TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:

So, I'll just backup and get to safety and at the same time run over and crush the motorcylce behind me

I once drove into a parking house at a mall on a saturday when all idiotic shoppers where out (well, including me for being there at the first place). The parking was almost full and there was a long que inside, but sudenly the car in front of me saw a car lightning up the reverse lights to back out of a parking place. So the car in front on me suddenly starts backing up without looking behind him, ha only came a meter and a half...<

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

my wife wants a slide-show app for her next board meeting that plays music, videos, and displays images (fortunately, I have something like this already written).

You wrote Powerpoint? :omg: :omg: :omg: ;)

Something you need a pen for.[^]

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

ground source heat pump

Our pump was replaced recently, even though I'm not that experienced in the area I had some questions.

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

. In the summer this can be reversed to cool the house down as well.

I wanted this!!! But it din't happen because of three things: 1. The salesman for the new pump an water boiler said it would lower the temperature by a feew degrees maximum, he didn't think it would be musch use. 2. The need to redo ALL of the pipings and radiators in the house. The pipes needs to be isolated, otherwise you'll get moisture on them and evetually mold. Our house is built 1951 and all the pipings are built into the floor and walls, if they hadn't been built into the floors and walls they could have insulated the pipes running along the walls/floors. 3. The cost would have been SEK 25.000 per radiator (~3000 USD), with a lot of radiators the amount of money was too high.

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

As we have a large south facing roof, we should be able to power the whole thing from solar a PV bank.

The exess heat can also be used to heat up the ground during the summer. We have a drilled hole into the bedrock where we get the heat from, but we also live close to the Baltic sea (6-7 kilometers). In our case it means that we have a lot of ground water flowing towards the sea, so if we heat it up we'll only end up putting heat into the baltic sea. If the ground water had been more stagnant we could have been getting the heat back during winter. In the end we didn't get solar panels, but when we decide to do it everything is prepared for it (it would then only generate heat the water boiler during summer). Another advice from a friends friend ( :rolleyes: ) who sells heating equpment mainly to large corperates was to go for the most basic model without all the bells and whistles. Control the heating system from your mobile? A big no... Aside from being a cool feature how are you going to use it? Heat up the house when going from work? Our house is made from stone, no matter how much we crank the heat up it will take a day before we notice it. If it's a vacation home the it might be a good idea though. The more advanced, the more expensive it will get when replacing/reapiring something.

Vivic wrote:

Bob died

Bob died??? :omg:

I once had to explain to a lead developer in a project why his app was caclulating differently on a computer with Swedish settings or US settings... [^]

I've heard about it, but I think it helps that I'll arrive at El Prat tomorrow evening. ;) It was also a short segment on the TV news in Sweden tonight.

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

[Coffee] is sacred, second only to [beer] in the devs' food sources.

Bacon a distant third?

chriselst wrote:

I think I would seriously freak out should I get trapped in a large metal box suspended half way up a building.

Friday night, almost the last to leave the office and the lift stopped somewhere around floor 5. This was before I had a mobile phone as well, 45 minutes I sat in that large (I wish) small metal box suspended half way up a building. Then it was off to the pub and a well deserved beer.

Yvan Rodrigues wrote:

(patch Tuesday?)   Internet Explorer crashes and won't start. Thunderbird crashes and won't start. Firefox crashes and won't start.

So that's the explanation for: http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=4885286#xx4885286xx[^] ;)

Youtube wrote:

Mustasch - Angel´s Share captured from Bandit Webradio (Low bitrate~96kbps)

There are more Youtube videos from when they play live or from TV shows etc that are better. The band is really great, when "Black city" was released I thought it fantastic.

Yeah, but no one can actually compare it to the books (or radio show). ;)

Nelek wrote:

seen "Galaxy Highjacker's Guide"

SEEN??? Did you mean read? ;)

Old cars annd racing: :thumbsup: Another god video, Kennny Bräck at Godwood Revival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jF__B1xpJY[^]

It doesn't matter if you post the answer, I still don't how you come to that answer... :sigh:

The only thing I use mine for is to cast Youtube videos from my mobile onto the TV... :~

The same guy is not only selling his Spitfire, but a lot more of his aircrafts. For example he is selling five (5!!!) Buchons that he has had in store since 1969. The Buchons last made their last public apperance in the movie "Battle for Britain". Sof if it's practically down the stret from you I'd consider seeing if there's a possibility to visit the collection before it's all sold of. I don't know if it's open to the public since it's a private collection, it has not been a secret at least and there's reports and photos in magazines. Buchon = Spanish made Me-109 with Rolls Royce Merlin engine

Yes, that's hideous! (are there no end users that could do that when the product is shipped? ;) )

A piece of string has worked as well, but since string was scarce in the old garage we tended to use electrical wires instead. That reminds me of that the belt to the alternator in my Porsche is slightly to long, I should fix that sometime... the same sometime as the last three tears. :) But there's no engine from Porsche in it, that got blown to bits and now there's something more reliable and more significantly a lot lighter.

Once when I and my ex-girlfriend where shopping she mentioned that we needed to buy toilet paper, I sighed and said loudly "-Oh for heavens sake, haven't I told you that you really should try to shit at work?". One girlfriend with the color of a tomato on her face and a lot of heads swiveling around to see who said it... After about a week she tought it was funny, but not that day. :)