Any password over 14 characters will not be stored in the LM Hash so 30 isnt exactly necessary but I understand where your coming from.
Long password tip: Use a passage from a book on your desk as your password combined with the ISBN number. If you ever forget it just take a look at the book.
Although ZZT's graphics were obsolete before it was even created, ZZT managed to become fairly popular because of its integration of a simple but effective object-oriented scripting language known as ZZT-oop. At the time this was groundbreaking as most functionality in prior games had been hard coded. The language allowed extensibility that no other game was able to provide, and allowed a large degree of community involvement that extended far beyond simply creating level terrain with the excellent in-built editor but involved writing programs to make the game run.
There was an ask slashdot last year about getting kids into programming, wish I had remembered this game, its one of the things that got me into C++ and its OOP goodness.
Thats the coolest thing about Wikipedia and tabbed browsing. I can start at Ascii Art and end up on Alberto Lleras Camargo in a few clicks. Maybe I should make a plan to read all of Wikipedia and get a story on slashdot like that Bratanica guy.
And what ASCII related post wouldnt be complete wihtout a link to ascii porn
bummer, all the sudden i feel like a mac user disapointed that my game wont be ported to my platform. too bad xboxes are still ~$180, though i might be able to justify it as an HTPC
Has anyone played all 3 burnout games? I saw Burnout 2 at a LAN party on a 15 foot projection and was totally drawn to it. I recently got a gamecube and just realized that burnout 3 isnt on that platform yet. I can pick up a copy of 1 or 2 for cheap so I'm wondering if there is any major differences, or is it simply better graphics and more maps?
I'll probably go out and pickup a copy of burnout 2 today. Thanks.
Nevertheless, I do wonder if there's some sort of sticker or seal on the inside to let Apple know you've opened the case.
Yeah, 'cause the apple repair technicians are just going to open the case and inspect the sticker and, oh, wait...
And no, stickers on the outside of the case arent an option. Nothing can uglify that beautiful case.
Had a gateway once with a void warranty sticker on the case. Before I knew anything about hardware and how to build my own computers of course. How did I learn to build computers? Went to my first LAN party with said Gateway, cracked the case and installed a NIC. I was support after that.:)
Yes but it stores you pictures in a database, and I think it may have moved/changed my file structure once too. I'm afraid of anything that actually changes my files. Call me old school, but I'd rather have my MP3's organized in folders like Artist/album/song rather than anything like iTunes or Picasa. I know I cant be the only one either. This is the one thing that has always kept my away from apps like this. I guess when Longhorn comes along and the filesystem is replaced with SQL or something similar I'm going to finally have to give up on the good ol' file system organization... or move to linux
I used to do this too. I would love to hang out at Dulles. I would read a book, dork around on my laptop, watch the jets, watch the people, hell even talk to the people, its amazing how friendly people are when they're sitting around in a terminal waiting to fly off on vacation.
I miss hanging out at airports, its the only place I've ever seen a teenager huddled over a laptop with a penguin sticker on it, under a payphone with an acustic coupler connected to a PCMCIA modem (this was '1997).
No I dont have a boarding pass, no I've got no luggage, passport, or destination, i just want to get through security like everyone else and munch on some cookies and coffee. Is it going to kill you that I spend my money at the airport? Fuck it, frisk me, if I'm not carying a bomb I should be allowed to get through security just like everyone else holding a ticket.
PS: I'm tired of having to say goodbye to loved ones before heading off on a trip at the curb outside because they cant wait for my plane to board in the terminal.
You know that scene in THE movie where the guy realises he loves the girl and never had the guts to tell her, and now shes at the airport waiting to board a plane to hong kong, never to see her again. And he races down the freeway at 100 MPH+ speeds just to get to the terminal and kiss her and proclaim his love? Not gonna happen.
You got a boarding pass sir?
No, but my girlfriend is about to leave for Hong Kong and I have to propose to her Step away from the checkpoint sir or I will have to escort you off the premisis FUCK!
Anyone else have any luck getting bast security checkpoint without a boarding pass? This is ridicilious.
