It was Wyndham Hill, but I don't recall either of the other two games you mentioned. The only other game I remember playing regularly on my C64 was a Gauntlet-esque dungeon game that I cannot for the life of me remember the name of, and I have certainly tried.
It had amazing graphics (for a C64), and a level-builder program which was pretty revolutionary at the time. There was a host of enemies ranging from giant rats to dervishes and mad mages. Was a great game. Much more graphically advanced than Below The Root, and almost as much fun.
Great game, so much fun, and surprisingly full of stuff to do and explore. Or maybe it was just because I was like 8 years old.
In any case, I loved that game so much that I bought the book. There's an entire series, in fact. The book really explains what was going on in the game. It's an interesting read if you're a Below the Root fan.... You broke your Shuba!
Given that there are less than 400million people in the us, I'm guessing there can't possibly be 200million big businesses
I have no hard facts either, and am also 'guessing', but I think it's not only 'possible', but also reasonable that there are that many (if not more) corporations in the USA.
You don't seem to grasp the concept that the majority of the wealth is in the hands of just a few (tens of thousands of) people.
My friends father is majority owner of at least 6 different businesses that I can name, and possibly more that I cannot. And he is not even particularly wealthy. Well off, perhaps, but not a millionaire. Just because there are 200 million businesses doesn't mean that there are 200 million people who own them all. I mean really, it could b e the same 12 people who own 50% of all the major corporations in the USA (whee, Illuminati conspiracy theories!). Yes, probably not that extreme, but I would be surprised to discover that it actually is very diverse. I have a feeling it isn't very diverse at all.
Anyway, you don't even account for things like subsidiary corporations. I mean, you can't be a big business apparently unless you have about 100 subsidiaries who are involved in everything from chemical research to aerospace development to packaging and selling food. I mean, that's a company who is owned by another corporation, and no individual people at all (unless you count the people who own the parent company, in which case it's just one person owning multiple companies again).
Which distributions ship using ext3 filesystems by default and setting them to mode journalled in their default ISO images? Um, none?
Did you mean that you run your ext3 filesystems in full-journal mode, and would like to know if you have to update? Yes. Regardless of distro.
In either case, please remember that journalled mode is NOT the default. The default is ordered. Unless you're explicitly setting your filesystem to full journalling, you aren't affected by this problem.
I'd hate to see what happens with those things during a fire...
Probably the same thing that happens to a can of WD40 or a container of butane during a fire. We're not talking about nuclear bombs here. Adding another container of 'super explosive hydrogen!!!' to the mix won't make all that much difference during a fire, really.
They are not mutual exclusive, for one. You can do both at the same time. Just because he wants to be able to switch on his laptop and record his experiences, for example, does not mean that he can't 'see' and 'absorb' his experiences as well. In fact it may help.
On the other hand, doing a 'whirlwind tour' of South America seeing all these supposed 'ancient ruins' is a lot worse than what he's trying to do. It's stupid to compress your 'cultural experience' into a couple days, you will get much less out of it than if you actually tried to live there for awhile instead of just 'visiting'. And that's exactly what he's doing by going backpacking through the rainforest. He will no doubt get up close and personal with what the 'experience' is actually like, instead of just a snapshot of what it sometimes is like.
I mean, look at it this way: He wants to bring a part of his own culture that he enjoys, because it would be nice, but is not letting it get in the way of his 'cultural experience'. If he wanted to check his email, he would spend his trip in Rio de Janeiro, or better yet, not go to South America in the first place. Instead, he is going backpacking, and looking for a way to include his laptop in the equation if possible.
So why does this bother you so much? Sitting at his campsite at night writing up a few entries on his laptop and reviewing where he's already been, and uploading some digital pictures, shouldn't do anything but add to his experience. Unless a laptop somehow emanates "cannot appreciate the trip" radiation or something.
Uh, read the patent? It's not a patent on MPEG. It's a patent on internet video:
The present invention relates generally to an audio and video transmission and receiving system, and more specifically to such a system in which the user controls the access and the playback operations of selected material.
It specifically states that it relates to any compressed video, whether it is compressed during transmission, partially decompressed before transmission, or fully decompressed before transmission. Not just MPEG. It applies to Real, Ogg Theora, anything. Those are just forms of compression.
