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  2. Cosmic scale

    in Introductions & Off-Topic Discussion

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    I've always liked those kinds of scale pictures. Most drawings of the solar system, etc. promote a very skewed mental image of the relative sizes and distances of everything.

    Probably because a picture that is both correct in size and scale kind of has very little to look at... or needs to be very very big, but... that's no excuse! :blush:

    Hmm... I seem to recall attempting to draw one at one point when I was really young... I think I had 12 sheets of paper taped together or something. And I somehow suspect that my math was wrong and it was badly off anyway. I don't think I ever finished it.

  3. What are your career aspirations?

    in Introductions & Off-Topic Discussion

    Posted

    @Carlos: :blush:

    Hmmm... never really thought about this one much.

    Probably something involving math and/or programming... various forms of art I dabble with seem more of hobby-type stuff... I don't know. Maybe Google?

    Definitely something that leaves me time to contribute something to the open source community... those people have helped me so much in ridiculous amounts of ways that it's just wrong not to give something back.

    DesktopX

    in Computer Desk

    Posted

    I tend to just stick with whatever's currently on the machine when I use Windows... I don't like the look of any of them, never really did.

    There was a short period when I would experiment with 3rd party themes on my Windows box, but they all were way too slow and didn't offer any nice feel or anything... just XTREME resource hogging.

    And Macs are sadly not all that themeable either so I don't do much with them when I get to use them. (Which is fine, I like Aqua's looks.)

    Under Linux I'll also go for minimalism (yay for small window managers!), but themes tend not to hog resources there... probably something to do with them being "supported" instead of a hack so I often spend some time trying to find my favorite of all the themes they have.

    Photoshop Designed Website

    in Computer Desk

    Posted

    Argalius does have a point. Usually, (at least when I started messing with programs like GIMP or Photoshop or whatever) you first get to the stage when you just play with filters mostly to see what you can do. This is what you're at right now. As you get more practice and experience, you'll learn you use the program more as a tool and use it to create the image you have in your mind as opposed to creating the image you have in your mind based on what filters you have. (Yes, that was ridiculously vague and probably horribly worded, but whatever.)

    It's not bad for a start though. ;)

  9. Revision Log Question

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Does Jan comment on the code that he coded as well? With the double-back slash, so that other members of the programming department can understand what it is that he coded? (I'm sure what you know what I mean with the double-back slash, right Ykkrosh? :) ) I did a few months worth of C++ though I never really understood it, nor got passed doing simple "Hello World" programs. :P;)

    They're forward slashes. And commenting is more-or-less a given. Housekeeping can possibly include better comments, but completely uncommented code kind of gets out of hand quickly with anything remotely complex.

    Jabber

    in Computer Desk

    Posted

    Gmail's Jabber accounts are implemented strangely. They tied it into their email so that trying to deal with authorization (last I dealt with it anyway) with other clients and talking to people from other hosts acts rather awkward at times. (IIRC, it's something like authorized = in buddy list = in contacts list under email even if the other one is technically not an email address)

    I have my gmail one dnas.dnas@gmail.com and one at jabber.org DnasTheGreat@jabber.org.

    Gaim here as well.

    Pentium or AMD

    in Computer Desk

    Posted

    @Belisarivs: Mwahahahaha! :) And we've had a 64-bit capable system for how long now?

    Anyhow,

    Even if the OS isn't a 64-bit OS, it'll still run fine. You won't be using the 64-bit-ness of the processor, but it'll still run nicely afaik. Plus (this may be old info, but from what I recall reading) the 64-bit version of Windows has some issues anyway.

    I'd go with the HP if it's cheaper, has twice as much RAM, and has an AMD processor. :D

    (Plus I'm slightly biased given Sony's little rootkit scandal... although that was only one section of Sony... meh. :P)

    Star Control II

    in Gaming Discussion & Match-making

    Posted

    I found this little guy while browsing Gentoo's software repositories the other day.

    http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

    A long time ago (in a galaxy far far away... not),

    In 1992, there was a game called Star Control II (and before that, there was plain Star Control).

    In 2002, the sources were released to the open source community, who ported it and improved upon it.

