Fire Giant
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I've been reading all the books from Simon Scarrow's "Eagle" series again last week ("Under the Eagle", "Eagle's Conquest", "When the Eagle hunts", "The Eagle and the Wolves" - all about the Roman conquest of Britain from the perspective of a young Optio of the Legions), which was a lot of fun. I'm anxiously waiting for the release of the fifth "Eagle" book as paperback in June, and I'll be sure to get the English version from my bookstore no later than a week after it has been released
Besides these, I haven't read much in recent times, because there were always other things to do (at least if my maths course-books do not count). Oh, and of course, computer literature, but mostly in online/ebook format, so these aren't really books.
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Yes, it was a great day. I was at school when the flight took place but checked the internet in my breaks to be "up to date" - after all, the A380 is going to be worked on in Hamburg, too, and much depended on the success of that flight.
Now the Europeans can officially claim to have built the "king of sky" airplane (and they are not likely to be surpassed on that any time soon
It's a great example of what international co-work can do (especially for Europe, where - incomprehensibly to me - a lot of people are still against the EU integration and things like the European constitution). -
Wait a sec, I thought Google was your friend.......... :)
Wikipedia is your best friend if you know what you're searching for - Google is if you are not yet too sure.
Still, I've also found myself surfing the Wikipedia for random things and reading pages where I got through a lot of link levels.
As for recognizing people, I first glance at the avatar, too - if some of you exchanged your avatars, I'd get really confused
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I had the same problem some weeks ago. Forgot about it, though, and didn't post it. Will check if it still exists for me
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Let's just... not go there. For the programmers and end-users I suspect that we won't even know that there is an SQL backend (frontend?) to the FS...
Kind of what Active Directory does with LDAP? Few people know that there's actually an LDAP database behind AD, and that you can send LDAP queries to the directory in some ways. It's very useful for certain tasks, but quite hard to understand
(I still need Google every time, because I don't seem to be able to get the syntax of LDAP queries correctly). -
Yes, that would be nice but you would never give direct SQL commands to the filesystem (I think) anyways...
"format c:" would equal "drop databases;" then
Or, consider what one could do if there were security holes in the FS implementation... something equivalent to "delete from 'My Documents';" comes to mind
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457? AD (Fall of the Western Roman Empire)
476 AD
Well, I guess I'd pay the Roman Empire a visit... years would include:
0 A.D. (
, doesn't exist, I know) - Reign of Augustus, Jesus bornFirst decade of the second century - Trajan's rule, "Golden Age" of Rome
Futher, in more recent times:
1969 - First man on the moon
1989 - Fall of Berlin Wall
1990 - German reunification
Actually, I was already born when the last two ones took place, but I was a baby and therefore do not remember anything at all.
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I think there are ways to fix this pretty easily - some googling should get them. And if there's no other way, try to make a "repair install" instead of a full reinstall. The repair thing works in most cases and has the advantage that you won't loose most of your applications and data (especially if you do not have several partitions on the harddisk).
Stuart, that sounds much like the harddisk has some problems (especially if the problems turns up randomly and disappears after a cold reboot) - I've experienced similiar problems some weeks ago and it turned out that one of my old 40 GB drives seems to be about to die.
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Does anyone actually USE the editable form functionality in Reader? Why not only load those APIs, then, in the rare case that someone opens a PDF that includes that feature?
You can disable that stuff using tools like the speedup-tool (of which I forgot the name
, but Google should find it). That doesn't allow you to do on-demand loading and entirely disables those seldom-used features, but I'm okay with that because in the rare case I need to use them, I can still re-enable them. On the other side, the speedup tool has reduced my Reader loading time to well less than a second, so it's there almost instantly - a great relief for someone who uses PDFs quite often . -
Hint: There's already a thread on this - see http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=7945
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The accompanying map of Dacia is kind of hard to tell much about the terrain but I'm thinking that the river shown opening to the Euxine is the Danube, ergo most of Dacia must have occupied modern day Romania. I suppose that fits as the Romanian Language is a Romance Language and mention is made that Trajan colonized the area with Romans.
Yepp, I think the Romanian language is a "roman" language, influenced by Latin, just like French an Spanish. Which is pretty interesting, since Romania is set in the middle of barbarian territories with Gothic/German languages.
But Dacia was an important part of the later empire - the gold mines provided the emperors with a certain flow of money.
Trajan certainly wasn't the guy to mess with - I have already ended up several times asking myself what would have happened if he hadn't died after the Parthian campaign - probably, Rome would have stretched out even further, reaching the territories Alexander the Great reached.
The Dacian war itself took place on the dawn of the pinnacle of Roman might in the first and second century, and gives a great idea of how superior the Roman army was at that time.
