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Cool, could you relay the fomula to us please. I want to find my birthday in Pi.~Viz

I figured you meant log base 2, we are after all, essentially dealing with binary. Thanks for all the help with this algorithm, I will probably have another algorithm question soon, os keep your eyes open.~Viz

Thanks for the code MC. And as for the idea, if you look at dates, my post here (please note, only staff can see this post, sorry guys) clearly shows I had the idea first (look at the timestamps). Not that I'm complaining, I'm going to work on an assembly one soon. The code MC provided will be helpful. And my idea was for this forum anyway, so .

M^E, to answeer your question which none bothered to answer, the reason "<include iostream.h>" does not get outputted with echo is that it is interpreted as html tags, and since the browser doesn't recognize them it ignores them. They will appear in the source if you view it.

And MC, what do the "`" symbols mean, I'm not familiar with them (the accent mark things)?

~Viz

Okay, first of all, I didn't install the certificate, I'm going to do another test today where I do (I don't remember why I didn't, but I had a reason). Second of all, just to make sure, if I am using mIRC and someone uses this Java IRC applet, we will see each other, correct? And also, if applets can't run network things except on the host system, is there a java application that runs in the background and relays the request for data thorugh ports? (Did that make any sense?)~Viz

In my book, you're both programmers, whether or not you consider yourself in that category. If you've ever done any programming, you are a programmer.~Viz

In IE, the applet ran but could not connect citing "Unable to connect : java.security.AccessControlException : access denied (java.net.SocketPermission irc.dal.net resolve)". Question, what would be the difference between the IRC channel online and a regular chat program?~Viz

Yes, the smaller a partition (up to a point) the faster the reading if data is. This is changing as hard drives get better, but in general, a read/write head on a hard disk can go to the beginning of a partition very quickly, however, traveling through a partition takes more time as frequently jumps to certain locations on a hard drive cannot be accomplished easily.~Viz

Okay, idea for keeping the wax paper cool, please tell me if you think it will work. Place a bunch of ice in a sealable plastic bag. Place that bag in a sealable plastic bag. Make sure the ice is flat. Place the wax paper over that and another piece of wax paper over that. The idea is to use the ice for cooling (since this is only a temporary setup) and have the condesation be bewteen pieces of wax paper to keep it away from the motherboard.~Viz

I probably should get A+ certified, need to find out how much it costs. Or maybe I'll apply for a job at Best Buy Geek Squad, they will pay for you to take the exam. Anyway, temporarily, could I just lay my motherboard down some wax paper (I want to see if I can overclock the CPU on the motherboard, but it's not in a case right now, and I don't feel like sticking it in one unless I can overclock it to make it worthwhile)?~Viz

Right, I figured on the keep clean and all the other stuff too. (I worked for a time as an intern in a comp repair shop that had a similar setup, but they were not the brightest comp people (they sold computers with blood in them!) so I wanted confirmation here.) Thank you so much, and for the case modding stories, I think I'm going to make a case this summer (I have some other hardware (not the comp kind, building) work to do and will have leftover pieces).~Viz

Age three or four, that is when I was first allowed to use a computer for games. I had already mastered large number multiplication and long division and had a good grasp of how math topics worked. And at the time my sister was making a program in QBasic for school.~Viz

I have the computer components, and I have things to raise the motherboard off of the mounting object. I'm assuming that it would be a good idea to raise the motherboard off the object. Do I have to worry about ground the object, or with wood (I keep mentioning wood because I think I have some) would grounding not be an issue?Pricewatch is a good tip. And one of these days I'm going to start case modding, but right now I don't have all the tools I'd need (or the funds).~Viz

The larger a disk partition, the more area the head of the HD has to travel to read the whole area, so If the file table sends the head to the end of a 120 GB partition it has a ways to go, whereas if It has to go to the end of 20GB partition, it needs to cover less area. The more are it has to cover, the more time it takes because the head can only move at top speed at the RPM speed, and that is in minutes, not seconds.~Viz

I want to build a test setup for components. THe setup is going to include a motherboard, processor, processor fan, powersupply, maybe a chasis fan. What I need to know is, is it okay to mount this on wood, and if so, how thick should the would be? Also, anyother very low cost suggestions (preferably <$10) you have for something to mount this on would be helpful.~Viz

Any plain text editor will work for me, although sometimes I like one that changes the colors of tags and pieces of tags.I'll work with whatever's available, though. When I didn't have XP and notepad didn't display lines I used *shudder* Word.~Viz

Okay.. sorry to say but NONE of the above codes worked. I tried them all out today, tried tweaking around with the ideas too - but couldn't get them to work at all.

