What got your goat today then?

• karo: the joys 
  July 17, 2010, 10:45:59 PM
• karo: I've been busy doing this Summer School for Access to Uni thing.  For the past week or two I have had at least one big essay per week(by big I mean 1500 words, so not massive but still a fair bit for a weekly essay) got one due Monday this week and another due Friday
  July 17, 2010, 10:45:46 PM
• E.Maree: That must have taken some organisation, wow. :O Mega congratulations!
  July 15, 2010, 09:24:08 PM
• Triss: We're hoping to make it an annual event since the first was pretty successful.
  July 02, 2010, 05:56:40 PM
• Triss: A group of us from the LARP society I'm part of decided to put on a role-playing convention, catering to roleplayers of all types from tabletop to LARP, so we got in a whole load of traders and people promoting their groups and stuff. There's quite a big, active RP community in the north-east, so we thought we'd tap into that. So 'Nerd East' was born!
  July 02, 2010, 05:56:13 PM
• E.Maree: Running a convention? Oooh, tell me more! :O
  June 27, 2010, 11:34:45 AM
• Triss: 'lo guys - I'm good, still busy, alternating between a degree and convention running. I didn't predict anything of this sort this time last year...
  June 25, 2010, 11:17:06 PM
• E.Maree: I think everyone's lives have taken a turn for the busier lately, I know mine has. xD How are you?
  June 22, 2010, 09:55:21 PM
• MysticSafewayBag: I have not been on here for a long time but I am very busy. It is my bastard degree; it takes up almost all of my time.
  June 16, 2010, 11:00:12 PM
• MysticSafewayBag: Hello.
  June 16, 2010, 10:59:49 PM
• E.Maree: Tightened up the anti-spam measures on the forum.
  May 31, 2010, 01:47:46 PM
• karo: we need to spark up activity again... hardly anyone comes on anymore...
  April 30, 2010, 01:40:19 PM
• E.Maree: Hi XGIANNIX, how are you?
  April 26, 2010, 09:27:37 PM
• XGIANNIX: E.Maree
  April 20, 2010, 01:34:32 PM
• XGIANNIX: euhmm hello
  April 20, 2010, 01:32:18 PM
• E.Maree: The new forum domain is now live, please change your bookmarks to emmamaree.com/forum.
  April 13, 2010, 11:42:03 AM
• E.Maree: I made a logo!
  April 06, 2010, 12:48:12 PM
• E.Maree: http://emmamaree.com/ is well along its way now. I'll have to move this place over soon. :O
  March 21, 2010, 10:38:08 PM
• E.Maree: Oh man, it's so cold around here, even with the snow gone. 
  January 22, 2010, 08:31:36 AM
• karo: thank you
  January 18, 2010, 05:43:17 PM

[MysticSafewayBag]

Network security isn't illegal.

Same as learning how to pick locks isn't illegal. Locksmiths know how to.

[karo]

yeah but I am sure I heard somewhere if you looked up how to do it you can get arrested.  Like making viruses. Though viruses will probably be pretty simple.  Probably something like

if recycling bin is opened
then shut down pc

or something.  Just worded differently.

[MysticSafewayBag]

yeah but I am sure I heard somewhere if you looked up how to do it you can get arrested.  Like making viruses. Though viruses will probably be pretty simple.  Probably something like

if recycling bin is opened
then shut down pc

or something.  Just worded differently.

You can't be arrested for looking it up.

[E.Maree]

Big software companies are fairly infamous for recruiting those who have hacked their stuff to work for them and prevent such security flaws. Knowing how to hack is fairly essential to programmers - and it's learnt naturally, even unintentionally - if you can create it, you'll know how to bring it down.

(And if you don't, you're asking for evil-machine-on-the-rampage trouble in your future)

[karo]

it's just all about knowing how the pc and the program works isn't it?

They have gatherings and everything to discuss how to do it.

[MysticSafewayBag]

it's just all about knowing how the pc and the program works isn't it?

They have gatherings and everything to discuss how to do it.

Doesn't that answer your question about it's legality, now?