    (Because of trademark issues, this version is called The Ur-Quan Masters.)

    There are binaries for most modern operating systems, and there's also a Windows binary, so... any system that people here use should be supported.

    So, what's it about? Well...

    For the past decade, Earth and the rest of the Alliance of Free Stars has fought the Ur-Quan and their Hierarchy of Battle Thralls. In the course of the War, the Earthlings discovered a factory world by the 'Precursors' - an impossibly advanced race that disappeared tens of thousands of years ago. This colony, Unzervalt (aka Vela I), lost all contact with Earth shortly after landfall.

    You are Captain Zelnick, a human that was born on Unzervalt and who possesses a remarkable knack for Precursor technology. You were the one who worked out how to activate the Precursor installation.

    It was a factory for building starships. However, Unzervalt is mineral-poor, and there were not enough materials available to construct a complete vessel. Your task is to command this craft, the Vindicator, and return to Earth to tell them of the abandoned colony. Also, if the War with the Ur-Quan continues, you must fight for Earth and the Alliance as best you can.

    A little note: The game is from 1992, so... the graphics aren't quite what you may be accustomed to, but... it's still a great game. :P The graphics maybe be simple, but they're very fitting. (Remember to go under options and choose the hq scaler... it's the nicest.)

    Now.... go download it! :P

    http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

    This is probably one of the most enjoyable games I've ever played.

    (TIP: if one of the non-essential packages in the Windows installer seems slow, I find cancelling it and telling the installer to pick a different mirror very effective.)

    Post Your Desktop Thread

    in Computer Desk

    Posted

    @Mythos:

    First you'll need one of these:

    http://distrowatch.com/

    http://gentoo.org/

    http://www.ubuntu.com/

    Then you'll want this (for the second desktop I use)

    http://www1.get-e.org/

    which, depending on your choice for the first component, might be easier to install with

    http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_e17

    http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=20216

    Or you can opt for a pack that has all the pieces in one download.

    http://www.elivecd.org/

    For Belisarivs' desktop 'mods',

    you'll still need one of those first components.

    Then you'll need to make sure it came with this

    http://gnome.org/

    If it didn't, there should be an easy way to tell the program install it.

    Then, simply download the themes Belisarivs linked to and install them

    And if you've read this far and clicked on a link or two... you've probably realiized what these "desktop mods" are. :P

    (And, on a more serious note, if you want to play with Enlightenment, elive is a Live CD so you can boot into and play with it without messing with your harddrive. If you want to play with GNOME, most Live CDs'll have it.)

    Post Your Desktop Thread

    in Computer Desk

    Posted

    Hey, this topic again. :P

    My nice and minimalistic Enlightement 16 desktop.

    http://dnas.is-a-geek.org/screens/06-05-27-e16.jpg

    And my unstable and pretty Enlightenment 17 desktop which I just updated from CVS yesterday. (Annoyingly, they seem to have changed from a nice move-anywhere-you-want set of gadgets to a more tradional shelf-based approach... which hasn't developed the same level of configurabilty I enjoy in my other desktops yet... ah well, that's what you get for using unfinished software.)

    http://dnas.is-a-geek.org/screens/06-05-27-e17.jpg

    (I know, 1d16h is a pretty bad uptime... we had a storm the other day so I had to shut him off.)

    And E17 really needs a video to show it off.

    http://dnas.is-a-geek.org/ibar.mpg

    PHP

    in Computer Desk

    Posted

    \n - Unix

    \r - Mac

    \r\n - DOS

    I'm pretty sure that \n corresponds to the correct one in PHP regardless of OS though. Since, I've had my site hosted on a Windows (which was hacked, amusingly) box and a Linux box, and \n worked as expected in both cases.

  22. New Screenshot!

    in Announcements / News

    Posted

    The shadowing setup had to be greatly editted to allow self-shadowing. Notice how the Genetic Engineering lab's spikes cast shadows on itself and the building itself casts a shadow on the soldier behind it, etc.

    Now that it is capable of self-shadowing, it shouldn't be too difficult to smooth the edges, increase shadow resolution, adjust ambient color, or whatever is needed to make the shadows prettier.

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