too bad REAL men don't cheat at minesweeper. 99% of the time the game can be won fare and square (every once and a while, you get stuck and have to guess).
Although, I find it even EASIER to just modify the winmine.ini file and set the high-scores.
Programming for the NES actually seems quite fun compared to traditional programming. I've been toying with the idea of actually sitting down and learning it.
I've got a pretty intricate knowledge of the NES cartridge format, since I wrote a tool (based on openly available information) for modifying the graphics. (http://nesromtool.sf.net/)
Also of interest is http://grandtheftendo.com/ since the guy wrote tons of custom software to program that and has some pretty interesting things to say.
one of my friends installed Darwin a couple years ago (version 6, maybe?) back when it was first released for x86 and his main complaint was that it didn't work like linux. Also, iirc, he had some issues compiling programs, but he didn't say anything about it being slow.
i had it installed on a 450mhz G3 as a headless server before I decided I wanted to use an external firewire drive and couldn't figure out how to mount it, so I switched to Jaguar (not server).
it's only been about a week or two since a method for running code was discovered. I don't even think an API has been fully created or the memory map fully um, mapped out.
anyway, I already upgraded mine to the 1.5 firmware, but my friend didn't, yet, so I'm gonna have to try this. now to figure out what game is worth playing.
Win98 prompted you? I seem to recall demonstrating this great IE trick back when I was in college where I installed BackOrifice on nearly everyone's computer on my floor by pointing them to a website with a malicious activeX control, and no one had any clue. The page was just "Welcome to my website." with no indication that anything happened, iirc.
And years before, someone demonstrated a trick where you could shut the machine down by visiting a malicious web page.
Yeah, it's like a human interest story. I was left at the end of that article feeling unfulfilled. it seemed like it was originally a decent article but too long, so they castrated it
but the whole article has the feel of that episode of the simpsons where bart keeps doing the human interest stories...
"Bill Hilf is a non-microsoft guy working at microsoft. Some call him crazy, some call him courageous..." *suddenly Mr Hilf comes running out of his office chucking plush linux penguins at the reporter*
Apple has a definite style for it's consumer design and has begun to get pretty predictable, but that console isn't really Apple-ish by any stretch of the imagination.
although,I'm sure M$ said "we gotta make this thing pretty. Flamboyant Design Engineer Michael, design us something that's apple-esque, but don't get us sued."
Applescript is an amazing productivity enhancer. Even for small tasks.
Also, it's modularity aides in developing more complex scripts based on many smaller scripts.
At my job, in the Art Department, I've written a series of scripts for automating our outsourcing procedure. All you do is run it on a job folder and it takes the active files, copies them to an outsource folder, labeles the folder for the vendor, opens the files allowing us to create outlines of the fonts and do other preflighting to the file, prints, it. Then it calculates the total size of the job and will either email it, if it's small enough or automatically burn a CD/DVD (once we insert one) or upload it to the vendor's FTP site.
The Nintendo DS has the most addictive games out there
have you played lumines?
What DS games do you recommend?
I picked up a DS the day it came out (what was that, 12/08 or something) and got Mawaru Made in Wario (aka Wario touched) and was quite addicted to it... until I got my PSP on january 3rd. My DS has been collecting dust ever since. I haven't picked it up once.
my friend got nintendogs, kirby, and pac pix for the DS... they're ok, but I dunno if I'd wanna buy it. I think kirby is the best out of the bunch, cept for the fact that it came with a pink stylus.
I got 6 games for the PSP, so far, and the best games are Minna No Golf and Lumines. Kollon was ok, but no where near as addictive as Lumines.
One thing that makes me curious is that a mouse's brain is smaller than a pea. What kind of brain capacity could it possibly have, even if it did have a "human-like" brain?
yeah, that's what I was thinking, so I hopped around to other boxes on my network...
my backup server, which has extra scsi support, CD burning support, extra file systems and firewire turned on in addition to the standard stuff is an amazing 5.7M... Both of these boxes are PPC machines (a G3 and a G4).
My x86 servers, OTOH, are 2.0M and 2.1M... and they are pretty minimalist...
I don't see any debug things set in my.config... I dunno. maybe I should go through and rebuild it again with as much turned off as possible.
I don't compile anything as a module, though, so that might be one reason...
i dunno... I compiled my kernel (make menuconfig, w00t), and tried to only have it support the hardware I was gonna use... no joysticks, limited video drivers (just the base RADEON ones, no Xfree DRM or anything), USB (for keyboard), drivers for my ethernetcard, CUDA, CDROM, my filesystems (ext2/3, hfs), iptables, and whatever else it was I was gonna use...
I'm surprised the kernel's as big as it is:
spike@fingerbib spike $ du -h/kernel-2.6.10-r6 4.3M/kernel-2.6.10-r6
I've actually had 4 CD drives fail on me in the last couple years. I wasn't sure what was causing their deaths, but I later decided it was the motor that was going.
