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Best flash games ever, orignally produced by Romp.com, led to a failed attempt at a movie. Still available here: http://www.freewebs.com/alex_cortes/

Read his stuff here:

http://www.freewebs.com/newforum/bioandpersonalstories.htm

"Andrew Meyer is a University of Florida columnist who finds writing about himself in 3rd person to be both pretentious and strange, but will complete the exercise nonetheless. Andrew tries (keyword:tries) to write mostly whimsical nonsense columns about nothing in particular, yet occasionally finds himself angry enough to rain down fire and brimstone on an unsuspecting politician or celebrity. Andrew has been compared to Dave Barry on numerous occasions, but is arrogant enough to dislike this comparison, as he finds Barry mildly amusing, yet highly overrated. Andrew realizes that he is starting to ramble, as he is wont to do, and will end his bio thusly."

" I pissed off Ken Griffey, Jr. Before I explain how, let me repeat that for a second: I pissed off Ken Griffey, Jr. So here's what happened:"

He is an attention whore who was pushing the line. He seems to have forgot that there are some serious implications when you are heckling a senator, not a baseball player.

I think its nice that thier doing this, computers for kids and all. Kinda reminds me of when Icy Bro collaborated with Milli Vanilli back in the 90's. http://www.freewebs.com/icybro

No offense to the author, but the linked article is barely informative. I don't even know how this made it to the front page. But

the subject is interesting, as there is a bunch of cool freeware software to make XP be like (or even better than) Vista. You

don't need to spend a single dollar. So this is my real list of programs to Pimp your XP:

1. Lauchy: www.launchy.com
Some may say that this is the poor man's QuickSilver. Maybe it is, but in the Windows world there are few programs as useful as

Launchy. Install it and you won't need to access your start menu anymore.

2. Quizo's Explorer toolbars: http://quizo.at.infoseek.co.jp/freeware/indexEn.ht ml
These are 2 free toolbars that make Windows Explorer as good as Directory Opus (IMHO) for free:
* QTTabBar: Adds firefox-style tabs to windows explorer. It also adds a cool incremental search feature, and a customizable

toolbar where you can add folder shortcuts, etc
* QTAddressBar: Explorer breadcrumbs!

3. FileBox eXtender: http://www.hyperionics.com/files/index.asp
This is one of the most useful little pieces of software that I've used. I adds 2 buttons to the title bar of every windows dialog

and of every windows explorer window. One button gives you access to your "favorite folders" (which you can easily change) and the

other one gives you access to your "folder history". With these, going back and forth between folders to open or save files

becomes a snap. The only problem is that the default button icons a kind of ugly, but they can be easily changed.

4. Findexer: http://tomseffect.com/
Substitutes the windows explorer sidebar for a place where you can put links to your preferred folders. If you use FileBox

eXtender (see above) this might not be as useful, but I still like to use it.

5. TaskBar Shuffle: http://www.freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshuffle.ht m
Another really useful program. With it you can reorder the window buttons in the windows taskbar. It can even automatically group

windows from the same program without collapsing them. You can also reorder the tray icons in the system tray.

6. Free Launch Bar: http://www.freelaunchbar.com/
Make the windows Quick Launch bar much more useful with this free replacement. It adds the ability to have folders inside the

quick launch bar, and have shortcuts within those folders.

7. LClock: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/ Clocks-Time-Management/LClock.shtml
A nice replacement to the windows clock in the system tray. It looks much better and is more useful as it shows a calendar when

you click on it. But the reason I recommend it is that it can also hide or reduce the size of the start menu button! Once you

start using Launchy (see above) you will not use the start menu very often, so I like to recover the taskbar real state that it

uses unnecessarily. To do so, with LClock you can reduce it by substituting the start menu image with a much smaller one.

8. MenuApp: http://www.freewaregenius.com/2006/11/02/menuapp/
Customize the explorer context menu with this tool. It comes with a lot of built-in actions, such as Command Prompt here, Create a

Folder, copy filename to path, etc.

