I'm using Android 1.1 on an HTC Kaiser (aka the Tilt, the Vario III depending on who you got it from). This is a Windows Mobile phone that Android is being ported to.
Not all the hardware on the phone is supported by the Linux kernel but that situation improves week by week. I spend most of my time in Android, only booting back to Windows when I need to load TomTom or upgrade my Linux kernel.
I'd really like to upgrade my phone 'cos there're better ones on the market now. The trouble is I'm quite used to having both windows and linux on my phone and there's precious few phones out there that'll do that.
I helped my Dad buy some new Hi-fi equipment: nice kit - wish it was mine;-) Anyway, they silently tagged £90 on the total price for two cables. Fortunately we noticed and quizzed them about it:
One was a sub-woofer speaker: £40. That's a single phono-to-phono cable, gold plated, etc. Sounded like a scam to me but both sales guys (the manager and his assistant) assured us we needed it and "any old cable would sound terrible"
The other was a £50 TOSLINK optical cable with..... gold-plated connectors. I actually laughed out loud when the managed told me it was gold plated. I thought he was trying to be funny.
Anyway, after a frustrating conversation about the merits of gold-plating optical cables they eventually convinced us to test all the equipment at home. They said we'd hear the difference and be very happy. If we weren't happy with ANY of the equipment they'd take it back, no questions asked, full refund (not a credit note), etc if we brought it back within 2 weeks.
I did lots of blind (deaf?) tests on my Dad: He's a classical musician with a very keen hearing. Unsurprisingly the £2 TOSLINK optical cable sounded exactly the same as the £50 one. Same with the sub-woofer cable.
When we tried to return the cables the sales assistant who dealt with us told us "it's against company policy to accept returns" and "we might be able to give you a credit note when the manager gets back tomorrow".
After much argument (including being called a liar by the manager!) over a couple of days ending in my Dad threatening legal action they relented and gave us the refund.
Bunch of sharks.
For your information, these particularly sharks are SuperFi, Stockport, UK.
I'll never buy from them, or let anyone I know buy from them, or stop-bad mouthing them in public forums until I grow old and mellow;-)
The problem is that this authentication page appears as a frame within the online vendor. How can you tell whether that frame is a legitimate MBNA page, or just a clever phishing attack?
I click RMB->This Frame->Open Frame In New Tab
As you'd expect this opens the frame in a new tab where you can easily see the URL.
You can also find information about an embedded frame by clicking RBS->This Frame->Frame Info
Thanks for the hint on where to get extra software not packaged on the CDs for 'licensing reasons'.
Check out the bottom of the this screenshot in the taskbar: http://madpenguin.org/images/reviews/suse93/help.p ng and you can see the reviewer has been browsing the alt.binaries.warez.linux news groups while writing the review!
I came up with the same idea for head-tracking in a drunken ramble a while ago. Nice to see someone has done it.
Expanding on this idea how about a wearing an opaque pair of white glasses and sitting in front of a video projector. The projector projects light onto the glasses and you see the image. Kinda like a back-projection TV but the screen part sits in front of your eyes.
This way you have a lightweight, passive, cheap head mounted display. You'd need lenses in the glasses so you could focus on the image of course.
I've not done a good job of explaining the idea I know.. if you want a really good explanation read Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson - he describes a similar idea. Infact, read it anyway it's brilliant. Hmm.. thinking about it some more you probably have read it, this being slashdot;-)
I have agree with you to some extent. Because so much of the game was randomly generated many games were impossibly difficult.
For instance: getting to level 2 and gaining 1 hit point (out of a possible 10) put your character at a big disadvantage - I'd always just quit a character that got 1 HP at level 2.
There any many other tips and tricks that would give your character an edge though - for instance always walking the minimum distance and re-tracing your steps where possible. This gives you a huge advantage - I very, very rarely ran out of food (like 1 in 1000 times) once I did this. Plus if you re-trace your steps you'll greatly reduce your chance of hitting trapdoors (or any other trap).
There were many, many tips and tricks that'd give you a slightly higher chance of winning - strategies my friends and me discussed and tested. It is a VERY random game and luck plays a big part but skill is just as important. To win the game you needed a lot of both.
As for copying your save game using a batch file - I did of course try this but the load/save game code was buggy and didn't work! I used this cheat to complete many other roguelikes though (nethack, angband, ADOM,...)
The hardest game I ever played and completed is Rogue. The version I played was written in 1982 and was a port for the IBM PC. It had a bug that prevented one from loading a saved game. This was one of its greatest features in my opinion. Every time you played it you had to start from scratch and because there were so many random elements in the game no game was ever the same. I played this game for years and a few of my friends did also. Getting into the top 10 scoreboard was nearly impossible and when someone managed it I'd get a phone call "Hey! I got 9th place on rogue!" and we'd swap the score file on floppy disk so everyone had an up to date version. After a couple of years I wrote a new high score program that screen-scraped your score (how much gold you had) and other stats too. It recorded the top 100 scores. After a couple of years even getting into this top 100 was difficult. We literally played tens of thousands of games without getting out of the dungeon with the Amulet of Yendor and I thought it impossible - the game couldn't be completed. One very happy day I managed it though! I can't tell you how excited I was - definately the most difficult game I ever played but because it was such a fun and random game I never bored of it. I still played it after completing it - and managed to complete it two more times and my brother also eventually completed it.
