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Living Room / Re: Old-School software archive
« Last post by Edvard on April 03, 2009, 01:01 PM »
Want more? I just discovered the main page at texfiles.com:

My name is Jason Scott. Since I was 9 years old, I have had a fervent love of computers and technology, bounded only by realities of economics and time. From the BBS world of the 80's to the early wonders of the Internet and to the Web and beyond, I've dabbled and dosed myself in whatever hot new computing fads and freakishness this wonderful world could come up with.

As I entered into my late 20's, I realized I had been a part of many great things, and the perspective I had gained since that time gave me ideas. The most potent of these ideas has been to spread the feelings, horrors and astonishments of computing's history to people who came into it late, or never came into it at all.

I wasn't a Big Player in the Turning Points of the last 20 years, but I was a good listener and a good watcher, and I hope that what I do bring to you will both excite and intrigue. If you were there, we'll reminisce together. And if you weren't there, do I have a story to tell you....


My God, it's full of stars... 0_0
1827
Living Room / Re: Old-School software archive
« Last post by Edvard on April 02, 2009, 06:57 PM »
You're quite welcome. I've just rediscovered the joys of .mod music files  :P
1828
General Software Discussion / Re: Top 3 programs you use
« Last post by Edvard on April 02, 2009, 06:29 PM »
I voted xplorer2 because I have it set to start up with Windows and it stays open all day.
Of course, file-shuffling is much of the activity of my day, so it's no wonder.

Second is Outlook because much of my work comes in via email and the boss would not like me switching to Firebird.

Everything else gets opened with FARR, so it's a close but definite third.

If only there were an xplorer2 for my Linux box at home, I would be an order of magnitude happier.  :-*
(xfe is close, but not really...)
1829
Living Room / Old-School software archive
« Last post by Edvard on April 02, 2009, 10:59 AM »
Looking for that old Castle Wolfenstein demo? Some Impulse Tracker music? ASCII art straight outta BBS-Land circa 1985?

All that and more, right here:

Who knew that the companies looking for a quick buck through the late 1980's and early 1990's with "Shovelware" CDs would become the unwitting archivists of the BBS age? No one did, but here we are, looking back, muttering thanks to these souless con artists as we plunder the very data they themselves took from a time now past.


Have fun!!  ;D
1830
Living Room / Re: mysterious Codex Transportica book found - i have the website to prove it.
« Last post by Edvard on April 01, 2009, 05:02 PM »
oh...
>_<

how's this?

toyota2009.jpg
1831
Living Room / Re: Google April Fools joke... or is it?
« Last post by Edvard on April 01, 2009, 03:09 PM »
CADIE the coder?  :huh:

I'm going to translate this to AHK and use it in my next project.  :tellme:
-Edvard (April 01, 2009, 01:28 PM)

Hotkey activated pandas?  :huh:
-app103 (April 01, 2009, 01:31 PM)

No, hotkey activated artificially intelligent pandas.  :Thmbsup:
1832
Living Room / Re: Conficker - The Facts
« Last post by Edvard on April 01, 2009, 02:44 PM »
While I certainly was not expecting doomsday, I was wondering if something was happening.

So far, it's done nothing but wake up and start resolving DNS's just like they said it would.

I'm with you Ehtyar, it's put together too well to turn out to be nothing. But what it will do, I am very interested in.
1833
Living Room / Re: Google April Fools joke... or is it?
« Last post by Edvard on April 01, 2009, 01:28 PM »
Have you downloaded the source for CADIE? (yes, it's open source)  ;D

-app103 (April 01, 2009, 01:21 PM)

Oh, now I get it...
        DO ,1 <- #28
        DO ,1SUB#1 <- #110
        DO ,1SUB#2 <- #142
        DO ,1SUB#3 <- #222
    PLEASE ,1SUB#4 <- #48
        DO ,1SUB#5 <- #242
        DO ,1SUB#6 <- #142
        DO ,1SUB#7 <- #128
    PLEASE ,1SUB#8 <- #200
        DO ,1SUB#9 <- #42
        DO ,1SUB#10 <- #158
        DO ,1SUB#11 <- #192
    PLEASE ,1SUB#12 <- #0
        DO ,1SUB#13 <- #112
        DO ,1SUB#14 <- #50
        DO ,1SUB#15 <- #206
    PLEASE ,1SUB#16 <- #160
        DO ,1SUB#17 <- #192
        DO ,1SUB#18 <- #48
        DO ,1SUB#19 <- #162
    PLEASE ,1SUB#20 <- #54
        DO ,1SUB#21 <- #184
        DO ,1SUB#22 <- #144
        DO ,1SUB#23 <- #56
    PLEASE ,1SUB#24 <- #184
        DO ,1SUB#25 <- #32
        DO ,1SUB#26 <- #144
        DO ,1SUB#27 <- #114
    PLEASE ,1SUB#28 <- #36
        DO READ OUT ,1
    PLEASE GIVE UP

I'm going to translate this to AHK and use it in my next project.  :tellme:
1834
Living Room / Re: They drew first blood, sir!
« Last post by Edvard on April 01, 2009, 01:07 PM »
 :nono2:

Smokes, I was hoping for better than this...
1835
Living Room / Google April Fools joke... or is it?
« Last post by Edvard on April 01, 2009, 01:04 PM »
CADIE is apparently Google's new entry into artificial intelligence technology. See announcement here:
http://www.google.co...ing/cadie/index.html
Research group switches on world's first "artificial intelligence" tasked-array system.

For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.

Since then progress has been rapid, and tonight we're pleased to announce that just moments ago, the world's first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE) was switched on and began performing some initial functions...