These guys have "patented" the method of sending you the video so you can pause it and fast forward it. Ooooh.
Start one. I have also made three videos (of the non pr0n variety, sorry) and provided them for download. I guess that makes what I'm doing illegal too. This patent stuff is going far beyond ridiculous. The sad part is that this was filed in 1992. I can't even think of any prior art. That doesn't make it valid, but it does make it hard to fight. Jeez.
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Depending on your price range, of course. This may not be suitable if you're not suited to ripping apart electronics, but seeing as you're installing a navigation system in your boat, I'm willing to bet you're handy enough to do a little bit of desoldering.
Portable TVs and portable DVD players both contain smaller (and in the case of the DVDs, quite high resolution) LCD screens, with backlights, that you can tear out and install into your boat and rewire as neccesary.
You may need to get a converter to switch between VGA and whatever input the LCD wants, but it can b e done. I'm not sure specifically what inputs an LCD requires, but you might check out this site for a story of a guy who's done it.
Good luck.
Um, slackware, I guess, but that's not the problem
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What's wrong with an old version of slackware? or heck, even a new version of slackware, I bet.
I installed slackware on a 486sx laptop with 4MB of RAM and only a floppy drive, (although they've since dispensed with the disksets) and it ran just fine. X was slow, but that's par for the course, deal with it.
Really, I don't see why the distribution matters as much as the software you're putting on it. I mean, if you install KDE, it's going to be dog-slow. That's KDE. Try installing blackbox or fvwm or even windowmaker: all fairly lightweight-but-usable window managers. Every distro has them (almost).
It's not a matter of picking an old enough distro, it's a matter of picking your software wisely. No, a "default install" will not cut it. You're going to have to be selective. If you're low on disk space, try nano, vi, jed or jove instead of emacs. as far as X-based edtiors go, you might as well forget about it. On a 486, even kedit is pretty heavyweight.
Because it's not a closed system. You're getting energy out of the earth's atmosphere and/or your house's heating system. Yes, that energy *is* gone. It's a teriffically tiny amount compared to the total amount of heat energy stored in even your walls, nevermind the atmosphere, but it's still gone.
The infrared energy emitted by the walls would normally hit one of the other walls and be absorbed, only to be emitted again. When it hits your solar panel, it's absorbed, but not emitted again. You may not think of a solar panel as a cooling device, but in fact it is, if it's turning infrared energy into electricity. It's absorbing the heat your walls emit and putting it into the battery. Given a completely sealed system, that closet would eventually cool off to the point where you would stop getting any energy out of it.
At least, that's my understanding. But hey, I could be wrong.
Aside from everybody telling you "that shouldn't happen, you're doing something wrong", which is probably true, I just wanted to chime in with my support of ext3. I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill.
You obviously haven't looked very closely into ext3, because it's an extremely simple layer on top of a standard ext2 filesystem. Essentially, all it is, is an extra file in/, a daemon to do journalling, and a bit or two toggled on the disk itself.
the FAQ has one question that lists the two steps required to install a journal on a stock ext2 filesystem (provided you've got a 2.4.16+ kernel, or have patched your older kernel).
Not only is it very simple to install, but it's very simple to uninstall too. Blindingly easy, in fact. Mount your filesystem as ext2. Done. No journal. If you want to do it permanently, there's an answer about that in the FAQ too.
So really, you have nothing to lose by trying ext3. I've had 0 problems with it, and I use it on a laptop that gets a lot of abuse WRT being turned off at random times (I can't view my battery level in Linux, but I can in Windows. Thanks broken ACPI BIOS...)
The only downside is that the filesystem will sync every 5 seconds or so, which completely destroys any possibility of ever letting the disks spin down for power saving, but that's more of a laptop issue than a server issue.
Yes, IHBT. But I just found it amusing how quickly the fatal flaw of this argument popped up.
It stands to reason that the core Linux(TM) kernel, the version distributed by Linus at http://www.kernel.org, cannot meet these minimum requirements, because if it did, all versions of Linux(TM) would meet these minimum requirements. After all, other Linux distributions are not going to be made less secure. (emphasis mine)
Oh, really now? So you mean, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make a distribution that included "rootkitd" that listens on a port for a script kiddie to upload his rootkit to? Or would you suggest that this would not invalidate CC EAL4?
