I'd like to see an article about exe compressors done like this. There are some interesting beasts out there like UPX, which as far as I remember does quite respectable packing on the win32 platform.
the WinRK archive compressor tested here seems to achieve quite amazing results on the cost of speed.. a lot of speed..
Well considering this 'shebang' like the original design it is 'inspired' by, flies on liquid oxygen and alcohol.. No petrochemicals are harmed in the process..
well, depending on your definition of existance, I call your attention towards the glorious Saturn rockets, especialy Saturn V No Saturns went boom, and for those saying "what about them astronauts what got themselves fried", well however tragic it was, it's not really the rockets fault, that the capsule atop a nonfueled rocket decides to burn itself out.
I'm sure that if one takes a lot of time to search archives, there are other rocket types that have experienced no booms, but admittedly it seems to be quite rare.
I'm not sure the phrase 'Clap the horses' is valid in english as you use it. You translate the danish 'Klap hesten' to english (really 'pat the horse') but 'Klap Hesten' means wait a while, take a breather etc..
back on topic: Ok, so the guy running that site put the episodes out there to download, that is illegal, I get that.. But to come after him with the Patriot Act, a bunch of law reforms intended to combat terrorism ? Overkill ?
Enough can be hard to define.. I'm a member of a group that has with some regularity launched home made rockets to 2000-3000 meters (6-9000 feet), using home made solid fuel, about 2.5Kilos of it (5 pounds or so) We have several designs, nicely scalable, but are currently troubled by the problems inherent in going supersonic.. The transition phase between sub and supersonic can be harsh to the poor rockets fuselage..think breakup.. think pretty boom.. we're also testing liquid fueled engines, which ofcourse enables us to fly *really* high..
Then again, we've never claimed to be model rocket hobbyinst, more like highpower amateurs really..
(quote) Does anyone know what blacklist he's talking about? SPEWS is Russian. I don't know any that are Danish. (/quote)
That would be ordb.org And to say spews is russion is well.. handwaving.. True some of the important server stuff seems to hide there, but I suspect it's more complicated than that really..
No, I am not spews, besides, I'd rather be captain underpants sidekick:)
You know, I've heard about calculating errors, but 3.3 bill, is not a calculation eror, thats darn gross negligence at beast, villanous stupidity at slightly worse, and punishable by long term jail at worst.. There are countries that make less money than that on their national budgets.
I sit here, and the only way I can react to this is with a slightly disbelieving laugh.. It's so far out it's almost funny in a slight Twilight Zoney way.
Actually a few years back I tried out Quake with a VR helmet in a local amusement park. Ofcourse the main gag here was the VR helmet. You paid like 2.5$ to play for 10 minutes, and the game was in god mode.. I pined for a VR helmet of my own for atleast 2 days after that:)
(quote) What bullshit. There are thousands of people on Slashdot who claim not to ever use Microsoft software. Are you calling them all liars? (/quote) No. But as a general population, slashdot users tend to show a greater variety of OS choice. In the general population MS *is* very hard to avoid, unless you're willing to spend a lot of time and effort on research, training etc..
there is also great inertia in the hgordes of users running MS stuff because 'then we know our stuff works..' It might not always be true, but the perception out there is that it is.
If anybody should sue over IFF (the tagged part of the file) it should be Electronic Arts. In my old and dusty ROM Kernal Manuals for developing on the Amiga, the discussion and description of the IFF file format states it as developed by Electronic Arts (possibly for CBM/Amiga)
I kinda liked the IFF file format, it could be used for anything, just wrap your own clunky stuff into a relevant IFF wrapper.. IFF/ILBM was used for images, IFF/8SVX for 8 bit sound etc..
I made a variant of a file compressor that used IFF/SPCK for it's header name.. Ofcourse I forgot to write Electronic Arts to get SPCK assigned as my official four letter name.. But I claim prior art, and best intentions:)
With the speed the RIAA gets these sharing networks to hunker down, perhaps the problem will go away on it's own... On the other hand, perhaps pigs will fly, and a certain redmond company will once and for all wisen up and ensure their OS'es not by default make the world a happy place for worm writers..
Sadly a very decent posting, and you're probably right, people will ignore it. Their loss.
I think it's a geekdom sport, in that we have to have someone to lash out at, probably because lots of geeks seem to have had traumatic childhood experiences involving people harassing them, they then turn around and need to harrass someone.. MS is a juicy target, in that they are probably the worlds largest software provider, directly influencing the daily lives of scores of geeks. Come on.. Admit it.. Even you do the occasional MS bashing, even if it's only when you're alone and your computer has crashed for the umpteenth time.:)
And they call it training? Fucking sadists man. Oh well, one can't be too hard on them. How the fuck did the dude know that his shit would break a mere month after cancelling the service contract?
