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You want flash games? YOU GOT 'EM!
I have probably a gig of flash games I've downloaded to my computer. A lot of it is crap, actually. But there are several that are quite addictive and I thought I would share.

Most of these you can grab and save locally. Since I had most of these saved, I just Googled for the game names and linked the first or second or third result that came up. Most I checked to make sure the site would load without popups and teh game was still there and would load. I included the name in case the result doesn't work as it should (such as a site getting slashdotted! - I could have used coral cache [.nyud.net] on these, but I was unsure if it'd work with the flash files as well. So, if one doesn't work, you can always Google the name. :p

Also, if you saved the flash files locally, you can also download a standalone flash player, courtesy of Adobe, so that you can play the games on your home PC as well. Standalone debug versions are apparently available for Mac, Linux and Windows.

Below is a list of some games I thought I'd share with y'all. Some have probably been mentioned (n, dice wars), but those that were in the main article (portal flash version) I've skipped.

Unreal - http://www.armorgames.com/games/unrealflash_popup.html

Unreal 2007 (Newer version of above) - http://www.addictinggames.com/unrealflash2007.html

Tactics Core (isometric turn-based rpg fighter) - http://www.ugoplayer.com//games/tacticscore.html

Tactics 100 (Newer version of above) - http://www.gamebrew.com/games/blogs/tactics100/play.php

The Batman: Cobblepot Captor (side scroller) - http://www.unoriginal.co.uk/batman.html

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (side scroller) - http://www.arcadestreet.com/play-batman-mystery-of-the-batwoman.htm

Russian Affairs (side scroller) - http://russian-affairs.freeonlinegames.com/
Space Bounty (side scroller) - http://www.diggygames.com/play-4434-Space_Bounty.html
The Professionals II (side scroller) - http://www.flasharcade.com/shooting-games/the-professionals-ii-game.html

http://neave.com/games/ (which includes cool old school games like Space Invaders, Tetris, Asteroids, Snake, Frogger, Simon Says, Tic-tac-toe, and... Hexxagon ? )

Tetris (Kind of like Tetris Grand Master, from what I can tell) - http://www.gdward.plus.com/site/flash/tetris/

Bubble Shooter - http://absolutist.com/online/bubbles/

PacXon - http://www.addictinggames.com/pacxon.html

Deal or No Deal - http://www.nbc.com/Deal_or_No_Deal/game/flash.shtml

Plumber - http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-1082.htm

Bunch - http://www.miniclip.com/games/bunch/en/

Tanks - http://www.2dplay.com/tanks/tanks-play.htm

n game - http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/n.html

Dice Wars (Risk) - http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html

In addition to TAB, the ABC format is also being threatened by Hal Leonard Publishing. ABC is probably more of a threat to their revenue stream because it can easily be translated into midi and into sheet music. A lot of traditional musicians use this format and the many ABC readers that are available online. Many prefer this to published books not just because it is free, but because the music is closer to the way the songs are really played.

On a related note I've recently noticed this post about getting into the theory of cryptography. I don't know anything about the author nor the topic so I cannot verify is the advice is good, but it sounds reasonable.
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bit OT, but have to share. Having your car's ECU remapped isn't illegal!
Had by Skoda diesel engine remapped on Friday by Jabbasport in the UK. 1.9PD 130 engine now running at 193BHP, and 311lbs/foot of torque, and it's also marginally more economical. Fast as hell, too.
See http://www.richarris.plus.com/jabba.jpg for a dynoplot showing before and after...
This is a good example of geeks using their skills to improve on existing products via some skillful tinkering.

probably looks familiar to most Slashdot readers.

Google's what is not Unix?

... but please note that the possessive form of it does not take an apostrophe any more than ours, yours or hers do.

We have a learning opportunity here.

"Google is" is not a contraction.

The only other valid reason to use an apostrophe in this sentence is if Google somehow possesed the condition of "Not".

Although Google has indexed much, they still have not found a way to posess conditions.

Here's a great web reference for apostrophe usage.

It seems mirrors and SF download pages are slow or down... try downloading from :

http://agoodm.plus.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7

- or-

http://amsn.amnestysalinas.org/

Torrent links are available at :

http://amsn.recordingground.com/viewtopic.php?t=10 3

http://www.farrer.plus.com/iwipe/ ?