In either case, it's a pretty laughable little paragraph that destroys the rest of this troll. Oh well, better luck next time!
Um, OODBMS is notreally thatinnovative, although I will agree that it is cool. I prefer PostgreSQL myself, but that's because I don't have tens of thousands of dollars to spend on all the commercial databases. *shrugs*
I apologise in advance if Oracle has redefined OODBMS to mean something different than I'm used to it meaning, but at least as much as I know what it is, it's hardly innovative. It's been around a very long time.
Uh. 1080i and progressive scan are mutually exclusive. The 'i' in 1080i stands for 'interlaced' which is the opposite of progressive scan.
720p is a progressive scan HDTV format with 720 lines. 1080i is an interlaced HDTV format with 1080 lines.
Which one is better is debatable, but knowing they are seperate makes your post nonsensical, and that's besides the fact that neither of these directly relate to the speed of the refresh rate, only the resolution of the picture.
Actually, that's entirely untrue. There are a couple tricks you have to do to, but it's OpenGL that does not (by default) support multi-monitor configurations seamlessly, not the other way around.
It was an important discussion around here before we moved some of our drawing code into OpenGL. Once we solved that little problem though, and wrote a class to get it all initialized properly, all was good, and writing dual-monitor friendly OpenGL apps is easy.
Don't ask "Well then, explain how?" because I'm not obliged or willing to say. The code is not GPL. But it can be done.
As for your comment about debugging software using two monitors, I wholeheartedly agree, and couldn't live without it anymore.
Yes, in fact, I used partitioning of my mind (Mmm, Sword of Truth series) to protect it from the MSCE who runs the place.... And yes, I know that's not what you meant.
Why do all the graphics card companies feel a need to come up with their own monitor spanning software, which is without exception, garbage. I mean, Windows sucks, but there is one thing they did *absolutely fucking right*, and that's their multi-monitor support.
It's beautiful. It works extremely well. It's flexible and well-supported.
Why must each of the graphics card companies reinvent the wheel, and make their wheel square, and connect in a different way?
I did IT with my current employer before moving up to my current programming job, and I remember how many types of graphics cards and versions of graphics drivers we went through before we found one that was even remotely acceptable. A particular version of the Matrox drivers for the Millenium G450 have a little checkbox hidden away during the install (and only during the install) that will let you install the "extra" support for Windows' multi-display.
Note to multi-display driver writers: No one (that I know at least) wants windows that maximize across monitors. No one wants toolbars that span across monitors. No one wants resize-handles on their maximized windows if you are kind enough to provide the option to NOT maximize across monitors. Not everyone wants both their monitors at the same resolution (GRR! that one really frustrates me). Not everyone can run both monitors at the same refresh rate, either. And NOT EVERYONE puts their second monitor to the right of the first one.
All of these things are handled flawlessly by Windows' multi-monitor support. The same multi-monitor support that's been there since Windows 98SE. (or was it Windows 98?) Let it do what it does best, and focus your energy somewhere less counter-productive, thanks.
I don't know who Tim Bernard Lee is either. In fact, I am pretty sure he meant Tim Berners-Lee, one of the key people behind the creation of the World Wide Web.
Hardly obscure. The man has a Google Category all to himself.
Seriously though, I know I plan on attempting to take some pictures this year, and hopefully something will turn out. For those of you complaining about a full moon, the moon doesn't rise until late in the night, which should give plenty of good photography time, particularly for those of us on the west coast.
If anyone else is interested in this sort of thing but isn't sure how to get started or what you need, this very good beginner's guide makes for good reading.
CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) had some issues for a long time and I was quick to blame it as being their fault. However, after many months, someone commented on the CIBC bug in Bugzilla that it was working in a newer version of Mozilla. So, as it turned out, it was actually a problem in Mozilla's SSL support, not in CIBC's site. Go figure.
