littleweseth

Well, from 2am to 8am usually, so six hours on weekdays. Usually I have massive sleepins on weekends though (~10 hours, 3am to 1pm or so )Often I supplement my sleep in lectures, because MA1000 is just high-school maths B and C all over again in my case and it's counterproductive for me trying to stay awake when I could be rectifying my sleep deprivation

FreeBSD? *Good for beginners*? What the hell was that person on?Anyways, I heartily recommend Ubuntu, especially if you only want basic software and have a crappy internet connection, since Canonical kindly runs ShipIt to mail everyone free CD's (I have x86 5.04 CDs and one each of X86/PPC/AMD64 Breezy CDs). THe catch is that since Ubuntu is a one-CD distro, it doesn't come with *that* much software (though it does have office software, internet software, image editing and all that other naff stuff out of the box.) You can get lots more via apt-get, but the only issue is if you have limited internet connectivity. (try installing things over 56k, three-hour capped dialup. It sucks.)Anyway, Ubuntu is a pleasure to use in so many ways. And it comes with so many random screensavers.... flying toasters? My favourite would be colorfire though.

never actually done any star watching. Me and my friend settle for cloud watching - you know how fast a cloud moves? We were watching one one night (while waiting for someone else to have a shower and all that - lying out on her driveway) and we got distracted - and when we looked back, it was gone! vanished!Well, not really. It was just 15km away or so. But don't mess with a cloud... or it'll rain on you. Why am I talking about this?need sleep.

I swear on the effectiveness of that algorithmic credit-reward system. I just pulled myself from -24 or so (ouch!) to +0.4 with not that much effort, just half a dozen or so decent posts.The main reason I have trouble posting (and hence the -24 deficit) is that I can't find interesting stuff to talk about really. Well, allow me to rephrase - I can't find interesting posts on technical things (yeah, I'm a nerd... gonna do something, punk? ). I'm beginning to think I shoulda signed up for Xisto instead. Then again, since I've got nothing on my account anyways, picking up stakes wouldn't be hard.Any mods around feel like advising me? I've got nothing to lose... (zero files on server, all of 0.4 hosting credits)

It depends on how good the programmers who made the software were, or more specifically how well they abstracted the program from the platform. Decent software puts at least one layer between the functionality and the OS APIs so if they port the software and the API's don't exist, they can write new code in the interface layer to fix it up. Irrelevant here, don't try to confuse all the n00bs (Oh, and there's plenty of examples of web software that's cross-platform. Zend Studio runs on literally anything, Windows, Linux, or Mac OSes and x86, PPC, Alpha, Sparc... nice example of cross-platform software. Dreamweaver runs on OSX and Windows natively, and old versions on WINE. Bluefish runs on anything. N|vu runs on anything.) anyway, if you just want to maintain a website, and you aren't using PHP, n|vu should do an okay job. If you're more advanced and know you way around HTML, get Bluefish. And if you have money to burn and serious skillz0rz, pay for Zend.

GMail? Not enough space?It' like some guy standing with a freind in a giant warehouse.... with only two boxes in it, and saying;Guy 1 : "I Think I need more storage space-space-space-spa..."Guy 2 : "Yes, it is quite crowded-owded-owded-owde..."Guy 1 : "*darn*, those free warehouse providers are stingy these days-ays-ays..."

Now we just need to find a program that converts those useless consoles into PCs!Anyway, if you aren't a gamer, you could use Astonshell instead of GameOS. </shameless plug>

now for extra points, tell us how to do it (sucessfully) on Debian

this is old news :PAnyways, they pretty much violated a number of known laws, and it's not like the people who wrote the rootkit accidentally made a few hundred thousand consecutive typos and a rootkit came out the other end. They knew what they were doing (writing a rootkit) and should have known it was just a little illegal. They deserve to be litigated off the face of the earth.And that's just the software people. Don't get me started on sony XD

Ah, the 'end of the world + religion' evergreen thread.Just to weigh in :- Believe whatever you want, as long as you don't try to force it on others or brainwash them. Personally? I think that when I die, all the electrical activity in my body will stop and I'll just be another lump of carbon and oxygen, albeit one that gets treated nicely.- Regarding humanity's future : the species will survive. As was said above, someone will always survive the superbomb or the killer plague. However, society as a whole probably won't last too long, and in the aftermath of [disaster of choice] no-one's really going to give a fig about things like culture.

