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Off Topic / Please help me find a movie which...
« on: February 05, 2006, 07:40:27 PM »
Fight Club? It has society, psychology, violence, sex, humour... I guess that's why people liked it.
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Off Topic / My neighbors SHOT AT ME!
« on: January 30, 2006, 10:43:05 AM »
:blink:
I'm at a loss for words.
I'm at a loss for words.
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Off Topic / Am I a slow typer or what
« on: January 26, 2006, 08:50:13 AM »
That's almost 23 hours. :blink:
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General / So who's left?
« on: January 25, 2006, 08:36:46 PM »
Constellation. Quite a few people donated.
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Off Topic / Me and My Parasite
« on: January 25, 2006, 09:52:05 AM »
Me and My Parasite
Oh, such good times. Me and my parasite, we go everywhere together. Well, literally. I mean, it's not like I can remove it, really. There are methods, of course, but premature death does not sound appealing. We're buddies for life.
I remember it as if it were yesterday. That's pretty unsettling actually, because it was only a few minutes ago. Do these parasites try to make you forget that you have them? I mean, it certainly makes sense. Or maybe they just make it hard for you to concentrate on something without - what's that word? You know, when you start talking about something, then start talking about something else? Do you know those situations where you know the first two or three letters of a word, then have to leaf through a dictionary to find it? But I digress. Digress! There's the word. Now where was I?
Yeah, it was just a few minutes ago. A Skulk popped around a corner and disappeared again before we could get a shot at it. I felt an odd tingly stinging sensation, like a wasp sting or so. The Commander dropped me a medpack and Flint whipped out his welder and repaired my barely scratched armor, so I'm good. I still feel normal...
But there's that little word at the bottom of my HUD. Parasited. It won't go away. I asked the Commander for another medpack in case that might resolve the problem, but everybody says that won't do anything. "How about catpacks then?" I ask. "We don't have those researched yet and they wouldn't help anyway" I'm told. "There's nothing that you can do?" I ask. "Nope" is the answer I get, "now make yourself useful."
Make myself useful? There's an alien lifeform crawling around somewhere inside me! Where's the medic? Where's the field lazaret? This is the third millenium! We're not fighting a peasant war here, we're supposed to be a highly skilled professional military outfit!
This parasite is nothing new to me, you gotta understand. I mean, to me, personally, it's new. I mean, I've never had a parasite before. Well, I had lice in the third grade, but they can be killed off with special shampoo. Do you think I should ask the Commander for a shampoo? No, he'd probably just get sarcastic and ask me whether I want a bag of dum-dums with that. Where was I?
Right, I've never had a Kharaa parasite before. But i've seen other people get 'em. And they always seem to be dogged by bad luck. The instant you turn your back on them, something with a nasty bite drops out of a vent or emerges from the shadows or falls from the ceiling and rips them to shreds.
Bad luck? Yeah right! You ask me, the blasted critters know where they left their parasites. Ugh, I feel so unclean. Think they can smell them? I dunno, but they know where the parasites are. And they know that I'm right here. They're probably lurking nearby, waiting for me to get close. They're probably drooling as well. You ever wonder how Skulks and Lerks attack with their bite, but only Onos ever seem to eat? Maybe they're saving their appetites for when were all dead, for some sort of gigantic feast. Ugh. The though of a Gorge snacking on me is not appealing, you know? It'll probably turn my fleshier parts into sludge and build a nice gooey structure of indeterminate purpose from it. It's odd how they never tell you about this when you sign up. I knew I should've become a pilot.
So if you're reading this, Commander: Stuff your waypoint. I'm staying on the landing pad until the dropship returns.
Oh, such good times. Me and my parasite, we go everywhere together. Well, literally. I mean, it's not like I can remove it, really. There are methods, of course, but premature death does not sound appealing. We're buddies for life.
I remember it as if it were yesterday. That's pretty unsettling actually, because it was only a few minutes ago. Do these parasites try to make you forget that you have them? I mean, it certainly makes sense. Or maybe they just make it hard for you to concentrate on something without - what's that word? You know, when you start talking about something, then start talking about something else? Do you know those situations where you know the first two or three letters of a word, then have to leaf through a dictionary to find it? But I digress. Digress! There's the word. Now where was I?
Yeah, it was just a few minutes ago. A Skulk popped around a corner and disappeared again before we could get a shot at it. I felt an odd tingly stinging sensation, like a wasp sting or so. The Commander dropped me a medpack and Flint whipped out his welder and repaired my barely scratched armor, so I'm good. I still feel normal...
But there's that little word at the bottom of my HUD. Parasited. It won't go away. I asked the Commander for another medpack in case that might resolve the problem, but everybody says that won't do anything. "How about catpacks then?" I ask. "We don't have those researched yet and they wouldn't help anyway" I'm told. "There's nothing that you can do?" I ask. "Nope" is the answer I get, "now make yourself useful."
Make myself useful? There's an alien lifeform crawling around somewhere inside me! Where's the medic? Where's the field lazaret? This is the third millenium! We're not fighting a peasant war here, we're supposed to be a highly skilled professional military outfit!
This parasite is nothing new to me, you gotta understand. I mean, to me, personally, it's new. I mean, I've never had a parasite before. Well, I had lice in the third grade, but they can be killed off with special shampoo. Do you think I should ask the Commander for a shampoo? No, he'd probably just get sarcastic and ask me whether I want a bag of dum-dums with that. Where was I?
Right, I've never had a Kharaa parasite before. But i've seen other people get 'em. And they always seem to be dogged by bad luck. The instant you turn your back on them, something with a nasty bite drops out of a vent or emerges from the shadows or falls from the ceiling and rips them to shreds.
Bad luck? Yeah right! You ask me, the blasted critters know where they left their parasites. Ugh, I feel so unclean. Think they can smell them? I dunno, but they know where the parasites are. And they know that I'm right here. They're probably lurking nearby, waiting for me to get close. They're probably drooling as well. You ever wonder how Skulks and Lerks attack with their bite, but only Onos ever seem to eat? Maybe they're saving their appetites for when were all dead, for some sort of gigantic feast. Ugh. The though of a Gorge snacking on me is not appealing, you know? It'll probably turn my fleshier parts into sludge and build a nice gooey structure of indeterminate purpose from it. It's odd how they never tell you about this when you sign up. I knew I should've become a pilot.
So if you're reading this, Commander: Stuff your waypoint. I'm staying on the landing pad until the dropship returns.
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Off Topic / need help unblocking ports
« on: January 20, 2006, 06:05:45 PM »
People need to learn a thing or two about password security. Sometimes I think that 'the hard way' is the best way.
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Off Topic / Frohe Geburtstag
« on: January 16, 2006, 04:31:33 PM »
So I'm not the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world? Woot!
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Off Topic / Frohe Geburtstag
« on: January 16, 2006, 07:28:39 AM »
Only I receive birthday greetings for five days! ^_^
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General / So who's left?
« on: January 15, 2006, 06:02:39 PM »
No, you can still go around merrily a-fistin' everyone. It's fun when some light runs up to you swinging his widdle pwetty butter knife and you just swat him into a wall.
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General / So who's left?
« on: January 14, 2006, 09:41:53 AM »
I have. Never tried the old version. What was so bad about the laser rifles?
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General / Where is Leak-Free?
« on: January 05, 2006, 08:14:13 PM »
lf? 
I'm... I'm no longer hosted?
I'm... I'm no longer hosted?
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Off Topic / linux as a..
« on: December 25, 2005, 07:29:08 PM »
I think it's more of a "proof of concept" thingy.
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Off Topic / linux as a..
« on: December 25, 2005, 03:28:29 PM »
Well, I've seen one easy procedure so far:
- Download Knoppix iso
- Burn Knoppix iso to CD
- Insert CD into drive
- Reboot
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Off Topic / This year's harvest
« on: December 25, 2005, 10:34:09 AM »
A DVD (The Fifth Element), a pocket Sudoku thingy that doesn't work and a plate of candy. Not much reaping going on here, but I don't really care anyway.
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Off Topic / linux as a..
« on: December 23, 2005, 05:39:52 AM »
Sounds odd. Either way, as I pointed out in IRC it's another perfect example of the Linux community attempting to get more mainstream attention and shooting itself in the foot at the same time. Heads up:
Once you have something like this, more than 90% will immediately close the browser window:
In short, "The perceived difficulty [...] of installing Linux" is not perceived at all.
Once you have something like this, more than 90% will immediately close the browser window:
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You need to rebuild QEMU -- I learned how by following instructions in a QEMU forum (see Resources). Get these packages:
* The Minimalist GNU for Windows components:
o MinGW. This collection of freely available and freely distributable Windows-specific header files and import libraries combined with GNU toolsets allows you to produce native Windows programs that do not rely on any third-party C runtime DLLs.
o MSYS, a Minimal SYStem. This allows POSIX/Bourne configuration scripts to execute and create a makefile used by make.
o msysDTK. These add-ons for MSYS include telnet and rlogin.
* SDL, Simple DirectMedia Layer. This cross-platform multimedia library is designed to provide low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and 3D hardware via OpenGL and 2D video framebuffer.
* zlib. This lossless data-compression library can be used on virtually any computer hardware and operating system, required by SDL.
* directx. This is required when SDL runs under Windows.
* Inno Setup. This is a free installer for Windows programs.
In short, "The perceived difficulty [...] of installing Linux" is not perceived at all.