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Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art

« Last post by Target on May 17, 2011, 10:19 PM »

Don't paint too sad a picture, the view all depends on which perch yer on.

-cranioscopical (May 17, 2011, 08:19 PM)

As an acrophobic I find it best to avoid high places ... Else I'll be Shetland myself.

-Stoic Joker (May 17, 2011, 09:08 PM)

I've also herd it can get friesian up there

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

« Last post by Target on May 17, 2011, 06:33 PM »

A recent concert with David Gilmour and Roger Waters doing Comfortably Numb:

If you're a Pink Floyd fan, it's a must see.

-Renegade (May 17, 2011, 11:15 AM)

thanks for this - perhaps my greatest regret was not seeing them when i had the chance (Perth in I think 1989)

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Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art

« Last post by Target on May 17, 2011, 06:17 PM »

Have you more of those to trot out?

-cranioscopical (May 17, 2011, 06:12 PM)

it appears he has quite a stable full, and someones left the gait open

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Open images without program window showing.

« Last post by Target on May 17, 2011, 06:16 PM »

you could try ArtSage.  It's an image viewer, but it presents the image full frame and without any visible toolbars etc.  Downside here is that it doesn't appear to display multiple images concurrently

another alternative may be Osiva.  This one seems to display images as separate instances (at their 'original' size).  It does display a floating toolbar, though you may be able to hide it (I didn't try)

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Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art

« Last post by Target on May 17, 2011, 12:48 AM »

At least you can without problems cross deep(er) rivers with these horses...

-Shades (May 16, 2011, 11:01 PM)

Drift you wood...

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Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art

« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 11:09 PM »

Don't be an ass, leave the donkey work to others!

-cranioscopical (May 16, 2011, 11:05 PM)

I have (keep up the good work!)

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Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art

« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 10:31 PM »

Try to keep to the mane topic, chaps, we don't want to be saddled with this!

-cranioscopical (May 16, 2011, 10:27 PM)

I don't think I like you're timbre...

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Living Room / Re: Don't hit the switch - interesting toy

« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 09:53 PM »

thanks for clearing that up

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Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art

« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 09:24 PM »

Are you implying that my 'horse' has trouble going from a canter to a gallop?  Them's fightin' words, pardner...

-kyrathaba (May 16, 2011, 08:53 PM)

I saw your sig and figured it was probably already knackered

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Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art

« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 08:32 PM »

Come on, don't saddle me with sarcasm!    Try to trot out something a bit more palatable.

-kyrathaba (May 16, 2011, 08:19 PM)

too late, that horse has bolted

it occurs to me to wonder if there's something freudian in your POST about WOODEN horses

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Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art

« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 08:10 PM »

did you not twig to the references in my post?

Horses 'Neigh' and wear 'reins', right? 

-kyrathaba (May 16, 2011, 08:00 PM)

so do some politicians, but let's not take that tack

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Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art

« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 07:57 PM »

quit your nagging

Neigh, you need to reins things in a bit... 

-kyrathaba (May 16, 2011, 07:53 PM)

wood be better if you'd stick to the topic

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Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art

« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 07:50 PM »

Alright, guys, stop horsing around...

-kyrathaba (May 16, 2011, 07:44 PM)

quit your nagging

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Living Room / Re: Don't hit the switch - interesting toy

« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 07:49 PM »

just part of the magic of movies

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Living Room / Don't hit the switch - interesting toy

« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 07:35 PM »

from hack a day - Don't Hit That Switch

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Living Room / Re: Wooden Horse Art

« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 06:54 PM »

HiHo Sliver, away....

My father forwarded them to me via email, but the email didn't make any attributions about who the ladies are, where they're located, and no story attached.  Just a by-line "Ladies make horse art..."

-kyrathaba (May 16, 2011, 05:57 PM)

any danger that they're trojans?

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General Software Discussion / Re: email troubles

« Last post by Target on May 16, 2011, 05:42 PM »

I used to occasionally encounter that if the email had an attachment. Usually it was a PDF that was causing the problem although I also saw it happen with GIFs. Probably something in the attachment process caused a malformation of the email which resulted in an inbox hang in my mail client. Saw it happen mostly when using Thunderbird, although I had clients run into it with MS Outlook as well.

