[The Duke]

Test 2  I’ll try the actual pic icon ad I imaging that will resize the pic.  Didn’t notice that before.  But the above post I tried the ‘file’  but in and it replied when 512kb Max (I think)

 

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[The Duke]

Can’t remember I try again here.

[The Duke]

I forgot how quick this forum is compared to the MM one.  Also it’s nice and mobile friendly.  Need to change my password as  sure it’s the one you set up so for me lee.

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I agree,  but the two edx course I’m currently working throigh are  one from iit Bombay and one from Stamford, both the exact course that they run in the uni, they are recored live. And the thing they have that others don’t (at least not for free) is the course material, document and virtual software and space on the uni vms.

It’s identical set up from when I was at uni,  very impressed. The Bombay corse(cs101) us very much old school uni, and very similar to my maths lectures was, a man talking at you for hours way above your head, they your left to figure it out. Which was hard. Even with the tool to play with.

The Stamford corse (CS50) even tho it is teaching you the same, take you in a great direction, longer lecture, but they want you ‘to do, break and fix’ my prepared method of learning, like you Lee.

That’s how I started on the Stamford as I was struggling on the Bombay course. I did need to find a YouTube video as I need help figuring code::block ide, but all is well.

Edx I the best free online learning experience outside of apples iTunes U, which is very good, offing the same courses almost. There are others for free, but like the course materials, for them there is usually a monthly fee.

BBack to the Linux course, it’s defo no uni module, and I think it may get a bit more advanced but so far it’s very lame. I watched an hour of lectures last night, the last I watched thought me how to connect to the wifi, and I think  about half way though   :negative:

BTW the course are c++. Week 3 drops tomorrow

 

[The Duke]

Your not missing much, out of the 3 edx I’m doing, this Linux one is by far the worst. A real bad advertisement for edx.

If it was my first edx course I wouldn’t of tried another. Luckily it wasn’t and the Stamford and iit Bombay courses are decent.

 

I know the sick of pc feeling, usually end with a hangover  :yahoo:

[The Duke]

Did you resist this course Lee? Or anyone else?

[The Duke]

mm is still where its always been. just dont use your old bookmarks as they wont work no more 🙂 o and clean your cache if issues persist!

[The Duke]

It’s sure is.

[The Duke]

no been pee’d  off today. they just should of done it the simple way.

 

ive turned off all notifications, but it insists on subscribing me every tome i post. how do i get that to stop . it should be opt in not opt out. its worse than being spammed!

[The Duke]

you raise a great point there lee regarding open source. the Mag is dying on its feet  (with printed media in general) and im sure the forum will be shelve within the next year or so. this  makeover must be costing a fair few quid too, which is strange as i doubt the forum shifts that many ,if any, extra mags these days.

anyhow, if they wanted to revamp it, they should of gone open source as that would of given them an EASY OUT once their new contract period ends. if its was open source it could easily be run by the MM community itself for 50p each form a handful of ‘forum angles’ for example. they could be the mods or something.

but now if they decide to kill the forum it would be to much work and or money to save it. it just goes to show Dennis is run by fools.

the forum may be provided for free, but they still have a responsibility for the community it created.

[The Duke]

I think John’s  aproch is good, and I must admit I work best when I get to reflect on ideas.

Plus there is probably a reason I’m self employed and mostly work alone 😉

I Honestly find committee’s a waste of time, as all they do is talk, and the end result of any issue doesn’t please anyone, As everyone has to comprise to or a solution is never reached.

[The Duke]

It’s like changing from Ubuntu to mint.  I thought I had the whole page highlighted at first.  Looks good.

 

[The Duke]

Php, is the wrong word, but you know which I meant.

[The Duke]

Mods for the fishing? Or here? Or somewhere else?  Does seem like there is much here to do until it takes off. Tho if they piss anymore mm members off, this may take off sooner than you thought.

 

They really managed the latest upgrade situation badly. There hasn’t even been any explanation or apology from the ed, which I find strange tbh. I can’t really complain I’ve only bought one mm this year.

 

I’m off bed now il speak tomorrow some time

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[The Duke]

Good to see you can grow the list. I did say 5 is fine for now, but when you have 5,000 members all posting away, 5 won be adequate 😉

TThe private group thing is a good idea, google+ has alot of them, as the are super easy to set up fast. I’ve played a few mmo’s (think that’s the term)  and they always have a private page on g+, it was fb but Google is much simpler, functional and pretty.

 

I’ve not even logged into fb since November,  forget about the crap once there, the actual site is hideous and one big cluster f”+k.

IIt’s defo a good growing area. And this is by far the most modern forum you’ve done, probably actually the most modern I’ve seen. I’m still a fan of the boring php one tho. It’s more old school and nerdy. But I suppose that doest speak well to new comers.

 

How’s the fishing site doing? I bet all the fish escaped to the sea in all the floods 😉

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i noticed that earlier. ill be your friend if you desperate 🙂

seriously what is the point of the feature? and is there an easy way to get a list of latest posts? i know its hardly busy but it may be one day if all goes well, and the short list in the side bar wont be sufficient.

that is the only feature i need in a forum. the extra are nice, but i like simple probably because i am lol.

[The Duke]

a quick at the dates and i was running mint 6 Filicia. the numbers have shot up over the last few years .

[The Duke]

when i used it, it just worked. i use to have 4 instances running on vms on my i7  win7 64bit , it use to fold like there was no tomorrow my PPD was huge. that was the day when you could fold on win 64 cpu clients , only win 32bit .

 

so it made sence to run mint x4 clients and a one gpu client (or 2 if you had 2 gfx) from windows. it was a huge hack in the day. but was rock solid when set up. it actually broke when i was in france and i couldnt fix it remotely and i never bothered once i got home.

the bunto install was really nice everything worked, and it feels nice and fast. on it now.

[The Duke]

that how i used mint, only for vm and folding. i basically installed it, and then followed tuts to get it up and running. and as mint never breaks once going i hardly had to touch it. linux is good like that. its when it breaks its a whole bucket of fun to fix.

[The Duke]

you can use anything for it. i dont think you going to get much out of it.

 

ive all given up on 8.1. i really preferred 8. bt i think im one of a very small few lol.

 

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