All three of his software examples tell me that I should DISABLE the sound as the default setting.
Scrabble - His scrabble game doesn't work the way he wants because it would wake up his wife if he played it.
Chess - His chess program is also too loud.
Encyclopedia - Many entries have A/V which annoys him.
It seems he liked to use programs for these purposes back in the day before they made noise at him.
I'd have to say I agree when it comes to background music in games - it usally conflicts with my mp3s that are playing. However, I usually like sound effects on by default.
My favorite game growing up was Ladder for my Kapro II computer. Sort of a clone of Donkey Kong with ASCII graphics. I liked it so much I cloned Ladder in Java and released it open source. Should work fine on the OS X.
Not open source, but free flash games that I really like:
You might want to check for leading/trailing spaces. If I have any of those, my filter also turns up no results. Probably easy to pick up one or two of them with copy and paste.
How about importing the Open Directory Project? It has an RDF (xml) dump of its current data. It is a couple hundrdred megs compressed and a couple gigs uncompressed.
I don't see how this is going to work for me. I use my power tools to prepare my BBQ. I use the saw to split the hot dogs and shape the hamburger patties.
It is "features" like this that kill the hobbist market for power tools.
When I last tried glabels a few months ago it has some pretty serious image quality problems. The templates were plentiful and well defined. The editing was intuitive and easy. However I could never get the images to come out printed well.
The problem seemed to be two-fold:
Image scaling seemed to be done using linear interpolation. Sorry, but that doesn't cut it for anything that should have presentation. All the lines come out with jaggies. Use bi-cubic please.
Printing was done at 72dpi. Hello, my printer is 1200 dpi, can you please take advantage of it?
In my experience, it did a great job of easily producing poor quality labels. Anybody know if these issues have been resolved in the current version?
It is very uncommon for me to be only using one program. I tend to have a browser open for documentation/news/surfing beside whatever real work I'm doing.
When I'm programming: 1 browser window for javadoc, 1 terminal window for compile, n text editor windows for all the files I'm working on.
When I'm doing finances: Gnucash next to a web browser for my financial institution.
When doing email: my email program next to my web browser so that when I open links in the email I can see them and the email at the same time.
I think you get my point. I haven't used full screen for anything since I had 800x600. That isn't to say that screens are big enough yet. I'll be happy when I can put programs on each of the walls surrounding me and face the one I want to use at any given time.;-)
I just bought a wireless NAT router by linksys to replace my non-wireless NAT router made by Netgear.
What a step down in usability!!!!
Both products have a web site that you can go to to make changes. Neither has the address printed prominently on the outside of the unit along with the default user and pass, the first step in making it easy.
I always found the netgear configuration easy, intuitive, and with tons of help. On the other hand the linksys configuration is horrible.
Security: The linksys router offers about 5 types of security but nothing you can click on to help you decide which is right for you. Once I chose 128 bit wep, I would expect help on how to set up clients such as what options need to be set, but nothing was available that I could see.
Connected hosts: I couldn't figure out how to see everybody that was currently connected with their computer name, mac address, connection speed, etc. The netgear router was much better about this. It makes it hard to configure port forwarding and other such things on the linksys.
Having worked in the laser printer industry for a few years I can attest that very few companies actually manufacture their own printer engines. The only companies that I know that manufacture printer engines are Cannon, Fuji-Xerox, and Lexmark. HP, and my company GCC Printers put the firmware in, brand the printer, and sell it.
The engine is good working mechanics, but until you put some embedded logic into the printer that knows how to interpret postscript or pcl, sending it print jobs won't do anything. We manufacture a circuit board that goes inside the printer. It has the printer ports (parallel, USB, network), processor, memory, software, and direct links to turn the various parts of the printer on and off (rollers, feeders, laser beam).
Does anybody know what the boot.iso file that I downloaded yesterday from bittorrent is? All the other files I got seem to be part of the download and MD5 correctly against the sum file on the fedora servers today, but there is no sum for boot.iso or that file to download there. I'm planning to just throw it out, but it seems to me that somebody could have slipped an extra disc in with the distribution and could get away with it because it doesn't mess up the MD5 but people might use it anyway.
As somebody who has tried to write libraries that read ID3v2 tags, I'd have to say I hate them. The standard is clear and well documented, but the chosen format is horrible. It is very hard to write a parser correctly. It would have been so much better to embed an XML document at the front of the MP3 file. Instead they decided to make each field in a special binary format prepended by a length field.
The number of checks you have to do is phenominal. The biggest worry is buffer overflow where the length given is greater than the actual length of the tag and you read more than is in the file. There are just hundreds of such edge cases. Libraries for ID3v2 are likely to be buggy, crashy, and just no fun.
