Any UK folk wanting 9 and 10 inch monitors can get one here; you have to click on the text CLICK HERE FOR MORE COMPONENT OFFERS on the scrolly at the top of the page to get to the Offers List (URL changes a lot).
They do them for £10, and the monitors are great. From old POS terminals, but they're very clean with no burn and can handle 800x600 at 24bpp!
They also throw in cool telescopic stands; I have two flanking my main 19" CRT like mickey mouse ears. Perfect for throwing debug windows etc out onto... and a 3-monitor setup for £30 (including a tenner for a PCI dual-head Matrox card) really ain't bad.
Last time I was down there they had hundreds left in the warehouse so if they're not on the list anymore give 'em a call.
At NTU in the UK, from where I graduated last July, students were forced to use Windows, including Microsoft compilers.
There were rumours of an old VAX cluster - they turned out to be true. There was a cluster - it was offline and gathering dust.
There was one "student" Linux box, which anyone who expressed an interest could get access to - it was taken offline halfway through my first year, due to "lack of interest", despite what I heard from many disgruntled ex-users.
In the UK at least, be certain to check the type of network a CS faculty runs in advance if it matters to you; I found out too late that presuming big hunks of *nix goodness are going to be available is simply not safe.
Yeah, so it's a repeat, but it's still a great technique.
Having played with it, and with writing custom renders, I can say that the SDK is really great. It's found here.
For more great NPR eye candy and programming stuff have a look at this good intro to toon rendering, this NPR site or indeed this or this demo of cell shading.
For anyone else who, like me, likes GFX programming for fum but is tired of working on an OGL engine that just ends up like everyone else's, this is a pretty cool feature to try and implement.
Fed up of letting other people create chaos, I've just knocked together a Java app to sit on port 80 and wait for HTTP requests.
When it gets one, it spawns a thread to open a client socket onto port 80 of the original incoming machine and send back the original request:) Loadsa fun.
It's sitting causing havoc right now. Quite interesting seeing what some of those dodgy requests throw back at you, all sort of corporate espionage potential, and it's all automated; you already know the machines you're attacking are vulnerable cos they're attacking you!
Runs great in Win32, should be fine on Linux too but I ain't tested it.
Anybody else feeling nihilistic who wants it, give me yr email or icq and I'll be happy to oblige.
For extra credit points, re-implement it yourself in Rebol.
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Any UK folk wanting 9 and 10 inch monitors can get one here; you have to click on the text CLICK HERE FOR MORE COMPONENT OFFERS on the scrolly at the top of the page to get to the Offers List (URL changes a lot).
They do them for £10, and the monitors are great. From old POS terminals, but they're very clean with no burn and can handle 800x600 at 24bpp!
They also throw in cool telescopic stands; I have two flanking my main 19" CRT like mickey mouse ears. Perfect for throwing debug windows etc out onto... and a 3-monitor setup for £30 (including a tenner for a PCI dual-head Matrox card) really ain't bad.
Last time I was down there they had hundreds left in the warehouse so if they're not on the list anymore give 'em a call.
At NTU in the UK, from where I graduated last July, students were forced to use Windows, including Microsoft compilers.
There were rumours of an old VAX cluster - they turned out to be true. There was a cluster - it was offline and gathering dust.
There was one "student" Linux box, which anyone who expressed an interest could get access to - it was taken offline halfway through my first year, due to "lack of interest", despite what I heard from many disgruntled ex-users.
In the UK at least, be certain to check the type of network a CS faculty runs in advance if it matters to you; I found out too late that presuming big hunks of *nix goodness are going to be available is simply not safe.
Yeah, so it's a repeat, but it's still a great technique.
Having played with it, and with writing custom renders, I can say that the SDK is really great. It's found here.
For more great NPR eye candy and programming stuff have a look at this good intro to toon rendering, this NPR site or indeed this or this demo of cell shading.
For anyone else who, like me, likes GFX programming for fum but is tired of working on an OGL engine that just ends up like everyone else's, this is a pretty cool feature to try and implement.
Fed up of letting other people create chaos, I've just knocked together a Java app to sit on port 80 and wait for HTTP requests.
:) Loadsa fun.
When it gets one, it spawns a thread to open a client socket onto port 80 of the original incoming machine and send back the original request
It's sitting causing havoc right now. Quite interesting seeing what some of those dodgy requests throw back at you, all sort of corporate espionage potential, and it's all automated; you already know the machines you're attacking are vulnerable cos they're attacking you!
Runs great in Win32, should be fine on Linux too but I ain't tested it.
Anybody else feeling nihilistic who wants it, give me yr email or icq and I'll be happy to oblige.
For extra credit points, re-implement it yourself in Rebol.