The original text based adventure game by Woods and Crowthar for those of you looking for something to do at work. A variety of binaries and source code for a variety of versions of the game are available for a wide variety of platforms.
Also maps and hints.
I played this game a lot on my Kaypro64. Unfortunatly the game crashed when you relesed the vial to kill the slime. At the time I didn't ha"ve access to walkthroughs or maps or anything. I didn't realise how close I was to beating the game until I looked through some of the stuff on this site and downloaded current non crashing versions.
Don't forget that they have access to your client. If they want to shut it down specifically, all they have to do is to use a function that you don't fake. Eventually you could emulate their entire client and the OS that its running on exactly, but I think that would be *ahem* a lot of work.
I believe that the buffer overflow allows you to execute arbitrary code on the client. They could give you code to run that does a checksum on the executable for example.
I own one of the Timex/Microsoft DataLink watches. So far, this is the closest thing I've seen to having a computer on your wrist. Since it is not supported in linux and that is what I use most of the time, I don't use most of its features anymore.
To be worthwhile, a wrist computer must be light (the datalink is the heaviest watch I have ever owned), and display the time by default (I wouldn't wear it if it is not displaying the time). Given those requirements the interface has to be fairly simple. A couple buttons, maybe a touch screen, but I'm not going to want to pull out a stylus to see what my next appointment is.
The datalink gets around this by being mostly read only. It has an eye that looks at barcodes that flash across your computer screen. You can't update your info except on your computer. This works fairly well IMHO. I am definitly willing to carry both a PDA and a watch.
However, they should work together. If I could download stuff into my watch from my PDA it would be even better. I take my watch everywhere and my PDA most places.
My PDA should be able to do the notepad, planner, address book, phone book, etc and my watch should be able to display them to me. The things you should be able to do on your watch are set alarms (including one time alarms (for ebay auction end times)) stopwatch and timer (at the same time unlike the datalink) and possible the calculator. You watch does not need to be your PDA, there is room in this world for both.
I wrote a little utility that saves the stream from a shoutcast server to your hard drive as an MP3.
Shoutcast makes a streaming audio server in some ways similar to what real is doing. Is this something they could bitchslap me for if they had the desire?
I have no idea how shoutcast feels about my program and I doubt anybody there even knows about it. Makes you nervous to develop software these days.
I wan't encryption built into an instant messanger. Almost all of the communication that I do that I would like to keep private is done over and IM.
It seems to me that the encryption could be much more transparents over IM as well. You have a central place to store keys for one thing. I really wish that ICQ would stick pgp or something similar in with the download.
Does anybody else find it very annoying to do anything on http://members.icann.org/?
To activate your account you have to enter your member number, your password, and the pin they mailed to you. Ok, I can understand that. They need to know that you have both a valid email address and a postal address.
But everytime that you want to do something on the site, you have to enter all three. Is there a reason they need to know your pin after you enter it the first time to verify that you recieved the snail mail?
Furthermore, each of their scripts seems to do its own login. It does not appear that there is a central way to login and be able to use any scripts. Each one will ask you for the information during each session.
I would usually make a link that I can bookmark to log in to a site like this, and I wouldn't be annoyed. However it appears you would have to make one for each script:
https://members.icann.org/cgi-bin/atlarge/endorse. cgi?login=1&mn=memberNumber&pw=password&pin=snailM ailPin
would work for the endorsement, but not for doing anything else on the site.
If you find out how to attract their attention please let me know.
I would like to submit several patches that I have created.
After that I would like to dump a load of suggestions and feature requests. I would also like to nag them about the direction they are taking with the kernal. I may also engage in a bit of hero worshipping followed by some light stalking.
Once I become bored with that, I expect I will want to be just friends and have each of them on my ICQ to chat with me all day. Eventually, I will sell my access to news media and spam lists. Either that or use mind control so that I can control them when they take over the universe.
I can't speak for Einstein, but why do you assume that this is disrespectful to him? When I die, I hope that scientists can use my brain to figure out what gives me my *ahem* superior intellect and modesty.
I am an organ donor, and wouldn't hesitate to give my body to science. I hate the concept of cemeteries. I think there are much better ways to remember the dead than to fence them in and put a rock over their head.
What would be more hurtful to me is that people might argue about it as they have done with Einstei
Does that mean that you *can* use TIVO without the service? I'd get one in a heartbeat if so. But there is no way I want to go through the trouble of dragging a phone line into my living room so that I can pay $10 a month. I'm quite capable of entering times and channels.
In my college courswork it was not uncommon for me to write a several page proof for a 10 line function. When I code something that should be proven, I have found that putting the proof of an alogithm in front of the function that implements that algorithm is a great practice. In such cases, having them in the same place makes it easy to detect errors in one or the other.
