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 Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 72/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
I actually get a much better connection to California than locally, which is probably due to the other end being better. In fact, I get almost as good a connection to Japan as to their server in Phoenix. (O_o) At any rate...I used to get 10 MB/s (MByte, not Mbit!) download from some servers while I was in a dorm in college (at least in the morning when everyone else was asleep), so this cable connection is a step down from that. |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 74/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
...hence an electric guitar. It would work as long as the amplifier output was connected to the ship's radio link. |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 75/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
It may not apply so much to game ROMs, but I have been known to fiddle with certain graphing calculators, & their ROMs seem to be written in C using compilers that were horrible at optimizing. I have seen code that saves registers on the stack that it never touches, among other atrocities. Sure, no sane ASM programmer would do that, but a C compiler can easily. Again, modern optimizing C compilers are much better than what they had when these systems were made. |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 76/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
I know English very well & Spanish well enough to survive in Mexico or read the paper. I am working on learning Japanese, but progress has been slow as I keep getting distracted. In theory I am using the AJATT method, but my posting on here shows about how well I am sticking to the plan. :/ |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 77/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
I have sort of gotten sidetracked by other things (like the Real World), so I am probably not going to finish my SMA2 editor. I do, however, have a ROM map & a few other odds & ends.
ROM map (Sorry for the all caps.) Here is what I had so far for the editor: It uses GTK+ & supports up to 256 levels of undo/redo & cut/copy/paste of sections of the overworld map data (in addition to a tile chooser), but the paths do not redraw when you edit them (a bug I never fixed). I also did not start coding a level editor. Note that the toolbar items are in Japanese because my system language is set to that. (The menus, on the other hand, are hard-coded in English.) In the en locale it comes up in English just fine. If anyone wants the code to the editor proper or any of my mapping tools (a graphics/tile data viewer & a graphical ROM layout viewer, both of which use SDL), feel free to ask. But note that they are only known to compile on Linux, & that there are no comments, so it might just be a better idea to start anew at this point. |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 78/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
Hangul (the (modern) Korean writing system) uses a layout that places each syllable in a separate square character, with 2 or 3 parts within the square that represent the components of the syllable. There is a relatively small number of these components, & they have fixed phonetic values, so it is easy to learn, & the 1-square-per-syllable layout makes it easier to read (depending on the person, of course). |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 79/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
I am trying to learn Japanese, so I set everything to Japanese by default. (It seems to be helping...I find that I recognize the kanji for things like "save" in other contexts.) I just forgot to set LANG=en_US.utf8 for the screenshot, & I did not notice until I had already uploaded it. |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 81/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
I hope to make money in the stock market (yeah, right) so I can write my own code & do stuff with my family more instead of having to go to an office every day & write code for someone else. More likely, I suppose, is that I will end up working for some existing software company or else start my own. |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 82/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
Does Linux count as open-source antivirus software?  (I know, there are Linux viruses.)
On a more serious note, ClamAV/ClamWin is under the GPL. I have no idea how well it works relative to others, but as for the claim that open source will make virus writers' jobs easier: It also makes it so that any programmer can fix the antivirus software to handle any discovered or hypothetical virus. I suspect more people are likely willing to help fix flaws in ClamWin than to write viruses targeted to its flaws. |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 83/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
ClamWin does not support resident scanning.  Hence the reason nobody bothers to compare it. Otherwise from what comparisons I could find it seems it does better than most free alternatives (except for the top few that everyone actually uses...), at the expense of being slow. |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 84/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
My favorite color is supersaturated green (stimulation of just the M cones by themselves). Since it is not physically realizable (except through certain illusions), I do not get to see it very often. But other nearby greens will usually do. |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 85/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
Caps Lock is extremely useful if you are typing a bunch of hexadecimal values (with capital letters, that is, & of course no leading "0x"), typing underscore-separated all-caps names in code (which, granted, is a deprecated style in most languages, but it persists still in places), writing BASIC (some BASICs give a syntax error on lowercase code), or typing long acronyms (at least that is what they teach in school...I often do not in fact use it that way).
That, & I both type & write in all capitals when I do not intend it for consumption by other humans. I suppose that is what I get for programming in various old BASICs a lot when I was a little kid.