And CADIE's attempt at a website here:


God help us... It's sentient

from Google
1836
Living Room / Re: Conficker - The Facts
« Last post by Edvard on April 01, 2009, 12:43 PM »
I haven't experienced any noticeable delays, so it must be your ISP.
 :huh:
1837
Living Room / Re: mysterious Codex Transportica book found - i have the website to prove it.
« Last post by Edvard on April 01, 2009, 12:37 PM »
DUDE!! Toyota has been reading the Codex!!
Here's proof!

wtf_pics-find-sarah-connor.jpg

 :o
1838
General Software Discussion / Re: When was your last BSOD? I'm betting it was a long time ago
« Last post by Edvard on April 01, 2009, 11:46 AM »
My coworkers XP box refuses to upgrade to SP2 or SP3. Every time I've tried to fix it (don't worry, I've done EVERYTHING msdn tells me to do and it won't budge) it blue screens on reboot (causing instant cardiac arrest in yours truly).

Sure, that's not everyday run-of-the-mill OMG BSOD WTF?!?! but...
1839
Living Room / Re: Conficker - The Facts
« Last post by Edvard on April 01, 2009, 10:21 AM »
So, it's April 1st...

Anything happening? (no reports in the news yet)

 :tellme: :tellme:
1840
Living Room / Re: What's the Best Diet? Eating Less Food.
« Last post by Edvard on March 31, 2009, 07:19 PM »
That's usually when I get up and go outside and dig a hole or something...
-Edvard (March 30, 2009, 03:38 PM)

The original hole-some diet!
-cranioscopical (March 30, 2009, 08:49 PM)

Yes, and it's the pits!
1841
Living Room / Re: Should we have a yearly Best Avatar award on DC?
« Last post by Edvard on March 30, 2009, 03:54 PM »
My last 3 avatars have followed an evolving theme...
Started with the gkak meme:
gkak.jpg
next:
domothumb.jpg
and now:
avatar_209.png

Do I win if the next one continues the evolution?
1842
Living Room / Re: What's the Best Diet? Eating Less Food.
« Last post by Edvard on March 30, 2009, 03:38 PM »
It makes perfect sense.
I'm not fat, but I could stand a little reduction, so I've taken to limit my portions voluntarily, which I'm ok with most of the time.
...but I can see why most diets fail because quite often after I have eaten a satisfying meal of healthy content (no saturated fats or corn syrup, to begin with...) at reasonable portion sizes, 1 hour later my stomach is absolutely HOWLING for a handful of cocktail peanuts or cinnamon toast or a stack of oatmeal cookies with milk or... or... GAAAHHH!

That's usually when I get up and go outside and dig a hole or something...
1843
Living Room / Re: Help build Cody City!
« Last post by Edvard on March 25, 2009, 06:58 PM »
Oops... Fixed.

An inhabitant has left Cody City to look for a job.

So THAT'S why our crime rate is down to 1%!
 ;D
1844
Living Room / Re: Help build Cody City!
« Last post by Edvard on March 25, 2009, 12:58 PM »
Smokes!! Now we've got crime at 4%...

Increase Security!
1845
Living Room / Re: Help build Cody City!
« Last post by Edvard on March 24, 2009, 03:01 PM »
Hey, it's been awhile since I looked this up again, but apparently Cody-city has fallen to 7% unemployment.

Build some industry folks!

On a further note, I haven't found any sites or apps that do anything similar, but in a more interesting fashion.
It's been about a year, has anything came up?
1846
Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 24, 2009, 02:42 PM »
What's even worse is when you depend on web-based translation services...

translateservererror.jpg

 ;D ;D
1847
Living Room / Re: WIkileaks: My Life In Child Porn
« Last post by Edvard on March 20, 2009, 02:46 PM »
But that is not everything: the installed Trojans are sometimes used as a SOCKS proxy to upload CP. The Russians have even worked out a schema to use infected computer as a network combing these infected computers (each computer would be part of a huge, redundant cluster) as a kind of huge, distributed and remote servers can be (a kind of Freenet Project, however, by using infected computers as the nodes).

Sounds eerily similar to how the Conficker worm behaves.

And if your computer is not 100% safe against Trojans, viruses and rootkits, there is the possibility that your computer is part of the vast child pornography network.

Hell, maybe that IS what it's doing.

Evil. F'ing evil.
1848
Living Room / If REAL snakes aren't enough for you...
« Last post by Edvard on March 19, 2009, 12:51 PM »
Ok, it all started with a random Google search. I get funny ideas in my head and so I look them up to see what other demented minds have come up with along the same lines.

Today, it was "snakebot".  :huh:

Apparently technology was already there, and they've done some pretty cool things.
I'm not afraid of snakes, but robot snakes?!?...
*shudder*

From Wikipedia:
----------------
A snakebot is a biomorphic hyper-redundant robot that resembles a snake.

Snake robots come in all shapes and sizes, from the three meters long, fire fighting snakebot developed by SINTEF[1], to a medical snakebot developed at Carnegie Mellon University that is thin enough to maneuver around organs inside a human chest cavity. Though snakebots can vary greatly in size and design, there are two qualities that all snakebots share. First, their small cross section to length ratio allows them to move into, and maneuver through, tight spaces. Second, their ability to change the shape of their body allows them to perform a wide range of behaviours, such as climbing stairs or tree trunks.



More stuff here: http://www.google.com/search?q=snakebot

...and I couldn't resist expressing the dismay of no doubt countless automatophidiophobes out there:

snakebot.jpg

 ;D
1849
Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 17, 2009, 10:18 AM »
Be careful around E.D., it's pretty much the official Wiki of the whole *chan community and it often rides the ragged edge of the unspeakable.
(pic related)
takethis.jpg

...But then again, as long as you're Irish, enjoy!
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 13, 2009, 06:09 PM »
Here's one in the spirit of the original post...

withflash.jpg

@f0dder: headbang.gif
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