Incredibly useful tools, thanks for pointing them out!
Do you know if there's a way to automatically download and install the missing updates while still preserving the installers after it's done, for copy to my <cue echoey bill nye voice>USB-thumb-drive-of-security</echoey voice>?
I've been doing lots on on-site support lately, and I can make my operations much more efficient if I already have all the patches and don't need to wait for them to download (not everyone has high speed).
More on-topic, I ran into the pirated CD key problem yesterday on a client's machine.. SP1 wouldn't install. I asked here where she's gotten her XP isntalled, and she indicated that a small local computer shop had set it up for her for $100.. is this 30-something woman an evil pirate? Does she not deserve updates for the product she (thinks) she paid for? My heart went out to her, and I used an XP serial number generator+changer (google is your friend) to overwrite the offending volume license key with a working single license.. updates came pouring in.
The reason? Why turn away a morons first year tution?:P
So that those of us that did our homework and are actually there to learn don't have to sit in the fucking aisles of the lecture hall!
The Canadian govt's choice to cut OAC classes (Grade 13 in High School) has had the effect of making the first few weeks of every semester a huge pain the ass, with nowhere to sit in your lectures!@
This is particularly true in Math classes.. where *everyone* shows up for the first 2 weeks thinking "this time, I'll go to all my lectures, I'll do the homework, and I'll pass!"..after 4 weeks, there's half the class left. 2 weeks before the end of the term, maybe 25% of the class still attends lectures, but usually it's more like 15%
you try doing the same thing with a $5,000 budget and a team of two
Ok!
If anyone out there is willing to give me $5,000 (USD), then me and a friend (I mostly code, he goes mostly graphics with a little code) will build you a customized LAMP clone of the site mentioned by the parent! I'd recommend a slightly less "sharp" design.. it really does kinda burn the eyes..
A friend that's close to the scene tells me that for the past while FLT had been selling leech accounts on their private dumps. He quoted $800 usd for leech on a 7tb server with a 1gbit connection.
I guess they sold to the wrong person, and they got busted..
be sure to take a least 1 history and one philsophy course.
Damn skippy! Philosophical texts (mostly Plato's Republic) was probably the most interesting, and challenging (you think reading 10-20 year old comments is bad? try figuring out what some greek pedophile was talking about 2400 years ago) non-engineering course I've taken in my studies..
Too bad I get no more electives:(
PS: For those who don't know, Pedophillia was common and accepted in Greek society thousands of years ago.. my prof told us, and I don't know if this is true, that the origin of women's shaving their legs started in those times, and the purpose was to look more like a pre-pubescent boy.
I ask becuase it seems some of the mods agree with you, and as everyone knows, if you show even the slightest hint of bashing Microsoft around here, you're considered a Troll.
I'm simply not a fan of VC++.. that is, I don't like _one_ of their hundreds of products. I am on the other hand a huge fan of Windows 2000, I run it on all my desktop systems (Linux runs my servers.. oh no, I shouldn't have said that, the BSD trolls are going to come get me now).
Bzzt. Passing "pointers to variables" by value is NOT the same as passing "variables" by reference.. there's folks in this thread arguing about this very thing.
99% of the time, they are the same with just syntactical differences.. but it's that 1% of the time where it doesn't work like you think it should work that irritates me..
I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say..
I was evaluating several development enviroments with the tools that I had on hand.. mainly, an older version of VC++ (that I had received for free in some magazine's cover CD), and newer versions of BCC and GCC (because they were both free).
I did not expect to do any "work in industry" with the outdated tools, but simply evaluate them to decide which I should be using to learn C programming with. Since the stuff I was doing would fall into the "fairly-stable C" category, it shouldn't [really] matter when the compiler was released.
I was not doing any C++, nor was I doing any Java, nor any other language that had been developer recently.. just plain vanilla C.
What does it matter when the compiler was released? We were doing basic "educational" programming (implementing several well-known algorithms).. a compiler from the 80s shouldn't have had any trouble.
I don't have VC++ installed, so I'm afraid I cannot cite very specific examples. Most of my troubles came from pointers (big surprise there), and if I recall correctly calloc() would randomly fail to initialize allocated memory. I also recall being angry that I cannot sizeof() a row vector in a 2D array, but sizeof() on a 1D array works fine.
