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According to version tracker, StarCraft 1.09 came about 2002-02-11. No idea when bnetd was started.
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Here's an Easter Egg I haven't been able to find any information on anywhere yet. I used to play Might & Magic III (Dos version) a lot, but never was able to finish it because at one point or another my save game always got corrupted for some reason.

The consequence of this corruption was that when I wandered around outside Fountainhead (the first city in the game, where you start), my party got randomly hit by electricity, poison, fire etc, even though the surroundings look normal. No dungeon or town can be entered anymore once outside, and I could walk over all sorts of water etc.

However, nearby the Temple of Moo on a regular grass or forest square, a dialog box to enter some place would pop up. It did not say what the place was called, only showed a "thumbs up" and "thumbs down".

If answering affirmative, my party would be transported to some dungeon. If I looked at the automap, the name of the place was "It's a secret!". The place contained desks with people carrying the names of the programmers, all saying something funny. It also contained two endless piles of gold, one of which gave you a special item each time and the other giving you 1m gold each time. It could be exited again only through a magic mirror.

However, given the fact that I could not enter any other place anymore (except those directly reachable by magic mirror) when I was able to enter this "It's a secret" place, I could not do much with all that stuff. As soon as I went outside, I again was hit by random poison/electricity/... everywhere and could not enter anything.

I can't find any mention of this on the Internet, and even the official Might & Magic III hint book (which we bought, over 600 pages!) doesn't mention it.

If you get the Mac version of the game, you can easily verify that this "It's a secret" place really exists in the game by opening the main application file with hexedit and searching for "It's a Secret". I guess you can also find it by grepping the Dos version or its data files.

The strings of what the programmers say can also be found in the binary, I've reproduced them below.

However, what I would really like to know is how to get to that place without getting a corrupted save gave.

Benjamin Bent
Laugh now monkey boy

Ron Bolinger
The writing in this game was awesome.

Andy Caldwell
Juuuuuulia.

Mark Caldwell
Women!

Mike Clement
Trojans are the superior brand.

Richard Espy
Poker, anyone?

Douglas Grounds
Sit, Toto! Sit!

Dave Hathaway
You too shall be honored. . . Boot to the head!

Bonnie Long-Hemsath
Remember - reality is user-defined. Go therefore and take responsibility for
your reality. If it is not as you would have it, create a new one.
It can be done.

Todd Hendrix
Lick the Chalice!

Eric Hyman
Jay + C = Hap + E

Louis Johnson
Where's the nearest jam?

Eric Newhouse
Go Crimson!

Rubes, Fitz, Visc, & House:
Leverett Hoops '92

Paul Rattner
To all my creditors:
Don't call me; I'll call you.
PS. Your check is in the mail.

Scott T. Smith
Debbo-meister.

Allen Treschler
FOOL'S MATE
1.) P-KB4 P-K3
2.) P-KN4 Q-R5 mate!
is the fastest kill there is.

Jon Van Canegham
Life is a game. Let's play!

If this program contains bad code and you can prove it, by all means do so.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 26899

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18182

Since you haven't posted here very much it's hard to just take your word for it.

Its only available via Nightly builds. Check out an application called NightShift. It downloads the latest nightly and created an executable in your Applications folder. It leaves your stable webkit untouched too. Supports 10.4 and above only. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 27294/

Let's see... because I'm a responsible network user and filter outgoing traffic?

Little Snitch works well for me, filters by watching applications rather than ports, and so long as the driver doesn't use a kernel module, catches everything unusual. You might want to look into something like that.

Or roll your own from a Project Gutenberg (or any other) text file. If you have a Mac, there are various text to speech programs available--for example, books2burn is designed for this.

So long as you don't mind listening to one of the funky Apple system voices for hours on end...!

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 27163
This claims to work with WMV's

doesn't let you finish typing before it searches

Laserlight solves that issue.

You need Pacifist.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 12743

Don't miss my "usage tip" under Ilgaz name, it includes what to disable to avoid compatability problems.

We are speaking about Pacifist 1.6.3 here btw. In case its updated, ignore my tip.

