I develop with Cygwin and Emacs, but I compile and debug with Visual Studio 7.0. I believe that the Visual Studio debugger is unparalleled (lacking just Emacs integration!:) ), and there is nothing that can beat precompiled headers, a fast compiler (in the first place) and the visual debugging integration of Visual Studio.
I then boot to Linux and port my code. I've been writing portable code for half a decade, so I know what I'm doing, more or less. But, I can get more work done with Visual Studio, faster.
In case it makes a difference to your perception, I write end user apps, sometimes with heavy graphics requirements and GUI frontends.
Due to the nature of my work, I can't rely on masses to test everything before I ship.
Thanks for reporting this. This is one of the more important stories to have come along in a while. I would be happy to see updates to this on the main page as things progress. (Yes, I do follow up on stories myself from time to time.)
I'm a console fan -- not a console hacker. But I mentioned this to people I know who worked on console games a few years ago and they all said it was possible.
The only way to protect against it is to provide an API for writing to the memory card/hard drive that closes off all possibilities for buffer overflows, and then lock out people from "programming the metal" directly.
Not entirely true. Monsters don't attack their own species. They will attack other species. Subspecies like Hell Barons vs Hell Knights will still attack, afaik.
You actually feel good about the Linux drivers that Promise gives you with the SX4000? I bought this card, and I wished I stayed away from it.
I am using it with four 120gb IDE drives with 8mb cache. For starters, if you use anything but the sxcslapp program in Linux to configure the drive, your drives are corrupt. All of 'em. And, your bios will return corrupt information regarding them. This causes DOS not to boot (hard freeze), and Linux to produce keyboard smashings on boot. This is a known firmware problem, and I'll be damned if they have any flashes available, even though the card is four months old. I just checked before writing this review.
Once I figured out that all the work had to be done with sxcslapp in Linux, I started building my RAID5, albeit with caution. Things here went pretty well, except a) performance sucked about as bad as a single drive and b) the closed source drivers rebuild the raid array with no warning if a drive fails and is replaced, even if the file system is mounted. So, this means that if you have a drive that bombs and you replace it, anything you write to the raid array will be wiped out. I could have used some notification.
The Linux drivers are horrible. They are written in 'Engrish', and the documentation might as well have been written by someone who doesn't understand computers. "Select the remove drive from array option to remove a drive from array". This continues for all of the options in their menu-driven app.
I am also forced to use Red Hat 7.3 for this. Great. I now have a cluster of Debian 3 servers I administrate and one Red Hat server.
I would have returned the card if my reseller would have taken my money. It's about equally expensive to buy IDE add-on cards, or maybe a bit less, and the software RAID in Linux seems to be firmly documented. I've used RAID1 in software on servers before, and it works nicely.
It used a mixture of javascript and forms to remember the CWD between commands, required a password to start using, and didn't require any Perl modules. Every time a client wanted me to service their site, I would upload a copy of the script, and it would invariably work. Rather amusing.
Hmm.. What do people use to develop the SVG icons? I can think of a few obvious anwsers from powerful graphics packages, but I though they were all stuck in win32 land. I'd like to know of something for Linux.
I don't remember what I had to do, but I finally beat it one day. I remember having to wind up Dick Tracy's punch by pressing the A&B buttons once the judge was on his ass. If you don't press them super fast, he'll get up and nail you first, and it's game over, and you have to start again.
Well, I whipped out my NES advantage after doing it manually, and I couldn't even get the same rapid fire effect with it. I had actually managed to press the buttons faster by hand.
Not to mention the continue option counted down from 30 while displaying a 90 char password that you needed to continue the game. I remember becoming extremely frustrated trying to write the password down in time.
I hear a lot about the export of jobs from reading slashdot forums. It hasn't directly affected my bottom line yet, but it seems that one would be foolish to think that it won't anytime in the next few decades. Decades in which I plan to be writing software.
For those who would brave the storm, have you thought about how you would stay valuable in this market? I would be interested to hear if anyone has tried to learn an Indian language in order to communicate with their intercontinental coworkers.
