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Posts from October 2006

The Destruction of Cronulla by Police - the Views of a Local

As a shire boy born and bred, I have been painted by the ‘outside’ community as many things for many years. I have always been happy to play the game, as it is somewhat true for most ’shire-folk’. The riots which have ruled the headlines of the local Media for almost a year [...]


The Continued Overlap of Nature and Maths, in Music

In May this year I heard a track by Matmos called “Snails and Lasers for Patricia Highsmith”. I listened to the piece, and it sounded amazing. Afterwards it was explained how the track was made; with snails.
“they aimed a laser at a light sensitive theremin, and then got snails to crawl across [...]


Posted
20 October 2006 @ 10pm

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Escaping New Folder?

One of the most annoying things in Windows 2000/XP, for me, is the inability to cancel a New Folder, once “initiated”). You can not escape(literally; you can’t) a New Folder. You CAN escape shortcuts, but not New Folders. This alone is enough for me to create a post, but [...]


Posted
15 October 2006 @ 6pm

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Vista Late Feature Request

God I hope this feature exists in Vista.
When pasting a file into a website, or looking to save a file, or even open a file, the 2 frame window comes up(as below).

Not being able to change the contents of what’s in the left (IE what the user wants, specific per application/type/user/system(>> || <


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