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(On topic, for once.)

How about some actual useful links? That should suprise the heck out of everyone. ;'P

The Lazer Tactical message board: http://members5.boardhost.com/lazertag/index.html

More technically oriented Laserforums: http://www.laserforums.com/forum

1 Source Laser Tag forums: http://blackbelt.novahq.net/forums/

1 Source Laser Tag website, home of FXonixs homebrew laser tag gear, classifieds, and loads of links: http://www.1sourcelasertag.com/

Miles Tag, a homebrew laser tag system in progress: http://lightbrain.8m.com/mtdesign.htm

Frag Tag, a homebrew laser tag system using the same protocols as Miles Tag: http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/fragtag/index.htm

Dave Bodger's Lazer Tag info. One of the first homebrew systems, compatible with the old Worlds of Wonder Lazer Tag and Tiger Electronic Survivor Shot, with tons of options: http://www.cix.co.uk/~lasertag/lasertag.htm

Tagcon Midwest- Stargate in King Arthur's Court: http://www.tagcon.org/mw/

Steradian Tech- pro laser tag gear, quite expensive: http://www.steradiantech.com/

Tag Tek- homebrew WoW/ESS compatible gear: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sparta/setup.htm

Fiat Lux ESS compatible kits- They don't sell outside the UK, but good reference site for the rest of us: http://www.fiat-lux.org.uk/

Lazer Skirmish- Commercial site, use for ideas and inspiration: http://www.laserskirmish.co.za/

The Complete Tagger- Hints and modifications, PDF file: http://img-srv.everestwebworks.com/w2/Pictures/My% 20Files/1022260.1/tct2.pdf

Upgrading WoW guns and sensors by Public John aka Lazerbait- Faster rate of fire, linking gun to sensor, autofire, etc. by Public John of the Seattle Laser Tag group: http://members.aol.com/publicjohn/index.html

Vishay Semiconductors- IR Receiver modules page. 36 to 56KHz: http://www.vishay.com/ir-receiver-modules/

Ward's Natural Science Lens page- Glass lenses, 38mm, various focal lengths. $1.50 each: http://wardsci.com/product.asp?pn=160433

WoW/ESS signal format from Steradian- Helpful info on the signal format and frequency of WoW Lazer Tag/Survivor Shot guns and sensors. http://www.steradiantech.com/lasers/tech.html

If you are anywhere near Seattle, WA, the Seattle Laser Tag Yahoogroup and website: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/seattlelaserta g/ http://www.seattlelasertag.com/

I'm personally working on better sensor heads. 99.9% of the homebrew gear uses the Vishay remote control receiver modules, and their performance in sunlight is terrible. I am also thinking of building a system that is compatible with Survivor Shot while still supporting other options like shooter ID.

And as far as using real lasers- bad idea! Laser pointers are -not- eye safe. In fact the current crop of Class IIIa pointers are rated as a potential hazard from a -single- exposure. Even the older Class II/IIa are considered

I've written one. Have a look here

And it ain't no storm, neither.

She's one.

This, for starters.

IE can use it. Here is a JavaScript-based example of how to enable alpha transparency in IE 5.5 or better.

And here is how you force IE into properly supporting PNG transparency.

Works like a charm, doesn't introduce any MS "extensions" into your documents, and doesn't do anything if the user is smart enough to be using a web browser that actually supports standards.

On my iPod this is stored in a file called iTunesDB in the folder \iPodControl\iTunes (or /iPodControl/iTunes for those of you on Linux/Unix or OS X)

It seems to be some kind of a binary version of the xml file that is the iTunes database on your PC or Mac.

If you're really interested, this guy has tried to document the format of the file. For me the play count and ratings are not as essential to preserve as the music files themselves.

Personal info of djsmiley

Real Name: Tim Bowers
e-mail: djsmiley2k@hotmail.com
MSN Messenger: djsmiley2k@hotmail.com
Yahoo: djsmiley2k@yahoo.com
Telephone Number: 07761 484859
IP Address: 81.108.115.138 (a mere 600k NTL Cable connection)
Location: Coventry, UK

And feel free to submit an abuse report to his ISP, if his blatant trolling disturbs you in anyway.

