was that they just did a simple rehash of stuff for their "Classic Arcade" line. Honestly, if they'd included in the Lost Vikings cart both Lost Vikings games, and added a 3 player link mode, it would have rocked some serious ass.
I mean, all 3 vikings on the move at once, trying to coordinate verbally in synch... as well, adding a few missions that required realtime coordination between the vikings would have been a lot more stimulating than what we got...
Sure there is - From the Foobar2000-> Preferences menu, select Database, and ensure that your mp3 dir is listed in the "Restrict Directories to" box. If you only want specific file types rather than anything foobar can play, restrict file types to *.mp3;*.ogg for example.
Now hit the Scan button and wait a few.
Next up is Components->Album List. Boom boom there ya go. As you add new mp3s to your playlist, if they are in your previously mentioned directories, they will be auto-added to the album list.
If you want to do different kinds of filters, it's fully configurable in the preferences screen, Components\Album List - you'll probably want to pop up the help file to figure out all the %variables% and $functions. Easiest method is Display\Title Formatting, click the help button. Once you get the hang of the variable replacement, it's actually really really easy to add new filters. (Disclaimer: I Am A Coder, so that does come fairly naturally to me)
And yes, just about everything in foobar2000 is as configurable as that, from track list formatting, to right-click menu, to window menu entries... and I hear that stock it runs pretty well under Wine (a few incompatabilities with some plugins)
Of course, the people I game with are in no case any type of standard or majority, so our opinions don't really count.
Unfortunately, that is very correct. Blizzard is not writing an MMO for a niche market - they are writing one for the masses, and if that means they focus on the not-so-hardcore MMO population, so be it.
Well, given that the alliance classes are the only ones available at the moment, 6 alliance classes are also available to the Horde, and the game is still in _beta_, I'm ok with there being balance issues.
For the clusters (which is what they were talking about) it's from powering on the first machine, to having every machine connected and registered with the Master, and able to start accepting code chunks to process.
Step 1: Scan the map.
Step 2: Load it up in a layer-enabled image editor (Gimp, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc)
Step 3: Make new layers based on room numbers (or one big one, but it's harder to erase)
Step 4: On the correct layer, black out the room in question. repeat for all rooms
Step 5: On a master layer, black out the rest of the map.
Now, as rooms are explored, either delete or make invisible the layer blocking the room, and export to a gif on a machine running a web server. Then I just notified the group (via irc, where everything was going on) that the map was updated, and they refreshed as often as necessary.
This has the added benefit of you both being able to see a "current" version of the map, and references locations by the same numbers used in the module.
In short; don't hold your breath if you were thinking of putting the entire LoTR trilogy on a three disk "portable edition".
Well hold on now - the three extended edition films should run about 4 hours each tops. Cut out the credits (including the 10-minute listings of official LOTR fan club members) so you can do an all-in-one, that gives us an upper bound of maybe 11 hours.
11 hours into 8.5 gigs gives us ~770 MB per hour, which is more than enough for a really nice quality Xvid encoding. Sure, it's not as convenient as being able to stick it in a real dvd player and let it go at it, but as far as it goes it's definitely portable enough:P
It didn't fail. It detected someone cheating, notified the admins, who verified it, and then they banned the cheater. Case closed. The anti-cheating measures in-game are the reason it took a full week to notice someone with a cheat - it's hard now.
They do mention that this will just be the primary download method, and that they will have some form of direct download for those unable (or unwilling) to use the torrent file.
I haven't done any filtering like that on my machine, but it is dead easy to set up. This with v4.0.13 - it does still pop up questions if you don't anticipate all the rules, though.
Open the config page, Network Security/Applications tab. Button in the lower right called Packet Filter - click the Add button and it will let you filter on a protocol (tcp, udp, etc), local port, remote port/address, mix-and-match style.
A personal firewall is important to have now, and there are some reasonable free ones around. The ones I like take a bit of configuration, but they sure beat Zone Alarm. The two I use are Kerio Personal Firewall and Sygate Personal Firewall.
I migrated from Sygate to Kerio, and while it is true that Kerio is no longer 100% free, this is what you miss out on after 30 days:
"Limited free edition does not provide the content filtering capabilities such as blocking pop-up windows, ads, VB scripts, cookies, etc. and other extra features. Please see the comparison table for more details."
