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Nocturnal Nerds

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  • #422
    animan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    Erm... what's a NUM lock? :confused:

    See on your keyboard where all the numbers are. Look in the top left corner of that.


  • #423
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Num Lock is F6 on a Mac laptop keyboard :P


  • #424
    MizzLolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,556 ✭✭✭MizzLolly


    animan wrote: »
    See on your keyboard where all the numbers are. Look in the top left corner of that.

    There's nothing there.. :confused:


  • #425
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,731 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    Erm... what's a NUM lock? :confused:
    Caught out a girl in college with the " press the any key to start" thing, fell about laughing when she finally copped on 10 mins later :P


  • #426
    animan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    There's nothing there.. :confused:

    *facepalm*

    Mac or pc


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  • #427
    The Don
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭The Don


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    Erm... what's a NUM lock? :confused:

    If I wasn't just in the door from 3 days drinking I might have the energy...


  • #428
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,449 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    there's nothing better than being in a college lab and waiting til your mates go out to the toilet/shop and then taking a print screen of their desktop and set as desktop and auto hide taskbar.

    or (this is a beaut that i came up with).

    go start >> find >> search for *.exe and then ctrl+a and hit enter :D


  • #429
    animan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    Cremo wrote: »
    there's nothing better than being in a college lab and waiting til your mates go out to the toilet/shop and then taking a print screen of their desktop and set as desktop and auto hide taskbar.

    or (this is a beaut that i came up with).

    go start >> find >> search for *.exe and then ctrl+a and hit enter :D

    What does it do?


  • #430
    anonymous_joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭anonymous_joe


    animan wrote: »
    What does it do?

    Probably looks like your screen. But it's hidden. So you'll think it's frozen. At a guess.


  • #431
    animan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    Omg you're an arsehole. How would you fix that.


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  • #432
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Cremo wrote: »
    there's nothing better than being in a college lab and waiting til your mates go out to the toilet/shop and then taking a print screen of their desktop and set as desktop and auto hide taskbar.

    or (this is a beaut that i came up with).

    go start >> find >> search for *.exe and then ctrl+a and hit enter :D
    Download a program called clippy.exe. It's great fun especially if you have about 10 instances of it running at once.


  • #433
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,449 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    animan wrote: »
    Omg you're an arsehole. How would you fix that.
    it's funny though.

    the second one is worst, it finds all .exe files and executes them all at the same time completely melting the pc.

    on a completely unrelated note just been watching these, they are cool:

    http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1711287
    http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1727058
    http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1732680
    http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1774305
    http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1781561
    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    Download a program called clippy.exe. It's great fun especially if you have about 10 instances of it running at once.
    what does clippy do?


  • #434
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Cremo wrote: »
    what does clippy do?

    You remember our old friend clippy from office 97, well it imitates him. Once it's ran it will pop up (you specify the delay) and give the user helpful (read: useless) advice. It's a work of genius.

    http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/clippy/


  • #435
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,449 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    You remember our old friend clippy from office 97, well it imitates him. Once it's ran it will pop up (you specify the delay) and give the user helpful (read: useless) advice. It's a work of genius.

    http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/clippy/
    hahaha brilliant, another tool to add to the arsenal.


  • #436
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,731 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Loving those clips Cremo, good stuff :D


  • #437
    MizzLolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,556 ✭✭✭MizzLolly


    .... update...


    I'm now excited about starting Old English Literature... :o


  • #438
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,449 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    .... update...


    I'm now excited about starting Old English Literature... :o
    yey, thread resurection.

    old english lit. huh, perhaps you can teach me how to speak proper ye old english"

    i have no nerd updates :(


  • #439
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    .... update...


    I'm now excited about starting Old English Literature... :o

    That takes a special kind of nerd :pac:


  • #440
    anonymous_joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭anonymous_joe


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    .... update...


    I'm now excited about starting Old English Literature... :o

    I had a really odd conversation in Sao Paolo with a Swiss girl about Old English Literature. She loved it too.

    Define old though? You talking Beowulf or what? Cos that stuff's cool. If fascinatingly crude and limited. Read the Táin and see the differences between that culture and even the Graeco-Roman culture that arose in the Med.


  • #441
    Joe Cool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭Joe Cool


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    .... update...


    I'm now excited about starting Old English Literature... :o

    Really??
    I did that, wasn't too taken by it.
    The middle english stuff was alright but the old wasn't for me.

    Still, got through in the end.


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  • #442
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,731 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    anonymous_joe wrote: »
    Define old though? You talking Beowulf or what?
    Aint Beowulf a Danish story or something? Oh yeah Olde would be like shakespeare times i would imagine...


  • #443
    anonymous_joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭anonymous_joe


    Master of Nothing wrote: »
    Aint Beowulf a Danish story or something? Oh yeah Olde would be like shakespeare times i would imagine...

    Same ethnic group as the Angles and the Saxons who mosied on over to the island to our east in the aftermath of the Western Roman Empire's collapse.


  • #444
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    Master of Nothing wrote: »
    Aint Beowulf a Danish story or something? Oh yeah Olde would be like shakespeare times i would imagine...
    Shakespearian would be middle english i think, old english would be high medieval period and before.


  • #445
    MizzLolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,556 ✭✭✭MizzLolly


    To all of the above comments.. I haven't done much Old English before, only really focused on medieval up until now.

    Just to clarify, from my understanding, Old English is the likes of Beowulf.

    Medieval is like the Canterbury Tales - it's older than old English.


    Shakespearean, (as mentioned by Teutorix) is the most recent of the three.


    Unless I've missed something vital in my course :p


    I'll dig up some medieval for yiz to look at (assuming some of you nerds would like to see):)


  • #446
    anonymous_joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭anonymous_joe


    Beowulf is older than Canterbury Tales, n'est pas?

    I wish I'd studied English now. ^^


  • #447
    SmileyPaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭SmileyPaul


    haven't posted here yet and i like the nocturnal forum :)
    right.... nerdy stuff.... ranked 1000 in an online MMORPG with over 90K players.... collect manga.... read fantasy novels by garth nix... and plaenty more but theres a start before i get to know more people :P


  • #448
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,449 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    i constantly learn game music to play on guitar.

    my three faves atm.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxNmeMklFk8



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57DZ5KOE7jw



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STAKn6y5bkY


  • #449
    ewj1978
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭ewj1978


    I'm a NERD... i did Electronic Engineering in college.... or is that a GEEK?


  • #450
    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    ewj1978 wrote: »
    I'm a NERD... i did Electronic Engineering in college.... or is that a GEEK?

    You are both :( there is no hope for you
    oj


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  • #451
    ewj1978
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭ewj1978


    NOOOOOOoooooo!!!! Ah well one day all this will be mine.


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