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  4. Dual Screen!

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    I've run loads of setups over the years, dual 20" 4:3 for a while, then went to single 24" widescreen, then to 24" with 20" 4:3 side panel, then 24" wide and two 20" wide, to be honest I'd rank a single 24" way over dual 20", but obviously the ultimate is 24" with 2 supporting monitors.

    Whatever your settup it just works like one big desktop, and you can move freely between them all, and yeah you can set seperate wallpapers etc.

    Using two screens for gaming is generally crap anyway, because if its a first person shooter like counter strike or something the crosshair is split between the two screens, so its really shit to aim at stuff.

    I have seen a graphics adapter on www.overclockers.co.uk that lets you use three screens though. It'd be mental, complete peripheral vision on whats going on around you, although not many games support it i dont think and your graphics card would need to be immense as its 3 times the work.

    Do any games support 2 screens? Because the only game i've ever found in my life that gave me the option to span screens was flight simulator.

  7. Tf Makeover

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    This way people can make their skin how they want it to look. Have a HUGE selection of them hopefully, then the winning 3 get created. Ovbiously the creation would already be half done as I know these skins compromise of alot of images, could just hack apart the image they created saving time and effort. Also if people such as Simon are willing to help (I am too as I know enough to mod a skin with IPB) then we can all help create them.

    Making a single IPB skin from scratch is a chore, I doubt danny will be wanting to code in multiple skins - slicing it up isn't such a big deal, all the divs and integration are what take the time.

    I have a pretty clear idea in my head now of what the next TF will look like. It will be darker, and a bit cleaner with some more bold statements in the header ;)

  12. Itunes How f**king Shit Is It?

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    Advantages: I can listen to everyone on the networks music

    Disadvantages: Slow, Laggy scrolling, Crappy ipod syncing, Sound randomly laggs, massive ram useage, loads of useless features

    I use foobar2000 and itunes, just because i like the shared music feature - someone should make a foobar plugin.

  14. Snowboarding

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    me + freddie are off snowboarding in the winter in the vogue mountains in france.

    £41 each for 5 days inc flights and food :P (gotta love having friends who live there and budget airlines)

    The snow there is top notch usually!

  16. Loughborough Riders

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    Doubt you could ride a bike anymore with your fitness level. *Memories of you running up about 10 stairs* :P

    This is true. And a lesson should be learned by all why excessive alcohol and lack of food over several months isn't a great idea. :lol:

    As for freshers week, the whole organised, butlins style 'lets bond' stuff isn't really my thing - but i'll go along with whatever's going on, unless they try and make me play bingo ... in which case I'll get drunk in my room by myself :P

    noz pm me with whatever floor / room you end up in. (Y)

  19. Western Union Question

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    The money will go into the account, but the bank will realise its actually stolen/from a fake cheque or something after about a week, and take the money back- which they are allowed to do.

    bascially the buying scammer uses a fake cheque for western union that take a while to sort out, you have the money already transfered by this point so you send the goods, then the bank finds 'oh, this cheque appears to be fake', contacts the english bank and goes give us our money back.

    urm... did you just make all that up?

    western union is nothing to do with banks and you can get paid in cash :ermm:

  21. Random Stuf You Have Photoshopped.

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    Blimey, 15MP is crazy. Not only huge but also really computer intensive. My computer struggles a bit adding filters and whatever to 8 MP images. I can't wait a year though Alexx :P

    Yeah It's a bit of a bugger, the main thing you gotta watch is keeping the layers right down. When you digitally paint the aproach almost everyone takes is to work at 1/2 rez untill about the half way point, so really the bulk of the work is done at 7mp - which is a LOT better. Then after you scale up your only working with really small brushes and stuff, so you don't get the same kinda stupid lag time you get when using a 300px soft-feathered brush on a tablet reading 1000+ presure levels and brush tilt 500 timest every second; even my computer lags right out on that. Just gotta sit and wait 1-2 seconds after strokes to see how you did :lol:

  22. Random Stuf You Have Photoshopped.

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    Lol, waiting for Alexx to post some of his freehand stuff.

    hehe ^__^ I've really just been working on one piece for the last year - I won't give much away about it, but it's themed upon an angel. It'll be another year or so at the very least untill it's finished, I'm working at around 15 mega pixels, so detailing takes a while :rolleyes: I'll post that up when I finish it.

    So instead, I'll leave you with a quick unfinished repaint I did of the intothestorm piece I did back at the start of 2005.

    Note that it's not actually a finished piece, I never got as far as painting the hair or skin details (or earings, or ears... come to think about it) - I'd never create something with such a blantly poor composition - This is just a 25% scaled down crop of about 1/3rd of the image, the other 2/3rd are even more unfinished.

    IPB Image

    I look at it now and see a million stupid techincal errors, but my current piece should be a lot better

    IPB Image

    and some construct detail :P

    Oh, and I'll just post this because it's funny - just a really quick and dirty 30 minuite start-to-end version of Freddie on here, to prove a point he looks like an anime character :P

    IPB Image

  23. Frontal Media

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    Really professional aura. Once all the portfolio content is dropped in then it'll be a very compelling advert for your work which can only attract future opportunities.

    Thats the problem with the internet, you can just copy someone elses work and pass it off as your own.

    http://www.avenuegc.co.uk/

    If you can't even build your own website, how can you possibly say you offer design services.

    Sorry but stealing other peoples work is one of my pet-hates, since I'll spend days / weeks developing and coding - for someone else to just take it, change some colours and pretend they made it, so other people can congratulate them....

    :sleeping:

  24. I've Made These Mistakes So You Don't Have To

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    if a satellite was traveling that fast, i would be worried and would probably duck... lol

    A shooting star travels at around 30,000mph, whilst a satellite travels at around 100mph... lol

    Low orbit satellites travel at 27,000 km/h, or Mach 23 (give or take) and high orbit satellites have an orbit time of under 130 minuites to circle the entire earth. If you find somewhere with no light polloution and watch the sky, satellites move at a serious pace accross the sky, many times faster you see a plane go accross the sky, well... unless thy're geosynchronous.

    Things that are a good idea when drunk, generally are not.

    Thats probs the most universally accurate one yet lol :turned:

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