Well anyone with the slightest notion of the inherent evilness in any computer:o) Often many of us geeky types make humorous references to murphy's law and such, but in real life it does seem to me that computers wilfully select the worst possible time to crash, on top of all the little crashed they do just to keep us annoyed. Personal anecdote. I recently backed all my data onto an external 80Gig SCSI disk, on a raid controller, then I wiped the disks in my computer, and reinstalled a shiny new OS. It took 3 days of worried fiddling before the raid controller wanted to recognize the external disc, and in the meantime I was getting real worried about my data.
Hmm the programmer seems quite pleased
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http://216.194.92.96/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=226 (Radlight) Here the programmer of Radlight handwaves a lot, claiming it was just to point out it was possible to do so (the removal of other apps while installing) and that if he hadn't someone else would.. geeee.. He's been caught redhanded, he ought to atleast apologise properly, and promtly stop doing it
Funny.. The link you gave is rather Hilarious. Now my mum and pop taught me to be respectful of other people, even when they are being clearly ridiculous, but some of these fundamentally christian sites are quitre quite funny.
On this one though, this struck me as neat: [quote] God has already condemned everything about Harry Potter in Deuteronomy 18:9-12 as follows: "When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. [/quote] Yes, well that's all nice and right up there with the classic 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'.. However, and here it comes: Does not this quote also say that you shall not use an observer of time ? Which I translate in my sick and twisted heathen mind to mean that you may not use a clock.. And per extrapolation, is a computer not based upon (amongst other things) a clock ?. So in extrapolation, are not these people who are trying so hard to save me, themselves falling victims to the very things they try so hard to save me from ? Whereupon I expect them to promptly disappear in a puff of logical smoke.. no?..
Operative words here being 'Early nuclear weapons designs". Modern designs, and as far as the people writing for fas.org explains, are quite safe as regards accidental detonation. However scattering plutonium will ensure very angry neighbours for a while. Real modern warheads will happily ignore that slab of C4 you just detonated and just let them selves be made into warm to the touch debris.
well apart from Initiator design, what is left of the really classified stuff ? You can buy books, legally, that explains in details good enough for people with a physics level equal to advanced college level, to put 2 and 2 together and make it go 'ahaaa' in your mind. And as far as I can figure, the main reason for initiator design to be so darned secret is not that it is especially hard to make, but that it makes it alltogether too easy then for 'naughty people' to make their own gadgets. Even hydrocode calculations are makable on a homepc, you just have to read the right kind of books to get glimpses of whhat it is you have to calculate, and couple that with some knowledge of computerscience (todays hint : Von Neumann)
Oh well, I said too much.. I'll go outside and wave to the black helicopters now..:)
Erhm, no.. that wasn't it. The N1 was tested, with disastous results, much later in the 60's, whereas the disaster you reference, was a 2 stage ICBM that blew up on the ramp. As far as I remember to have read, the major losses due to N1's blowing up, was launchpad hardware (and finances ofcourse)
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Well, a difference is that Spiderman is a comicbook adaption, whereas Resident Evil is a videogame adaption. Excluding such misproductions as Batman 4, There have been some decent (in my opinion at least) comic adaptions, look at X-Men, it managed to stay rather faithful to the premise, and still translate nicely to the big screen.
Oh and ok, Batman 4 has a few mitigating circumstances, such as Uma Thurman in that lovely spandex outfit.. Slippery when wet indeed:)
Just having seen Josie and the Pussycats, I'm siding with Tara Reid on this.. Puppys live forever and never grow up into large doggies that are gonna die.. no way !
Actually, and this is much to my horror, there are some 'business schools' teaching a wayward variant of CS, involving VB and Java, claiming these are the only languages needed for the savvy CS student in the business environment.. Needless to say I tend to giggle a lot when certain aquaintances try to poke fun at me for delving into the inner workings of C code
I didn't even get mySQL errors, I was just left sitting on that oh so informative IE error, telling me the site has gone byebye, is not to be found, I might have mistyped it etc.. Ah well, probably the guys are sitting looking at the revs on their webserver, going 'whoaaah':)
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I'd like to see an article about exe compressors done like this.
There are some interesting beasts out there like UPX, which as far as I remember does quite respectable packing on the win32 platform.
the WinRK archive compressor tested here seems to achieve quite amazing results on the cost of speed.. a lot of speed..
