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Chris Maunder wrote:
That's right. The first website in the world to have opening hours.
At my college, we could only view our grades, schedule, etc. online from 7am-7pm, M-F. Major PITA for those of us who worked AND went to school.
Jon Sagara
You know the world is off tilt, when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest basketball player is Chinese, and Germany doesn't want to go to war.
-- Charles Barkley
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Chris Maunder wrote:
When approaching a stop sign you should:
a) Accelerate through the intersection while sounding your horn.
b) Attempt to run over the stop sign.
c) Lean out the window and throw an empty beer bottle at it.
d) Stop.
Maybe they figured you're an Aussie...;P
OK, just joking...
Vikram.
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1. Don't ask unnecessary questions. You know what I mean?
2. Avoid redundancy at all costs.
3. Avoid redundancy at all costs.
"Do not give redundant error messages again and again." - A classmate of mine, while giving a class talk on error detection in compiler design.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
When approaching a stop sign you should:
a) Accelerate through the intersection while sounding your horn.
b) Attempt to run over the stop sign.
c) Lean out the window and throw an empty beer bottle at it.
d) Stop.
Ahh, an easy one C, right?
Matt Newman Sonork: 100:11179
"Two things have come out of Berkley, Unix and Acid, we do not belive this to be a coincidence" Linux sucks twice as fast and 10 times more reliably, and since you have the source, it's your fault. -Ca1v1n
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The thaw has started in Toronto. After an interminable Winter that was at first exciting, then comforting, sometimes exciting, but generally just plain old cold the ice is finally starting to melt. It's something I was told (warned?) about by friends. When the sun comes out and the birds are singing and the piles of snow start disappearing you're going to go a little silly. Everyone is happy. Issues that looked unsolvable in the middle of last week are suddenly no problem at all. Spirits are high, tempers are calm and jackets have been left at home.
The picture I have in my head that says it all is one of an extremely severe looking middle aged woman who had just pulled up to church. We were just walking past on our way to breakfast and there she was sitting in her car, fixing up her makeup, and listening to some very loud and extremely funky reggae.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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sweet! I want to get a pair of these[^] for around here (ft worth, tx). I ride city trails and streets more than hardcore trails, and my tires get eaten alive!
- Nitron
"Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb
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Nice! They good in the city? I've got the studs on at the moment and they are brilliant on the sheet ice we have here at the moment, but get clogged up a little on soft snow. Once the melt happens (this weekend by all accounts - w00t!!) I'll be moving to some narrower, higher pressure slicks.
One thing that is interesting is that my shocks (Judy Rock Shox) are bottoming out a lot in the cold weather - even though they are cranked up to maximum resistance.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Nice! They good in the city?
Much quieter and faster! I used to be a roadie but my wife is into MTB and forced me to get one, so I really miss the speed. Combine those tires with a nice pair of bar ends and you got a nice "sport utility bike"
They are also good on paved park trails and stuff. If it weren't for my disc brakes (disc brakes == $$ wheels), I'd keep a set of city tires and a set of these[^] permenantly mounted (you know, for those rainy days ).
Chris Maunder wrote:
One thing that is interesting is that my shocks (Judy Rock Shox) are bottoming out a lot in the cold weather - even though they are cranked up to maximum resistance.
The oil properties change (thicken) below 35F which slow the effectiveness of the damper, resulting in an overshoot (or bottoming out). You can change your oil to compensate. Check here[^] for details from the source.
- Nitron
"Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb
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Chris,
I can't seem to find a link to start a new thread, so I had to pose my boring question to this incredibly interesting one. Sorry about that.
I read your article "Cross language inheritance in .NET" Posted 26 Apr 2001 and Updated 16 Oct 2001. The "easy-sound" linking problem between Managed C++ and C# has given me lots of trouble. Since I couldn't find in your article the technical details about how to set things up in .NET, I experimented in this way:
Start up with a Blank Solution. Add in the first project, which is a C# Class Library. Typed in the code you had for the C#, compiled it and got the DLL. Then Add in the second project, which is a Managed C++ Application. Use the #using thing to import the C# DLL into the C++ file. Typed in what you had for the C++ file. Compile. No Error. But when I tried to run them, the Debugger tells me that the C# file cannot be found.
What have I done wrong? I appreciate any reply you have. And thank you!
