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General Discussion / Name My Rig!
« on: July 09, 2010, 01:08:03 am »
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.

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General Discussion / Philosophy: the truth of science
« on: June 20, 2010, 10:11:38 pm »
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?

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General Discussion / Pidgin Directory Prefs?
« on: June 14, 2010, 09:26:07 am »
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.

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Unix / Linux Discussion / 16-bit Windows emulation?
« on: May 31, 2010, 01:16:14 am »
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?

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iago's forum / Baldur's Gate workaround?
« on: May 16, 2010, 03:57:20 pm »
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?

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General Discussion / Unexpected Internet Encounters
« on: April 25, 2010, 03:57:33 am »
So for some reason I was perusing an old account of mine at a website I used to visit (dota-allstars.com) when I noticed that, in '06, I had actually dealt with Chavo on a regular basis as the head of the tech support department. Where have you guys unexpectedly realized that you've met a person in one place after knowing them from another?

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General Programming / [C] A date countdown
« on: April 23, 2010, 11:47:30 pm »
I'm trying to define a date and give it the following properties:

-First generate a number value based off of it (e.g. give it a date "14")
-Calculate a figuer 20-x where x is today's current date
-Refresh thsi cycle every 2 weeks, so basically define "20-x" as a variable and then reset the value of x to be 0 when 20-x =0

Here's overall what I'm trying to do, I'd appreciate feedback on if this would be a smart way to go about it:
Give a specific date (e.g. 4/23/2010) a specific a number of days away from today
Count down to the date with a value 14-x
if "14-x" = 0 then display a text message AND reset the value of x = 0
Constantly keep this loop going
Also, I'd like it if it was always on and would pop up a cmd.exe window even if I didn't run it manually.

Some of this I already know how to do or can more easily figure out (e.g. setting the value of x, the if/then statement) but I can't seem to figure out how to quantify the date to figure this out so that x moves every day to be x=x+1


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I'm creating a program that repeatedly counts down 2 week intervals from a certain date (specifically 4/23/2010 and every 2 weeks after that). To that extent, I'm trying to assign the value of that date to an integer--this is the first thing I need help doing. After I assign the value of that date to an integer, I'm trying to run the calculation "14-x" where 14 is the number of days left until the program should alert me. x is supposed to be an integer that is given the value x=x+1 when every new day occurs (e.g. it will start at 0 on 4/23/2010 and then go up to 1 on 4/24/2010 , etc). I also can't figure out how to increment x with each day--this is the second thing I need help with. The last part of the program would then be a loop that checks if the value of "14-x" is 0 or not; if it is 0 then it will reset the value of x to 0 and have it countdown again. When the value of x is RESET to 0 the program should also pop up with whatever notification I want to give it and hold the screen until getkeypress(); is run. I also want the program to be running indefinitely in the background--this is the third thing I can't get.

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General Discussion / What do you do on the computer for fun?
« on: April 14, 2010, 12:32:41 am »
Just as the topic title implies. Gone are the days that we all sit around and backstab people in SC, or play videogames in general. As most of us get older, I can only imagine computer time has gone down. For those that still spend a lot of time on the computer: what do you do for fun? Which websites do you visit frequently?

I'll start:
I go to about 8-9 different Webcomics, have an RSS feed for a couple different websites, and am always on iGoogle to see if a new Slashdot/Engadget/Techdirt story catches my eye. I also check x86 but the lack of activity usually means there's never anything here. Beyond that, I find myself at a loss for what to do on a computer for fun. I've been meaning to install Linux so that I can get back into a more comfortable programming environment, but I've heard Linux isn't a great laptop OS in terms of battery consumption/energy efficiency, and I don't want to deal with reinstalling Windows anyway. I casually play video games, and watch some downloaded TV shows/movies.

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General Discussion / VNC Question
« on: January 17, 2010, 02:25:01 am »
When wanting to VNC in to a person's computer, do both people need to be running the software? How does VNC work, exactly? I tried finding something easy to understand, but technical, and failed miserably.

