Why do you use a 400Mhz Alpha for your firewall? I'm using a Pentium 200 MMX slaptop for my firewall and it never runs at 100%. If I had a "spare" 400Mhz box I would probably use it as a workstation, or at least as server for something more cpu-intensive, like a mud or something.
Anyway, playing about with an alpha would be cool. I like playing about with commercial unices on non-PC hardware. I love my SGI Indigo, even if Irix does suck the balls of low-slung slime-dwelling creatures.
Actually, although I am a big fan of the microsoft IDEs (oops I'll get modded to troll for expressing an unworthy opinion), even in.net Visual C++ is a misnomer. The only real RAD c++ tool for windows is C++ builder.
Ultraedit is written by some weird-ass Christian type who thanks god humbly for his ability to program and charge other people for it.
His editor didn't even let you search for regexps until I asked him why it didn't and he said "name me one that does and is as cheap as ultraedit!" and I said "Emacs, vi... "
Ultraedit is also one of the most popular programs amongst cracking types, mainly because they aren't hard-enough men to handle an editor in a console window- e.g. vim for win32.
Many people such as ME! Watcom c++ for dos just completely wiped the floor with djgpp (the dos port of gcc). It lost in every test made by every person ever, unless you count apps that were mostly asm anyway. Watcom's optimization was legendary. Most DOS games used Watcom. Remember the famous "DOS4GW" ? That was the default dos extender used by Watcom programs. That too helped, because it was faster than the dpmi used by djgpp.
Ok, so I have just read every post here and I must say that nearly every single post is just dismissing these people as "nutjobs" and laughing at them.
What no-one has really done is to consider different parts of the EM spectrum- I mean- not many people think that the power lines in their home make them ill, but a hell of a lot of people (myself included) feel actual physical symptoms from using mobile phones. We're not talking about the discomfort from pressing a piece of plastic on your head here, but weird heat and tingling sensations in the eye for example.
There have been mixed findings from mobile studies, but some have found elevated blood pressure in subjects, disturbed sleep if mobile left on bedside-cabinet etc.
Like someone else posted- we used to think smoking was safe. If you said to someone then that smoking could kill them, they'd say "No way! See, I'm smoking now and I feel fine!"
Police in the uk have been ordered to limit mobile calls to 5 minutes or under, as have some large companies, since they don't want to get sued.
I'm just saying- we don't know what effect the upper frequencies like 2.4Ghz are having on us, and the recent explosion in use of this frequency is cause for at least lots of proper scientific studies that mobile phone companies can't tamper with.
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"Now, if you were talking about a 'normalize' function that looked at RMS volume it might be different..."
I find the problem isn't necessarily the RMS volume (although that is an issue)- the real problem is the RMS content- viz:
'I found a solution to this dilemma: I respond, "As an Atheist, I don't celebrate Christmas, but thanks for the good wishes." This way, I can stand up for my views while still being nice to the person who wanted to be nice to me.'
'For me there is nothing to value in sex with someone who felt no attraction or warmth for me'
I always wanted to do this but with RF (or similar) tags. The advantage of my system would be that moving objects would be tagged- people, cars etc. Then you would have not one website devoted to it but a whole new way of tying meatspace to cyberspace.
Examples:
1) a dating site. You walk round a nightclub talking to people you like and then hit the restroom where you can use your pda to view their personal details (the tags they wear having been auto-scanned by your pda or a badge you wear)
2) huds on windshields that project icons onto cars- e.g. "reported stolen", different icons for driving offences, maybe one warning icon if the vehicle has been the subject of a "bad driver" report by the public in the last month...
3) a consumer review site that ties into the tags in all new electrical devices so you can hear what reviews say instead of the salesman when in the store
4) security tags so when you are in 2nd hand shops you can see if that used stereo is "hot"
5) warez sites and p2p sharing: you scan an album or video game in a shop and your agent goes off to look for a copy of it on the internet.
Heheh Imagine the possibilities! With this, and the original idea you have to realize that the data- either gps location or tag id is just there- and anyone can set up a system, web site or technology using that data- it wouldn't be controlled by one person, company or group.
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As the world's biggest Sailor Moon fan I should probably be making jokes about punishing you in the name of the moon right now, but I thought better of it at the last minute.
Now, I would like to point out first of all that I watched all 200 episodes in *German*- a language which I did not know before watching the series. By the end of it all my German was pretty good, and I thought their dub was really good. In fact to this day I think Sailor Moon sounds just plain wrong in Japanese, despite being the big fan of original language I normally am...
