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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by Target on April 03, 2013, 08:26 PM »

Tony Monaco, hammond organ player extraordinaire, gives the most concise explanation I've ever seen of all the awesome things about this legendary instrument.  With a performance!  Tony is also the most willing and prominent educator for this instrument out there, as far as I know.

-superboyac (April 03, 2013, 07:48 PM)

if you're into organs, this might amuse you

This guy is from 'World of Organs' in Adelaide (Sth Aust). 

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Living Room / Re: When to trust co-workers with your income?

« Last post by Target on April 02, 2013, 10:14 PM »

if you're still looking, I can introduce you to a nigerian prince...

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Community Giveaways / Re: games giveaway

« Last post by Target on March 29, 2013, 06:55 AM »

curious about how to go about joining the group - I have a steam acct, but all I get is "membership by invitation only"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Seeking Little App w/Specific Actions

« Last post by Target on March 15, 2013, 01:52 AM »

Well, most of my apps I have "assigned" to a specific monitor. When I install a new app, it takes me some time before I can decide which monitor it belongs to. Two things: all video is on the left. Web browser or anything I'm reading goes on the riight.

-siouxdax (March 15, 2013, 01:45 AM)

so apps could be assigned to one of 2 lists (left or right) and they could be positioned accordingly.  Anything else would float pending allocation

Not sure what you meant by "all other movements are effectively random".

-siouxdax (March 15, 2013, 01:45 AM)

Two big things are high on my list. One is which monitor should an app appear, and of course some have to be tossed back and forth.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Seeking Little App w/Specific Actions

« Last post by Target on March 15, 2013, 01:36 AM »

so apart from a few apps that 'must' be on a given monitor, all other movements are effectively random?

Just trying to understand how you thought an 'app' might go about managing this

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General Software Discussion / Re: Seeking Little App w/Specific Actions

« Last post by Target on March 14, 2013, 10:41 PM »

out of curiosity, what's your workflow here?

just wondering how and why you move windows now (ie is there a 'rule set')

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Living Room / Re: What *Should* We Be Worried About?

« Last post by Target on March 13, 2013, 11:59 PM »

I'm worried about a bunch of worry-warts getting all psychotic and doing crazy stuff.

-Renegade (March 13, 2013, 11:44 PM)

isn't that what the postal service is for?

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Living Room / Re: I am so very very sick of copyright issues.

« Last post by Target on March 13, 2013, 10:19 PM »

I think a lot of this IP protectionism is indicative of a loss of confidence on the part of many. The only people that try (in my experience) to wring every last nickel out of everything they come up with are the people who fear their creativity is a finite resource. That they only have so much originality in them - and once it's gone, it's gone.

-40hz (March 13, 2013, 09:00 PM)

not quite, seems most of it is generated by people that have no creativity (accounting doesn't count) and are banking (literally) on wringing everything they can out of someone elses efforts, ie most any of the media vendors, publishers, the families and/or estates of long dead creators...

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Living Room / Re: Seriously 'funny' idea - what if DRM was applied to physical objects?

« Last post by Target on March 04, 2013, 06:36 PM »

Um, this chair is a fire hazard.

Notice the smoke?

Yeah, that nichrome is getting too hot while melting the wax, the chair could ignite the flammable wax and cause a far more serious problem than just a DRM'd chair.

-SeraphimLabs (March 04, 2013, 05:22 PM)

Are you trying to say that people that buy the chair are just looking to get burned?

-Renegade (March 04, 2013, 05:53 PM)

clearly if you get to that stage you must be a pirate, so this is justified

of course the flow on from this is that all chairs that don't catch fire are a)infringing on their patent, and b)clearly the work of pirates.  Either way, legal action will have to be taken to bring the culprits to heel

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Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread

« Last post by Target on February 27, 2013, 11:15 PM »

.

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Living Room / Re: Keep a roll of toilet paper in your car's trunk

« Last post by Target on February 26, 2013, 09:01 PM »

The old London taxi cabs were a good bet. They had a trap door in the floor at the back.

-cranioscopical (February 26, 2013, 06:46 PM)

a bit like your pyjama's?

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Living Room / Re: Keep a roll of toilet paper in your car's trunk

« Last post by Target on February 26, 2013, 05:13 PM »

The bonus with the bucket and spade is that they are dual-purpose - most often, they are used to make sandcastles when we stop at a beach!

-IainB (February 26, 2013, 02:58 PM)

plus you don't have drive around with that body in the boot trying to find a hardware or garden supplier...