[E.Maree]

iTunes and my Skullcandy HESH have got my goat today.

Skulldcandy do gorgeous in-ear and larger, beautifully designed 'phones that have great quality sound and materials for a good price - they can rival by Sennheisers (admittedly, from the lower end of their pricey ranges) any day.

However, listening via iTunes is giving me really damped vocals. I hate problems with sound levels - I only ever get them on cheap headphones, which is rubbish bass that I can usually tune out, but it always bothers me when I get problems annoying enough to atract my notice. x_X And I get them with iTunes fairly often - though rarely with the iPod.

Secondly, the lack of digital artists who seem interested in apparel design. I love the industry, I browse clothes magazines all the time just to take a look at some of the most recent shirt designs, and it bothers me that I can't find anyone else who would be willing to work with me to create products for Punk Ethic, or good tutorials for how to do such stuff myself.

[karo]

it's just all about knowing how the pc and the program works isn't it?

They have gatherings and everything to discuss how to do it.

Doesn't that answer your question about it's legality, now?

sure does

[Nick]

Getting a tip off about a cheap book/DVD store called 'The Works'
Heading onto their website and typing in the first half of my postcode to get the nearest outlet to me.
Getting this message back: Distance to store:- 78.63 miles

Kindof defeats the purpose a bit...

[Triss]

Oh yeah...there's one in Gretna Green that I go to every time I go down south (since we always stop in Gretna). The range isn't very good though.

My gripe of the day: I had to sit through two hours of UCAS form explanation meeting although I have already completed mine. Gr.

[MysticSafewayBag]

My gripe of the day: I had to sit through two hours of UCAS form explanation meeting although I have already completed mine. Gr.

Where have you applied?

[Nick]

Ju suis assez mal au gorge. Et je pensais en français tout la journée et maintenant c'est très difficle de ne penser pas au sujet de la grammaire...

[karo]

Ju suis assez mal au gorge. Et je pensais en français tout la journée et maintenant c'est très difficle de ne penser pas au sujet de la grammaire...

Can I stab a wild guess at this one?

you have a sore throat?  And you have a French pension and you are having difficulty with it because they have bad grammer?

Lol.

today I got annoyed at my guitar because I put a string on wrong and it keeps slipping and I can't sort it now because it is on and if I did it would wreck the string.

[Nick]

Ju suis assez mal au gorge. Et je pensais en français tout la journée et maintenant c'est très difficle de ne penser pas au sujet de la grammaire...

Can I stab a wild guess at this one?

you have a sore throat?  And you have a French pension and you are having difficulty with it because they have bad grammer?

First part is bang on. Second part was actually 'And I've been thinking in french all day and now it's difficult to not think about grammer.'

But, hey, I just got cheered up by this: [spoiler][youtube=425,350]7fEktuN6F3c[/youtube][/spoiler] not suitable for those who don't like blood (there's a fair bit) or horror. I know you should never find murderers attractive, but mon dieu Keith-Lee Castle is alluring as a blood-drinking, raxor-weilding nutter. He's slowly shuffling out of 'weirdly attractive' and into just 'attractive'. And I'm claiming this as relevant as I've promised myself the Urban Gothic box-set as a reward for finishing my AH English dissertation or passing my driving test (whichever happens first) and so I've just reminded myself how far away I am (I'm in 4th gear but not reverse, and I haven't started my dissertation) from finding out what the Dickens is going on (it's some kind of mock-documentary thing, but I'm yet to figure out why they're still filming while he brutally mutilates yonder wifies - possibly some kind of metaphor for society's lack of action against stuff. Actually no, it's probably just so they can have lots of gore, coupelled with mildly disconcerting looks directly into camera...and I'm not sure if he believes he's a vampire or what - the razors say 'no' but the blood drinking says 'yes'. He's probably just a very sick man, in all senses of the word.)

[karo]

[quote author=Nick link=topic=498.msg17160#msg17160 date=1224087718
First part is bang on. Second part was actually 'And I've been thinking in french all day and now it's difficult to not think about grammer.'
[/quote]

yeah I know.  I never read the second sentence Lol.