Is this show any good? I miss good scifi and I've never gotten into any of the other mainstream scifi like B5 and stargate, they all felt really low budget and cheesy. Failing TNG coming back with season 8 I'd really like to start a new scifi and I'm sure I can catch up to you guys through BT or DVD. is it any good?
From TFA: But 2004 "was a real turning point in a bad direction," said technology analyst Ted Schadler of Forrester Research. "People are getting really angry. They're angry at Dell and Microsoft and their cable providers, and that's appropriate. They should be."
I understand Microsoft, but Dell and their cable providers? That's like blaming your car manufacturer and the department of transportation when your car gets broken into.
I tend to lean towards 'its not the user's fault', however after admin'ing for a few years and answering the same questions by the same people over and over my opinion has become a bit cynical.
Still, Microsoft could make a secure OS and browser, and that would help, but nothing is going to prevent joe sixpack from downloading some spyware ridden P2P app and bonzi buddy, except for that DRM encrusted Trusted Computing thing.
It will look nice at first to the clueless users like the guy in this article, but hopefully it wont be too late before everyone realizes what a mistake they made. Actually, I don't think its going to make it very far, most admins will fight it and if it doesn't make it into the businesses it wont make it to mainstream.
I think of it as having a limited user account to my computer administrated by Microsoft through group policies in the bios.
not sure where this rant is going but I better stop before I get to hot grits and what not.
major, general, i dont know what he was havent heard the story in a while, i didnt think that was the point. i dont remember him getting any kind of promotion or medal for it.
My dad was a war photographer in Korea. He had some level of clearance and once was working at a base on the coast of Florida photographing experimental weapons. He was walking around the facility and started talking to a major. The major was complaining about the fishing boats close off the coast, saying that they were known communist spies doing surveillance of the bases secret operations. The nature of the operations made them need to be outside and there was not much they could do about keeping the spies from photographing their operations from the fishing boats.
My dad suggested that they build a pipeline around the base and pump extremely hot water through it. The steam would keep the spies from getting clear photographs of the bases operations.
Ever been to the airport and notice that distortion coming off the top of the jets in the summer? The waviness is caused by the steam and heat coming from the plane. This is the basis for the pipeline.
The major had the pipeline constructed and shortly after the fishing boats stopped snooping around the base. Think of it as a photographic firewall...
This reminds me of a story about Steve Wozniak that might not be true. I was told by a lineman once that Wozniak had perfected his blue box and hooked it up to a switch board in his attic. He supposedly charged a flat rate free to his neighbors for the ability to dial into his switch board and dial out long distance using the blue box.
All I could dig up was this. The lineman could have been yanking my chain. Comments appreciated.
Top 5 DVDs in my collection
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· Score: 4, Funny
I can already game and burn a dvd on a single core system. I'm using an Athlon XP 2500+ with a Plextor 8x DVD-RW drive and I've never seen a drop in FPS while playing SOL.EXE, Ever
On a more serious note my old roommate, the SCSI lover, could play Quake 3 while burning a CD because he was burning from SCSI HDD to SCSI CDR while playing the game off a seperate SCSI HDD. He claimed that the only thing making my machine slow while burning a CD was the CPU overhead involved in IDE.
Dude1: Check out this new ring tone I gots
Dude2: Sounds familiar, who is that?
Dude1: Thats 50 cent y0?!
Dude2: Right on. Where'd you get it?
Dude1: Verizon's dank ring tone store online
Dude2: Really, how much?
Dude1: Less than a buck. 99 cents.
Dude2: Hold up, you mean to tell me you paid 99 cents for a 50 cent ring tone
Dude1: Yeah, whats up?
Dude2: You paid 99 cents for... ahh fuck it, nevermind...