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Delete folders within directory but not the files within the folder

« Last post by Target on February 11, 2013, 05:58 PM »

you should be able to find a solution in the coding snacks section.

others may be able to point you to specific threads, or search the forum as this functionality (or very near) has been requested several times

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Target on February 04, 2013, 05:29 PM »

wtf?

these from our local rail timetable - fyi it's a request for travel details to the next station from the CBD (there are 2 options...)

option 1

option 2

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Headset recommendations

« Last post by Target on January 31, 2013, 06:02 PM »

that sites actually a pretty good resource

these might also be of interest

Mad Lust Envy's headphone gaming guide

The Nameless guide to pc gaming audio with binaural headphone surround sound

Headphone buying guide

no guarantees about the currency or suitablility for your purpose of any recommendations in those resources (YMMV)

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Headset recommendations

« Last post by Target on January 31, 2013, 04:59 PM »

This might be it, but perhaps not.  Whatever, this one is amazing also:
http://www.head-fi.o...a-350-added-01-22-13

actually, it is!  here's the summary table, which is extremely helpful:
http://www.head-fi.o...1-22-13#post_6492059

-superboyac (January 31, 2013, 04:00 PM)

that's an outstanding resource

except that it's only in ear models

that said there is also this page on that site as well that covers ALL types (I actually found this last night, so it's funny that you posted the above this morning)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a minimalist Desktop Calendar Application..

« Last post by Target on January 30, 2013, 11:56 PM »

perhaps not quite what your looking for but is this something that could be done with infoqube (a bit of overkill perhaps) or maybe treesheets?

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Living Room / Re: Scientists test functional 'tractor beams'

« Last post by Target on January 30, 2013, 12:51 AM »

Is the universe trying to tell us something about him? 

Hmmm...

-Renegade (January 30, 2013, 12:32 AM)

I have to wonder what attracted him to this article in the first place

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Living Room / Re: Scientists test functional 'tractor beams'

« Last post by Target on January 29, 2013, 11:25 PM »

anyone else seeing the irony in this being posted by tinman?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Target on January 29, 2013, 07:53 PM »

BWAHAHAHAHAHA~!

Well played~! 

-Renegade (January 29, 2013, 07:31 PM)

whew!!  I wasn't sure if you'd twig to the reference () and I didn't want to get into a blew blue fight

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Target on January 29, 2013, 07:23 PM »

For the grammar Nazis:
 (see attachment in previous post)

-Renegade (January 29, 2013, 06:48 PM)

17.  FUCK YOU, THAT SOUNDS TOTALLY NORMAL.  ASSHOLE

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Headset recommendations

« Last post by Target on January 29, 2013, 03:49 PM »

the supplier wouldn't sell them to you, of all people.

-wraith808 (January 29, 2013, 03:36 PM)

me, of all people?

is there something you're trying to tell me?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Headset recommendations

« Last post by Target on January 29, 2013, 03:01 PM »

Plantronics GameCom 780.  I would still be using them if not for the fact that I decided to go wireless.  Since they enclose the ears, some people complain about comfort, but I never had a problem with them- they seem large enough that I don't know how anyone could complain, but I figured I'd give you that caveat.

-wraith808 (January 29, 2013, 02:33 PM)

I had been looking at these as well - they seem to get a fair rep, but I stumble on the plantronics part (they make lots of solid comm's accessories, but audio gear?)

Have they been?  I still see them on the Logitech site.  They usually take discontinued items down pretty quickly...  they show as out of stock, but not discontinued.

-wraith808 (January 29, 2013, 02:33 PM)

could be my bad - none of the 'local' suppliers appear to have any, nor do they appear to be expecting fresh stock.  Discontinued was a logical conclusion(ohhh, I see where I went wrong )

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Headset recommendations

« Last post by Target on January 29, 2013, 02:28 PM »

They have a lesser cost wired version also (G35).

-wraith808 (January 29, 2013, 12:38 PM)

was checking that and it appears to have a design flaw that the wireless one doesnt:
amazon.com review + comments

-tomos (January 29, 2013, 01:31 PM)

they also have one other (significant) flaw in that they have been discontinued (else I probably would have just bought a pair )

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Headset recommendations

« Last post by Target on January 28, 2013, 11:57 PM »

for my purposes a mic isn't strictly necessary - I don't play online as I don't have the bandwidth, and LAN days are generally small enough that we can (and do) just shout at each other

As you say it's very hard to pick the sweet spot on the cost/benefit curve (monster cables anyone?), and unfortunately I can't afford to just keep buying stuff till I find something I like (would that I could!)

FWIW these seem to be well regarded