There isn't one of them that gives you functionality that your browser doesn't already afford. Sure, they're pretty, but what's going to happen is that as people amass more and more of these widgets, the dashboard becomes cluttered and slow (it already is painfully slow on my MDD 1.25GHz G4, and that's just with the stock widgets, with the default set active only). Then there's going to be the question as to how to organize them all... the faux dock at the bottom is already insufficient. I know, let's stick a menu in there! Great idea!

I agree with you on Apple's braindead nature regarding the brushed metal UI. However, to insinuate that linux has a more consistent UI is hilarious. Even if you stick to just KDE or just GNOME the way logically grouped functionality is strewn all over the apps and system makes it majorly inconsistent. And if you don't stick to just KDE or just GNOME, you can add in such things as control placement, shortcuts, and even the basic button themes.

I won't even start on the headaches the lack of virtual desktops or some sort of user defined window groups (which virtual desktops are), cause for trying to use OS X as a development workstation (considering carrying 4 monitors around would defeat the purpose of having a mobile development platform).

Desktop manager. OK, so it doesn't come installed by default. I don't care, it works just fine, even on Tiger.

See http://www.versiontracker.com/macos/

Expression can create beautiful art and is popular in Japan among Anime fans. Just be advised that it isn't a Photoshop clone. The interface is very different, so it takes time to learn.

--Mike Perry Untangling Tolkien

http://www.versiontracker.com/ - Pretty much every serious Mac user learns about this one. The reason why you're not finding any other sites is that VersionTracker is considered to be THE source.

I've thought about buying the Tunestir , because I like to listen to NPR on the train in the AM. But thanks to RadioRecorder and iPodder, I get to do that now anyway - so I don't think I'm missing that FM receiver so much anymore.

I've thought about buying the Tunestir , because I like to listen to NPR on the train in the AM. But thanks to RadioRecorder and iPodder, I get to do that now anyway - so I don't think I'm missing that FM receiver so much anymore.

Apple laptops are effectively unusable for unix users.

I am a long-time Unix user. That means I need to have the Ctrl key to the left of the A key. This is a genuine need, not merely a want; it is based upon ergonomics. The Ctrl key is heavily used in unix, and it must be easily accessable. It cannot be off in the lower left corner of the keyboard where it is difficult to get at, and where it distorts the position of your left hand such that you can't easily type other keys while holding the Ctrl key down.

Apple desktop keyboards are now all USB. They are all OK. The CapsLock key can be re-mapped into a Ctrl key.

Unfortunately, even in this modern age, all Apple laptops have built-in ADB keyboards. The ADB keyboard is broken-by-design. It is, in general, not possible to remap the CapsLock key into a Ctrl key.

There are some exceptions, but they are horrible kludges. They are horrible kludges because the original design of the ADB keyboard was a horrible kludge. The correct solution would be for Apple to re-design their laptop motherboards to use built-in USB keyboards. This hasn't happened yet. If you run Linux, use Debian's solution. For Mac OS X users, uControl works. There are no solutions (that I know of) for either NetBSD or OpenBSD. Please note once again that the "solutions" above are in fact kludges, because of the original bad design of the ADB keyboard.

Apple provides a technical note on how to remap the keyboard, but provides no solution to the hardware problems caused by the design of the ADB keyboard. This tech note helps foreign language users, but does nothing for the CapsLock/Ctrl problem.

Apple has now lost three opportunities to sell me hardware. I really wanted an Apple laptop for their superior battery life, and for the PowerPC with Altivec CPU. (The Altivec is vastly superior to the x86 line for DSP.) Because I can't live with the broken-by-design built-in ADB keyboard in all Apple laptops, Sony and IBM sold me laptops instead. If Apple fixes this problem, they will sell me a PowerBook next year; if they don't, I'll still be running OpenBSD on x86 hardware, and wishing I could use a Mac.

Cisco released an update (4.6.03.0160) on 5/13, but be aware that it's for single-processor configs only. Check out http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 12696 for some initial reactions.

There are a lot of apps that use Rendezvous (Bonjour) and it's nice to see exactly what's going on. There are a lot more things using it than you might know. Gaim uses it to chat with iChat users, most modern printers use it, sshd, ftpd, httpd servers and clients use it, etc. etc. etc.. If you'd like to see what information is being exchanged, check out Rendezvous Browser. It's lists all the Rendezvous services that are being advertised on the network.

