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Living Room / Re: "HDD Not Included"

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 23, 2007, 05:22 PM »

A little thing like this on your desktop is sure to get knocked around. Maybe someone would even trip on the cord. Too great a chance for damage to consider any of the other benefits such a device might bring, in my opinion.

-Deozaan (October 23, 2007, 04:04 PM)

Well, it's weighted (which means the shipping cost just about doubles the price).
For those of us without rampant kids or pets (and with some compressed air handy) it could be a great way to swap in and out a bunch of different HDs.
The risk to me would be grabbing the HD before letting it cool (recalling a recent experience when I took something from the oven, forgetting to use an oven glove).

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Official Announcements / Re: Draw Cody competition - win incredible prizes!

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 23, 2007, 05:05 PM »

News Flash

Cody elevated to the no-bill-ity

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Living Room / Re: "HDD Not Included"

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 23, 2007, 03:56 PM »

I think I'll get one of these and see how it goes.  Can't beat 200GB removable media!

-Ralf Maximus (October 23, 2007, 09:59 AM)

If you do buy one, please let us all know what you think of it. 
It looks like a quick and easy way to move offline data between machines.

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Living Room / Re: Clever Programmerisms

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 22, 2007, 08:52 AM »

"Nesting is fine but never forget feathering."

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 22, 2007, 04:08 AM »

Hi John,

Nice that you're joining us!

I donated anyhow to get  the Supporting Member Status

Well done

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Better Quoting Support for the Forum?

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 21, 2007, 05:46 PM »

i've installed this on test forum now, just evaluating it before incorporating in main dc site.

-mouser (October 21, 2007, 04:56 PM)

Good man, yourself!

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Better Quoting Support for the Forum?

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 21, 2007, 03:31 PM »

but nontroppo's find good be easily added to the forum if it's something people want.

-mouser (October 21, 2007, 02:53 PM)

I'd vote for it 

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Living Room / Re: Magic Storage Bridge - IDE-ATA-ATAPI-SATA/SATAII/e-SATA

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 20, 2007, 06:20 PM »

Looks good to me, thanks for pointing it out!

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Living Room / Re: release important information after your death with this service

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 20, 2007, 01:32 PM »

This service would be more useful if there was some kind of USB device that could kill me if I fail to log in for a period of time.

Any pointers?

-Ralf Maximus (October 20, 2007, 11:07 AM)

Some kind of track pall, perhaps?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 20, 2007, 01:27 PM »

I've heard of going to the can, but this is ridiculous!

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Living Room / Re: Hallow-e'en

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 19, 2007, 03:36 PM »

I've never been very artistic with pumpkins, but I once made one of a logo for a website my brother and I started up.

-Deozaan (October 19, 2007, 12:09 PM)

It's nice that you kept a picture of that!

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Living Room / Re: Hallow-e'en

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 19, 2007, 03:34 PM »

The picture is of what my wife just created from a pumpkin.

-cranioscopical (October 19, 2007, 09:18 AM)

do they keep long - or get all distorted as they dry up (which would be interesting too!)

-tomos (October 19, 2007, 10:24 AM)

We're about to find out 
We sprayed it with some special fixative which ought to slow the rate of decay. Keeping it cold will help. To keep it cold will be more difficult than usual as we're experiencing temperatures around 18C at the moment. Typically we'd have had hard frosts by now, but not this year. That's very pleasant in the short term but kind of worrying in a wider context.

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Living Room / Hallow-e'en

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 19, 2007, 09:18 AM »

Hallow-e'en is a big event here, in Canada.

It's also my son's birthday.
We didn't celebrate Hallow-e'en in the U.K. so, when we moved here my son, who was five at the time, was thrilled to find that everyone in his world would hand him a 'birthday' treat if he just knocked on their door.

The picture is of what my wife just created from a pumpkin.
We and others donate decorated pumpkins to a local organization that sells them and puts the proceeds towards food for some who are less fortunate than ourselves. It's fun and mildly useful at the same time.

