The all new and only slightly recycled off topic thread (read post 1)

decisions

Which game should I watch?

irishbucsfan

Josh Freeman is am embarrassment

Podge_irl

Adrian Peterson gets a 73 yd touchdown on his first run of the season!!

irishbucsfan

Freeman..

Teferi

Have to watch the Lions on Redzone. How annoying.

awec

Clare should have won today. Cork led for 30 seconds out of 72 and a half minutes.

should have been down to 14 too.

but what a game.

Burgo

Yeah it was all clare unlucky they couldnt close the game out, fair play to cork for staying in it. Will be looking forward to the replay at the end of the month!

Benny Cake

awec wrote: »

Clare should have won today. Cork led for 30 seconds out of 72 and a half minutes.

should have been down to 14 too.

but what a game.

All true,ref probably should have blown it up before Clare equalised though. Davy fitzs head would have exploded if Clare had have lost though...

Swiwi.

.ak

Swiwi. wrote: »

Hmm, it's like a happy version if Once Were Warriors

Swiwi.

.ak wrote: »

Hmm, it's like a happy version if Once Were Warriors

Cook the man some eggs...

Podge_irl

I benched Boldin

P_1

Podge_irl wrote: »

I benched Boldin

Ouch

Grimebox

Love that ad. You know I can't eat your ghost chips

Buer

Don't know if anyone else here is a resident of Dublin 13 (or as my socially optimistic neighbours call it, Dublin 3+1) but there was a bit of a spectacle at the weekend to mark the anniversary of Alan Ryan's murder. It's generally not in discussion anymore since the troubles settled but these sort of things serve as a reminder that there are plenty of idiots still around the place. Lots of young guys and girls wearing camouflage outfits, marching for the cause and shouting tiocfaidh ár lá.

I never really had that influence at all growing up in my environment so always wondered how these people end up falling into these circles when we live nowhere near the border, although a significant number of people were down from the north for the event.

Glad the missus was away for the weekend or I'd be spending my morning stuck on Daft looking for somewhere new to live...

.ak

Buer wrote: »

Don't know if anyone else here is a resident of Dublin 13 (or as my socially optimistic neighbours call it, Dublin 3+1) but there was a bit of a spectacle at the weekend to mark the anniversary of Alan Ryan's murder. It's generally not in discussion anymore since the troubles settled but these sort of things serve as a reminder that there are plenty of idiots still around the place. Lots of young guys and girls wearing camouflage outfits, marching for the cause and shouting tiocfaidh ár lá.

I never really had that influence at all growing up in my environment so always wondered how these people end up falling into these circles when we live nowhere near the border, although a significant number of people were down from the north for the event.

Glad the missus was away for the weekend or I'd be spending my morning stuck on Daft looking for somewhere new to live...

They read about it on the inside door of a public toilet somewhere.

Buer

.ak wrote: »

Hmm, it's like a happy version if Once Were Warriors

A completely different film but a very enjoyable Kiwi effort was Boy from a couple of years ago. Not as lauded as OWW but entertaining nonetheless. It's more of a Kiwi version of Napoleon Dynamite.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560139/

Swiwi.

Buer wrote: »

A completely different film but a very enjoyable Kiwi effort was Boy from a couple of years ago. Not as lauded as OWW but entertaining nonetheless. It's more of a Kiwi version of Napoleon Dynamite.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560139/

Yeah, it was quite enjoyable. This short film by the same director is also worth a watch, if you have 11:21 of your life to spare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Pc6cBP-8U

irishbucsfan

What I took from that was Buer is from the north side

P_1

Buer wrote: »

Don't know if anyone else here is a resident of Dublin 13 (or as my socially optimistic neighbours call it, Dublin 3+1) but there was a bit of a spectacle at the weekend to mark the anniversary of Alan Ryan's murder. It's generally not in discussion anymore since the troubles settled but these sort of things serve as a reminder that there are plenty of idiots still around the place. Lots of young guys and girls wearing camouflage outfits, marching for the cause and shouting tiocfaidh ár lá.

I never really had that influence at all growing up in my environment so always wondered how these people end up falling into these circles when we live nowhere near the border, although a significant number of people were down from the north for the event.