If you say 2.999... is not the same as 3 you are getting into some pretty weird mathematics or as Cantor would say: you are "infect[ing] mathematics with the Cholera-Bacillus of infinitesimals."

PS. please reply so I can take that scan down once you have read it, thanks :).

I am just trying to reconfigure the web proxy I am using since NTL have let the default one be abused. Go here for alternative proxys and details how to change to a different one.

The song lyrics are listed HERE

If you would like to settle, please mail a check for $5000 plus lawyers fees.

I'm surprised that nobody (at least who's been modded up enough) seems to have said anything about two particular projects that attempt to deal with a couple of the main problems that developers tend to have with MSIE.

"IE7" is an Internet Explorer hack that parses standards-based CSS that you provide in a page, and mangles it so that earlier versions of IE display it how it's supposed to be displayed.

"PNG in Windows IE" is a hack that tells IE to use a separate ActiveX control to load any PNG's in the page, instead of the internal image display code. This causes it to get alpha blending right. (I think there are a few variations of this hack around the web besides the one I've linked to.)

Both are javascript hacks that you can include at the top of a page and add the appropriate construct around them so that only IE will see them. Clearly they're not perfect, and I'd be edgey about using them in important websites without a lot more testing.

But has anyone actually used them effectively? How useful are they?

I've managed to get the PNG hack working, but I still haven't been able to get IE7 going. (Possibly something to do with the server sending the wrong MIME type.)

Because Debian has pre-built images and source packages for up to and including 2.6.5 and 2.4.26?

At least provide a link to DNA music, weird stuff for sure but I actually liked some, Fractal, stuff.

There's an interview with the director (Garth Jennings) and producer (Nick Goldsmith) that makes it sound like they have their hearts in the right place, but we'll have to see the flick to know for sure.

One bad sign, this is the design for Marvin. Ick.

There's an interview with the director (Garth Jennings) and producer (Nick Goldsmith) that makes it sound like they have their hearts in the right place, but we'll have to see the flick to know for sure.

One bad sign, this is the design for Marvin. Ick.

I would be interested in a reference for that, since the 1541 serial link was so slow. If you are talking about Mindsmear that was not actually released, but a demo would have to be pretty clever to make the communication time worth while (and accurate with the screen still turned on).

It's not homemade, but this looks fucking *awesome*

For those of you not familiar, there are a number of web sites now that feature accounts of fed-up e-mail users messing with the 419 scammers. Here is one such result. Check out 419eater.

Your problems solved! Sort of, anyway - there's some caveats, and it's only for IE5.5 and above.

I think modern versions of Opera support PNG with alpha - it's really just Internet Explorer that's 'special'.

I think you might change your mind if the tables were turned around. In 1988, USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air 655, an civilian Airbus carrying 290 innocent people.

I refuse to accept that one can "mistake" an Airbus for a F-14, especially for the best equipped navy on earth. I strongly believe that if Admiral Crowe gave "a fuck about innocent people's lives", this sorry saga (and perhaps Lockerbie) would not have happened.

No US officers have been sentenced, let alone executed for this horrific crime. To this day, the US government still refuses to issue an official apology.

Please don't tell me that the poor innocent people on board Air Iran 655 were "collateral damage". When the US government values one American life to be worth thirty-three times of an Arab, it is perfectly understandable why some people might resent the US government and their actions.

When you can pirate other systems games on there as well?

As the parent poster mentions, these are often the people who have actually directly paid for them. This is nothing new. Steel baron Andrew Carnegie was not universally popular in his day, but we remember him today for his bequests, not for example his smashing of the union during the 1892 Homestead strike.

I wonder if it's possible to implement a DHTML hack for proper PNG support :)

You're too late, by about 20 years! Lenslok was developed in the 80's as a copy protection mechanism for early computer games, mostly on the Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore 64.

A special lens was distributed with the software. When the game started, it displayed a seemingly random pattern on the screen. You hold the magical lens up to the screen to unscramble the code.

This was plagued with problems - most notably that because we all used TV sets as monitors, with different sized pixels and so on, it was sometimes near-impossible to correctly descramble the code.

Ah, those were the days!!

PS You can get a Lenslok emulator for Windows - gotta love geek nostalgia!

"NORTON AV IS INSTLLED BUT NOT ENABLED: WARNING"

MS may release API's to be used by third party vendors but nowhere does it say they are writing thier own AV progie. Slashdot is wrong.

