From the Mosfet's homepage: "My name is Daniel M. Duley. I'm a 26 yr/old application developer and system
admin living in Indiana, USA."... And I who just loves geekgirls... Damn!;)
"Is this what Mosfet looks like? Is this him in drag? Who is that in the picture!?"
I heard on a numerous occations that Mosfet actually is a woman, so if that is true, no it isn't mosfet in "drag".;) She looks abit kinky, though.
.. Or someone might be pulling my leg or something.:)
Speaking of bruteforceing passwords.
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The latest PocketPC OS have a nice way of avoiding bruteforcing of four-digit passcodes. There is simply a growing delay between each time you can enter a new passcode after entering a wrong one, so that after entering the wrong passcode seven times or so, there is an almost ten second wait before you enter in a new passcode.
Wouldn't this be a good way to avoide bruteforcing of these pictorial passwords?:)
"Now what would be amazing would be if I could be driving in my car and playing against a kid in his car in California, with absolutely no wires attatched to my GBA."
Is it just me, or did this sound really dangerous?:)
Do you *really* think you would be able to "frag your friends at home" in Quake with the controlls on the GBA?;)
Speaking of a Quake-port, I don't think the GBA have the guts to run it... I have an iPaq with a 206MHz Strongarm cpu and 32mb ram, and the latest version of PocketQuake runs at 9-10fps tops. If my memory isn't terribly wrong, the GameBoy Advance have a far less powerfull cpu and have less than the minimum 8mb ram the Quake-engine needs to even run.:)
The name MicroSoft was in 1975 probably meant to signal that this new company was making Software for microcomputers, however, I doubt that most MicroSoft users todat think about what the name originally meant, or even know what the definition "microcomputer" means..
Since the days of Basic and DOS, Microsoft has grown BIG, and has also started making hardware like joysticks and big bulky consoles, wouldn't it be natural for microsoft to change it's name to BigHard?
Lindex is a chain of stores selling clothes for women. Would that really be a suitable name for an OS where the probable majority of future users is insecure teenage males?
"So thats the precursor to the Wolf3d engine in a better games, with graphics done by Adrian Carmack (not relation to John) who later joined the iD crew. The same engine that was use in earlier iD game Catacomb 3D."
Catacomb Abyss was released AFTER Wolf3D(november 1991 )and used a licenced and somewhat modified Wolfenstein 3D engine, so to say it came before Wolf3D is wrong.:)
This article somehow makes me think of the Borg in the Star Trek series. The Borg apparently use some sort of self-replicating nanobots/nanocircetry to controll their drone systems.
I remember that in one Voyager episode, the Ferengi attempted to lure Voyager into som sort of wormhole in order to kill the crew, and get hold of 7of9's Borg Nanobots, since they where extremely valuable.... okay. No more Trek.:)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the robot in the movie Red Planet suddently begin hunting down and killing the human members of the expedition because of a software error?
I think a sure winner that SONY finally have relized that the best way to seel the Aibo's is to change the apparence from the look of a cute and harmless robotpet to something that would sneak around the house watching you, and then attack you when you least expect it.
I must agree with you on this one. I do also have a Win ME-partition for not only playing games in, but also making music in. I find it extremely difficult to get Impulse Tracker to run good under VMWare, and untill someone points out a good tracker that can do the same as Impulse Tracker, and have a somewhat similar UI, I will keep the WinME partition alive alongside the Linux and BeOS partitions.
...And now that CivIII has been released, I know I would have hated myself if I had removed the win-partition like I planned to a few weeks ago. There is nothing worse than buying a new game, and then spend the next 6 hours fighting to get it work right.:)
What I'm really hoping for, is an RTS-engine that is as advanced as the setup they have made for the movie. I don't think it will be too long until games with the same level of complexity are available to the consumer.
We are allready at a point where todays graphics-cards can do realtime what used to take weeks to render, and the effects in the best of todays space-sims/first person shooters, rival the special-effects of stuff like the original Star Wars movies, so who knows where we are in a few years.:)
I don't live very far from Aas/Norway, and had a chance to see the bridge a few weeks ago, and compared to da Vinci's original vision...ehhm... the bridge looks kinda small.:)
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Yeh, I think Compaq actually sells the microdrive on their iPAQ webpages. :)
Ehm... Cancel that..
;)
From the Mosfet's homepage: "My name is Daniel M. Duley. I'm a 26 yr/old application developer and system admin living in Indiana, USA."... And I who just loves geekgirls... Damn!
