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At 1/18/09 08:47 PM, Jon-86 wrote:

At 1/18/09 09:38 AM, elbekko wrote: Your 400GB habit is inadequate.

Has a few TB.

Jesus, God, Mary and Joseph

And did you mention Jesus? Hahah, I forget where that quotes from. It's a boxing movie. Anyone here excited for the inauguration tomorrow?

At 1/19/09 05:49 PM, Algorithm wrote: And did you mention Jesus? Hahah, I forget where that quotes from. It's a boxing movie. Anyone here excited for the inauguration tomorrow?

Not really. I could care less.

At 1/19/09 04:03 PM, smulse wrote: First 3 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_J9lXmnB p0

Oh'my deary me, that has actualy happened, when I was on a school trip to Alton Towers and we stopped at one of the service stations in the morning, I wanted some cola and they were charging £2 something, so I pulled out a "scottish tenner" the lassie said "Sorry I cant accept that" and then, just like your man in the video proclaimed, I did say "a think you will find thats legal tender, because the queens head on it" Michael McIntyre got us down to a T their with the airport aswell, some <3 for that "english bastard pounds" lololol

At 1/19/09 04:03 PM, smulse wrote:

At 1/18/09 08:47 PM, Jon-86 wrote: scottish scottish scottish

First 3 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_J9lXmnB p0

3:01! BACK FROM THE DEAD?!

At 1/18/09 03:05 PM, Algorithm wrote:

At 1/18/09 02:56 PM, DFox wrote: Yeah I like downloaded movies also but if I really like a movie, I'll buy the DVD. You can't really match the quality, especially if you ever plan on watching on a TV.

Unless you have your laptop hooked up to 1080P tv with Svideo and speakers =D
Its pretty good quality for me, on a 37" 1080p. Got it on boxing day, watched the new Bond a few days ago.

I have a 37" 1080p screen as well, but no way in hell a laptop is able to playback 30Mbit MPEG-4 video
in 1080p. I have to use a stationary (Intel Q6600, nVidia PureVideo / ffdshow SSE) unless of course you have the new 45nm Intel processors with SSE4.1
Try watching Planet Earth on the scene with those thousands of birds, or any movie with rain (matrix 1 for instance, when neo exits the car after getting "debugged")

At 1/19/09 06:59 PM, Jon-86 wrote: "english bastard pounds"

Did she sell you the coke in the end?

Haha I thought you might like it anyway, 'cause although he was making jokes about Scottish people they weren't offensive or anything ahaha. I was working on a rig up yesterday for a play that's come in to the theatre and the lighting programmer was a Scottish guy, he kept wandering off though and coming back he'd be be like "ohh what are you doing now then?" it was quite funny.

I just watched Max Payne yesterday. It's not a bad movie.

At 1/18/09 09:51 AM, yhar wrote: Just finished watching American History X - manly tears.

That movie is so good...

Last night I watched American Gangster, that's a good film too

At 1/20/09 06:41 PM, smulse wrote: Last night I watched American Gangster, that's a good film too

I LOVE RICHIE ROBERTS.

Is that the one with Russel Crowe and Denzel Washington?

At 1/20/09 11:59 PM, WoogieNoogie wrote: Is that the one with Russel Crowe and Denzel Washington?

Yes sir you better believe it is. White tennis shoes and jeans and heavy NY accent goodness!

At 1/20/09 02:25 PM, WoogieNoogie wrote: I just watched Max Payne yesterday. It's not a bad movie.

Wow, I just watched Max Payne, and I have to say, it was REALLY cool. I wish they would make a sequel. There was something about the darkness that made it awesome.

At 1/21/09 05:01 AM, DFox wrote:

At 1/20/09 02:25 PM, WoogieNoogie wrote: I just watched Max Payne yesterday. It's not a bad movie.

Wow, I just watched Max Payne, and I have to say, it was REALLY cool. I wish they would make a sequel. There was something about the darkness that made it awesome.

Sounds good, I'll get it now.

Broadband

Mind fuck, got up this morning with ADSL down, not happened before as far as I remember (since 2004) so I called Virgin, they were REALLY HELPFUL which is a mind fuck in itself, but anyway, they were like "Just need to test your adsl filter, do you have a spare?" and I was like "no" so they said I need to get one and if it is a fault with the line it'll take 5 working days to fix, so I'm pissed off. I go to the kitchen for a packet of crisps, sit down and eat them, walk around for a bit, sit back down and suddenly it's all working again.

I R HAPPY.

Pff, you call that an outage. I regularly have to reset my modem because it crashes under high load (think: yum, torrents, ...), and have gone through about 5 splitters already.

At 1/21/09 07:49 AM, elbekko wrote: Pff, you call that an outage. I regularly have to reset my modem because it crashes under high load (think: yum, torrents, ...), and have gone through about 5 splitters already.

Mine has to be rebooted every few hours. ADSL Connection went again, lmao. I think it's Mr God telling me to do my college work. Downloading CSI episodes ATM, 460kb/s :D

That's slow. I get speeds of 800+KB/s, and that's with a bad connection -.-

At 1/21/09 10:38 AM, elbekko wrote: That's slow. I get speeds of 800+KB/s, and that's with a bad connection -.-

Shitty uk broadband :P It used to be 300kb/s, then we got upgraded to ADSL2+ which now gives 500kb/s :)

At 1/18/09 09:08 AM, smulse wrote:

Pineapple Express

Ordered it the other day. Apparently it's a great stoner film and a decent standalone one.

At 1/18/09 09:51 AM, yhar wrote: American History X

Easily in my top ten favorite films of all time :D

At 1/20/09 02:25 PM, WoogieNoogie wrote: Max Payne

Want to watch this, looks very cool.

