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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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A beautiful tunnel of ghosts

14:17 / 01.12.05

Depends on the format of the file: if it's AVI, you can strip out and rebuild the index by downloading and installing the DivFix freeware.

Boboss

14:24 / 01.12.05

What if it's not an avi?

A beautiful tunnel of ghosts

15:45 / 01.12.05

Try here - there are tutorials on almost every aspect of video files.

Boboss

15:57 / 01.12.05

Thanks

Jub

17:51 / 01.12.05

I know we've had this before, but I can't find it anywhere. How do you copy the entire screen shot to paste else where? I don't just want the relevant texty bits but everything on the screen. Please help!

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20:02 / 01.12.05

I have recieved independant confirmation of the hair-stroking. Squee-prone individuals should take precautions accordingly.

Boboss

20:38 / 01.12.05

Jub, there's loadsa programs out there that'll do it. Just run a google search.

West Baltimore Hausing Project

13:20 / 02.12.05

Alternatively, if you are using t3h Windows, alt+prtscr will copy the whole screen image, which can then pasted into any image editor from Paint upwards.

If you're using OSX you should find an image capture program in the Utilities folder of your applications in Finder.

If you are using t3h Linux you will already have worked out how to do it, because you are l33t.

Saveloy

14:01 / 02.12.05

I feel terribly ashamed asking this, but what *is* l33t? It's not 'best' is it?

Also, what does ROFL stand for?

Life Critic

14:07 / 02.12.05

l33t is just 31337 in a different dialect.

Jub

14:19 / 02.12.05

Rolling On the Floor Laughing.

Saveloy

14:20 / 02.12.05

Boobs?

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14:43 / 02.12.05

54\/3|0y, UR t3h n00b.

l33t represents leet, itself an abbreviation of the word "Elite." 4 = A, 3 = E, 9 = G, 1 = L, 5 = S, 7 = T and so forth. A skilled individual can make hirself completely incomprehensible to any reasonable person.

14:49 / 02.12.05

Is Igor Karakoff really badly stroking Krum's hair in that scene or what?

Yes. He starts off rubbing Krum's shoulders, but by the end he's either stroking his hair or running his fingertips down the edge of his ear. So sweet. Although maybe it's accupressure.

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14:51 / 02.12.05

Acupressure is still sweet.

Saveloy

14:53 / 02.12.05

7'4nk5, Ju6 & ^^0rd4n7!

pointless & uncalled for

15:02 / 02.12.05

That's George Morrison's pin number.

Axolotl

15:09 / 02.12.05

See wikipedia for a nice in-depth examination of leet-speak here.

Loomis

15:38 / 02.12.05

Thanks for that link Phox, and to saveloy for being brave enough to ask the question. I've never really been sure how this thing worked myself.

Now I want to change the title of this thread to:

PHr3Ku3N7ly H4s|{3d K0o£St330nZ!

Olulabelle

23:30 / 02.12.05

Erm.

Is there a mathematical formula for working out how much space one needs in order to make something which folds out fit inside something else?

Say, f'rinstance I wanted to make a 3D metal egg which opened up and had a 3D fold-out metal chicken inside it, (which I don't actually, but for the purposes of this problem lets suppose I do) how big or small in relation to the egg would the chicken have to be?

I realise this is a ridiculous question and probably impossible to answer. I just don't know how to begin working it all out.

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22:28 / 04.12.05

Oh wow. Awesome. There's totally formulae for working out the volumes of Things, but they're different for different Shapes ofThings. An egg is an oblate spheroid, so I'll look into finding out how you get the volume of one of those.

Anyway, I came back with a Really Important Question: Where is St. Trinian's? I mean, is it in a named county? Coz Livejournal have a Schools thing now, I don't know why, it's a bit messed up really when you think about it, but if there is a Schools listing on Lj then I have to tell everyone I went to St. Trinian's IT MATTERS.

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22:36 / 04.12.05

Wait. Oh noes i am teh stupid! An egg is NOT an oblate spheroid after all. An oblate spheroid is like a ball that's been stood on, whereas an egg is more like a shpere that's been stretched. So it's closer to a prolate spheroid.

There is a formula for sorting out the volume of an egg-shape but it's a bit mental. You're probably best off using the volume of a prolate spheroid. Here's the relevant Wikipedia page.

Life Critic

13:46 / 05.12.05

what's a good wireless keyboard and mouse set to buy?
i'm looking for something cheap, ideally.

the logitech LX501 seems appropriate, but i worry that there may be one that is much better value.

any ideas?

The Return Of Rothkoid

02:17 / 07.12.05

Apparently there was an actual St Trinnian's (school sp) in Edinburgh until the end of WW2. And yes, it's where the name comes from, as daughters of a friend of Searle's were students there.

The Return Of Rothkoid

02:18 / 07.12.05

Toksik: I got an OEM Logitech LX701 (? The 7-series one, anyway) off eBay for about fifty bucks Aussie. It's a damn fine keyboard, and cheaper than the MS ones, IIRC.

cube needs to get out more

09:59 / 07.12.05

Yup, I got an ex-display MS keyboard and mouse and it has nice touches but the curvy keyboard is awful for typinf and has a range of about 1m. No use at all for controlling DVDs from the couch. Be warned that wireless keyboards are often awful for gaming.

All Acting Regiment

11:11 / 07.12.05

What do you call those things you see on your "classic" steam liner, you know the sort of big tubes coming up out of the deck, doing a 90 degree turn and flanging out at the rim to finish? Usually big and brassy. And what are they for?

Loomis

11:13 / 07.12.05

I thought they were there to hide in when chased by bad guys.

The Return Of Rothkoid

14:25 / 07.12.05

If you're Tintin, yes.

I think they're just called ventilators. They let air in.

Boboss

14:28 / 07.12.05

A printing problem:

Why is it that when I try to print preview a Word document with a colour background the background doesn't show up, and does this mean that the colour background won't print? I'm running really really low on printer ink and can't afford to check.

grant

14:42 / 07.12.05

It's a cowl vent.

I knew they were there to allow air to move belowdecks, but it took me a good 20 minutes to find out their name.

Sax

14:44 / 07.12.05

While we're on a steam ship tip, anyone with a Dickens biography to hand know the name of the ship he went to the States on in his second US tour in 1867? And if you know which line ran it, that would be great.

E. Randy Dupre

15:06 / 07.12.05

Boboss>

Go to 'Tools', then 'Options'. Select the 'Print' tab and there might be an option in there. That's meant to be the case for Word 2003, anyway - I'm running 2002 and can't find it.

Boboss

15:18 / 07.12.05

Thanks, Randy. I'll see if it works.

Cat Chant

16:42 / 07.12.05

I'm fairly sure the following is true, but can't remember which poem it is or what source I got it from. If anyone has any information, that'd be grand, as it's a really good example and completely useless to me without a source.

There's a Theocritus poem where the text is corrupt or where there is a lacuna: Housman suggested the emendation drus (oak tree), and this emendation has generally been accepted. Later, a papyrus was found with a different noun in the place where Housman had suggested drus - but by then people were so attached to the oak tree that several scholars insisted that the papyrus must be wrong, because the noun it used didn't fit the poem nearly as well as Housman's.

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