at the beginning and the end ?

-Contro (August 12, 2012, 05:08 PM)

uh... there were none in your sample text

-eleman (August 13, 2012, 12:17 AM)

I think he meant the quotes inserted at the start/end.

I'm pretty sure this could be done using regex but it's beyond my meagre knowledge.  I managed to get the quotes inserted but I couldn't get rid of the extraneous spaces.

eg. Using Online RegEx Editor:



Pressing RegexSplit will give: "first",    "second","third","fourth"

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... audio mavens

« Last post by 4wd on August 12, 2012, 08:54 PM »

One option would be a wireless video/audio/remote transmitter that accepts TOSLINK input and then just use a TOSLINK splitter to get signal to it, eg. TOSLINK Splitter

Then just plug powered speakers into the receiver.

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Living Room / Re: 50 Shades of Gray

« Last post by 4wd on August 12, 2012, 04:14 AM »

Fifty Shades Generator

NSFW

“With my roast beef platter now much like the south end of a badger going north, he thought it was time to start ramming my ring piece. Is now the time to tell him I really need to arc a sewer trout, I wondered? Hours of thrusting like this would leave any girl's panty hamster looking like badly battered road kill, and I was no different! It was bliss having his balony pony rammed inside me again; stuffing my vibrator crater with my fist just didn't get my depravity cavity spraying like it used to. After having my hatchet wound fucked, he then proceeded to pound my black hole. The thrusting makes me splurge my spaff all over his pink tractor beam.”

Personally I prefer the works of Anais Nin^w.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by 4wd on August 11, 2012, 10:16 PM »

^^ That is brilliant.

-superboyac (August 11, 2012, 09:18 PM)

Credit goes to the person that designed the Punnet case:

30 seconds to print
30 minutes to cut out
24 hours to make sure the damn glue sets

This will probably be its permanent home since I'm now ordering another RPi to go in a fancier case, (maybe even plastic!)

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by 4wd on August 11, 2012, 08:48 PM »

And here we have one web server in it's "no expense spared" home



Now, if only I could power it from its own USB port.....

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Living Room / Re: Olympic coverage this year SUCKS!

« Last post by 4wd on August 11, 2012, 12:03 PM »

That's creepy!

-wraith808 (August 11, 2012, 11:15 AM)

That was one of the responses by people

Supposed to represent the digital age we live in.....or, (if we switch to conspiracy mindset), is it to indoctrinate the target audience, (5-15y.o.), to the fact there's always someone watching thereby increasing acceptance of Big Brother?


I'm starting to sound like Renegade......

 

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Living Room / Re: Olympic coverage this year SUCKS!

« Last post by 4wd on August 11, 2012, 11:02 AM »

One of their various disguises,  (there are two of these things) .

The single eye represents a camera - or if you were of a conspiracy mindset,  the proliferation of CCTV wielded by a police state.

Just saying ....


I'd put a link in to what they're supposed to be but it's too painful to do from a 2.4" screen.

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Living Room / Re: Olympic coverage this year SUCKS!

« Last post by 4wd on August 11, 2012, 02:54 AM »

Maybe I'm a little slow but it just occurred to me that the Olympic mascots chosen kind of epitomise the direction of the UK society.

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Living Room / Re: Mass of volcanic rocks found floating off New Zealand

« Last post by 4wd on August 10, 2012, 11:21 PM »

Um, that's actually air-dried passenger droppings from aircraft....always wondered where it all ended up.



 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Spikes

« Last post by 4wd on August 10, 2012, 11:09 PM »

Palemoon

A custom-built and optimized Firefox-based browser for Windows. Make sure to get the most speed and efficiency out of your browser!

About the only Windows Firefox based derivative I know of.

What version of Firefox are you using and is GPU acceleration turned on?

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General Software Discussion / Re: my pc anywhere

« Last post by 4wd on August 09, 2012, 09:41 PM »

Seeing as it's WinXP, perhaps MojoPac^w would be preferable?

MojoPac is an application virtualization product from RingCube Technologies. MojoPac turns any USB 2.0 storage device, into a portable computing environment. The term "MojoPac" is used by the company to refer to the software application, the virtualized environment running inside this software, and the USB storage device that contains the software and relevant applications. MojoPac supports popular applications such as Firefox and Microsoft Office, and it is also high performance enough to run popular PC Games such as World of Warcraft and Half-Life 2.

MojoPac has been discontinued but can still be downloaded.

Download [Softpedia]

How to use it: Lifehacker

Otherwise, Portable VirtualBox.

Window 8 promises to provide that capability. Microsoft calls it Windows To Go.

-40hz (August 09, 2012, 07:54 AM)

It looks like that will be in W8 Enterprise^w only which kind of limits it.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by 4wd on August 08, 2012, 11:41 PM »

Well, mine arrived a couple of days after Renegades, running Raspbian so I get the benefit of hardware floating-point rather than the software version in the default RPi Debian distro.

Already compiled Quake3 on it and had a play, now it's off to get the LAMPi going so I can repurpose the XP web server to something else.

For anyone who wants a case, the Punnet may fit your needs

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Logitech Wireless Gaming Headset G930 - Mini-Review

« Last post by 4wd on August 08, 2012, 07:54 PM »

It uses what Logitech calls a "Wireless USB" dongle - just a small black thing that looks like a flash drive.  All controls are on the headset, (except for any extras provided by software, of course).