Glad the missus was away for the weekend or I'd be spending my morning stuck on Daft looking for somewhere new to live...

Unfortunately you're always going to get easily led fools who see the glamour of the 'cause'. Have to say it was a bit of a jolt for me to see the pictures of them marching in the estates (I spent the first several years of my life growing up not very far from there) though.

Buer

Buer wrote: »

I don't know if people follow boxing any longer (it is dying badly since the emergence of MMA) but tonight's fight between Burns and Beltran signified everything that's wrong at the officiating/judge level. A cracking effort between two guys giving it their all. After 12 rounds of slugging it out, Beltran was the clear winner of the title. Fight was in Glasgow and the judges scored it 115-112 Burns, 115-113 Beltran and 114-114. Absolutely shambolic. Home crowd even seemed subdued with it.

Crooked/politics...call it what you will. I do not believe for a second any of the judges honestly believed Burns was worth close to a win.

Well, at least some justice has been done and Paddypower have paid out on all bets on Beltran. I know PP are the masters of this stunt but it highlights just how crooked the decision was. The judge who had the fight 115-112 to Burns must have had a nice chunk of cash into his account for having the audacity to submit that score.

.ak

Buer wrote: »

Well, at least some justice has been done and Paddypower have paid out on all bets on Beltran. I know PP are the masters of this stunt but it highlights just how crooked the decision was. The judge who had the fight 115-112 to Burns must have had a nice chunk of cash into his account for having the audacity to submit that score.

So... Everyone's a winner!

Howard Juneau

.ak wrote: »

So... Everyone's a winner!

Except Beltran

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience

So sick. And what's worse Benylen absolutely knocks me out so I've been a veritable Zombie at work all day

P_1

A question for the more technical minded folks. I currently have a Netopia internet router that has frankly seen better days and its time for an upgrade. I'm looking at some Netgear routers, surely I won't have any bother running one of these on a Vodafone connection?

http://www.pcworld.ie/Product/NETGEAR-DGN2200-N300-Wireless-ADSL-Modem-Router/296939/7.11

dregin

Depends on the connection... Will ya be bridging to the router from vodafone hardware or making the connection yourself through a built in modem?

I've never been a fan of netgear, but that may have just been the cheap **** that UPC we sending out clouding my opinion. Linksys all the way.

P_1

dregin wrote: »

Depends on the connection... Will ya be bridging to the router from vodafone hardware or making the connection yourself through a built in modem?

I've never been a fan of netgear, but that may have just been the cheap **** that UPC we sending out clouding my opinion. Linksys all the way.

Honestly I haven't a clue, all I know is that the current router plugs into the phone line and then goes out to the various devices but you need to turn it off and on again to connect to the internet with the devices which is starting to irritate me at this stage

P.Walnuts

Installing a new router/internet connection is probably the most infuriating task known to man

Swiwi.

P_1 wrote: »

Honestly I haven't a clue, all I know is that the current router plugs into the phone line and then goes out to the various devices but you need to turn it off and on again to connect to the internet with the devices which is starting to irritate me at this stage

I doubt you HAVE to have a vodafone router to use with a vodafone connection. But I wouldn't swear by that. There's no doubt a technical forum on boards where you might get the right advice.

P_1

Swiwi. wrote: »

I doubt you HAVE to have a vodafone router to use with a vodafone connection. But I wouldn't swear by that. There's no doubt a technical forum on boards where you might get the right advice.

True, it's actually an old Eircom Netopia router that's currently there, previously signed up to Eircom and then switched to a Vodafone contract.

CatFromHue

Some good photoshops in the photoshop competition this week

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057012427

Podge_irl

I should try and find my Rogina monologues "photoshop"...

mfceiling

So the wife fell in supervalu today (deli counter self serve - someone had spilled stuff on the floor)....hit her hand on the fridge on the way down and broke her middle finger as well as dislocating it!! Splint across 3 fingers now and a visit to a hand surgeon on friday as well as a nice bill of €362!!

Didn't appreciate my sense of sympathy when i mused...."is that the hand you wipe your arse with?"

pickarooney

See, that's what the shop's public liability insurance is for. Don't hesitate to claim medical expenses off it.

