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These look good on 21″ CRT monitors. Of course you can crop them for wide screen monitors too.

a yellow circle flame spiral.

and

a yellow flame with square middle.

Don’t forget the full gallery is here

The guide is available here

This is one of my best images I created. Its a panoramic image of Avoriaz taken in 2007.

This is another I took in Avoriaz a few years before.

Feel free to give it a go.

Neil

I couldn’t figure out the problem, till I realised that %E, scientific notation, isnt supposed to be used for doubles.

Its very surprising that printf works one way, but the scanf doesnt work on the way back.

I wrote this little test program. It clearly shows that you should always is &lf when reading and writing doubles.

#include <stdio.h>
 
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
 
  const char * str = "-1.234E003";
  double d = 0;
 
  // check scanf 
  printf("  scanf\n");
  sscanf(str, "%E", &d);
  printf("%%E = %lfE\n", d);
 
  d = 0;
  sscanf(str, "%G", &d);
  printf("%%G = %lf\n", d);
 
  d = 0;
  sscanf(str, "%f", &d);
  printf("%%f = %lf\n", d);
 
  d = 0;
  sscanf(str, "%lf", &d);
  printf("%%lf = %lf\n", d);
 
  // now check printf
  printf("  printf\n");
  printf("%%E = %E\n", d);
  printf("%%G = %G\n", d);
  printf("%%f = %f\n", d);
  printf("%%lf = %lf\n", d);
 
  return 0;
}

When you compile this and run it you get this

  scanf
%E = 0.000000E
%G = 0.000000
%f = 0.000000
%lf = -1234.000000
  printf
%E = -1.234000E+003
%G = -1234
%f = -1234.000000
%lf = -1234.000000

Clear the printf works fine but the scanf cant cope with the doubles.

I’m not sure whether its documented what should happen when you use the incorrect printf or scanf variables (e.g %d) with the incorrect argument type (i.e float not a integer).

The video will follow. I have nearly processed it all, but there is a hell of a lot of footage.

Here is just a select few images

Woody knackered after a late night

Cheesy Coz

Ben Sitting

Mike Posing

The full gallery is here

The gallery is here.

There are lots of photographs but most of them are very good.

Myself, Mike, Steve P and Steve W all went, but Steve W broke his back at around 11am on the first day.  This means there isnt alot of Steve W.

This is one of Steve W before the accident.

Mike ready to go.

Steve waiting for Mike.

Where were we?

Steve and Mike bombing down.

Steve W working hard.

The view down into Avoriaz

I really did take a lot of photos this trip. I had to redesign the gallery pages to cope with the sheer number of the images. I now made the gallery page have multiple gallery pages. Each one showing 21 images (currently).

We had lots of powder the first few days then it went really sunny and nice. Here is a select few of the photos I took. The complete gallery is available here

A hut in the powder

The church in Lech am Arlberg

The Omeshorn overlooking Lech am Arlberg

Me and Steve on the chair lift in the sun.

Relaxing at lunch

The view down to Lech am Arlberg

I’m really thinking of getting another Audi, but I thought I would check around and see what else I could get.

I was looking at Opel, mainly to see how much the Opel GT (Speedster/Spider) was, but I found a 200 bhp Astra for ~ €25k

The Opel GT is only ~€22k and does have 250 bhp, but its a little small for every day use.

You can get a VW Golf GTI for around €26k too.

You can get an Audi A3 with 200 bhp for around €27k

Its about €27k for the 200bhp Honda Civic Type R

It would be good to have a 200bhp car but I really dont know if I can justify it. You can get large, more efficient cars. My A4 is only around 125 bhp. Well it was when new, its 11 years old now so its probably even less.

Oh and I nearly forgot the Ford Focus ST. Its 225bhp and around €27k

Mazda also do a 191 kW (259 bhp) Mazda 3for ~€26k

All prices are current from German websites.

I recently updated to Firefox 3 rc3 and I lost this setting.  After a little searching I found that you simply need to add

/* Puts the tabbar at the bottom of firefox */
#content > tabbox { -moz-box-direction: reverse; }

to the following file.

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\
Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxx.default\chrome\userChrome.css

You may need to create the file as it doesn’t exist by default.

Once you restart firefox, the tabs are at the bottom again.