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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Conservatives Call for Bush & Cheney's Impeachment - Now!

Sorry for the late response. I think its obvious that Dick Cheney and Karl Rove are calling the shots.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Help, Im A Unix Novice

or gentoo or arch

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Conservatives Call for Bush & Cheney's Impeachment - Now!

Strange isn't it how they on the one hand call Bush an idiot who doesn't know how to put on his underwear in the morning, yet at the same time they think he's some evil genius who's turned the US into some kind of dictatorial state without anyone noticing (and without getting rid of the political opposition, despite the claims that there are secret concentration camps where everyone who disappears because he's opposed to the man goes).
Something's not right there.
If those people disappear, why haven't they?
If Bush is an evil genius, explain why he's so stupid?
If he's so stupid, how can he have come up with such a brilliant plan to take over the country?

George Bush is stupid, Carl Rove and Dick Cheney on the other hand... (Even though I strongly disagree with their ultra-conservative agenda I applaud their intelligence)

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: changing frame color

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ok thanks

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Ridiculous Problem

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Sounds pretty cool! (the virus I mean)

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

changing frame color

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Im am just wondering how to change the frame color of a table.
The following solution works but isn't very pretty. My test code is as follows.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTNL 4.01//END" 
          "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <style>
      body { background-color: black ; color: white; }
    </style>
    <title> test </title>
  </head>
  <body>
    
    <table border="1"  cellpadding="4px" cellspacing="6" width="732px" height="800" style="margin: 0 auto; background-color: blue; color: black">
      <tr height="200" style="background-color: white">
    <th width="200"><p> content goes here </p></th>
    <th width="532"><p> content goes here </p></th>
      </tr>
      <tr height="600" style="background-color: white">
    <th width="200"> <p> content goes here </p> </th>
    <th width="532"> <p> content goes here </p> </th>
      </tr>
    </table>

  </body>
</html>

As is evident, the frame color is blue. But I have to override the table color with white to make the cells themself the correct color. Is there anyway that I can just color the cell frames themselves?

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Help, Im A Unix Novice

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Personally I have no direct experience with unix, except of course mac os x (I guess its unix...), but I do have experience with both freeBSD and various linux distros. So I will respond to the best of my knowledge in accordance with my previous experiences with freeBSD and linux.

>What are the potentials?

Basically power. With linux, the potentials are endless. With a little programming and linux experience it is possible to do anything free of charge. Do you want to make your gui look like windows, mac os x, or something completely different? With linux you have choice regarding almost every aspect of your system (including the kernel, the core of your operating system). The neat thing about this is individuality. Linux has no "defaults" (except maybe for compilers. When one compiles almost any program for linux, one uses the gcc: the Gnu Compiler Collection.) and therefore can function and look like anything.

> What would i need to do to my windows Xp laptop to run Unix?

check out the following websites:

http://www.freebsd.org/188189188188 a very "unix like *nix. Derived directly from unix"

http://www.linux.com/189190189189 a general linux website. A great place to get started.

http://www.gnu.org/190191190190 the official website of the GNU project (Gnu's not unix). Learn about the philosophies of free software and why its is superior morally.

I suggest you start about with a nitty and gritty linux "distro" (a distro …

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Try to solve this!

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Heres mine:

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Play Connect Four!

the computer on the connect four game.
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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Play Connect Four!

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the computer is not very good.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: How many times can you.........

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14 and then got bored.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: What do you do Geeks?

2(disclaimer, one of my firefox ad ons inserts a 2 at the beginning of every post, I cannot change this.)

The only things I like to do that do not involve my computer are: fencing, reading, chess, and solving my rubiks cube. (my calculater, gp2x, and other devices have been counted as "my computer." I just got a hp 50g... its sweet)

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Booting with lilo and chainloading

2I set up sudo so I do not have to enter a password for halting, rebooting, mounting, and unmounting.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Booting with lilo and chainloading

isnt sudo only useful if you want to only run one command as root? When I am cleaning or fixing up my home system I usually just use su. Presumably as sys admin would need root privileges for a extended period of time, therefore making sudo a bit inefficient.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Booting with lilo and chainloading

>I use debian, centos and slackware on my servers but I like ubuntu on my desktops. On ubuntu itys just 1 click to get restricted drivers and codecs whereas it can be a pain under vanilla debian.

The debian devs strike me as a bunch of moral elitists who are a bit too much like the FSF for me.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Booting with lilo and chainloading

>Actually 15 gig is just barely enough to pull it off. For an install of ubuntu or MEPIS you need a small root partition of about 5 Gb, a linux/swap formatted partition of 512Mb or bigger (I use 1 Gb for swap.) and a home partition of at least 5 gb. That will leave you five gb that you could use for the server. Maybe you could defrag, defrag, defrag and then use an app like gparted to shrink the windows partition to be able to squeeze a bit more room for playing. Another easy idea would be to get another hard drive and use it for linux and testing other operating systems.

