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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/252447#252447 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:35:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/252447#252447 W3bbo 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/W3bbo/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day I hope I am on my computer, I would be very bored without it. How would I get all my work done?

Angus Higgins

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> su -c 'shutdown -p now'

Xaero_Vincent quit -- Lost terminal.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/20281a89149c48cda1d19dec005aca94#20281a89149c48cda1d19dec005aca94 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:49:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/20281a89149c48cda1d19dec005aca94#20281a89149c48cda1d19dec005aca94 Xaero_Vincent 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Xaero_Vincent/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day this sounds like a great idea.
I wonder if I'll actually do it! Tongue Out

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/f9f00205439a4cc28f939dec005acabc#f9f00205439a4cc28f939dec005acabc Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:27:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/f9f00205439a4cc28f939dec005acabc#f9f00205439a4cc28f939dec005acabc alwaysmc2 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/alwaysmc2/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day Do i get a day of work for this Smiley

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/2b95f2ab84434c1aadcd9dec005acae3#2b95f2ab84434c1aadcd9dec005acae3 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:41:05 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/2b95f2ab84434c1aadcd9dec005acae3#2b95f2ab84434c1aadcd9dec005acae3 PerfectPhase 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/PerfectPhase/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day I don't need to prove nothing!

It's obvious I can cope.

I mean I must've. 'Cuz I must've been a fairly functional human being before 1985 when I got my C-64.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/bedfacfaa6294c82b63b9dec005acb0b#bedfacfaa6294c82b63b9dec005acb0b Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:58:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/bedfacfaa6294c82b63b9dec005acb0b#bedfacfaa6294c82b63b9dec005acb0b Minh 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Minh/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day ah too simple Wink . with power outages sometime lasting the entire day  anything is possible Big Smile

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/4d05fb1c4f734c0ab1d39dec005acb33#4d05fb1c4f734c0ab1d39dec005acb33 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:12:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/4d05fb1c4f734c0ab1d39dec005acb33#4d05fb1c4f734c0ab1d39dec005acb33 Shiv 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Shiv/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day <excuse>
     Well I have to work that day.
</excuse>

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Minh wrote:
I mean I must've. 'Cuz I must've been a fairly functional human being before 1985 when I got my C-64.


Speaking of C-64, I just found a driver that allows my PC to read, write, and format disks formats used on that system and dozens of others like several Atari, Spectrum, Acorn, Tandy, Radio Shack, Amstrad, Apple Macintosh systems; 122 floppy formats in all!

OmniFlop

I've managed to transfer ROMs downloaded from the internet and image them onto 3.5" floppy disks and play them on my real C-64!

It's totally bad @$$. Big Smile:D

Though, I have a very fancy 3.5" drive for my C64 called the FD-2000.

Now I just need a joystick so I can actually play the games. Big Smile

Other programs I used to convert image formats and manuplate files on those images:

64Copy
DirMaster

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Although it does mean I'll have to consult something other than radiotimes.com to see what's on the idiot box.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/3f75fcf4000941a4a3239dec005acbaf#3f75fcf4000941a4a3239dec005acbaf Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:38:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/3f75fcf4000941a4a3239dec005acbaf#3f75fcf4000941a4a3239dec005acbaf Massif 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Massif/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day Hey it's a Saturday, how hard can it be not to log-on?  If it's a nice day I may even go outside. Tongue Out


Herbie

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Minh wrote:
I don't need to prove nothing!

It's obvious I can cope.

I mean I must've. 'Cuz I must've been a fairly functional human being before 1985 when I got my C-64.


I also got my C64 in 1985 and I also was a fairly functional human being before that. All went downhill from then. But I was a confirmed geek by then, so with or without computers, I was a lost cause anyway. One of my favorite timewasters was doing calculations of atom degradation. I could paper the walls of Bill Gates' house with them.

