HCS Forum - How I Spend My Time

by wolupgm6 at 8:04 PM EST on January 14, 2008: i have an identical computron somewhere... i would upload some sort of photo, though, as you all know, my photos fail...
by wolupgm6 at 8:16 PM EST on January 14, 2008: I'm Working On An Animated Series, And I Will Upload It Soon. Here Is A Preview Of One Of The Characters, Berkel.

Ugly Little Fellow, Ain't He?

edited 8:17 PM EST January 14, 2008
by unknownfile at 8:51 PM EST on January 14, 2008: looks like an accurate representation of what i think you look like.

also, you just uploaded an image with success. isn't that odd for someone who can't upload images?

fail

edited 8:52 PM EST January 14, 2008
by wolupgm6 at 10:12 PM EST on January 15, 2008: yeah, well, but if you want to see the series, it is at www.freewebs.com/wolup. it has been updated, and has been working on for three years. post your comments on the forums there.
by Lunar at 4:21 AM EST on January 16, 2008: I can post images too.
Uh-oh by Yoshinkeru at 12:11 PM EST on January 16, 2008
by wolupgm6 at 2:48 AM EST on January 18, 2008: oh no! i cant find my buckle!
by wolupgm6 at 7:29 AM EST on January 18, 2008: unknownfile... thanks... considering what Berkel looks like and what I look like... Berkel looks better, so im gonna take that as a compliment...
netport by hcs at 5:03 AM EDT on April 9, 2008: Just spent six hours writing this:

netport

Supposed to be for tunneling port I/O over a TCP network connection. And it works, but is slooooow (25 minutes to transfer a 2 MB file to a v64jr). I think it can be significantly sped up, notes are in the archive.

edited 5:04 AM EDT April 9, 2008

Well, we're 5x faster with the simple addition of TCP_NODELAY. Still abysmally slow, though.

edited 5:50 AM EDT April 9, 2008

So here's the faster code:
netport0-1

edited 9:41 PM EDT April 9, 2008
by nensondubois at 10:40 PM EDT on April 9, 2008: edited 10:41 PM EDT April 9, 2008
by hcs at 4:18 AM EDT on April 10, 2008: Thanks for the arbitrary image. This isn't really an image thread, though.

I tried netport again, running the server on a faster machine (which has a parallel port as well, though I'd forgotten). 37 seconds for the 2 MB transfer, much better.
Still, it looks like I'd be better of doing what I want to do right on the machine with the parallel port rather than working on netport any longer. It was worth doing, though, and it might come in handy in some future situation.

So as I put the code away here's netport0-2, with proper detection of disconnection.

edited 5:06 AM EDT April 10, 2008
by unknownfile at 1:10 PM EDT on April 14, 2008: Thank you for wasting my class time I had to use cleaning up your crap. For massive amounts of MP3s, you should try megaupload. This should save some disk space on the server, so that's a plus.

edited 1:12 PM EDT April 14, 2008
by nensondubois at 3:10 PM EDT on April 14, 2008: WTF!?! Ah well I got them on somewhere else!
FYI it was not a wise decision to delete them nor block my IP address.

edited 3:17 PM EDT April 14, 2008
by hcs at 4:21 PM EDT on April 14, 2008: UF, don't screw with other people. If there's a problem let me know.
[edit]
Retraction, I had misunderstood the nature of the deletions. nenson, use the space I gave you.

edited 5:14 PM EDT April 14, 2008
by nensondubois at 8:49 PM EDT on April 14, 2008: I'm am now using the webspace you provided me and apologize to UF for my irrational outburst. Hey my English is better!
by nensondubois at 4:58 PM EDT on April 15, 2008: How do I make it so everyone can view my files?
by hcs at 6:17 PM EDT on April 15, 2008: http://hcs64.com/nensondubois/ ?
by hcs at 7:54 AM EDT on April 20, 2008: Just spent some time cleaning out my glorious IBM Model M keyboard. I picked it up on the curb years ago and love using it. It's been in the closet for a few years since my roommate complained about the noise. While doing room inventory (in preparation for move) I took it out of the closet and decided to get it back into shape. I cleaned most of the gunk that had accumulated under the keys, and washed the keys themselves and the shell. Doesn't look half bad, now. Still loud as ever :)