1. Open Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta1
2. Click Advanced Tools
3. Click Startup Programs
4. Select Microsoft Windows Explorer
5. Click Permanently remove startup program
6. Reboot
7. Profit.
yes but bluetooth is slow. and the point of the grandparent poster is so that sports photographers have more storage space. I think he is looking at it all wrong. wifi or bluetooth are just going to suck up batteries. a much better, and faster solution would be to use multiple CF cards and an iPod or similar storage device with card reader hooked up to a wifi adapter. Fill up a card, eject it and pop it in the ipod, it should sense the card and automatically download, transmit and format while your poping in another blank card.
the ipod with CF adapter and Wifi adapter would be plenty small enough to keep in your pocket and has its own battery. keeps drain off camera battery and lightens camera. also if wifi is unavailable the ipod just keeps the pics on HDD. with the wifi in camera option your SOL if theres no access point, not to mention bandwidth concerns with 20MB raw, or like other poster said, processed jpegs
Members of these so-called ripping groups, also known as warez groups, have created a community referred to as "the scene." It exists primarily on the Internet's back alleys -- private Internet Relay Chat, or IRC
"There are a lot of similarities with the drug war," said David Israelite, chairman of the U.S. Justice Department's Intellectual Property Task Force. "You never really are going to eliminate the problem, but what you hope to do is stop its growth."
I'm not sure wheather to laugh or cry. Remember kids, dont copy that floppy.
For a while I thought blogs were stupid, but thats just because I had looked at live journal sites published by 15 year old girls. I like the services that blogger.com offer, and even use textamerica.com for its picture blogging service. I just wish I could have this all on my own domain and not be tied to a company that might not be around in 10 years. Are there any open source packages that I should check out? I've got experience with PHP.
This is why things like Microsoft Virtual Machine was created (acquired). The other day my G/F was at my place getting some music off allofmp3.com when she couldnt find a song she wanted. She started to download Kazaa when I stopped her and fired up a Windows 2000 virtual machine for her to download in. I guess I dont mind if its got adware or spyware as long as I can sandbox it.
Slashdot Mirror
Any password over 14 characters will not be stored in the LM Hash so 30 isnt exactly necessary but I understand where your coming from.
Long password tip: Use a passage from a book on your desk as your password combined with the ISBN number. If you ever forget it just take a look at the book.
ZZT is badass:
Although ZZT's graphics were obsolete before it was even created, ZZT managed to become fairly popular because of its integration of a simple but effective object-oriented scripting language known as ZZT-oop. At the time this was groundbreaking as most functionality in prior games had been hard coded. The language allowed extensibility that no other game was able to provide, and allowed a large degree of community involvement that extended far beyond simply creating level terrain with the excellent in-built editor but involved writing programs to make the game run.
There was an ask slashdot last year about getting kids into programming, wish I had remembered this game, its one of the things that got me into C++ and its OOP goodness.
The ASCII Art wikipedia story lead me to ZZT, an old fav of mine. Oh the wonders of nostalgic computer games. Wonder if this will play on my Athlon.
ZZT was an ANSI-based computer game, created in 1991 by Tim Sweeney, later the designer of Unreal.
Thats the coolest thing about Wikipedia and tabbed browsing. I can start at Ascii Art and end up on Alberto Lleras Camargo in a few clicks. Maybe I should make a plan to read all of Wikipedia and get a story on slashdot like that Bratanica guy.
And what ASCII related post wouldnt be complete wihtout a link to ascii porn
Only old Koreans use Windows 1.0
bummer, all the sudden i feel like a mac user disapointed that my game wont be ported to my platform. too bad xboxes are still ~$180, though i might be able to justify it as an HTPC
Has anyone played all 3 burnout games? I saw Burnout 2 at a LAN party on a 15 foot projection and was totally drawn to it. I recently got a gamecube and just realized that burnout 3 isnt on that platform yet. I can pick up a copy of 1 or 2 for cheap so I'm wondering if there is any major differences, or is it simply better graphics and more maps?
I'll probably go out and pickup a copy of burnout 2 today. Thanks.
Nevertheless, I do wonder if there's some sort of sticker or seal on the inside to let Apple know you've opened the case.
:)
Yeah, 'cause the apple repair technicians are just going to open the case and inspect the sticker and, oh, wait...
And no, stickers on the outside of the case arent an option. Nothing can uglify that beautiful case.
Had a gateway once with a void warranty sticker on the case. Before I knew anything about hardware and how to build my own computers of course. How did I learn to build computers? Went to my first LAN party with said Gateway, cracked the case and installed a NIC. I was support after that.
