>The challenges are almost always car-oriented, >and most of the airtime deals with cutting down >the cars to make them lighter. There's very >little explanation of the science behind the >challenge
yes, and i too find that dull. (the recent golf ball gun was great though, but why did it have to be mounted on a car?)
there was a show over here in england called the great egg race which was similar but three teams in a studio, all with access to identical piles of equipment and the tasks were more varied. one was to get an egg from one side of the room to the other as fast as possible without using a motor and without breaking the egg (this challenge was later opened to the public and heats were held every week). the other one i remember is the mechanical flute player. lots of others, it ran for some years in prime time on thursday nights.
add a crazy german guy and you're good to go!
http://www.ukgameshows.com/atoz/programmes/g/gre at _egg_race/
>Unfortunately Cathy Rogers has left hosting Junkyard Wars in the US
in the UK too. new season (starts Sunday 15th) has Lisa Rogers (no relation). i hope they get away from the 'build a vehicle and race it' thing this series - i always prefered the catapults and demolition machines.
i'm originally from Tewkesbury and whilst i don't remember the death during the re-enactment i do remember the town being 'invaded' for a weekend every summer by people in armour. most odd.
a book / reference that is more tuned to writing apache 2 modules? (rather than installation / administration which the ones mentioned so far have been)
first thing that came to mind was that tridge is australian and did a lot of tivo hacking. a quick google search later (tivo australia) turned up a linux.conf.au link, a pdf about adding ethernet to a tivo and why that's useful for australians.
last time i was in a pub in shepherd's bush, london (the irish one on the corner of the green, forget its name, by the Empire, opposite the Vesbar) they had a table video game that let you choose between space invaders, donkey kong and two others.
also, the oxford street virgin megastore cafe has 4 or so different tables available.
there was a piece in (i think) Face magazine comparing the costs of RECORDING the two recent albums by Michael Jackson and the Aphex Twin. MJ's album was totalled to several million dollars, whereas Drukqs was listed as costing about 75p, the cost of two blank CDRs because it was all done using his own equipment and in his own time.
the bloke who did that video (chris cunningham) worked on a couple of the alien films and is currently filming Neuromancer...
(um, make that 'WAS', http://www.director-file.com/cunningham/510.html (at the very bottom) seems to think it is dead)
andy
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http://us.imdb.com/Title?0115749
Breaking the Code (1996) (TV)
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.
Summary written by Will Gilbert {wgilbert@uwaterloo.ca}
i can deal with the slashdot ads as they are well targeted.
what i don't like is having to watch ads for dog food, sanitary products, motor insurance, the upcoming football and macdonalds when i'm trying to watch tv. none of them interest me, the slashdots ads sometimes do (currently).
-josh
>Most real world collisons with the guard rail on
>a race course are relatively unspectacular (by
>design) - but that would be oh so boring in a
>racing game now wouldn't it?
the thing i hated about Gran Tourismo 3 was the collisions, the cars hit the barriers like a wet fish and neither the cars or the piles of tyres moved an inch. pah. give me Driver any day 8)
andy
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maybe i'm in the minority (in fact i know i am cos i read the tivo forum ) but i set manual recordings for EVERYTHING i record just because here in england the published tv schedules and the actual tv schedules are two different things and i got fed up with missing the first two or last two minutes of programmes. i still buy the radio times every week and go through it on a saturday marking things to record.
that said, i set season passes for series just in case i forget or am unable to set a manual recording. and the data is useful for verifying the manual recordings i've set (if it comes up with Lex, say, when i've set it to record Buffy then i know i've forgotten that the date changes after midnight or that 1:20 am and 1:20 pm are different things or i've chosen ch5 rather than bbc2.)
that said, the tivo's great and i couldn't do without it. with reliable schedules (which is the bbc's fault rather than the data supplier) it would be easier, yes, but i'm more than happy with it the way it is. i also find enough to saturate my free time with the 5 terrestrial channels here in the UK and don't know how people with cable actually find time to eat, bathe or go out to work 8)
don't you get this anyway through fast forwarding over the commercials?
i have a tivo at home and quite often start watching things 10 or so minutes after they start, fast forward through the adverts and finish watching them in real time saving myself 10 minutes every hour (almost 17%)
i then use the 10 minutes i save to make myself cups of tea, use the toilet etc, everything i'd normally do during the ads. 8)
in microserfs they cottoned on to playing subtitled movies at 2x which was still comfortable enough to read (no chipmunking of voices). can't do this with a tivo though as the status bar comes exactly where the subtitles usually are.
my video recorder will play things back at 9x, 7x, 5x, 3x and 1x audio-free picture search mode. why 1x is in there i don't know, saves you having to press mute on the tv i guess.
nope, JP NZ is ok, JR NZ is a relative address with the following byte containing the two's complement displacement (limiting the distance to +127 or -128 bytes), JP is absolute jmp, jump to anywhere.
but, yes, normally you'd use JR in this case, or maybe DJNZ which does the decrement automatically.
see, all those years when i could've been out learning how to smoke and drink rather than disassembling JetPac, they weren't wasted...
put me down as another one who cut his teeth on z80 assembler, hand assembled using the numbers in the back of the ZX81 manual. (still remember some of them: 205 CALL, 195 JMP, 201 RET...)
not too sure about this though, think there may be a trick involved. i know that if you did
you may laugh but game (a computer game store here in the UK, www.game.uk.com) has just started restocking the Jaguar. the one in Hammersmith is currently displaying more Jaguar games than it is Nintendo 64 games...
there are at least two populist linux magazines published here in the uk.