In the 21st century, the Navy began using linux in their ships. This practice continues today. Such majestic space plying vessels such as the Enterprise run linux today.
It givesa a whole new meaning to core dump.
The warp core, she's dumping all over me cap'n, she can't take much more, she's gonna blow!
The problem is not the posts that get moderated up, it's the posts that don't and the moderators that blow their load on the first 30 posts.
I have a few observations and theories on this point.
The first problem I see is that the first posts to an article are the most likely to be modded up. Moderators tend
to hang around the couple most recently posted stories.
Not everybody refreshes Slashdot every two hours. The people that do, are the ones that agree most with the
stereotypical slashdot agenda.
Insightful posts take time. It could easily take an hour to *read the article*, do some other research, and post
some meaningful commentary. Those who post fast seem more likely to spout out their gut feelings.
To sum up: The people who post first are likely to be avid slashdot readers and more zealotous. Posts that are
made soon after the article goes up are not as likely to be based on facts.
On hot trigger issues such as this one, I have read comments soon, then comments later and been pleasantly
suprised by a couple better posts that get moderated later. Often on looking further, I notice that there are
several more that I would have modded higher than the ones that are modded higher.
As you can see from the graphs, I think there are a lot of good comments posted
later that don't get moderated, while a lot of earlier comments that might not be quite so good, do.
I suggest the golden moderation system.
You get 5 moderator points.
2 of the are gold.
2 of them are silver.
1 of them is bronze.
gold points can be used on any post at any time. Silver points can be used on posts attached to articles that are
more than 2 hours old. Bronze points can be used on posts attached to stories that are more than 1 day old.
I have done java development for several years and this is the first I have ever heard of this. Is this a documented feature? It does not appear in java -help menu.
I tried the -prof flag on my linux computer and I immediatly got a core dump. I tried it on my windows computer and it immediatly performed and illegal operation and had to be shut down. I am of course running recent versions of java from Sun. Methinks there are a few bugs and this is no longer supported or not yet supported.
This is the best news I have heard in a long time! Some of us are snatching up property that is about 20 feet above sea level currently. Remember, its at bargain prices right now!
Despite what other people here have said, taking apart the keyboard really is the way to go. I have dumped every sort of beverage imaginable onto my keyboard and after 6 years, it still works and looks almost like new.
The easiest thing to do is to pop off the keycaps. This can be done on almost all keyboards. I've done it on a microsoft natural before, so I know it works. Just get a screw driver under the key and pry. It will fly off and hit you in the eye, but it will also snap right back in place. After you have all the keys off, soak them overnight in your favorite volatile chemical and they will be as good as new. With they keys off, you can also clean underneath them this way. If you want to have fun put the key caps on in different positions. (Its hard to switch to dvorak this way as the keys in different rows are of different heights and will make a hilly dvorak keyboard).
Its also just fine to unplug and replug a ps2 keyboard with the computer turned on. I use a switch box that does this between two computers with no problems. (Mice however are another story)
If you want to clean inside your keyboard (spilled something nasty?), you can get in from the screws in the back most of the time. Just make sure to find the last one that is under the warranty sticker. Most of today's keyboards are a circuit printed on some plastic. Really easy to sponge off and dry out. The keys are activated by little magnets mounted on springy rubber things. These are easy to clean and put back on too. The trickiest part of putting it all back together is where the plastic circuit thingy attaches to the small logic board. Its usually some flimsy connection that is held there by pressure. You have to get the thing lined up just right and the keyboard closed without knocking the plastic around.
Yeah, everybody will run their own TV stations. Uh-huh. Just like those people that do the shows on the local access channel. I watch those all the time. They are my favorite.
</sarcasm>
You can get to the article directly if you disable javascript first.
The page has this lovely gem up at the top:
if (top.location == self.location) {
top.location = "../../freedomnews.html"
}
I can't wait til somebody hacks mozilla to add useful buttons to the toolbar. Like an enable, disable javascript button instead of the useless home and search buttons in netscape. It wolud help a lot with abusive javascript like this.
I work for GCC Printers. (Nothing to do with your favorite compiler.) Our printer line is trademarked the "elite" line of printers.
I was fairly dissappointed that the hacker speak does not translate elite into 31337. It seems to only do characters and has no recognition of common hacker words. Take a look at our 31337 21 N technical specs or our product line to see what I mean.
I am interested to hear what you have found that is rendered incorrectly? I download nightly builds of mozilla frequently. If there is one thing I'd say is kewl about mozilla, is that it renders just about everything. Heck, I can even browse microsofts site with it. (Try doing that in Netscape.) The only site I've found that it chokes on is weeklyworldnews.com which has a horribly broken frameset that netscae 4 and IE are somehow able to figure out.
The things that annoy me most about mozilla is that the find in page does not work if there are frames present (bug #40583). And there are numerous crash bugs including some with animated gifs (bug #22519).
