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Hey my thread is still alive!! Hey @msrkmjb you have done an awesome job maintaining and updating this thread. I moved to the US to do my masters and have had no time to do a lot of the things I used too (including the LTT forum). It's great to see it still helping people!

Spent a lot of money upgrading my Husky from a Clarkdale platform to an Ivy Bridge platform as well as a new SSD, RAM and GPU. So I have no money left. I think a Lurcher crossed with something, with an overclocked 950 and XMBC, being used a media server will be beneficial for all involved.

Weirdly the link has been taken down after I rang to show interest. I understand them doing that I have agreed to adopt her, but I haven't yet...

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That may be true actually. Thanks for that. Will do shortly. You are correct, it does have a 950. A strong CPU but is starting to show its age. I will be installing a Linux distro on it and using it as media server. Different breeds have different attitudes, needs and temperaments. These different traits are better suited to different environments. So it helps to know.

Hey guys; So I am getting a new dog to live alongside my Husky. I found a lovely puppy I want to adopt. It is a lurcher - however the adoption home are unsure what it is crossed with. They have ideas, but nothing for sure. What do you guys think? Any ideas? (Probably not the best forum to inquire about dog breeds. But I really cannot be bothered to sign up elsewhere. Thanks Rob Here she is - a 12 week old Lurcher named Luna.

If the majority want it removed then I will. However I am not convinced that W3Schools is a bad website. I feel most people are just going along with others in regards to bad mouthing it, and simply regurgitating information from W3Fools. I still think (Although there are some flaws) that W3Schools is a great reference for web development.

It doesn't matter really, unless you want to do something very specific with the language. Most of the concept of general purpose languages(C++, Java, C#) are transferable anyway. I picked my first language by what IDE I liked the most - it was Eclipse so I learnt Java. Once i was fairly comfortable with Java, picking up C# was not really difficult at all.

Morning/Afternoon/Evening all I'm looking for a book on Object Oriented Programming. I don't want to learn a language so a Java book with a few chapters of OOP is not what I am after. I am also not looking for a beginner book if possible. Anyone have any personal recommendations? Thanks guys.

With all due respect, that is a terrible idea. Using mostly college/high school programmers (I know some are more experienced but they are mostly younger guys like myself) you want to take down and replace THE biggest video hosting site in the world? To do that we would need a lot of money, programmers are not going to develop a project this big for free. Even if a site can be made that is somewhat respectable - who's going to upload videos there? The majority of YouTubers you watch are being paid by Google to upload videos. Do you think Linus is just going to leave a paid job to upload to our new site without an audience?

I mean by no means is Codeacademy bad. It has taught you how to write HTML right? Finish all the lessons and you will learn some good stuff. Then from there may be get a more advanced book and continue.

That is exactly what I am after. So where the mattress is in that picture, my desk would go. Then my mattress would sit nicely on the top.

Nope I am fine with permanently raising it from the ground

So interesting question on how to achieve my goal. I have a small bedroom and sit on my bed to use my PC. This is very uncomfortable when compared to using a chair. So I want to essentially raise the height of my double bed in order to put a desk underneath it and be able to sit on a chair. Can anybody think of the best way to achieve this? Hang it from the ceiling perhaps? However it will have to support a 150lb guy and hopefully a 120lb girl every now and then Any ideas?