(My printing (no cursive except when mandatory (despite people saying it looks good) because I can print faster) also has lots of uncommon ligatures, which makes it hard to read for some people, but that is another issue for another day...) |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 86/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
I would love a new monitor, but there are several problems with current offerings.
It must be at least 96 DPI. That is what my current screens are, & I can see rough edges in pictures. Anything coarser is just going to be worse. Finer would be great, but everyone seems to think 1920×1080 is the one resolution to rule them all. I want ≥10-finger multitouch. Oh, wait, that costs a lot. Plus, the only such monitor I found is less than 96DPI. I would really like one of those 30" 2560×1600 displays, but they cost even more. (If I could So, basically, my current 1280×1024 screen still keeps the marginal utility of available offerings below their cost. |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 87/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
OS: Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.6.x (different depending upon which machine & when I last updated it), FreeDOS (via DOSemu)
Windowing environment: GNOME + Metacity (xmonad on my laptop) Browser: Chromium IM: Pidgin Image editor: GIMP, Inkscape Text editor: Gedit, Nano Fancy document processing: LaTeX, OpenOffice Hex editor: Bless Programming: GCC, Glasgow Haskell Compiler, QBASIC, on-calculator program editors PC emulator: DOSemu, VMware Player Calculator emulator: Emu86 (for the TI-81), TIEmu Console emulator: IDK. They are on a different machine. Media player: Xine, playsound, Flash Nutrition tracker: CRON-o-Meter Plus all sorts of odds & ends. |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 88/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
TwoCheese
display: Samsung SyncMaster 731BF (2ms, 2000:1 (probably dynamic), 1280×1024@60Hz, fluorescent backlight, DVI connection), eMagin Z800 3DVisor (800×600@30×2, 6DOF sensors, VGA connection) Case: Antec Quiet-something (the power supply makes plenty of noise...) CPU: Intel Core i7 870 (2.934GHz, 4 cores w/hyperthreading) RAM: 16GB (4×4GB) Patriot Sector 5 DDR3 1333MHz HD: Seagate, 160GB & 1TB (both 7200RPM) Motherboard: the box seems to be hiding right now...the only noteworthy things are probably that it has USB 3.0 & dual gigabit Ethernet Tuner: ATI TV Wonder Pro (analog only) Video card: nVidia Quadro FX 580 (32 cores, 512MB video RAM, PCI-E x16 v2.0) Operating system: Gentoo Linux 10.0 (64-bit) with kernel 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 GUI: X.Org 7.4 with GNOME 2.32.1 Drives: CompUSA combination flash card reader & floppy (all in a 3½" form factor), Sony DVD±RW DL, Iomega Zip 100 USB: Griffin PowerMate, Wacom Graphire 3 tablet, Das Keyboard (first version), HP optical mouse (on "Birthplace of the Republican Party" mouse pad), TARDIS hub , Microsoft Kinect, some maroon Microsoft webcam, Emotiv EPOC
Audio: Inland speakers with separate subwoofer, Sennheiser TR140 wireless headphones Power consumption: 106W idle with monitor off, 230W monitor on with 4 CPU threads & GPU maxed out (about 11.2Mhash/s for Bitcoin mining, i.e. utterly pathetic), 210W monitor on with 8 CPU threads & GPU maxed out (lower presumably due to downclocking &/or hyperthreading overhead) (all measured with thermostat set at 79°F) (it seems old peripherals (Zip drive?!) follow me to new systems) FingerCheese Base model: Lenovo S10-3T Operating system: Ubuntu Netbook Edition 11.04 (64-bit) RAM: 2GB DDR3 |
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Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 89/89 EXP: 65856 Next: 1867 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4654 days Last view: 279 days |
I tend to wear shorts & T-shirts (usually with something related to mathematics, computers, or physics (or just something funny) printed on them) & sandals nearly year round. Sometimes it gets cold enough for a jacket, less often for long pants (almost always jeans in my case), & even less often for shoes (especially since I have to weigh the cold against potential pain from my feet not being used to them).
Then again, I was alright once with my usual clothing in the snow, so maybe I am atypical. |
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