The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

Scarinae · 28-10-2008 08:34PM

My article in the Trinity News was printed with somebody else's name :mad:

Boston · 28-10-2008 09:04PM

Baza210 wrote: »

R/b/m: Blood blister on ball of foot from Capoeira + sore ankle in same foot = difficulty in walking.

I joined that club/soc. Don't have the time for it though

tolosenc · 29-10-2008 12:41AM

Lost the election at the Cumann Gaelach EGM tonight. Congrats to Simon, though.

Awayindahils · 29-10-2008 10:19AM

Fishie wrote: »

My article in the Trinity News was printed with somebody else's name :mad:

awh that sucks!!!

Tricity Bendix · 29-10-2008 10:30AM

I have to go to a party with the Beautiful People tonight. I think I'd prefer to die.

Boston · 29-10-2008 11:18AM

Lol,

That said I know what you mean.

paperclip · 29-10-2008 12:50PM

Awayindahils wrote: »

I've finished my two books and didn't buy the other two in the series yesterday as I didn't think i'd like it that much. And now Im trying not to read the fanfics as I don't want to know what happens.

Feicin' not just buying all 4 at once.

This isn't the Twilight series, by any chance?

lilmizzme · 29-10-2008 04:31PM

forgot my student card...cant get into the library....had best intentions to catch up on loads of work....!!!

ilovemybrick · 29-10-2008 05:56PM

Kwekubo wrote: »

It's stuff from UCD Ents and Tripod, not the usual Cialis/Viagra stuff, which is why I'd think it very unlikely to be due to blanket spam mailings. None of it has mentioned my name so far though.

Interesting.

Podge_irl · 29-10-2008 07:16PM

There was ice on my bike this morning, ice. It's bloody October!

PurpleFistMixer · 29-10-2008 09:11PM

Was at the University Challenge table quiz yoke in the Pav today, and my team blatantly got about 17 right answers, and they gave the prize to some team that got 15. Damn them all. Not that I wanted whatever the prize was... but the glory... the glory!

Though on the upside, the other team of people from TP got a question wrong about the Law of the Lever (remember JUNIOR CERT science anyone? No? How about people studying phyiscs?!), so at least we beat them.

Boston · 29-10-2008 09:51PM

Power supply unit just went bang there last Friday. Taken till now to fix the problem (i.e. replace it). On the plus side I'll have 14 cores running my simulations.

Jonathan · 29-10-2008 09:54PM

Boston wrote: »

Power supply unit just went bang there last Friday. Taken till now to fix the problem (i.e. replace it). On the plus side I'll have 14 cores running my simulations.

Do they need 14 cores?

Boston · 29-10-2008 10:00PM

Could do with a few more actually. They're dumping out 6.1G of data per run and I've not finished writing all the code as yet. I had to break up the I/O as I was getting "out of memory" errors five minutes in (I've 4GBs and about to up that to 8GB) . Simulations are always massive. Theres a supercomputer in the Llyod just for this type of thing.

Jonathan · 29-10-2008 10:02PM

Boston wrote: »

Could do with a few more actually. They're dumping out 6.1G of data per run and I've not finished writing all the code as yet. I had to break up the I/O as I was getting "out of memory" errors five minutes in (I've 4GBs and about to up that to 8GB) . Simulations are always massive. Theres a supercomputer in the Llyod just for this type of thing.

What exactly are you simulating??

Boston · 29-10-2008 10:06PM

Radio wave propagation in a 16KM by 16Km metropolitan area. My work to date has been on these things So I also model hundreds of houses distributed over a smaller area with little femtocell's inside. Unfortunately I'm limited to doing this in Matlab, which has terrible memory management.

Jonathan · 29-10-2008 10:11PM

Boston wrote: »

Radio wave propagation in a 16KM by 16Km metropolitan area. My work to date has been on these things So I also model hundreds of houses distributed over a smaller area with little femtocell's inside. Unfortunately I'm limited to doing this in Matlab, which has terrible memory management.

I had never heard of those. Very clever idea.

Essentially turning your mobile into a VOIP phone when at home? But seamlessly staying on the mobile network?

Crash · 29-10-2008 10:18PM

Iirc its what a number of mobile providers are using as a way of offering a home service - a femtocell takes over when you're within your home radius, and therefore your mobile is treated as a home DECT style phone, and you avail of cheaper calls that way. Thought vodafone were supposed to be rolling out a system using them here?

Boston · 29-10-2008 10:20PM

Yep, lots of clever little ideas. I'd say more put I have two NDAs preventing me talking about future plans.

One thing, afaik, they're completely illegal here. Something to do with planning permission being required for every single base station.

Crash · 29-10-2008 10:32PM

Planning laws brought in concerning stuff like that were all when eircell was around. And when eircell was state owned. Surprisingly, they're also incredibly anti-competitive, seeing as eircell was in a great position having already developed their network, and forcing other networks to seek and be refused planning for low level local cells suits perfectly.

shay_562 · 29-10-2008 11:36PM

Day o' hell. So very, very tired, but since I only got a chance to eat dinner about half an hour ago I'm still all digesty and can't sleep yet. Bleh.

Jonathan · 29-10-2008 11:39PM

Boston wrote: »

Yep, lots of clever little ideas. I'd say more put I have two NDAs preventing me talking about future plans.

One thing, afaik, they're completely illegal here. Something to do with planning permission being required for every single base station.

Who is supervising your phd?/who you doing that for?

mathew · 30-10-2008 01:22AM

Boston wrote: »

Radio wave propagation in a 16KM by 16Km metropolitan area. My work to date has been on these things So I also model hundreds of houses distributed over a smaller area with little femtocell's inside. Unfortunately I'm limited to doing this in Matlab, which has terrible memory management.

I stumbled upon something about that recently. Was very interesting. Very clever idea..
There was talk of opperators being operators and blocking the feature on phones and stuff tho, cause it would loose them money...

Pet · 30-10-2008 02:59AM

Fishie wrote: »

My article in the Trinity News was printed with somebody else's name :mad:

Ha! The LHC one, yeah? I opened the science page and my first thought was "...I don't remember writing that."

I have no idea how it happened, blame Luke.

Boston · 30-10-2008 12:16PM

mathew wrote: »

I stumbled upon something about that recently. Was very interesting. Very clever idea..
There was talk of opperators being operators and blocking the feature on phones and stuff tho, cause it would loose them money...

Net neutrality!

In reality, broadband providers should see this as a new service they can offer as a bundle. You'd buy a femtocell with you ADSL connection so that your mobile operator and your wired line operator where one in the same. Digiweb are in a unique position.

The Black Oil · 30-10-2008 12:25PM

The hissyfits have begun.

They'll be back, they all come back.

mathew · 31-10-2008 09:25AM

grr tiredness

Awayindahils · 01-11-2008 02:47AM

I now know why feminism started. i am totally shocked that it didn't begin sooner.

i think my corset may have bruised my ribs. My kidneys seems to be slowly going back to their normal position and I'm sure my tummy will less squished in the morning, but for the moment jaysus that pain!! And there is no room for you're body to expand in anyway, so no alcohol, so able to feel the cold. Ugh discomfort.

Ouchie.

(I'm sure I'll feel much better if the photos look any good:pac:)

Brian · 01-11-2008 11:34PM

Ever so slightly broke. And I just bought an OS X compatible wifi card for my Eee from eBay..

oops.

ilovemybrick · 02-11-2008 12:18AM

I feel ever so let down by the Quantum of Solace.

That and I have another 8 hours of rehearsals tomorrow.

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