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Living Room / Re: Disney acquires Lucasfilm for 4.05 billion dollars. Star Wars Ep VII due in 2015

« Last post by Edvard on November 03, 2012, 08:26 PM »

Oh. Dear. Gawd.  Did that really air!? It's not a brilliant spoof?

-TaoPhoenix (November 03, 2012, 06:28 AM)

Not a spoof. It aired. And I absolutely loved it at the time~! (I begged and begged my mom & dad to let me see Star Wars, but no dice. So, a free holiday special was certainly better than nothing. Especially when you're just a little kid.)

-Renegade (November 03, 2012, 06:32 AM)

You didn't... you did... dude, some things are better left mouldering in ageless sleep, never to glimpse the clear light of day for eons to come, some things should die and stay dead.  Why, Ren?  Why?  What madness has possessed you to awaken this vile stain on good taste?  There will be consequences, you can be sure of that...

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Edvard on October 31, 2012, 11:30 AM »

Hmmm... no, but maybe this will do?

-Edvard (October 31, 2012, 11:08 AM)

Hmm, I don't get it...  Any help welcome !

-MerleOne (October 31, 2012, 11:15 AM)

Sandy is the name of Little Orphan Annie's dog.
http://en.wikipedia..../Little_Orphan_Annie

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Living Room / Re: Confusing Apple Promo (Spoof)

« Last post by Edvard on October 31, 2012, 11:27 AM »

Epic, simply epic.

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Living Room / Re: Disney acquires Lucasfilm for 4.05 billion dollars. Star Wars Ep VII due in 2015

« Last post by Edvard on October 31, 2012, 11:22 AM »

Oblig:

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Edvard on October 31, 2012, 11:08 AM »

Hmmm... no, but maybe this will do?

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Living Room / Re: Any DCer's in Seattle?

« Last post by Edvard on October 31, 2012, 10:48 AM »

It was very nice thanks - in fact I've been twice recently and need to go back again at the end of November. I think I've covered quite a few of the items on your list by now   and found some pretty nice restaurants to boot. In particular "Toulouse Petit" deserves a mention.

-timns (October 30, 2012, 10:17 PM)

Glad to help. Never heard of that restaurant, they come and go so fast nowadays, and I just don't make it across the water much.  My budget rather precludes nice restaurant trips anyway, but I'll check it out if I get the chance.
Did you get to see the King Tut Exhibit at Seattle Center? It's going until Jan 6 and it's the last time it'll be outside of Egypt, so definitely go if you haven't.  Went with my wife and son in September and my son got some great pictures.  I hear they banned cameras now; before they allowed cameras but no flash.

Drive down to Tacoma, go to this coffee shop called Satellite Coffee.  Get a cappuccino or a honey latte, enjoy!  I'll be there in a couple of weeks, and I'll be dropping by probably twice a day.

-superboyac (October 30, 2012, 09:11 AM)

I don't make it down to Tacoma much either, but if I happen to be in the neighborhood, I promise to stop by.

In particular "Toulouse Petit" deserves a mention.

-timns (October 30, 2012, 10:17 PM)

Well, yes, but the washrooms are too distant, necessitating a Toulouse loo trek.

-cranioscopical (October 30, 2012, 11:22 PM)

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Living Room / Re: Crossover Giveaway

« Last post by Edvard on October 31, 2012, 10:41 AM »

Got it!
During the Lame Duck challenge, their servers got overloaded and it took 3 days for them to send me a link.  This time, much better. 

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Living Room / Re: Data Breach Lawsuits

« Last post by Edvard on October 30, 2012, 11:52 AM »

So, please won't somebody tell these lawyers to force my bank to ALLOW SPECIAL CHARACTERS in our login passwords... 

(true story, my bank only allows numerals and uppper/lowercase letters  )

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Living Room / Re: Mass Social Engineering in Forums

« Last post by Edvard on October 30, 2012, 11:48 AM »

I took a copy of the pastebin for safekeeping.