I think you're confused or you woke up to early.

Pumped into a capacitor from a diode looks like a clipped sine. Like (drawn from memory) http://www.mauve.plus.com/sine.gif

You've got it backwards, parent poster was right.

No, I think you'll find the "clipped sine" is just half-wave rectified AC. That's what you get with just a single diode, nothing else, no capacitor involved. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifier.

Your second diagram resembles the half-wave rectifier with a "smoothing capacitor" (or as Wikipedia calls it, a "Resevoir capacitor"). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_capacitor.

The worst switch-mode PSU we have built at university (2nd year) had the most embarassing efficiency ... of around 60%. I made various improvements and got the efficiency to around 75%, IIRC.

From memory, if the inductor coil (gauge of the copper, turn radius, etc) and its core can be chosen carefully with a high-frequency switching design (250KHz and beyond) then efficiencies greater than 95% can be achieved.

I'm with NoseBag on this one... something is completely screwy to get a 40% efficiency. I'm not the most experienced SMPS designer in the world, but the DC-DC converter's I've built usually collapse way before you load them down hard enough to end up with 40% efficiency - the feedback loop in the switching circuit just can't do its thing any more.

Of course, the designs I did are probably quite different to what we find in an ATX PSU...

Pumped into a capacitor from a diode looks like a clipped sine.

Like (drawn from memory) http://www.mauve.plus.com/sine.gif

Not http://www.mauve.plus.com/shark.gif .

Which is quite different.

The meters both read the first correctly, but were unable to accurately integrate the second.

Pumped into a capacitor from a diode looks like a clipped sine.

Like (drawn from memory) http://www.mauve.plus.com/sine.gif

Not http://www.mauve.plus.com/shark.gif .

Which is quite different.

The meters both read the first correctly, but were unable to accurately integrate the second.

Banking with CitiBank supports terrorism?

In a sense you can say Citigroup does support terrorism, state terrorism. Citigroup is a leading financier of the Three Gorges Dam China is building and China has used the military to forcibly relocate millions of people who are being displaced and will have their land flooded by the dam. The flooding will also destroy valuable archeological sites. Yet according to this news item from CNN there's already problems with the dam, cracks found in Three Gorges Dam.

Maybe CmdrTaco could use it to search for tips on apostrophe usage.

I thought everybody had a wooden PC case ?

My mate is on his second one now

http://www.alienonline.plus.com/id86.htm

Not much to see, I have managed to mirror it (not sure if mirroring it produced a woring version on my server tho... http://agoodm.plus.com/www.masswerk.at/jsuix/

Sorry, I missed a quote. The document is here if anyone wants to try and duplicate the result.

No.

Real crypto (they type the government uses to protect top secret data) is free:

• Public domain C/C++ AES code
• DJB also has a public-domain C and assembly AES code
• Dr. Gladman has some simple BSD licensed (usable in any commerical closed-source program) C/C++ and assembly implementations of AES
• There are some GPL implementations of AES available, for people who can handle the GPL being in their code. (GPL forces the release of source code)
• This Javascript page will help people writing AES in other languages

Another effort with less teraflops but a body.

http://www.sdonag.plus.com/Hungary/dscn0016-1-0.ht mlFrom your web site

nuff said :-)

Lol, I know about him. I have a classmate who bears an uncanny resemblance to him.

I think this is who he's talking about. Specifically, this excerpt talks a little about the assault on her. It's just a sample from the book. I haven't read the book yet. Of course I could be wrong and he's talking about someone else altogether. In the end though, I find it hard to believe that a cartel that engages in the kinds of labor practices that the diamond cartel does would have any qualms about assault, battery or even assassination. We see it all the time in the drug industry and other organized crime. The diamond cartel isn't really any better.

I think this is who he's talking about. Specifically, this excerpt talks a little about the assault on her. It's just a sample from the book. I haven't read the book yet. Of course I could be wrong and he's talking about someone else altogether. In the end though, I find it hard to believe that a cartel that engages in the kinds of labor practices that the diamond cartel does would have any qualms about assault, battery or even assassination. We see it all the time in the drug industry and other organized crime. The diamond cartel isn't really any better.