Does anyone have Hallow-e'en favourite images/stories to share here?

Does Cody eat pumpkin seeds?

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Living Room / Re: poll: how old are you?

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 17, 2007, 10:29 AM »

Even though some of us are unbalanced?

-Ralf Maximus (October 17, 2007, 07:24 AM)

Some?

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General Software Discussion / Re: do you use any system to read/write faster(speed reading/autocompleter)?

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 16, 2007, 05:26 PM »

I am enduring a spell checker for now... What I hate about it is...

-Darwin (October 16, 2007, 04:19 PM)

All you magical guys! I have to stumble along with my spelling checker

Speaking of 'help' with language, try this:

From http://www.whitesmok...english-grammar.html
 
English Grammar software
The importance of proper English grammar usage cannot be
overemphasized. As we move through the beginning of the 21st
century, we are all becoming increasingly busier.

How would you like some help from that? 

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newletter for October 15 - Codename "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK"

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 16, 2007, 01:46 PM »

ye work all night & sleep all day then !?![/size]  [/center]

-tomos (October 16, 2007, 11:15 AM)

Can't wait for the next version, don't keep us in suspenders!

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newletter for October 15 - Codename "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK"

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 15, 2007, 05:57 PM »

Another good one, Darwin! 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Timer based on real time

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 15, 2007, 02:02 PM »

It's working fine here.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Public release ? Next Update ?

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 15, 2007, 02:00 PM »

i've got 30 todo cards for FARR in front of me, so i'm working on it (except when cat tries to scatter them onto the floor)

-mouser (October 15, 2007, 10:42 AM)

That would be a cataclasm!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Less Than Worthless Reply From Take 2 Interactive

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 15, 2007, 11:28 AM »

people tend to say "it's dead" instead of "It doesn't boot"

-f0dder (October 15, 2007, 11:13 AM)

Most mornings I won't boot... but I'm not quite dead yet!

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Living Room / Re: Activate poll on this forum?

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 14, 2007, 11:38 AM »

Can you not see the link?

-Carol Haynes (October 14, 2007, 08:06 AM)

I can't I forgot, one first has to start a new topic 

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Living Room / Re: PocketPC or Palm?

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 13, 2007, 03:11 PM »

I am with you armando. My wife doesnt understand how I can justify spending money on this device when I can just use a notebook. To me, with the amount of stuff I add/delete each day, A portable organizer like this makes far more sense. Anyways, Does anyone else have any input?

-Josh (October 13, 2007, 07:51 AM)

I use an old Palm (IIIxe).  Keeps track of my life perfectly well.  Fits in a shirt pocket.  Uses over-the counter AAA batteries available just about anywhere I go.  Been using computers for a long time but this is a different animal.  Mind you, I have no need for more than basic calendar, notes, contacts.  Don't want web, e-mail, applications -- have other tools for that stuff.  No view on whether Palm/PocketPC is better.

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Official Announcements / Re: ZillaRank: An improved search for smf forum

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 13, 2007, 03:04 PM »

Survey: anyone having problems with forum search? 

-Wordzilla (October 13, 2007, 10:11 AM)

Not I.  I don't use it a lot, but it's delightful to find what I want, starting from only the most hazy scrap of recollection.  Hmm <search for "Send key">

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Timer based on real time

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 12, 2007, 10:15 PM »

destiny_ruler, i love the icon for it, but when i run it i get an error:
"Error reading configuration. Application will close now."

i have .net 2.x installed, not sure of exact version #.

-mouser (October 12, 2007, 07:16 PM)

Same here, for both points...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 20$ off XYplorer and lifetime license

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 12, 2007, 10:07 PM »

I've been up to my armpits in window coverings today

-Darwin (October 12, 2007, 08:34 PM)

Don't despair, blind faith will see you through!

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