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Well, there must be some source code, it's likely only hidden - otherwise, there wouldn't be anything shown on screen
It may make extensive use of layers or iframes, which would complicate the matter of getting the actual source code, but I believe it's impossible to create something like that interface without using HTML (since it's not Flash). Probably wget might be able to get the source, but I'm too lazy to try it (also, it won't be a really productive usage of my time ). -
Argh, looks like I am too late
Sorry a thousand times, Arga... I really shouldn't give promises which I can't fulfill. As you might have noticed, I didn't come around the WFG forums since my last post in here, due to an excessive school workload. I'm really sorry, and I guess you have already done your speech today, right? And I guess there's no need for a correction any more? If you still want me to correct the text, tell me - I should be able to manage it on the weekend.
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I already have a 256 MB Sandisk SD-Card and a 256 MB USB flash disk, so there's no need for it right now
Besides, I'd rather buy such stuff in German shops, because the shipping might be slighly less expensive -
Most people in Germany aren't happy about him, either. I cannot say anything for myself or the people I know personally, because we're all Protestants here in Norther Germany (there's hardly any Catholic people in this area, I think - it's a different story in Bavaria, of course).
The German cardinals mostly opposed Ratzinger, because he's very conservative and against any reforms, and so do many others - I've read stuff like "now, we're going back to the medieval ages" or "all hail great inquisitor Ratzinger" multiple times today. I don't think he's that bad, but I would rather have liked to see a more reform-oriented pope being elected.
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Fibre optic wire also gives some nice options regarding connection speed - I think you can go far beyong 10 GBit with it (even "normal" cooper cables can do 10 GBit if they are high-quality CAT-7 cables).
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Uh, that's quite a lot of text
Looks pretty good, but there are still some mistakes (of course - I bet there are more in some of my English posts!). I don't have time to look through it all right now and post a corrected version, but I promise to do so as soon as possible . When do you have to hold the speech? -
You definately get asked for an admin password during the WinXP Pro installation process. I have done this so many times that I know the steps by heart, and the question for the admin password is there, I'm absolutely sure (it's in the lower half of the screen where you have to supply the computer name). It may be different for XP Home and OEM installs, though.
What I originally wanted to say, though, is that this kind of "Due to an account restriction you could not be logged in."-message is 2k/XP-specific, because the policies which might disallow the login have been introduced in Win 2k. There is nothing like those local security policies in Win 98 (only gpedit, but that doesn't really work as I remember).
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Der Vater eines guten Freundes meiner ist tot.
Would this be correct? Should I use the preposition von (or any other) instead of the genitive? Freundes or Freunds? Should I use the genitive of the possessive mein instead of the genitive of ich, meiner? (The meaning I want to have is "The father of a good friend of mine", rather than "The father of my friend").
I think it would sound better to use the "von" preposition here, but you have to use the pronoun "mir" then, so it would be:
"Der Vater eines guten Freundes von mir ist tot."
Genitive and "Freundes" are correct here.
Alternatively, you could also go with a plural form of Freund and say:
"Der Vater eines meiner guten Freunde ist tot."
(literally: "The father of one of my good friends...")
But that wouldn't be as close to the original as the first translation due to the usage of the plural form.
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As long as you know the password to the Administrator account (assuming it has one)
If it is Win NT/2k/XP, it has, and since other systems don't bring up messages like this account restrictions thing, I'm almost sure that it is a 2k/XP machine.
I guess a clean install would be the best idea, not only to wipe out all data (which is likely an issue if you're selling the machine), but also to get around the windows logon thing.
You didn't disable the "allow interactive logon" policy in the local/domain policies by accident, Tim?
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Sounds good. Feel free to post the speech for spellchecking and additional remarks, I'll be glad to be able to help you
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Quip on the Sced program: will you be able to reload the game info from teh editor, or better yet, from the main menu? This would be useful for modders, as you can keep 0ad running, say in a window, alter you mod content, save it in the game folder, and then reload everything so the mod takes affect withou having to shutdown and restart the game.
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I'm probably going to be a bit vague on this, but I do not want to tell anything I'm not supposed to tell
But, yes, we have considered this idea and we're evaluating whether it's possible to implement something along those lines; not only to support the modders but also to make development easier for ourselves (you wouldn't like to know how often I've already restarted the game because of minor modifications I made to the files).
So, you might expect something like this, but we cannot promise anything, as always
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Haha, I guess my throbber has just found a new use...
(Never used it before because it seemed slightly useless to me ). -
I'll cosponsor that lobby
Me too
As for the pop limit, we'll have to see what our engine will be able to handle in the end - with luck, it might be higher. Still, imagine - 150 units per player with 6 players will makes already 900 units, plus a lot of builings, Gaia units, resources, trees, eye-candy... you'll end up with at least 2000 units then, and it isn't exactly easy to write a graphics engine and multiplayer system that can handle such numbers. ES and other game companies didn't limit their units just because they wanted to annoy the players.
Tragic news :(
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Hmm, I guess I'm like 20-40 of these 50 million - I've been installing Firefox on any computer I could get my hands on at home (which means eight PCs), multiple times on some (due to windows reinstallations or dual-boot installations). Also, I've deployed Firefox to the administrators' PCs at my school, so I won't have to install it on them one by one