There are other tools that you can use, but which I personally don't (although I've tried or used them in the past):

1. RocketDock: http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdoc

It's been done: "As you can see, the C++ compilers did very well, turning in the best performance for 12 of the 14 benchmarks and often by a pretty significant margin".

Find me a laser that can do direct CD/DVD printing. That is what I use my Pixma ip4300 for, it does amazing prints and it is very easy to refill the carts yourself. I use hobbicolors ink on ebay for this printer, which is excellent (and cheap!) and you can get a free 3rd party ink monitoring tool at http://www.freewebs.com/inkmon/.

Prague

Proggy music to wash your brain in DRM-free MPEG-4 AAC playable in iTunes, mplayer, WinAmp, and so on.

I'm thinking of a "listenware" license, if you download it you are obligated to listen to it once all the way through.

Especially Make It Stop is that the perfect name or what?

The open source Audacity was used for various audacious tasks in the production of this music.

I will try to put new music up a few times a year so check back once a season or so.

I will check back here later in the day for comments, suggestions, reviews, and insults.

If you like it tell your friends.

Enjoy!
-Toddhisattva

Prague

ps: no odd meter? WTF? The odd-meter monster is stuck in editing.

Prague

Proggy music to wash your brain in DRM-free MPEG-4 AAC playable in iTunes, mplayer, WinAmp, and so on.

I'm thinking of a "listenware" license, if you download it you are obligated to listen to it once all the way through.

Especially Make It Stop is that the perfect name or what?

The open source Audacity was used for various audacious tasks in the production of this music.

I will try to put new music up a few times a year so check back once a season or so.

I will check back here later in the day for comments, suggestions, reviews, and insults.

If you like it tell your friends.

Enjoy!
-Toddhisattva

Prague

ps: no odd meter? WTF? The odd-meter monster is stuck in editing.

Prague

Proggy music to wash your brain in DRM-free MPEG-4 AAC playable in iTunes, mplayer, WinAmp, and so on.

I'm thinking of a "listenware" license, if you download it you are obligated to listen to it once all the way through.

Especially Make It Stop is that the perfect name or what?

The open source Audacity was used for various audacious tasks in the production of this music.

I will try to put new music up a few times a year so check back once a season or so.

I will check back here later in the day for comments, suggestions, reviews, and insults.

If you like it tell your friends.

Enjoy!
-Toddhisattva

Prague

ps: no odd meter? WTF? The odd-meter monster is stuck in editing.

I'll pick this Pamala Jones

Unthinking nationalism is another way in which the U.S. controls it's citizens. Americans need to really think about by what measures the U.S. is "the best we have come up with as a species thus far". For most of those measures you'll find other countries ahead of you. The Japanese are healthier, the French get more action, the Venezualans are prettier, Denmark is happier, Luxembourg is richer, Finland is clearner, Canada is more libertarian, more educated and has a higher quality of life, China has more people, Russia is bigger, and Kuwait is safer.

The U.S. does have the largest christian population, one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates, one of the highest divorce rates, one of the highest prison population rates, but that's nothing to be proud of.

I've found Taskbar Shuffle to be the answer to the taskbar order problem:

http://www.freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshuffle.ht m

I just found this after years of saying "Why doesn't windows just do this by default?".

http://www.freewebs.com/vhome/

For a good rebuttal to the http://kano.net/javabench/ check out: http://www.freewebs.com/godaves/javabench_revisite d/.

http://www.freewebs.com/vampyreid/opensourceworlds .htm

If you feel like you can contribute to the project.

And yes, I know it's a freewebs site, but it's only a placeholder until our actual site is in place...

I can't keep track of the dates of each benchmark being run at the kano.net site, but you should visit: http://www.freewebs.com/godaves/javabench_revisite d/. They say some of the Java benchmarks are flawed, and once they are made more fair to C++ (i.e., not being unfair in major ways), then C++ does much better. As in, C++ almost always beats Java.

