Posts by Sturm

I need java :-(

Standard computers will always be the superior platform .

python is soooo... easy compared to c/c++. I hacked this python application wifi-radar without any previous knowledge of python! You can do amazing games with python in a very short amount of time. Supposedly this kid from my local linux group made this pretty sweet galaga clone after learning python a month before! Try doing that with c++. But then again, pythons a bit slow....(though its nice not to have to compile)

"networking?" Networking has its own section under tech talk...

Possibly biological warfare, but on a small terrorism scale. I really do not think that biological warfare will play any part anymore in
conflicts between two enemy nations.

How about destroying the linux users lounge, renaming "getting started, and choosing a distro" to "newbie help" or "getting started", and merging everything else except shell scripting into "linux help" or something like that? "Kernels and Modules" has not had a post in thirteen days!

They atomic age is OVER. The age of technology, guerrilla warfare, terrorism(by both small radical groups AND governments.. hint hint), very small armies, and precision weapons is just beginning.

The linux and unix threads seem pretty dead. For the sake of centralization, why not combine all linux and unix questions into one category?

I doubt they'd roll much new stuff into XP. It's old, weary, and ready for retirement. And so much has changed going to Vista that it'd be a lot of work to change things around again for an older and soon-to-be dead product, I doubt they'd want to expend the resources on it. SP3 will most likely be a bunch of patches since SP2 and possibly a few new changes but with Vista out already I don't think there'll be much more effort going into XP

But are not there kernels the same? Thats what makes the difference right? (that said you cannot really advertise a kernel revamp to the masses ;-)

the chance of a nuclear weapon being used today is close to zero...

I did not say game development was not fun.. I said graphical game development is not fun. Programming text based MUDs and nethack like games are extremely fun. After you have finished the text based base, then you can do you start the boring and tedious process of writing a front end for the game.

yeah, but people also make gui applications with xlib. Allegro and SDL could be used for gui development.

Basically what I am saying is that non-console programming, whether it be gui or game development is not particularly fun or interesting as it seems at first.

oh..never realized there was drag and drop gui development. The same applies to graphical programming in general, such as SDL or ALLEGRO.

in my opinion gui programming is waste of time. Its not exactly easy to do it in c++. With gui programming you find yourself spending more time designing the gui then actually developing your programming.

do you have a M$ zealot here??!??! ;-) (never knew they existed)

pretty bad software...(not that html can do anything decent. look at the pages src code. Its soooo crude.....)

why do you want to become a gui or graphical programmer? Its really not as fun as it initially sounds..

If there were no guns, then you would not need to defend myself with one. And besides, if one lives in a place with high crime,
they should probably move.

"If you buy Windows Vista, you are not a customer. You are a beta-tester."

heres a better one:
if you buy windows vista your a sap (of course that could be said with ALL windows products ;-)

The gp2x is the best! I can play chrono trigger PSX games, PS1 games, MAME, GBA, GBC, win95(seriously), Dos, whatever. I can play almost every game ever made!

Cars have a useful purpose, guns do not.

You know the Unix Haters Handbook is a much of crap! That c stuff is obviously false, and later that the creators of unix made it as a joke! (if this is actually true I am very sorry ;-)

WOW. Gnomes zipper then I thought! I thought you could not run Gnome without at least 256 mb or something?

What WM do you use? I am using up 600 mb currently. iceWM supposedly only uses 815 k. But once I reboot I will use 44mb.

How many processes are default after you run xorg?

and judging by the stats shown in the right hand corner its not much lighter than a cut down gnome (nearly 50mb of ram used)

Actually my GNOME desktop used 182 mb of ram immediately after boot.

btw, the linux kernel tries to use up all the ram. Its designed that way. I left my computer on for three days and used it, by the end I had never gotten rid of any page files and had used up a total of 1.8 GB of ram (I have 2 GB).

I hate non pc gaming its awful especially first person shooters. Whats the point of a console anyway you can get emulaters for almost all systems. Then its a simple matter of copying ISOs.