Anyway, the only thing that might keep me from it is a particular online pot limit omaha tournament this month. The date has not been confirmed but it is either on a thursday or a saturday. Odds are 10:1 against it being that day (10 possible days, 1 of them the 24th). Actually 6:1 because it's unlikely it will be during the first 1/3 of the month.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/db345433fb80482da3039dec005acc03#db345433fb80482da3039dec005acc03 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:56:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/db345433fb80482da3039dec005acc03#db345433fb80482da3039dec005acc03 eblonk 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/eblonk/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day Hi,

Thanks for your support! Smiley

Just to let you know, we now have a Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8OMijrTVBU

 and have just opened a forum:

http://forum.shutdownday.org

Regards,

Michael
www.shutdownday.org

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Dr Herbie wrote:
Hey it's a Saturday, how hard can it be not to log-on?  If it's a nice day I may even go outside.


Herbie


Saturday is the day that large pieces of homework and coursework are done on for school children all over the country, so I don't think it will be all that popular with them. Tongue Out

(At least that is my excuse).

Angus Higgins

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Angus wrote:

Dr Herbie wrote: Hey it's a Saturday, how hard can it be not to log-on?  If it's a nice day I may even go outside.


Herbie


Saturday is the day that large pieces of homework and coursework are done on for school children all over the country, so I don't think it will be all that popular with them.



Well, this will be a perfect exercise to teach them time management skills! As well as contingency planning!

Herbie

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/9e299dfd809b4f89819c9dec005acc99#9e299dfd809b4f89819c9dec005acc99 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:57:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/9e299dfd809b4f89819c9dec005acc99#9e299dfd809b4f89819c9dec005acc99 Herbie Smith 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Dr Herbie/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day Don't make me laugh, Sunday evening before bedtime is when all the homework gets done. Probably Monday morning before school as well. Big Smile

Any kid efficient enough to do their homework on a weekend is probably so efficient they'll have done it all the afternoon after it was set. I never understood those kids...

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/20cbf2eaa6224e449ba29dec005accc2#20cbf2eaa6224e449ba29dec005accc2 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:00:48 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/20cbf2eaa6224e449ba29dec005accc2#20cbf2eaa6224e449ba29dec005accc2 Massif 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Massif/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day Kids do homework now?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/912b4c10ed244b51866e9dec005acce9#912b4c10ed244b51866e9dec005acce9 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:26:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/912b4c10ed244b51866e9dec005acce9#912b4c10ed244b51866e9dec005acce9 Sven Groot 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Sven Groot/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day
Sven Groot wrote:
Kids do homework now?


Well, it can take a little time to cut and past from a web article, then change the grammar a little to make it look like you own work.


Not that I'd know, we didn't have the interweb in my day.  Had to walk thirty miles through four feet of snow to get to school, etc., etc.


Herbie

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/cd3177bd72fa47038baf9dec005acd12#cd3177bd72fa47038baf9dec005acd12 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:03:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/cd3177bd72fa47038baf9dec005acd12#cd3177bd72fa47038baf9dec005acd12 Herbie Smith 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Dr Herbie/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day
Dr Herbie wrote:

Sven Groot wrote:Kids do homework now?


Well, it can take a little time to cut and past from a web article, then change the grammar a little to make it look like you own work.


I, as a hard working student find it very offensive that you would say that. I have worked for countless hours on a 40,000 word (and counting) piece of coursework in Applied Business that is completely my own work. It is very irritating when people say things like this when I opt out of holidays and other "fun" things in order to finish my work to the highest standard.

I am sure you hear all the stories about students taking things from the internet, but it is a bit unfair to say that "kids" as a collective all cheat. I for one, do not.

Angus Higgins

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Angus wrote:

Dr Herbie wrote: 
Sven Groot wrote: Kids do homework now?


Well, it can take a little time to cut and past from a web article, then change the grammar a little to make it look like you own work.


I, as a hard working student find it very offensive that you would say that. I have worked for countless hours on a 40,000 word (and counting) piece of coursework in Applied Business that is completely my own work. It is very irritating when people say things like this when I opt out of holidays and other "fun" things in order to finish my work to the highest standard.

I am sure you hear all the stories about students taking things from the internet, but it is a bit unfair to say that "kids" as a collective all cheat. I for one, do not.