At 1/20/09 06:41 PM, smulse wrote: American Gangster

Cocaine smuggler portrayed as a decent enough guy? Buys a house for his family and that?
If so, yeah, really good film. With great performances by the two leads.

Since it's all movie talk around here I watched The Business night before last and Elephant last night. The Business was great. Started Danny Dyer, who's an excellent actor and although the plot was a bit over the top at times, it was a really good British crime film. Elephant, I'd say avoid. Trys far too hard to be abstract and usually just fails at it. Last half an hour or so is interesting but other than that... Watch Zero Day instead. Both films came out around the same time and deal with the same subject, Zero Day was shot on a smaller budget and does it so much better though.

At 1/21/09 07:49 AM, elbekko wrote: Pff, you call that an outage. I regularly have to reset my modem because it crashes under high load (think: yum, torrents, ...), and have gone through about 5 splitters already.

You should try to get Linksys WRT54G/GS/GL and flash it with Tomato :D (i haven't had to reset since i did that, and it's been under quite some load since then)

No, I don't want wifi, so that's useless.
I was going to buy the Linksys AM200, and put a switch behind it. From what I read it's good and stable, and I want to get away as far as possible from the D-Link crap we have now.

At 1/21/09 10:49 AM, yhar wrote:

At 1/21/09 10:38 AM, elbekko wrote: That's slow. I get speeds of 800+KB/s, and that's with a bad connection -.-

Shitty uk broadband :P It used to be 300kb/s, then we got upgraded to ADSL2+ which now gives 500kb/s :)

When downloading from the iTunes store I've actually gotten speeds of 1.2mb/s+ on a decent connection. Their file serving is SICK.

I've had a pretty bad experiences with several NETGEAR routers. The first one I bought was DOA. The second one died after about 3 weeks. The third (current) one needs to be restarted every day, because the wi-fi craps out if isn't.

:Fuck netgear, my next router's gonna be a Linksys or D-Link

Life is grand.

I broke my good (right) arm on Sunday, Got it casted Monday, and got sick Tuesday.

I broke it playing BASKETBALL too.

just an fyi guys, I have virtually no time right now so will be here even less than usual =(

I love university. I'm about to here a talk from Joel Spolsky. I can't say that I've ever read his blog, but he's a fairly big name in the industry. Later this month, there's a talk from Richard M. Stallman. They have some really cool people come to talk to us. It's really cool. I'll let you know how it went.

At 1/20/09 09:37 AM, smulse wrote: Did she sell you the coke in the end?

Haha I thought you might like it anyway, 'cause although he was making jokes about Scottish people they weren't offensive or anything ahaha. I was working on a rig up yesterday for a play that's come in to the theatre and the lighting programmer was a Scottish guy, he kept wandering off though and coming back he'd be be like "ohh what are you doing now then?" it was quite funny.

Well it was one of thoes self service things, and I had drank quarter of the cup when I got to the till, so it was either she accepted the money and or take back a cup of juice they couldnt sell. Also their were a hlaf dozen behind me paying with notes. They accepted pound coins no problem though? lol we used to have £1 notes. And a tryied to buy something in blackpool once and they thought it was fake money :) And am glad you met a nice guy and no a cunt, we do get many of them here, that shame the rest of us to no end.

Anyway thats me away for a wee while folks! A will be back when am back.

At 1/21/09 11:21 AM, DannyIsOnFire wrote:

At 1/20/09 06:41 PM, smulse wrote: American Gangster

Cocaine smuggler portrayed as a decent enough guy? Buys a house for his family and that?
If so, yeah, really good film. With great performances by the two leads.

Yeyeye that's the one. I was actually quite gutted he got arrested. I mean, fair enough he deserved it but lets face it he was fucking cool ;D

At 1/21/09 05:43 PM, DanielZ wrote: I've had a pretty bad experiences with several NETGEAR routers.

I had a Belkin one, it was shit and didn't like Macbook Pro's. Got a Netgear one now, it goes offline sometimes (although I think that's actually my crappy broadband rather than the router) but apart from that it's fine... much better than that Belkin POS.

At 1/22/09 02:53 PM, Jon-86 wrote: They accepted pound coins no problem though? lol we used to have £1 notes. And a tryied to buy something in blackpool once and they thought it was fake money :)

Hahaha the joys of self service ey? See I don't see her problem, I imagine a bank will have just changed it for her if she asked, or if she paid it in it'd just have gone in as normal. I doubt she checked the pound coins. And I don't see why they though pound notes were fake money, afaik we used to have pound notes down here too a few decades ago.

Talking of pound coins, I once got handed some dodgy coin from New Zealand that was similar to a pound coin but not. I had a quick look to see how much it was worth and it was only like 33p or something so I handed it to a shopkeep with a bunch of other coins and got rid of it :')

And am glad you met a nice guy and no a cunt, we do get many of them here, that shame the rest of us to no end.

Haha yes he was okay though. I know another Scottish lighting guy too worked with him on a few jobs he's a legend too. I've had good experiences with the Scottish so far hahaha.

Anyway thats me away for a wee while folks! A will be back when am back.

Have fun on your travels.

I am going through a major dry spell right now. Does anyone know a good place to find web design/programming jobs?

On the subject of scottish/english notes I just saw this on the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7841 273.stm

At 1/20/09 11:59 PM, WoogieNoogie wrote: Is that the one with Russel Crowe and Denzel Washington?

Freaking Amazing movie. I loved the ending, how he sees how life's changed while he was in prison, and the new age of gangsters. Russel Crowe did a fantastic job!