And for everyone who is complaining that Mozilla can't change the useragent... Yes it can. You can either set the following pref in your prefs.js:
Because it wouldn't work. As much as you americans would like to think so, 'com' does not mean 'USA-owned'. Nor does 'edu'.
My old ISP was named 'niagara.com', because it served the Niagara region of Ontario. Not Niagara Falls, NY. Back in the day, the registrar for 'ca' was pretty anal (still somewhat, but less so) and it was very difficult and expensive to acquire even a '.on.ca' address for Ontario, Canada, much less an actual top-level '.ca' address. So '.com' was slightly shorter, and much cheaper, and much easier, so that was the domain name they used.
There are many other countries around the world in the same position, not just Canada. I've seen the number of UK companies, for example, that use.com addresses just because people recognize them. And this is from the UK, with the.co.uk domain name that probably is the only thing that is even remotely close to com/net/org as far as mindshare goes. Imagine how countries with obscure country codes feel.
Secondly, I now run my own reverse DNS servers. It's trivial to change my reverse lookup DNS address to anything I want. It's a hideously insecure way of trying to deal with the problem. You'll get huge numbers of both false negatives, and false positives, and both will make the system useless. It's a bad idea. Repeat after me: Geoprofiling people by domain names is ludicrous.
Now, perhaps Geoprofiling based on IP addresses is a little bit less hit-and-miss, but it's still not entirely accurate, and I would be pretty miffed if it caught me mistakenly and didn't let me download things that I wanted to download.
I can confirm that it doesn't work on newer cards (GeForce2+ and Radeon 7500+), because it claims to require 8-bit paletted textures. Which apparently newer cards don't support.
It will still run in software mode, but it seems to crash a lot anyway (under Win2000, at least). I still insist that it's one of the best console to PC ports I've seen in a long time, in terms of preserving the 'feel' of the game, and the 'feel' of the console. (Particularily when using a good gamepad, like the Logitech Wingman series)
Unfortunately it really is showing its age. I can't really blame it, considering it is just a port, but I'd love to see a patched version that works on newer systems.
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It was Wyndham Hill, but I don't recall either of the other two games you mentioned. The only other game I remember playing regularly on my C64 was a Gauntlet-esque dungeon game that I cannot for the life of me remember the name of, and I have certainly tried.
It had amazing graphics (for a C64), and a level-builder program which was pretty revolutionary at the time. There was a host of enemies ranging from giant rats to dervishes and mad mages. Was a great game. Much more graphically advanced than Below The Root, and almost as much fun.
Ah, nostalgia...
Great game, so much fun, and surprisingly full of stuff to do and explore. Or maybe it was just because I was like 8 years old.
... You broke your Shuba!
In any case, I loved that game so much that I bought the book. There's an entire series, in fact. The book really explains what was going on in the game. It's an interesting read if you're a Below the Root fan.
Try harder. I'm not even an 'In Soviet Russia' troll, and I can come up with one:
"In Soviet Russia, the Tetraneutron discovers YOU!"
In fact, that would be a fairly standard format for Yakov Smirnoff's jokes.
Given that there are less than 400million people in the us, I'm guessing there can't possibly be 200million big businesses
I have no hard facts either, and am also 'guessing', but I think it's not only 'possible', but also reasonable that there are that many (if not more) corporations in the USA.
You don't seem to grasp the concept that the majority of the wealth is in the hands of just a few (tens of thousands of) people.
My friends father is majority owner of at least 6 different businesses that I can name, and possibly more that I cannot. And he is not even particularly wealthy. Well off, perhaps, but not a millionaire. Just because there are 200 million businesses doesn't mean that there are 200 million people who own them all. I mean really, it could b e the same 12 people who own 50% of all the major corporations in the USA (whee, Illuminati conspiracy theories!). Yes, probably not that extreme, but I would be surprised to discover that it actually is very diverse. I have a feeling it isn't very diverse at all.
Anyway, you don't even account for things like subsidiary corporations. I mean, you can't be a big business apparently unless you have about 100 subsidiaries who are involved in everything from chemical research to aerospace development to packaging and selling food. I mean, that's a company who is owned by another corporation, and no individual people at all (unless you count the people who own the parent company, in which case it's just one person owning multiple companies again).
