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Just for starters:

http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/aquaria (official repository, with post-Humble Bundle patches from several people)
http://bitbucket.org/_Agent/aquaria
http://achurch.org/cgi-bin/hg/aquaria

(Not to say the others aren't undergoing development as well; Aquaria is just the only one of those four that really captured my interest.)

Speaking as a former Atari 800XL owner, no. In fact, it got to a point where you could memorize the exact pattern of beepbeeeepbeenbeepbeeeeenbeepbeepbebp..*drive rev.. drive rev*...*beep beeeeep been beeeeen beep...*... and have your own little internal count-down.

You lucky folks with a disk drive had it good. I had to sit around and wait while my Atari 410 cassette recorder shoveled its bits into the system at an amazing 40 bytes per second. (At least it let you hear the audio track, so you could have cassettes that played music while they loaded.)

Sometimes you just don't want your data to be compressed; you want to be able to tell the OS to load the data from storage and have it right there, ready for you to use. Sometimes you just can't afford the overhead of decompression. But PNG, reasonably enough (I suppose) for network graphics, requires all images to be compressed; you can't say "no compression".(*) BMP, on the other hand, is uncompressed by default; aside from the line order problems (which are easily solved by pre-flipping the image), that makes it perfect for cases like these. So that's what PNG doesn't do that BMP does.

(*) You can play games by attaching fake compression headers, sort of like what was done to work around the GIF compression patents. In fact, I did. But at that point, you might as well just use something like BMP which is uncompressed in the first place.

Obviously I need sleep. So here's another mirror.

Developers [mirror]

Try this patch.

I took a quick look on that patch, and on a first look it looks good. I'm surely going to try that out some day, because it is a feature I have often missed.

Try this patch. It's worked fine for me for the last few years.

Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!

At least, I can't think of any other explanation for the continuing proliferation of Windows software . . .

Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!

At least, I can't think of any other explanation for the continuing proliferation of Windows software . . .

Shame on Sony. Now, a company like Microsoft really knows how to treat its developers

This is insane and something is fishy if x86 hardware is this demanding.

Well, I've got a VIA-based server sitting here that draws about 30 watts for the whole machine, so it's certainly not the x86 architecture itself.

This just in:
Newer! Developers - The Musical (6,088,224 bytes)

3 minutes of non-stop "Developers" music video.
faster mirror

Hilariously funny!

Who's that fatty guy?!?!! :D :D :) Hahahahah!!!! and that pic is from 1996 now imagine how fat he got meanwhile!!! HAHAHHAHAHA!!

Oh, in case you're one of the young ones and don't understand that last one, click here for the version that panders to your generation.

Suuuure Stevie! That Ballmer, he cracks me up.

With all the MSIE versions combined, like this.

Note how MSIE is showing a slight downward trend over the last year, while Mozilla and "Other" are growing. Granted, the difference is still huge, but if Longhorn keeps being delayed, who knows what will happen?

Though if his server stays up the way it has been and mine blows up I am going to feel sooo stupid . . .

IRC2 is the protocol that's been in use for use.

How about an IRC3 protocol?

Been there, done that..
A BIND 8 patch has been released to do exactly what you're describing. This was done back when ICANN pulled its nasty tricks the first time around.

Mirrors here or here or here.

http://achurch.org/lists.tar.bz2 (until I get slashdotted)

Mirror here.

There is an available patch for BIND 8:

This page provides a patch to BIND 8 to ignore the wildcard A record Verisign is now returning for unregistered .com/.net domains. It was cooked up over 10 minutes of pure anger and has not been properly tested; it would be better to be able to specify which IPs to ignore in the configuration file. Suggestions or improved patches are very much welcomed. (Note that this patch causes SERVFAIL results; NXDOMAIN would be better, but I'm not that well versed in the BIND code.)

This patch was made against BIND 8.4.1.

Interesting note about the bosozoku kid, but I suspect that that's because he isn't actually violating any laws--it isn't until recently that some local governments (Hiroshima comes to mind, can't remember whether it was the city or the prefecture) started taking action--and it's fairly well known that the police don't take action without a sound legal basis. I would agree, however, that society as a whole needs to take more responsibility to deter bosozoku and similar problems.

As far as traffic laws not being enforced, I suspect that's partly due to reluctance to get involved in others' matters, and partly due to the general view that as long as nothing bad happens, breaking the rules is okay. (On the other hand, a friend of mine had her license suspended for stopping less than the requisite three seconds at a stop sign with no traffic around, so it looks like the laws are enforced sometimes...)

The number of disaffected Japanese ojisan going crazy and blowing up office buildings is very tiny,

Actually, I didn't mean to suggest the 30+ people were committing the crimes--but that their endless wailing about the state of the Japanese economy has almost certainly had a negative influence on the children who have grown up listening to it. (I wrote an article on my Japanese home page discussing this very issue, though it's rather lopsided in discussing only this aspect of juvenile crime.) There was a poll done of schoolchildren a few years ago in which one of the questions asked the children to draw a picture representing their image of the future, and 25% or so turned in black or mostly black papers. Not a good sign.

It really makes me sad looking at this country and how the culturally based general apathy and lack of respect for others (interestingly, this is supposed to be one of the big things that the Japanese supposedly have) has brought the societal climate to one of edginess and frequent outbursts of anger. I ride from Shinjuku to Chiba every day, twice. I see this lack of respect played out every single day.

I'd guess the majority of the offenders are in their teens or 20's? I likewise see that frequently from that age group. As to why other people don't stop them, that's probably due not so much to apathy as to the fact that said teens and 20's offenders won't hesitate to injure or kill anyone who annoys them; most "traditional" Japanese are probably scared shitless of the younger generation. I don't know how long you've been in Japan, but there was a rash of incidents along those lines two or three years ago--one at Sangenjaya station where a 40-or-so businessman got beaten to death by four college students because one's foot bumped into the other particularly sticks in my mind.

