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Super Mario Bros.Wii

Sean Cundiff — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:56:00 GMT

Best Wii game ever. Just saying.

-Sean
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[Repost] It's going to be a hamster Xmas

Ravi Bhavnani — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:18:00 GMT

Clickety [^]

/ravi

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Where to snack in Tokyo?

∫ω∂ω — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:06:00 GMT

Apart this one[^], any suggestion?

An observation

SimulationofSai — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:51:00 GMT

I browsed through the forums after quite some time, and noticed that

1) The quality of questions being asked have gone way down
2) The quality of language used has deteriorated

BUT

The members who are answering are doing a very neat job of pointing out the bad questions, asking the questioner to rephrase the question and making a great attempt in answering even if the question makes very little sense. I see very little sarcasm or annoyance. Way to go.

But am sad that the quality of the forums have gone down This was one place from where I learnt a lot from the questions asked by other members. I hope things improve.

SG
Aham Brahmasmi!

Fireman Sam

Nishant Sivakumar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:06:00 GMT

Anyone watches this show on TV or on DVD? My son has fallen for this show (recently) and Comcast only has about 6-7 episodes. I've never seen a Fireman Sam DVD in local stores either. Amazon has VHS copies but not many DVDs. Also there seem to have been various different versions over the years. The one my son likes is 3D CGI animation and everyone uses a very strong Welsh accent that I initially thought was an Indian-accent

Regards,
Nish

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question about my post

swjam — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:43:00 GMT

at Web Development. haven't had any answers yet and thinking if maybe my question's unclear or the way i phrase it?

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Anyone know of..

Rocky Moore — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:21:00 GMT

routines to play Open Office Impress files other than Open Office Impress? There is an open source program I would consider adding this functionality to, but do not want to include all of Impress just to play the files (slide show).

Any ideas?

Rocky <><
Recent Blog Post: Win2008 Server without FrontPage Extensions, really?

Under The Dome

Kirtan Gor — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:08:00 GMT

Anyone planning to grab a copy of this BIG book[^]?

Currently Reading: Kill The Messenger by Tami Hoag
Next in Queue: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

- Kirtan

More scammers

Christian Graus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:52:00 GMT

So, I flew to San Fran, drove to Sacramento, and saw Buckcherry from the third row. Just before KISS started, someone else showed up with the same seats and I was told my tickets ( bought from a broker ) were bogus. We saw KISS from the last row.

Christian Graus

Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

Boom baby!

thrakazog — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:55:00 GMT

Take that productivity!

Demolition game.[^]

Happy Birthday Bob!

Muammar© — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:49:00 GMT

And we need to update our dull page on wikipedia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeproject[^]

We will either find a way, or make one!
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C(''')(''')

Stupid scammers

Dan Neely — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:27:00 GMT

The FCC is going after people who've been scamming a service they offer that allow deaf people to use a normal phone system by using a sign language interpreter with a video conference link to translate between sign language and speech. A noble service to offer; but the FCC was paying $390/hour to operators. Even if the translators were making $80/hour ($160k/year) that would leave room for a 400% overhead rate to cover time between calls and administrative expenses. IF they were being paid something more akin to the average white collar job it would allow for an overhead rate of closer to 1000%. It seems to me that the participating companies should've been able to make money hand over fist even without billing for fake calls.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/arrests-made-in-massive-390hour-video-relay-service-scam.ars[^]

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2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18

PowerPoint conditionals

0x3c0 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:48:00 GMT

I'm working on a piece of ICT coursework and could do with a little help. I'll spare you the details of the circumstances, but I've failed a unit because my e-learning product wasn't written in PowerPoint. I've been told to recreate it over the weekend.

I can get the content and videos migrated over easily enough - some parts actually look better in PP. But a major part of my original project was the concept of checkpoints, where a chapter on the main menu would not be viewable until the previous chapters and introduction were viewed. This was easy in C# - a quick if-clause and I'd be done. But in PP, I'm stumped. I've done some research and apparently I need to use alternative views for every possible combination, but this just feels wrong. Is this the cleanest way to do it, or is there a better way to do it?

OSDev

Just in case you don't know what to tell your Mom you want for christmas...

stephen.hazel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:48:00 GMT

You want http://www.xgamestation.com/view_product.php?id=51[^]

two, count em, two MCUs you can write code for in c.
or the (not very developed but still fun) basic interpretter.

Does video out of the box and has a MANUAL like in the olden days.

My Mom's gettin' me it for Christmas.
I verified that

Just when I thought windows 7 was ok

Richard Jones — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:43:00 GMT

I wanted to try XP Mode, so I downloaded and installed it.

I already had Virtual PC 2007 installed, so naturally nothing works anymore.

Can't uninstall KB95899, can't install it again, and VPC (after working fine for 3 days) is "incompatible" and won't run.

Oh and after all that, I discover I would have needed more RAM anyway. I only have 2GB and it needs that for XP Mode alone.

Now I'm faced with reinstalling 7 so I can use VPC again.

"The activity of 'debugging', or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed." - "Datamation", January 15, 1984

Murder, he wrote

Ravi Bhavnani — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:28:00 GMT

The local sheriff was looking for a deputy, so Gomer, who was not exactly the sharpest nail in the bucket, went in to try out for the job.

"Okay," the sheriff drawled, "Gomer, what is 1 and 1?"

"11" he replied.

The sheriff thought to himself, "That's not what I meant, but he's right. What two days of the week start with the letter 'T'?"

"Today and tomorrow."

The sheriff was again surprised that Gomer supplied a correct answer that he had never thought of himself.

"Now Gomer, listen carefully: Who killed Abraham Lincoln?"

Gomer looked a little surprised himself, then thought really hard for a minute and finally admitted, "I don't know."

"Well, why don't you go home and work on that one for a while?"

So, Gomer wandered over to the barbershop where his pals were waiting to hear the results of the interview. Gomer was exultant. "It went great! First day on the job and I'm already working on a murder case!"

/ravi

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Office 2010 Beta

Nemanja Trifunovic — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:22:00 GMT

It's been out for a couple of days now[^]. Anybody tried it? Impressions?

utf8-cpp

Replacing a heater matrix

senorbadger — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:44:00 GMT

Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyones ever replaced a heater matrix on a car, got my mate coming up on Sunday and we're gonna tackle mine. He's done a couple before but was just thinking is there anything to look out for?

Worried about the air bag, seems to be the worst bit! Its a Peugeot 106 we're working on.

Got the week off work incase we screw it up

Since DD is not here...

ragnaroknrol — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:00 GMT

A motel with a desk but no drinks or biscuits, within which carnal happenings are incredible. (13)

Should be easy for you guys.

Sorry guys I forgot a line, that fixed it.

SP3 vs SP2

Jim Crafton — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:00 GMT

Has anyone had un-managed apps work fine in Windows XP SP2, but then crash inexplicably in XP SP3? Is there anything special about SP3? I've got a case like this but we don't use SP3 in our office, and the only difference appears to be that the person running into the problem has SP3.

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