After you've dug into that you might want to check out Rendezvous Proxy which lets you create custom Rendezvous beacons, advertising services for servers which don't have native Rendezvous support and servers which aren't in your LAN (Rendezvous messages stay within subnets). The tutorial even shows how to make slashdot appear in your Rendezvous bookmarks. :)

Also might want to check out:

http://www.pangeasoft.net/index2.html
http://www.udevgames.com/
http://www.apple.com/games/
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/cat/games
http://www.macupdate.com/games.php

As a side note, the Mac platform has never been known for a wide range of shrink-wrapped software; the main place to find software has always been "online", even before the internet was popular, and people got their software from BBSes.

Of course there is. Popcorn.

For excellent DVD ripping use MacTheRipper.

For excellent ripping to divx, HandBrake.

It's a freakin' Mac, multimedia editing is its home territory.

We recently added RCDefaultApp to our standard build. It's a preference pane that lets you set protocol handlers and edit the default application for each extension. Very handy.

I just got tired of launching Mail.app every time the system decided one of Entourage's helper apps was the default mailto: handler.

Apple laptops are effectively unusable for unix users.

I am a long-time Unix user. That means I need to have the Ctrl key to the left of the A key. This is a genuine need, not merely a want; it is based upon ergonomics. The Ctrl key is heavily used in unix, and it must be easily accessable. It cannot be off in the lower left corner of the keyboard where it is difficult to get at, and where it distorts the position of your left hand such that you can't easily type other keys while holding the Ctrl key down.

Apple desktop keyboards are now all USB. They are all OK. The CapsLock key can be re-mapped into a Ctrl key.

Unfortunately, even in this modern age, all Apple laptops have built-in ADB keyboards. The ADB keyboard is broken-by-design. It is, in general, not possible to remap the CapsLock key into a Ctrl key.

There are some exceptions, but they are horrible kludges. They are horrible kludges because the original design of the ADB keyboard was a horrible kludge. The correct solution would be for Apple to re-design their laptop motherboards to use built-in USB keyboards. This hasn't happened yet. If you run Linux, use Debian's solution. For Mac OS X users, uControl works. There are no solutions (that I know of) for either NetBSD or OpenBSD. Please note once again that the "solutions" above are in fact kludges, because of the original bad design of the ADB keyboard.

Apple provides a technical note on how to remap the keyboard, but provides no solution to the hardware problems caused by the design of the ADB keyboard. This tech note helps foreign language users, but does nothing for the CapsLock/Ctrl problem.

Apple is (currently) ignoring Unix users! This is not merely speculation on my part. In an on-going email exchange I am having with an Apple employee (whom I won't name) in their marketing department, the Apple marketing person directly stated to me that Apple was catering to their historic Mac customers, and is purposely ignoring the Unix market. He also claimed that Apple would soon start paying more attention to the Unix market. I won't hold my breath. Apple has been ignoring Unix users for more than 15 years. I expect that trend to continue. (Also note that my Apple contact indicated that Macs would never ship with a 3-button mouse, even though Apple intended to port almost all X-window software and deliver it either on a CD/DVD or installed directly on each Mac's hard drive. How Unix friendly is a 1-button mouse with X programs that often require 3 buttons?)

Apple has now lost three opportunities to sell me hardware. I really wanted an Apple laptop for their superior battery life, and for the PowerPC with Altivec CPU. (The Altivec is vastly superior to the x86 line for DSP.) Because I can't live with the broken-by-design built-in ADB keyboard in all Apple laptops, Sony and IBM sold me laptops instead. If Apple fixes this problem, they will sell me a PowerBook next year; if they don't, I'll still be running OpenBSD on x86 hardware, and wishing I could use a Mac.

Please note that this is not a troll. I am not trying to anger Mac enthusiasts. Indeed, I am one

Just tried the script. It's almost like the real thing, but for some reason the movie is smaller than playing full screen with QuickTime Pro.

I'd suggest using any free third party QuickTIme substitute which supports full screen playing instead.

