Phillip Brooks

There's a Uranus joke in this somewhere

Years ago I told my Irish friend "On St. Patrick's Day, EVERYBODY is Irish." He replied, "No, everybody WISHES they were Irish." So; is everyone an Aussie on International Australia Day, or do we just WISH we were?

You're beginning to sound like alfa

feedback node Jeff's wire crop circles

I've successfully tinkered with this socket setting to deal with port exhaustion. You can use the get raw object vi Mark mentioned to modify the LabVIEW TCP ref and set the socket variable 'TcpTimedWaitDelay'. There are conflicting entries on MSDN as to the minimum value; some state zero and others 30. We used 30 for our port exhaustion problem with success but I never tried a lower value. The concern would be DoS attacks on a given port, but your connection seems to be isolated so it shouldn't hurt to try. I would refrain from placing this in the registry though; I believe it would apply to all sockets and might make your computer vulnerable on any other network interfaces...

That's why I selected a netbook with 768 vertical resolution. Just before I bought my netbook, Darren had posted his experience with LabVIEW on a netbook in this blog entry. Based on the CES press releases I've been reading, many of the newer netbooks offer 1366 x 768 on 10.1 or 11.6 screens, so LabVIEW should be good to go.

I bought an Acer One 751h last summer ($384) and it came with 2GB of ram and a 250 GB drive. It's OK, but the graphics (GMA500) combined with Vista make it a dog for Flash or video. The computer comes with Vista Basic, which was not eligible for the upgrade to Windows 7. If I had known that, I would have bought a 1 GB model loaded with XP and then upgraded the memory. Vista and the GMA500 just don't play well together. (Note: LabVIEW 8.6 runs reasonably well!) Linux SUCKS on this combo, but there is a variant of Ubuntu Netbook Remix (JoliCloud) that merges some older GMA kernel drivers with 9.10 and it works fairly well; I boot it from a 16GB SDHC card in under a minute. I would look at the 11.6 size screens as these are 1336 x 768 rather than the 1024x600. At 600 pix high, you scroll way to much when reading web pages. Acer seems to be waiting for the new Atom processors and Ion 2 to come out before upgrading their line. I would choose something that has an Ion graphics processor, Windows 7, 2GB of ram. (EDIT Maybe this one? Asus 1201n) When I pay off my Xmas bills and find one like this, I will replace the current 751h; the kids will be happy to take it!

The bat should contain a kinetic charging device like those flashlights that you shake. The more hitting with the bat, the more power you get!

Ever want to share a video with your friend or family, but wish you were there with them to watch so you could enjoy the moment together? synchtube solves this problem by allowing you to share a video in real-time. Simply paste a YouTube link and create a room. You can share this room with others, and watch videos in real-time... well enough talking, just try it already!

Just thinking about the last year and wondered: o TIOBE index is based on various search engine results for a language o LAVA was down June/July time frame o LabVIEW's TIOBE index drops precipitously in the following months o LabVIEW is slowly climbing back up the ladder (48 to 46) One could assume that LAVA contributes significantly to the popularity index of LabVIEW

Retrieve Shell Icon.vi (LabVIEW 8.6.1)

Just saw this keyboard and thought of this thread. (Lenovo PN 57Y6336) Review and more pics here..

If the remote device is sending you a value that is the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 00:00:00, then create a timestamp constant on the block diagram, and set the value to 1/1/1970 00:00:00. Use the add primitive to combine the epoch with the DLL seconds. LabVIEW tip: easy relative timestamp calculations

I think this cartoon sums up how I feel (and possibly PaulG also)... http://www.theweek.com/cartoons/index/104112/Truth_and_the_global_warming_debate

Have a webcam? Submit your climate debate question to CNN via YouTube. They will probably only accept questions that allow them to show associated background video of devastation and suffering, but hey; who knows? If you do, share a link to your video question! (There are already many ClimateGate questions posted; mark them up or down as you see fit)

Then this must be true too: Found this when I Googled "Zyrtec vision" http://www.askapatie...835&name=zyrtec Lots of serious stuff, then this: 3 Allergies First few doses were well tolerated. After a week, thought I had lost vision completely...the zyrtec caused me to initially feel better which made me drink more beer and I passed out under my stairs where there is no light...not a safe drug at all! Vision problems continued a few more times without much warning. Do not take with more than a 12 pack or so...not safe!

Some subjective testing last night indicates that the performance difference was negligible between Google and OpenDNS. I did notice that the Google home page and sites that make heavy use of Google Ads seemed to perform better; I wonder why? I returned the settings to OpenDNS to preserve the filtering that Google does not (currently) offer. I think its only a matter of time before they do...

I use OpenDNS on my router at home too. I like that it helps keep the kiddies from finding malware / porn / LAVA posts /etc... but my wife has complained that things are slower when she follows links...

Don't forget the black eye that the media received after Dan Rather reported on "W"'s military record. That ended his career; I don't think the mainstream is going to start reporting until more is discovered. This is big stuff; stuff that ends careers, changes elections and long-term business decisions that represent billions of dollars.

Purports to improve your browsing performance. I'm going to set my router at home to point to it tonight and see if things improve. http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/introducing-google-public-dns-new-dns.html Google Public DNS IP addresses The Google Public DNS IP addresses are as follows: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

[quote name=crelf' date='01 December 2009 - 04:49 PM' timestamp='1259704194' Because, for every sane person in the world that reseraches and thereby recognizes the bunkum, there's at least 2 bogans that are willing to donate to the cause... Bogan. I learn a new word almost every day on LAVA! It appears that the 'quote' option is broken. Am I quoting myself? Hmmm... Maybe I'm a bogan... Can't edit; losing patience; WHERE'S MY GUN, Ethel?

I went back and checked; I think Chris spelled the new Joey's name 'Elliott' (two 't's) that may affect the anagrams somewhat (as well as young Relf's psyche) It appears the anagrams use two...

Half your luck, mate!

Yes, it would cause an error. I assumed that the poster was sanitizing the image uploaded, but then I noticed that 'anonymous' was incorrectly spelled 'anonymus'. That could also cause an error

You might want to look at using the DataSocket functions. If you search LAVA or the NI boards, you will find many examples. This might help you get started: DataSocket Tutorial