CodeOptimist
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Nice desktop, Vit
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I've recently been listening to a couple of tech-related podcasts, namely Security Now!, This Week in Tech, and Inside the Net. (Incidentally, these are all done by Leo Laporte)
I think I like Security Now! (Leo and Steve Gibson) the most, as it's probably the 'geekiest' of all the above. I'd recommend it to anyone who has an interest in computers, and especially computer security.
Anyone have any favorites they'd like to share?
(Yes, Chris, I listen(ed) to 'hack', but you haven't released any new episodes
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In case you don't go with TextDrive, allow me to put in another plug for DreamHost
They're currently running a "quadruple disk space/octuple bandwidth" special, so even with the $7.95 plan, you get 20GB disk and 1TB bandwidth.Also, as ProgramZeta mentioned, they have a crazy affiliate/rewards system - $97 per affiliate signup. If you do end up going with them, sign up through my affiliate link (http://www.dreamhost.com/rewards.cgi?nbarbettini) and I'll be happy to donate the $97 back to your website in the name of free software
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Well things are looking alot better now, A programmer saw my post on Gamedev and he has a nearly finished graphics engine that he wants used in an RTS
. This is the best news i've ever heard! The project is getting back on track. Hes going to do a demo that will some terrian and some camera movement and maybe a unit or two.Wow, that's quite a bit of good news!
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Never seen it myself, but a good friend of mine saw it and said he hated it.
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Welcome to WFG, Swordsworn! Hope you have a great time here.
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I've been using Dreamhost for about 6 months and have liked it so far. I signed up because of a special they were doing (1 year of hosting for ~$9.50!) and have been pleased with the service.
Other than that little plug, I don't have any other web host preferences - the only other host I've used is my ISP's and my friend's.
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It will be on Janurary 15 @ 8-10pm on FOX and is also in HDTV (
) and follows on the Monday the 16th. It is going to be a non-stop season with no repeats! Woot!
I'm looking forward to this. Season 5 will surely be exciting BTW: Anyone else think that "Book of Daniel" looks like a worthless show? I saw a trailer for it and chuckled to myself - NBC just seems to be trying to "push the envelope" and come up with the most outlandish one-up to "Desperate Housewives" they can possibly contrive.
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(In VB, there's a WinSock control for that, if I remember correctly.)
Yep
If you're still interested in VB code, I'd recommend searching here: http://www.pscode.com/vb/scripts/search.asp?lngWId=1
I've seen some IRC protocol implementations there before, if my memory serves me.
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Question: I am going to be getting a few Akasa ultra-quiet case fans to replace the current (noisy) case fans, but these new ones don't have LEDs in them so I was thinking of getting some blue cold cathodes to light up the case. My question is: Will they be bright enough? Because I got some ultra-violet cold cathodes, and they suck, they give off hardly any light at all
I think blue cold cathodes with be bright enough, although I'm basing this off of pictures and things (never actually used them in my own case). The UV cathodes would logically give off no visible light - none that your eyes can see anyway
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Great-looking case there, Chris!
Glad you got the connectors sorted out. -
There's a Windows mplayer port?
Yep, here's the main(?) mirror: http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32/
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Merry Christmas, all, and a happy New Year!
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It's kind of funny... everyone complains about Linux's media support and I've yet to find a Windows player that plays as many things that mplayer can play. (Particularly the mpegs made by xvidcap)
I certainly haven't found anything -- I frequently use the Windows port of mplayer to play pesky files that other Windows players can't play.
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Woot - great stuff.
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I recently remembered that one of John Titor's earliest 'verifiable' claims was that of an American civil war in 2005. Time's running out...
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Wow, this is strangely fun... I guess it's kind of like a message board except a LOT more people use Yahoo than a single message board like WFG, and thus more responses.
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. Whee, I'm up to 174 points already!
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Some companies (Netgear, and others, IIRC) are selling fairly cheap NAS devices that allow you to connect a hard drive directly to the network.
I took a look at NewEgg.com and found at least one device that allows you to connect a USB drive to the network. Not too cheap, though.