Named it InstructionManual.txt 

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Living Room / Re: Mass Social Engineering in Forums

« Last post by Edvard on October 30, 2012, 11:11 AM »

Oh, cripes...

As if trolls weren't enough 

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Living Room / Re: Dungeons/Zork map - here's an image of it.

« Last post by Edvard on October 30, 2012, 09:21 AM »

I haven't tried to run this in Win7-64 Home Premium.

-IainB (October 28, 2012, 10:28 PM)

Give the time stamps, the files are certainly 16-bit executables, so you'll need to run them in a VM on a Win64 machine (Win7's WinXP mode should do the trick).

-mwb1100 (October 28, 2012, 11:29 PM)

Wait for it...
http://virtuallyfun....lmegacorp.com/?p=346
Ok, I'll admit, it's the Fortran sources, and you have to use MinGW64 to compile it yourself.

It is a pitch black terminal.  You are likely to be eaten by 'f2c'.

EDIT:
Hmm... seems source code and DOS executables for some versions can be found here, along with some maps and advice. If you're into self-torture, you can attempt to compile the FORTRAN code, or take the easy route and run one of the DOS exe's in DOSbox which will hopefully eliminate the 16/64 bit problem.
There are also versions for TADS, Infocom, and Hugo interpreters, maybe try one of those, but my vote's on DOSbox.

I was able to compile the 'Adventure 4' generic C sources successfully on my 64 bit Linux machine, and it runs flawlessly. :shrug:

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Living Room / Re: Any DCer's in Seattle?

« Last post by Edvard on October 30, 2012, 08:36 AM »

Hey Timns, how'd your trip go? 
I hope my "itinerary" didn't lead you astray, and hopefully you found some other cool sites to visit and things to do.

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Living Room / Re: Crossover Giveaway

« Last post by Edvard on October 30, 2012, 08:27 AM »

Thanks for the heads up, Mahesh2k! 
WAAAY cool, especially since my Lame Duck copy disappeared when I switched to Debian a couple years ago.
Yes, it works pretty good, much software that didn't run in Wine didn't run in Crossover either, but what did run, ran better and looked nicer (fonts in Wine are fuuuuuuugly).
FTR, I didn't notice any difference between the Game edition and Office edition except the splash screen.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Valve is looking for beta-testers for Steam Linux client

« Last post by Edvard on October 28, 2012, 11:22 PM »

All I want is Portal native. Gimme.

Thanks for the link Ath, I'd seen this on the blog a while ago, and emailed, but I didn't know there was an official entry.

@40Hz: I totally dig where you're coming from, and would abstain as well if I weren't so into what it means in the larger picture.  Yes, I've read the FSF's take on it, and even hammered on a few of my own points a few times, but what this means is more than just a few more registrations at the Linux counter.  Can't explain it really, but I feel this is going to be big...

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Living Room / Re: Just for Fun - Cliché Movie Plots

« Last post by Edvard on October 27, 2012, 09:22 PM »

"Dust in the Wind" - 5 kids get lost going to a Kansas reunion concert and end up stumbling upon the terror-filled hideout of a washed-up and psychotic former record company mogul with a drug-fueled plan to take over the country by dumping tons of cocaine and PCP into a looming hurricane.

The Tale of "Gladly" - the Cross-Eyed Bear

G-fecking-roan, dude.  

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Edvard on October 27, 2012, 09:13 PM »

Oook... 

Reminds me of the dude in Thailand who makes bread that looks like body parts:

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General Software Discussion / Re: CentOS Administration Tool Recommendations?

« Last post by Edvard on October 26, 2012, 12:59 AM »

´WebMin´ is the name of the software you´re looking for. Administer practically your whole serever with a web interface.

-Shades (October 25, 2012, 06:41 AM)

+1 for Webmin the Mighty.  Use it, knave!