Which distributions ship using ext3 filesystems by default and setting them to mode journalled in their default ISO images? Um, none?
Did you mean that you run your ext3 filesystems in full-journal mode, and would like to know if you have to update? Yes. Regardless of distro.
In either case, please remember that journalled mode is NOT the default. The default is ordered. Unless you're explicitly setting your filesystem to full journalling, you aren't affected by this problem.
HTH.
I'd hate to see what happens with those things during a fire...
Probably the same thing that happens to a can of WD40 or a container of butane during a fire. We're not talking about nuclear bombs here. Adding another container of 'super explosive hydrogen!!!' to the mix won't make all that much difference during a fire, really.
They are not mutual exclusive, for one. You can do both at the same time. Just because he wants to be able to switch on his laptop and record his experiences, for example, does not mean that he can't 'see' and 'absorb' his experiences as well. In fact it may help.
On the other hand, doing a 'whirlwind tour' of South America seeing all these supposed 'ancient ruins' is a lot worse than what he's trying to do. It's stupid to compress your 'cultural experience' into a couple days, you will get much less out of it than if you actually tried to live there for awhile instead of just 'visiting'. And that's exactly what he's doing by going backpacking through the rainforest. He will no doubt get up close and personal with what the 'experience' is actually like, instead of just a snapshot of what it sometimes is like.
I mean, look at it this way: He wants to bring a part of his own culture that he enjoys, because it would be nice, but is not letting it get in the way of his 'cultural experience'. If he wanted to check his email, he would spend his trip in Rio de Janeiro, or better yet, not go to South America in the first place. Instead, he is going backpacking, and looking for a way to include his laptop in the equation if possible.
So why does this bother you so much? Sitting at his campsite at night writing up a few entries on his laptop and reviewing where he's already been, and uploading some digital pictures, shouldn't do anything but add to his experience. Unless a laptop somehow emanates "cannot appreciate the trip" radiation or something.
It specifically states that it relates to any compressed video, whether it is compressed during transmission, partially decompressed before transmission, or fully decompressed before transmission. Not just MPEG. It applies to Real, Ogg Theora, anything. Those are just forms of compression.
These guys have "patented" the method of sending you the video so you can pause it and fast forward it. Ooooh.
Start one. I have also made three videos (of the non pr0n variety, sorry) and provided them for download. I guess that makes what I'm doing illegal too. This patent stuff is going far beyond ridiculous. The sad part is that this was filed in 1992. I can't even think of any prior art. That doesn't make it valid, but it does make it hard to fight. Jeez.
Depending on your price range, of course. This may not be suitable if you're not suited to ripping apart electronics, but seeing as you're installing a navigation system in your boat, I'm willing to bet you're handy enough to do a little bit of desoldering.
Portable TVs and portable DVD players both contain smaller (and in the case of the DVDs, quite high resolution) LCD screens, with backlights, that you can tear out and install into your boat and rewire as neccesary.
You may need to get a converter to switch between VGA and whatever input the LCD wants, but it can b e done. I'm not sure specifically what inputs an LCD requires, but you might check out this site for a story of a guy who's done it.
Good luck.
What's wrong with an old version of slackware? or heck, even a new version of slackware, I bet.
I installed slackware on a 486sx laptop with 4MB of RAM and only a floppy drive, (although they've since dispensed with the disksets) and it ran just fine. X was slow, but that's par for the course, deal with it.
Really, I don't see why the distribution matters as much as the software you're putting on it. I mean, if you install KDE, it's going to be dog-slow. That's KDE. Try installing blackbox or fvwm or even windowmaker: all fairly lightweight-but-usable window managers. Every distro has them (almost).
It's not a matter of picking an old enough distro, it's a matter of picking your software wisely. No, a "default install" will not cut it. You're going to have to be selective. If you're low on disk space, try nano, vi, jed or jove instead of emacs. as far as X-based edtiors go, you might as well forget about it. On a 486, even kedit is pretty heavyweight.
Because it's not a closed system. You're getting energy out of the earth's atmosphere and/or your house's heating system. Yes, that energy *is* gone. It's a teriffically tiny amount compared to the total amount of heat energy stored in even your walls, nevermind the atmosphere, but it's still gone.
