The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

Scarinae

My article in the Trinity News was printed with somebody else's name :mad:

Boston

Baza210 wrote: »

R/b/m: Blood blister on ball of foot from Capoeira + sore ankle in same foot = difficulty in walking.

I joined that club/soc. Don't have the time for it though

tolosenc

Lost the election at the Cumann Gaelach EGM tonight. Congrats to Simon, though.

Awayindahils

Fishie wrote: »

My article in the Trinity News was printed with somebody else's name :mad:

awh that sucks!!!

Tricity Bendix

I have to go to a party with the Beautiful People tonight. I think I'd prefer to die.

Boston

Lol,

That said I know what you mean.

paperclip

Awayindahils wrote: »

I've finished my two books and didn't buy the other two in the series yesterday as I didn't think i'd like it that much. And now Im trying not to read the fanfics as I don't want to know what happens.

Feicin' not just buying all 4 at once.

This isn't the Twilight series, by any chance?

lilmizzme

forgot my student card...cant get into the library....had best intentions to catch up on loads of work....!!!

ilovemybrick

Kwekubo wrote: »

It's stuff from UCD Ents and Tripod, not the usual Cialis/Viagra stuff, which is why I'd think it very unlikely to be due to blanket spam mailings. None of it has mentioned my name so far though.

Interesting.

Podge_irl

There was ice on my bike this morning, ice. It's bloody October!

PurpleFistMixer

Was at the University Challenge table quiz yoke in the Pav today, and my team blatantly got about 17 right answers, and they gave the prize to some team that got 15. Damn them all. Not that I wanted whatever the prize was... but the glory... the glory!

Though on the upside, the other team of people from TP got a question wrong about the Law of the Lever (remember JUNIOR CERT science anyone? No? How about people studying phyiscs?!), so at least we beat them.

Boston

Power supply unit just went bang there last Friday. Taken till now to fix the problem (i.e. replace it). On the plus side I'll have 14 cores running my simulations.

Jonathan

Boston wrote: »

Power supply unit just went bang there last Friday. Taken till now to fix the problem (i.e. replace it). On the plus side I'll have 14 cores running my simulations.

Do they need 14 cores?

Boston

Could do with a few more actually. They're dumping out 6.1G of data per run and I've not finished writing all the code as yet. I had to break up the I/O as I was getting "out of memory" errors five minutes in (I've 4GBs and about to up that to 8GB) . Simulations are always massive. Theres a supercomputer in the Llyod just for this type of thing.

Jonathan

Boston wrote: »

Could do with a few more actually. They're dumping out 6.1G of data per run and I've not finished writing all the code as yet. I had to break up the I/O as I was getting "out of memory" errors five minutes in (I've 4GBs and about to up that to 8GB) . Simulations are always massive. Theres a supercomputer in the Llyod just for this type of thing.

What exactly are you simulating??

Boston

Radio wave propagation in a 16KM by 16Km metropolitan area. My work to date has been on these things So I also model hundreds of houses distributed over a smaller area with little femtocell's inside. Unfortunately I'm limited to doing this in Matlab, which has terrible memory management.

Jonathan

Boston wrote: »

Radio wave propagation in a 16KM by 16Km metropolitan area. My work to date has been on these things So I also model hundreds of houses distributed over a smaller area with little femtocell's inside. Unfortunately I'm limited to doing this in Matlab, which has terrible memory management.

I had never heard of those. Very clever idea.

Essentially turning your mobile into a VOIP phone when at home? But seamlessly staying on the mobile network?

Crash

Iirc its what a number of mobile providers are using as a way of offering a home service - a femtocell takes over when you're within your home radius, and therefore your mobile is treated as a home DECT style phone, and you avail of cheaper calls that way. Thought vodafone were supposed to be rolling out a system using them here?

Boston

Yep, lots of clever little ideas. I'd say more put I have two NDAs preventing me talking about future plans.

One thing, afaik, they're completely illegal here. Something to do with planning permission being required for every single base station.

Crash

Planning laws brought in concerning stuff like that were all when eircell was around. And when eircell was state owned. Surprisingly, they're also incredibly anti-competitive, seeing as eircell was in a great position having already developed their network, and forcing other networks to seek and be refused planning for low level local cells suits perfectly.

shay_562

Day o' hell. So very, very tired, but since I only got a chance to eat dinner about half an hour ago I'm still all digesty and can't sleep yet. Bleh.

Jonathan

Boston wrote: »

Yep, lots of clever little ideas. I'd say more put I have two NDAs preventing me talking about future plans.

One thing, afaik, they're completely illegal here. Something to do with planning permission being required for every single base station.

Who is supervising your phd?/who you doing that for?

mathew

Boston wrote: »

Radio wave propagation in a 16KM by 16Km metropolitan area. My work to date has been on these things So I also model hundreds of houses distributed over a smaller area with little femtocell's inside. Unfortunately I'm limited to doing this in Matlab, which has terrible memory management.

I stumbled upon something about that recently. Was very interesting. Very clever idea..
There was talk of opperators being operators and blocking the feature on phones and stuff tho, cause it would loose them money...

Pet

Fishie wrote: »

My article in the Trinity News was printed with somebody else's name :mad:

Ha! The LHC one, yeah? I opened the science page and my first thought was "...I don't remember writing that."

I have no idea how it happened, blame Luke.

Boston

mathew wrote: »

I stumbled upon something about that recently. Was very interesting. Very clever idea..
There was talk of opperators being operators and blocking the feature on phones and stuff tho, cause it would loose them money...

Net neutrality!

In reality, broadband providers should see this as a new service they can offer as a bundle. You'd buy a femtocell with you ADSL connection so that your mobile operator and your wired line operator where one in the same. Digiweb are in a unique position.

The Black Oil

The hissyfits have begun.

They'll be back, they all come back.

mathew

grr tiredness

Awayindahils

I now know why feminism started. i am totally shocked that it didn't begin sooner.

i think my corset may have bruised my ribs. My kidneys seems to be slowly going back to their normal position and I'm sure my tummy will less squished in the morning, but for the moment jaysus that pain!! And there is no room for you're body to expand in anyway, so no alcohol, so able to feel the cold. Ugh discomfort.

Ouchie.

(I'm sure I'll feel much better if the photos look any good:pac:)

Brian

Ever so slightly broke. And I just bought an OS X compatible wifi card for my Eee from eBay..

oops.

ilovemybrick

I feel ever so let down by the Quantum of Solace.

That and I have another 8 hours of rehearsals tomorrow.