Angus Higgins


1. Clam down and take a joke.
2. I was a student for over 10 years, I know it's hard work.
3. Clam down and take a joke.


Herbie

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Shutdown Day wrote:
Just to let you know, we now have a Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8OMijrTVBU

I LOL'd Smiley

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/7504b0ec07504fb09c619dec005acd91#7504b0ec07504fb09c619dec005acd91 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:36:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/7504b0ec07504fb09c619dec005acd91#7504b0ec07504fb09c619dec005acd91 W3bbo 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/W3bbo/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day
Angus wrote:

Dr Herbie wrote: 
Sven Groot wrote: Kids do homework now?


Well, it can take a little time to cut and past from a web article, then change the grammar a little to make it look like you own work.


I, as a hard working student find it very offensive that you would say that. I have worked for countless hours on a 40,000 word (and counting) piece of coursework in Applied Business that is completely my own work. It is very irritating when people say things like this when I opt out of holidays and other "fun" things in order to finish my work to the highest standard.

Of course it doesn't apply to everybody, but it does happen. A friend of mine (and fellow PhD student) recently had to grade some coursework for the Seminar Data Mining. He encountered a lot of stuff that was plainly copied from papers, without citing references. There are a lot of foreign students in that class, and the way to tell when this is happening is usually when the English starts making sense. Tongue Out But it's not just that, he checks it by taking signature sentences from the work and pasting them into Google, nine out of ten times you'll find the exact paper it was taken from. And this isn't some first year class either; these are Master students.

Then there's the occasional student who goes overboard and puts more work into a 3ECTS assignment than I would've done for the entire course. Smiley

And yes, my original comment was meant as a joke. And as a small jab at myself since I wasn't exactly the most disciplined when it came to homework in high school. Smiley

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eblonk wrote:

Minh wrote:I don't need to prove nothing!

It's obvious I can cope.

I mean I must've. 'Cuz I must've been a fairly functional human being before 1985 when I got my C-64.


I also got my C64 in 1985 and

Let's reminise.


READY.
?OUT OF DATA ERROR


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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/49c91d5eee924ef4a80a9dec005ace10#49c91d5eee924ef4a80a9dec005ace10 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:39:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/49c91d5eee924ef4a80a9dec005ace10#49c91d5eee924ef4a80a9dec005ace10 Minh 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Minh/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day I think I can probably sleep for a day.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/b788a6ba2bc64d4598529dec005ace37#b788a6ba2bc64d4598529dec005ace37 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:39:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/b788a6ba2bc64d4598529dec005ace37#b788a6ba2bc64d4598529dec005ace37 webmonkey 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/webmonkey/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day
W3bbo wrote:

Shutdown Day wrote: Just to let you know, we now have a Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8OMijrTVBU

I LOL'd


LOL, I like the curling at the end.

And it looks like I'll be getting into the sprit of shutdown day a bit early, I'm of on holiday for two weeks tomorrow and my laptop has just died! RIP.  No tech of two weeks ergghh.  How the do you use a digital camera when you have no laptop, guess I'll have to go and buy more memory sticks.   How the hell do you live for two weeks without internet access....   I can feel withdrawal at just the thought of it, oh dear Sad

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/32b7c0155bbc40f8b21f9dec005ace62#32b7c0155bbc40f8b21f9dec005ace62 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:22:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252447-Shutdown-day/32b7c0155bbc40f8b21f9dec005ace62#32b7c0155bbc40f8b21f9dec005ace62 PerfectPhase 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/PerfectPhase/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Shutdown day Shutting down only for 24 hours? WTH? I can go more than 72 hours. Big Smile, Yes, I can survive.

But "Shutdown Day" on 24th March? I never heard this thing before. Is this newly brought to the rule? or Is this just a fun? Please lemme know.

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Minh wrote:

eblonk wrote: 
Minh wrote: I don't need to prove nothing!

It's obvious I can cope.

I mean I must've. 'Cuz I must've been a fairly functional human being before 1985 when I got my C-64.


I also got my C64 in 1985 and

Let's reminise.


READY.
?OUT OF DATA ERROR




Big Smile:D:D:D:D:D
That brings back memories that were buried very, very deep.

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