From the article:

iTunes is the only site where iPod users can legally download songs.

Is this really the only site where iPod users can legally download songs? It's a shame that the mass media can get away with spouting complete falacies such as this :(

There are many sites to get free, legal, mp3s from:

I'll take "cultured by scientists" over "harvested and cut by slaves" any day.

Obligatory Bushism. :)

Both a zips of the site linked from above.

.. that Americans lack taste and handfull of Europeans like bad music and this is what I found:

D. Hasselhoff iPod

There is one very good reason to move to Apache 2 under php: If you use multiviews, with the standard httpd config file Addtype addition for php of:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php php3 php4 phtml

then sites will throw 406 errors. Some bits of google (the keitai proxy, for a start) don't like this AT ALL!

There is a workaround for Apache 2, but not (AFAIK) for Apache 1.3 (see here for more info: http://tranchant.plus.com/notes/multiviews

My sites rely on /file.php/some/thing/here/ being parsable as /file/some/thing/here/ - and for that I THINK you need multiviews (please let me know if there is a better way...)

Actually, you can easily reduce the amount of energy your house uses by about 2/3, largely by not being a total frickin' bonehead and also taking advantage of some newish technology like programmable thermostats and compact flourescents.

Compared to that, transmission losses are nothing. I mean it.

As per your population increasing, that's a bunch of bull too. Energy consumption is increasing by about 3% per year in the US. That might not sound like a lot, but you're not able to build new power plants fast enough to keep up with that kind of growth, and after all it means that consumption will double in 34 years. Considering how much you consume now, that's completely insane and has to stop.

or I'm in trouble.

Seriously, what a stupid waste of everyone's time.

I run four of my websites off a 1995 Gateway P75 desktop. I've "overclocked" it to 100MHz (in quotes, because the 1995 P75s were actually rebadged P90s or P100s. Uptime is 120 days thus far, so no problems there!).

It sports 96MB RAM, and three hard drives in a variety of RAID configurations. It sits behind a combination ADSL modem / firewall / router box. Performance is fine for serving dynamic (PHP/MySQL) web content and handling mail for over 240 users.

I haven't measured power consumption, but the CPU runs fanless and cool, so I expect the HDs are by far the most significant. Only two of them are spun up 24/7, the other is my /usr/src filesystem.

robotic urang utang

There's a good book on it's development.

Yeah, it's fixed. You can now remove the Content-Location header, which works around the Opera "feature".

Explanation page updated.

I've yet to try it out, but this release claims to allow the administrator to unset the previously-mandatory Content-Location header added when mod_negotiation is in play.

This "feature" triggered an Opera "feature" that made in-document fragment anchors fail on dynamically generated, URL-rewritten documents.

Full description of the problem. Hopefully 2.0.51 means I don't need to fiddle with the Apache source any more: I'll update the problem page if so.

File extensions are so 1990s. My site doesn't use them, so TA would be useless there unless it does a HEAD request for every link and looks at the returned media type.

There was a petition, but was completely ignored by Valve. Dedicated server should be available however.

See the advice on my site which explains a few of the reasons.

Protesting groups will always find something to moan about, because if the world follwed their advice then they'd be out of a job. First we have fossil fuels, protesters moan, we invent nuclear, protesters moan, we build wind farms, protesters moan, we build tidal power stations, protesters moan. What makes you think they wont complain about solar or fusion?

Of course protesters complain about other protesters. Local people complain about trucks passing through their village, we build a bypass. Then rent-a-protest move in andcomplain about the great swathes of land being taken up. (Even Motorway interchanges and Junctions are mostly fields)

Protesting groups will always find something to moan about, because if the world follwed their advice then they'd be out of a job. First we have fossil fuels, protesters moan, we invent nuclear, protesters moan, we build wind farms, protesters moan, we build tidal power stations, protesters moan. What makes you think they wont complain about solar or fusion?