Linux Format has just started a version with a DVD coverdisk, great for those of us who don't want to download XFree86 over a modem...
http://www.linuxformat.com/
Linux Magazine was originally German and all the articles read like they'd just passed them through Babel. it has come on leaps and bounds since the english office opened up though. wish they'd supply usage instructions for the cover mounted cd though, they don't even mention the contents in the mag.
http://www.livepublishing.co.uk/linux/
both are a good mix of articles and reviews with Linux Format being more newbie friendly, some of the LM articles are just plain weird.
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>The challenges are almost always car-oriented,
e at _egg_race/
>and most of the airtime deals with cutting down
>the cars to make them lighter. There's very
>little explanation of the science behind the
>challenge
yes, and i too find that dull. (the recent golf ball gun was great though, but why did it have to be mounted on a car?)
there was a show over here in england called the great egg race which was similar but three teams in a studio, all with access to identical piles of equipment and the tasks were more varied. one was to get an egg from one side of the room to the other as fast as possible without using a motor and without breaking the egg (this challenge was later opened to the public and heats were held every week). the other one i remember is the mechanical flute player. lots of others, it ran for some years in prime time on thursday nights.
add a crazy german guy and you're good to go!
http://www.ukgameshows.com/atoz/programmes/g/gr
andy
>Unfortunately Cathy Rogers has left hosting Junkyard Wars in the US
in the UK too. new season (starts Sunday 15th) has Lisa Rogers (no relation). i hope they get away from the 'build a vehicle and race it' thing this series - i always prefered the catapults and demolition machines.
bring back the Great Egg Race 8)
andy
hey!
e sbury.org.uk
i'm originally from Tewkesbury and whilst i don't remember the death during the re-enactment i do remember the town being 'invaded' for a weekend every summer by people in armour. most odd.
http://come.to/tewkesburyfayre
http://www.tewk
andy
a book / reference that is more tuned to writing apache 2 modules? (rather than installation / administration which the ones mentioned so far have been)
thanks
andy
and something i use daily:
vim -d file1 file2
which is like sdiff but also allows you to edit both files.
favourite (useless) vim command is:
1GVGg?
try it. (repeat it to undo. or just 'u')
andy
sorry, i read that as tivo *the service* rather than tivo *the hardware*.
but given that he hacked it from ntsc to pal then i'm guessing it was an american one.
> My inlaws (in their 70's) aren't going to be hacking an imported tivo.
why not? 8)
ask on the tivo forums, someone there will be capable and willing i don't doubt.
andy
first thing that came to mind was that tridge is australian and did a lot of tivo hacking. a quick google search later (tivo australia) turned up a linux.conf.au link, a pdf about adding ethernet to a tivo and why that's useful for australians.
1 /D ay4/tivo_hacking.pdf
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/linux.conf.au_200
(Result 2 of about 7,610. Search took 0.05 seconds.)
andy
last time i was in a pub in shepherd's bush, london (the irish one on the corner of the green, forget its name, by the Empire, opposite the Vesbar) they had a table video game that let you choose between space invaders, donkey kong and two others.
also, the oxford street virgin megastore cafe has 4 or so different tables available.
andy
there was a piece in (i think) Face magazine comparing the costs of RECORDING the two recent albums by Michael Jackson and the Aphex Twin. MJ's album was totalled to several million dollars, whereas Drukqs was listed as costing about 75p, the cost of two blank CDRs because it was all done using his own equipment and in his own time.
took him 5 years mind 8)
andy
(yes, the piece was flawed, funny though)
we used this in my last job. Tom Farr wasn't best pleased...
andy
the bloke who did that video (chris cunningham) worked on a couple of the alien films and is currently filming Neuromancer...
(um, make that 'WAS', http://www.director-file.com/cunningham/510.html (at the very bottom) seems to think it is dead)
andy
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0115749
Breaking the Code (1996) (TV)
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.
