What's everyone working on?
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I'm combining two units of Oxygen with one unit of Boron and one unit of Yttrium to create the compound OBOY :laugh:
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Today we poured the concrete foundations for my first solo substation design. So far, so good. The anchor bolts are squared within 1/8" of nominal positions, corner to corner, and I spec'd the steel structural parts with 1/8" over-size mounting holes. I'll know whether I still have a job about a week after the steel arrives on or about the 25th of this month. I guess you could say I've been focusing on hardware lately... :-D
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Roger Wright wrote:
after the steel arrives on or about the 25th
Did you end up with a reasonable price? It was the steel you were having problems costing, wasn't it? It is a while ago since you posted about it and my memory ain't what it was. :)
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I'm part of an elite group in our government working to cover up the ensuing massive alien invasion of planet Earth. My most recent project involved my trying to get Windows Vista to install on their alien hardware, with the thought that it would most certainly slow them down. Unfortunately, I was only told far too late, that when they said "Alien" hardware, they really meant like, extraterrestrial stuff, and not Alienware. Sucks, all that work down the drain, but I did bring that machine to a grinding halt. So now I'm working on our "plan B", which primarily involves gathering together a group of unsuspecting individuals that will be drugged, loaded onto a spacecraft and blasted into space, while in suspended animation for the next 1000 years. We hope, after the eventual invasion and destruction of the human race, they will be able to make it back to Earth, and recolonize the planet. Which reminds me, Chris, I need your home address, so I can, uh, send you a package. I've already sent packages to a Professor John Robinson, Maureen, Judy, Penny, Will, Major Don West and Dr. Zachary Smith ... you're next on this list.
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Your problem is you need to use a Mac. That way you can upload a virus that shows an amusing skull and crossbone icon. And about that address. I'll...er...get back to you. <sounds of running feet and doors slamming>
cheers, Chris Maunder
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Working on an impressive erection then? :cool:
At 8" wide, 24 lbs per running foot; yeah, it's impressive. And it's hard as steel! :-D
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Roger Wright wrote:
Today we poured the concrete foundations for my first solo substation design.
I think you just earned some serious man point there! :) /ravi
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Well, my mouse-clicking finger was getting a little stiff, so I thought I should give it something more challenging to do for a while to tone up the muscles.
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Roger Wright wrote:
after the steel arrives on or about the 25th
Did you end up with a reasonable price? It was the steel you were having problems costing, wasn't it? It is a while ago since you posted about it and my memory ain't what it was. :)
Henry Minute If you open a can of worms, any viable solution *MUST* involve a larger can.
Yup. It worked out to about $46k for the distribution structure, which is all we're going to build in this phase. It's 62' x 16', with a height of 18' to 21', all of I-beam construction, and a vendor we used previously bid about $80k, IIRC. I think we got lucky with the timing, in that all the vendors seem to be getting hungry in the new economy. Even the lead time dropped - from about 46 weeks to 24. If anyone's interested I'l try to post some pics as it goes up. Of course, the list of things I forgot is as long as my arm and growing. Ground clamps for the copper cable that binds all the pieces together, area lighting, metering cabling and conduits, and bog knows what else will turn up. Oh well, it's my first try. :sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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I'm part of an elite group in our government working to cover up the ensuing massive alien invasion of planet Earth. My most recent project involved my trying to get Windows Vista to install on their alien hardware, with the thought that it would most certainly slow them down. Unfortunately, I was only told far too late, that when they said "Alien" hardware, they really meant like, extraterrestrial stuff, and not Alienware. Sucks, all that work down the drain, but I did bring that machine to a grinding halt. So now I'm working on our "plan B", which primarily involves gathering together a group of unsuspecting individuals that will be drugged, loaded onto a spacecraft and blasted into space, while in suspended animation for the next 1000 years. We hope, after the eventual invasion and destruction of the human race, they will be able to make it back to Earth, and recolonize the planet. Which reminds me, Chris, I need your home address, so I can, uh, send you a package. I've already sent packages to a Professor John Robinson, Maureen, Judy, Penny, Will, Major Don West and Dr. Zachary Smith ... you're next on this list.
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Ooh, ooh! Take me, take me!!! My address is: Resident 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 But hurry... I'm moving soon.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Under blacklight they all have big mustaches? :-D
Not a bad idea! To make it clear to my users which card project they're working in, the BackColor of the programs that print cards for a profession that people commonly associate with women is Pink. The other one is associated with a profession most people don't like so its BackColor is a variant of brown (I was disappointed to not find PoopBrown in the color dropdown list). I thought it was funny but none of my users noticed. -Jay
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While reading John's diatribes I just realised I have no idea what anyone's working on anymore. We have John Simmons doing WxF, Rex is into secret societies and I haven't done VBScript in ages. It's crazy. So how about a quick update so I can catch up?
