Condolences. I was borderline - the instructor was irritated that I'd made him miss his coffee!

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I try to be organised; it works sometimes. Star Trek is also in roughly alphabetical order: Star Trek Star Trek Insurrection Star Trek First Contact Star Trek Generations Star Trek Nemesis The only thing my OCD has missed is that Insurrection needs to come directly after Generations; it's been fixed on my shelf now :)

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Yep; it's been hectic. I've loved every minute of it though. It's hard to imagine that this time six months ago I would have been out of contact with one of my oldest friends, be viewing CP on a single monitor, revising for exams and complaining about my 6th form. How times change...

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I haven't been particularly active here for a couple of months now because of a load of stuff going on. Some of it is fairly good. First of all, I passed my driving test; third time lucky. I would have gotten it on my second time, but I made a bit of a mistake. Quite a lot of minors, most of them due to driving a little too slowly. That was because of nerves (odd, since I'm pretty much completely emotionless normally). Because of the date of my practical test, I was among the few to have taken an independent driving segment. It was a lot easier than the news made it out to be; just 3-4 instructions to remember, in exchange for one fewer maneuver to perform. I passed on the 14th October, and I received my full driving license a few days ago. This also means I'm legally capable of driving a tractor, so if you see a tractor doing 5 mph on the motorway - it might be me ;) Up next, I've been doing a bit to my room. I bought shedloads of DVDs, and three sets of shelves to put them on. After a little tussle with wall plugs (putting ones designed for brick in a plasterboard wall), I've put them up. For those of you who are interested, I bought: 10,000 BC, Apollo 13, Armageddon, Batman Begins & the Dark Knight, Bruce & Evan Almighty, Cars, Deep Impact, GI Joes, Hancock, I Robot, I Am Legend, Ice Age 1-3, Independence Day, Jumper, Jurassic Park 1-4, Kung-Fu Panda, Lord of the Rings, Madagascar 1 & 2, The Matrix 1-3, Chronicles of Narnia 1 & 2, The Mummy 1-3, National Treasure 1 & 2, Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3, Sphere, Star Trek (newest one, Insurrection, First Contact, Generations & Nemesis), Star Wars 1-6, the Day after Tomorrow, the Day the Earth Stood Still, Transformers 1 & 2, Twister, Volcano, Wall-E, War of the Worlds and X-Men 1-4. I think that they'll keep me going if I ever feel ill or want to have a weekend in bed. I made my router work, albeit with a few caveats. I bought another router and connected the WAN port to the O2 Wireless Box. Then I set up WDS and made the one upstairs act as a repeater. I've now got my own 802.11n network, with hardware which can support it. The only problem I have now is that I'm seemingly locked into WEP security; hideously lacklustre. I'm having to rely on my network being named SkyNet to keep things secure. When I put in a NAS box to store my code, I'll have to set up more secure manners of authentication. On the positive side, my plans for VOIP and automation can progress smoothly enough now. My memory's been given an upgrade: I now have a respectable 4 GiB. My mot

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It was a long hard struggle, that has rewarded me with... er... um...

Fame Infamy.

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Annoying web browser, deleting my text when I accidentally closed the tab. It's a good question, and one which I had to do a bit of research into to find out the answer. While a hub or switch would provide isolation, all the ones which I've seen have no support for WiFi, which would make things rather expensive and complicate the setting up of new devices. Ideally, I just want to be able to have two networks - one which has Internet access and maintains the normal devices, and another which doesn't (but connects to the one with Internet access) and maintains the devices in my bedroom.

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I've looked around the site, and it seems promising. Thanks - I'd heard of dd-wrt, but never researched them.

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I see your point. Ideally, I'd like to have a router which can act as a bridge - the router would have to administer network B (my bedroom) while bridging it to network A (downstairs). I suppose in theory, the first link you gave could be plugged into an Ethernet port on the back of any old router, acting as the bridge. Obviously though, it'd be more convenient if the router could do this itself. Thanks for the link; it's cleared up some of my confusion

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Thanks, but it looks like that just converts an Ethernet port to wireless. I've already got wireless functionality, and it connects to my home network neatly. Because of lag I wanted to be able to set up a second network composed of my Xbox, PC and phone; this second network should also be able to access the internet via the first network.