Summary written by Will Gilbert {wgilbert@uwaterloo.ca}
(based on a long running play iirc)
hth
andy
11 quid for adults (16+)
5 quid for under 16s
8 quid for students and dole-ites
16 may - 15 september
www.gameonweb.co.uk
andy
this always impressed me:e x.pht ml (the top one)
http://www.bookmarklets.com/tools/design/ind
a few lines of javascript that can be saved as a bookmark and runs anytime you pick it from your favourites - generates all 216 safe colours.
andy
this surprises me given the classic nature of the book.
actually, amazon.co.uk have plenty (soft- and hard-cover editions) so i guess it's an american thing.
andy
:1,$ sub /oldphrase/newphrase/ to replace oldphrase with newphrase throughout a document
you can use % instead of 1,$. and s is enough to do a sub:
:%s/oldphrase/newphrase/
vim is good, use it on solaris and win2000 all the time. have been using it for years and am still learning new things.
in response to 'how do i cut and paste' there's always visual mode:
v to start visual mode (or V for complete lines)
move to end of selection
y to 'yank' into copy buffer
move to where you want text to go
p to 'put'
vim for win32 also allows you to define selection with the mouse and cut and paste using icons or menu entries.
andy
i can deal with the slashdot ads as they are well targeted.
what i don't like is having to watch ads for dog food, sanitary products, motor insurance, the upcoming football and macdonalds when i'm trying to watch tv. none of them interest me, the slashdots ads sometimes do (currently).
also, i'm cheap 8)
andy
-josh
>Most real world collisons with the guard rail on
>a race course are relatively unspectacular (by
>design) - but that would be oh so boring in a
>racing game now wouldn't it?
the thing i hated about Gran Tourismo 3 was the collisions, the cars hit the barriers like a wet fish and neither the cars or the piles of tyres moved an inch. pah. give me Driver any day 8)
andy
maybe i'm in the minority (in fact i know i am cos i read the tivo forum ) but i set manual recordings for EVERYTHING i record just because here in england the published tv schedules and the actual tv schedules are two different things and i got fed up with missing the first two or last two minutes of programmes. i still buy the radio times every week and go through it on a saturday marking things to record.
that said, i set season passes for series just in case i forget or am unable to set a manual recording. and the data is useful for verifying the manual recordings i've set (if it comes up with Lex, say, when i've set it to record Buffy then i know i've forgotten that the date changes after midnight or that 1:20 am and 1:20 pm are different things or i've chosen ch5 rather than bbc2.)
that said, the tivo's great and i couldn't do without it. with reliable schedules (which is the bbc's fault rather than the data supplier) it would be easier, yes, but i'm more than happy with it the way it is. i also find enough to saturate my free time with the 5 terrestrial channels here in the UK and don't know how people with cable actually find time to eat, bathe or go out to work 8)
andy
don't you get this anyway through fast forwarding over the commercials?
i have a tivo at home and quite often start watching things 10 or so minutes after they start, fast forward through the adverts and finish watching them in real time saving myself 10 minutes every hour (almost 17%)
i then use the 10 minutes i save to make myself cups of tea, use the toilet etc, everything i'd normally do during the ads. 8)
in microserfs they cottoned on to playing subtitled movies at 2x which was still comfortable enough to read (no chipmunking of voices). can't do this with a tivo though as the status bar comes exactly where the subtitles usually are.
my video recorder will play things back at 9x, 7x, 5x, 3x and 1x audio-free picture search mode. why 1x is in there i don't know, saves you having to press mute on the tv i guess.
andy
nope, JP NZ is ok, JR NZ is a relative address with the following byte containing the two's complement displacement (limiting the distance to +127 or -128 bytes), JP is absolute jmp, jump to anywhere.
but, yes, normally you'd use JR in this case, or maybe DJNZ which does the decrement automatically.
see, all those years when i could've been out learning how to smoke and drink rather than disassembling JetPac, they weren't wasted...
andy
put me down as another one who cut his teeth on z80 assembler, hand assembled using the numbers in the back of the ZX81 manual. (still remember some of them: 205 CALL, 195 JMP, 201 RET...)
not too sure about this though, think there may be a trick involved. i know that if you did
LB BC,0FFFFH
and then used
DJNZ
it only did 255 loops rather than 65535.
or something.
c'mon, it's been 20 years!
andy
Kitty Genovese
http://www.lihistory.com/8/hs818a.htm
andy
> Remember the Atari Jagular... roar boys, roar!
you may laugh but game (a computer game store here in the UK, www.game.uk.com) has just started restocking the Jaguar. the one in Hammersmith is currently displaying more Jaguar games than it is Nintendo 64 games...
andy
there are at least two populist linux magazines published here in the uk.
Linux Format has just started a version with a DVD coverdisk, great for those of us who don't want to download XFree86 over a modem...
http://www.linuxformat.com/
Linux Magazine was originally German and all the articles read like they'd just passed them through Babel. it has come on leaps and bounds since the english office opened up though. wish they'd supply usage instructions for the cover mounted cd though, they don't even mention the contents in the mag.
http://www.livepublishing.co.uk/linux/
both are a good mix of articles and reviews with Linux Format being more newbie friendly, some of the LM articles are just plain weird.
andy