If this becomes a major resume item in the next five to ten years and/or an aspect of computer trade school programs, I would be interested in getting a head start in case the issue becomes reality for me. Now may be the time to buck the trend of securing your job and/or career by simply learning one language and a couple APIs per year, and get down to following the twists and turns of the business that funds the IT industry. You know. For those who are up to it.
PS. I'm Canadian, and I have work from American firms already. To some degree, getting Canadian work is a lesser version of getting Indian work: there may be timezone and communication barriers, but the work is cheaper. When you're from a country with a much smaller economy than the US, it 's often necessary to get American work. Canada's economy makes up for 3% of the world's. Not that much, for the second biggest mass of land in the world, eh?:-)
On Shacknews, they have a poll for PC game of the year. This is the only year where I haven't truly been interested in any of the games on there. Of the games that I did have the option to vote for, I didn't think they were deserving of a title such as GOTY.
For the first time in my life, I had no idea what a great game for the PC was, for the past 12 months of my life.
That's not to say I haven't been gaming it up. I have all of the newest Nintendo first party titles. Miyamoto is a breath of fresh air. He may not subscribe to the same gameplay as the rest of the designers, but his games which show obvious influence are amazing works, and help me brave this storm of realism, violent and sometimes team-based games inspired by Counterstrike and GTA3.
I do think it's ironic that the major trend in game development is to innovate by moving away from Miyamoto's style. We have a lot of innovation, but it's all heading in the same direction!
I understand that, starting with win2k, renaming all of the mainstay windows files will have them automatically come back. But, you can disable that in the registry. So, assuming a trojan has done that...
First, rename explorer.exe to something else. Next, create a new explorer.exe which executes whatever you want it to, and then have it execute the old explorer.exe so it behaves as normal. Transparent to most users.
I'm not really a no-holds-barred forward looking kind of guy when it comes to technology (which may be surprising to those who know how much I love the stuff), but this idea, implemented properly would be a gas.
I would personally be interested in altering my social interactions with humans by reworking a small Perl script which would inevitably grow to suit my needs exactly. Those who say "just talk to people" are missing the point entirely. This is about the situations where you wouldn't normally talk to someone, and to me, especially about situations where you wouldn't talk to EVERYONE to see what the best fit for your problem-solution is. There are social limitations and time constraints that this could defeat.
I'm looking forward to the day when/if this becomes commercially viable. This technology will be used by a large number of businesses which have to organise things efficiently - such as businesses which put on events or need to set stages.
I think I'm going to look into following this technology on my own. Thanks/.
Metroid is hardly a run and gun. When you leave a room, enemies reappear. Holding down the L button locks on to the nearest enemy to your crosshair. You then press the fire button as fast as you care to, to destroy the creature.
It's hardly linear, and it's hardly an FPS in the conventional sense. It's more an adventure game with non linear exploration. For example, when I was five hours (17%) into the game, I was brought full circle to the initial place of my dropship. I then spent the next hour exploring the places I had already been, trying out my new suit powerups in old circumstances and finding new secrets and even the way to go.
Sure, you use guns to immobilize threats, but that does not make this a conventional FPS.
I'm not sure I can answer your question Gary (hi, btw), but I can tell you that sizeof(void *) is now double the size. You will now use up more memory bandwidth passing pointers around. This will actually cause a bit of a performance decrease in well written code that relies on efficientcy by not to putting data structures on the stack by passing by reference/pointer.
Has anyone tried Tagged Message Delivery Agent out? I would be curious to hear the mileage of others who have tried this.
Essentially, it throws the parsing problem right back in the spammer's faces: They must answer a fuzzy logic question in order to get into your inbox once and for all. It is similar to challenge/response routines in network connection code to prevent spoofing. The most interesting part from the intro:
The way TMDA thwarts incoming junk-mail is simple yet extremely effective. You maintain a "whitelist" of trusted contacts which are allowed directly into your mailbox. Messages from unknown senders are held in a pending queue until they respond to a confirmation request sent by TMDA. Once they respond to the confirmation, their original message is deemed legitimate and is delivered to you.
