Engineering Thread

devinejay

iron man's only weakness

Brian

That and the facial hair.

TheAmateur

Has anyone else found that the links we got for Mike Lyons' lectures in that email from the class rep don't work?
Also, anyone know if we can get Prof. Gunnlaugsson's lectures anywhere?

devinejay

I got Lyons' lecture notes a while back, but a friend was asking for them cause he is having trouble getting them off the web too. Should I send them on to you too?

As for the other chap, don't know really!

TheAmateur

That'd be great! Thanks! PM'ing you my email now...

Jonathan

TheAmateur wrote: »

Prof. Gunnlaugsson

Who??

TheAmateur

Organic chem guy.

Jonathan

TheAmateur wrote: »

Organic chem guy.

Ah.. Big JC did it last year.

TheAmateur

Jonathan wrote: »

Ah.. Big JC did it last year.

Did you guys get an exam q on it? Think we only had four lectures or something... There couldn't be that much they could ask on it could there?

Jonathan

TheAmateur wrote: »

Did you guys get an exam q on it? Think we only had four lectures or something... There couldn't be that much they could ask on it could there?

Can't remember tbh. Have a gander at the past paper.

Brian

Lyons emailed us his notes. I'm guessing Lulu linked to them from the "Download" link in her email inbox.

Quick 1E8 Q: Does RLE stop at the end of a row, regardless of whether it's reached the max run length, or not?

ie if you had an image, max run 8, like this-

00000000
0011011[b]0
00[/b]111110
00000000

Would that be 08, 02, 12, 01, 12, 01, 02 etc, or just 03? If the latter, how is the image edge defined?

devinejay

Haven't got round to the signal processing stuff yet, but since I didn't do the UD question it'll be a must. From what you've done so far, is it hard?

Brian

Has the potential to be, there are plenty of "here's a formula without any proof or background" instances. I think I'll do the question anyway, since it's sort of an interesting field and I don't imagine many people in the class will even consider it.

TheAmateur

Jonathan wrote: »

Can't remember tbh. Have a gander at the past paper.

Looks like you didn't. Wonder does that mean we wont...

mathew

You have a different lecturer for it tho. We had Big John Corish for Organic and some other type of Chem..

Wait... I think we did.. It may only have been part of a question tho...

devinejay

Turns out TCDwifi won't let me choose a DBS server after all. I am getting so tired of changing settings every time I want to connect to home or college, maybe I should set up a college profile on the laptop, but that's still an annoying inconvenience.

Jonathan

devinejay wrote: »

Turns out TCDwifi won't let me choose a DBS server after all. I am getting so tired of changing settings every time I want to connect to home or college, maybe I should set up a college profile on the laptop, but that's still an annoying inconvenience.

I didn't think they would.

devinejay

Jonathan wrote: »

I didn't think they would.

Those pesky ISS guys...

Brian

Well, no wonder I never attempted that question. What the fuck, exactly?

devinejay

I remember thinking that that was a "nice" question in the way teachers used to say questions were "nice" but actually they were really hard. I don't think it would be too bad, but I couldn't explain how to do it cause I'm drastically out of practice.

Brian

I don't understand how it's even a question...

devinejay

OK well roughly;
Find the general equation for a tangent to the line y= x^2-6 at the point (x,y)
Find the solutions for the tangent line if it passes through (3,0)
Find the points on x^2-6 where the slope is the same as the above solutions' slopes.


Again, very rough, possibly wrong.

Jonathan

We recommend you do not make backups of your computer, because our virus scan is more important.

Brian

Haven't Time Machined in over 100 days..

Nietzschean

Jonathan wrote: »

We recommend you do not make backups of your computer, because our virus scan is more important.

despite how utterly wrong that sounds in the case of using hd type backup's it normally makes sence on windows (given the backup medium can be corrupted by the os at any time)...but then unless there is a privlidge escalation exploit or the user is silly its not such an issue for os x users. But then there are many silly people in this world...

Brian

The post:view ratio for this thread is quite interesting, compared with other highly-posted threads. It's at about ~1:20 now, compared to ~1:40 for the Schols thread, ~1:50 for the AntiAntiMoan thread, ~1:60 for the BESS thread. Hmm

Jonathan

Baza210 wrote: »

The post:view ratio for this thread is quite interesting, compared with other highly-posted threads. It's at about ~1:20 now, compared to ~1:40 for the Schols thread, ~1:50 for the AntiAntiMoan thread, ~1:60 for the BESS thread. Hmm

We talk ****e that no one else is bothered to read.
Simple as.

Jonathan

Nietzschean wrote: »

despite how utterly wrong that sounds in the case of using hd type backup's it normally makes sence on windows (given the backup medium can be corrupted by the os at any time)...but then unless there is a privlidge escalation exploit or the user is silly its not such an issue for os x users. But then there are many silly people in this world...

I was just surprised with the course of action recommended by ISS.

Brian

I can't figure out whether it's a high or low signal to noise ratio. Guess it depends on your perspective.

mathew

re changing settings all the time.. Can you not use proxy switcher or such likes for firefox?