Daily Archive for December 4th, 2005

IRC

For all that wonder how to contact me, you may do so on EFnet (irc.mzima.net, irc.choopa.org) or emailing me at: brent.pickup [at] nospam [dot] gmail [dawt] com. I always am in #cpanel, #c++, #theoc, #c#, #c, #brentp, #24, #google, #linux-help, #perl, #perl-help. I also idle on:

irc.gnug.org: #gnug, #techtalk
irc.freenode.net: #centos, #freenode-registry, #perl, #perl6, #svn,
irc.inetirc.com: #wht

The channel you could contact me most on would be #cpanel on EFnet. On a similar topic, I used to have some IRC Stats up for #cpanel. The stats have been put up again for at least two months (the logs date back to april/march). The new url for the stats is: http://brentp.net/stats/. There is also stats up for #theoc on EFnet as well, they’re at: http://brentp.net/stats/theoc.html. If you want the raw cPanel IRC Logs that are directly used for parsing to generate the pages, they’re at http://brentp.net/cpanelirc/. The logs are updated every 15 minutes, and the statistics for both rooms are updated every day at midnight due to the amount of data the parser has to sift through.

I hope you find these logs and statistics are useful in your search for eternal wiseness.

TV

There was this GREAT movie on Channel 9 (Patriot Games) on Friday night, but I couldnt watch it because the reception on my TV Tuner Card software was down the toilet, even though the TV in the lounge room has crystal clear channel 9 coverage (and crappy ABC, but who watches the ABC anyway).

The only channel that is exceptional on the tuner card is probably channel 10, where all the good shows are (like Numb3rs, Law And Order, Blind Justice and so on). My channel 7 coverage is ok, but its not the greatest. Looks like i’ve gota get me a better TV Tuner card some time…for now it’ll do. There better not be another good show on channel 9 tonight…. nup… Although, there is Black Hawk Down on channel 10, and some other crap on the other channels not worth watching.

For all that are wondering where to get the TV Guide for australia from its on Channel 9′s Site. Some other werid stuff is happening with the TV Tuner card too…apparently I can tune into the local radio stations when i go to Channel 6 and manually edit the frequency…cool.

Word Macros

I love Microsoft Word for one reason, because you can make macros in Visual Basic 6 (wish they would use VB.NET). I discovered a really cool use of the macros at school the other week. Without further ado:


Sub test()
If (Application.Assistant.Visible = True) Then
Application.Assistant.Animation = msoAnimationEmptyTrash
Else
Application.Assistant.Visible = True
Application.Assistant.Animation = msoAnimationEmptyTrash
End If
End Sub

Select your office assistant as that robot dude (F1) and then run that macro, it makes him explode over and over and over again!

Enjoy.