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  1. Kyteland

    The best thread you'll ever see in a Computer Science forum

    https://secure.csse.uwa.edu.au/run/help2140?p=np&a=197&all=y A cautionary tale to all of you aspiring computer scientists "working in groups." They are watching you. The graph in the second post is classic. Edit: Link evidently went down. I pulled this from my cache. Graph
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    Visual Studio project settings

    I can't for the life of me figure this one out, but it has to be simple. I just don't know what I'm looking for. Hopefully someone here can nudge me in the right direction. What is the appropriate setting in visual studio (specifically VS2005) to change where the generated executable...
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    Microwave experiments cause sponge disasters

    In a follow up to this thread, evidently people are too stupid to be trusted with using a microwave. http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/01/24/germs.sponges.reut/index.html
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    YACT - Buying advice

    My poor '89 Buick was totalled three weeks ago when I left it parked on the street over the weekend, a hit and run. I've had that thing since college and it still had a good 5 years in it. Oh well. I tried the whole I-live-in-the-city-and-can-get-away-without-a-car thing for a while but I'm...
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    Is there something wrong with the Author Icons?

    Also if you go to the profile options and view all of the icons, parrot is missing. Edit: Nevernimd, I just needed to clear my cache. It looked like this.
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    An appeal to any mods who've ever had a movie ending ruined for them

    Methinks the Mods locked that thread too quickly. ;) His problem wasn't that he was reading a thread about a movie he hasn't watched yet and stumbled across a spoiler. His complaint was ***Spoilers*** They didn't put spoilers in the thread, they put them in the title/summary. The only...
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    Have you ever mistyped a URL at work

    I was trying to go to bookpool.com. 'b' and 'k' are so close together. :o Good thing there's not really a boobpool.com. :D
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    Have you ever rented the wrong movie....

    The rental places usually have the regular movie box for display and generic boxes with the dvd in them stacked behind it. Well I thought I was grabbing Leon, but instead I ended up with Ghosts of Mars. I know it's my fault for not checking, but I feel ripped off after watching it. I should...
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    Opera 8.5 Beta for Windows Mobile released

    http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/products/winmobileppc/ I just tried it out on my phone. It's still a bit rough around the edges, but a vast improvement over Pocket IE. The beta is a 45 day trial.
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    Making a backup of a wiki using dumpBackup.php

    I am trying to make a backup of a wiki (linked in my sig) using the dumpBackup.php script provided by mediawiki. This is the output it's giving me, with the html stripped out: I'm under the impression that all of the maintenence scripts use the database user/pass stored in AdminSettings.php...
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    Give me the over/under that I now have Hepatitis A

    <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Sep-24-Sat-2005/news/27260017.html">Alert targets 26,000 at Expo Gaming conference worker infected with hepatitis A</a> I've mentioned before that I work in the gaming industry as a mathematician...
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    About rh71's thread

    Mods, since you came right out and said it here will you finally get rid of the link in Shockwave's sig? Linky. Click on the smiley, just don't do it at work. Why is it that a year ago Playboy was acceptable, and the only action taken was that Xionide's thread got locked, but now rh71's...
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    Mods, jndietz is being a "first post" whore

    http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=1635546 http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=1635549 http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=1635616 Just FYI. You know, in case you felt like banning someone. ;) He's been...
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    Cell phone plans

    I've had exactly 1 cell phone plan in my life, and I just went in and got the cheapest plan they were offering at the time. I need a new phone (my 3 year old phone is having issues) and my old contract has long since gone month to month. (so no penalty for switching providers) I currently...
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    Star Wars star wants to try another career

    From another forum:
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    Why don't people fighing Jedi make a blaster that shoots three beams in a triangle pattern?

    If everyone else gets to ask their "knitpick the fictional movie" questions, then I'm going to ask mine. In star wars you always see guy-with-blaster vs. Jedi, and the Jedi just deflects the bolts back at him and kills him. You'd think that somebody would figure out that one beam at a time...
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    I need some riddles.

    I've been posting math riddles on our BBS this week and a few people have really enjoyed them. I now need more for next week. I've pretty well scoured Anandtech and Google and have a list of the interesting ones, and a few that aren't math related, but I'm hoping you guys can fill in some that...
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    Is it worth it to upgrade from Visual Studio 6?

    We are currently using Visual Studio 6 at work. We are trying to budget software upgrades and this is one of the programs that we're looking at. I'd love some opinions on wherther it's worth doing or if we should just stick with what we have. I work at a company that makes video slot...
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    aten and aten2

    http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=38&threadid=1539216&enterthread=y http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=38&threadid=1567874&enterthread=y I don't know if the guy has two accounts or is returning from a vacation or if somebody is mocking him, but that is damn annoying...
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    The mystery is solved. Kennewick man is Jean-Luc Picard!

    http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050408/D89BB6F81.html :shocked:
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    That's it Fausto, I'm calling you out!

    fausto.jpg :P Are you going to let your name be abused like that on the internet?
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    Proposal: FF plugin to customize the forums.