These days I play lots of "press F6 to quicksave" type games - they're a lot of fun but where's the tension and exhilaration that comes from knowing your character could die - and die properly? No re-loading.
The people who made this version of Rogue called themselves Artificial Intelligence Design Systems - AIDS. Heh. Wonder if they're still using that name...?;-)
Years ago I setup a Freeserve account which allows me to receive email to anything@myaccountname.freeserve.co.uk
Whenever I need to put my email address somewhere public (i.e. mailing lists and websites) I make up a new email address of the form mailinglistname@myaccountname.freeserve.co.uk
or websitename@myaccountname.freeserve.co.uk
e.g. the email address I gave slashdot is slashdot.org@myaccountname.freeserve.co.uk
The good part: when I start getting spam to a particular address I just setup a filter that sends all mail to that address to/dev/null
It also lets you know where your email address was harvested from. So when I get spam turning up on slashdot.org@myaccountname.freeserve.co.uk I know it was slashdot who sold my email address to the evil spammers;-)
If I want to receive mail from slashdot again I just change my email on slashdot to slashdot.org2@myaccountname.freeserve.co.uk
Interestingly most of the spam I get comes in to the email address ebay.co.uk@myaccountname.freeserve.co.uk
This has worked very well for me for several years.
My friend (not me, honest) teleported up and down levels over and over again to kill the 396 berserkers and get the experience points. He spent weeks doing this until even his magic users had >9999 hit points!
Here's another one tho... did you ever say "burger" in the temple in the square in the town? The priest said something like "That's the most offensive word utterable, DIE!". You were faced with 396 nasty creatures, and if you killed them you were faced with 396 even more nasty creatures. I never managed to kill the second lot, all my characters got turned to stone:(
You can buy LEDs that screw into a standard bulb fitting. This webside is crammed with all kinds of useful information regarding LEDs and LED torches. Check it out.
Slashdot Mirror
That used to annoy me too. So I found it, killed it using Adblock Plus and wrote it up here:
http://webapps.stackexchange.c...
I prefer the old formatting.
There's an extension for Firefox that I used to tweak the css back: Stylish https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
I created this rule which made it better:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("slashdot.org") {
#comments ul ul, #comments ul li ul li {
margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px !important;
}
}
LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/62497...
kernelnewbies: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux...
omgubuntu: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/201...
I'm using Android 1.1 on an HTC Kaiser (aka the Tilt, the Vario III depending on who you got it from). This is a Windows Mobile phone that Android is being ported to.
Not all the hardware on the phone is supported by the Linux kernel but that situation improves week by week. I spend most of my time in Android, only booting back to Windows when I need to load TomTom or upgrade my Linux kernel.
More information can be found here:
http://www.androidonhtc.com/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3629317
I'd really like to upgrade my phone 'cos there're better ones on the market now. The trouble is I'm quite used to having both windows and linux on my phone and there's precious few phones out there that'll do that.
Just to add my small rant to this subject:
;-) Anyway, they silently tagged £90 on the total price for two cables. Fortunately we noticed and quizzed them about it:
;-)
I helped my Dad buy some new Hi-fi equipment: nice kit - wish it was mine
One was a sub-woofer speaker: £40. That's a single phono-to-phono cable, gold plated, etc. Sounded like a scam to me but both sales guys (the manager and his assistant) assured us we needed it and "any old cable would sound terrible"
The other was a £50 TOSLINK optical cable with..... gold-plated connectors. I actually laughed out loud when the managed told me it was gold plated. I thought he was trying to be funny.
Anyway, after a frustrating conversation about the merits of gold-plating optical cables they eventually convinced us to test all the equipment at home. They said we'd hear the difference and be very happy. If we weren't happy with ANY of the equipment they'd take it back, no questions asked, full refund (not a credit note), etc if we brought it back within 2 weeks.
I did lots of blind (deaf?) tests on my Dad: He's a classical musician with a very keen hearing. Unsurprisingly the £2 TOSLINK optical cable sounded exactly the same as the £50 one. Same with the sub-woofer cable.
When we tried to return the cables the sales assistant who dealt with us told us "it's against company policy to accept returns" and "we might be able to give you a credit note when the manager gets back tomorrow".
After much argument (including being called a liar by the manager!) over a couple of days ending in my Dad threatening legal action they relented and gave us the refund.
Bunch of sharks.
For your information, these particularly sharks are SuperFi, Stockport, UK.
I'll never buy from them, or let anyone I know buy from them, or stop-bad mouthing them in public forums until I grow old and mellow
I sincerely hope so.
I click RMB->This Frame->Open Frame In New Tab
As you'd expect this opens the frame in a new tab where you can easily see the URL.