Take a look at http://www.versiontracker.com/

here

Seriously, you get your Unix kernel, CLI shell, X server, terrific hardware-software integration (check out the sleep feature), etc.

Admittedly, Apple needs to bundle more popular productivity applications.

Most mainstream software stores severely under represent the Mac software base. This is a vicious cycle in my opinion - they don't stock it because they don't believe there is demand and there is no demand because they don't stock it.

When I go into my local PC software store to buy the Mac software I'm after they very rarely have it, and I'm sure they don't capture the fact that I asked about it.

So I tend to use specialist stores or buy online. Amazon or the online AppleStore are not bad.

To get an idea of the amount of software out there, here's Amazon's 30 pages of Mac games - probably the Mac's weakest category.

Or look here to get an idea of the shareware/freeware available.

Gaming is the only real reason to stay away from Macs.

...isn't everything.

Apple laptops are effectively unusable for unix users.

I am a long-time Unix user. That means I need to have the Ctrl key to the left of the A key. This is a genuine need, not merely a want; it is based upon ergonomics. The Ctrl key is heavily used in unix, and it must be easily accessable. It cannot be off in the lower left corner of the keyboard where it is difficult to get at, and where it distorts the position of your left hand such that you can't easily type other keys while holding the Ctrl key down.

Apple desktop keyboards are now all USB. They are all OK. The CapsLock key can be re-mapped into a Ctrl key.

Unfortunately, even in this modern age, all Apple laptops have built-in ADB keyboards. The ADB keyboard is broken-by-design. It is, in general, not possible to remap the CapsLock key into a Ctrl key.

There are some exceptions, but they are horrible kludges. They are horrible kludges because the original design of the ADB keyboard was a horrible kludge. The correct solution would be for Apple to re-design their laptop motherboards to use built-in USB keyboards. This hasn't happened yet. If you run Linux, use Debian's solution. For Mac OS X users, uControl works. There are no solutions (that I know of) for either NetBSD or OpenBSD. Please note once again that the "solutions" above are in fact kludges, because of the original bad design of the ADB keyboard.

Apple provides a technical note on how to remap the keyboard, but provides no solution to the hardware problems caused by the design of the ADB keyboard. This tech note helps foreign language users, but does nothing for the CapsLock/Ctrl problem.

Apple has now lost three opportunities to sell me hardware. I really wanted an Apple laptop for their superior battery life, and for the PowerPC with Altivec CPU. (The Altivec is vastly superior to the x86 line for DSP.) Because I can't live with the broken-by-design built-in ADB keyboard in all Apple laptops, Sony and IBM sold me laptops instead. If Apple fixes this problem, they will sell me a PowerBook next year; if they don't, I'll still be running OpenBSD on x86 hardware, and wishing I could use a Mac.

On OS-X, at least, it installs itself automatically when doing an Acrobat Reader installation. I had to manually uninstall it from the Internet Plug-ins folder in order to use the significantly faster Schubert PDF Browser Plugin .

When it comes to data CD's with drivers, etc. I just am not able to convince myself to get rid of them, so I went to and downloaded DiskTracker. It is MacOS X only, but it is an awesome application. There is probably something similar for Windows (Check Versiontracker).

After installing Disktracker I made sure that it serializes each CD with a simple number 1,2,3,etc. and bought some CD Binders (Fellowes seem to be sturdy enough). Now I am in the process of:

1. Insert CD
2. Let Disktracker catalog it
3. Eject CD
4. Write Serial Number on it with Sharpie Marker
5. Insert into Binder
6. When Binder is full write on outside something like 0001-0128
7. Repeat ad naseum :)

I have probably another 750-1000 CD's to go, but they now take up significantly less space and that in itself is worth the time I spend cataloging them.

Personally I just insert newer HD's every few years and keep the old ones, including OS and stuff.Need old email? Plug in old HD, reboot: viola! My own timemachine. Including cluttered desktop, silly backgroundschemes and once o so funny error-sounds ('I can't let you do that, Dave' anyone?)

Virtue: A Mac OS X virtual desktop pager. Works pretty nicely for me.
Disable the window activation in the Expose pref pane, as mentioned by the above commentators.
Boom. Best of both worlds.

