CerebroJD

CerebroJD

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The TNG 25th Anniversary reunion tour just kicked off here in Calgary at our Entertainment Expo, and I met Wil Wheaton and LeVar Burton. What great guys, just honest and happy to be there! Scary to me that I was BORN in the same year that TNG first aired... Great series and a great set of morals to grow up with. :-)

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I'm fairly certain that importing CM7 into eclipse first wasnt a good step. I really dont know enough yet to do much with it besides build it, and that is all done on the command line anyways. Its just cluttering up eclipse now, so I'm gonna take it out and just work with a basic project and play around with layouts. The logic for the search should be straightforward, so I'll have to dig up my Java book and start picking away at that, in between dodging around

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Ok, so I can create, view, and delete branches in Git. Repo sees them, and knows which one you're on, in the various git-enabled directories (I think... I've only tested one additional branch in one directory. I wonder if it can track two different branches in two different directories?) My current challenge is this... I know that I should be able to build an installable .apk that I can push to my phone to test any changes I make to the Phone or Contacts apps, but I currently

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Ahhh Git. What a powerful and mysterious tool to someone who really hasnt read nearly enough about how to do things with it. The problem that I'm running into is that there seems to be overlap and 'shortcut' commands that are referenced online, but not really described in the 'documentation' I've been using. By documentation, I mean google-searches. So its pretty much my own fault that I'm randomly importing stuff into project branches.

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I'm trying to get started in Android development, and I thought that building CyanogenMod 7 from source, for my Galaxy S II, would be a good start. Well, between Google's android development site, and the CM wiki, I got it built and started poking around. My biggest problem so far was the Kernel.org outage, since everything android and open-source on the net is based around that. It meant that in order to install repo, I

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[quote]@Cerebro, I DLed the 'fancy second hand.' It's pretty clever. I love the concept. Are you going to make a theme out of it or just components?[/quote] I havent decided. I've got a couple other similar bits going... Maybe with enough time it'll morph into a theme. We'll see what kinds of components I end up with. Any suggestions? Looking for data that can be expressed in a very simple manner, with little/no text...

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I love DX as well... Getting back into doing some little projects. Looking forward to seeing some of the new faces in the community! Current WIP's (some are already uploaded) that I've got going on my Windows 7 laptop.

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As a side note: system.ScreenWidth and system.ScreenHeight can go a bit crazy on multi-monitor setups that dont use a 1-2-3 lineup of monitors. Those only get the width/height of the primary monitor. To determine 'true' width and height on all screens, try using the following: [code="vbscript"] sw = System.VScreenWidth sh = System.VScreenHeight [/code] However, if you're going to do calculations with this full width, you need to take

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Trent Reznor seems to always have something up his sleeve... and this time, its an astounding 405 gigabytes in size. In his now-traditional "F*** the record labels!"-style, the frontman/soul of Nine Inch Nails has released a massive collection of 1080p multi-angle footage from three concerts in the Lights in the Sky tour. I'm pretty excited about this, as I do have the spare room on one of my computers to hold all this footage. I think its a great opportunity for fans to p

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Like my previous article, this one begins with a hard-drive crash. A friend of mine has now managed to crash two Apple-supplied hdd's in less than a year. This time, I told her not to bother with Apple support... Why pay those Geniuses, when I'm waiting in the wings to try my magic touch on a Mac. Our first stop was Memory Express, a local computer parts supplier. We picked up a 320 gig Sata drive for only $85, which seemed to be a reasonable price. I'm f

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I like the debate that has developed here... I think I shall respond to the two issues. Google Privacy Yes... Google profits from the information gathered and parsed from emails, searches, and personal user information. At the same time, however, (as Zubaz pointed out) there is a net benefit as well. Better search results, better mapping information, and a more focused and personal web experience. Google [appears to] put the information to good

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My mother is reasonably computer-literate, and is fairly careful with keeping backups of important data and things like that. However, recently, her main computer suffered a hard drive crash resulting in the loss of the majority of her recieved emails. In a modern Web 2.0 world, this wouldnt be a problem, however my family has long used the Telus-provided email address that comes with the internet subscription. We discovered very early-on that it has limited storage capacity

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Howdy folks! I'm not as much of a frequenter of the boards these days, but I can honestly say I've been liking the new things that have been going on. The new smilies are pretttttty slick! Kudos to Alf and Steph on their great designs! Love some of the expressions [e digicons]:inlove:[/e] Wincustomize (and all associated stardockian sites) have come a long way since I originally created the emoticon set... None of this gloss and

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Howdy! It's true that I've built a gadget (powered by RSS/XML) in the past. I would be willing to look into a re-design, if this is a service you'd fine useful. To get us started, I should ask whether your system has a webserver on it anywhere, or any kind of common file-server. If this is going to be a local, non-internet service, that would be an important aspect. If you'd like to get ahold of me through another method, drop me an email at [email protected] :-) (Thanks

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