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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While reading John's diatribes I just realised I have no idea what anyone's working on anymore. We have John Simmons doing WxF, Rex is into secret societies and I haven't done VBScript in ages. It's crazy. So how about a quick update so I can catch up?
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Different projects with .NET 2.0 and 3.5, personally Windows Forms, but some of the projects are ASP.NET. And personally, I've dedicated much time to sales lately. Less programming and more sales. Not nice, but someone has to do it.
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As much as I'm allowed to tell you legally, it's a set of GIS applications. Unfortunately, I can't describe it in too much detail.
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- 2 PDA Applications for traffic officers to use at a weigbridge on the South African/Zimbabwe Border using C# 2) Testing Applications for said projects in C# 3) Crystal Reports. These are suicide inducing... Especially since the rest of the system is programmed in 4GL PROGRESS, which will be my final push over the edge... 4) In about 2 weeks, Jasper Reports till my brain bleeds and considering my Epic java skillzzzzz (Yeah, they suck atm) that should prove fun. Although in practice most of my time is spent staring at broken spec docs and complaining to the BA's that that shit aint gonna happen. Ever.
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Clickok wrote:
Me too! And I'm using a keyboard and the mouse!
Pfft! You're so old school! This[^] is what all the cool kids are using now.
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It looks cumbersome. They forgot about one thing: while I am typing a letter my other finger(s) are already on the way to the next one. That Apple fan sums it up perfectly "I will buy anything if it is shiny and made by Apple". I think I will wait for the Swype. Slightly OT: Windows 7 is blindingly FAST!!!
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While reading John's diatribes I just realised I have no idea what anyone's working on anymore. We have John Simmons doing WxF, Rex is into secret societies and I haven't done VBScript in ages. It's crazy. So how about a quick update so I can catch up?
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
As well as the usual customer support, site maintenance and playing-at-marketing (I'm not good enough at it that I can claim to actually do marketing) stuff, at the moment most of my focus is on polishing the integration between our Visual Lint[^] product (now quite well established - we even have a customer in Christian's backyard) and Xoreax IncrediBuild[^] (we use the IB external interfaces to accelerate PC-Lint analysis runs). It's an interesting exercise in juggling thread prioritisation and performance, given the potentially large volume of data we may have to post-process as it comes back from the grid. * * One of our beta testers has a grid of 50 quad core machines. That is what I call fast, and it throws data back at us at a truly terrifying rate.... Beth's currently tearing the Visual Studio 2010 CTP to pieces looking for funnies which are likely to bite us when we start supporting (and possibly building on) that platform. As they've changed the project file format in a big way for C++ this time (.vcproj becomes .vcxproj for MSBuild compatibility) it's proving to be an interesting one, to say the least. Hopefully it won't turn out to be the trainwreck that the VS2005 RTM was...
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While reading John's diatribes I just realised I have no idea what anyone's working on anymore. We have John Simmons doing WxF, Rex is into secret societies and I haven't done VBScript in ages. It's crazy. So how about a quick update so I can catch up?
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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While reading John's diatribes I just realised I have no idea what anyone's working on anymore. We have John Simmons doing WxF, Rex is into secret societies and I haven't done VBScript in ages. It's crazy. So how about a quick update so I can catch up?
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
So how about a quick update so I can catch up?
I still do 3D graphics, physics, and computation for the military. I am not well known, but I am always well received, and I am known, that is odd for this region. I work on the side doing... well, 3D graphics, C# oddities (remote control of user interfaces from 1/2 around the globe) and infinitely dense graphs in real-time (only limit is memory -- in my industry, that is not much of a limit). I also do R&D on next gen 3D and high performance computing on the GPU, as well as massively parallel architectures.
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What a tush biter. I'm programming with an abacus and damn proud of it. It's all part of a "Chuck Norris Extreme Programming Week" that's being promoted at work. Well for me, at least.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
What a tush biter. I'm programming with an abacus and damn proud of it. It's all part of a "Chuck Norris Extreme Programming Week" that's being promoted at work. Well for me, at least.
come on... I am programming on my fingers... abacus indeed! spoiled programmers!!
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Or I go to prison. For a veeeerrrryyyyy long time. Damned official secrets act.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Damned official secrets act.
come on.... Where I am at secret items don't exist. so I can talk loosely about non-secret items... or at least about anything already publicly available and there are two articles about my work (3 if you count an army newspaper) so I can discuss anything already mentioned. Since no secret work exists, I don't do any secret work. :) makes it easy.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Breast and Lung.
John
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Or I go to prison. For a veeeerrrryyyyy long time. Damned official secrets act.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
Oh come on, whatever it is, we'll see it on 24 next week anyways. ;)
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Oh come on, whatever it is, we'll see it on 24 next week anyways. ;)
Damn. So I'm going to be "interrogated" by Jack Bauer.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith