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Developer's Corner / Re: Docoto Defense - DonationCoder.com Game in Development
« Last post by f0dder on June 28, 2007, 06:34 PM »
To make referencing the versions easier, I did this quick hackjob (and probably got the image order wrong :D)
teeguide.jpg
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Developer's Corner / Re: Docoto Defense - DonationCoder.com Game in Development
« Last post by f0dder on June 28, 2007, 06:08 PM »
I'd have to say 2,4,1,3 as well - DARNED #2 is cute! :-* :-* :-*
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Living Room / Re: Visual history of Apple, 1976-2007
« Last post by f0dder on June 28, 2007, 07:37 AM »
Ah, that NeXt computer was very cool looking.
-zridling (June 28, 2007, 06:50 AM)
The NeXTcube does look pretty cute, yeah.
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Living Room / Re: Bitwise gems - fast integer math
« Last post by f0dder on June 28, 2007, 07:34 AM »
Sage advice, Eóin.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Docoto Defense - DonationCoder.com Game in Development
« Last post by f0dder on June 28, 2007, 06:04 AM »
Well, I actually like the rectangle part - but a version without the background and some "mushy fady" versions gives people ChoiceTM - often a good thing :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: hibernate, damit! or a nice tool called wizmo...
« Last post by f0dder on June 28, 2007, 06:01 AM »
Logitech....never again.  >:(
-Nighted (June 28, 2007, 04:48 AM)
I hate their drivers - overly intrusive and mega-bloated stuff. Their webcams (the physical part) are nice though, and so are their mice... at least their mice work without driver install, USB plug & play goodness.
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Living Room / Re: Visual history of Apple, 1976-2007
« Last post by f0dder on June 28, 2007, 05:58 AM »
The only items from that list I find reasonably goodlooking are the 1991 Quadras and the 2005 Mac Mini + iPod nanos. Apart from that, I think that Apple dezin is absolutely and 115% wank.
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Living Room / Re: Bitwise gems - fast integer math
« Last post by f0dder on June 28, 2007, 05:32 AM »
"This is about 600% faster." - I love people making bold claims without making any reference to which platform they tested it on :] (ah, following the link they mention AS3 - flash actionscript?)

Bitwise math is good to know, though. I generally don't do it for highlevel code, but once there's a bottleneck, it can be worth it (usually ends up in assembly code then). Keep in mind that decent compilers know a bunch of these tricks already, which is good reason you wouldn't do ">> 2" to divide by four in C.
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General Software Discussion / Re: hibernate, damit! or a nice tool called wizmo...
« Last post by f0dder on June 28, 2007, 04:27 AM »
Hm, connecting to VPN without going throw the network devices thing - that might be useful, since my windows is currently in a semi-b0rked state; after installing logitech webcam drivers, my "network connections" folder is empty. Yay, logitech >_<
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Developer's Corner / Re: Docoto Defense - DonationCoder.com Game in Development
« Last post by f0dder on June 28, 2007, 04:25 AM »
Personally, I'd love the blue binary background on a t-shirt!
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General Software Discussion / Re: hibernate, damit! or a nice tool called wizmo...
« Last post by f0dder on June 27, 2007, 07:28 AM »
Hm, if regular hibernate doesn't work but forced does, you probably have some application that blocks the process for some reason or another. Might be a good idea locating which piece of software this is, so you avoid problems.

(wow, I wrote a post in a thread related to Steve Gibson without flaming him!  :o ).
7087
Best Text Editor / Re: Boxer Text Editor
« Last post by f0dder on June 27, 2007, 07:26 AM »
I'm almost tempted to download boxer and give it a try again - I've just become very used to windows text editors (especially Notepad++), even though I used to be a die-hard dos text editor fanatic ("80x50 textmode, piss off with your GUIs!" - sorta made sense back in the 800x600 days :) ).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Backup methods and programs.
« Last post by f0dder on June 27, 2007, 07:25 AM »
steeladept, you just expressed my opinion, and did it better than I could myself :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Backup methods and programs.
« Last post by f0dder on June 26, 2007, 06:17 PM »
No, add new hard drive install xp and install programs then sync.
And set the programs that use the synced files to point to where you put them.
-cmpm
Ah, even more bother then :)

With other backups, how do you know you have not backed up the problem?
-cmpm
That's why you use an incremental or differential scheme with at least a week backlog before you do a full backup ("reference point").
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General Software Discussion / Re: Backup methods and programs.
« Last post by f0dder on June 26, 2007, 06:00 PM »
Well, once you add a new harddrive, you will want to sync from the remaining working one, to the new blank one?

Also, in case your active drive fails in the evening, and you haven't synced stuff since last evening... you're screwed. With a RAID mirror, the 'sync' happens automatically, plus you're (of course) doing proper backups to another location as well.
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Best Text Editor / Re: Boxer Text Editor
« Last post by f0dder on June 26, 2007, 05:41 PM »
Nice to see a responsive software author - that's always a big plus :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Please help
« Last post by f0dder on June 26, 2007, 05:40 PM »
What he wants, I gather, isn't some client-based fancy-gfx engine, but some online mostly text-based game. Ie., a PHP or whatever job with some database diddley-doo. Can still take quite some time to develop, though...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Backup methods and programs.
« Last post by f0dder on June 26, 2007, 05:38 PM »
Well, I wouldn't choose such a setup. If I had old hardware without RAID onboard, I'd get one of the cheap PCI cards... your method simply has too much potential for really messy situations :)

Also, it's even easier to just replace a faulty drive in a RAID mirror and have the rebuild happen automatically in the background, than having to launch a disk cloning or syncing tool once a drive fails...
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Living Room / Re: Please help
« Last post by f0dder on June 26, 2007, 10:03 AM »
...won't help much if the game is going to run web-based, though. And if it's going to be a "real" MMORPG game (ie, with a client executable), he needs a lot more than just downloading DarkBasic ;)
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Living Room / Re: Please help
« Last post by f0dder on June 26, 2007, 08:26 AM »
If you want to create a game, you need to learn programming. There's no way around it, unless you gather a bunch of programmers and stick exclusively to the design part... "make a ready code for me where i only need to change the variables?" is a pretty big job, and I doubt anybody would do that for you - for free, anyway.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Backup methods and programs.
« Last post by f0dder on June 26, 2007, 08:24 AM »
For a setup like that, I'd rather use RAID mirror... of course your solution has the benefit that sync'ing is done on demand, not transparently all the time... but this does mean that you can end up with the mess of "which drive contains the most recent files" et cetera.

Imho if you're doing backups, you should be doing them "right" - incremental or differential sets to some external device (fileserver with mirror or parity RAID, or external USB/FireWire/eSATA drive). Preferably with a set per day, so you can guard against partial corruption etc.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Do you want to see F&R with optional skins?
« Last post by f0dder on June 26, 2007, 08:20 AM »
Seeing this old topic again, I guess that either the poll expired, or I'm the single guy that voted "hell no!" :)
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Set up "App Wiki"
« Last post by f0dder on June 25, 2007, 05:51 PM »
Would take some careful planning to do it right, and decisions would have to be made whether it's free-for-all or if it requires login (with login tied to the DC forum login?) etc... but the idea is good enough imho.

And there's no such sites currently existing?
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Living Room / Re: Fraud with elegance, but fraud.
« Last post by f0dder on June 25, 2007, 05:48 PM »
Some months ago there was a spot in the news about a Danish grown up guy who actually sold all of his belongins and gave the money to two of this kind of 'beings'. He was hoping to get millions, but ended up paying hundreds of thousands.
-Curt (June 25, 2007, 10:13 AM)
How stupid can people be? >_<
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Living Room / Re: gmail slowing down??
« Last post by f0dder on June 22, 2007, 08:40 AM »
Ooooh, so gmail SMTP actually saves your sent mail to your online gmail archive? Nifty. I still prefer local mail archive, though.
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