Will do. I was having a cigarette the other night and turned to my right and saw a possum pokin' around in my bushes. It made me think of your little possum face.

Which physics is it? Kinematics (Newtonian)? If so I'm sure myself or plenty of other sifters could be of service.

In reply to this comment by moodonia:
Hey Rottenseed Congratulations!
That some pretty severe stuff your doing (which I wont pretend to understand) you should be proud, especially if your working. I too am trying to work and do a degree and its kicking my little butt. Currently waiting to hear how badly I failed my physics class by... Repeats in August, fingers crossed!

Have a nice drinkie to celebrate!

Hey Rottenseed Congratulations!
That some pretty severe stuff your doing (which I wont pretend to understand) you should be proud, especially if your working. I too am trying to work and do a degree and its kicking my little butt. Currently waiting to hear how badly I failed my physics class by... Repeats in August, fingers crossed!

Have a nice drinkie to celebrate!

I'm trying again too, need to buy a book. Fingers crossed!

Yeah, Intel is currently the way to go wrt graphic stuff and linux unless you need 3d.

I've also noticed the bandwidth thing, but thought the problem was more due to the different geographical locations of youtubes server clusters. Some work fine, others you'll need to start buffering and come back half an hour later to get decent quality.

With ubuntu, things really took a leap forward for desktop linux stuff. The hard part is actually working through problems rather than just throwing up your hands and going back to windows. So kudos for hanging on; some things are still lacking but all in all the switch is worth it.

And I'm currently busy busy busy in the real world. Too many projects at work and so little time...

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Well the stutter problem came back a little. It only happens on certain video hosts too like YouTube and Metacafe. Vimeo and most others are fine. I did more research on the issue and learned that nVidia's drivers are problematic on a lot of Linux distributions. A bunch of Linux geeks even made an online petition begging nVidia to make their Linux drivers open source so that they could make them work better. Oh well.

I'm also switching my ISP so I can have a faster connection. It will be going from from 1.5 Mbps to 8.0 Mbps. I'm hoping that might help, because I've noticed that the longer it takes the video to buffer, the greater the chance the video will stutter or just plain stop. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Otherwise everything else is fine. It's easier to use than I initially thought it would be, and it only seems to be getting easier. Here's to brave middle-aged men.

Thanks for checking. Hope everything is going well for you.

In reply to this comment by srd:
Hey, just wanted to check back on how things are going with your adventures in linux land. Everything running smoothely I hope.

Well the stutter problem came back a little. It only happens on certain video hosts too like YouTube and Metacafe. Vimeo and most others are fine. I did more research on the issue and learned that nVidia's drivers are problematic on a lot of Linux distributions. A bunch of Linux geeks even made an online petition begging nVidia to make their Linux drivers open source so that they could make them work better. Oh well.

I'm also switching my ISP so I can have a faster connection. It will be going from from 1.5 Mbps to 8.0 Mbps. I'm hoping that might help, because I've noticed that the longer it takes the video to buffer, the greater the chance the video will stutter or just plain stop. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Otherwise everything else is fine. It's easier to use than I initially thought it would be, and it only seems to be getting easier. Here's to brave middle-aged men.

Thanks for checking. Hope everything is going well for you.

In reply to this comment by srd:
Hey, just wanted to check back on how things are going with your adventures in linux land. Everything running smoothely I hope.

Hi Blankfist,
Just wanted to say thanks for the comments and I had my fingers crossed when I promised not to promote any cat fart vids! Just gotta wait for the recharge cos thats about one of the funniest things I've ever seen!
All the best!

Fingers crossed that this stuff is actually practical. Covering everything with solar cells would pretty much solve our energy problems.

>> ^Deano:
congrats dd, you're the dogs bollocks. are you supporting Utd tonight by any chance? i'll keep my fingers crossed for you if so.
btw sillycasper on twitter is moi, if you get worried about me spamming you


yes, supporting utd. potentially a fucking monumental game, i can see someone getting sent off and a lot of frantic gum-chewing on the sideline.

re: twitter, gotcha.

congrats dd, you're the dogs bollocks. are you supporting Utd tonight by any chance? i'll keep my fingers crossed for you if so.

btw sillycasper on twitter is moi, if you get worried about me spamming you

The point here is that, although this bill does suck, the Republicans continue to fear-monger and generally make asses of themselves by claiming OBAMA WANTS TO SHUTOFF THE ENTIRE INTERNETZ!!!! For a little clarity, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 was introduced by both Democrat AND Republican SENATORS who both most likely think the Internet is made of a "series of tubes"! Assuming we all voted for officials who know anything about the Internet and our privacy, this bill will most likely die a horrible death in it's current state. *fingers crossed*

Read more about it here: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/cybersecurity-act

In the first seconds there was a logo with the name of the show, quick web search gave the following.

http://www.foxnews.com/redeye/

Looks like the same smirking chump to me. Sorry.

>> ^2pornot2p:
btw. Anyone else suspicious that the FOX logo is off screen, over black bars? I don't recognize any of these idiots (that doesn't mean they aren't for real), and this looks like a parody with all this over the top crap and trash talking (although, not so much for FOX). I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this is a sketch and not a real broadcast. Please make it be fake.

This is fucking bullshit. How can this actually air?

btw. Anyone else suspicious that the FOX logo is off screen, over black bars? I don't recognize any of these idiots (that doesn't mean they aren't for real), and this looks like a parody with all this over the top crap and trash talking (although, not so much for FOX). I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this is a sketch and not a real broadcast. Please make it be fake.

I do like star trek but I'm not excited to see this.

looks like an average action film , with some nicely done CG but the characters and story ( as shown so far) seem relay cleshay and don't really interest me , the acting is like what you would get in an episode of small vil ore some other teen tv show where all the characters come across as really self observed and aragont.

Its kinda like how transformers is not that bad as far as films go but its not exactly that thrilling at the same time.

its been a while since a relay stunning holywood film has come out so fingers crossed.

I've still got my fingers crossed for this movie.

Alsome, that's a *quality first sift talk. Fingers crossed they don't keep embeds disabled forever. Would it be sinful to get people to rip their clips and resubmit them to get around the block?

I like the quote from B16:
"New technologies have an extraordinary potential, if used to favour understanding and human solidarity.

These technologies are a real gift for humanity: therefore we have to make sure the advantages they offer are put to the service of all peoples and communities"


There you have it - Luddites and trolls got the smack down from the POPE in one message. Brilliant.