Yes but it stores you pictures in a database, and I think it may have moved/changed my file structure once too. I'm afraid of anything that actually changes my files. Call me old school, but I'd rather have my MP3's organized in folders like Artist/album/song rather than anything like iTunes or Picasa. I know I cant be the only one either. This is the one thing that has always kept my away from apps like this. I guess when Longhorn comes along and the filesystem is replaced with SQL or something similar I'm going to finally have to give up on the good ol' file system organization... or move to linux
I used to do this too. I would love to hang out at Dulles. I would read a book, dork around on my laptop, watch the jets, watch the people, hell even talk to the people, its amazing how friendly people are when they're sitting around in a terminal waiting to fly off on vacation.
I miss hanging out at airports, its the only place I've ever seen a teenager huddled over a laptop with a penguin sticker on it, under a payphone with an acustic coupler connected to a PCMCIA modem (this was '1997).
No I dont have a boarding pass, no I've got no luggage, passport, or destination, i just want to get through security like everyone else and munch on some cookies and coffee. Is it going to kill you that I spend my money at the airport? Fuck it, frisk me, if I'm not carying a bomb I should be allowed to get through security just like everyone else holding a ticket.
PS: I'm tired of having to say goodbye to loved ones before heading off on a trip at the curb outside because they cant wait for my plane to board in the terminal.
You know that scene in THE movie where the guy realises he loves the girl and never had the guts to tell her, and now shes at the airport waiting to board a plane to hong kong, never to see her again. And he races down the freeway at 100 MPH+ speeds just to get to the terminal and kiss her and proclaim his love? Not gonna happen.
You got a boarding pass sir?
No, but my girlfriend is about to leave for Hong Kong and I have to propose to her
Step away from the checkpoint sir or I will have to escort you off the premisis
FUCK!
Anyone else have any luck getting bast security checkpoint without a boarding pass? This is ridicilious.
Is this show any good? I miss good scifi and I've never gotten into any of the other mainstream scifi like B5 and stargate, they all felt really low budget and cheesy. Failing TNG coming back with season 8 I'd really like to start a new scifi and I'm sure I can catch up to you guys through BT or DVD. is it any good?
From TFA: But 2004 "was a real turning point in a bad direction," said technology analyst Ted Schadler of Forrester Research. "People are getting really angry. They're angry at Dell and Microsoft and their cable providers, and that's appropriate. They should be."
I understand Microsoft, but Dell and their cable providers? That's like blaming your car manufacturer and the department of transportation when your car gets broken into.
I tend to lean towards 'its not the user's fault', however after admin'ing for a few years and answering the same questions by the same people over and over my opinion has become a bit cynical.
Still, Microsoft could make a secure OS and browser, and that would help, but nothing is going to prevent joe sixpack from downloading some spyware ridden P2P app and bonzi buddy, except for that DRM encrusted Trusted Computing thing.
It will look nice at first to the clueless users like the guy in this article, but hopefully it wont be too late before everyone realizes what a mistake they made. Actually, I don't think its going to make it very far, most admins will fight it and if it doesn't make it into the businesses it wont make it to mainstream.
I think of it as having a limited user account to my computer administrated by Microsoft through group policies in the bios.
not sure where this rant is going but I better stop before I get to hot grits and what not.
major, general, i dont know what he was havent heard the story in a while, i didnt think that was the point. i dont remember him getting any kind of promotion or medal for it.
My dad was a war photographer in Korea. He had some level of clearance and once was working at a base on the coast of Florida photographing experimental weapons. He was walking around the facility and started talking to a major. The major was complaining about the fishing boats close off the coast, saying that they were known communist spies doing surveillance of the bases secret operations. The nature of the operations made them need to be outside and there was not much they could do about keeping the spies from photographing their operations from the fishing boats.
My dad suggested that they build a pipeline around the base and pump extremely hot water through it. The steam would keep the spies from getting clear photographs of the bases operations.
Ever been to the airport and notice that distortion coming off the top of the jets in the summer? The waviness is caused by the steam and heat coming from the plane. This is the basis for the pipeline.
The major had the pipeline constructed and shortly after the fishing boats stopped snooping around the base. Think of it as a photographic firewall...
