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Gaming / Manufactora!

« on: March 28, 2011, 01:54:45 pm »

http://pleasingfungus.com/

I'd like to see how people solve Rocket Planes. My solution is a kludgy bubble sort (spoiler)

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General Discussion / MacBook repair

« on: November 08, 2009, 05:59:36 pm »

So the other day, the fan on my first gen MacBook completely siezed up. I've looked on iFixIt, and it has detailed directions of how to buy and replace the part, but what I really want to know is whether everything will go back together the way it is now. I've fixed iPods before, and I know that they never go back together the way they came (the clips never hold as tightly as they do from the factory).

Has anyone taken a MacBook apart, and successfully put it back together? Did it result in any new rattles/loose parts? What was the difficulty level?

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Unix / Linux Discussion / Hannah Montana Linux

« on: October 28, 2009, 03:02:45 pm »

http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

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Entertainment District / WKUK - Hey there, kids!

« on: October 26, 2009, 03:10:06 am »

This isn't new, but I just watched an episode of The Whitest Kids yoU Know I've never seen before, and heard this song. It has been stuck in my head for almost two days now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJCRNXUngAM

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Unix / Linux Discussion / 32-bit machine, 4GB of ram

« on: October 23, 2009, 05:08:37 pm »

I recently inherited a new 32-bit development box at work, and upgraded the RAM to 4GB. It's running REHL4, or CentOS 5.3, or RHEL5, depending on which place you look; the kernel is 2.6.18-164.el5PAE. I can only see 3GB of the RAM. Any ideas?


$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      3106308 kB
...
$ uname -r
2.6.18-164.el5PAE

[edit] Yes, the CPU does support PAE

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Entertainment District / Llamas with hats

« on: September 24, 2009, 11:14:52 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZUPCB9533Y

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General Discussion / LTE

« on: September 21, 2009, 04:24:19 pm »

I can't talk about certain things I might like to thanks to NDA, but needless to say, Verizon is rolling out LTE at whatever rate they are doing that at! Hopefully they won't fall behind schedule (not saying they have...or that they haven't...), 'cause then Apple will probably renew the AT&T exclusivity contract.

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Entertainment District / Post your imaletyoufinish memes!

« on: September 16, 2009, 05:25:03 pm »

Post your favorite Imaletyoufinish meme here!

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Blizzard, WoW and Bots / BNU-Bot now supports warden!

« on: September 16, 2009, 03:58:30 pm »

Read about it here.

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General Programming / throw null;

« on: September 16, 2009, 01:47:00 pm »

...will crash your catch block

discuss

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General Discussion / Snow Leopard: GCD

« on: September 02, 2009, 01:30:18 am »

Since there's no Hardware/Software review board any more (and since the post I wanted to reply to seems to have vanished?), I'm posting this here.

This is a page of a long and technical article about SL, and it contains examples of exactly how simple it is to use GCD. When you get to the part that references blocks, follow the link and read about them (they're discussed on page 10); otherwise, the rest of the page won't make much sense.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/13

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Entertainment District / Google Fail

« on: June 01, 2009, 11:40:57 pm »

(2:35:28 PM) Scott: i wonder if i can find a free clinic around here
(2:36:00 PM) James: Probably
(2:40:33 PM) Scott: 1.4 miles - google maps suggests i walk there
(2:54:35 PM) James: Lol doesn't google know how sick you are ?

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Gaming / Sid Meier's Railroads

« on: May 26, 2009, 02:32:21 pm »

Just downloaded this game...think sim railroads. It's kinda cool.

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Trash Can / Re: Can't Get bot to connect (using mac)

« on: May 25, 2009, 11:37:33 pm »

So no, its not really needed, plus, what happens when the cdkey schema changes again?

The schema is irrelevant; what's in question is the product id. If an unknown product id is encountered, the appropriate behavior would be to allow it to connect as always. The suggestion was simply to avoid attempting to connect if it will certainly fail anyways. For someone who is smarter than smart, you have a very closed-minded view.

But it should be common sense to anyone who has ever played a large game. That you need all the cdkeys from the original game and expansion. Hence why there is an expansion cdkey slot in addition to the original one in the config settings interface.

That is not something one can intuitively pick up from simply installing or playing the game. Even if it were, what is the point in belittling such a minor oversight?

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Botdev / [Java] MPQ utils

« on: May 14, 2009, 04:23:18 pm »

In my free time I've been toying with MPQ files, working towards a stormless file extractor. I've put my work here:
http://bnubot.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/BNUBot/src/net/bnubot/util/mpq/