Swiwi.

mfceiling wrote: »

So the wife fell in supervalu today (deli counter self serve - someone had spilled stuff on the floor)....hit her hand on the fridge on the way down and broke her middle finger as well as dislocating it!! Splint across 3 fingers now and a visit to a hand surgeon on friday as well as a nice bill of €362!!

Didn't appreciate my sense of sympathy when i mused...."is that the hand you wipe your arse with?"

To finish it with style let her know you posted it on boards...

Buer

mfceiling wrote: »

So the wife fell in supervalu today (deli counter self serve - someone had spilled stuff on the floor)....hit her hand on the fridge on the way down and broke her middle finger as well as dislocating it!! Splint across 3 fingers now and a visit to a hand surgeon on friday as well as a nice bill of €362!!

Didn't appreciate my sense of sympathy when i mused...."is that the hand you wipe your arse with?"

She got the shopping though, right?

dregin

Swiwi. wrote: »

I doubt you HAVE to have a vodafone router to use with a vodafone connection. But I wouldn't swear by that. There's no doubt a technical forum on boards where you might get the right advice.

UPC lock their connection to MAC addresses forcing the end user to bridge through their **** modems >_<

irishbucsfan

When IPv6 rolls out, which will no doubt be a very long time away for Irish ISPs, you'll see all the big ISPs lock down their networks to their hardware.

Grimebox

irishbucsfan wrote: »

When IPv6 rolls out, which will no doubt be a very long time away for Irish ISPs, you'll see all the big ISPs lock down their networks to their hardware.

What do you mean they will lock down their networks to their hardware?

.ak

Not sure how having a 6 segmented IP address is relevant to that? But then again, I'm hopeless at networking.

So long as you can bridge to decent router it shouldn't matter anyway.

pickarooney

dregin wrote: »

UPC lock their connection to MAC addresses forcing the end user to bridge through their **** modems >_<

Just clone the MAC address of the UPC modem to your replacement router?

Swiwi.

pickarooney wrote: »

Just clone the MAC address of the UPC modem to your replacement router?

Well, that's not hard so now, is it

pickarooney

It's just a couple of commands to type in; no knowledge of genetics required.

dregin

Good luck finding a modem that'll take UPC's coax cable :P

Also, I assume the IPV6 comment above is related to everyone getting a static IP since there'd be a LOT more available in IPV6 land. Easier to track the warez monkeys, yo!

irishbucsfan

dregin wrote: »

Good luck finding a modem that'll take UPC's coax cable :P

Also, I assume the IPV6 comment above is related to everyone getting a static IP since there'd be a LOT more available in IPV6 land. Easier to track the warez monkeys, yo!

Oh sorry just saw that!

Yeah every single device is going to be on a dedicated IP. Fridges. Cars. Rugby balls.

It means we'll have proper push of data though, so that'll be nice. Improved battery life for phones as well I'd imagine.

thomond2006

Can someone translate a summary of this conversation? :pac:

pickarooney

IPv6 addresses are generated automatically based on your NIC's MAC (paddy wack give a dog a bone) aren't they? Or is that just for LANs?

Coax cable modems - forgot all about those!

irishbucsfan

thomond2006 wrote: »

Can someone translate a summary of this conversation? :pac:

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irishbucsfan

pickarooney wrote: »

IPv6 addresses are generated automatically based on your NIC's MAC (paddy wack give a dog a bone) aren't they? Or is that just for LANs?

Coax cable modems - forgot all about those!

Only locally. Assigned like IPv4 otherwise, except the smallest possible allocation is like a /64 which is like 18 trillion trillion addresses or something silly, so theoretically exhaustion will be slightly more impossible than it was for IPv4. And there are other things like multicasting etc. which networking people get very excited over.

Crash

DOCSIS cable modems are generally not that cheap to buy seperately, but more importantly, most cable operators ship them with low level config already on them, so that the modem in use needs to have specific configuration set to be able to negotiate with the CMTS (terminating end of the coax cable).

Pretty much means that in most cases, you're stuck with the UPC modem. Not really an issue in the non-cable sphere except for mobile dongles / SIM locked devices.