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I've been going on a few little spending sprees since I've been getting paid, and these have somehow led me to get an Xbox 360S. It's a lovely console, but the lag from connecting to the Windows Media Centre Extender is almost intolerable when other people are connected to the network, let alone using iPlayer. To fix that kind of problem (and a few others), I'm considering buying a second router and installing it in my bedroom. I don't plan to let anybody else connect to it, security will be in place, etc. The difference between this and the one in another part of the house is that this one won't have any data connection to the wall. It will only exist to connect my phone, computer and Xbox to, allowing me to stream video between them without as much lag and share files between only my three devices. I'm considering some automation stuff in the future, but that's a long time away. Obviously, a connection to this won't give me internet access, and I think that I'd go into withdrawal without an hourly dose of broadband. If I wanted to do this in Windows, I'd connect to both and bridge the two connections; the issue is that two of the things which will connect to my bedroom router won't be running Windows, which obviously complicates things. What I'm effectively looking for is a router which can run its own network, but connect to the internet through another network when it needs to. Can anybody recommend one which can do this, or am I over-complicating it and ignoring a simple way to do things? So far I've looked at this router; it has high reviews, but I'm not certain whether it can do what I want it to.

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Git uses a .gitignore file to exclude files from an upload (commonly used so people don't get the object files when uploading source code.) Naming files like normal people isn't always an option.

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Halfway. After that, it's walking out.

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I enjoyed reading that - perhaps you could post it as a Tip and Trick?

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I was posting a reply, and noticed that the advert on the top right of the page hadn't loaded. When I opened the image in a new window, I got a 404. The image was located here, and the advert pointed here

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Yeah, I've had the same problem loads of times. Chances are, the spammer's program is simply forging the From SMTP header - after all, there are a lot of people (including me) that email things to themselves so that they don't forget about them.

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Chris Maunder wrote:

I didn't realise so many Europeans were having problems assimilating into the main site, or that language barriers were hampering their ability to be understood.

Thank you for understanding. It's incredibly difficult to put up with the language the Americans seem so insistent on calling 'English' ;)

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No; A-E is a pass. A U is a fail.

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Well, I got my A2 level results today. Overall, I didn't do too badly - I didn't fail any, and the ones I came close to had fairly reasonable reasons. Maths: C Business Studies: C Geography: E ICT: Pass It's a pity I completely failed the last Maths exam - I would have gotten roughly a B to an A if I'd got about a C. Then again, I suppose that I'm lucky to be passing at all; at the start of the course there were 17 other people in my class. By the end, there was only one other. Business Studies was higher than I expected. My final exam was a duo of 40-mark questions. One was about the recession, and its impacts on businesses. The other was about how a CEO can affect the culture of a company. Overall, I think I scored highly on the first one and fairly badly on the second one. Geography was a good subject, but I didn't like it. There was far too much writing, and I didn't do very well in the first year. 25 mark questions are a pain. ICT is where my not-quite-rant starts. I've refrained from doing it for a while now, but it's been one mess after another. The first two weeks of 6th form were a trial period, where I could swap between subjects. At that point, ICT was a one-year course. Three days after the trial period ends, we were swapped over to a two-year course. Bearing in mind that even then my sixth form was unpopular, so it seemed that they wanted to guarantee places in other courses. Either way, it wasn't what was advertised. I was irritated, but still on course for a Distinction. I'd handed in my work, and everything was fine; fine until about a month before it was due to be moderated, when the class was told that we'd been taught the wrong things, and that we'd all fail. Cue a massive panic. I put it in again, this time at a set of Passes and Merits. My programming section was abysmal - then again, the teacher tried to teach everybody C++ in about 10 hours. Again, that was fine. It survived until the last moderation, where the group got recalled from study leave to say that there was a small thing which needed tweaking. It turned out that it was the hypothesis of a data handling unit. Half the unit had to be re-written. Thus the pass. Beyond that, I've spent my first month on a job. It's brilliant, and I see why so many people want to work in IT. I've learned a lot; SQL wasn't my strong point, but I can grasp it now, and think about how to do things in a functional language. Overall, I'm really enjoying myself. I was a little concerned about not going to university, but things have t

I try to do it fairly regularly, and it's brilliant. I often come across some really clever solutions to problems by just lucid dreaming about them (bootstrapping a scheduler which uses the FPU and timer, in a microkernel which doesn't contain any device drivers). It takes a little practice, but eventually I was able to create completely new dreams. The only caveat which comes to mind is that it can be quite tiring, so you'd need extra sleep that night. That's the only reason I don't do it every night. I used to have some quite intense nightmares. Since I learned how to lucid dream, that's completely stopped.

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I've just been through his comments and deleted them. Hopefully the votes will vanish too.

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