I'd put a disc in and it would kinda spin up, but didn't sound right.
I had a CD drive in one of my servers (B&W G3 from 1999) that would actually drop the CD onto the tray. I could hear it spin up then there would be a click and a plastic-on-plastic sound as the disc dropped into the tray and spun a revolution or two.
Well, I wrote a program to serve a purpose to certain low-level hackers. It wasn't written for OSX, I just coded it and made sure it would compile on BSD, Darwin (OSX), Cygwin, Linux, etc. I also decided to make an OSX installer for the wannabe hackers who may have trouble with the standard./configure && make && make install tricks.
I worked on a GUI a little, but was having trouble keeping it uptodate with the commandline version, and it also required a complete rewrite to get certain functionality, which I never had the time for.
And MacUpdate picked up the app automagically. I didn't submit anything. All I know is I was checking my website logs and noticed a lot of visitors coming from MacUpdate.
I figured I'd post it to VersionTracker, too, since I used to check that pretty regularly for software updates, so why leave them people in the dark about it?
"Could you at least of provided a simple Cocoa GUI for your program? Terminal app programs are not very popular with Mac people, you know."
that's the response I got when macupdate.com had automatically picked up one of my sf.net projects. I made an OSX installer package for my binaries and received many complaints about it in the "discuss this software" forum of macupdate...
That's like when I worked in offset printing. The guys who set the film up are called "strippers."
I'd gotten so used to the term that whenever I'd refer to "the strippers in the back, at work..." it'd catch me offguard when people would say "you've got stippers at work? where do you work again?"
Too bad all the strippers were guys. it woulda been nice to have a female stripper there.
actually, xbox disks have some extra data in the format that's not part of the filesystem. There's the filesystem and the executable data; not a.exe at the root of the FS, if I'm not mistaken.
and #2, I don't think the OP was talking about the format of the DVD, but the format of the executable. There's different chips in either device, so different machine code and the executable formats are not the same (like in linux with elf binaries and regular binaries).
All you have to do is set up a new network and scan for available ones. It will show a list and tell you signal strength and if it's WEP'd or not.
It's pretty nice, but a little time consuming, and if you have the thing is sleep mode in a game, you have to exit the game to do it... which is a serious pain in the arse.
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I've done the same. I'm completely sure it's engineered to not let you die in the first step.
it does work on XP pro. I just tried it.
I never even knew about that cheat. oh man...
too bad REAL men don't cheat at minesweeper. 99% of the time the game can be won fare and square (every once and a while, you get stuck and have to guess).
Although, I find it even EASIER to just modify the winmine.ini file and set the high-scores.
Programming for the NES actually seems quite fun compared to traditional programming. I've been toying with the idea of actually sitting down and learning it.
I've got a pretty intricate knowledge of the NES cartridge format, since I wrote a tool (based on openly available information) for modifying the graphics. (http://nesromtool.sf.net/)
Also of interest is http://grandtheftendo.com/ since the guy wrote tons of custom software to program that and has some pretty interesting things to say.
one of my friends installed Darwin a couple years ago (version 6, maybe?) back when it was first released for x86 and his main complaint was that it didn't work like linux. Also, iirc, he had some issues compiling programs, but he didn't say anything about it being slow.
i had it installed on a 450mhz G3 as a headless server before I decided I wanted to use an external firewire drive and couldn't figure out how to mount it, so I switched to Jaguar (not server).
when it was on the G3, it ran great.
it's only been about a week or two since a method for running code was discovered. I don't even think an API has been fully created or the memory map fully um, mapped out.
anyway, I already upgraded mine to the 1.5 firmware, but my friend didn't, yet, so I'm gonna have to try this. now to figure out what game is worth playing.
remember. Flamboyantness causes people to go by their extended names. IE steve->steven, christ->christopher, etc.
;)
get it right.
Win98 prompted you? I seem to recall demonstrating this great IE trick back when I was in college where I installed BackOrifice on nearly everyone's computer on my floor by pointing them to a website with a malicious activeX control, and no one had any clue. The page was just "Welcome to my website." with no indication that anything happened, iirc.
And years before, someone demonstrated a trick where you could shut the machine down by visiting a malicious web page.
Much like a rapist can steal someone's virginity... although they can't get that back...
Yeah, it's like a human interest story. I was left at the end of that article feeling unfulfilled. it seemed like it was originally a decent article but too long, so they castrated it
but the whole article has the feel of that episode of the simpsons where bart keeps doing the human interest stories...
"Bill Hilf is a non-microsoft guy working at microsoft. Some call him crazy, some call him courageous..." *suddenly Mr Hilf comes running out of his office chucking plush linux penguins at the reporter*
It doesn't look appleish beyond the whiteness.
Apple has a definite style for it's consumer design and has begun to get pretty predictable, but that console isn't really Apple-ish by any stretch of the imagination.
although,I'm sure M$ said "we gotta make this thing pretty. Flamboyant Design Engineer Michael, design us something that's apple-esque, but don't get us sued."