Of course protesters complain about other protesters. Local people complain about trucks passing through their village, we build a bypass. Then rent-a-protest move in andcomplain about the great swathes of land being taken up. (Even Motorway interchanges and Junctions are mostly fields)

Protesting groups will always find something to moan about, because if the world follwed their advice then they'd be out of a job. First we have fossil fuels, protesters moan, we invent nuclear, protesters moan, we build wind farms, protesters moan, we build tidal power stations, protesters moan. What makes you think they wont complain about solar or fusion?

Of course protesters complain about other protesters. Local people complain about trucks passing through their village, we build a bypass. Then rent-a-protest move in andcomplain about the great swathes of land being taken up. (Even Motorway interchanges and Junctions are mostly fields)

Not really. If you're looking for a decent A4 print, you need at least 5MP. A raw image from this beast contains 100 of those images, so you could use "digital zoom" (actually, just cropping) to concentrate on specific parts of the image at perfectly acceptable resolution.

You're right about the general uselessness of digital zoom on low-end digicams, but this is a different beast.

And remember when you could run a "fast" linux box on a P100 with 64MB of RAM and 128MB of swap?

Hey - that's my web server you're talking about! Admittedly it has a gargantuan 96MB now, albeit with only 80MB of (RAID-1) swap, but it also does lots of other jobs.

I run three web sites off an old P100 with two old 1GB drives as the main storage in RAID-1 configuration.

I hate it when people waste old hardware that could go to good use!

... like this might be worthwhile for that office!

Does VIA offer documentation on their chipsets?

Yes, at least to their PadLock system. Overview, Programmer's Guide.

Basically their system allows one to use hardware accelerated AES encryption in all major modes (CTR requires using the co-processor to precompute blocks in ECB mode and then XORing them in regular software.) I'd say that is pretty damn impressive and from what I've looked, the documentation is solid and quite clear.

You can even get Brian Gladman's AES implementation which uses VIA's hardware acceleration if such is present.

I disagree. Look at how some people find picking up new languages (I'm not talking computer languages, although the same principles probably apply) really easy, and other people of similar apparent intelligence seem to have a complete inability do this.

It must be down to differences in thinking. During my bike ride across France, I found that after only a couple of days of "immersion", I was thinking and dreaming in French, despite having a relatively limited knowledge of the language. I'm not claiming to be elitist (should that be 31337157 round these parts?), but I'm sure that some people clearly have a particular gifting for languages.

avoid riaa stuff at all costs. here's some amazing music to check out via p2p or via what few links i've bothered to dig up. what follows is a nice selection of pop and rock from some outstanding bands on some very fine record labels. support these artists, or artists like them--unencumbered by the riaa. support these labels. they do wonderful things. these are great songs from great albums.


aislers set, the - mission bells from (suicide squeeze/slumberland) aislers set on epitonic

ballboy - donald in the bushes with a bag of glue from silver suits for astronauts ep (sl)

barcelona - i have the password to your shell account from moshi moshi: pop international style (march) barcelona on epitonic

beulah - popular mechanics for lovers from the coast is never clear (velocette records) beulah on epitonic

boyracer - tell me where my hands should go from to get a better hold you've got to loosen your grip (555 recordings) boyracer on epitonic

bugs in amber - roller coaster ride from rocketship letters (sign language)

camera obscura - suspended from class from underachievers please try harder (merge)

can i be she-ra? - pizzacato

carissa's wierd - sofsticated fuck princess please leave me alone from songs about leaving (sad robot) more songs

catch, the - empty your pockets

cinerama - your charms from the flirt compilation

currituck county - the collision from unpacking my library (teenbeat)

decemberists - red right ankle from her majesty the decemberists (kill rock stars)

east river pipe - my life is wrong from (merge/sarah) east river pipe on epitonic

evening lights, the - in a day from landscape cdep (shelflife) more songs

faint, the -

What a funny coincidence. I just got the whole UFO DVD set for christmas, and they have a nifty "amnesia" drug they administer to everyone who come accross their secret bases...

I have learned much of what I know about computing and other technological-related subjects from web sites, usually personal ones.

To repay this benefit, I think it's important that I provide information where:

1. I am able to provide high-quality information, far above the average SNR of the web
2. there isn't already a decent resource of this information

My cases in point are my HTML tutorial and my guitar chord tutorial, both of which address their subject matter in a way not found on (many) other sites. These tutorials have (from my logs) proved to be very popular.