Most of my trouble likely came from being a n00b to the language, and coming from a Pascal background I don't quite like the way C does a few things things (like multi-dimensional arrays, and pass by reference).. but using VC++ made learning even harder, becuase stuff would just mysteriously fail to work post-compilation that worked fine on other compilers.
(Disclamier: never touched C++ with even a 40 ft stick, and was using an older version of VC++, I think it was 4)
No, I'm not.. I didn't even know those existed. Although I do recall seeing -wall all over the place when compiling some FOSS and thinking to myself I should look into what that means..
I'm still new to C (coming from a Pascal background), and this language scares me.. I feel as if I'm yielding just a little more power then a programmer _should_ have access to for writing queues, linked lists, and 50 different sorting algorithms (damn Algorithms class).
I'm taking an intermediate level C course as part of my studies.. Me and my classmates primary used the free Borland C Compiler (BCC32 5.5.1) and our TAs, the ones marking our work, were primarily using VC++.
Borland's Compiler is much more liberal about not only the syntax it allows, but what code works.. It takes a lot more effort to get things to work in VC++ (whereas they worked fine in BCC and GCC) and we've had lots of trouble stemming from this.
Microsoft can keep their compiler as far as I'm concerned.. although it (usually) comes with a nice IDE and Debugger that I quite like, it's just too bad those remain non-free.
Anyone know where to get a free visual debugger for Win32?
I'm going to have to keep arguing this one.. it make perfect sense to me.
Yes, all hardware works on MP3s. However, (almost) nobody actually SELLS MP3s.
What is sold are primarily DRM'd WMA and AAC files.
"Apple's DRM" (Betamax) doesn't work on "non-Apple" (non-Sony) players, but "Microsoft's DRM" (VHS) works on a variety of third party players (there was a link posted in this thread).
I continue to think there is a valid comparison to be made here.
There is no perfect player that will suit everyone.. but for many people the iPod is about as close to perfection as a music player needs to be. It's small, sexy, and it holds TONS of music.
The lacking of compatiblity, which is exactly what I was complaining about in my original, is the main thing that's preventing it from becoming even more popular then it is.
One of these days I'm going to break down and buy a HD-based player. What I buy will definitely be determined by compatibility.. on the one hand, I want my existing tracks to keep on working. On the other, I want the ability to legally purchase my music (even though I'm Canadian, and don't have to, money tends to encourage the creation of more music) from ANY of the existing online stores and be able to play it on my portable. Since Apple seems to be opposed to this strategy, I'm likely not going to buy an Apple..
In any case, for a year Sony had the VCR market to itself, selling 30,000 Betamax VCRs in the US. [2] But when JVC came out with the VHS format VCR in 1976, the stage was set for the format wars. JVC had a machine that already doubled Sony's recording time of one hour, and that difference would prove crucial.
By January 1977, JVC was joined by four more Japanese electronics manufacturers to build and market VHS format VCRs. Then, in February, Sony abandoned its long-standing policy against OEM deals and joined forces with Zenith.
Sony was eventually simply FORCED to license due to competition and market conditions.. I forsee the same future for Apple.
Oh, and which non-Apple players support their "open standard" AAC, with DRM? The tracks your purchase require a second round of lossyness (AAC->CD->MP3/OGG) to listen to on non-Apple hardware.
The Windows Security Update CD will be shipped to you free of charge. This CD includes Microsoft critical updates released through October 2003 and information to help you protect your PC. In addition, you will also receive a free antivirus and firewall trial software CD.
This CD is only available for Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows 98 Second Edition (SE).
The Betamax was a superior product, and Sony didn't want to license it to anyone else! I mean come on, theirs was better, right?
Too bad all the other companies got together behind their backs, developed interoperable products.. and it's those inferior products that became standard for a long time (and are now thankfully being replaced with digital.. consumers have paid the price!)
This seems to be happening again.. Apple wants to keep a stranglehold on the market.. but to misquote Leai (had to look that one up), "The more you tighten your grip, the more profits will slip through your fingers" .
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5. Marketing - you can't have "Intel Inside" or "Centrino" or "Pentium" if you buy AMD.
;)
I have a lot of customers who are very fond of the "Powered by ASUS" and "AMD Athlon XP" stickers proudly displayed at the front of their case
No better marketing then word of mouth..
Incredibly useful tools, thanks for pointing them out!
Do you know if there's a way to automatically download and install the missing updates while still preserving the installers after it's done, for copy to my <cue echoey bill nye voice>USB-thumb-drive-of-security</echoey voice>?