Personally, I didn't use any of that because I have a good browser and can handle myself without the "extra features" - it reminded me twice that it expired (a few days before, and on day of) and has since been silently doing its duty.
Typically, it's revisioned. If someone thrashes the content, an editor can go and revert the page to something that has content. At least thats how it works for wikipedia.
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To protect its investment, Microsoft reserves the right to incorporate other groups' improvements to Caller ID back into the specification free of charge, using a so-called "reciprocal license," Frank said.
It has set up a specific TLD (.NULL) for "completely non-commercial and only natural persons (lawyer-speak for "no corporations; actual physical people only") may hold.null subdomains, As a non-commercial domain,.null subdomains may not be transferred for compensation."
Rent a box from somewhere, and harass friends, family, and neighbors if they know anyone who could use a web presence. You provide the hosting, set up domains and stuff, and if they need it, some basic web design.
There's even a few packages out there that have a very simplified markup structure (ie. _underline_ and *bold* and stuff) that means your potential clients can edit pages directly.
Your costs are monthly fees to your host, and one-time fees for domains and such. Income is monthly hosting fees from clients, and one-time or recurring fees for web design, graphics, and maybe even some freelance coding for special features and whatnot.
Yeah, that could get confusing. Usually for stats like this the second value is not included. So you'd have 128Mb to 255.999Mb.
Oddly enough, my system with a single 512Mb stick of ram reports to windows that it has 511Mb - so my 512Mb system would still be stuck in the 256 to almost 512 bracket:(
You need to figure out who is going to keep this and what are you targeting when you pick the language. Otherwise your likely to pick wrong.
Exactly so. In this case, I'm looking to write a one-off just to do something in batch - do I care about runtime efficiency? No. Maintainability? Heck it's not even hitting a file. All I'm looking for is something that works, and works how I expect, hopefully the first time. In that case, there is no wrong pick.
Actually, what really scares me is that I've been finding myself (as a Web developer) doing batch file processing with an interactive PHP session. 6-8 lines of php and I can do all sorts of neat and nifty things - doubly so with shell_exec (or the `backtick` operator - same functionality) if I need to do a move or rename or whatnot. I'm finding that much easier than raw shell stuff with foreach i (`ls`) if only because I'm so much more comfortable with php.
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And that explains the rave reviews on Wario Ware
I mean, all 3 vikings on the move at once, trying to coordinate verbally in synch... as well, adding a few missions that required realtime coordination between the vikings would have been a lot more stimulating than what we got...
And for an old Dos game, they even provide a link to the DosBox emulator so all us that don't still have the good ol' 486 still up and running :)
Sure there is - From the Foobar2000-> Preferences menu, select Database, and ensure that your mp3 dir is listed in the "Restrict Directories to" box. If you only want specific file types rather than anything foobar can play, restrict file types to *.mp3;*.ogg for example.
Now hit the Scan button and wait a few.
Next up is Components->Album List. Boom boom there ya go. As you add new mp3s to your playlist, if they are in your previously mentioned directories, they will be auto-added to the album list.
If you want to do different kinds of filters, it's fully configurable in the preferences screen, Components\Album List - you'll probably want to pop up the help file to figure out all the %variables% and $functions. Easiest method is Display\Title Formatting, click the help button. Once you get the hang of the variable replacement, it's actually really really easy to add new filters. (Disclaimer: I Am A Coder, so that does come fairly naturally to me)
And yes, just about everything in foobar2000 is as configurable as that, from track list formatting, to right-click menu, to window menu entries... and I hear that stock it runs pretty well under Wine (a few incompatabilities with some plugins)
Reminds me eerily of the previously mentioned method Blizzard is using for World of Warcraft beta distribution...
Unfortunately, that is very correct. Blizzard is not writing an MMO for a niche market - they are writing one for the masses, and if that means they focus on the not-so-hardcore MMO population, so be it.
Well, given that the alliance classes are the only ones available at the moment, 6 alliance classes are also available to the Horde, and the game is still in _beta_, I'm ok with there being balance issues.
Except that it doesn't work quite as well for local copies :(
Either that, or depending on how many people are involved, you could always use MSN or Yahoo IM and invite people into one big happy conversation.
At least, that's how I'd measure it.
Step 1: Scan the map.