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Edvard on October 20, 2012, 10:57 PM »

Hinduism.
http://www.religionf.../symbols/trisula.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trishula

The trihsula (also spelled trishul or trisula, Sanskrit for "three spear") is a trident spear that is the emblem of the god Shiva. The weapon symbolizes empire and the irresistible force of transcendental reality.

The three prongs of the trishula represent Shiva's three aspects of:

• creator,
• preserver
• destroyer

as well as the three shaktis (powers):

• will
• action
• wisdom

The fearsome goddess Durga also brandishes a trishula in one of her seven hands.

Seems to be a (relatively) recent addition, though:
http://www.outlookin.../article.aspx?220045

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DC Gamer Club / Re: MAME

« Last post by Edvard on October 20, 2012, 12:12 AM »

Now I remember - it wasn't Germany, it was Denmark.  The site was Mame.dk, and was shutdown by their crap hosting company eFront.  Man, that was a great site, never got a bad ROM from them...
http://web.archive.o.../http://www.mame.dk/

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DC Gamer Club / Re: MAME

« Last post by Edvard on October 20, 2012, 12:05 AM »

IIRC there were a few ROMs available that the original companies had released as more or less "good will".  Atari, Namco, et al. have always been tight with their IP, including games hardly anybody plays anymore. 
Then Atari comes back with a "2600-in-a-joystick" and you know what's going on...  They're all biding their time to cash in on the "nostalgia" market.
My favorite site for ROMs was shut down bit by bit, one ROM at a time until suddenly all that was left was a handful of screenshots and cab art and a big notice that they weren't hosting ROMs anymore. Can't remember their name, but they were based in Germany, so I thought they were semi-untouchable.  Great site for info though, even after they were shut down for ROM downloads.

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Living Room / Re: Social media icon set, including one for DC

« Last post by Edvard on October 17, 2012, 12:23 PM »

Thanks for the kudos, but to be honest, mine was mostly an experiment in response to Mouser asking about a higher contrast button.
I'm actually still partial to app's original Cody icon; I dig the subtlety. 

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Living Room / Re: Social media icon set, including one for DC

« Last post by Edvard on October 16, 2012, 09:25 PM »

Maybe DC in block letters behind cody, or a color splash to the background?
     

Cool find, app!

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by Edvard on October 16, 2012, 02:02 PM »

What would it sound like if Metallica played "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands"?
...

-Renegade (September 25, 2012, 03:10 AM)

Can't.
Stop.
Laughing.

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Living Room / Re: The Greatest Graphic Novel of All Time: Watchmen

« Last post by Edvard on October 16, 2012, 01:55 AM »

OK, time to plug a friend of mine's work:

Mr. Right
http://indyplanet.co...php?products_id=5520


I tell ya, it's downright weird when someone you know personally turns out something really good, and my good friend from way back has done it with this one.
The comic grew out of a short story he got published in a local short-stories-and-poems rag in his hometown.

Basically, the story is that our protagonist James is a superhero via his magical(?) belt; a true-blue selfless defender of freedom and justice and all that.  One day his perpetual out-of-work slacker/moocher can-you-lend-me-a-five-til-friday brother Billy shows up at his apartment and glimpses James getting out of his superhero suit.  He puts two and two together and commandeers the suit and belt while James is out, and hilarity ensues as he uses his newfound superpowers to be even more of an ass.

My friend Kim is a big fan of the classic superhero genre, and he adds his own dark humor twist to it without straying too far from just being good fun.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How can I batch decompile icon files?

« Last post by Edvard on October 15, 2012, 02:03 AM »

If you've got access to a Linux box, try the icoutils:
http://www.nongnu.org/icoutils/

I've used them very successfully extracting png's from Windows icons.
Perhaps this weekend I'll try compiling on Cygwin to make Windows binaries for icotool:

The icotool program converts icon and cursor files into a set of PNG images. (Each icon/cursor file may contain multiple images, usually of different sizes and with different number of colors.) Icotool can also create icon/cursor files from PNG images.

Sound like what you need?