Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

2009-01-12 Thread Jake Anderson
Daniel Pittman wrote: Kevin Shackleton writes: On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 23:11 +1030, ishwor wrote: Hi Jake and all, Jake Anderson wrote: office works is selling 1TB western digital external drives for $178. Not to discourse you/others venture into buying a 1TB WD drive b

Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

2009-01-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
Kevin Shackleton writes: > On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 23:11 +1030, ishwor wrote: >> Hi Jake and all, >> Jake Anderson wrote: >> > office works is selling 1TB western digital external drives for $178. > >> Not to discourse you/others venture into buying a 1TB WD drive >> but I bought it last month from

Re: [SLUG] comments in scripts and source code

2009-01-12 Thread jam
On Monday 12 January 2009 20:18:39 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > A quick set of three basic guidelines for comments. I find these get > my through most situations. > > 1. The code says what you are doing, the comments say WHY you are doing it. > > 2. The code is there to teach people who aren't

Re: [SLUG] Re: Sharpening an image.

2009-01-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
Jake Anderson writes: > Daniel Bush wrote: >> wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote: [... sharpening images ...] > Once you have the images (i'd try bmp to preserve as much detail as > you can) Windows bitmap files offer no significant benefit over compress lossless image formats such as PNG; was th

Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

2009-01-12 Thread Kevin Shackleton
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 23:11 +1030, ishwor wrote: > Hi Jake and all, > Jake Anderson wrote: > > office works is selling 1TB western digital external drives for $178. > Not to discourse you/others venture into buying a 1TB WD drive > but I bought it last month from OW and it blew up on me [the board

Re: [SLUG] comments in scripts and source code

2009-01-12 Thread Sebastian Spiess
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Adam and Michael, that was exactly what I was after. I sort of thought about that line but was not sure. Cheers, seb Adam Kennedy wrote: > A quick set of three basic guidelines for comments. I find these get > my through most situations.