Step 2: Load it up in a layer-enabled image editor (Gimp, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc)
Step 3: Make new layers based on room numbers (or one big one, but it's harder to erase)
Step 4: On the correct layer, black out the room in question. repeat for all rooms
Step 5: On a master layer, black out the rest of the map.
Now, as rooms are explored, either delete or make invisible the layer blocking the room, and export to a gif on a machine running a web server. Then I just notified the group (via irc, where everything was going on) that the map was updated, and they refreshed as often as necessary.
This has the added benefit of you both being able to see a "current" version of the map, and references locations by the same numbers used in the module.
Just ran it through two tests of 1000 numbers with the following result counts:
Array
(
[0] => 505
[1] => 495
)
Array
(
[0] => 108
[1] => 95
[2] => 99
[3] => 92
[4] => 119
[5] => 87
[6] => 105
[7] => 101
[8] => 80
[9] => 114
}
Not too terribly bad of a distribution to my eye.
Well hold on now - the three extended edition films should run about 4 hours each tops. Cut out the credits (including the 10-minute listings of official LOTR fan club members) so you can do an all-in-one, that gives us an upper bound of maybe 11 hours.
11 hours into 8.5 gigs gives us ~770 MB per hour, which is more than enough for a really nice quality Xvid encoding. Sure, it's not as convenient as being able to stick it in a real dvd player and let it go at it, but as far as it goes it's definitely portable enough :P
It didn't fail. It detected someone cheating, notified the admins, who verified it, and then they banned the cheater. Case closed. The anti-cheating measures in-game are the reason it took a full week to notice someone with a cheat - it's hard now.
They do mention that this will just be the primary download method, and that they will have some form of direct download for those unable (or unwilling) to use the torrent file.
Open the config page, Network Security/Applications tab. Button in the lower right called Packet Filter - click the Add button and it will let you filter on a protocol (tcp, udp, etc), local port, remote port/address, mix-and-match style.
I migrated from Sygate to Kerio, and while it is true that Kerio is no longer 100% free, this is what you miss out on after 30 days:
"Limited free edition does not provide the content filtering capabilities such as blocking pop-up windows, ads, VB scripts, cookies, etc. and other extra features. Please see the comparison table for more details."
Personally, I didn't use any of that because I have a good browser and can handle myself without the "extra features" - it reminded me twice that it expired (a few days before, and on day of) and has since been silently doing its duty.
Typically, it's revisioned. If someone thrashes the content, an editor can go and revert the page to something that has content. At least thats how it works for wikipedia.
That sounds an awful lot like a GPL-ism to me.
It has set up a specific TLD (.NULL) for "completely non-commercial and only natural persons (lawyer-speak for "no corporations; actual physical people only") may hold .null subdomains, As a non-commercial domain, .null subdomains may not be transferred for compensation."
Rent a box from somewhere, and harass friends, family, and neighbors if they know anyone who could use a web presence. You provide the hosting, set up domains and stuff, and if they need it, some basic web design.
There's even a few packages out there that have a very simplified markup structure (ie. _underline_ and *bold* and stuff) that means your potential clients can edit pages directly.
Your costs are monthly fees to your host, and one-time fees for domains and such. Income is monthly hosting fees from clients, and one-time or recurring fees for web design, graphics, and maybe even some freelance coding for special features and whatnot.
Oddly enough, my system with a single 512Mb stick of ram reports to windows that it has 511Mb - so my 512Mb system would still be stuck in the 256 to almost 512 bracket :(
47.34% total for NVidia cards,
:P
41.17% Unknown,
10.30% total Radeons,
1.18% Intel.
It's possible (though unlikely) that all the unknowns were ATI cards, but I think this is a clear win for NVidia.
OTOH, the most popular card is a GF4MX, which is actually a less capable card than my poor dead GF2TI, which didn't even make it on the list
Exactly so. In this case, I'm looking to write a one-off just to do something in batch - do I care about runtime efficiency? No. Maintainability? Heck it's not even hitting a file. All I'm looking for is something that works, and works how I expect, hopefully the first time. In that case, there is no wrong pick.
Actually, what really scares me is that I've been finding myself (as a Web developer) doing batch file processing with an interactive PHP session. 6-8 lines of php and I can do all sorts of neat and nifty things - doubly so with shell_exec (or the `backtick` operator - same functionality) if I need to do a move or rename or whatnot. I'm finding that much easier than raw shell stuff with foreach i (`ls`) if only because I'm so much more comfortable with php.