Part No 1391401
Fru No 1392090
ID No 7712954
Date 08JAN93
Plt No L1-CB Model M
Made in the USA
WR project by unknownfile at 2:42 PM EDT on April 20, 2008: I am working on an essay for World Religions about why religion should be kept out of movies. As a result, I have reviewed the Passion of the Christ, which can be summarized thus:

WHY THE FUCK DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A MESSAGE AS SIMPLE AS "JEWS KILLED JESUS" INTO A MOVIE FULL OF BEATING, TORTURE AND BAD ACTING? TERRIBLE MOVIE IS TERRIBLE.
by nensondubois at 8:51 PM EDT on April 20, 2008: I can't write essays for shit but everyone loves how correct my ideas and philosophy is; it beats me why any God would put someone thru torture in the first place just to prove a point people will just forget very soon after.
by hcs at 6:56 AM EDT on April 21, 2008: Have we forgotten? Disregarded, maybe.
by marioman at 7:25 AM EDT on April 21, 2008: There is a lot of theology that is missing there too.

edited 7:40 AM EDT April 21, 2008
cmd.exe disabled, this! by unknownfile at 10:37 AM EDT on April 21, 2008: Windows XP has the ability to turn off the command prompt, so I whipped up a batch file to get around the restriction. It's probably been done before but I'm bloody bored at the moment, so here it is:

@echo off
echo workbench by unknownfile
echo a simple batch script to bypass shitty administrators
rem Simply switch to the user's current directory, a la cmd
chdir %USERPROFILE%
:Command_Input
echo Current directory is %CD%. Enter a commmand below:
SET /P DICKS=
%DICKS%
goto Command_Input

A small command prompt in 10 lines.
Hmm... CMD.exe by Elven Spellmaker at 12:14 PM EDT on April 21, 2008: A good Administator would stop batch files from being run on a School Network... Like ours...

The security on our network is so tough =/, I have tried to breach it many times, but with no avail, as *.exe, and *.bat are both blocked. We have a VirtualP.C. program on out School Network, with VB/PHP, on it. I can install or run anything on that, but unfortunately a Virtual P.C. cannot interact with the main P.C....
by hcs at 3:57 PM EDT on April 21, 2008: how 'bout .com, heh. .pif? whatever the shortcut extension is?
A nice feature of our school computer labs (the general Windows/Mac ones, not the Linux ones) is that there are almost no restrictions, the machine just reimages itself on boot.

edited 4:00 PM EDT April 21, 2008
RM... by Elven Spellmaker at 7:37 PM EDT on April 21, 2008: A command file would probably not run either, I think a pif is a image file?

RM resticts everything possible, although when I had a school laptop (with Privileged rights, so I could use XAMPP [PHP Stuffs]) it locked me out of the registry, and as I could run *.exe files on this laptop, I just ran AdAware SE and got rid of the registry key locking me out of the resgistry! =)

RM even restricts taskmanager and DXdiag...

As far as I am aware our P.C.s are "built" every so often and so the reimaging doesn't happen on our network...
by hcs at 3:49 AM EDT on April 22, 2008: Program Information File
.pif is one of the many extensions that are executable by default, if you rename a .exe to .pif it'll run. They probably thought of that on your system, though.
A Yoshi Story - a sprite visual novel by Yoshinkeru at 7:00 PM EDT on April 28, 2008: Well, since this seems to be the go-to "off-topic", I'd like to publish this here.*

I've worked long and hard on this for a while, and now I've finally completed the first part of the story.

Gentleman, ladies, behold! I give you... A Yoshi Story.

Instructions: Unzip into any directory, then run the main Yoshi_Story.exe Unlikely, but if it says it needs a certain DLL, it has been included; simply copy into your system32 folder (you'll ned administrator privileges). This was what my previous topic was about, actually.

Enjoy!

*There is one connection, and that is the use of the 64th Note plugin for some of the background musics used here.

edited 6:57 PM EDT April 29, 2008
by hcs at 8:12 PM EDT on April 28, 2008: Cool, I'll take a look.
For reference, the only place we (and by We I mean Me) frown upon off-topic is in an unrelated thread. Feel free to create a new one; though it's mostly vgm discussion here that's not a rule.
by hcs at 5:28 AM EDT on May 7, 2008: Whee, I found CHDK, a firmware enhancement for digital cameras. Been playing around with it a little, a nice feature is RAW support. Even with "Superfine" JPEG compression (which produces 5 MB-ish files) there is still a fair amount of artifacts.
Comparison (this is the same image, compressed with the highest quality that the camera provides and the RAW dump that CHDK enables):
RAW