The infrared energy emitted by the walls would normally hit one of the other walls and be absorbed, only to be emitted again. When it hits your solar panel, it's absorbed, but not emitted again. You may not think of a solar panel as a cooling device, but in fact it is, if it's turning infrared energy into electricity. It's absorbing the heat your walls emit and putting it into the battery. Given a completely sealed system, that closet would eventually cool off to the point where you would stop getting any energy out of it.
At least, that's my understanding. But hey, I could be wrong.
Aside from everybody telling you "that shouldn't happen, you're doing something wrong", which is probably true, I just wanted to chime in with my support of ext3. I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill.
/, a daemon to do journalling, and a bit or two toggled on the disk itself.
You obviously haven't looked very closely into ext3, because it's an extremely simple layer on top of a standard ext2 filesystem. Essentially, all it is, is an extra file in
the FAQ has one question that lists the two steps required to install a journal on a stock ext2 filesystem (provided you've got a 2.4.16+ kernel, or have patched your older kernel).
Not only is it very simple to install, but it's very simple to uninstall too. Blindingly easy, in fact. Mount your filesystem as ext2. Done. No journal. If you want to do it permanently, there's an answer about that in the FAQ too.
So really, you have nothing to lose by trying ext3. I've had 0 problems with it, and I use it on a laptop that gets a lot of abuse WRT being turned off at random times (I can't view my battery level in Linux, but I can in Windows. Thanks broken ACPI BIOS...)
The only downside is that the filesystem will sync every 5 seconds or so, which completely destroys any possibility of ever letting the disks spin down for power saving, but that's more of a laptop issue than a server issue.
Yes, IHBT. But I just found it amusing how quickly the fatal flaw of this argument popped up.
It stands to reason that the core Linux(TM) kernel, the version distributed by Linus at http://www.kernel.org, cannot meet these minimum requirements, because if it did, all versions of Linux(TM) would meet these minimum requirements. After all, other Linux distributions are not going to be made less secure. (emphasis mine)
Oh, really now? So you mean, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make a distribution that included "rootkitd" that listens on a port for a script kiddie to upload his rootkit to? Or would you suggest that this would not invalidate CC EAL4?
In either case, it's a pretty laughable little paragraph that destroys the rest of this troll. Oh well, better luck next time!
Um, OODBMS is not really
that innovative, although I will agree that it is cool. I prefer PostgreSQL myself, but that's because I don't have tens of thousands of dollars to spend on all the commercial databases. *shrugs*
I apologise in advance if Oracle has redefined OODBMS to mean something different than I'm used to it meaning, but at least as much as I know what it is, it's hardly innovative. It's been around a very long time.
Uh. 1080i and progressive scan are mutually exclusive. The 'i' in 1080i stands for 'interlaced' which is the opposite of progressive scan.
720p is a progressive scan HDTV format with 720 lines. 1080i is an interlaced HDTV format with 1080 lines.
Which one is better is debatable, but knowing they are seperate makes your post nonsensical, and that's besides the fact that neither of these directly relate to the speed of the refresh rate, only the resolution of the picture.
What were you trying to say?
Actually, that's entirely untrue. There are a couple tricks you have to do to, but it's OpenGL that does not (by default) support multi-monitor configurations seamlessly, not the other way around.
It was an important discussion around here before we moved some of our drawing code into OpenGL. Once we solved that little problem though, and wrote a class to get it all initialized properly, all was good, and writing dual-monitor friendly OpenGL apps is easy.
Don't ask "Well then, explain how?" because I'm not obliged or willing to say. The code is not GPL. But it can be done.
As for your comment about debugging software using two monitors, I wholeheartedly agree, and couldn't live without it anymore.
Yes, in fact, I used partitioning of my mind (Mmm, Sword of Truth series) to protect it from the MSCE who runs the place. ... And yes, I know that's not what you meant.
Why do all the graphics card companies feel a need to come up with their own monitor spanning software, which is without exception, garbage. I mean, Windows sucks, but there is one thing they did *absolutely fucking right*, and that's their multi-monitor support.
It's beautiful. It works extremely well. It's flexible and well-supported.