Its not that OT when you think about it.
I hope this thread isnt cold, this needs to be answered. i was going to get a mac mini but now I'm concerned about my ipod. any mac gurus out there?
This reminds me of a story about Steve Wozniak that might not be true. I was told by a lineman once that Wozniak had perfected his blue box and hooked it up to a switch board in his attic. He supposedly charged a flat rate free to his neighbors for the ability to dial into his switch board and dial out long distance using the blue box.
All I could dig up was this. The lineman could have been yanking my chain. Comments appreciated.
The Top 5 DVDs in my collection are:
1. Ritek
2. Memorex
3. Imation
4. Taiyo Yuden
5. Verbatim
Of course, you'll need a good Sharpie or equivelent and a copy of DVD Shrink
BTW: Special 100 pack of DVD-R's at newegg... See, both funny and informative.
I can already game and burn a dvd on a single core system. I'm using an Athlon XP 2500+ with a Plextor 8x DVD-RW drive and I've never seen a drop in FPS while playing SOL.EXE, Ever
On a more serious note my old roommate, the SCSI lover, could play Quake 3 while burning a CD because he was burning from SCSI HDD to SCSI CDR while playing the game off a seperate SCSI HDD. He claimed that the only thing making my machine slow while burning a CD was the CPU overhead involved in IDE.
Dude1: Check out this new ring tone I gots
Dude2: Sounds familiar, who is that?
Dude1: Thats 50 cent y0?!
Dude2: Right on. Where'd you get it?
Dude1: Verizon's dank ring tone store online
Dude2: Really, how much?
Dude1: Less than a buck. 99 cents.
Dude2: Hold up, you mean to tell me you paid 99 cents for a 50 cent ring tone
Dude1: Yeah, whats up?
Dude2: You paid 99 cents for... ahh fuck it, nevermind...
True story
1. Open Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta1
2. Click Advanced Tools
3. Click Startup Programs
4. Select Microsoft Windows Explorer
5. Click Permanently remove startup program
6. Reboot
7. Profit.
Dont believe me, check it out for yourself.
First +5 comment on this story and already Godwin's law is proving correct. Amazing.
yes but bluetooth is slow. and the point of the grandparent poster is so that sports photographers have more storage space. I think he is looking at it all wrong. wifi or bluetooth are just going to suck up batteries. a much better, and faster solution would be to use multiple CF cards and an iPod or similar storage device with card reader hooked up to a wifi adapter. Fill up a card, eject it and pop it in the ipod, it should sense the card and automatically download, transmit and format while your poping in another blank card.
the ipod with CF adapter and Wifi adapter would be plenty small enough to keep in your pocket and has its own battery. keeps drain off camera battery and lightens camera. also if wifi is unavailable the ipod just keeps the pics on HDD. with the wifi in camera option your SOL if theres no access point, not to mention bandwidth concerns with 20MB raw, or like other poster said, processed jpegs
Members of these so-called ripping groups, also known as warez groups, have created a community referred to as "the scene." It exists primarily on the Internet's back alleys -- private Internet Relay Chat, or IRC
"There are a lot of similarities with the drug war," said David Israelite, chairman of the U.S. Justice Department's Intellectual Property Task Force. "You never really are going to eliminate the problem, but what you hope to do is stop its growth." I'm not sure wheather to laugh or cry. Remember kids, dont copy that floppy.
Sounds kinda like Slashdot, but I've heard it referred to as a blog.
For a while I thought blogs were stupid, but thats just because I had looked at live journal sites published by 15 year old girls. I like the services that blogger.com offer, and even use textamerica.com for its picture blogging service. I just wish I could have this all on my own domain and not be tied to a company that might not be around in 10 years. Are there any open source packages that I should check out? I've got experience with PHP.
Happy New Year
This is why things like Microsoft Virtual Machine was created (acquired). The other day my G/F was at my place getting some music off allofmp3.com when she couldnt find a song she wanted. She started to download Kazaa when I stopped her and fired up a Windows 2000 virtual machine for her to download in. I guess I dont mind if its got adware or spyware as long as I can sandbox it.