(This is probably getting off-topic for the article; feel free to E-mail me at achurch@achurch.org if you'd like to continue the discussion.)

Interesting note about the bosozoku kid, but I suspect that that's because he isn't actually violating any laws--it isn't until recently that some local governments (Hiroshima comes to mind, can't remember whether it was the city or the prefecture) started taking action--and it's fairly well known that the police don't take action without a sound legal basis. I would agree, however, that society as a whole needs to take more responsibility to deter bosozoku and similar problems.

As far as traffic laws not being enforced, I suspect that's partly due to reluctance to get involved in others' matters, and partly due to the general view that as long as nothing bad happens, breaking the rules is okay. (On the other hand, a friend of mine had her license suspended for stopping less than the requisite three seconds at a stop sign with no traffic around, so it looks like the laws are enforced sometimes...)

The number of disaffected Japanese ojisan going crazy and blowing up office buildings is very tiny,

Actually, I didn't mean to suggest the 30+ people were committing the crimes--but that their endless wailing about the state of the Japanese economy has almost certainly had a negative influence on the children who have grown up listening to it. (I wrote an article on my Japanese home page discussing this very issue, though it's rather lopsided in discussing only this aspect of juvenile crime.) There was a poll done of schoolchildren a few years ago in which one of the questions asked the children to draw a picture representing their image of the future, and 25% or so turned in black or mostly black papers. Not a good sign.

It really makes me sad looking at this country and how the culturally based general apathy and lack of respect for others (interestingly, this is supposed to be one of the big things that the Japanese supposedly have) has brought the societal climate to one of edginess and frequent outbursts of anger. I ride from Shinjuku to Chiba every day, twice. I see this lack of respect played out every single day.

I'd guess the majority of the offenders are in their teens or 20's? I likewise see that frequently from that age group. As to why other people don't stop them, that's probably due not so much to apathy as to the fact that said teens and 20's offenders won't hesitate to injure or kill anyone who annoys them; most "traditional" Japanese are probably scared shitless of the younger generation. I don't know how long you've been in Japan, but there was a rash of incidents along those lines two or three years ago--one at Sangenjaya station where a 40-or-so businessman got beaten to death by four college students because one's foot bumped into the other particularly sticks in my mind.

(This is probably getting off-topic for the article; feel free to E-mail me at achurch@achurch.org if you'd like to continue the discussion.)

Preliminary (as in, it seems to work for me) BIND 8 patch that I just cooked up available here.

It's true--screenshot here.

Unless you recognize the name, you'd have no way to tell [Hiroshima] apart from any other gleaming Japanese city.

Except for the Genbaku (Atomic Bomb) Dome sitting right squat in the middle of the city. That is still as it was 58 years ago, and is probably what the original poster was referring to. Seeing that symbol of destruction really makes you think (and if not, then with all due respect you've got problems).

Note that 100% of Japanese cities were bombed flat in WWII, so all buildings are less than 50 years old (even without the bombing, earthquakes would keep destroying them).

Wrong on all counts. Plenty of Japanese cities (though granted mostly smaller ones) escaped being bombed, and even the ones that were bombed were not "bombed flat"--even Tokyo has a fair number of buildings lasting from before the war. Besides, Japanese buildings are built to withstand earthquakes; one wooden temple building in Kyoto (Sanjusangendo) has been standing for over 700 years.

Nihonjin de wa nai keredo, nihongo wa hanasemasu ^_^
I live and work in Japan, hence the funny backslashes. See my homepage in English or Nihongo.

Nihonjin de wa nai keredo, nihongo wa hanasemasu ^_^
I live and work in Japan, hence the funny backslashes. See my homepage in English or Nihongo.

Came with Visual Studio 6.0. Screenshot here.

Here's proof (current as of when this VC was purchased: 2001) which I keep handy for disbelievers like you.

Linux for Playstation requires the addition of a hard drive and whatnot, which can not then be used for gaming

Wrong on the latter. It's not easy, but with a quick kernel patch and an extra computer on the LAN it's doable. Instructions here (Japanese only at the moment, if there's enough demand I'll see about doing an English translation).

Disclaimer: Sony probably wants to shoot me for making it possible.

Maybe my company purchased a version of VC++ with source code, I don't know, but I have fclose.c installed in \Program Files\DevStudio\VC98\CRT\SRC. At any rate, here are debugger screenshots of a dummy program before and at the beginning of the fclose() call. From the #ifdef's nearby, it looks like somebody screwed up when they were adding multithreading support.

Maybe my company purchased a version of VC++ with source code, I don't know, but I have fclose.c installed in \Program Files\DevStudio\VC98\CRT\SRC. At any rate, here are debugger screenshots of a dummy program before and at the beginning of the fclose() call. From the #ifdef's nearby, it looks like somebody screwed up when they were adding multithreading support.

"Out Of Order".

Here's a patch to put it back.

Bah, I didn't need that 49 karma anyway...

This is only valid if ssh is allowed from the site your trying to escape.

Then set up an SSH server listening on port 443 on the machine you want to send to, and tunnel through your proxy as if you were doing an SSL connection. Works fine for me, though YMMV depending on the fascistness of your sysadmin. Ugly source code here for anyone interested.

I've got a proposal for a new IRC protocol (very much a work in progress) sitting around, if you're interested; among other things, it allows redundant connections between servers. Comments are welcome (but "we-don't-need-another-IRC-protocol" flames are not).

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