JPEG

Particularly notable is the UPC area.
Of course it also does some processing to make it look better, but it's nice to have the raw ccd output sometimes.

edited 5:28 AM EDT May 7, 2008

edited 5:30 AM EDT May 7, 2008
hcs imagines that people care by hcs at 6:16 PM EDT on May 13, 2008: Michael Leyton gave us a pep talk before we took the final exam for his class.
by MarkGrass at 7:15 PM EDT on May 13, 2008: That must have been neat, atleast for geeks like us. :D

From what i've read about Leyton, he is a mathematical and musical genius...
by nensondubois at 8:07 PM EDT on May 13, 2008: I went on a fishing trip today which sucked because I hate fishing so I hung out inside with friends.
word of the day: ensorcelled by hcs at 9:21 PM EDT on May 13, 2008: @MarkGrass: Did you by any chance read that in something written by Leyton? The man is so full of himself it's amazing, but it's OK because every great artist in history thinks exactly the same as he does.
I recall, on the first day of class, he gave a talk about overcoming adversity, being childlike, saying "civilization" sarcastically, and not growing into a useless adult. He said "really, to be president you need to have the mind of a five year old," and I broke into applause. I don't think that's what he was going for, though.
I'll acknowledge that his math is neat, but the messiah complex is a bit wearying.

---

Some photos.
Secret advertising burial ground 2
radio transmitter

edited 9:51 PM EDT May 13, 2008
by MarkGrass at 10:21 PM EDT on May 13, 2008: Ahahaha, actually, alot i've read about him were "insights" by others. Though, some were by Leyton, himself. I have no problem with that because...

""The man is so full of himself it's amazing, but it's OK because every great artist in history thinks exactly the same as he does.""

EVERY single person I have ever met with the slightest amount of intelligence (that didn't "follow the leader"), is a cocky son of a bitch. And I love it. People with natural-born intelligence deserve the right to be full of themself. If they weren't, how would anyone else "learn"? They set examples for us all, and teach even when they're not even aware of the fact [that they are teaching].

""I recall, on the first day of class, he gave a talk about overcoming adversity, being childlike, saying "civilization" sarcastically, and not growing into a useless adult. He said "really, to be president you need to have the mind of a five year old," and I broke into applause.""

Pwahahahaha, that is f-ing great, and perhaps the greatest thing I have heard in a long while. After reading that exact sentence (president-related), I immediately "cracked" a huge smile and literally gave my PC monitor a "thumbs up". I couldn't agree more... but i'll spare you my view of politics ;)

the messiah complex is a bit wearying

Hmmm, I wasn't aware that he publicly spoke of religion... what exactly are his views of the "messiah"?

@"Photo of fallen laptop" - I don't think that laptop was dropped from a "higher story"; it looks like someone beat the shit out of it with a blunt object, then threw it. The HDD looks like it had seen it's "better days"... Besides, it's a Gateway; I would have thrown it out a window, myself (<-owns a Gateway >.>).

P.S. I would pay to own that KFC bucket-sign. @_@

edited 10:28 PM EDT May 13, 2008
by hcs at 5:41 AM EDT on May 14, 2008: Well, the messiah complex is not necessarily religious. He is convinced that physics, mathematics, and art criticism have been completely missing the point because the mainstream theories don't use his theory of shape as memory storage. From page 4 of his book for the course, "The Structure of Paintings":

"
STANDARD FOUNDATIONS FOR GEOMETRY
(Euclid, Klein, Einstein)
A geometric object is an invariant; i.e., memoryless.

NEW FOUNDATIONS FOR GEOMETRY
(Leyton)
A geometric object is a memory store.

Furthermore, my argument is that the latter view of geometry is the appropriate one for the computer age. A computational system is founded on the use of memory stores. Our age is concerned with the retention of memory rather than the loss of it. We try to buy computes with greater memory, not less. People are worried about declining into old age, because memory decreases.
The point is that, for the computational age, we don't want a theory of geometry based on the notion of memorylessness - the theory of the last 2,500 years. We want a theory of geometry that does the opposite: Equates shape with memory storage. This is the theory proposed and developed in my books."

