I came to post this same link. This will automatically save files to a network share or record them on to a removable compact flash card, making it easier to use and more versatile than a home-grown general purpose computer solution. It can be easily wired with remote start/stop and status indication. It can work manually, based on the faceplate controls, remote contact start/stop, or web-based UI, or automatically based on a schedule. It has both consumer and professional, analog and digital audio inputs and outputs. It's a sturdy, slim, quiet, rack-mounted solution.
Using the break statement violates structured programming. I feel maintaining structured code without gotos, breaks, and continues everywhere is worth making an effort.
Here's the actual buggy code. The error is infinite loop in ConvertDays(), starting at line 249. The first loop does not cope with "IsLeapYear() == true" when "days == 366"
The fix:
year = ORIGINYEAR;
daysInYear = IsLeapYear(year) ? 366 : 365;
while (days > daysInYear)
{
days -= daysInYear;
year += 1;
And look who's sporting v2.90! Finally I have something to say to that moron friend of mine who keeps telling me to upgrade every time he's online. I say "why?" he says "because it's better."
I seriously hate people who upgrade for the sake of upgrading. It will be a LONG, LONG while before I upgrade my favorate media player. Nothing wrong with it as far as I can see.
Oh, and Slashdot needs to learn the difference between "Patched", and "Fixed in a new version". If I had v2.91 I'd be hella pissed right now.
Because they're also going to sell the regular version of XP? This happens all the time, with hardware too. Like USB flash drives... it's cheaper for a company to manufacture only 256MB Modules but then to switch some jumper and sell them as 128MB then it is to manufacture 128's and 256's.
If you were to buy a bicycle, have it work fine, buy and install training wheels, and then have the bike fall apart afterward, you'd blame it on the bike, wouldn't you?
And I hear this thing they're making called a "Video Camera" can be used to watch you from affar! The government is going to abuse it they are!
Besides, they already collect fingerprints. This isn't any different, except that it's more acurate with less false negatives/false positives. I think this is a good thing.
Margret Cho says, "How about a device you could install on a webserver that would give everyone who visited it at least a normal IQ and a sense of humor?"
Why should operating systems be held responsible for what the USER INSTALLS? Even if they didn't meen to, these idiots clicked "Yeah" to xupiter and New.Net and Gator and whatever else they infect themselves with.
Damn. Next you're going to hold Bill himself responsible when you lose a game of Quake.
16 The Scientist-A Rush Of Blood To The Head-Coldplay 15 Clocks-A Rush Of Blood To The Head-Coldplay 11 Ignition (Remix)-Chocolate Factory-R. Kelly 10...Baby One More Time-...Baby One More Time-Britney Spears 10 #1-Nellyville-Nelly 9 Still D.R.E.-2001 (Explicit)-Dr. Dre 9 By The Way-By The Way-Red Hot Chili Peppers 9 Without Me-The Eminem Show-Eminem 9 In My Place-A Rush Of Blood To The Head-Coldplay 9 The Next Episode-2001 (Explicit)-Dr. Dre
At least they have somewhat good taste what with the coldplay tracks, and that R. Kelly remix. But damn... have you heard the original? It's like a whole diffrent song... the lyrics don't even match up! Crazy it is.
We're running a large radio station in a major market with over 120,000 weekly listners on an old Dell PowerEdge server with a DOS based version of Novel, three DOS 486 recording workstations, and one DOS 486/Pentium Pro Windows 95 on-air pair.
On-Air computers need to be re-started weekly, server needs occasional re-starting, and features stop working/start working again randomly.
Please e-mail me @ matt(a)mattcohn.com if you'd like to donate!!! We need new system!!!
Am I the only one who has already set IE to automatically prompt me before showing any ActiveX controls? Am I the only one who doesn't see this as a bad thing? Do you REALLY think Eolas "their" technology removed from Microsoft's browser? No, they wanted M$O$N$E$Y. Right now they just got screwed. They are out all the lawyers fees it took to get Microsoft to court, and now they don't get a dime for it.
Besides, did anyone see this from the MSDN documentation?