You can also find information about an embedded frame by clicking RBS->This Frame->Frame Info
Thanks for the hint on where to get extra software not packaged on the CDs for 'licensing reasons'.
p ng
;-)
Check out the bottom of the this screenshot in the taskbar:
http://madpenguin.org/images/reviews/suse93/help.
and you can see the reviewer has been browsing the alt.binaries.warez.linux news groups while writing the review!
Good review though
I've not played it for years and first go I get killed by a wand of death fired by a water demon!
:-)
What're the chances? I'd forgotten what a bitch this game is!
Lot's of fun though
It's a PICNIC. Problem In Chair, Not In Car. ;-)
I came up with the same idea for head-tracking in a drunken ramble a while ago. Nice to see someone has done it.
;-)
Expanding on this idea how about a wearing an opaque pair of white glasses and sitting in front of a video projector. The projector projects light onto the glasses and you see the image. Kinda like a back-projection TV but the screen part sits in front of your eyes.
This way you have a lightweight, passive, cheap head mounted display. You'd need lenses in the glasses so you could focus on the image of course.
I've not done a good job of explaining the idea I know.. if you want a really good explanation read Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson - he describes a similar idea. Infact, read it anyway it's brilliant.
Hmm.. thinking about it some more you probably have read it, this being slashdot
I have agree with you to some extent. Because so much of the game was randomly generated many games were impossibly difficult.
...)
For instance: getting to level 2 and gaining 1 hit point (out of a possible 10) put your character at a big disadvantage - I'd always just quit a character that got 1 HP at level 2.
There any many other tips and tricks that would give your character an edge though - for instance always walking the minimum distance and re-tracing your steps where possible. This gives you a huge advantage - I very, very rarely ran out of food (like 1 in 1000 times) once I did this. Plus if you re-trace your steps you'll greatly reduce your chance of hitting trapdoors (or any other trap).
There were many, many tips and tricks that'd give you a slightly higher chance of winning - strategies my friends and me discussed and tested. It is a VERY random game and luck plays a big part but skill is just as important.
To win the game you needed a lot of both.
As for copying your save game using a batch file - I did of course try this but the load/save game code was buggy and didn't work! I used this cheat to complete many other roguelikes though (nethack, angband, ADOM,
The hardest game I ever played and completed is Rogue.
;-)
The version I played was written in 1982 and was a port for the IBM PC. It had a bug that prevented one from loading a saved game. This was one of its greatest features in my opinion. Every time you played it you had to start from scratch and because there were so many random elements in the game no game was ever the same.
I played this game for years and a few of my friends did also. Getting into the top 10 scoreboard was nearly impossible and when someone managed it I'd get a phone call "Hey! I got 9th place on rogue!" and we'd swap the score file on floppy disk so everyone had an up to date version.
After a couple of years I wrote a new high score program that screen-scraped your score (how much gold you had) and other stats too. It recorded the top 100 scores. After a couple of years even getting into this top 100 was difficult.
We literally played tens of thousands of games without getting out of the dungeon with the Amulet of Yendor and I thought it impossible - the game couldn't be completed.
One very happy day I managed it though! I can't tell you how excited I was - definately the most difficult game I ever played but because it was such a fun and random game I never bored of it. I still played it after completing it - and managed to complete it two more times and my brother also eventually completed it.
These days I play lots of "press F6 to quicksave" type games - they're a lot of fun but where's the tension and exhilaration that comes from knowing your character could die - and die properly? No re-loading.
The people who made this version of Rogue called themselves Artificial Intelligence Design Systems - AIDS. Heh. Wonder if they're still using that name...?
Whenever I need to put my email address somewhere public (i.e. mailing lists and websites) I make up a new email address of the form mailinglistname@myaccountname.freeserve.co.uk or websitename@myaccountname.freeserve.co.uk e.g. the email address I gave slashdot is slashdot.org@myaccountname.freeserve.co.uk
The good part: when I start getting spam to a particular address I just setup a filter that sends all mail to that address to /dev/null
It also lets you know where your email address was harvested from. So when I get spam turning up on slashdot.org@myaccountname.freeserve.co.uk I know it was slashdot who sold my email address to the evil spammers ;-)
If I want to receive mail from slashdot again I just change my email on slashdot to slashdot.org2@myaccountname.freeserve.co.uk
Interestingly most of the spam I get comes in to the email address ebay.co.uk@myaccountname.freeserve.co.uk
This has worked very well for me for several years.
My friend (not me, honest) teleported up and down levels over and over again to kill the 396 berserkers and get the experience points. He spent weeks doing this until even his magic users had >9999 hit points!
:(
Here's another one tho... did you ever say "burger" in the temple in the square in the town?
The priest said something like "That's the most offensive word utterable, DIE!".
You were faced with 396 nasty creatures, and if you killed them you were faced with 396 even more nasty creatures. I never managed to kill the second lot, all my characters got turned to stone
You can buy LEDs that screw into a standard bulb fitting.
This webside is crammed with all kinds of useful information regarding LEDs and LED torches. Check it out.