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That's because they all relied on php. We learned last night that php, unlike what you originally said, doen't work. I'm going to try a new javascript version, but it will take time.

Cool, I never knew about the hatch patterns, how does the hex value determine hatchiness?~Viz

It is in English. It's not everyone's first language, but I would assume that most people here can speak it - and it's the only audible human language that I know.

It is imperitive that all tutorials be in English. Even though it may not be their first language, everyone here should no English. The Terms of Service and the Introduction require that all posts on this forum be in English.

 

~Viz

Similar progression for me. In 5th grade I started in Qbasic. Dabbled in assembly for libraries for qb7.1, then gave up. I switched over to c++, didn't like it and moved to working with websites. I learned HTML (which is NOT a programming language, it is a markup language) and javascript. Then my free webhoster allowed perl CGI scripts, so I gobbled that up. Feeling more confident with my ability I went back to c++ and added java.Then I got a TI83+ and started programing in BASIC for that. I wanted more control and started learning assembly for the calc and quickly switched to assembly for the pc. Then I joined Xisto, got my hosting and started learning PHP and mySQL because I had access to it.Somewhere along the way I also learned VB.I hope to progress soon to GEL. GEL is a language I am writing in assembly designed primrily for making games. There are currently no high level languages that I can think of that are not based on other languages designed for games. So I decided to start work on GEL. (GEL = Game Engineering Language and is pronounced JEHL (the eh means short E)).~VizP.S. I am going to try out your code m^e, it looks really good. It reads like it checks a point and if it exists then it drawsa box for the point somewhere else, but shouldn't it be BF not B to fill in the box?P.P.S. Do you know any vesa coding in assembly?P.P.P.S If anyone wants to help on the GEL project, PM me.

Tcave, that is like saying that if I publish a book, and someone wants to copy it and pass on that information without crediting me, for or not for their profit, then that is perfectly okay. The internet is just another way of publishing something, except it reaches a larger audience than books and cuts out the middle man. The only alternative is to not publish anything at all. If no one's intellectual property is respected online, then people will not publish online. That's the way things go.~Viz

Sorry! I was a bit cranky earlier 

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That's perfectly alright. Could you possibly provide us with a console view of all the messages your laptop displays on boot up? An I'm assuming it doesn't get to the part of the bootup process in which the screen scrolls, but I fit does, make a note of that, and put those messages up as well. Then we can have a better understanding of what exactly going on. Also, system specs (especially manufacturer, model, and year of laptop) would be helpful.

 

~Viz

Actually, because of the internet's effect on published work, the U.S. has very good laws about intellectual property. As soon as text or an image is published in the U.S., in any form, on paper or online, it becomes the intellectual property of the publisher and the publisher may mark it with the word Copyright (not the © symbol, just the word). If work published in the U.S. is on someone else's website, it is that person's fault, not U.S. law. (I can't speak for India.) http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

~Viz

Yes, it is very helpful to have this post. And I'm sure overture meant MC not M^E.~Viz

And with the constant changes in hardware specifications dictated by the software makers--nobody really wants to write a solid OS in assembly. At least, nobody wants to write another Linux in assembly.

 

Inline assembly... well... I can't say I've done much of that. Anyone else got an opinion on that?

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I beg to differ, but there are many projects designed towards creating large scale osses in assembly. For more information on some of these, visit osdever.net. I believe CottonOS there is a large scale project (I haven't looked at CottonOs, so not 100% sure).

 

As far as inline assembly goes, inline assembly is great. It is highly optimized snippets of code that allow for the ease of coding provided by a higher level language with the power of assembly. The only problem is that many compilers were not designed for inline assembly and thus become very inefficient if making too many calls to inline assembly functions.

 

~Viz

I followed most of the explanation. But I'm still unclear as to the purpose of the "." in "@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si". Also, what exactly does preg_replace() do? Thanks.~Viz