As I've said before, Mozilla is progressing just fine as far as I'm concerned. I have found no new bugs in several weeks. A few months ago I was finding a new bug every few days. And within the last couple months, many of the bugs that I had on the top of my list have been fixed. Mozilla is even less crashy. I have a relatively stable build from a couple weeks ago that I was able to visit every site that I visit on a daily basis without a single crash (don't flame me if you don't know what an improvement that is). It will only get better from here folks.
Slashdot Mirror
The original text based adventure game by Woods and Crowthar for those of you looking for something to do at work. A variety of binaries and source code for a variety of versions of the game are available for a wide variety of platforms.
Also maps and hints.
I played this game a lot on my Kaypro64. Unfortunatly the game crashed when you relesed the vial to kill the slime. At the time I didn't ha"ve access to walkthroughs or maps or anything. I didn't realise how close I was to beating the game until I looked through some of the stuff on this site and downloaded current non crashing versions.
Ah nastalgia!
Its time to kick ass and chew gum, and I'm all out of gum.
Don't forget that they have access to your client. If they want to shut it down specifically, all they have to do is to use a function that you don't fake. Eventually you could emulate their entire client and the OS that its running on exactly, but I think that would be *ahem* a lot of work.
I believe that the buffer overflow allows you to execute arbitrary code on the client. They could give you code to run that does a checksum on the executable for example.
To be worthwhile, a wrist computer must be light (the datalink is the heaviest watch I have ever owned), and display the time by default (I wouldn't wear it if it is not displaying the time). Given those requirements the interface has to be fairly simple. A couple buttons, maybe a touch screen, but I'm not going to want to pull out a stylus to see what my next appointment is.
The datalink gets around this by being mostly read only. It has an eye that looks at barcodes that flash across your computer screen. You can't update your info except on your computer. This works fairly well IMHO. I am definitly willing to carry both a PDA and a watch.
However, they should work together. If I could download stuff into my watch from my PDA it would be even better. I take my watch everywhere and my PDA most places.
My PDA should be able to do the notepad, planner, address book, phone book, etc and my watch should be able to display them to me. The things you should be able to do on your watch are set alarms (including one time alarms (for ebay auction end times)) stopwatch and timer (at the same time unlike the datalink) and possible the calculator. You watch does not need to be your PDA, there is room in this world for both.
Shoutcast makes a streaming audio server in some ways similar to what real is doing. Is this something they could bitchslap me for if they had the desire?
I have no idea how shoutcast feels about my program and I doubt anybody there even knows about it. Makes you nervous to develop software these days.
I just gnu there was something gnostic about it.
It seems to me that the encryption could be much more transparents over IM as well. You have a central place to store keys for one thing. I really wish that ICQ would stick pgp or something similar in with the download.
Sadly since the karma cap became active, some of our karma has nowhere to go but down. You are indeed blessed my friend.
To activate your account you have to enter your member number, your password, and the pin they mailed to you. Ok, I can understand that. They need to know that you have both a valid email address and a postal address.
But everytime that you want to do something on the site, you have to enter all three. Is there a reason they need to know your pin after you enter it the first time to verify that you recieved the snail mail?
Furthermore, each of their scripts seems to do its own login. It does not appear that there is a central way to login and be able to use any scripts. Each one will ask you for the information during each session.
I would usually make a link that I can bookmark to log in to a site like this, and I wouldn't be annoyed. However it appears you would have to make one for each script:. cgi?login=1&mn=memberNumber&pw=password&pin=snailM ailPin
https://members.icann.org/cgi-bin/atlarge/endorse
would work for the endorsement, but not for doing anything else on the site.
bummer
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/j okes/92q4/sincerely.html
I would like to submit several patches that I have created.
After that I would like to dump a load of suggestions and feature requests. I would also like to nag them about the direction they are taking with the kernal. I may also engage in a bit of hero worshipping followed by some light stalking.
Once I become bored with that, I expect I will want to be just friends and have each of them on my ICQ to chat with me all day. Eventually, I will sell my access to news media and spam lists. Either that or use mind control so that I can control them when they take over the universe.
Thank you.
I am an organ donor, and wouldn't hesitate to give my body to science. I hate the concept of cemeteries. I think there are much better ways to remember the dead than to fence them in and put a rock over their head.
What would be more hurtful to me is that people might argue about it as they have done with Einstei
Does that mean that you *can* use TIVO without the service? I'd get one in a heartbeat if so. But there is no way I want to go through the trouble of dragging a phone line into my living room so that I can pay $10 a month. I'm quite capable of entering times and channels.
In my college courswork it was not uncommon for me to write a several page proof for a 10 line function. When I code something that should be proven, I have found that putting the proof of an alogithm in front of the function that implements that algorithm is a great practice. In such cases, having them in the same place makes it easy to detect errors in one or the other.
