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Is everyone familiar with this game? Just reply with the first word that comes to your mind when you think of the last word posted. You can't respond to the post with a comment, just the word that comes to your mind. It can only be a word or a …

OK -- You take the LAST word of the sentence and make a new sentence. EX: A man lived by the water. The Result: [b]Water[/b] the grass.

The game is as follows: You may change [I]up to two[/I] (2) letters in the given example by either: [LIST] [*]adding one\two letters [*]removing one\two letters [*]adding one letter, removing one letter[/LIST]Example: [LIST=1] [*]Ruin [*]Rain[/LIST]I will begin: [B]Flume[/B]

Is it possible to write a full blown operating system (such as Linux) in Python? I mean writing a kernal, and then other applications that the kernal calls, without having Windows, Linux, UNIX, or Macintosh OS installed on your computer?

The strange title comes from a skit by Benny Hill, where he tells his wife all the facts she shouldn't know, but she always answers "I know! I know!" Anyway, this thread is suppose to be a collection of strange facts. Let's have fun! Here are a few facts to …

[B]All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today. :) [/B]

This one's new. It's just like the counting games, but in this one we count [B]DOWN [/B]so don't get confused. I'll start us off. 1000

This is an on going story, each post adds 3 words to continue the story (no more than three words). Try not to post two times in a row ;) ill start I like this...

I'm trying to write a text based game using C. To do this the way I want, I need to include a save system that will output all of the necessary variable values to external files, then be able to load the values fro those files later. Any advice?

Hey all - I have searched the internet with no luck, so I finally resorted to here to ask for information. I am trying to find a way to find the time it takes to shut down, sleep, and wake from sleep for a Windows 7 install. I understand that …

I have a set of data imputed into a set of arrays as the following: for (int i=0;getline(file,(cities[i]),',');i++) { getline(file, countries[i], ','); getline(file, latitudes[i], ',') ; getline(file, longitudes[i]); } How do I sort the array line of latitudes and longitudes without changing countries and city it is associated with?

I previously burned alot of cds with Windows Media player and it saves them as wma files. Now I am trying to access those music files with another program but it doesn't support wma, is there a way to convert all of those music files to mp3's without re-burning everything?

Before I begin, I want to apologize if this is in the wrong board. Please move it if it is. A friend of mine was going to toss a Dell PowerEdge 2950 and so I gladly took it off his hands. It has a SAS bay on the front that …

This is kinda like the word association also located in the Geek's Lounge. What you do is take the song listed before you and make another song and artist with the word it it. example: 1: Heaven - Los Lonely Boys 2: Stairway to [B]Heaven[/B] - Led Zeppelin You can't …

1. How Do You Catch A Unique Rabbit? Unique Up On It. 2. How Do You Catch A Tame Rabbit? Tame Way, Unique Up On It. 3. How Do You Get Holy Water? You Boil The Hell Out Of It. 4. What Do Fish Say When They Hit A Concrete …

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Here's a list of useful freeware applications, arranged alphabetically by category. Please post your favourite software to this thread.... Antivirus: AVG - [url]http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php[/url] Avast - [url]http://www.avast.com/[/url] AntiVir - [url]http://www.free-av.com/[/url] Panda ActiveScan - [url]http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan[/url] Audio Players: Foobar2000 - [url]http://www.foobar2000.org/[/url] Sonique - [url]http://sonique.lycos.com/[/url] iTunes - [url]http://www.apple.com/itunes/[/url] jetAudio - [url]http://www.jetaudio.com/[/url] QCD - [url]http://www.quinnware.com/[/url] …

01010100 01100001 01101100 01101011 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01000010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100001 AKA: Talk in Binary! Don't post the translation of your binary text unless someone asks you too :cheesy:.

#Guess my number #The computer picks a random number between 1 and 100 #the player tries to guess it an dhte computer lets #the player know if the guess is too hight, too low #or right on the money import random print "\tWelcome to 'Guess My Number'!" print "\nI'm thinking …

Hi all, I am a newbie to Linux. I am finding it interesting but i am wondering why Linux is not having any Antivirus or some security tools? wont this pose any security threat when we are accessing Internet?

My mouse just randomly stopped working under Vista (Home Premium). It works on the login screen but not anywhere else. It's stuck in the middle of the screen. I had to tab my way to this posting screen to type this. By the way, it's my Synaptics built in touchpad …

I have to rewrite the atoi function - that is, convert a string given by a command line argument and convert it to an integer. It works for single digit numbers, but when you give it two or more digits, it only converts the first number. I'm not sure what …

Running: Windows 7 Home Premium. I am not sure if I am posting this in the correct board, so please move this if I am incorrect in my post placement. I am trying to set Allegro up, for programming a 2D game in C (which is why I chose this …

This is for a CS course I am taking. I'm stuck. I need to write a program that takes a number and tallies up how many cycles it takes of multiplying the digits until it is a single digit number. ie: 715 = 7 * 1 * 5 = 35 …

Windows 7 - VMWare Player 3.1 I recently got Ubuntu 11.04 installed and set up nicely in a virtual machine. I have fixed resolution problems and removed the top bar from the application so it looks almost like an actual native GNOME desktop. However, as I will be using this …

I stopped using Linux for a while, but recently began a computer science course in college and decided to install Ubuntu 11.04 into VMWare. I needed to download an IDE. I type: [CODE]user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install geany Reading package lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: …

Ok, Just thought this would be neat... here are the rules... very simple. [B]* Numbers must follow logical order * You can not post two consecutive posts * Have fun! :mrgreen:[/B] I'll start: [B]1[/B]

Hi, Please note my comp spec: pentium III, 98 MB RAM, 40 HDD Hard disk. how can i make my Windows XP pc more speedable? Can i reduce any resource from the OS for a better performance? Anish V Mahatma Gandhi Colony

This thread shal be devoted to all things musical! Please post favourite songs, bands artists etc and we shal debate and say waht we like You get the idea! My current fav song is Kaiser Cheifs ~ Love's not a Competition (but i'm winning) I think its fab! please post …