Benchmarking is easy to do wrong, and if you're getting unusual results, you may want to look into it closely.

Actually, at the kernel level, almost everything that is a file in UNIX is also a file in Windows NT. Disk files, sockets, serial ports, pipes, raw devices and busses, the display (see \Device\Video0), serial and parallel ports, USB devices, network disk files, the null device, etc. Look in the \Device directory with WinObj or WinObjEx. All of the Device objects dispense File objects to represent connections.

There are some things that aren't files, like process information and configuration information (registry key values). One thing that Windows does more consistently than UNIX is to have a single namespace for all named objects, instead of having different ones for files, events, mutexes, etc.

At higher levels, I'd have to agree that Microsoft's consistency drops off considerably.

I originally had a Commodore 64, but the first actual PC game I can remember playing and being addicted by was Castle of the Winds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_the_Winds

I received both games with my first IBM PS/2. It was the first game, after Solitare that I ever played on windows. I probably spent upwards of 100 hours playing through both games, and even have it loaded on my laptop right now.

Both games are now freeware and can be downloaded leagaly. (Drop the author, Rick Saada http://www.exmsft.com/~ricks/ , an e-mail if you like it.)

Be careful of these websites. They appear to be a bit underpowered to handle the slashdot effect.

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=4403
http://wind.prohosting.com/cotwrpg/download.html
http://digital-eel.com/files/castlewind.zip
http://www.exmsft.com/~ricks/castl11a.zip
http://www.freewebs.com/castleofthewinds/Downloads .htm

For your reading pleasure:
http://www.w3sys.com/pages.meta/benchmarks.html http://www.freewebs.com/godaves/javabench_revisite d/

In the end, the Java Runtime is doing a bunch of stuff that simply doesn't get done in C++. No manner of optimisations are going to make something look like nothing.

I just can't wait until we see sites declaring "Page will not render correctly under Microsoft IE".

Already true of my website (though I just ask if my website looks white and ugly, which is true in the case of IE, so that I can rant about the incompliance of IE with W3C standards).

Shameless linkage
http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm

This is just what I wanted! Thankyou slashdot. I have found myself a new home. http://www.freewebs.com/legodude522/

Why not Legos? http://www.freewebs.com/legodude522/computersmods. htm

I'm sorry, but the guy with glasses and a whtie beard on this photo doesn't exactly look a kid to me.

There's nothing wrong with gnome. Even the spatial Nautilus doesn't bother me since I can turn it off. I love it. It looks good and everything just works. I'm quite a newbie so I really haven't tried out anything else than KDE and Gnome, but from these, Gnome is my choice. And no I don't loathe KDE, I just prefer Gnome. Here's my desktop. I like it the way it is. My DeskTop

Since Salon is quite restrictive in access, I put a DRM-free txt/html version on my blog along with a review.

The story itself is here(txt) and here(html).

A review of the story is also on my blog

As is par for Cory's work, the topics are cutting edge - dealing with ebay-driven in-game economics, dietary restrictions on kids,anti-globalization criticism, puns on the Bradbury/Moore controversy and female rights a la SuicideGirls(?). In another time, a little girl might play with a golliwog, a Barbie or a teaset. In this post-modern age, she is a skilled character in a game that borrows from Everquest, Ray Bradbury, Quake and Tolkien - more a killer than a wayfarer. Her participation in, and then disavowal of, an in-game conspiracy to terminate characters who produce in-game gold to be sold for real money on ebay, is bracketed with the onset of youthful diabetes, induced perhaps by the sweetshops just outside the 500 m sugar-free zone at her school.

Since Salon is quite restrictive in access, I put a DRM-free txt/html version on my blog along with a review.

The story itself is here(txt) and here(html).