Bayesian filters to me, seem to work if you are a dull person without many changes in your life. For ex, if you constantly get spams with the word Madam in it and you later on get a sex change, you will need to recalibrate your filters. (Probably not the most pressing thing on your mind, so you'd lose a few authentic mails.)
Don't write Makefiles yourself. Instead write a script that translates simple build rules (foo.cpp -> foo.o -> foo.exe) into a custom Makefile for each platform. I went this route after battling for years with complex Makefile rules that never quite worked.
I'm starting to look into using Cons for a cross-platform C/C++ makefile alternative. I haven't used it in a large project yet, but I can definitely get up and running faster than with Make.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.oxborrow.net/code/xchat/BabelChat_pl.tx t
I then boot to Linux and port my code. I've been writing portable code for half a decade, so I know what I'm doing, more or less. But, I can get more work done with Visual Studio, faster.
In case it makes a difference to your perception, I write end user apps, sometimes with heavy graphics requirements and GUI frontends.
Due to the nature of my work, I can't rely on masses to test everything before I ship.
0 is 0 in a lot of notations.
Thanks for reporting this. This is one of the more important stories to have come along in a while. I would be happy to see updates to this on the main page as things progress. (Yes, I do follow up on stories myself from time to time.)
The only way to protect against it is to provide an API for writing to the memory card/hard drive that closes off all possibilities for buffer overflows, and then lock out people from "programming the metal" directly.
Not entirely true. Monsters don't attack their own species. They will attack other species. Subspecies like Hell Barons vs Hell Knights will still attack, afaik.
Looks like someone left a bug in Dolly's overloaded operator=
You actually feel good about the Linux drivers that Promise gives you with the SX4000? I bought this card, and I wished I stayed away from it.
I am using it with four 120gb IDE drives with 8mb cache. For starters, if you use anything but the sxcslapp program in Linux to configure the drive, your drives are corrupt. All of 'em. And, your bios will return corrupt information regarding them. This causes DOS not to boot (hard freeze), and Linux to produce keyboard smashings on boot. This is a known firmware problem, and I'll be damned if they have any flashes available, even though the card is four months old. I just checked before writing this review.
Once I figured out that all the work had to be done with sxcslapp in Linux, I started building my RAID5, albeit with caution. Things here went pretty well, except a) performance sucked about as bad as a single drive and b) the closed source drivers rebuild the raid array with no warning if a drive fails and is replaced, even if the file system is mounted. So, this means that if you have a drive that bombs and you replace it, anything you write to the raid array will be wiped out. I could have used some notification.
The Linux drivers are horrible. They are written in 'Engrish', and the documentation might as well have been written by someone who doesn't understand computers. "Select the remove drive from array option to remove a drive from array". This continues for all of the options in their menu-driven app.
I am also forced to use Red Hat 7.3 for this. Great. I now have a cluster of Debian 3 servers I administrate and one Red Hat server.
I would have returned the card if my reseller would have taken my money. It's about equally expensive to buy IDE add-on cards, or maybe a bit less, and the software RAID in Linux seems to be firmly documented. I've used RAID1 in software on servers before, and it works nicely.
It used a mixture of javascript and forms to remember the CWD between commands, required a password to start using, and didn't require any Perl modules. Every time a client wanted me to service their site, I would upload a copy of the script, and it would invariably work. Rather amusing.
Hmm.. What do people use to develop the SVG icons? I can think of a few obvious anwsers from powerful graphics packages, but I though they were all stuck in win32 land. I'd like to know of something for Linux.
You know you're a nerd when you analogize a star trek movie to the linking step of binary compilation.
Well, I whipped out my NES advantage after doing it manually, and I couldn't even get the same rapid fire effect with it. I had actually managed to press the buttons faster by hand.
Not to mention the continue option counted down from 30 while displaying a 90 char password that you needed to continue the game. I remember becoming extremely frustrated trying to write the password down in time.
Why the hell did I bother?
For those who would brave the storm, have you thought about how you would stay valuable in this market? I would be interested to hear if anyone has tried to learn an Indian language in order to communicate with their intercontinental coworkers.