For a server, the lfs website says its possible to get a lfs system w/ apache under ~5 mb.

On my arch linux system I believe my base install took up around ~400 mb. (swap is for losers ;-p)

For a server I really don't understand why anyone would use ubuntu... (presumably a person who is knowledgeable enough to run a server would be knowledgeable enough to use another distro)

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Booting with lilo and chainloading

2>Installing multiple Linux distros to the same filesystem would be difficult (extremely difficult), and there's no real need to do such a thing anyway. Just create a separate partition(s) for each Linux distro that you plan to use.

I dont think it would that hard. just have multiple fake roots and chroot to the right root with a some type of "pre-init" script. (maybe have you could have a universal kernel? Or you could I guess have some type of loader kernel? mm...)

btw, really like your sig joeprogrammer!

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: What size is your computer monitor

2I have a laptop with 15.4. A bit cramped for running flash and blender.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: LMMS and RoseGarden installation

you could search for them with apt-cache search or aptitude search (note I suggest you get vmware server and make your own images (it works better))

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: install library how to??

here is a good website for dev cpp. It might have your library. (installing libraries on windows is impossible)

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Komodo dragons are cool!

A 12 hour flash movie. (they also have a dvd version with voice acting)

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Komodo dragons are cool!

yeah broken saints is awesome. I think the whole thing is ~12 hours long. You should watch it.

oh and nice sig.. I hate those commercials!

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Komodo dragons are cool!

broken saints

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Komodo dragons are cool!

ok. Nice avatar btw, vincent is sweet.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Komodo dragons are cool!

it would be a li-liger or ti-liger.

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maravich12 commented: Nice name for the animal. +1

Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Komodo dragons are cool!

I believe that only male ligers are sterile. Therefore its possible to make li-liger.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: date

>How does the alphabet wrap around from the letter 'Z' to the letter 'A' while counting forward ????
I think you need to recheck and verify you posted the instructions correctly. If you did then your instructor is pretty stupid person.

I think it starts counting backward. (even though that really doesn't make sense)

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Can a C++ expert confirm this for me

oh and one small point makefiles don't end in mk or mak. They usaullyhave no ending and are almost exclusively called Makefile.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: ABCs OF BEING A FATHER

Sorry to let you know, but this is not an all Strum land. Not everyone is the same, has the same thought process, has the same way of looking at things etc. Expecting everyone _would_ follow your suite isn't realistic.
Just because you were nice and listened to gentle talking doesn't mean that everyone would. Assuming it would be foolishness.
Just because you love Linux doesn't mean everyone would, just because you like C++ programming doesn't mean that everyone would, just because you don't know how to deploy a EJB doesn't mean that no one would. Accepting that everyone is a snowflake and so has to be handled differently.
Magic numbers in code aren't cool and I still play with square marbles....

I am the sum of my genetics and influence from the society or community around me. One of those factors obviously is very hard to change, genetics. But do you think I am genetically superior to most people? Do you think that I like c++ or linux because of my genetics? Intelligence is 50% hereditary and 50% the society, community, and environment you grew up in. And I think everyone would agree that personality is directly related with your intelligence and community. (e.g on average older siblings are more intelligent than younger ones. The reason being is that older siblings recieved more undivided attention. Only children on average are smarter than children who have brothers or sisters. (I guess thats why I am soo smart ;-p)) Therefore by …

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Komodo dragons are cool!

li-ligers.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: ABCs OF BEING A FATHER

Have heard the theory of a darwinian universe? A bunch of crap if you ask me. But it basically says that every black hole creates another universe that has "more" perfect laws of physics. Completely ridiculous.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: ABCs OF BEING A FATHER

If not than what existed before the universe? Nothingness? If so, it certainly exists outside the universe.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Osx86

>The only reason I don't like Mac, their price and customer service. Its too expensive for a normal person to buy plus there is not much I gain by using it. That being said, I am sure there must be a pretty good reason for all those people out there using Mac.

you could try hackintosh ;-p

>While open source is definitely a nice thing, you've got a pretty screwed perspective if you believe that it's immoral not to release source code that people have spent

An immoral activity doesn't become acceptable just because many are doing it. (of course acceptable to me)

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Osx86

>Balmer's a bit of a clown and a huge fool; I don't really consider anything he says to be very credible or an accurate representation of Microsoft. Bill Gates never took this stance against open source. He truly was the real spirit of Microsoft.

Um he is the CEO. Bill Gates doesn't need to take a stance on open source because Ballmer does it for him.