The OBJECT element for an ActiveX control has a new attribute: NOEXTERNALDATA. Specify true for this attribute to indicate that the control does not access remote data and that Internet Explorer should not prompt the user. If a PARAM element does reference a remote source of data and you specify true for the NOEXTERNALDATA attribute of the OBJECT element, the value of that PARAM element is not provided to the IPersistPropertyBag interface for the control.
Wow, so if you want, there's a tag you can set to 'true' to have Internet Explorer behave in the same function it did. No doubt there was a clause in the pattent that said it got media from an external source.
I guess naming the attribute AVOIDPATTENTFEES was just too obvious though.
"We at Earthstation5 are not perfect, but we acknowledge that Shaun Garriok might be..."
For me, I don't see how this could seem humble on the surface. When I read this, that comment set the tone, and I instantly knew everything after there was nothing but sarcasm.
I also think ES5 defending their upgrade code is childish. There is NO REASON that upgrade code has to be able to delete files.
Here's what you need: 1. Program queries a ([List Of](Domain XOR IP Address)) and checks to see if an update is availible. 2. If said update is availible, program downloads update onto some fixed file name from the response in step 1, and then kills itself/runs update program. 3. Profit!
And I got to run, so feel free to add anything anyone
Uh no, you obviously havn't tried audio editing in this kind of an environment. I personally have tried editing audio with Cool Edit Pro on my home 10/100 network using both VNC and Remote Desktop. Neither worked well at all. When I meen working with audio editing software, I meen working well. Yes, you CAN do it over VNC but your productivity is limited. Latency is unacceptable when trying to get anything accomplished.
Why don't you go work in the productions department of a radio station, take notes, and then get back to me.
>>as well as the OS they have to include.... but with no OS >That's nonsensical. The whole point is that it does include the OS, and even you agree to that.
Yah, let's go ahead and show the whole quote now, shall we? "Games frequently use swap, but with no OS, they have no facilities to make their swap files." He meens an OS to handle the file system. I'd like to see you put a swap file onto a CD-ROM. What's ROM stand for again?
>>drivers for the all the hardware >That is impractical. Including almost every driver that a Windows install cd does would be more sensible. I think Knoppix is already at that stage, but I haven't tried it. You can always play in your existing OS installation if it doesn't have the drivers you need.
You know what's impractical? Expecting everyone who's ever going to play your game to have hardware who's drivers are on that disc. Hardware is constantly being created; tomarrow ATI will come out with a new graphics card, the next day Creative will release a new sound board, and the next we'll get a new nVida card. You are right, most people can get video with drivers out of the box from Windows. They get 640x480 with 16 colors and a *BEEP* from the PC Speaker for sound.
>>how about all the libraries. DirectX et al is not tiny, as well as the OS they have to include. >Last I checked, most Windows games ship with a copy of DirectX, so that library isn't much of a problem. The CD has to have all the drivers, the kernel, OpenGL, X, SDL, etc. but thankfully doesn't need a desktop environment or most of the misc. apps that typical distro has. How large would it be? I'd say less than 50 MB, but who knows. The gentoo game cd is, what, a 130 MB download including the UT2k3 demo? Compressing it on CD is always an option.
Most Windows games do NOT have DirectX on them. Most Windows games DO have the DirectX INSTALLER on them. Big difference in size, and in functionality. Most games already take a full CD or more... cramming more shit including a whole OS isn't going to work unless you want to release Pong 2K4 to the world.
>>Games frequently use swap >Knoppix can use existing swap partitions (or format its own). In most cases, the user probably has enough ram to run the game, though, so swap isn't a huge deal. If not, they'd need swap no matter where they boot from.
I never play games... but a friend of mine told me he needs to upgrade his RAM, because he's under his new games REQUIRED MINIMUM of 512 FUGIN MB. I wanted to hit him with a keyboard and confiscate his mouse for putting up with it... but it's a fact. Games require more and more, and it's unlikelly they are going to be happy with your RAM enough to not want a lil swappin' on the side. And as for the Swap partition... that would be wonderful for the.5% of game players who have Linux, but the rest of the world doesn't have a Swap partition. I know you CAN in Windows, but it isn't required, and as such rarelly gets made. Oh, and I'd LOVE to see people's reaction when to play a SINGLE game, the 'installer' has to format your drive. "Please wait while your existing partition is resized and a new one created... if you had any data you wanted, you should have most likelly backed it up".