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General Programming / I want to learn, I swear!
« on: December 23, 2009, 03:59:21 pm »
So I know I've posted multiple times in this subforum (and I'm sure other times in other locations as well), but since I have to learn programming anyway, I've decided to take an active interest in it.

What language(s) would you recommend starting out with, given I have programmed a little before but nothing too in-depth? I'm in the process of learning MATLAB, which is a C derivation (I believe). Is C a good language to learn, in general? And, compilers/debuggers for any language is a must. Also, good beginner's guides that explain structure, data manipulation, etc. would be good accompaniments.

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General Discussion / New computer
« on: November 09, 2009, 09:34:50 pm »
So I'm looking at getting a new computer, building it with a budget from $1-2k, most preferrably on the low end of that. I haven't been keeping up-to-date in my PC parts, so I started looking up reviews on certain parts. I'm debating between AMD and Intel cores, the Core i7's look nice but are also way fucking expensive. The Phenom X4's that I saw are similarly (or better) spec'd as some of the Core i7's and were cheaper [albeit with slightly more energy usage]. SO, the starting blocks: Which processor would you recommend and why? Documents supporting your opinion would be much appreciated.

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General Discussion / OS Questions
« on: October 23, 2009, 02:54:04 am »
Hey guys--

Been a while since I've done this so I have some questions and am looking for some advice.

My laptop is an HP G60-235DX. I run WinVista on my laptop right now. I hate it. Everything about it.
As such, I want to reformat my computer, but when I do so I have three options I can think of really:
1. Just Linux
2. Just Windows XP
3. WinXP+Linux
[I know everyone thinks Win7 is amazing. I honestly have no need for something that intensive on a laptop that already gets poor battery life just from being 16", so I will avoid that).

I'm leaning toward option 3 because I used to really enjoy using Linux, but haven't been doing so much until I started to get back into Linux at my job. I want to use Slackware, but I don't know much about how it would be compatible with my hardware nor do I know how to check -- it's crucial that it supports at the minimum all of my USB ports and my NIC and integrated Atheros wireless controller, and my Intel video card, and my headphone jack, as I absolutely NEED those for any sort of productivity on my university campus. An additional benefit would be the ability to use my integrated webcam on Linux, as well, but this isn't an undying concern.
WinXP I can figure out just by checking with HP, but I don't know how to check to see if they will support my HDMI port or any of my other software--I"m thinking of the vendor site but if anyone happens to know other resources that would be ncie too. I don't want to end up having installed XP to find nothing works and has no drivers anywhere and be left up shit creek.

Lastly, I need a general storage partition such that I can access it from either WinXP or Slackware so that I can share documents between the two. Are there going to be issues associated with doing this? For example, would Slackware look at a file "John.doc" and format it with different specifications or change its metadata such that "John.doc" is no longer usable on WinXP? What filesystem would I need to make this swap partition? How big should my partitions be in general? I have a 300gb hard drive and have give or take 150gb of movies/music/documents that I would almost need to be able to access from either Slack or XP.

Lastly lasty, would Slack be the Linux choice you recommend? I'm not a bash expert, but I'm not afraid to learn commands as I end up needing them, providing the documentation is adequate. I've also started attempting to edit an fstab for network mounting in Ubuntu for work, so I'm not afraid to try and script for bash either.

Thanks a bunch guys!

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I don't really think it will pass.
DEMOCRATS HATE AMERICA.
OBAMA IS A TERRORIST.
DEMOCRATS SUPPORT TERRORISM.

VOTE REPUBLICAN.

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General Discussion / Run JavaOp on your NOKIA N900
« on: August 21, 2009, 05:02:54 pm »
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/08/21/1155217/Nokia-Leaks-Phone-With-Full-GNULinux-Distribution?from=rss
This is extremely cool in concept; if it works out nicely I think it would be a huge hit among the business and nerd crowds that always need a program or something equivalent. Yes the price is steep, but first-models of anything are expensive.

For those that don't want to read the article:
Phone. Runs Linux. Almost full-blown Linux. Bitchin' cool.

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