Applescript is an amazing productivity enhancer. Even for small tasks.
Also, it's modularity aides in developing more complex scripts based on many smaller scripts.
At my job, in the Art Department, I've written a series of scripts for automating our outsourcing procedure. All you do is run it on a job folder and it takes the active files, copies them to an outsource folder, labeles the folder for the vendor, opens the files allowing us to create outlines of the fonts and do other preflighting to the file, prints, it. Then it calculates the total size of the job and will either email it, if it's small enough or automatically burn a CD/DVD (once we insert one) or upload it to the vendor's FTP site.
I believe the encrypted session has to be disabled on the server end in windows2k3. In win2k, it's off by default.
IIRC, the encrypted session is a proprietary M$ extension to CIFS/SMB that the samba guys haven't (hadn't) implemented (reverse-engineered) yet.
actually. I fired up my powerbook to install tiger last night (very early this morning, before bed) and I actually had MacStumbler.
hmmmm...
Isn't NetStumbler available for OSX, too? or is that a different app with the same name/ purpose?
The Nintendo DS has the most addictive games out there
have you played lumines?
What DS games do you recommend?
I picked up a DS the day it came out (what was that, 12/08 or something) and got Mawaru Made in Wario (aka Wario touched) and was quite addicted to it... until I got my PSP on january 3rd. My DS has been collecting dust ever since. I haven't picked it up once.
my friend got nintendogs, kirby, and pac pix for the DS... they're ok, but I dunno if I'd wanna buy it. I think kirby is the best out of the bunch, cept for the fact that it came with a pink stylus.
I got 6 games for the PSP, so far, and the best games are Minna No Golf and Lumines. Kollon was ok, but no where near as addictive as Lumines.
One thing that makes me curious is that a mouse's brain is smaller than a pea. What kind of brain capacity could it possibly have, even if it did have a "human-like" brain?
I think it would still act like a mouse.
Kawaiiiii!
especially the japanese speaking types!
yeah, that's what I was thinking, so I hopped around to other boxes on my network...
.config... I dunno. maybe I should go through and rebuild it again with as much turned off as possible.
my backup server, which has extra scsi support, CD burning support, extra file systems and firewire turned on in addition to the standard stuff is an amazing 5.7M... Both of these boxes are PPC machines (a G3 and a G4).
My x86 servers, OTOH, are 2.0M and 2.1M... and they are pretty minimalist...
I don't see any debug things set in my
I don't compile anything as a module, though, so that might be one reason...
I'm surprised the kernel's as big as it is:CA may have a point.
I've actually had 4 CD drives fail on me in the last couple years. I wasn't sure what was causing their deaths, but I later decided it was the motor that was going.
I'd put a disc in and it would kinda spin up, but didn't sound right.
I had a CD drive in one of my servers (B&W G3 from 1999) that would actually drop the CD onto the tray. I could hear it spin up then there would be a click and a plastic-on-plastic sound as the disc dropped into the tray and spun a revolution or two.
Well, I wrote a program to serve a purpose to certain low-level hackers. It wasn't written for OSX, I just coded it and made sure it would compile on BSD, Darwin (OSX), Cygwin, Linux, etc. I also decided to make an OSX installer for the wannabe hackers who may have trouble with the standard ./configure && make && make install tricks.
I worked on a GUI a little, but was having trouble keeping it uptodate with the commandline version, and it also required a complete rewrite to get certain functionality, which I never had the time for.
And MacUpdate picked up the app automagically. I didn't submit anything. All I know is I was checking my website logs and noticed a lot of visitors coming from MacUpdate.
I figured I'd post it to VersionTracker, too, since I used to check that pretty regularly for software updates, so why leave them people in the dark about it?
"Could you at least of provided a simple Cocoa GUI for your program? Terminal app programs are not very popular with Mac people, you know."
that's the response I got when macupdate.com had automatically picked up one of my sf.net projects. I made an OSX installer package for my binaries and received many complaints about it in the "discuss this software" forum of macupdate...
bastards.
That's like when I worked in offset printing. The guys who set the film up are called "strippers."
I'd gotten so used to the term that whenever I'd refer to "the strippers in the back, at work..." it'd catch me offguard when people would say "you've got stippers at work? where do you work again?"
Too bad all the strippers were guys. it woulda been nice to have a female stripper there.
actually, xbox disks have some extra data in the format that's not part of the filesystem. There's the filesystem and the executable data; not a .exe at the root of the FS, if I'm not mistaken.
and #2, I don't think the OP was talking about the format of the DVD, but the format of the executable. There's different chips in either device, so different machine code and the executable formats are not the same (like in linux with elf binaries and regular binaries).
I use the PSP for that all the time.
All you have to do is set up a new network and scan for available ones. It will show a list and tell you signal strength and if it's WEP'd or not.
It's pretty nice, but a little time consuming, and if you have the thing is sleep mode in a game, you have to exit the game to do it... which is a serious pain in the arse.