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Re: Windows 8 - 11 years ago
... Linus ... Yes, I suppose after installing Virtualbox and Silmarilion Hobbit Linux one might just get a "and now what?" kind of feeling. Although really "what" is simply a matter of finding some way of breaking something, so it needn't be a difficult question. Just imagine: you're in the missile silo, the operators have gone out for their tea break and leftby slow_eddy - Useful NONACADEMIC tips & solutions
Re: Windows 8 - 11 years ago
From what I've heard, that's quite unusual, right? Windows not just working out the box, I mean. I would've thought people like Lenovo would've been working on being Windows 8 ready for a year or more already by now, and would've at least swept any outstanding problems under the carpet for later. Well once you're done there, with all that memory you'll be ablby slow_eddy - Useful NONACADEMIC tips & solutions
Re: Windows 8 - 11 years ago
Well I could almost apologise to Ubuntu ... They steer you quite strongly toward the more tablet-like interface, as mentioned above there, but there's a "clicky" way to opt out of this after all. As there should be. Linux is all about choice, isn't it? Well it's all about all sorts of other things too, but choice is one of the things it's all about. They'vby slow_eddy - Useful NONACADEMIC tips & solutions
Plover Steno Demo - 11 years ago
Plover is a project to implement stenography on ordinary keyboards that I've been following sporadically for a few years now. The easiest way to get what it's all about is to just try it out . I suppose this is more in the "interesting HCI alternatives" category than a tip as such (although with a bit of imagination I'm sure you could turn this into a full-blown "by slow_eddy - Useful NONACADEMIC tips & solutions
Wayback Button in Your Browser - 11 years ago
Of course if you're not lazy you could just go and look for that page now no longer available (old bookmarks etc) by pasting the address into the Wayback Machine, but if you're lazy, check your browser add-ons system and you might find you can get a button that does the same thing in a bone idle clicki clicki kind of way. I'll post a more general kind of link : Wikipedia on usinby slow_eddy - Useful NONACADEMIC tips & solutions
Re: Windows 8 - 11 years ago
It's possible that it's a word with fairly restricted usage (eg. only really used by the Osprey tribe of South-Central Africa). "Unices" is one that has been adopted reasonably widely, so "Linuces" would be inherited from that usage. ... And actually I don't know whether I've seen "Linuces" before, or whether it just "spilled out" aby slow_eddy - Useful NONACADEMIC tips & solutions
Re: Windows 8 - 11 years ago
It's been overtaken by Mint Linux according to Distrowatch ... But really this is just Debian overtaking Debian (and GNU overtaking GNU if you bring something like SuSE into the picture). In a sense it'll "always be what it was" - ie. the original painless Desktop Linux - more or less without touching a configuration file. There were desktop Linuces before, but it took allby slow_eddy - Useful NONACADEMIC tips & solutions
Re: Windows 8 - 11 years ago
Sadly, one can almost say the same thing for Ubuntu 12.04. Same basic problem, I think. I've persisted with it, because it's the long term support version, and the old folk around here need that; but it's really a tablet interface I have no need of on a PC. This PC was the "TV set" for a few years for pity's sake! It has a 23 inch monitor. (Well worth it if you�by slow_eddy - Useful NONACADEMIC tips & solutions
Speed up videos - 11 years ago
If you use VLC to watch the video lectures you download, one of the things you should try is speeding up playback (dig around the menus of VLC to find out how). Before chipmunk speed you reach a point where everything happens a bit faster than is natural, but remains comprehensible; only, you have to stay correspondingly alert to keep up. I doubt if the tiny bit of time it saves is worth anythingby slow_eddy - Useful NONACADEMIC tips & solutions
Re: Notes on Design Patterns - 11 years ago
You can google up a few more of those. There aren't dozens, but you'll find it helps to get slightly different approaches, and different explanations. As I said, if you're lucky the best you can manage here is to come up with a good question that gets you a good answer. (And there I mean something specific. In such and such a pattern is this or that the better implementation is proby slow_eddy - COS3711
Re: Notes on Design Patterns - 11 years ago
If you found these sorts of websites unhelpful, I don't think there's a huge amount beyond that available online: One of the usual culprits What will help more than finding more resources is to really grok what is available. Examine it microscopically. Try changing things. Consider what the implications would be. Fiddle with the patterns instead of trying to just memorise them.by slow_eddy - COS3711
Re: The Wait Is Over - Results Are Out - 11 years ago
Yeshh ... shwondaful ... foool .. hahaha ... oops BUMP arg wonder Wosh I were wondering about ... GLUG GLUG uh oh... whoop whoop whoop.... Cratugonlationshhhh ..by slow_eddy - COS3711
Re: Joystick, Flightgear, Linux - 11 years ago
This really belongs in a thread of its own, but to properly fly your simulator you're probably going to have to look at the following web page - Or maybe you do it just to geek out?by slow_eddy - Useful NONACADEMIC tips & solutions
Joystick, Flightgear, Linux - 11 years ago
So you've got your generic joystick from a computer shop that thinks it's pretty incredible, and you've found that it's being detected. You run the test, and establish which button is which. Great. So now it's just a matter of lazily copying the nearest comparable XML to the right numbers in a file bearing the name the stick reports itself to be, save and go fight the Redby slow_eddy - Useful NONACADEMIC tips & solutions