I've been doing lots on on-site support lately, and I can make my operations much more efficient if I already have all the patches and don't need to wait for them to download (not everyone has high speed).
More on-topic, I ran into the pirated CD key problem yesterday on a client's machine.. SP1 wouldn't install. I asked here where she's gotten her XP isntalled, and she indicated that a small local computer shop had set it up for her for $100.. is this 30-something woman an evil pirate? Does she not deserve updates for the product she (thinks) she paid for? My heart went out to her, and I used an XP serial number generator+changer (google is your friend) to overwrite the offending volume license key with a working single license.. updates came pouring in.
The reason? Why turn away a morons first year tution? :P
So that those of us that did our homework and are actually there to learn don't have to sit in the fucking aisles of the lecture hall!
The Canadian govt's choice to cut OAC classes (Grade 13 in High School) has had the effect of making the first few weeks of every semester a huge pain the ass, with nowhere to sit in your lectures!@
This is particularly true in Math classes.. where *everyone* shows up for the first 2 weeks thinking "this time, I'll go to all my lectures, I'll do the homework, and I'll pass!"..after 4 weeks, there's half the class left. 2 weeks before the end of the term, maybe 25% of the class still attends lectures, but usually it's more like 15%
Yes.. except Banglaore is New York.. and the workers call themselves "consultants"..
you try doing the same thing with a $5,000 budget and a team of two
Ok!
If anyone out there is willing to give me $5,000 (USD), then me and a friend (I mostly code, he goes mostly graphics with a little code) will build you a customized LAMP clone of the site mentioned by the parent! I'd recommend a slightly less "sharp" design.. it really does kinda burn the eyes..
E-mail krypt at mountaincable dot net
A friend that's close to the scene tells me that for the past while FLT had been selling leech accounts on their private dumps. He quoted $800 usd for leech on a 7tb server with a 1gbit connection.
I guess they sold to the wrong person, and they got busted..
be sure to take a least 1 history and one philsophy course.
:(
Damn skippy! Philosophical texts (mostly Plato's Republic) was probably the most interesting, and challenging (you think reading 10-20 year old comments is bad? try figuring out what some greek pedophile was talking about 2400 years ago) non-engineering course I've taken in my studies..
Too bad I get no more electives
PS: For those who don't know, Pedophillia was common and accepted in Greek society thousands of years ago.. my prof told us, and I don't know if this is true, that the origin of women's shaving their legs started in those times, and the purpose was to look more like a pre-pubescent boy.
Where did I state I hate Microsoft?
.. that is, I don't like _one_ of their hundreds of products. I am on the other hand a huge fan of Windows 2000, I run it on all my desktop systems (Linux runs my servers.. oh no, I shouldn't have said that, the BSD trolls are going to come get me now).
I ask becuase it seems some of the mods agree with you, and as everyone knows, if you show even the slightest hint of bashing Microsoft around here, you're considered a Troll.
I'm simply not a fan of VC++
Bzzt. Passing "pointers to variables" by value is NOT the same as passing "variables" by reference.. there's folks in this thread arguing about this very thing.
99% of the time, they are the same with just syntactical differences.. but it's that 1% of the time where it doesn't work like you think it should work that irritates me..
I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say..
I was evaluating several development enviroments with the tools that I had on hand.. mainly, an older version of VC++ (that I had received for free in some magazine's cover CD), and newer versions of BCC and GCC (because they were both free).
I did not expect to do any "work in industry" with the outdated tools, but simply evaluate them to decide which I should be using to learn C programming with. Since the stuff I was doing would fall into the "fairly-stable C" category, it shouldn't [really] matter when the compiler was released.
I was not doing any C++, nor was I doing any Java, nor any other language that had been developer recently.. just plain vanilla C.
Brain fart.. yes, I meant wielding.
What does it matter when the compiler was released? We were doing basic "educational" programming (implementing several well-known algorithms).. a compiler from the 80s shouldn't have had any trouble.
Which is EXACTLY what I don't like...
I don't have VC++ installed, so I'm afraid I cannot cite very specific examples. Most of my troubles came from pointers (big surprise there), and if I recall correctly calloc() would randomly fail to initialize allocated memory. I also recall being angry that I cannot sizeof() a row vector in a 2D array, but sizeof() on a 1D array works fine.