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I just tried out the new Yahoo! Answers service (beta, of course). I couldn't remember the title of a book I'd seen, so I thought it'd be a good semi-tough question to try the service out with.
I haven't gotten a complete answer yet, but I found that answering other people's questions is strangely addicting...
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From this page:
Exceeding all expectations, Disney's THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE bowed with a strong $65.5M at the box office for the weekend ended Dec. 11, 2005. Disney confirmed that it would now greenlight the next movie in the epic C.S. Lewis NARNIA saga: PRINCE CASPIAN. VFX provided by Rhythm & Hues, Sony Pictures Imageworks, ILM and others. -
Ummmm, I think The Horse and His Boy is after.
If you look at the order in which the stories take place, yes. Lewis wrote them 'out of order' (i.e. some were prequels), but I have a feeling that the movies would probably be made in the order that he wrote the books - Prince Caspian being second, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader being third.
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I saw it again last night
Even better the second time around, methinks.I'm hoping an "Extended Edition" is released (a la LoTR) - that's be awesome. There are a couple of indications of this that I've noticed: some extra scenes in the theatrical trailer(s) that I didn't see in the movie (most notably Peter dancing with some (unidentified?) girl at the coronation); plus, I read that some things were deliberately cut from the film to keep it just under a PG-13 rating. Perhaps an EE would be longer and more gritty in the battle scenes?
Question for those who have seen it:
How does it compare as a book -> movie adaptation to LotR, most specifically with the Fellowship of the Ring (once we saw that we knew what the other two would be like...mostly, so the Fellowship has the greatest impact).
In terms of accuracy to the books, or something else perhaps? I thought the adaption was quite good (many small nuances that only 'bookies' would notice were left in). Obviously, it was shortened for time a bit, but that's expected.
Good movie, the end battle was quite good for PG, although I would have liked to have seen some more blood
The centaur knights were a very cool concept I thought Anyone get the Tauren vibe from the minotaur general and his cohorts?Yeah, I was specifically hoping they wouldn't mess up the end battle for "kid-friendlyness", and they didn't IMO. I can understand the lack of blood, though it is slightly disappointing (less of that realistic LoTR feel). I was really glad things like arrow impacts were actually shown - I was a bit worried those types of things would be left out.
The centaurs were great!
I love it when "Aureus" (not in the book exactly ) nails the minotaur general with his dual short swords (Legolas's elven blades, anyone?) and then draws out that enormous longsword.Tauren vibe? Not following you there - I suspect it's a movie I haven't seen
I certainly liked the minotaur general though.The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was obviously a retelling of the New Testament of the Bible. And (in the first book and its prequel, at least) it seems that all the purely evil characters are women. The men or males that cause trouble are misguided and/or change sides or get screwed over by the even worse woman. That doesn't seem like a fair representation to me...
Not a complete retelling IMO, but certainly an allegory of certain parts of the New Testament - Aslan's sacrifice, particularly. (Wow, did anyone else think that was a VERY powerful scene? Especially Tilda Swinton's lines...)
Hmm, I never thought about the 'evil female' point before. You have a point (Jadis, twice, and the Lady of the Green Kirtle), but I don't think that's a biblical/Christian theme.
I suppose The Horse and His Boy doesn't have an evil female character in it - the antagonist is mostly Prince Rabadash or the Tisroc.
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Woohoo, another person who still knows the correct order!
As I understand it, there has been some discussion about what the 'correct' order is. I read them in the order that Lewis wrote them, incidentally
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This?
That page links to a technical explanation of how it was written, avoiding all of MySpace's blocks on HTML and JS code - I think it demonstrates that blacklists of dangerous strings can never work, since you don't know what weird things browsers will accept; the only secure solution is to support a subset of HTML, then parse each message, reject anything that's not valid within that subset, and reconstruct the HTML for display. That's what all forums seem to do (except they have non-HTML syntax) - it seems much more robust, and doesn't assume that users won't be more ingenious than the system's programmers
Yes, that's the one. BBCode *is* inherently more secure than blacklisted HTML, as you said (great point).
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