Why must each of the graphics card companies reinvent the wheel, and make their wheel square, and connect in a different way?
I did IT with my current employer before moving up to my current programming job, and I remember how many types of graphics cards and versions of graphics drivers we went through before we found one that was even remotely acceptable. A particular version of the Matrox drivers for the Millenium G450 have a little checkbox hidden away during the install (and only during the install) that will let you install the "extra" support for Windows' multi-display.
Note to multi-display driver writers: No one (that I know at least) wants windows that maximize across monitors. No one wants toolbars that span across monitors. No one wants resize-handles on their maximized windows if you are kind enough to provide the option to NOT maximize across monitors. Not everyone wants both their monitors at the same resolution (GRR! that one really frustrates me). Not everyone can run both monitors at the same refresh rate, either. And NOT EVERYONE puts their second monitor to the right of the first one.
All of these things are handled flawlessly by Windows' multi-monitor support. The same multi-monitor support that's been there since Windows 98SE. (or was it Windows 98?) Let it do what it does best, and focus your energy somewhere less counter-productive, thanks.
I don't know who Tim Bernard Lee is either. In fact, I am pretty sure he meant Tim Berners-Lee, one of the key people behind the creation of the World Wide Web.
Hardly obscure. The man has a Google Category all to himself.
Well, I already posted this a bit further down, but here it is anyway: A site about photographing the Leonid 2002 Meteor Shower.
Seriously though, I know I plan on attempting to take some pictures this year, and hopefully something will turn out. For those of you complaining about a full moon, the moon doesn't rise until late in the night, which should give plenty of good photography time, particularly for those of us on the west coast.
If anyone else is interested in this sort of thing but isn't sure how to get started or what you need, this very good beginner's guide makes for good reading.
CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) had some issues for a long time and I was quick to blame it as being their fault. However, after many months, someone commented on the CIBC bug in Bugzilla that it was working in a newer version of Mozilla. So, as it turned out, it was actually a problem in Mozilla's SSL support, not in CIBC's site. Go figure.
And for everyone who is complaining that Mozilla can't change the useragent... Yes it can. You can either set the following pref in your prefs.js:
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "fake agent string");
Or install the following toolbar widget thing to change it on the fly (very handy!):
UABar
Because it wouldn't work. As much as you americans would like to think so, 'com' does not mean 'USA-owned'. Nor does 'edu'.
.com addresses just because people recognize them. And this is from the UK, with the .co.uk domain name that probably is the only thing that is even remotely close to com/net/org as far as mindshare goes. Imagine how countries with obscure country codes feel.
My old ISP was named 'niagara.com', because it served the Niagara region of Ontario. Not Niagara Falls, NY. Back in the day, the registrar for 'ca' was pretty anal (still somewhat, but less so) and it was very difficult and expensive to acquire even a '.on.ca' address for Ontario, Canada, much less an actual top-level '.ca' address. So '.com' was slightly shorter, and much cheaper, and much easier, so that was the domain name they used.
There are many other countries around the world in the same position, not just Canada. I've seen the number of UK companies, for example, that use
Secondly, I now run my own reverse DNS servers. It's trivial to change my reverse lookup DNS address to anything I want. It's a hideously insecure way of trying to deal with the problem. You'll get huge numbers of both false negatives, and false positives, and both will make the system useless. It's a bad idea. Repeat after me: Geoprofiling people by domain names is ludicrous.
Now, perhaps Geoprofiling based on IP addresses is a little bit less hit-and-miss, but it's still not entirely accurate, and I would be pretty miffed if it caught me mistakenly and didn't let me download things that I wanted to download.
I can confirm that it doesn't work on newer cards (GeForce2+ and Radeon 7500+), because it claims to require 8-bit paletted textures. Which apparently newer cards don't support.
It will still run in software mode, but it seems to crash a lot anyway (under Win2000, at least). I still insist that it's one of the best console to PC ports I've seen in a long time, in terms of preserving the 'feel' of the game, and the 'feel' of the console. (Particularily when using a good gamepad, like the Logitech Wingman series)
Unfortunately it really is showing its age. I can't really blame it, considering it is just a port, but I'd love to see a patched version that works on newer systems.