Re: May/Jun Exam Question 2 - 12 years ago
Just tell yourself it went OK. Might as well. You can't fix it now. Me? I'm telling myself I klapped it. For a month I'll be happy as can be. If you managed the others you'll be fine. It wasn't EASY. This course just never goes there. However it was about 100 000 000 times easiER than last year's. I'd say this time they at least provided a passable paper.by slow_eddy - COS3711
Visitor Pattern - 12 years ago
For what it's worth, I reckon the example of Visitor pattern they gave us in the notes is wrong. It's certainly different to what you'll find on "the usual culprits" sites online, with that specialization of the accept() function in the object structure. If you track the "traditional" examples you'll see they work better. I'm imagining the client woby slow_eddy - COS3711
Re: Oct/Nov 2011 paper - 12 years ago
So my tuppence worth was worth only a ha'penny, then. Looks like you're on the right track. Sorry, I still haven't got back to this one, so I don't have anything to offer for that other question.by slow_eddy - COS3711
Re: Oct/Nov 2011 paper - 12 years ago
Just off the cuff, you could probably use one function for both incrementing and decrementing (since decrementing is really just incrementing negative numbers). I haven't looked at the question (that's on the other computer), so I might be wrong, but the idea of creating a special function for the opposite sign just goes against my grain, so there's my piecemeal tuppence worth. I&#by slow_eddy - COS3711
Re: Exam preps ? - 12 years ago
@ cheten. Thanks. (I presume you meant to say "adapter" in that last sentence, but had a little slip). Yes, I reckon that's right. These are pre-existing interfaces, not subsystems (I don't think). Presumably to qualify as a "subsystem" it would have to be within your own app (rather than from outside)? Not so sure about that one. @ vampyre. Yes, we did give itby slow_eddy - COS3711
Re: Exam preps ? - 12 years ago
Passing it isn't going to do me a huge amount of good, anyway, so this course has shifted as far down my priority list as my right to hope that tomorrow will somehow be better than today has fallen. I'll give it a good go, but I'm not going to burn out trying to do the impossible. It's a weeder course, and I pretty much consider myself weeded. Pity it has to happen in thirby slow_eddy - COS3711
Re: Text Files - 12 years ago
Sounds a bit like you can put it anywhere as long as you tell your code where to find it? One of the methods would be something like Savitch described in COS112; another would be to take advantage of some Qt functionality. The problem of what's on the file is separate from the problem of where the file goes, is separate from the problem of how to make some use of what's in the file.by slow_eddy - COS3711
Re: Text Files - 12 years ago
Are you trying to generate a text file with a class in your project? I forget how that works exactly, but seem to recall you can specify any valid path for it. If you're making a text file manually, you'd just do that in Notepad, not the Qt Creator IDE. Sorry if that's not much help. Perhaps give a bit more context?by slow_eddy - COS3711
Re: 2012 Prescribed book <<>> Confirmation pls <<>> - 12 years ago
There's a second edition that's an improvement on the first, so even if they prescribe the first you're probably better going with the latest book. If you hunt around in the 2011 forums you might find a link to a free online copy. I seem to have lost the link. You can use the first edition online for free in the meantime, too. (Again I've put my link in the invisible folderby slow_eddy - COS2144
Re: Exam Results Are Out - 12 years ago
I am, but you know that, right? Only I have to get through Advanced Programming to survive. I think with this one, as far as exams goes, what you need to get very clear in your mind is exactly how your outline of the course runs. You need to have a good outline "in their words" instead of your own. That way you at least have some of the right starting hooks. Obviously you need toby slow_eddy - INF305F
Re: Exam Results are Out - 12 years ago
You'll probably find that those of us who're limping home in an extra semester will pop in here occasionally to see what's going on. Fascinating subject, after all. Buy yourself the text book for Christmas, and try to get a quick overview of the first 8 chapters. Then do it again at a greater level of detail.by slow_eddy - COS340A
Re: Exam Results Are Out - 12 years ago
Good for you. Enjoy your hons. And then the Masters, the Doctorate and the Nobel Prize for computer science.by slow_eddy - INF305F
Re: Exam Results Are Out - 12 years ago
Well done murdock619. Getting a first for that paper is quite an achievement.by slow_eddy - INF305F
Re: Exam Results Are Out - 12 years ago
@ Tazz. See Social Cafe for the rundown on the supp. I remember my first supp (Physics) made me feel really gutted. Failed it, too, which was worse. The next one (Numerical 1) was actually a kind of blessing in disguise. Doing it again gave me better insight. The best thing to do is to just accept imperfection, and remind yourself that by next week you're probably not going to be feeliby slow_eddy - INF305F
Re: Exam Results Are Out - 12 years ago
I'm sorry to hear that, wishblade. But if you're going to fail one, rather do it with this than with Advanced Programming, eh? You'll clobber it next time round, even if they give another tough paper. (And let's not forget that this paper was no walk in the park). @nozdlax well done. In HCI2 at my venue, those of us who turned up to write instead of just waiting for anby slow_eddy - INF305F