Also the German version was completely uncut- no scout death, slap, strangulation or crucifixion was omitted.
Anyway, back to the point. Yes, lots of those 200 episodes are "filler" ones with a Monster Of the Day being very silly, but I happen to like them for the following reasons:
a) Stupid humour is sometimes a welcome antidote to those anime movies from tv series (Oh My Goddess, Tenchi etc) where they throw all humour out of the window and get all boring and serious
b) Even the silly episodes are steeped in Japanese culture, and I'm an otaku
c) erm another reason
Anyway, you have to remember that these are kids' shows... (Yes I know it's weird that there can be a show that goes from the heroes being crucified and Sailor Moon being the Messiah to being attacked by a monster vacuum-cleaner, but...)
One thing I learned from watching Sailor Moon in German, and then the god-awful US version is that sometimes the reason why the Japanese original is better is just because it's in *a* foreign language- the things they say in SM are sometimes so sickening that you can't bear to hear it in English, and need it filtered through subtitles to make it less trite... Hehe, but my point still stands- Sailor Moon is God! (Ok, well at least the Messiah anyway)
I live in the uk and have lots of encrypted stuff- if they ask me to turn over my decryption keys I'll just say- it's not encrypted! It's supposed to be like that!
Kinda like having a sentence "oeurlal/aouws/lou##" on your hard drive and claiming that's what it's supposed to say.
All my stuff is encrypted with my own super secret encryption which means the encryption is undoubtedly super-weak compared to real systems, but hey- I like writing it, and security/obscurity.
'Upgrading is not worth it! Note that this release is labeled as "Alpha", which is developer-speak means "not feature complete and will crash on you all the time".'
Ok- this is not meant as flamebait- but I just wondered- do lots of other people find kde apps crash on them a hell of a lot?
I have used various (final) builds of kde on numerous different computers and hell, I do like it- I like the split window function in konqueror and its built-in terminal, I like kdevelop and kate, but god- do they crash!
For me the application which crashes the most is konqueror- probably because I use it the most. It normally goes down now in internet browsing mode (it used to be the file manager mode). Normally in the khtml renderer or the javascript module... We're talking about 5 crashes a day here.
I would be very interested to hear other people's experiences...
Ok so I am not a real old-timer- I learned C with djgpp for DOS (and later a somewhat less than legal version of Watcom (hey- I was unemployed)). The thing is I remember struggling with my first GUI program; why the hell was it so difficult to bring up a window with a text box in it? The reason is that despite the fact that I had done lots of work with interrupts under DOS, the whole event-driven programming model threw me through a hoop.
Also the speed of gui programs disappointed me since I had been writing games (there was no directx yet).
Slightly offtopic- just another programmer's fond memories of their first c environment. (I liked reading about other people's).
Is exact audio ripper better than cdparanoia? I can't tell because my windows pc has a better cd player in it- anyone who dual boots and has tried scratched disks want to comment? It's important for me because I am purist scum and rip to flac.
Most of season 4 was dross but surprisingly contained some really stand out episodes- if I remember correctly- the one about the man who can see everyone's deaths.
Later series were all like this- all crap apart from now and then a classic episode. Usually for me, what made an episode classic was Mulder humour- e.g. where he gets dressed up in the stuff for the vr game- where he switches bodies with that guy and has to go home to his wife- the person who steals Mulder's body and does the Taxi Driver scene in the mirror- and so on.
"Or like the article says jump from rooftop to rooftop"
Yeah, but everyone knows that no-one makes their first jump.
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I think the military versions of this tech will get more like the sf concept when they add in the actual armour part of power armour- this looks like it won't actually protect the wearer much- just accentuate their strength. Think Warhammer40K Space Marines for my own view of what it should look like.
On a related note (that of life belatedly imitating art WRT military hardware), I am still waiting for *big fat stompy mechs*- i.e. the Mechwarrior kind, and eventually also probably even better ones like in Escaflowne or Evangelion. (If they get real evas or mechs like in Gunbuster- sign me straight up for the military!).
I really don't see why we don't have mechs yet; Some people point out that tanks are better for uneven ground land combat, so why go to the expense of researching and building mechs?
I'll tell you in one word- intimidation. Everyone knows that the sight of a USAF AH64-D creates terror and panic- routing those enemies right off the edge of the tabletop (Oops- too much Warhammer again). Imagine the sight of a big mech stompin' all over the place! Plus it might actually be better for crossing rivers and other pesky obstacles.
