Cool! now the project is a quarter million lines on lenght. On the quest of perfection, I truly hope that they reach the 200k lines milestone on time. The project could be declared done when it consists of 100,000 lines.
If you want to try right away what is to look for memory addresses and modify the behavior of the game, try zsnes. Its cheat menu allows to set a break on the game (pressing escape) and look for a value. It can also be set for looking values that increase or decrease or stay the same over the span of breaks. Cool stuff. It does convert the "realtime hex patch" to game genie or action replay codes, so it's a safe guess to say it's close to how it is done.
Yes, but the screensaver itself must have been written on something more complex than that. That is what I meant. Quoting the Symantec page, "W32.Goner.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that is written in Visual Basic
"; not Visual Basic Script. Not having a copy myself, I cannot make the adecuate testing; but if someone can, please run 'strings' over the screensaver binary and publish the findings.
Well, the virus seems to have been written on Visual Basic. I would not be very surprised if the 'compiler' (how should we call it?) had embedded data of the owner of the program. Remember how the copyright was present on Sircam, along with the compiler path?
it has "absorbed" the api's of GL and Glide and whatever company made the software in the first place (damned if I can find the link...british company I believe)
Once I learn spanish I won't have much a head start should I need to learn Russian or Chinese. Learning those two wouldn't give me much advantage if I need Hebrew
Well, that is not necessarily true. I am a native speaker of spanish, and know some basic of russian, and the understanding of spanish may give actually give you a bit of a start for russian.
A simple example that I just tought a while back: the japanese language has a pronunciation for the vowel 'i' that makes it short and almost inaudible. The hebrew has a similar one, that is indicated by two dots instead of one under the consonant. Knowing how the hebrew vowel works is easier to understand the japanese phonetic.
Translating the abstraction to a programming environment, remember that on the computer science classes you learn algorithms, design, etc. that are to be used on any language. A concept hard to understand on scheme, once fully understood, will be easy to implement on c. The more you learn, the most confortable you will feel to learn a new one.
The effectivity of the open source model depends on how many interest exists from someone to do a thing. All the money of the world may pay programmers salaries, but won't make some programmer suddenly interested on creating a driver for a device that is not worth his/her time and dedication. A sucessful linmodem kernel module/anything will appear on the moment that some peoply really need it; the software modems are somewhat slower, prone to disconnection under high loads and maybe it's just on my mind but the last time I used one the connection speed dropped to one half if I compiled something; all that using stable drivers under windows. In resume, you can't pay me enough to develop for such a hardware, unless I am really in need of.
Re:how to convert to ext3? -- as far as I know
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If your root partition is formatted as ReiserFS, you're pretty much limited. Try to make a partition big enough on your free space, and make an ext[2-3] there. Then copy everything that is on the root partition to the new ext* one (use "cp -pR" to preserve permissions). Try to reboot the system, passing 'root=/dev/hd??' to the kernel, being ?? the new ext partition. If everything boots fine, you're on your way. If not, you won't lose anything on your old ReiserFS root; just reboot as usual.
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Cool! now the project is a quarter million lines on lenght. On the quest of perfection, I truly hope that they reach the 200k lines milestone on time. The project could be declared done when it consists of 100,000 lines.
If you want to try right away what is to look for memory addresses and modify the behavior of the game, try zsnes. Its cheat menu allows to set a break on the game (pressing escape) and look for a value. It can also be set for looking values that increase or decrease or stay the same over the span of breaks. Cool stuff. It does convert the "realtime hex patch" to game genie or action replay codes, so it's a safe guess to say it's close to how it is done.
Yes, but the screensaver itself must have been written on something more complex than that. That is what I meant. Quoting the Symantec page, "W32.Goner.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that is written in Visual Basic "; not Visual Basic Script. Not having a copy myself, I cannot make the adecuate testing; but if someone can, please run 'strings' over the screensaver binary and publish the findings.
Well, the virus seems to have been written on Visual Basic. I would not be very surprised if the 'compiler' (how should we call it?) had embedded data of the owner of the program. Remember how the copyright was present on Sircam, along with the compiler path?
mpg123 -s http://icecast.msfc.nasa.gov:8000/forward-scat | synaesthesia pipe 22050
Survey of Microsoft DirectX
I quote:
"What is now Direct3D was purchased by Microsoft in early 1995 from RenderMorphics, a British company founded in 1993 by Servan Keondjian"
Well, that is not necessarily true. I am a native speaker of spanish, and know some basic of russian, and the understanding of spanish may give actually give you a bit of a start for russian.
A simple example that I just tought a while back: the japanese language has a pronunciation for the vowel 'i' that makes it short and almost inaudible. The hebrew has a similar one, that is indicated by two dots instead of one under the consonant. Knowing how the hebrew vowel works is easier to understand the japanese phonetic.
Translating the abstraction to a programming environment, remember that on the computer science classes you learn algorithms, design, etc. that are to be used on any language. A concept hard to understand on scheme, once fully understood, will be easy to implement on c. The more you learn, the most confortable you will feel to learn a new one.
The effectivity of the open source model depends on how many interest exists from someone to do a thing. All the money of the world may pay programmers salaries, but won't make some programmer suddenly interested on creating a driver for a device that is not worth his/her time and dedication. A sucessful linmodem kernel module/anything will appear on the moment that some peoply really need it; the software modems are somewhat slower, prone to disconnection under high loads and maybe it's just on my mind but the last time I used one the connection speed dropped to one half if I compiled something; all that using stable drivers under windows. In resume, you can't pay me enough to develop for such a hardware, unless I am really in need of.
If your root partition is formatted as ReiserFS, you're pretty much limited. Try to make a partition big enough on your free space, and make an ext[2-3] there. Then copy everything that is on the root partition to the new ext* one (use "cp -pR" to preserve permissions). Try to reboot the system, passing 'root=/dev/hd??' to the kernel, being ?? the new ext partition. If everything boots fine, you're on your way. If not, you won't lose anything on your old ReiserFS root; just reboot as usual.