_A_ screenshot here

• Anything HHG related: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mjs2000/news.htm
• The most 'official as it gets' movie site so far: http://www.douglasadams.com/movie/

So, now we would finally know where our Nigerian Spammer friend actually is.
I am going to forward MetaCarta guys a copy of my 419 Nigerian email right away. Brilliant!

The Lynx port of Xenophobe was quite good. I think it holds up favorably after -- eep! -- 14 years. I feel old now :)

Emulator can be found here, and a system BIOS here.

It's already been done for you; check PNG in Windows IE. It uses Javascript to rewrite any IMG elements containing PNG images as SPAN elements using DXImageTransform to enable the alpha channel. Obviously Javascript has to be enabled for it to work, though...

It's a hack, but there is a fix.

It works reasonably well for most cases.

The best advice I can offer is to download and install PeerGuardian. It isn't a promise that it'll save you, but it's a level of protection you wouldn't otherwise have.

They maintain a blocklist which contains corporate IP address blocks, and acts on users submissions of IPs that connected to them at the time of accussed infringment.

Check it out, freeware and no spy crap. :0

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tim.leonard1/methlabs .htm">Peer Guardian home

I've also noticed when I have torrents open it blocks a lot of hits from MediaDefender :(

After that, you can go further and use the raw snmp tools to write perl scripts which do pretty graphing or logging or whatever. In my case, with a InsightBB cable modem, these two commands display the total number of bytes in and out:

• snmpget 149.112.50.65 ihkstk88 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInOctets.3
  snmpget 149.112.50.65 ihkstk88 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.4

(where "ihkstk88" is insightbb's community string, 149.112.50.65 is the hard-coded internal IP that my cable modem responds to)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/allencastro/knoppix/d wres.htm is the address I have got repeatedly, and it looks like, well, a mirror.

Either this redirects different browsers differently, or else this coward is himself a troll.

link

I agree and use transparent PNG's on my site. As hackish as it is, you could always use the javascript workaround.

You may not have heard and please correct me if I misheard but there aren't going to be any more vanilla IE releases. A service pack for XP does not an IE release make. Keep nagging MS, web-devs!

Phillip Dick?

Is he related to Phil Mycrackin?

If you read the analyses, there's some advice for beating chess computers.

Chess computers have large opening databases. If they can make a database move, while the human has to think, the computer gets the edge due to the reduced amount of time they need to make a database move.

During the games, Kasparov tried to play unusual moves in the opening to knock the computer out of its database as early as possible. One example from game 2 is Kasparov's move 8...Re8, which is annotated with "This move by Kasparov had never been played before in this exact position." This knocked Fritz out of its opening database, and forced it to calculate.

A more striking example of the way to beat chess computers is the great wall of pawns that dominated game 3. Chess computers cannot evaluate such positions properly. If you built a wall of pawns like that, and snuck your forces behind them, you are a good chance of winning because the computer cannot calculate deeply enough.

Some more info here and here.

I can't believe someone actually signed this :) Guess people are just used to weird religions.

Lettar!

Apparently the guy from 419eaters did just that... it really is a nicely put together site, and links directly to this.

Malware isn't so bad... it can result in pictures like this!!1

The whole exchange is here.

In one of the letter threads, he requires the scammer to identify himself on a photo, With His Chosen Password!. Of course, this password is carefully chosen in order to positively identify the business transaction partner.

Hilarious. :-)

Adabas is just a database backend and not very important, though I admit it would be nice to bundle one of the existing open source backends just to remove the need to fetch and install one.

Backends that are currently supported by both StarOffice and OpenOffice include MySQL, Postgress, and any data source exposed by ODBC 3.0, JDBC, ADO, dBase, or if you want to go low tech flat CSV files.

When most people say they want an Access-like tool, they mean a frontend, something that OpenOffice and StarOffice already have.

To help you out, the main database section of OpenOffice.org has atips and tricks section.

Then, there are the forums that have some very interesting threads on the subject...

...such as this handy little link

I know that the company anthem was once (and for all I know still is, but I hope not) commonplace in Japanese companies, and that the company in the US best-known among geeks for maintaining the same tradition is IBM. But where does it come from?

Obligatory Simpsons Reference