Try googling Motherboard Monitor. It's a little utility that gives you the various temperatures inside your box, usually CPU at a minimum and chipsets and things depending on what sensors your motherboard has. Granted, it looks horrible, but it does its job

Not installing heaps of stuff, just partitioning of a 80gb HDD into a 15gb Windows/programs/games partition, a 55gb data partition and a 5gb Linux partition. I don't really have that much on that partition, but it's still a third of it Oh, and it lags out severely (keyboard stops responding for long periods) so I'm thinking of ditching it for BF2 anyways.

I cadged a friends copy of UT2k4 off him and went to install it on my nice shiny C: partition with a grand 3gb remaining. Great! 3gb should be enough for anything, me thought.... Then the installer tells me it needs five and a half gigs just for the game, not to mention 4gb of mods. Crikey, UT2003 was only 2gb or so if I remember correctly. What the hell is IN there, 1200dpi textures or something?I think that 5.5gb is prety damned ridiculous, but i'm sure that UT2004 isn't the worst there is Seen any installers that need more than 5.5gb?

The wonders of Firefox + AdBlock. Does anyone know exactly how AdBlock works? I think it still downloads the ads, it just doesn't show them, hence Xisto gets the same effect as if I didn't use AdBlock (since I don't <- snipped -> for goddamn smileys or screensavers or mortgage help anyway.)However, if AdBlock actually stops the ads from downloading (and hence makes it look like t17 has less visitors) it should probably be turned off.Anyways, who do those *darn* advertisers think their audience is here? Ads for mouse cursors, screensavers, wallpapers, smileys..... a large minority of us aren't pre-teen idiots who jump on that stuff. Seeing as the advertising companies don't know anything, i'm just waiting for the 'enlarge y0ur m4nh00d' ads to start popping up.}

Here in Australia, it's called a silent number. It doesn't get printed in the phone book, pretty much. Anyways, it costs a few extra dollars every month, and seeing as the incessant prank calls went from umpteen/night to pretty much zero, it was definitely worth it. It didn't really help with the roof rocking though

People : if you're thinking about hosting a website from your home broadband connection - WATCH IT! Check your ISP's terms and conditions VERY CAREFULLY. ISP's often insert a clause saying that you are not allowed to host a website from your broadband connection because you aren't paying for uploads, only downloads, and it costs the ISP money. Tread lightly. They probably won't mind if you're hosting a testing server with low traffic, but don't try anything big.

The reason PHP4 is still used : - Backwards Incompatibility. What's the bet that if, say, Xisto switched to PHP5 tomorrow, and broke lots of peoples scripts, there would be a massive disturbance in the Force? - It Works. PHP5 is uncharted territory : PHP4.x.x is known good. Unless you need the new stuff (like the vastly improved object oriented features) you don't need PHP5. oh yeah, if you used a decent linux distro (Debian based) usually you can just apt-get a piece of software and everything is done for you. The only trouble is that some things aren't in the repositories (like MySQL 5). The other problem is that if you have special needs (like you want to have the Sablotron engine for XML stuff) you need to rol-your-own and compile from source :[

i scored 150 at iqtest.com when i was 15. Keep in mind, though, that these things are timed, and you level of expertise with computers heavily influences your score because for technically inept people, finding and clicking the buttons takes a lot of time, whereas for geeks it's pretty much instantaeneous. I estimate you'd have to take off at least ten points here.

Okay, doh!! Those 'outdoor light' ones sound about right.You wouldn't happen to know how they stack up effiiciency wise against standard ones, would you?

