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All I listen to are movie scores, and would like some new ones to keep me interested. Ignore the basics (star wars, lotr, the pixar films i've seen, and the [good] batman series).

http://www.thedomains.com/2011/12/25/update-godaddy-loses-28000-more-domains-on-saturday/

GoDaddy has lost over 60,000 accounts because of the whole SOPA fiasco.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6335902/exclusive-max-payne-3-story-qanda/

I loved MP 1 and MP2. With that said, I have no intention of buying a new machine for video gaming, since I don't care enoguh to make time for it. If it runs on my laptop with built in Intel, great, otherwise I won't partake.

Thoughts?

Today at work I discovered Perl has an "OR" operator and the usual "||" operator. They have different precedence. In fact, "OR" is the lowest of operators.

lolwtf

I had never heard of this, but the game looks interesting. Can I be Paul of Dune and release a jihad on the galaxy?

I am a bit disappointed with Dune. I think I may have as a child read it, but I have no recollection of doing so. I picked it up again a few weeks ago... Books 1 and 2 were incredibly fun to read; I couldn't force myself through Book 3 and gave up.

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use strict;
use Getopt::Std;
my %options;
getopts('hdPp:remno', \%options);


I want to call the help sub [which displays a help message] if either of the two following conditions are met:
1. the h flag is specified
2. getopts returns NO command-line options.

Here's what I've tried, with various errors

help() if($options{'h'} || !defined \%options || !defined $options);

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? Googling hasn't returned what I'm looking for. :-\

[everything]

TLDR: Need a good pair. Price ~$200-300.

The perfect pair is:
-Cushioned/padded
-On the ear or over-the-ear... I am equally fine with either -- just want comfort! (I have huge ears)
-Decent sound quality, I don't much care if it's amazing
-I want it to be ... silent.. when I use the noise-cancelling. Not sure on a dB cutoff range, but I want to not have to listen to a room full of people
-WATERPROOF!!!!
-Able to turn on/off the noise cancelling (optional but handy)

I'm leaning towards Bose's QuietComfort series.. I have used a friend's and while the sound quality is only okay, which I'm fine with, they drown out everything.

I need a new general purpose workstation at home, so I browsed Newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.591989
I like this combo set for a few reasons:
Processor super easy to OC and decently spec'd out of the box
1TB hard drive for all my piratin needz
4GB RAM
Mobo has SATA3 and USB 3.0 ports galore

I'm still in the market for a:
Case
Power supply
Monitor

I don't think I'll be buying a video card anytime soon -- this is going to be never used for video games beyond Starcraft 1 or Warcraft III. But, if I want to buy one, would an nVIDIA card work? Or am I limited to ATI because this is a Crossfire motherboard?

Anyway, recommendations on the three things I'm looking for would be awesome.

Let's say you have a binary that "phones home". The machine on which it resides you have SSH access to, but cannot log in via root [or sudo]. How would you sandbox it so that all outgoing network traffic from the executable gets blocked?

I run Win7-x64-Professional, and I'm hating that Win7 still does not support multiple desktops natively. I googled and there are a few solutions I found, but I don't know which ones are trustworthy and which ones are fully functional. For reference, I just need something that supports multiple desktops like XFCE has. Nothing pointless like Gnome's "animate while switching between desktops" stuff.

is everything wrong with webdesign today. ew.

Google sucks at knowing that I want C and not CPP. Anyway, it's been a while since I've programed in C. Does anyone have a good small refresher in programming C? Preferrably online, not a paper book.

Hey guys

We've gotten a foot of snow in the last ~12 hours. It's projected to keep going, and then temps to drop below 0F.

This shit sucks. I better not lose internet.

What software(s) do you guys use to rip a full dvd to an encoded AVI, MKV, or other format? Which format(s) do you prefer/why? I've got some DVDs I want to back up before they [eventually] die and am looking for some feedback..

I was randomly surfing the interwebs and I came across this blog post by Google: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-stuff-is-tough.html . It led me to wondering what, exactly, the google search algorithm looks like and how they managed to scale it so well that it returns a search with millions of potential results in 1 millisecond. Any ideas?

So I'll be getting a new machine in ~week , which means I have to come up with a new name! This will be a laptop dual booting Win7 64bit and Slackware x64 .. I've already got a few ideas, but it'd be neat to see what anybody here came up with

Requirements:
One of the following themes:
-Star Trek
-Simpsons/Family Guy/Futurama
-Film noir/horror
-Fantasy epics
-Literature
-Sci/Fi

And obviously if you post a name, it'd be nice if you could say to which of these categories it belongs.

I was doing some random musing yesterday and I came up with a conjecture I had never thought of before yesterday.. What startled me was that, even though it was an internal debate, I didn't really have a good answer for it. With that said, I'm going to propose it to you guys and see what you have to think:

The very foundations of our life on earth involve knowledge. What if, contrary to what everyone thinks, mathematics (and by extension, science) is not true? Instead of being a way to describe the universe and all of its phenomena, what if mankind really just came up with an internally consistent system that explains very little?

First off, I'm aware there's an official pidgin developer website that I could ask this question at instead. I'm also aware they're all huge needledicks, so I try to avoid asking things there.

Now, for the important part: I'll be very shortly [as soon as my laptop comes back] reinstall with Win7/Slackware. I intend to install Pigdin on both partitions, but I don't want to deal with having to boot into two different OSes just to keep secure backups of everything. Is there a way to change the Pidgin source in such a way that you can specify a different drive path as opposed to %APPDATA%\Pidgin ? I'd like to have both my Windows & Slackware installs point to that directory and read/write/execute freely.

I've got an old [legit on cd-rom too! :-o] 16-bit game [made for Win95 and below] that I've been trying to start playing again. I'm in the process of backing up my files/settings, but I was curious to see if it could be emulated on Linux (I'll be installing Slackware). I'm thinking WINE as an emulator, but I haven't used it in a while.

Any thoughts?

I know you had a way to get around the Baldur's Gate CD-requirement workaround, but I can't remember what it was... I'm looking to [re]install BG1, TOSC, BG2, TOB ... and I don't want to deal with all eighty CDs. You wuoldn't happen to remember what it was, would you?