>>some kind of ramdisk for multidisk games >What of it?
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I came to post this same link. This will automatically save files to a network share or record them on to a removable compact flash card, making it easier to use and more versatile than a home-grown general purpose computer solution. It can be easily wired with remote start/stop and status indication. It can work manually, based on the faceplate controls, remote contact start/stop, or web-based UI, or automatically based on a schedule. It has both consumer and professional, analog and digital audio inputs and outputs. It's a sturdy, slim, quiet, rack-mounted solution.
Using the break statement violates structured programming. I feel maintaining structured code without gotos, breaks, and continues everywhere is worth making an effort.
Here's the actual buggy code.
The error is infinite loop in ConvertDays(), starting at line 249. The first loop does not cope with "IsLeapYear() == true" when "days == 366"
The fix:
year = ORIGINYEAR;
daysInYear = IsLeapYear(year) ? 366 : 365;
while (days > daysInYear)
{
days -= daysInYear;
year += 1;
daysInYear = IsLeapYear(year) ? 366 : 365;
}
And look who's sporting v2.90! Finally I have something to say to that moron friend of mine who keeps telling me to upgrade every time he's online. I say "why?" he says "because it's better."
I seriously hate people who upgrade for the sake of upgrading. It will be a LONG, LONG while before I upgrade my favorate media player. Nothing wrong with it as far as I can see.
Oh, and Slashdot needs to learn the difference between "Patched", and "Fixed in a new version". If I had v2.91 I'd be hella pissed right now.
Because they're also going to sell the regular version of XP? This happens all the time, with hardware too. Like USB flash drives... it's cheaper for a company to manufacture only 256MB Modules but then to switch some jumper and sell them as 128MB then it is to manufacture 128's and 256's.
If you were to buy a bicycle, have it work fine, buy and install training wheels, and then have the bike fall apart afterward, you'd blame it on the bike, wouldn't you?
Bigger twit.
And I hear this thing they're making called a "Video Camera" can be used to watch you from affar! The government is going to abuse it they are!
Besides, they already collect fingerprints. This isn't any different, except that it's more acurate with less false negatives/false positives. I think this is a good thing.
Margret Cho says, "How about a device you could install on a webserver that would give everyone who visited it at least a normal IQ and a sense of humor?"
I call troll -- Mod parent DOWNIZLE.
Why should operating systems be held responsible for what the USER INSTALLS? Even if they didn't meen to, these idiots clicked "Yeah" to xupiter and New.Net and Gator and whatever else they infect themselves with.
Damn. Next you're going to hold Bill himself responsible when you lose a game of Quake.
Quick question sir,
Do you wish you had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
And a six four Impala?
PS. Wonderful song, great reference.
We're running a large radio station in a major market with over 120,000 weekly listners on an old Dell PowerEdge server with a DOS based version of Novel, three DOS 486 recording workstations, and one DOS 486/Pentium Pro Windows 95 on-air pair.
On-Air computers need to be re-started weekly, server needs occasional re-starting, and features stop working/start working again randomly.
Please e-mail me @ matt(a)mattcohn.com if you'd like to donate!!! We need new system!!!
Besides, did anyone see this from the MSDN documentation?Wow, so if you want, there's a tag you can set to 'true' to have Internet Explorer behave in the same function it did. No doubt there was a clause in the pattent that said it got media from an external source.
I guess naming the attribute AVOIDPATTENTFEES was just too obvious though.
In the first few sentances was this gem:
"We at Earthstation5 are not perfect, but we acknowledge that Shaun Garriok might be..."
For me, I don't see how this could seem humble on the surface. When I read this, that comment set the tone, and I instantly knew everything after there was nothing but sarcasm.
I also think ES5 defending their upgrade code is childish. There is NO REASON that upgrade code has to be able to delete files.
Here's what you need:
1. Program queries a ([List Of](Domain XOR IP Address)) and checks to see if an update is availible.
2. If said update is availible, program downloads update onto some fixed file name from the response in step 1, and then kills itself/runs update program.