If I recall correctly, this only happened with messages originating from an AOL account.

-40hz (May 16, 2011, 03:16 PM)

interesting to note that your initial experience was with an email containing a PDF - this mirrors our experience where the first instance was a PDF search document from the Main Roads department which we couldn't download no way no how.  Subsequent instances haven't included attachments, though they have included images...

AOL is unlikely to be a factor here in Australia though...

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General Software Discussion / Re: email troubles

« Last post by Target on May 15, 2011, 09:12 PM »

Much as I hate to rely on a cloud based service GMail may be the ultimate fix - given that it's unlikely that I'll get much assistance from the ISP and the fact that it's so intermittent it may not be worth trying to troubleshoot it (plus it insulates us from future ISP changes)

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General Software Discussion / Re: email troubles

« Last post by Target on May 15, 2011, 06:46 PM »

Having suffered many different email problems over the years, I may be able to help.

Is your email server your own? Which server? An ISP email? (Run away!) Popular web mail?

I've seen some of those issues in the past.

-Renegade (May 14, 2011, 10:39 AM)

it's the ISP email (BigPond) - our requirements are very light so no need for a personal domain or any such

email is plain vanilla - POP/SMTP, no encryption etc.

Both machines are standalone (no need for a network) and run AVG 2011 (in case that rings any bells - though fwiw I've already tried resetting to the defaults AND disabling the AV, neither of which had any impact).

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General Software Discussion / Re: email troubles

« Last post by Target on May 13, 2011, 11:45 PM »

I would first quickly see if it is the AntiVirus causing the problems: First check the mails ready at the ISP server, to estimate if they are clean, then close the AV, maybe restart the email client, and then hit send/receive.

-Curt (May 13, 2011, 04:26 PM)

already tried this, no luck (thanks for the suggestion though)

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General Software Discussion / Re: VoicePics - A Toy App that encourages toddlers to Babble

« Last post by Target on May 13, 2011, 12:11 AM »

FARRFARRFARR?

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General Software Discussion / email troubles

« Last post by Target on May 12, 2011, 11:02 PM »

hoping someone here may be able to assist with an issue we've just started experiencing at home

intermittent emails are 'hanging' the receive process, ie when an offending email is encountered the process hangs and we cannot download any further messages.

Happens on both PC's at our house (XP SP3 with outlook express, and Vista with windows mail, and now Live Mail).

Stopping and restarting has no effect.

Messages are accessible via webmail, but there is nothing untoward in them that I can see.

None of the messages are large (we're stuck with dialup so anything much more than a meg gets deleted out of hand), and there does not appear to be any consistency between the offenders - the senders, sizes, etc all vary (in fact we received one message from a particular sender fine, but the next one - 24hrs later - failed)

I've checked all the settings (nothing has been changed) and as far as I can see everything should be fine. Beyond this I have no idea how to even begin troubleshooting this

Any ideas?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Apples, Walled Gardens, and Screw Deals - Oh My!

« Last post by Target on May 11, 2011, 06:46 PM »

However, once something looks like it will really take off big time, all it will take is a rule change to push the innovators out so the big companies can take over and "properly exploit the opportunities" such an emerging "new use" will create.

-40hz (May 11, 2011, 06:28 PM)

seems like this is an 'innovative' take on an old tactic

In the past the big guys paid squillions to buy up the competition.  Apple seems to have come up with a new approach where they make money out of closing the competition, then more money by capitalising on the 'new' opportunities...

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Living Room / Re: If a tree falls (in c#)

« Last post by Target on May 10, 2011, 05:19 PM »

Remember we had N-1 string * N+1 drinks, making a grand total of 2N-1 (drinks/string whatever) So if N > 10, then we have almost double the string, and way too much to drink.

Remember not to do calculus when drinking though: don't drink and derive :p

-Fred Nerd (May 10, 2011, 04:55 AM)

I'm a bit confused - I've been following the process and all I ended up with was zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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DC Gamer Club / Re: looking for some suggestions

« Last post by Target on May 10, 2011, 01:45 AM »

my mom really liked samarost and samarost2.

-mouser (May 10, 2011, 01:00 AM)

yeah I thought of that (actually I saw machinarium in the shops) but I was looking for offline games

and FWIW the idea of her being loose on the net terrifies me...