If this guy had been really good and didn't want to get caught, he would have parked a van somewhere off the security cameras, and convinced somebody via telephone to load the computers in it for him.
"Hi, Charles asked me to have five computers transfered. Let me fax you some paperwork. The van is parked out back, could you have it loaded?"
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To use relative debugging, you need a reference implementation that is correct. The only time I have that is when I'm extending an existing implementation with new functionality. In that case I use unit tests with assertions that compare the new and the old implementations.
I suppose this would be useful if you were writing something in a new programming language. You could port your code and run the relative debugger to make sure that both implementations acted the same. In such a situation, that would be great, but such a situation isn't the common case for me.
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It seems he liked to use programs for these purposes back in the day before they made noise at him.
I'd have to say I agree when it comes to background music in games - it usally conflicts with my mp3s that are playing. However, I usually like sound effects on by default.
I've never played the sequels theselves, but I have the levels for what somebody told me is Ladder 2. Is that the ladup to which you refer?
Not open source, but free flash games that I really like:
You might want to check for leading/trailing spaces. If I have any of those, my filter also turns up no results. Probably easy to pick up one or two of them with copy and paste.
weird. How about just filtering for keyword. When I do that, mine has two entries.
Did you forget the about:config step?
There are numerous utilities to put it into a database for you.
I don't see how this is going to work for me. I use my power tools to prepare my BBQ. I use the saw to split the hot dogs and shape the hamburger patties.
It is "features" like this that kill the hobbist market for power tools.
Unfortunately as my car ages it seems to be doing a bit worse. This winter I was getting about 50 mpg and so far this summer about 60 mpg.
I've seen a lot of theories explaining the winter/summer difference including:
I think it is probably some combination of the above with the engine efficiency accounting for the lion's share.
The problem seemed to be two-fold:
- Image scaling seemed to be done using linear interpolation. Sorry, but that doesn't cut it for anything that should have presentation. All the lines come out with jaggies. Use bi-cubic please.
- Printing was done at 72dpi. Hello, my printer is 1200 dpi, can you please take advantage of it?
In my experience, it did a great job of easily producing poor quality labels. Anybody know if these issues have been resolved in the current version?Dude, that link appears to be in your signature, not in your post. Nice try though.
The buttons are too big in Charamel. I prefer pinball.
It is very uncommon for me to be only using one program. I tend to have a browser open for documentation/news/surfing beside whatever real work I'm doing.
When I'm programming: 1 browser window for javadoc, 1 terminal window for compile, n text editor windows for all the files I'm working on.
When I'm doing finances: Gnucash next to a web browser for my financial institution.
When doing email: my email program next to my web browser so that when I open links in the email I can see them and the email at the same time.
I think you get my point. I haven't used full screen for anything since I had 800x600. That isn't to say that screens are big enough yet. I'll be happy when I can put programs on each of the walls surrounding me and face the one I want to use at any given time. ;-)
Why 1/4 as evil when you can have FULLSCREEN?
What a step down in usability!!!!
Both products have a web site that you can go to to make changes. Neither has the address printed prominently on the outside of the unit along with the default user and pass, the first step in making it easy.
I always found the netgear configuration easy, intuitive, and with tons of help. On the other hand the linksys configuration is horrible.
The engine is good working mechanics, but until you put some embedded logic into the printer that knows how to interpret postscript or pcl, sending it print jobs won't do anything. We manufacture a circuit board that goes inside the printer. It has the printer ports (parallel, USB, network), processor, memory, software, and direct links to turn the various parts of the printer on and off (rollers, feeders, laser beam).
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FC2-i386-disc4.iso
FC2-i386-disc2.iso
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The number of checks you have to do is phenominal. The biggest worry is buffer overflow where the length given is greater than the actual length of the tag and you read more than is in the file. There are just hundreds of such edge cases. Libraries for ID3v2 are likely to be buggy, crashy, and just no fun.
I think I'm in a trance watching all those pieces got put together. Sort of cool, beautiful, and wow I want to watch this all night sort of feeling.
I like my command line, but for some things a GUI gives you the nifty factor.
"Hi, Charles asked me to have five computers transfered. Let me fax you some paperwork. The van is parked out back, could you have it loaded?"
I can't believe that somebody modded it Funny. The moderators should be smart enough to get in on the misinformation campaign.
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I suppose this would be useful if you were writing something in a new programming language. You could port your code and run the relative debugger to make sure that both implementations acted the same. In such a situation, that would be great, but such a situation isn't the common case for me.