Most of my trouble likely came from being a n00b to the language, and coming from a Pascal background I don't quite like the way C does a few things things (like multi-dimensional arrays, and pass by reference).. but using VC++ made learning even harder, becuase stuff would just mysteriously fail to work post-compilation that worked fine on other compilers.
(Disclamier: never touched C++ with even a 40 ft stick, and was using an older version of VC++, I think it was 4)
Are you using -wall and -pedantic with gcc?
No, I'm not.. I didn't even know those existed. Although I do recall seeing -wall all over the place when compiling some FOSS and thinking to myself I should look into what that means..
I'm still new to C (coming from a Pascal background), and this language scares me.. I feel as if I'm yielding just a little more power then a programmer _should_ have access to for writing queues, linked lists, and 50 different sorting algorithms (damn Algorithms class).
My code was quite standards compliant, and the problem is not compiling it.. it compiled fine in every C compiler I've tried.
..
Every one of them produced a working binary, except VC++
I'm taking an intermediate level C course as part of my studies.. Me and my classmates primary used the free Borland C Compiler (BCC32 5.5.1) and our TAs, the ones marking our work, were primarily using VC++.
Borland's Compiler is much more liberal about not only the syntax it allows, but what code works.. It takes a lot more effort to get things to work in VC++ (whereas they worked fine in BCC and GCC) and we've had lots of trouble stemming from this.
Microsoft can keep their compiler as far as I'm concerned.. although it (usually) comes with a nice IDE and Debugger that I quite like, it's just too bad those remain non-free.
Anyone know where to get a free visual debugger for Win32?
I'm going to have to keep arguing this one.. it make perfect sense to me.
Yes, all hardware works on MP3s. However, (almost) nobody actually SELLS MP3s.
What is sold are primarily DRM'd WMA and AAC files.
"Apple's DRM" (Betamax) doesn't work on "non-Apple" (non-Sony) players, but "Microsoft's DRM" (VHS) works on a variety of third party players (there was a link posted in this thread).
I continue to think there is a valid comparison to be made here.
There is no perfect player that will suit everyone.. but for many people the iPod is about as close to perfection as a music player needs to be. It's small, sexy, and it holds TONS of music.
The lacking of compatiblity, which is exactly what I was complaining about in my original, is the main thing that's preventing it from becoming even more popular then it is.
One of these days I'm going to break down and buy a HD-based player. What I buy will definitely be determined by compatibility.. on the one hand, I want my existing tracks to keep on working. On the other, I want the ability to legally purchase my music (even though I'm Canadian, and don't have to, money tends to encourage the creation of more music) from ANY of the existing online stores and be able to play it on my portable. Since Apple seems to be opposed to this strategy, I'm likely not going to buy an Apple..
From here
In any case, for a year Sony had the VCR market to itself, selling 30,000 Betamax VCRs in the US. [2] But when JVC came out with the VHS format VCR in 1976, the stage was set for the format wars. JVC had a machine that already doubled Sony's recording time of one hour, and that difference would prove crucial.
By January 1977, JVC was joined by four more Japanese electronics manufacturers to build and market VHS format VCRs. Then, in February, Sony abandoned its long-standing policy against OEM deals and joined forces with Zenith.
Sony was eventually simply FORCED to license due to competition and market conditions.. I forsee the same future for Apple.
Oh, and which non-Apple players support their "open standard" AAC, with DRM? The tracks your purchase require a second round of lossyness (AAC->CD->MP3/OGG) to listen to on non-Apple hardware.
Order the Windows Security Update CD
The Windows Security Update CD will be shipped to you free of charge. This CD includes Microsoft critical updates released through October 2003 and information to help you protect your PC. In addition, you will also receive a free antivirus and firewall trial software CD.
This CD is only available for Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows 98 Second Edition (SE).
Free shipping too.
Oh no.. Apple pulled a Sony!
The Betamax was a superior product, and Sony didn't want to license it to anyone else! I mean come on, theirs was better, right?
Too bad all the other companies got together behind their backs, developed interoperable products.. and it's those inferior products that became standard for a long time (and are now thankfully being replaced with digital.. consumers have paid the price!)
This seems to be happening again.. Apple wants to keep a stranglehold on the market.. but to misquote Leai (had to look that one up), "The more you tighten your grip, the more profits will slip through your fingers" .
Got a link for this asteroids game of yours?
Asus A7N8X Deluxe here (nForce2).. no problems, rock solid (Win2k SP4).