3. Profit!
And I got to run, so feel free to add anything anyone
And waving your hands and screaming "NO! NO! Never!" declares your agreement with the EULA, and is legally binding :-)
You ever read an End User License Agreement, son? You DO have to agree to those....to install and use the software I should add.
Well, "SAME WITH MICROSOFT".
You ever read an End User License Agreement, son? You DO have to agree to those.
A'ight. I was just giving him the basic idea. I wasn't too positive of it myself. Thanks for the clarification.
Free Beer == Costs no MONEY
Free Speach == Has no COPYRIGHT
You'll also see 'free' and 'Free' used occasionally. 'free' = beer and 'Free' = speach.
I'm not AC, but I'll reply to your response.
Uh no, you obviously havn't tried audio editing in this kind of an environment. I personally have tried editing audio with Cool Edit Pro on my home 10/100 network using both VNC and Remote Desktop. Neither worked well at all. When I meen working with audio editing software, I meen working well. Yes, you CAN do it over VNC but your productivity is limited. Latency is unacceptable when trying to get anything accomplished.
Why don't you go work in the productions department of a radio station, take notes, and then get back to me.
Audio editing in real time over VNC.
You slashdot posters crack me up.
>>as well as the OS they have to include.... but with no OS
.5% of game players who have Linux, but the rest of the world doesn't have a Swap partition. I know you CAN in Windows, but it isn't required, and as such rarelly gets made.
>That's nonsensical. The whole point is that it does include the OS, and even you agree to that.
Yah, let's go ahead and show the whole quote now, shall we?
"Games frequently use swap, but with no OS, they have no facilities to make their swap files."
He meens an OS to handle the file system. I'd like to see you put a swap file onto a CD-ROM. What's ROM stand for again?
>>drivers for the all the hardware
>That is impractical. Including almost every driver that a Windows install cd does would be more sensible. I think Knoppix is already at that stage, but I haven't tried it. You can always play in your existing OS installation if it doesn't have the drivers you need.
You know what's impractical? Expecting everyone who's ever going to play your game to have hardware who's drivers are on that disc. Hardware is constantly being created; tomarrow ATI will come out with a new graphics card, the next day Creative will release a new sound board, and the next we'll get a new nVida card. You are right, most people can get video with drivers out of the box from Windows. They get 640x480 with 16 colors and a *BEEP* from the PC Speaker for sound.
>>how about all the libraries. DirectX et al is not tiny, as well as the OS they have to include.
>Last I checked, most Windows games ship with a copy of DirectX, so that library isn't much of a problem. The CD has to have all the drivers, the kernel, OpenGL, X, SDL, etc. but thankfully doesn't need a desktop environment or most of the misc. apps that typical distro has. How large would it be? I'd say less than 50 MB, but who knows. The gentoo game cd is, what, a 130 MB download including the UT2k3 demo? Compressing it on CD is always an option.
Most Windows games do NOT have DirectX on them. Most Windows games DO have the DirectX INSTALLER on them. Big difference in size, and in functionality. Most games already take a full CD or more... cramming more shit including a whole OS isn't going to work unless you want to release Pong 2K4 to the world.
>>Games frequently use swap
>Knoppix can use existing swap partitions (or format its own). In most cases, the user probably has enough ram to run the game, though, so swap isn't a huge deal. If not, they'd need swap no matter where they boot from.
I never play games... but a friend of mine told me he needs to upgrade his RAM, because he's under his new games REQUIRED MINIMUM of 512 FUGIN MB. I wanted to hit him with a keyboard and confiscate his mouse for putting up with it... but it's a fact. Games require more and more, and it's unlikelly they are going to be happy with your RAM enough to not want a lil swappin' on the side.
And as for the Swap partition... that would be wonderful for the
Oh, and I'd LOVE to see people's reaction when to play a SINGLE game, the 'installer' has to format your drive. "Please wait while your existing partition is resized and a new one created... if you had any data you wanted, you should have most likelly backed it up".
>>some kind of ramdisk for multidisk games
>What of it?
Meh.
Comcast has also not blocked this.