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    #362
    dregin
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    Chrome has malloc issues but didn't I go and write extensions for it that I use constantly in work... I'll put up with it for now and hope someone in Google who understands the unix philosophy is put in charge of the project. Luckily on Linux (Ubuntu/Mint) it's not as big of an issue.

    Firefox is very good, and very well supported. Opera is like dating a hipster, it's fun and interesting until you have to actually rely on it for anything of substance.

    Yeah, I've written extensions for it in the past because Firefox' extension dev experience was ****ing horrible. That was donkeys back, though, so things have hopefully improved on that front. Is chrome still 32bit on most platforms??


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    #363
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    English?


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    #364
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    dregin wrote: »
    Yeah, I've written extensions for it in the past because Firefox' extension dev experience was ****ing horrible. That was donkeys back, though, so things have hopefully improved on that front. Is chrome still 32bit on most platforms??

    I actually couldn't tell you off the top of my head but given all of the child processes it's spawning I'd hazard a guess it is, or at least written to that spec. I always figured that was a workaround to increase the amount of memory available.


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    #365
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    English?

    Yes, they're all available in English


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    #366
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,564 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    I have a high dpi touch screen and I'm running Win 10 tech preview and Chrome is a disaster on it.

    It keeps getting "sticky" touches, like I'll touch the screen but Chrome won't realise I've lifted my finger off, so it thinks I'm constantly touching the screen in 1 place. Which of course means if I touch it anywhere else to scroll it thinks I have two fingers touching it and it zooms.

    It also makes the cursor disappear all the time and have to kill the process to close it.


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    #367
    dregin
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    awec wrote: »
    I have a high dpi touch screen and I'm running Win 10 tech preview and Chrome is a disaster on it.

    It keeps getting "sticky" touches, like I'll touch the screen but Chrome won't realise I've lifted my finger off, so it thinks I'm constantly touching the screen in 1 place. Which of course means if I touch it anywhere else to scroll it thinks I have two fingers touching it and it zooms.

    It also makes the cursor disappear all the time and have to kill the process to close it.

    In fairness to chrome, is this a build specifically for Windows 10 on touch screens or is it MS and their "new" notion that write once, run everywhere is totes doable?

    /me waves two fingers at Sun Microsystems


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    #368
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,564 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    dregin wrote: »
    In fairness to chrome, is this a build specifically for Windows 10 on touch screens or is it MS and their "new" notion that write once, run everywhere is totes doable?

    /me waves two fingers at Sun Microsystems

    It's not a specific Win10 build of Chrome. I suspect the sticky touches is probably a driver issue, but then again it only ever happens on Chrome. Not IE and not Firefox.


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    #369
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,791 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    awec wrote: »
    I have a high dpi touch screen and I'm running Win 10 tech preview and Chrome is a disaster on it.

    It keeps getting "sticky" touches, like I'll touch the screen but Chrome won't realise I've lifted my finger off, so it thinks I'm constantly touching the screen in 1 place. Which of course means if I touch it anywhere else to scroll it thinks I have two fingers touching it and it zooms.

    It also makes the cursor disappear all the time and have to kill the process to close it.

    Have you tried turning it off and back on again...


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    #370
    [Deleted User]
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    Don't forget to tune into RTE 2 at 10pm for the first part of six of Conor McGregor's documentary... I may or may not have an invested interest in it :pac:


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    #371
    CatFromHue
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Don't forget to tune into RTE 2 at 10pm for the first part of six of Conor McGregor's documentary... I may or may not have an invested interest in it :pac:

    The one off documentary they did before was very good so I'll tune in tonight to see what this one is like.


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    #372
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,791 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Don't forget to tune into RTE 2 at 10pm for the first part of six of Conor McGregor's documentary... I may or may not have an invested interest in it :pac:

    I like him. He's a breath of fresh air. I think he knows that he's acting the maggot but that's what will put arses on seats at the end of the day!!


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    #373
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Have you tried turning it off and back on again...

    Or hit it with a hammer...


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    #374
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,791 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    I'm guessing that most of you hip city boys aren't watching "A Rare Breed" a farming year on utv now.

    Silence in this house, as little eyes are wide open as to how the meat gets to the butchers or the potatoes get from the ground to the shop!!


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    #375
    awec
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    mfceiling wrote: »
    I'm guessing that most of you hip city boys aren't watching "A Rare Breed" a farming year on utv now.

    Silence in this house, as little eyes are wide open as to how the meat gets to the butchers or the potatoes get from the ground to the shop!!
    I need subtitles.

    I'm from Armagh and I don't even understand those two Armagh yokes talking about ploughing.


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    #376
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,791 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    awec wrote: »
    I need subtitles.

    I'm from Armagh and I don't even understand those two Armagh yokes talking about ploughing.

