73 Discussion / Question Topics
Remove Filter  | So I've seen two (possibly more) threads that end with the phrase "let's discuss" and an exclamation mark of over-enthusiasm (which is ironic, since it's low post count drive-by accounts posting this stuff). The preambles are well written, but meaningless pith. It's such an odd way of closing out a …  |
| | I regret that I have to inform you that [Adak](http://www.daniweb.com/members/346000/Adak) passed away suddenly after an illness (thanks to the_cultie from the OC forum for the notice). For folding details, please see here. http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=744019 |
| | [url]https://plus.google.com/u/2/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie[/url] It is indeed a sad day when one of the true pioneers of the modern technological world passes away. C and Unix are such huge corner stones of everything around us (like the ability for me to write this, and you to read this), and have inspired so …  |
| | So which direction is this forum heading in? On the one hand, happygeek seems to think it's all about the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/community-center/daniweb-community-feedback/threads/370906"]quality[/URL]. But when it comes to doing something about it, the enthusiasm seems to be [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/community-center/daniweb-community-feedback/threads/373196/1607319"]more muted[/URL] On the other hand, all Dani seems to care about is [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/community-center/area-51/threads/369598"]post and … |
| | I'm getting rather fed up with seeing activity in the geeks lounge, only to find out it's only the terminally bored time-wasters in posting games sub-forum. If it's not going to be deleted (as per suggestions in other threads), can it at least be made opt-in/opt-out, so that those who … |
| | OK, so this morning I see that the folder icon in the forum list is yellow, meaning there is something unread since my last visit. In I go, and there is a big fat "[B]You can only see threads that you have started[/B]" I haven't started anything there, so why …  |
| | since my [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/community-center/daniweb-community-feedback/threads/283474/1223912#post1223912"]last post[/URL] At least it's stopped flashing, but it's still too large where it doesn't matter, and too small and faint where it does. What hasn't changed is the #1 spot at the top of the reputation ranks. A whole year without posting, and AD/Narue still couldn't catch …  |
| | [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/7584289/Argentina-criminals-evade-capture-by-dressing-up-as-sheep.html[/url]  |
| | Not only does bugger all get done about students posting crappy "do my homework NOW" posts. [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread268437.html[/url] and [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread265286.html[/url] We can't even discuss ways to challenge their behaviour. [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread267094.html[/url] Polite explanation of the rules doesn't work - why would it, they skipped past them the first time around. Harassment and …  |
| | I must say that I'm really liking the new prefix the mods are applying to threads wrested from the clutches of the zombies :)  |
| | [I]<<thread split>>[/I] Who exactly? The OP left the forum 4 YEARS ago. And there the thread lay, nice and quiet until a day ago.  |
| | Everyone's doing it! [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7177230/New-errors-in-IPCC-climate-change-report.html[/url] [quote=telegraph_article] New examples of statements based on student dissertations, two of which were unpublished. [/quote] It's not like it's the first time either. Remember this one? That turned out so well in the end didn't it :icon_rolleyes: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Dossier[/url] [quote=Wikipedia] that much of the work had been …  |
| | [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7042205/Top-ten-internet-passwords-to-be-avoided.html[/url] That doesn't mean number 11 on the list is completely safe - choose wisely!  |
| | [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-age-of-the-killer-robot-is-no-longer-a-scifi-fantasy-1875220.html[/url] > "You can't appeal to robots for mercy or empathy - or punish them afterwards" But they are infinitely easier to re-program and send back. I'm sure a few hacked droids coming back which promptly explode will cause some pause. Though no doubt the folly will be to "keep …  |
| | [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread252440.html[/url] gets me this error message [quote=daniweb_server] Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 3842759 bytes) in /home/daniweb/httpdocs/forums/includes/class_bbcode.php(172) : eval()'d code on line 150 [/quote] I'm assuming the OP has pasted a bitmap (or some other stupid thing) into the message, rather than an attachment.  |
| | Only this time, it wasn't. My reply to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread254052.html"]this thread[/URL] is there in the singular. But I also got a "This forum requires that you wait 15 seconds between posts. Please try again in 1 seconds." I rather suspect had it timed out differently, it would have been a double … |
| | [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6995354/Sarcasm-punctuation-mark-aims-to-put-an-end-to-email-confusion.html[/url] [quote] The symbol – a dot inside a single spiral line – can be installed onto any PC running Windows 7, XP or Vista, as well as Macs and Blackberry mobile devices. It can then be used in Word documents, instant messenger conversations, Outlook email and other programmes, just …  |
| | At least for those people with say less than 10 posts. There is no end of dross from people bumping threads with 1-line of pith which is either off-topic, or just vaguely relevant. Most seem to go for old threads with high "visit" counts in the belief that means their … |
| | Can we have a "report spam" button please, which a) does NOT show up in our post count. b) hides the button when it's already been reported as spam. |
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| | Given the number of spammers (and other 1-posting drive-by's), how about designating certain threads as "fly paper". Fly paper threads have a high post count, and lots of buzz words, but are essentially useless to anyone who actually bothers to read them. If someone actually posts on them, they basically …  |
| | This is a catalogue of some experiments on just two aspects of undefined behaviour. This was inspired by yet another long bout of explanation in a recent thread, so I thought it was time to dust off a bunch of compilers, and compare. This is the test code. [code] #include … |