The technology to build mechs is coming on apace even without military funding- witness that robot that can walk up stairs and stuff. (I always thought it would be cool to put wireless networking on one and be able to log into it and look through its eyes and hear through its ears. (Heeheheh give it a gun and you can play very expensive and realistic deathmatches with your friends...)
Anyway, I'm also waiting for real-life energy weapons- that phaser stunning thing they developed as a smallarm was a step forward.
Anyway- that's enough from me- but I find all these ideas very exciting and just wanted to share them with you.
dude#1: Oh, dude, I so knew this was going to be on the exam but I stayed up late playing rtcw instead of cramming, and there it was: "Compare and contrast XML and UML". What was the answer dude?
dude#2: While you were playing rtcw, dude, I was inspired to drink 17 cans of jolt and totally learn this question's ass. The answer is "XML and UML are so totally fucking different, it's like untrue".
dude#1: whoah, so it was like a trick question, dude?
dude#3: No, dumb-ass dudes, the answer was "Microsoft invented XML".
dude#4: No way! I put: "Like UML is all boxen and lines and XML is text"
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Why do you use a 400Mhz Alpha for your firewall? I'm using a Pentium 200 MMX slaptop for my firewall and it never runs at 100%. If I had a "spare" 400Mhz box I would probably use it as a workstation, or at least as server for something more cpu-intensive, like a mud or something.
Anyway, playing about with an alpha would be cool. I like playing about with commercial unices on non-PC hardware. I love my SGI Indigo, even if Irix does suck the balls of low-slung slime-dwelling creatures.
graspee
Actually, although I am a big fan of the microsoft IDEs (oops I'll get modded to troll for expressing an unworthy opinion), even in .net Visual C++ is a misnomer. The only real RAD c++ tool for windows is C++ builder.
graspee
You evil man! I had succesfully repressed all memories of that awful slow gfx library but now you've brought them all back.
graspee
Ultraedit is written by some weird-ass Christian type who thanks god humbly for his ability to program and charge other people for it.
... "
His editor didn't even let you search for regexps until I asked him why it didn't and he said "name me one that does and is as cheap as ultraedit!" and I said "Emacs, vi
Ultraedit is also one of the most popular programs amongst cracking types, mainly because they aren't hard-enough men to handle an editor in a console window- e.g. vim for win32.
graspee
I'm glad Visual C++ isn't ANSI compliant! It means I can do dumb stuff like pass function pointers to functions requiring a void*.
Most of c++ is bondage and discipline stuff that we're better off without.
You know I'm right. You know you're right. The compiler won't let you. The compiler is your friend.
graspee
Many people such as ME! Watcom c++ for dos just completely wiped the floor with djgpp (the dos port of gcc). It lost in every test made by every person ever, unless you count apps that were mostly asm anyway. Watcom's optimization was legendary. Most DOS games used Watcom. Remember the famous "DOS4GW" ? That was the default dos extender used by Watcom programs. That too helped, because it was faster than the dpmi used by djgpp.
graspee
Ok, so I have just read every post here and I must say that nearly every single post is just dismissing these people as "nutjobs" and laughing at them.
What no-one has really done is to consider different parts of the EM spectrum- I mean- not many people think that the power lines in their home make them ill, but a hell of a lot of people (myself included) feel actual physical symptoms from using mobile phones. We're not talking about the discomfort from pressing a piece of plastic on your head here, but weird heat and tingling sensations in the eye for example.
There have been mixed findings from mobile studies, but some have found elevated blood pressure in subjects, disturbed sleep if mobile left on bedside-cabinet etc.
Like someone else posted- we used to think smoking was safe. If you said to someone then that smoking could kill them, they'd say "No way! See, I'm smoking now and I feel fine!"
Police in the uk have been ordered to limit mobile calls to 5 minutes or under, as have some large companies, since they don't want to get sued.
I'm just saying- we don't know what effect the upper frequencies like 2.4Ghz are having on us, and the recent explosion in use of this frequency is cause for at least lots of proper scientific studies that mobile phone companies can't tamper with.
graspee
"Now, if you were talking about a 'normalize' function that looked at RMS volume it might be different..."
I find the problem isn't necessarily the RMS volume (although that is an issue)- the real problem is the RMS content- viz:
'I found a solution to this dilemma: I respond, "As an Atheist, I don't celebrate Christmas, but thanks for the good wishes." This way, I can stand up for my views while still being nice to the person who wanted to be nice to me.'