Im not exactly sure I understand?

on a linux system libcurl would be a better option since it is easy to use libraries on a linux system, on windows its near impossible! That is why I recommended the use of wget.

Somehow, I don't like the solution of using system() calls. Maybe it's because

• system() calls are way slower than using libraries or hard-coding the socket calls yourself
• Any client machine would be required to have wget installed
• It leaves files all over the hard drive
• It requires read/write access to the hard disk when in fact it should only need read access
• The code that is required to load a webpage using a library like libcurl is really, quite trivial

I dunno, Salem's suggestion just appeals a lot more to me.

1. true, you have a point
2. any client would need libcurl
3. its a trivial problem that requires one line of code
4. its irrelevent
5. true, my suggestion is a quick hack (they have there purposes) libcurl would be better. (its hard to get some libraries for some compilers working on windows)

heres a better mirror:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

Here would be the code to get a webpage and read it.

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main () 
{
  string line;

  system("wget www.google.com");

  ifstream file ("index.html");

    while (!myfile.eof())
    {
      getline(file,line);
      cout<<line<<"\n";
    }
  file.close();
  return 0;
}

yes i just found out it is for windows see:
http://pages.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html

you have to use linux. Maybe you could use a virtual machine? Maybe its for windows but i do not know. wget <whatever> it will take that webpage and store it as a file called index.html by default. Then you can read the file with ifstream.

Since I want to get into OS development I decided to install and try to use the bochs emulater. I have a sample floppy operating system called c.img. How do I tell bochs to boot from c.img? whenever I start bochs I just get panics and fatal errors.

Like Infarction said, Makefiles are the way to go if you do not have/want an IDE. Personally I think IDEs are awful and a scourge to programming but thats just my opinion ;-) I usually just have a Makefile and use Emacs.

While I like window managers that are streamlined, I also dislike it when they have clunky Windows 3.1-like interfaces.

You can completely reskin IceWM. In fact, I have seen an IceWM theme that pretty faithfully copies Vista.

I think you should just teach your child right values and instead of filtering content (she would probably find away to get around them anyway), just make sure she's on the right track and doing good in school.

that sounded AWFUL!

Oh my gosh, we have gone over this in the first 20 pages. THEORY does not = FACT. Go back and read.

THEORY DOES EQUAL FACT. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html
http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/lenski.html
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_fact-and-theory.html

Who are you to say that theory !=fact when hundreds of people with PHDs say otherwise?

well why not just change austrian law?

f I were to set the choices for this poll I might do it a little bit differently. You can't just say left to right. It has more dimensions that that. I would probably put:

Communist
Socialist
Democrat
Individual
Republican
Nationalist
Fascist
Anarchist
Libertarian

How are fascists and anarchists similar? An anarchists should be just left of communist.

I would strongely suggest iceWM. Its super light and easily integrates shortcuts.
heres a screen shot.

Very well thought out. A theory is a fact. As much as the fact that I have five fingers or something.

Its interesting. I think they should just change Austrian law so animals can receive donations.

Its easy! (on linux) First invoke the command:

wget www.yourstuff.com

it will create a file called index.html then use ifstream to read the file.

Is that your real IQ? (It doesn't really work once your older)

lol...
Yep.

awww...come one don't stop!

You need to improve your reading skills. Slick and sick are two different things altogether.

er...sorry. But that doesn't mean I am not good at reading.

You say that because most of the humans you interact with on a day to day basis are your age.

Actually most of the people I interact with are quite older then I am.

How can something be scientific if it is not proven?

You have to actually come up with something to have something. Was IQ present from the time dinosaurs roamed this very place? I guess no. Someone 'came' up with it. Everything looks logical if presented in a slick way.

Do you mean sick, as in "dehumanizing"? Because humans are essentially brutal and primitive animals
with there only redeeming characteristic being that ability to think logically. This said, most humans do not use there only strong point.

Only in the sense of measuring a specific variant of worth. For example, an IQ test geared towards logical thought would probably give a poor score to someone who thinks in terms of intuitive jumps, no matter what other talents they may have, or even what their jumps might lead to.

by
by "IQ" I mean an IQ test geared toward logical thought.