Now, what I would suggest you do is get a copy of QEMU. I assume you are familiar enough with Terminal and the shell prompt to get it working since you're stepping into the world of assembly, but if all else fails you can get QemuX or some other QEMU GUI off of VersionTracker.

Depending on what mode you're writing your assembly in, you'll need to install some sort of OS into QEMU. Some candidates are FreeDOS, MS-DOS, or even Linux. Use whatever your class is using. Emulators are very handy for writing assembly because you can debug the program at the "CPU" level, so when your program pukes you can get a better glimpse at what is going on. This is why many developers design inside of VMWare.

I hope this helps!

Apples Application listing, Version Tracker and Macupdate are all great sites to find new software.
Of course the best resource are all of the mac websties and forums, my home is Macnn. Two useful threads from there: What application do I use if I need to....? and Your top 5 [share|free]where (lots here).

I wonder if it would work with something like Carbon Copy Cloner and PSU Blast Image Config to take an image of an OS X install and copy it to the Shuffle RAID?

I would try it if I had 4 iPod Shuffles!

I wonder if it would work with something like Carbon Copy Cloner and PSU Blast Image Config to take an image of an OS X install and copy it to the Shuffle RAID?

I would try it if I had 4 iPod Shuffles!

Versiontracker has quite a few free programs for ham radio for OSX. Maybe you can get him to turn off those Win machines for good!

Tinker Tool allows this, and many other tweaks.

Control Freak is similar, though I don't like it as much.

Tinker Tool allows this, and many other tweaks.

Control Freak is similar, though I don't like it as much.

Macs are fine. OSX is nice. But there are no games.

Apparently this site didn't get the memo about no games:

On Windows, there is tons of free software to do anything you can think of. There are a million websites dedicated to NOTHING but freeware. In Mac-land, everything costs money.

Would you please explain how are these sites able to offer so many free utilities then? I use many of them.

macupdate.com

versiontracker.com

Geez, where do you get your information? Microsoft?

There are plenty of games out for the Mac, if you're not some twitchy freak who has to have every cookie-cutter FPS that comes down the pike on the very day it's released.

In Mac-land, everything costs money. Every stupid little utility is crippled, time-limited shareware. Fuck that.

Yeah, you sure got their number. No Mac freeware at all, no sir! I must be imagining the 120+ pages of Mac freeware listed on VersionTracker.

Then, of course, there's the price of Mac hardware. For $1500, I can build one hell of a Windows machine.

And stop comparing your homebuilt whiz-bang PC to a complete system produced by a single manufacturer and covered by a warranty. The only fair comparison is a system built by Dell/HP/whoever.

By the way, you might want to edit your "Macs are too expensive" rant in light of the Mac mini:

$499 + $75 to upgrade to 512MB + $224 for a Dell 15" LCD + $51 for Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop OEM = $849 for a pretty capable little system, not including shipping.

Now I'm only waiting for some conversations recording feature. I'm not positive, as I haven't used Skype, but I think that Audio Hijack will likely record such items just fine. It wouldn't be automated, although it probably wouldn't be too hard to automate it with some Applescript, and maybe some Unix scripting on the backside.

Just a thought...

In fact, as other people have been pointing out elsewhere SideTrack appears to do what I'm describing on a Mac laptop... or at least something like it. I don't have a Mac, so I've not tried it.

Check out Sidetrack . It let's you define certain areas on the trackpad as mousebuttons and scrollwheels.

Try This

May I suggest Sidetrack, a trackpad driver that will let you do pretty much anything you want with your trackpad.

You can bind any and all four corners of the pad to whatever function you may need, including "simulated" mouse buttons, Exposé functions or your favorite key combos. You may set timeouts for ignoring trackpad while you type, and more. "Continue mouse motion when finger reaches trackpad edge" is especially neat.

It's nag shareware - costs $15 and it's definitely worth it, but will run indefinitely even if unregistered, just pops up a small nag screen upon system login or when waking up from sleep.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 13112&mode=feedback&vid=All

http://www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=10758

enjoy !

You have obviously never used WMP on a Mac have you ? Respectfully you are missing the point.

And take these with you:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 13112&mode=feedback&vid=All

http://www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=10758