'For me there is nothing to value in sex with someone who felt no attraction or warmth for me'
'GNU/Linux'
graspee
Konqueror still can't render framesets properly, unlike Mozilla and those that use its rendering engine.
graspee
I always wanted to do this but with RF (or similar) tags. The advantage of my system would be that moving objects would be tagged- people, cars etc. Then you would have not one website devoted to it but a whole new way of tying meatspace to cyberspace.
Examples:
1) a dating site. You walk round a nightclub talking to people you like and then hit the restroom where you can use your pda to view their personal details (the tags they wear having been auto-scanned by your pda or a badge you wear)
2) huds on windshields that project icons onto cars- e.g. "reported stolen", different icons for driving offences, maybe one warning icon if the vehicle has been the subject of a "bad driver" report by the public in the last month...
3) a consumer review site that ties into the tags in all new electrical devices so you can hear what reviews say instead of the salesman when in the store
4) security tags so when you are in 2nd hand shops you can see if that used stereo is "hot"
5) warez sites and p2p sharing: you scan an album or video game in a shop and your agent goes off to look for a copy of it on the internet.
Heheh Imagine the possibilities! With this, and the original idea you have to realize that the data- either gps location or tag id is just there- and anyone can set up a system, web site or technology using that data- it wouldn't be controlled by one person, company or group.
graspee
As the world's biggest Sailor Moon fan I should probably be making jokes about punishing you in the name of the moon right now, but I thought better of it at the last minute.
Now, I would like to point out first of all that I watched all 200 episodes in *German*- a language which I did not know before watching the series. By the end of it all my German was pretty good, and I thought their dub was really good. In fact to this day I think Sailor Moon sounds just plain wrong in Japanese, despite being the big fan of original language I normally am...
Also the German version was completely uncut- no scout death, slap, strangulation or crucifixion was omitted.
Anyway, back to the point. Yes, lots of those 200 episodes are "filler" ones with a Monster Of the Day being very silly, but I happen to like them for the following reasons:
a) Stupid humour is sometimes a welcome antidote to those anime movies from tv series (Oh My Goddess, Tenchi etc) where they throw all humour out of the window and get all boring and serious
b) Even the silly episodes are steeped in Japanese culture, and I'm an otaku
c) erm another reason
Anyway, you have to remember that these are kids' shows... (Yes I know it's weird that there can be a show that goes from the heroes being crucified and Sailor Moon being the Messiah to being attacked by a monster vacuum-cleaner, but...)
One thing I learned from watching Sailor Moon in German, and then the god-awful US version is that sometimes the reason why the Japanese original is better is just because it's in *a* foreign language- the things they say in SM are sometimes so sickening that you can't bear to hear it in English, and need it filtered through subtitles to make it less trite... Hehe, but my point still stands- Sailor Moon is God! (Ok, well at least the Messiah anyway)
graspee
You could try getting the source for mutella and compiling it under cygwin- it might work.
(mutella is a console-based client for gnutella network- simple but effective)
graspee
I live in the uk and have lots of encrypted stuff- if they ask me to turn over my decryption keys I'll just say- it's not encrypted! It's supposed to be like that!
Kinda like having a sentence "oeurlal/aouws/lou##" on your hard drive and claiming that's what it's supposed to say.
All my stuff is encrypted with my own super secret encryption which means the encryption is undoubtedly super-weak compared to real systems, but hey- I like writing it, and security/obscurity.
graspee
"is ANYTHING actually "unbelievably and unusably slow" on a 1.4GHz/DDR Athlon, 512M RAM???"
Start with your Windows or Linux PC
Install Bochs
Install Windows in Bochs
Install a playstation emulator in it
Play Tekken 3 on it
graspee
'Upgrading is not worth it! Note that this release is labeled as "Alpha", which is developer-speak means "not feature complete and will crash on you all the time".'
Ok- this is not meant as flamebait- but I just wondered- do lots of other people find kde apps crash on them a hell of a lot?
I have used various (final) builds of kde on numerous different computers and hell, I do like it- I like the split window function in konqueror and its built-in terminal, I like kdevelop and kate, but god- do they crash!
For me the application which crashes the most is konqueror- probably because I use it the most. It normally goes down now in internet browsing mode (it used to be the file manager mode). Normally in the khtml renderer or the javascript module... We're talking about 5 crashes a day here.