Well considering this 'shebang' like the original design it is 'inspired' by, flies on liquid oxygen and alcohol.. No petrochemicals are harmed in the process..
well, depending on your definition of existance, I call your attention towards the glorious Saturn rockets, especialy Saturn V
No Saturns went boom, and for those saying "what about them astronauts what got themselves fried", well however tragic it was, it's not really the rockets fault, that the capsule atop a nonfueled rocket decides to burn itself out.
I'm sure that if one takes a lot of time to search archives, there are other rocket types that have experienced no booms, but admittedly it seems to be quite rare.
I'm not sure the phrase 'Clap the horses' is valid in english as you use it.
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You translate the danish 'Klap hesten' to english (really 'pat the horse') but 'Klap Hesten' means wait a while, take a breather etc..
back on topic
Ok, so the guy running that site put the episodes out there to download, that is illegal, I get that.. But to come after him with the Patriot Act, a bunch of law reforms intended to combat terrorism ? Overkill ?
Enough can be hard to define..
I'm a member of a group that has with some regularity launched home made rockets to 2000-3000 meters (6-9000 feet), using home made solid fuel, about 2.5Kilos of it (5 pounds or so)
We have several designs, nicely scalable, but are currently troubled by the problems inherent in going supersonic.. The transition phase between sub and supersonic can be harsh to the poor rockets fuselage..think breakup.. think pretty boom..
we're also testing liquid fueled engines, which ofcourse enables us to fly *really* high..
Then again, we've never claimed to be model rocket hobbyinst, more like highpower amateurs really..
When viewing the article at Anandtech, I'm pestered with ads for the AMD64 Opteron..
So.. The Guide will be really shaky, oddly cut, using all the current 'trendy' angles.. In other words.. Really really annoying ?
I'd probably have preferred Jay Roach on the project.. alas..
So who do y'all see as possible casts ?
So at last they see they light, or they just want to appese their stockholders ? Either way, this ought to be fun to watch.
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:)
Does anyone know what blacklist he's talking about? SPEWS is Russian. I don't know any that are Danish.
(/quote)
That would be ordb.org
And to say spews is russion is well.. handwaving..
True some of the important server stuff seems to hide there, but I suspect it's more complicated than that really..
No, I am not spews, besides, I'd rather be captain underpants sidekick
As in 3,300,000,000 $'s, bucks credits ?
You know, I've heard about calculating errors, but
3.3 bill, is not a calculation eror, thats darn gross negligence at beast, villanous stupidity at slightly worse, and punishable by long term jail at worst..
There are countries that make less money than that on their national budgets.
I sit here, and the only way I can react to this is with a slightly disbelieving laugh.. It's so far out it's almost funny in a slight Twilight Zoney way.
Actually a few years back I tried out Quake with a VR helmet in a local amusement park. :)
Ofcourse the main gag here was the VR helmet.
You paid like 2.5$ to play for 10 minutes, and the game was in god mode..
I pined for a VR helmet of my own for atleast 2 days after that
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What bullshit. There are thousands of people on Slashdot who claim not to ever use Microsoft software. Are you calling them all liars?
(/quote)
No. But as a general population, slashdot users tend to show a greater variety of OS choice.
In the general population MS *is* very hard to avoid, unless you're willing to spend a lot of time and effort on research, training etc..
there is also great inertia in the hgordes of users running MS stuff because 'then we know our stuff works..'
It might not always be true, but the perception out there is that it is.
If anybody should sue over IFF (the tagged part of the file) it should be Electronic Arts.
:)
In my old and dusty ROM Kernal Manuals for developing on the Amiga, the discussion and description of the IFF file format states it as developed by Electronic Arts (possibly for CBM/Amiga)
I kinda liked the IFF file format, it could be used for anything, just wrap your own clunky stuff into a relevant IFF wrapper..
IFF/ILBM was used for images, IFF/8SVX for 8 bit sound etc..
I made a variant of a file compressor that used IFF/SPCK for it's header name.. Ofcourse I forgot to write Electronic Arts to get SPCK assigned as my official four letter name.. But I claim prior art, and best intentions
With the speed the RIAA gets these sharing networks to hunker down, perhaps the problem will go away on it's own...
On the other hand, perhaps pigs will fly, and a certain redmond company will once and for all wisen up and ensure their OS'es not by default make the world a happy place for worm writers..
Sadly a very decent posting, and you're probably right, people will ignore it. Their loss.