    They make me laugh because I worked with lots of lads from around there and the accent is comical. You have to listen to every word and even at that some of their words are made up.

    Mind you coming from Tyrone we have our own lingo...

    Cowp = Fall Over

    Err the road = Move out of the way

    Due mind thon = Do you remember that

    And so on...


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    #377
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    So we've been going through the legal process involved in buying a house - contracts almost signed. Perfect house, outskirts of town, convenient for work, local schools etc. Quiet road, lovely view, great price. Best place we looked at by a long shot. Today we find out that the consultation process for a new outer bypass starts this week and they've published a draft plan with 5 alternate routes. The 2 most likely go within 25m of the house, so it would either be a CPO or have a dual carriageway out your back garden.... FML


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    #378
    [Deleted User]
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    Zzippy wrote: »
    So we've been going through the legal process involved in buying a house - contracts almost signed. Perfect house, outskirts of town, convenient for work, local schools etc. Quiet road, lovely view, great price. Best place we looked at by a long shot. Today we find out that the consultation process for a new outer bypass starts this week and they've published a draft plan with 5 alternate routes. The 2 most likely go within 25m of the house, so it would either be a CPO or have a dual carriageway out your back garden.... FML

    Ah jeez man that's awful, your head must be wrecked. Are you going to walk away?


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    #379
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,791 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Zzippy wrote: »
    So we've been going through the legal process involved in buying a house - contracts almost signed. Perfect house, outskirts of town, convenient for work, local schools etc. Quiet road, lovely view, great price. Best place we looked at by a long shot. Today we find out that the consultation process for a new outer bypass starts this week and they've published a draft plan with 5 alternate routes. The 2 most likely go within 25m of the house, so it would either be a CPO or have a dual carriageway out your back garden.... FML

    That is why my uncle who is a solicitor justifies his fees!! Sh*tty break tbh - would there be a huge amount of traffic on the carriageway?


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    #380
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ah jeez man that's awful, your head must be wrecked. Are you going to walk away?

    No idea yet. The documentation online for the consultation is pathetic, so gonna go to a public information session this week and hopefully get some proper info. Pain in me hole!


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    #381
    errlloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 12,604 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    I think Brent Pope just nodded at me while driving past on vespa. The ****


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    #382
    Greta Massive Saliva
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    errlloyd wrote: »
    I think Brent Pope just nodded at me while driving past on vespa. The ****

    Must recognise you from the video preview you did for the season!


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    #383
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    mfceiling wrote: »
    That is why my uncle who is a solicitor justifies his fees!! Sh*tty break tbh - would there be a huge amount of traffic on the carriageway?

    Yeah I'd say it would be pretty busy alright. Hoping the other option is the one the engineers really want...


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    #384
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,791 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Zzippy wrote: »
    Yeah I'd say it would be pretty busy alright. Hoping the other option is the one the engineers really want...

    Fingers crossed. Mind you I lived in the country for 20 years where we might have had 15 - 20 vehicles a day on our road. I left for Sydney and moved into an apartment on the main junction where Bondi Junction ends and the road to Bondi Beach begins...a seriously busy junction. After a week or 2 you really don't notice the noise - or maybe because I was drunk for most of that year!!


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    #385
    dregin
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    Yeah, was gonna say that. Grew up in the sticks and now live with 4 lanes of traffic at the end of the garden. Took very little time to get used to.


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    #386
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    erm...my job is designing those types of roads. a little cog in the machine

    PM me if you like


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    #387
    errlloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 12,604 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    RuggieBear wrote: »
    erm...my job is designing those types of roads. a little cog in the machine

    PM me if you like

    This is how things get done in Ireland. Few pms on boards, and RuggieBear will run that road right through some national historic monument instead.


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    #388
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    errlloyd wrote: »
    This is how things get done in Ireland. Few pms on boards, and RuggieBear will run that road right through some national historic monument instead.

    Ha! Don't work in Ireland anymore...but tbh people are about the lowest priority (most of the time) versus environmentally and culturally designated constraints.


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    #389
    errlloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 12,604 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    RuggieBear wrote: »
    Ha! Don't work in Ireland anymore...but tbh people are about the lowest priority (most of the time) versus environmentally and culturally designated constraints.

    As it should be really (Zzippy aside) in the long run those other concerns mostly have people in mind too.


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    #390
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,791 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Go out and find a snail zzippy...plant said snail in the back garden. Take picture of snail and then mail it to the planners/road department. Kick up a fuss about the snail's natural habitat and how it will have a detrimental effect on the snail's environment.

    Bingo - a quick €80 million on an environmental/feasibility study and the road project will be cancelled. As the traffic nightmare becomes unbearable you can sit in your back garden (beer in hand) safe in the knowledge that road noise will never be a problem for you again!!


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    #391
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,564 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    People design roads?

    Bit of tarmac, goes from A to B. What more is there to it?


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