I would be very interested to hear other people's experiences...
graspee
Ok so I am not a real old-timer- I learned C with djgpp for DOS (and later a somewhat less than legal version of Watcom (hey- I was unemployed)). The thing is I remember struggling with my first GUI program; why the hell was it so difficult to bring up a window with a text box in it? The reason is that despite the fact that I had done lots of work with interrupts under DOS, the whole event-driven programming model threw me through a hoop.
Also the speed of gui programs disappointed me since I had been writing games (there was no directx yet).
Slightly offtopic- just another programmer's fond memories of their first c environment. (I liked reading about other people's).
graspee
"The CD is not playing in your computer."
Yeah- I put it in my computer and it didn't play.
>>Do you have a cdrom or a dvdrom, sir?
Neither- I put it *in* the computer- you know, take side panel off- put in cd, close side...
graspee
If you send this you will get a reply-
Dear Mr S. Fault,
blah blah etc
(obvious joke- so sorry)
graspee
Is exact audio ripper better than cdparanoia? I can't tell because my windows pc has a better cd player in it- anyone who dual boots and has tried scratched disks want to comment? It's important for me because I am purist scum and rip to flac.
graspee
Most of season 4 was dross but surprisingly contained some really stand out episodes- if I remember correctly- the one about the man who can see everyone's deaths.
Later series were all like this- all crap apart from now and then a classic episode. Usually for me, what made an episode classic was Mulder humour- e.g. where he gets dressed up in the stuff for the vr game- where he switches bodies with that guy and has to go home to his wife- the person who steals Mulder's body and does the Taxi Driver scene in the mirror- and so on.
graspee
"your mech isn't going to be very useful when it is stuck in the mud"
;) hehe but points taken- maybe whoever invented mechs didn't know how effective attack helicopters are against tanks.
well, duh- jump jets!
Still- mechs!
graspee
"Or like the article says jump from rooftop to rooftop"
Yeah, but everyone knows that no-one makes their first jump.
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I think the military versions of this tech will get more like the sf concept when they add in the actual armour part of power armour- this looks like it won't actually protect the wearer much- just accentuate their strength. Think Warhammer40K Space Marines for my own view of what it should look like.
On a related note (that of life belatedly imitating art WRT military hardware), I am still waiting for *big fat stompy mechs*- i.e. the Mechwarrior kind, and eventually also probably even better ones like in Escaflowne or Evangelion. (If they get real evas or mechs like in Gunbuster- sign me straight up for the military!).
I really don't see why we don't have mechs yet; Some people point out that tanks are better for uneven ground land combat, so why go to the expense of researching and building mechs?
I'll tell you in one word- intimidation. Everyone knows that the sight of a USAF AH64-D creates terror and panic- routing those enemies right off the edge of the tabletop (Oops- too much Warhammer again). Imagine the sight of a big mech stompin' all over the place! Plus it might actually be better for crossing rivers and other pesky obstacles.
The technology to build mechs is coming on apace even without military funding- witness that robot that can walk up stairs and stuff. (I always thought it would be cool to put wireless networking on one and be able to log into it and look through its eyes and hear through its ears. (Heeheheh give it a gun and you can play very expensive and realistic deathmatches with your friends...)
Anyway, I'm also waiting for real-life energy weapons- that phaser stunning thing they developed as a smallarm was a step forward.
Anyway- that's enough from me- but I find all these ideas very exciting and just wanted to share them with you.
graspee
" Time to uninstall Media Player. I'm just tired of companies sneakily trying to track my browsing/purchasing habits without disclosing it. Enough."
Why not try unchecking the big friendly "Allow media sites to uniquely identify my player" box instead?
graspee
"I took a Mech Engineering degree"
Really? Do you do upgrades? I need more capacity for ER pulse lasers on my Atlas.
graspee
dude#1: Oh, dude, I so knew this was going to be on the exam but I stayed up late playing rtcw instead of cramming, and there it was: "Compare and contrast XML and UML". What was the answer dude?
dude#2: While you were playing rtcw, dude, I was inspired to drink 17 cans of jolt and totally learn this question's ass. The answer is "XML and UML are so totally fucking different, it's like untrue".
dude#1: whoah, so it was like a trick question, dude?
dude#3: No, dumb-ass dudes, the answer was "Microsoft invented XML".
dude#4: No way! I put: "Like UML is all boxen and lines and XML is text"
dude#1: Actually, dude, you could be right there.
graspee