:)
I think it's a geekdom sport, in that we have to have someone to lash out at, probably because lots of geeks seem to have had traumatic childhood experiences involving people harassing them, they then turn around and need to harrass someone.. MS is a juicy target, in that they are probably the worlds largest software provider, directly influencing the daily lives of scores of geeks.
Come on.. Admit it.. Even you do the occasional MS bashing, even if it's only when you're alone and your computer has crashed for the umpteenth time.
And they call it training? Fucking sadists man. Oh well, one can't be too hard on them. How the fuck did the dude know that his shit would break a mere month after cancelling the service contract?
Well anyone with the slightest notion of the inherent evilness in any computer
Often many of us geeky types make humorous references to murphy's law and such, but in real life it does seem to me that computers wilfully select the worst possible time to crash, on top of all the little crashed they do just to keep us annoyed.
Personal anecdote.
I recently backed all my data onto an external 80Gig SCSI disk, on a raid controller, then I wiped the disks in my computer, and reinstalled a shiny new OS.
It took 3 days of worried fiddling before the raid controller wanted to recognize the external disc, and in the meantime I was getting real worried about my data.
http://216.194.92.96/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=226 (Radlight)
Here the programmer of Radlight handwaves a lot, claiming it was just to point out it was possible to do so (the removal of other apps while installing) and that if he hadn't someone else would.. geeee..
He's been caught redhanded, he ought to atleast apologise properly, and promtly stop doing it
Funny.. The link you gave is rather Hilarious.
: :
Now my mum and pop taught me to be respectful of other people, even when they are being clearly ridiculous, but some of these fundamentally christian sites are quitre quite funny.
On this one though, this struck me as neat
[quote]
God has already condemned everything about Harry Potter in Deuteronomy 18:9-12 as follows: "When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
[/quote]
Yes, well that's all nice and right up there with the classic 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'..
However, and here it comes
Does not this quote also say that you shall not use an observer of time ? Which I translate in my sick and twisted heathen mind to mean that you may not use a clock.. And per extrapolation, is a computer not based upon (amongst other things) a clock ?.
So in extrapolation, are not these people who are trying so hard to save me, themselves falling victims to the very things they try so hard to save me from ?
Whereupon I expect them to promptly disappear in a puff of logical smoke.. no?..
Operative words here being 'Early nuclear weapons designs".
Modern designs, and as far as the people writing for fas.org explains, are quite safe as regards accidental detonation. However scattering plutonium will ensure very angry neighbours for a while.
Real modern warheads will happily ignore that slab of C4 you just detonated and just let them selves be made into warm to the touch debris.
well apart from Initiator design, what is left of the really classified stuff ?
:)
You can buy books, legally, that explains in details good enough for people with a physics level equal to advanced college level, to put 2 and 2 together and make it go 'ahaaa' in your mind.
And as far as I can figure, the main reason for initiator design to be so darned secret is not that it is especially hard to make, but that it makes it alltogether too easy then for 'naughty people' to make their own gadgets.
Even hydrocode calculations are makable on a homepc, you just have to read the right kind of books to get glimpses of whhat it is you have to calculate, and couple that with some knowledge of computerscience (todays hint : Von Neumann)
Oh well, I said too much.. I'll go outside and wave to the black helicopters now..
Erhm, no.. that wasn't it.
The N1 was tested, with disastous results, much
later in the 60's, whereas the disaster you reference, was a 2 stage ICBM that blew up on the ramp. As far as I remember to have read, the major losses due to N1's blowing up, was launchpad hardware (and finances ofcourse)
Well, a difference is that Spiderman is a comicbook adaption, whereas Resident Evil is a videogame adaption.
:)
Excluding such misproductions as Batman 4, There have been some decent (in my opinion at least) comic adaptions, look at X-Men, it managed to stay rather faithful to the premise, and still translate nicely to the big screen.
Oh and ok, Batman 4 has a few mitigating circumstances, such as Uma Thurman in that lovely spandex outfit.. Slippery when wet indeed
Just having seen Josie and the Pussycats, I'm siding with Tara Reid on this.. Puppys live forever and never grow up into large doggies that are gonna die.. no way !
Actually, and this is much to my horror, there are some 'business schools' teaching a wayward variant of CS, involving VB and Java, claiming these are the only languages needed for the savvy CS student in the business environment..
Needless to say I tend to giggle a lot when certain aquaintances try to poke fun at me for delving into the inner workings of C code
I didn't even get mySQL errors, I was just left :)
sitting on that oh so informative IE error,
telling me the site has gone byebye, is not to
be found, I might have mistyped it etc..
Ah well, probably the guys are sitting looking at the revs on their webserver, going 'whoaaah'