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| | to post in this thread, wins. You're already too late - losers! I WIN!  |
| | Every time I go to a directory, the view (tiles, icons, list etc etc) seems to be arbitrarily assigned. The problem gets even worse with plugin USB drives as it seems to descend into chaos. I keep doing "set all folders" to look like this, but does it remember - …  |
| | Can we also have this, to complement the other quick forum links. # My threads * Subscribed Forums * All Forums A "My thread" is any thread that I've either posted or replied to. This would help in locating all the threads I am actively interested in very quickly, rather … |
| | [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/5757194/Workers-have-daily-smile-scans.html[/url] " a bid to boost their customer services" More like reduce them. Anyone with a forced smile basically starts to look like a psycho - yeah, that'll bring the customers in. Or a punter with some bad news story being met with the company-standard gormless grin as opposed to … |
| | [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/5413090/European-elections-2009-No-wonder-voters-cant-be-bothered.html"]I don't know and I don't care[/URL]  |
| | Or Psychopath? [attach]10078[/attach] Lots more here. [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/5278200/Sign-language-week-48.html[/url] Made me laugh, in the midst of despair with all the greedy trough feeding SCUM [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5298065/MPs-expenses-Four-ministers-who-milked-the-system.html[/url] [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5292959/MPs-expenses-Ten-extraordinary-claims.html[/url] And so on ad nauseum. These fuckers should be spending all their energies on running the country (instead, just ruining it), not running around finding all …  |
| | [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread185352.html[/url] Looks 'sheared', but OK when clicked on. [attach]10118[/attach] |
| | Actually, it's an information leak a day [url]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5688347.ece[/url] So what happens, that's right, yet another privacy sapping [URL="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5645538.ece"]money pit[/URL] full of everything a hacker could possibly want. [url]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article5683677.ece[/url]  |
| | The only thing that has changed is the numbers have got bigger. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA5faeCGg-w[/url] |
| | [url]http://nambulous.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/remove-the-net-framework-assistant-10-from-firefox/[/url] Why do I need it? Why didn't you ask me? - I agreed to your necessary maintenance of your OS, not for you to modify any 3rd party applications which happen to be on the machine to suit your purposes (put that in your EULA). Why is "Uninstall" disabled? |
| | Thanks to this muppet, all the programming forums have been trashed for the evening until a mod shows up and deleted all that crap. :@ :@ :@ :@ |
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| | [url]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5439604.ece[/url]  |
| | [quote] xxxxxxxxxxxx has chosen not to receive private messages or may not be allowed to receive private messages. Therefore you may not send your message to him/her. [/quote] How about saying this BEFORE I spend a good deal of time composing a message and not afterwards :( |
| | Where's Waldo? [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6244358.stm[/url] Here's Waldo! [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7812582.stm[/url] |
| | [url]http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5489134.ece[/url] |
| | [URL="http://linuxgazette.net/issue45/orr.html"]You had to do what with the seat?[/URL] [URL="http://bash.org/?233331"]you wake up with a new disease[/URL]  |
| | [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes-Oxley_Act[/url] I mean, wasn't that supposed to stop all the financial nonsense in the US? Don't be stupid, it's the wrong tool for the wrong job. Rushed through in some half-assed attempt to show the media they were doing something. The few $Bn which the likes of Enron etc were … |
| | There's a new "toy store" in town :) [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081219/sc_afp/usspaceoffbeat[/url] |
| | [url]http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2232488/teacher-slams-linux[/url] |
| | Forum Posts: 700,558 However, 435,384 members makes the average number of posts 1.6 It gets worse if you remove the top 100 posters. Then the average posts per member is basically 1. Basically, someone joins, asks a question, and it never gets answered. What a rubbish forum ;) If only … |
| | [url]http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html[/url] Here be a FAQ for ye all. Q: What's your favourite data structure? arrrray's me hearty! Q: Which virus scanner do you use? Avast!, and ye be free of the vermin. Q: What's your favourite syntax? Arrr, that'll be the main brace to keep your program on a steady … |
| | In the blurb to encourage guests to sign up, there's this line. "[COLOR="Red"]In fact, there are 4,267 IT professionals currently interacting right now![/COLOR]" Nope, not by a long shot. I bet a lot of people think "[COLOR="Green"]Wow, must be a great place, I'm sure to get my question answered here … |
| | Remove all phrases like this - When posting programming code, encase it in [code], [code=syntax], Remove all announcements like this - Please use BB Code and Inlinecode tags Remove all stickies like this - Read This Before Posting Remove the watermark at the back of the edit window Why? Because …  |
| | Forget it. [url]http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39452527,00.htm[/url] "three years from general availability of Windows Vista" Or 18 months after SP1. Or what, 2 weeks after SP3 and the deluge of daily fixes has slowed to a trickle. Oh well, never mind, time to buy some new hardware and ride this brand new pony from … |
| | Complaining about currency movements. [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7501486.stm[/url] Not caring about what actually drives the production of the vast amount of money they get. [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7510862.stm[/url] "That was despite receiving a single anonymous donation of $14.3m" Face it, saving a few pennies in a cookie jar every day just isn't going to get you … |
| | [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7539329.stm[/url] "For the purposes of the study, two people were considered to be acquaintances if they had sent one another an instant message." I wonder if a distinction is made between two friends who communicate frequently, and the case of "Hello, I'm an IM spammer" and a response of "Go … |
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