>So it's kind of hard to imagine OpenOffice taking over Microsoft Office in this current circumstance, isn't it?

Yes I would say so. But I think a free and slightly inferior office suit is more appealing to a slightly superior office suit that costs money.

>Just about every word processor I know has the ability to export to MS Word.

I prefer not to use a word processor in general. As I said before I use emacs and latex. (very good typesettings btw)

>I don't see what your problem is with Microsoft and other proprietary software. Software companies are trying to make a profit from the software that they've put money into creating, no one's forcing you to buy it.

Actually they are. Microsoft and other companies are pushing there software to be the standard. By doing this they are destroying free choice. Microsoft is a monopoly that eliminates choice by eliminating the competition. Except they face a problem with linux, that it is not a company. So they strike deals with Novell, Xandros, and Linspire. (I …

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: GUIs with c++

how about allegro or sdl? (allegro is easier I believe but a tad less powerful)

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: how to design board games in c++

if you really really want to get into graphics development, allegro is a very very easy API.

here for tutorials and here for website.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: ABCs OF BEING A FATHER

>...But as long as you interject inane crap into the argument, it will be refuted.

Then refute it.

>If you're not teaching -- i.e. "indoctrinating" -- you are raising your precious ones to be idiots.

Teaching them to question is hardly indoctrination. (and please don't make some weak argument that you are indoctrinating them to question)

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Osx86

>Comparing Microsoft to slave owners. And, Microsoft has even partnered up with Novell/SuSE. Would you mind giving some references of those remarks about Microsoft claiming Linux is communism and against capitalism?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/
http://techoped.com/2007/03/01/tech-moronique-steve-ballmers-nuggets-with-cheese/

to name a few.

Oh and Microsofts strategy is called "embrace and destroy"

>I'm sure that if Microsoft Office were inferior to OpenOffice, .odt would soon become a well-known format.

It is becoming well known. The Microsoft empire is crumbling. But with that said I believe Microsoft office is the superior product.

>o be fair, it is possible to make a profit using open source, but unlikely for game companies such as EA who create thousands of games.

Actually I think it is almost ok to make a proprietary game (it doesn't become the standard, its for entertainment, etc.)

>My point was that you don't need to buy Microsoft Word to be able to use the .doc format.

I would prefer not to use open office.

>While open source is definitely a nice thing, you've got a pretty screwed perspective if you believe that it's immoral not to release source code that people have spent years of labor to produce.

A harmful practice is harmful whether you spend 1 day or 1 year working on it.

Very sorry for the weak post in advance. I am a tad busy right now.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Dell Computer Problem

most threads end that way.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: ABCs OF BEING A FATHER

>Could we please just stop this whole bashing religions thing now? Everyone understands you're an atheist and you think that whoever believes in a religion is uneducated. Can we move on?

how about you refute the multiple studies done showing that intelligence is inversely related with religion

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Chess

never used notation before.. just read about it on wikipedia. (never played online either)

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: ABCs OF BEING A FATHER

what the hell rashakil? Stop giving me negative rep!

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joshSCH commented: He gave me negative rep too.. +11

Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: ABCs OF BEING A FATHER

>Chill out and stop hating humanity. The human species evolved this way; deal with it.

not according to religious people ;-)

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Ezzaral commented: hehe Clever! +1

joshSCH commented: Rashakil=asshole +11

Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: ABCs OF BEING A FATHER

>They don't know any better.. They're brainwashed

that is why some of the most intelligent people are those who have renounced their faith.

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: ABCs OF BEING A FATHER

>Yes; however, many people have problems admitting when they are wrong.. Also, this example of 'Golgi Bodies' is not an adequate example.. Yes, the doctor probably felt strongly that they did not exist.. but, compared to religion this is nothing. Religion motivates people physically and emotionally.. it would be difficult for someone who had spent years believing and practicing a certain faith to revoke this faith, and admit that he/she was wrong.

Thats the point, it is difficult for a brainwashed person to renounce something the have been taught to believe their entire life. I find it funny that some of these people actually think they are thinking logically.

btw, we are not talking about the existance of god. We are talking about whether religion is harmful/brainwashing.

oh and ezzaral welcome to the club of heathens!

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Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: how to design board games in c++

if your learning sdl look at some of my sdl functions under c++ code snippets. I think you will find them helpful. I know I do!

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iamthwee commented: I hope you're joking? +11

Sturm 270 Veteran Poster

17 Years Ago

Re: Planning on buying a new pc. Advice please

>D and nope, no rendering. I said I'm gonna do some cad editing but I guess it will only be for a short time (one semester) so in the long run, it will not matter. I guess I'll go for AMD.