    Notfred's script and this thread got me thinking. People keep asking for custom avatars and additional emoticons, but Jason and the Mods don't want to allow that for obvious reasons. It makes their lives a lot more difficult. Is it possible to have a script to do this on the user end? One...
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    What sorting algorith does something like this?

    I was given a problem where I need to sort a set of weighted elements in to the minimum number of fixed sized containers. I remember doing something like this for a class in school, but I can't remember how. So imagine that you have a pile of coins and that those coins can may have any value...
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    As long as we're banning people for neffing...

    When are the Mods going to take a look at this suse920 guy? 990 posts in 22 pays, and I don't think a single one of them has had any content. His last 20 posts: 1) 2) 3) 4) :thumbsup: 5) take a trip or invest 6) tipman 98 custom 7) 8) lol 9) 10) 11) 12) 13) 14) 0 15) 16)...
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    Study: Smoking Hazardous To Wealth

    http://www.clickondetroit.com/money/4159857/detail.html?sidebar=ots Hopefully they never do a study of people who upgrade their computers. :Q
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    Petition for RossMAN to get his PM limit removed.

    I know he probably likes the excuse for not answering his PMs, but damn it's annoying. Is it possible for the Mods to just set it to 1,000,000 or something obscene like that? Not going to happen. There is a feature called Export Private Messages. Mod
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    Category Digest - New feature?

    I just noticed this in my profile on the Personal Options page. There is a Category Digest options that claims I can get "a daily digest email of new posts in this forum." How long has this been there? I just enabled it for the Hot Deals forum so that I (hopefully) get a daily email full of...
  28. Kyteland

    Return of Wolves Changes Ecosystem

    It's not typical AnandTech fare, but I thought this was an interesting study. Definitely something to think about. http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne...09/ap_on_sc/wolf_study Cliff notes: Wolves reintroduced. Prey avoids areas they are more likely to be killed, including stream crossings...
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    How intelligent are you in relation to other ATOTers?

    The other thread got me thinking, are you above or below the average ATOT intelligence?
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    ATOT mock elections! - Voting thread

    Nominations thread Read about each candidate there, or just vote! I didn't get as many pairs a I would have hoped, so I'm listing some of the single nominations too. Edit: I'll update any of the missing "party info" if and when it is provided. **notice** Poller not responsible...
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    ATOT mock elections! - Nominations

    I'm now taking nominations for ATOT president/vice president to be voted on in a later poll. Don't forget to post your stance on such pressing issues as: the unbanning of Wdauqnug n00bs trolls the existance of P&amp;N 1 = 0.9999.... and many, many more. Don't forget to give your party a...
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    XML coders - need help doing pretty XML output

    I am rewriting a tool that outputs xml files. Unfortunately due to the nature of the industry I'm in the output needs to be human readable through programs like notepad. This is being written in Visual C++ 6. Does anyone have some tips about outputting "pretty xml"? More specifically, I...
  33. Kyteland

    OMG this web site rocks

    I can't believe nobody's posted this yet.... http://www.penisland.net/
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    Need ISP suggestions - Can I do this?

    In January I'm moving in to a friend's basement apartment. He has cable and I have DSL, but we are wondering if there is some way we can get a much better dedicated connection for about the same combined price ($110-$120) that we can split. I've been getting pretty shoddy service from my...
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    Need help with college assignment!

    Originally posted by slurm in OT. He could definitely use some more results.
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    High pitched noise coming from my 2001fp

    I just purchased dual Dell 2001fp's and they were delivered yesterday. One of them is emitting a very annoying, high pitched noise whenever it is turned on. It is loud enough to be heard over the fans from my tower, so it is not just my ears being oversensitive. The other one doesn't do this...
  37. Kyteland

    Fun game - catch the numbers

    http://content.ugoto.com/?id=2203&amp;type=4 56 seconds. I suck. :(
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    RossMAN's TV calls for help.

    http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/10182004_bb_tv.html
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    The Infinite Cat Project

    That's a lot of cats http://www.infinitecat.com/
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    Compete in the geography olympics!

    http://www.geographyolympics.com/challenge.php Enter your country and click "take quiz" to see how you do. Most of the ones I got wrong I was in the general area but didn't get it right. :( Hints: Use the minimap (upper left corner) to move the zoomed map. Click the little arrows...