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Thanks, but I am not sure I can find filing cabinets at the right height - the height of my current keyboard tray.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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My home "office" is 10x10. Oddly enough, Lowe's has 10' long faux marble kitchen counters, precut to fit together in an L.
Plenty of room to fit my systems, their monitors, the near-field monitors, the printer, the scanner, the ridiculously bulky video monitor, and the two cats.
Real Soon Now™.
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This[^] and this[^] are the only pictures I have of the last one I made -- I don't have any of the "finished product"
When I moved house, I chopped it up so that the computer side and the shelf side would go on opposite walls.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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 That's pretty nice, thanks for sharing. What wood did you use for the top?
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I made the whole thing out of MDF, and used yacht varnish to get a rich, heavy finish.
Note that if you build the desk in as part of the room, the missus can't keep making you move it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks, you did get it quite shiny with that varnish  .
I am considering using MDF, but I am also considering using edge-glued boards since they are not as prone to splinters and edge-chipping as plywood. The problem is that I cannot find a pre-made board with the dimensions I would like (56" x 30").
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: The problem is that I cannot find a pre-made board with the dimensions I would like (56" x 30")
Get yourself a cheap biscuit cutter[^], and you can join two pieces -- my desk was joined just where the drawers end (designed to be separated, later, which it now has been).
If you make sure that the joining edges are dead straight*, no-one will ever know you've added a bit.
n.b. If you do go for joined-edge panels, pick ones that don't have big colour differences in the batons, or the stripes'll piss you off when you're sitting at it.
* Use a jointing block: spray- or contact-glue 100-grit sandpaper to both sides of a 4x9" MDF-or-similar offcut, and rub the full length of the board in a single movement, several times -- it doesn't take a lot of practice, and works miraculously well.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think this would be quite a fun exercise, and my small media collection is growing fast enough (with the Telkom 60GB + 60GB) package to start making me anxious about preserving it. I'll just offload it to an external drive for now, so it's safe if my machine goes postal, but just one copy doesn't do much for peace of mind.
Has anyone done this, or does anyone know of a good guide to doing it? I really only need rich theory, not specifics, as I'm limited to parts readily available to me here in SA.
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Google Doodle tells me it is St Andrew's Day.
So for all those Porridge Quaffers, have a great day.
That means you Mr Auld!
But please...do NOT abuse your wailing octopus, it is more than I can bear.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I'm just glad that it didn't explode or catch fire when it crashed...poor buggers. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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I have finally bought Mrs Dalek's Xmas Prez
This Baby[^]
I listen to the Home Service on a Roberts DAB.
That is sufficient for me.
But Being a musical type, andmuch younger and therefore down wid da yute, she likes her music.
This monster has Bluetooth and NFC connection, and pumps out enough watts to keep her amused.
I love the flashing lights in the speakers, groovy man!
I just know she will love this, and therefore I gain Brownie Points.
I only went in for a small set of speakers, intending to spend £25 or so.
Ended up giving the whiskerless youth behind the counter £200!
Hey ho.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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That is very cool, Dave; with 230 Watts she should be able to drown out your screams.
yours, Bill
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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Some idiot tutor has decided that the class homework this year is getting an article published on CP, and "and one of two equal parts of our score is directly depends on our codeproject reputation"
So...expect some real rubbish incoming, and probably a measure of abuse when it gets rejected. 
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Is there any way we can delete the tutor?
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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You mean, legally?
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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Pest / vermin control is a public duty, isn't it? 
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Don't know who he is - though Chris might be able to tell from the school IP I guess.
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Maybe the guy should send his tutor the Article FAQ and explain the moderation process to him. I read the comments on his article and got the impression he thinks we must 'approve' because its homework....yeh right!
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And why do I suspect that anything that does get approved will get upvoted by the rest of the class?
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I often think that the moderation process needs to be upped to higher level members.
I still see stuff that I have commented on needing formatting fixed etc. and two minutes later it is approved in the same state.
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Indeed, having one "approve" outweight dozens of comments/votes/reports is bad. Plus the comments get removed. Horrible.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Some idiot tutor
What school/"university"?
..and how did that school accept that he offshores his work to CodeProject?
I'll be reporting each one I find as spam.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Don't know - somewhere in Iran I assume. Again I suspect Chriss could narrow it down a lot, but I don't have access to that info.
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I suspect it is: Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic
I searched for the member on Google, found his linkedin profile and it says he is currently studying there.
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