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The left nostril freezes at -20C, and this morning I found that -24C does the right one. This is a very strange place to live.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
BTW - what does 'fair' mean in weather terms? That's the forecast for tonight and I'm thinking it means 'at least it isn't blizzarding'.
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It's a vague term they like to use because it encompasses everything. That way, they're covered no matter what happens.;)
--a former Canadian resident
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So both were frozen... lets hope your mouth doesn't freeze or you'll be finding breathing a bit hard to handle.
Regards,
Brian Dela
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Yep - The Evil Twin has finally succumbed and is no more. Webserver #2 will be postmortemed tomorrow and it's organs donated to a worthy successor.
After the exorcism, of course.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing I've decided to redo parts of the submission wizard to make it a little more user friendly.
One issue is always that to make things easier invites lower skilled users which can mean lower quality submissions. If you're a programmer then you should at least know HTML, right? Not necessarily. Also, knowing HTML doesn't mean having style, class or restraint.
The new system hopes to make it easy for people to get articles formatted and posted quickly while also coaching and guiding new users in the correct methods of formatting an article. Maybe this will work, and maybe it won't, but the acid test for me with these things is that I use it for a week and then try going back to the old method. So far for me there's no going back.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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So the new editor went live at midday. Owning a website is like having thousands of people rummaging through your house all hours of the day and night. I'm just wondering how long it will take for someone to open that particular cupboard and find the new toys.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I'm having serious, serious issues with the technology level of this country.
1) Canada gets the crappy cast-offs the rest of the world doesn't want. Take a look at the offerings of phones, laptops, cars - anything fun - and you'll see that everyone else has the fun stuff and Canada gets shafted.
2) What is so insanely difficult about paying a bill over the phone? Companies here want cheques. That's paper. Through the mail. OMG. I'm so insanely used to either paying everything from my online bank account, or at the absolute, stone-age, throw-back, I-can't-believe-this-company-is-still-in-businness worst, by credit card over the phone. So much so that when the angry young lady on the other end of the phone responded to my 'I'd like to pay my hydro bill please' with a 'that's nice - when?' it completely threw me. An odd come back, so I countered with 'Now', which she parried effortlessly with 'How'. Hmm - cunning. I tried a quick thrust with a 'my Visa?' but that was commandingly knocked aside with a 'you can't'.
Give me a frigging break.
3) Hydro here means electricity, instead of the usual 'water'. I think this comes from the power companies wanting you to have the idea that your electricity comes from environmentally sound hydro plants nestled in the pristine mountains surrounded by picturesque snow covered pines.
Update: I have managed to work out how to get registed on the hydroelectro companies website. I now have the ability to view my bills online. I can't pay them, but I can look at them. Brilliant.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I assume electronic payments are far in the future, then... What is it that draws you back to the land where the last Ice Age never ended?
It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
Paul Watson, on Sports - 2/10/2003
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Got the payments working.. I take back all the bad things I said about Cadada. Except the bit about not being able to pay by credit card. And the phones. The beer is good though so it's a sacrifice I am willing to make.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Glad you took it back. Can't you pay bills online through your bank? I'm sure Royal does that. Electricity there DOES come from hydro. Not all of it any more, but that's how it started .
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Friggin' huge spider crawled out from my briefcase yesterday. There is only one thing that makes me jump more than cockroaches ..... well, two things if you include broccoli.
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Regards,
Brian Dela
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright
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Thats sig material
I walk these roads,
I climb these mountains,
Though they are nothing,
But paths and hills,
for the only mountain is success,
and the only road is life.
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Some people have a gammy leg that plays up when the weather gets bad, others have arithritic knuckles. I have freezing nostrils.
I've discovered that at exactly -20C my left nostril hairs freeze up. It's disturbing.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I've discovered that at exactly -20C my left nostril hairs freeze up
That's true. That's why this weekend I didn't went outside.
Morning : -14 °C ( 7°F ) Wind Chill -23 °C (-9 °F)
But nextweek it looks are very promising.
BTW, How do you know that at exactly -20 C your nostril hairs frozen??
What kind of experiments you are doing?
Follow live World Cup Cricket scores here[^]
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Have you considered wearing a muffler? Or, perhaps, designing an insertable nostril warmer - a small coil of nichrome wire ( embedded in a castable thermosetting plastic ) should do the trick - powered by a power takeoff from your electric socks?
It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
Paul Watson, on Sports - 2/10/2003
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