B&H have the G930 for $107.89 in the States.

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Living Room / Re: Typing Speed Competition!

« Last post by 4wd on August 07, 2012, 06:38 AM »

So he's a bit of a hunt and peck typist then?

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Living Room / Re: Maximizing problems when docking toolbar on left in Windows 7

« Last post by 4wd on August 06, 2012, 10:44 PM »

how do you restart windows explorer?  The only way i know how is to crash it.

-superboyac (August 06, 2012, 10:29 PM)

Open Task Manager
End explorer.exe process
File->New Task and enter explorer.exe

Or, try this: Add Restart Explorer to Context Menu which does the same thing in a more user-friendly manner.

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Living Room / Re: The pleasure and possibilities of living a time-shifted life?

« Last post by 4wd on August 06, 2012, 10:29 PM »

What would life be like if one purposefully shifted their entire focus of life back 5 years?

-mouser (August 06, 2012, 07:03 PM)

That'd be great, I'd do the whole Sth America/Antarctic trip again only this time I wouldn't get on the plane to come home.

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Living Room / Re: Maximizing problems when docking toolbar on left in Windows 7

« Last post by 4wd on August 06, 2012, 08:53 PM »

Not hibernation (save RAM to disc), no  - but it does often get switched to "sleep".

-IainB (August 04, 2012, 11:26 PM)

What OS?

Windows 7, (and Vista IIRC), go into Hybrid Sleep by default I think, just in case the machine loses power it can resume from the hibernate file.

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Living Room / Re: Getting a video capture card: any comments?

« Last post by 4wd on August 06, 2012, 08:45 PM »

What condition are the tapes in?

As long as they are original, (ie. not copies of copies), haven't been excessively played so that the tape has stretched and don't have Macrovision you should be fine if you use a decent VHS playback machine.

Best indicator of whether you may need a TBC is if when you play the tape back on different machines you get flag-waving in the picture, (you also need to try playback to different TVs to check this, as TV timebase could be off if you just test with one).  Flag-waving is where the edge of the picture on the TV is oscillating like the waves on water on the movements of a flag.

It's also better if you can play back the tapes from the machine they were recorded on, (depending on head condition), as any timebase fluctuation, (between different machines), is minimised.

More info on if you need a TBC here.

FWIW, I use a ~15 year old mono Samsung VHS machine, (has had little use), which I connect to a Lifeview FlyTV 3000, (old TV card, ~10 years), and then IUVCS to do the recording.

I have used in the past: Sony Stereo Betamax VCR, Sony Mono Betamax VCR, NEC Stereo VHS VCR, Sony Mono VHS VCR.

Results have always been satisfactory except where the problem lies with the tape.

A cheaper option than a TBC to try may be one of the devices that "remove" Macrovision, they do this by cleaning up the timing signal, (as opposed to completely regenerating it as a TBC does), by removing any spurious signal components, (ie. anything that really shouldn't be there: spikes, etc).

Do you intend to do any video restoration after the capture, ie. colour correction, denoising, etc ?

If so, you might be better off using a capture card that has the option of software encoded capture rather than the increasingly common hardware based capture compression, (usually h.264 or MPEG2).

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Living Room / Re: Typing Speed Competition!

« Last post by 4wd on August 06, 2012, 01:43 AM »

Or if I use the G15 with a 2ms character delay:

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Living Room / Re: Olympic coverage this year SUCKS!

« Last post by 4wd on August 06, 2012, 01:25 AM »

Olympics coverage has always sucked for any sport that wasn't track/field/swimming.

I'm not interested in the Olympics at all - but my wife loves the equestrian events.

You'd be lucky to get more than 10 minutes and it would only be the Australian riders, (and generally only if they have a hope of a medal), on the local coverage this year but thanks to the wonders of modern technology and a band of dedicated cappers....~43 hours of equine shenanigans is available via BitTorrent.

The local coverage was far better last time when it was split between two TV broadcasters - one did the boring mainstream track/field/swimming, the other did the more interesting sports.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Original Wireless Inc @ Amazon - some very good deals at the moment

« Last post by 4wd on August 05, 2012, 07:24 AM »

Forget, looks like site was hacked - sorry guys  

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Living Room / Re: Maximizing problems when docking toolbar on left in Windows 7

« Last post by 4wd on August 04, 2012, 07:49 PM »

Right now, my daughter's laptop has a periodically recurring problem with the LHS Toolbar - it keeps shrinking in width and/or refusing to "auto-hide", and I have shown her how to fix it with a restart of Windows Explorer. So far, I have not been able to establish what is causing this recurring problem.

-IainB (August 04, 2012, 10:15 AM)

Not running a game, (or other program), that causes the Windows Aero features to be turned off, (ie. reverts to basic scheme) ?

The original Ghost Recon is an example of where that will happen.

Also, from here:

Having the exact same problem. Status bar on left and autohide is on. When coming out of hibernation, connecting external display, or doing other screen related things, the width setting is completely forgotten.

And that's from 2010.

Being a laptop, do she by any chance let it go into Hibernation ?

Although, I've never seen it do it on my XP netbook, (LHS AutoHide Taskbar), and it normally only gets hibernated.