If this becomes a major resume item in the next five to ten years and/or an aspect of computer trade school programs, I would be interested in getting a head start in case the issue becomes reality for me. Now may be the time to buck the trend of securing your job and/or career by simply learning one language and a couple APIs per year, and get down to following the twists and turns of the business that funds the IT industry. You know. For those who are up to it.
PS. I'm Canadian, and I have work from American firms already. To some degree, getting Canadian work is a lesser version of getting Indian work: there may be timezone and communication barriers, but the work is cheaper. When you're from a country with a much smaller economy than the US, it 's often necessary to get American work. Canada's economy makes up for 3% of the world's. Not that much, for the second biggest mass of land in the world, eh? :-)
Actually, this was in there until and includingDoom 1.1. (1.2 was the first modem compatible version.) I also, have never seen it.
For the first time in my life, I had no idea what a great game for the PC was, for the past 12 months of my life.
That's not to say I haven't been gaming it up. I have all of the newest Nintendo first party titles. Miyamoto is a breath of fresh air. He may not subscribe to the same gameplay as the rest of the designers, but his games which show obvious influence are amazing works, and help me brave this storm of realism, violent and sometimes team-based games inspired by Counterstrike and GTA3.
I do think it's ironic that the major trend in game development is to innovate by moving away from Miyamoto's style. We have a lot of innovation, but it's all heading in the same direction!
It's alright, sometimes I forgek ,jgij mdkjsh Gqm ktrglu gl alh G ysoudk ks pssv ak kjd mslgkso yso a ,jgpde
First, rename explorer.exe to something else. Next, create a new explorer.exe which executes whatever you want it to, and then have it execute the old explorer.exe so it behaves as normal. Transparent to most users.
I'm Canadian. The American government is your responsibility, not mine.
I would personally be interested in altering my social interactions with humans by reworking a small Perl script which would inevitably grow to suit my needs exactly. Those who say "just talk to people" are missing the point entirely. This is about the situations where you wouldn't normally talk to someone, and to me, especially about situations where you wouldn't talk to EVERYONE to see what the best fit for your problem-solution is. There are social limitations and time constraints that this could defeat.
I'm looking forward to the day when/if this becomes commercially viable. This technology will be used by a large number of businesses which have to organise things efficiently - such as businesses which put on events or need to set stages.
I think I'm going to look into following this technology on my own. Thanks /.
It's hardly linear, and it's hardly an FPS in the conventional sense. It's more an adventure game with non linear exploration. For example, when I was five hours (17%) into the game, I was brought full circle to the initial place of my dropship. I then spent the next hour exploring the places I had already been, trying out my new suit powerups in old circumstances and finding new secrets and even the way to go.
Sure, you use guns to immobilize threats, but that does not make this a conventional FPS.
I'm not sure I can answer your question Gary (hi, btw), but I can tell you that sizeof(void *) is now double the size. You will now use up more memory bandwidth passing pointers around. This will actually cause a bit of a performance decrease in well written code that relies on efficientcy by not to putting data structures on the stack by passing by reference/pointer.
Essentially, it throws the parsing problem right back in the spammer's faces: They must answer a fuzzy logic question in order to get into your inbox once and for all. It is similar to challenge/response routines in network connection code to prevent spoofing. The most interesting part from the intro:
Bayesian filters to me, seem to work if you are a dull person without many changes in your life. For ex, if you constantly get spams with the word Madam in it and you later on get a sex change, you will need to recalibrate your filters. (Probably not the most pressing thing on your mind, so you'd lose a few authentic mails.)
Just some thoughts.
Oh.. I'll back it up with an image.
The server that is hosting the picture is in the room in the picture.
Don't write Makefiles yourself. Instead write a script that translates simple build rules (foo.cpp -> foo.o -> foo.exe) into a custom Makefile for each platform. I went this route after battling for years with complex Makefile rules that never quite worked.
I'm starting to look into using Cons for a cross-platform C/C++ makefile alternative. I haven't used it in a large project yet, but I can definitely get up and running faster than with Make.
I'm the one with the four digit user id.