That and his moderately lame motivational speeches which popped up all the time.
I don't quite understand why I had a problem with him. I had a similarly-minded teacher in high school and he remains one of my all-time favorites. It may be because I was taking Leyton's class to fulfill requirements for my degree that I really couldn't care less about, but that doesn't seem very convincing. Had it been a geometry class, without the appeals to emotion (which in the end still came down to misuse of terms and pointing at a line and saying "doesn't this look depressed?"), it may have been fine.
Oh, and he insisted on emphasizing every syllable in "e-mo-tion". He wanted to emphasize the "-motion" part, but it got old quick. I suggested (after class) that maybe he could just stress the two parts, which would at least make sense, it would be tolerable. He agreed but didn't change.
Maybe he'll turn out to have been right about the vast importance of his work and I'll look like a fool, but I hope you can at least see why I felt this way.

At least the exam was easy.

I always thought those bucket things were cool, too:
desktop

edited 5:45 AM EDT May 14, 2008
google maps by unknownfile at 10:38 AM EDT on May 20, 2008: Some guys in my comsci class did a VB application that essentially just uses Google Maps in order to do stuff. As someone can just open up Internet Explorer etc to use Google Maps, I did an MSPaint of the whole thing:

Now, thanks to this stupidity, I am going to be including a Google Maps feature in my own presentation that will be coming up.
by hcs at 12:27 AM EDT on May 25, 2008: In preparation to move, I went through my huge stack of CDs looking for anything irreplaceable.
Found some lousy old videos from an English project back in high school, thought I'd share some.
It fell to me to assemble the videos, that other members of the project group had filmed, into a single presentation. Of course they didn't actually get me the videos, on VHS and 8mm, until the night before it was due, and I knew nothing about video editing. I had a computer with an ATI All-in-wonder card, which did video capture and output, albeit only at 320x240. So I loaded up the videos, burned a lot of stuff to CD (as I only had a 2 GB hard drive), and spliced things together the best I could with VirtualDub. Then I recorded it back onto another VHS tape
Note that the videos are at a fairly high bitrate despite the shitty quality.

Title 90 MB 1:09. I put this together by playing the song (Tangled Up In Blue) in Winamp with the tiny fullscreen visualization running, with the output going to the VCR. I then read that back in, superimposed the text over it (which was made with Aldus Photostyler SE), and eventually wrote it back out to tape.
"High-Quality Productions" is intentionally ironic.

Tim Coffield & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 47 MB 0:37

David Stone & And Then There Were None 36 MB 0:28

Pete & The Hobbit 18 MB 0:11

I was also involved in a skit, which I'm uploading now so you can see just how terrible an actor I am, in addition to being a terrible editor.

edited 12:30 AM EDT May 25, 2008

Inside the Writers' Studio 635 MB 8:23
This might be considered funny if you imagine us playing people trying to act. I think Anthony did a decent job.
For those unaware it's supposed to be approximately the SNL parody of Inside the Actors Studio.
Sorry it's so huge but I don't have the time to reencode it.

edited 1:07 AM EDT May 25, 2008
Return to Forever Returns by hcs at 6:33 PM EDT on May 30, 2008: I saw Return to Forever last night, their first show together in 25 years. Lots of energy, technical proficiency, and good humor. Although none of the songs (all vast complicated works) are destined to become a favorite, it was impossible not to enjoy when the musicians were so energetic and happy to be playing again.

I picked up their Anthology album, here it is: individual ogg Vorbis or zipped ogg Vorbis, FLACs available on request. I hope those of you who have never heard of them will check it out, maybe catch them on the reunion tour.

The drummer, Lenny White, said: "In an era of Boy Bands, we're a Man Band."

edited 6:40 PM EDT May 30, 2008
by hcs at 12:14 AM EDT on June 7, 2008: In case anyone was interested, I started my first non-temporary (well, at least without set endpoint) job this week. I'm at IBM in Austin, working in the AIX group. I'd like to tell you about what I'm working on but
a) I don't know much beyond the name yet
b) IT'S A SECRET TO EVERYBODY.
When it is eventually released I'll point at it.

My office (larger than it looks, w/ door!)

Fwiw, my manager's office is right next door, same size, and also has no window.