Well,if computeres didn't exist, basically we'd be (technologically) back in the 1980's - keep in mind that computers are behind TV, manufacturing, research (to develop more technology and stuff) and basically we;d be living actual lives (Or not bve alive at all.)I think a more accurate question would be 'What would you do if, tomorrow, computers ceased to exist...'Would you go crazy? - Probably - first denial, then anger, then depression, then acceptance. But in between comes*just plain cray-zey!*Would YOU not exist? - Well, 'm already here. But if ewe go back to the original question - ever seen Back To The Future? Small things can have amplified results : no computers = a Mega Big Thing. Probably not.Would you be bored all day? - Hooyeah. Actually, my main box just blew up, so I can't play games or do any graphics or programming - so I'm actually going through this. And i'm bored as all hell.Would you be board at school all day? - Nope. Learning is fun, and you don't need computers to do math (it's true!) and physics, though it makes it hella easier. TI-83's rocksaw.Would you be stuck playing board games and stuff all day? - Nah, i'd be reading physics textbooks. OR math one's, if I got desperate. I'm THAT kinda geek.Would you end up working all day? - As someone stated above : 'Work? I think i heard of 'work' once....'Would you be determined to invent computers? - Probably. All that math and physics would come in handy too - electrical engineering involves lots of i's (the imaginary number, sqrt (-1) ) and matrices and integral/differential calculus and all that other fun stuff.Would you keep a computer secret in your closet and use it when no ones looking? - Ah, dude - they don't exist anymore.Would you just be a all around idiot? - Nope.Would you drink coffee all day? - Coffee is the most disgustiong thing ever made - well, after crysanthemum leaves. Tea, maybe.Would you sleep all day?- Nope. Too much to learn about, though during summer maybe...Would you kill yourself? - As above. Too much to learn about.Would you be a cop? - Geeks vs. muscly guy's with guns. Sure, we'll, ah, unleash our iron muscles of steel and run away very, very fast.Would you be a robber? - Nah. Not aglie enough, and not fast enough at rapid leg fighting (a.k.a run like f***!)Would you be a mugger? - ...... are we there yet?Would you be a regular person? - Just as average as everyone else.Would you like to exist on this earth? - Is there another planet with lots of computers on it?Would you die of boredom? - Nope. As above.Would you invent games? - I dunno. Maybe i'd invent the 'kill the guy who uninvented computers' game?Would you invent more games? - Sigh?Would you think about inventing computers? - I'd prob's DO it, not think about it.SO there ya go, kids.

Call me old-fashioned, but there's one thing i hate about flouro lights : they make any decent room look like a gosh-darned hospital. Maybe it's because of the fact that they produce light evenly across the spectrum with a slight bias towards blue. Which is the problem. I don't know why, but blue light just makes me feel irritable and all that (well during nightime at least - it's not so bad at day.)Our good friends, however, the incandescent lightbulb, produces light biased towards red, orange and yellow, though, which makes everyone feel warm and fuzzy inside. However, one may observe that a) they produce a lot of heat - smething you don't need in a QLD summer, esp. when you're running a couple computers in the same room and they chew more energy (all that heat is electricity that isn't going towards making electrons jump around and produce photons of glorious, visible light).So my question is : why do I not see flouro lights made in some ultra-special way so that they produce 'warm' light? Surely all you would have to do is put a coating on there that absorbs some of the blue light, and you might even be able to use a chemical that re-emits it as something with a lower wavelength so it doesn't just heat up the tube (that's wasted energy.)Of course, if such a thing already exists, feel free to tell me about it - then you can slap me over the face some. After you send me a few

We lub dreamweaver. Heck, it has the best standards support of any editing product around, since MX at least, because it worked with the WaSP group to clean up its act. And it supports PHP. (i think Frontpage only supports ASP, being a MS gig and all.)I think that you can outgrow dreamweaver, though. The last few months, I've moved away from using Dreamweaver to using normal text editors (not notepad : actually i'm using SciTE and BBedit, and Quanta or KATE (or KEdit or whatever it's called this week) if i can get K over my miserable 56k connection. It just works faster for me than dreamweaver, because it's a more direct interface (brain->fingers->computer, instead of brain->fingers->DW->computer)Still though, Dreamweaver roxors. BBEdit just roxors more

Sigh. And we thought slashdot dupes were bad.....In any case, Opera rules but doesn't have extensions like Firefox (more specifically Adblock and Scrapbook), Firefox rules (esp. the Deer Park betas) but it a touch slow, and IE just sucks.

SnagIt (https://www.techsmith.com/) : lets you capture pretty darn much ANYTHING, from video to directx game screenshots (or video, if you want to). It's also problably cheaper than the Macromedia product, techsmith being smaller than macromedia and all.

One of my friends friends decided to kick a block of concrete one day, and, lo and behold, the block of concrete had a reinforcing bar sticking out of it. So, happily bleeding out, she hustled herself up to the hospital - and then spent an hour or so bleeding out onto the floor while the routine appointments continued as normal.Aussie hospitals ain't the best places to work or go, and my mum works in one :|