A review of the story is also on my blog

As is par for Cory's work, the topics are cutting edge - dealing with ebay-driven in-game economics, dietary restrictions on kids,anti-globalization criticism, puns on the Bradbury/Moore controversy and female rights a la SuicideGirls(?). In another time, a little girl might play with a golliwog, a Barbie or a teaset. In this post-modern age, she is a skilled character in a game that borrows from Everquest, Ray Bradbury, Quake and Tolkien - more a killer than a wayfarer. Her participation in, and then disavowal of, an in-game conspiracy to terminate characters who produce in-game gold to be sold for real money on ebay, is bracketed with the onset of youthful diabetes, induced perhaps by the sweetshops just outside the 500 m sugar-free zone at her school.

Depending on your personal veiwpoint, my beliefs on the beginning of the earth can be considered valid or not... I basically have combined The Bible and scientific data to make one of the most practical, in my opinoin, theories out there.

I have a short paper [freewebs.com] online, if you want to get the details. (The theory is probably elsewhere, but this is just what I came up with.) - ki85squared

Sorry for not keeping tabs on this post that I made. It's only by chance that I happened back upon this thread.

Anyhow, please read this Halo 2 thread at your leisure. It contains the contents of a post that Bungie deleted from their forums. It also has a link to a site dedicated to that single forum post. I don't buy all the connections the poster made, but it is clear that what was released as "Halo 2" is not all that it was intended to be, not to mention all that Xbox supporters are being led to believe.

No, it's obviously a collection of several triforces...

It's understandable that you don't know about it, but the case is that lots of people in Barcelona (the main city in Catalonia) just don't agree being part of Spain. Here's a site that explains this in English.

Truecrypt (mirror 1 [freewebtown.com], mirror 2) does the same as PGPdisk but is open-source and seems to still be actively developed, unlike PGP658ckt. It also doesn't have the drive size limitations of some competing commercial products.

Damien

Truecrypt (mirror 1, mirror 2) does the same as PGPdisk but is open-source and seems to still be actively developed, unlike PGP658ckt. It also doesn't have the drive size limitations of some competing commercial products.

Damien

There's allready Rogure

There is a version of Rogue for GBA, which happens to work quite well, at : http://www.freewebs.com/drussell/

My kite kept getting tangled in its string and went spiraling into buildings. Lose more cameras that way :-)

Hi ryewel, There is a distro based on knoppix called flonix specially designed to fit on an USB memory stick. But your laptop is obviously too old to be able to boot from an USB memory stick. In my opinion the best solution is to use GRUB to boot it from the floppy drive. You can find a tutorial at this URL that explains how to create a floppy disk with GRUB to load the OS on the memory stick.

DeadAim does it. http://www.freewebs.com/civman2/trans.jpg

http://www.freewebs.com/kinomakoto/ladvampire.html

http://www.freewebs.com/kinomakoto/lv-0305.html

It is here: http://www.freewebs.com/kinomakoto/lv-0305.html

For modem users - Cube 419

For cable users - Scammers Nightmare

And here's an alternative - Lad Vampire

Come on, don't be shy, give them some good slashdotting - it's good fun for the whole family!

The Lad Vampire attack downloads 5 large images from the 50-something target sites continuously. It doesn't require refreshing or turning off cache, and uses all available bandwidth. Opera tells me I've got 10,000 images so far for about 240MB in just under 20 mins.

try here to start with 72

Would the existing GBA developers be discouraged from creating if they only sold 1 copy for every 100,000 that were played? You bet. But look at all the freeware GBA software that's out there. A good example is the Rogue port. It's great fun. I'd be pretty happy about the money I spent on a GBAsp and a Flash cart even if that was the only thing on offer. It's a freely available port of a program made first made available even before the games industry existed. There may not be a games industry without these draconian laws, but since there are already people releasing free games I'm sure that making money and copyright are not high on their list of priorities.

(Cynical aside: Nintendo aren't protecting their developers, they're protecting their marketing budget. It's these obscene marketing budgets that reduce the profitability of modern games, not piracy.)

Mirror for the site.

Mirror for when site is down.

Had it been an election by the people for the people, Gore would be president.

Not necessarily. This graphic puts the 2000 election results in a different light.