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31 Mar 2007, 11:25 am

Just in case anyone is able to see it, and has for some reason (like me) not realised that it was about to start, the new series of Doctor Who starts at 7pm tonight on BBC1.

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01 Apr 2007, 6:28 pm

PBS is also showing Doctor Who on Saturday nights, but I'm not sure about the time it will air.

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01 Apr 2007, 10:37 pm

Too bad I don't have the BBC. Or a TV, lol. I used to watch Dr Who all the time when I lived at home.

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01 Apr 2007, 10:46 pm

I cannot get my aerial to work...needs fixing grrr. I need to find someone to record these for me.

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02 Apr 2007, 3:20 am

Prime TV was showing repeats on Monday nights but now it isn't any more. (They show Stargate instead.)

Anyone know anything about proposed Sarah Jane / K9 spinoff?

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02 Apr 2007, 8:14 am

ping-machine wrote:

Anyone know anything about proposed Sarah Jane / K9 spinoff?

There was a pilot episode shown on the BBC over Christmas. The first series is scheduled to be aired in the autumn - it's called The Sarah Jane Adventures .

It's at the "family safe" end of the spectrum (unlike Torchwood :lol:

). I was quite happy watching it, but it is definitely aimed at the kids market.

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02 Apr 2007, 2:50 pm

Of course, I'm not going to get this series for several months until Sci-Fi starts airing it, and I'll probably never see the spin-offs :roll: .

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03 Apr 2007, 12:58 pm

Since I'm in the States, and don't get cable, I watched the series online.

And I'm brokenhearted... I'm gonna miss Rose. I think I fell in love with her. :heart:

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05 Apr 2007, 1:32 am

Yeah. Somehow Catherine Tate just doesn't seem right as a Doctor Who companion. (All I can think is how crap her comedy show was / is.)

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05 Apr 2007, 7:12 am

ping-machine wrote:

Yeah. Somehow Catherine Tate just doesn't seem right as a Doctor Who companion. (All I can think is how crap her comedy show was / is.)

Ah! Not totally crap. She can be extremely good at times. I'd overall agree though, it's a pain having to sit through all the "less than perfect" stuff, just for the odd gem.

And... I was going to post a spoiler here, but I won't, someone else can do that, or you can figure out how to do rot13:

Fur jnf whfg gur Puevfgznf fcrpvny, bar-bss pbzcnavba. Gur arj pbzcnavba vf n zhpu zber vagrerfgvat bar.

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05 Apr 2007, 7:33 am

Gur Grbbnag/Cvcse rbzovbngvba jne irel tbbq gubhtu. V ubcr gurl pna zngpu vg.

Good first episode though.

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05 Apr 2007, 8:20 am

ExeterChris wrote:

Gur Grbbnag/Cvcse rbzovbngvba jne irel tbbq gubhtu. V ubcr gurl pna zngpu vg.

Good first episode though.

I have a feeling that your rot13 has rotted a little, wet or dry, I'm not sure. I could not understand your banter. Words 2, 3 and half of 4? Cabbage crates over the briney?

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05 Apr 2007, 8:28 am

2,3,4 should be

Graanag/Cvcre pbzovbngvba

I think.

I want to work in cryptography when I leave uni. Looks like I need some practice :oops:

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05 Apr 2007, 9:23 am

ExeterChris wrote:

2,3,4 should be

Graanag/Cvcre pbzovbngvba

I think.

I want to work in cryptography when I leave uni. Looks like I need some practice :oops:

Still not quite there... a pbzovangvba. And, I agree.
I have to say I cheat. Using Linux, I just have "rot13" available directly from the command line. Under XP, I wrote myself a little C# proglet that did cut&paste rot13 translation for me.
Alternatively, the following C code will do fine...

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  int c;
  while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {
    unsigned char d = (c & ~('a' - 'A')) - 'A';
    putchar(d >= 26 ? c : d < 13 ? c + 13 : c - 13);
  }
  return 0;
}

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05 Apr 2007, 9:53 am

Lau wrote:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  int c;
  while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {
    unsigned char d = (c & ~('a' - 'A')) - 'A';
    putchar(d >= 26 ? c : d < 13 ? c + 13 : c - 13);
  }
  return 0;
}

Unfortunately that means nothing to me. I can do basic programming in MATLAB, and that's it. I really should try and learn some more, but I dropped computing at the end of year nine.

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05 Apr 2007, 12:46 pm

Ahah! forget all that tatty C code. I've just added extension "Mnenhy" to my SeaMonkey. it said it would work for Mozilla, so i took the chance and it worked. It certainly also works for Firefox. It lets me just do rot13 (and a mass of other stuff) straight off, in place, in here, and in emails. Lovely. How did I live without it?

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