It givesa a whole new meaning to core dump.
The warp core, she's dumping all over me cap'n, she can't take much more, she's gonna blow!
It doesn't need to. I see no reason that you couldn't use sign language to write a letter or a story.
The first problem I see is that the first posts to an article are the most likely to be modded up. Moderators tend to hang around the couple most recently posted stories.
Not everybody refreshes Slashdot every two hours. The people that do, are the ones that agree most with the stereotypical slashdot agenda.
Insightful posts take time. It could easily take an hour to *read the article*, do some other research, and post some meaningful commentary. Those who post fast seem more likely to spout out their gut feelings.
To sum up: The people who post first are likely to be avid slashdot readers and more zealotous. Posts that are made soon after the article goes up are not as likely to be based on facts.
On hot trigger issues such as this one, I have read comments soon, then comments later and been pleasantly suprised by a couple better posts that get moderated later. Often on looking further, I notice that there are several more that I would have modded higher than the ones that are modded higher.
Let me try to illustrate this with a graph:
PostQualityv sTime:
|high
|
| +---+
| +++--+
|+-+ +---+
|++ +---+
|++ +---------------
|++
|+-+
|++
|++
|
|low
+-----------------------------------------
time-- ->
Sumofmoderationdone
|more +-------------------------
|+-----+
|+--+
|++
|+
|++
|+
|+
|+
|+
||
|
|less
+-----------------------------------------
time--->
As you can see from the graphs, I think there are a lot of good comments posted later that don't get moderated, while a lot of earlier comments that might not be quite so good, do.
I suggest the golden moderation system.
You get 5 moderator points.
2 of the are gold.
2 of them are silver.
1 of them is bronze.
gold points can be used on any post at any time. Silver points can be used on posts attached to articles that are more than 2 hours old. Bronze points can be used on posts attached to stories that are more than 1 day old.
I think this would really do wonders for Slashdot
I tried the -prof flag on my linux computer and I immediatly got a core dump. I tried it on my windows computer and it immediatly performed and illegal operation and had to be shut down. I am of course running recent versions of java from Sun. Methinks there are a few bugs and this is no longer supported or not yet supported.
This is the best news I have heard in a long time! Some of us are snatching up property that is about 20 feet above sea level currently. Remember, its at bargain prices right now!
The easiest thing to do is to pop off the keycaps. This can be done on almost all keyboards. I've done it on a microsoft natural before, so I know it works. Just get a screw driver under the key and pry. It will fly off and hit you in the eye, but it will also snap right back in place. After you have all the keys off, soak them overnight in your favorite volatile chemical and they will be as good as new. With they keys off, you can also clean underneath them this way. If you want to have fun put the key caps on in different positions. (Its hard to switch to dvorak this way as the keys in different rows are of different heights and will make a hilly dvorak keyboard).
Its also just fine to unplug and replug a ps2 keyboard with the computer turned on. I use a switch box that does this between two computers with no problems. (Mice however are another story)
If you want to clean inside your keyboard (spilled something nasty?), you can get in from the screws in the back most of the time. Just make sure to find the last one that is under the warranty sticker. Most of today's keyboards are a circuit printed on some plastic. Really easy to sponge off and dry out. The keys are activated by little magnets mounted on springy rubber things. These are easy to clean and put back on too. The trickiest part of putting it all back together is where the plastic circuit thingy attaches to the small logic board. Its usually some flimsy connection that is held there by pressure. You have to get the thing lined up just right and the keyboard closed without knocking the plastic around.
Good luck and all!
Yeah, everybody will run their own TV stations. Uh-huh. Just like those people that do the shows on the local access channel. I watch those all the time. They are my favorite.
</sarcasm>
The page has this lovely gem up at the top:
if (top.location == self.location) {
top.location = "../../freedomnews.html"
}
I can't wait til somebody hacks mozilla to add useful buttons to the toolbar. Like an enable, disable javascript button instead of the useless home and search buttons in netscape. It wolud help a lot with abusive javascript like this.
I was fairly dissappointed that the hacker speak does not translate elite into 31337. It seems to only do characters and has no recognition of common hacker words. Take a look at our 31337 21 N technical specs or our product line to see what I mean.
The things that annoy me most about mozilla is that the find in page does not work if there are frames present (bug #40583). And there are numerous crash bugs including some with animated gifs (bug #22519).
As I've said before, Mozilla is progressing just fine as far as I'm concerned. I have found no new bugs in several weeks. A few months ago I was finding a new bug every few days. And within the last couple months, many of the bugs that I had on the top of my list have been fixed. Mozilla is even less crashy. I have a relatively stable build from a couple weeks ago that I was able to visit every site that I visit on a daily basis without a single crash (don't flame me if you don't know what an improvement that is). It will only get better from here folks.