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Discussion in 'General' started by Brooxy, 28 Oct 2009.

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  1. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    The time when office AC is ceremonially switched from "cool" to "heat" :rolleyes:
     
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  2. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    With the aid of a LUG gaming clan I'm part of, I now have a working Tobii ET5 eye tracker in Linux! :D
    (To clarify, I already had the tracker. Tobii have consistently refused to provide linux drivers, so the LUG have rolled their own)
     
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  3. MLyons

    MLyons 70% Dev, 30% Doge. DevDoge. Software Dev @ Corsair Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    After getting my first open source contribution merged in Wagtail CMS I've also posted a blog post about it. I'm sure G will have an aneurism at my quality of writing, but it's only my second ever post.
     
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  4. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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  5. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    UPDATE:

    For those who don't have the spoons to buy a Tobii, a standard webcam-using alternative called "Beam Eye Tracker" has recently published stable releases in both native Mac & Linux flavours
     
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  6. Byron C

    Byron C AKA “Sticky Equilibrium” on weekends

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    Bloody hell, OLED is flipping incredible. Blows the pants off my old TV.
     
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  7. sandys

    sandys Multimodder

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    It is very good for TV consumption, to be honest I have OLED everywhere even my works screens despite risks.
     
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  8. Byron C

    Byron C AKA “Sticky Equilibrium” on weekends

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    I’m watching The Martian, from a local high-bitrate rip and not a stream…

    So that’s what HDR is supposed to look like…
     
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  9. Spanky

    Spanky Multimodder

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    Going to be a father again at 50!!

    Feeling blessed :clap: 32 years after the last this one is a "bit of a surprise" but there we go .
     
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  10. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Congrats @Spanky

    Best get into training now, imagine at an older age it's going to feel a lot harder work :lol:
     
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  11. Spanky

    Spanky Multimodder

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    Ha!! And dont I know it! Mrs Spanky is a fair bit younger than myself thankfully and we have an amazing family network .
     
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  12. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Good to hear. You need minions to help with any graft at our age :happy:
     
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  13. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    The intro to foundation is utterly mesmerising on a OLED and the live action Ghost In The Shell looks amacing, as do the Trons! A lot of disney stuff have Imax streaming versions too!
     
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  14. Gunsmith

    Gunsmith Maximum Win

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    wait until you watch DoVi, shits gonna melt your brain.
     
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  15. Byron C

    Byron C AKA “Sticky Equilibrium” on weekends

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    If you mean Dolby Vision, then I’ll have to keep waiting :happy:.

    This Samsung model (S90F) doesn’t support Dolby Vision - even this year’s flagship Samsung OLED, the S95H, doesn’t support Dolby Vision. HDR10+, sure, but not Dolby Vision - I’m assuming there’s some licensing shenanigans going on.
     
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  16. Pete J

    Pete J Employed scum

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    Suddenly remembering Max Clifford, wondering what happened to him, and being reminded that he died in prison.
     
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  17. The_Crapman

    The_Crapman World's worst stuntman. Lover of bit-tech

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    After much heal dragging finally got work to sort my ACT course (Certificate in Treasury). Will finally get some letters after my name, even though it's not the BSc, MSc, PhD I had intended :hehe:
     
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  18. ElThomsono

    ElThomsono Multimodder

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    The_Crapman, Government Institute Treasurers, Associate Social Services, Top Interservice Title?
     
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  19. sandys

    sandys Multimodder

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    Just change your last name to BSc, MSc, PhD, Simple :idea: :grin:
     
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  20. Almightyrastus

    Almightyrastus On the jazz.

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    Post nominals are fun. I would like a pre-nominal but sadly Engineer is not a protected title here in the UK. I have BEng afterwards which was always a big ambition.

    One of my online acquaintances has GC... I don't think many of us are going to top that one...
     
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