"Is this what Mosfet looks like? Is this him in drag? Who is that in the picture!?"
;) She looks abit kinky, though.
:)
I heard on a numerous occations that Mosfet actually is a woman, so if that is true, no it isn't mosfet in "drag".
.. Or someone might be pulling my leg or something.
The latest PocketPC OS have a nice way of avoiding bruteforcing of four-digit passcodes. There is simply a growing delay between each time you can enter a new passcode after entering a wrong one, so that after entering the wrong passcode seven times or so, there is an almost ten second wait before you enter in a new passcode.
:)
Wouldn't this be a good way to avoide bruteforcing of these pictorial passwords?
"Now what would be amazing would be if I could be driving in my car and playing against a kid in his car in California, with absolutely no wires attatched to my GBA."
:)
Is it just me, or did this sound really dangerous?
Do you *really* think you would be able to "frag your friends at home" in Quake with the controlls on the GBA? ;)
:)
Speaking of a Quake-port, I don't think the GBA have the guts to run it... I have an iPaq with a 206MHz Strongarm cpu and 32mb ram, and the latest version of PocketQuake runs at 9-10fps tops. If my memory isn't terribly wrong, the GameBoy Advance have a far less powerfull cpu and have less than the minimum 8mb ram the Quake-engine needs to even run.
..who will be the first one to port linux to it? ;)
"Just buy the GBA to TV Adaptor if its hard to see."
:)
Wouldn't that somehow eliminate the main reason for having a handheld and portable gaming system in the first place?
The name MicroSoft was in 1975 probably meant to signal that this new company was making Software for microcomputers, however, I doubt that most MicroSoft users todat think about what the name originally meant, or even know what the definition "microcomputer" means..
Since the days of Basic and DOS, Microsoft has grown BIG, and has also started making hardware like joysticks and big bulky consoles, wouldn't it be natural for microsoft to change it's name to BigHard?
Lindex is a chain of stores selling clothes for women. Would that really be a suitable name for an OS where the probable majority of future users is insecure teenage males?
...Budwiser...
"So thats the precursor to the Wolf3d engine in a better games, with graphics done by Adrian Carmack (not relation to John) who later joined the iD crew. The same engine that was use in earlier iD game Catacomb 3D."
:)
Catacomb Abyss was released AFTER Wolf3D(november 1991 )and used a licenced and somewhat modified Wolfenstein 3D engine, so to say it came before Wolf3D is wrong.
That depends... does cybersex count? :P
This article somehow makes me think of the Borg in the Star Trek series. The Borg apparently use some sort of self-replicating nanobots/nanocircetry to controll their drone systems.
... okay. No more Trek. :)
I remember that in one Voyager episode, the Ferengi attempted to lure Voyager into som sort of wormhole in order to kill the crew, and get hold of 7of9's Borg Nanobots, since they where extremely valuable.
So, you say we sooner or later we will be the ones who give birth to the Borg? ;)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the robot in the movie Red Planet suddently begin hunting down and killing the human members of the expedition because of a software error?
I think a sure winner that SONY finally have relized that the best way to seel the Aibo's is to change the apparence from the look of a cute and harmless robotpet to something that would sneak around the house watching you, and then attack you when you least expect it.
I must agree with you on this one. I do also have a Win ME-partition for not only playing games in, but also making music in. I find it extremely difficult to get Impulse Tracker to run good under VMWare, and untill someone points out a good tracker that can do the same as Impulse Tracker, and have a somewhat similar UI, I will keep the WinME partition alive alongside the Linux and BeOS partitions.
...And now that CivIII has been released, I know I would have hated myself if I had removed the win-partition like I planned to a few weeks ago. There is nothing worse than buying a new game, and then spend the next 6 hours fighting to get it work right. :)
What I'm really hoping for, is an RTS-engine that is as advanced as the setup they have made for the movie. I don't think it will be too long until games with the same level of complexity are available to the consumer.
:)
We are allready at a point where todays graphics-cards can do realtime what used to take weeks to render, and the effects in the best of todays space-sims/first person shooters, rival the special-effects of stuff like the original Star Wars movies, so who knows where we are in a few years.
Imagine using that setup and those machines for an ultra-realistic realtime strategygame based on LOTR!
Okay, I just shut up now..
I don't live very far from Aas/Norway, and had a chance to see the bridge a few weeks ago, and compared to da Vinci's original vision...ehhm... the bridge looks kinda small. :)