My picture for the employee directory (least chubby-looking of many photos).

edited 12:27 AM EDT June 7, 2008
by DrO at 4:35 AM EDT on June 7, 2008: got to love that standardised grey look :)
congrats btw!
-daz
by nensondubois at 9:49 AM EDT on June 7, 2008: That's you hcs? He looks exactly like my teacher, Mitch Miolla. lol

edited 9:50 AM EDT June 7, 2008
Congrats by PokeParadox at 7:31 AM EDT on June 9, 2008: Congratulations HCS, I'm hoping to bag a job soon too! (Interview on the 12th)

Yeah... the greyness... is rather... well grey and no beard again? heh heh.
by hcs at 10:46 PM EDT on June 12, 2008: Now on DSL:

Damned near the advertised speeds, I'm happy.

edited 10:46 PM EDT June 12, 2008
wat by unknownfile at 11:25 PM EDT on June 12, 2008
by hcs at 2:21 AM EDT on June 22, 2008: I'm not sure if I made this up or if I heard it somewhere, can anyone name this song (whistled into Sansa)?

Also I'd still like to know where this comes from.
by anewuser at 2:05 PM EDT on June 22, 2008: let's see...

PS: sad, really....

edited 2:09 PM EDT June 22, 2008
by nensondubois at 12:04 PM EDT on June 23, 2008: No idea on any of those songs.
by bxaimc at 2:51 PM EDT on June 23, 2008: No clue on the first one but the second one sounds like something similar found in Shuffle!, its not exactly the same though.
by bxaimc at 2:51 PM EDT on June 23, 2008: srry, double post :P

edited 2:52 PM EDT June 23, 2008
by unknownfile at 8:01 PM EDT on June 24, 2008: Hi there guys, I would like to say that the blackberry browser sucks as that's what I'm writing this on.

Now for some important stuff.

I said some stuff about something called pipeline a few days back and I don't know how many people will use it (it's some p2p thingy), so I am posting here to recruit potential betatesters for the project. Failing that I will annoy classmates from school about it as they are all on summer vacation anyways.

And Newfoundland is pretty cool.
by Mouser X at 3:01 AM EDT on June 25, 2008: For kicks, I ran the DSL thing. Here's my results.

These results are misleading though. Late at night, the ISP takes off the caps they put on. Usually, it's around 400 down, and 200+something up. Roughly, 50-60 k/s down, and 30 k/s up. Mouser X over and out.
by ElPenguino at 1:22 PM EDT on June 25, 2008: woo
by bxaimc at 5:27 PM EDT on June 25, 2008: Satisfied ^^

edited 5:29 PM EDT June 25, 2008
by hcs at 4:10 AM EDT on June 29, 2008: Behold! The Three Terabyte Toaster! (pictured with actual large toaster for size comparison)
An Iomega StorCenter Pro 150d with 4 750 GB drives, with RAID 5 I get a bit over 2 TB usable.

I've named it max (for Max Headroom).

edited 4:10 AM EDT June 29, 2008
by marioman at 7:26 AM EDT on June 29, 2008: Good grief. That's a lot of space. The question is, is will you fill it up?

edited 7:27 AM EDT June 29, 2008
by nensondubois at 2:41 PM EDT on June 29, 2008: Do you even need that much space?
by nensondubois at 2:41 PM EDT on June 29, 2008: Does anyone even need that much space?
by hcs at 2:56 PM EDT on June 29, 2008: I need it to store all the double posts on my forum.
And I assure you, there is no such thing as too much hard disk space.

edited 2:57 PM EDT June 29, 2008
by unknownfile at 3:11 PM EDT on June 29, 2008: Congratulations on expanding your massive porn collection.
by Syphor at 7:57 PM EDT on June 29, 2008: I second hcs's comment "There is no such thing as too much hard disk space."
Especially if you happen to work with digital video or high-res multitrack audio. For instance, a single MiniDV tape is 13GB.
by nensondubois at 9:25 PM EDT on June 29, 2008: I guess. I only wrote that in a rush.
merciless oldschool music rape by unknownfile at 2:05 PM EDT on June 30, 2008: I'm bored, so I opened up the source code to in_msx and changed the SCC wave settings around. Now it only plays square and saw waves. Doesn't seem to have changed the quality of the music much.

Providence from Space Manbow, unmodified
The same track, modified
by Lunar at 4:15 PM EDT on June 30, 2008: hehe, i love that OST, lots of time sig fun. PISTON UEHARA, FULL FORCE.
by wolupgm6 at 1:39 AM EDT on July 7, 2008: i have a 5 tb harddisk... ill upload an image once my imageshack account works again.

a temporary link is here: dont save target as, just click
by DChronos at 1:49 AM EDT on July 7, 2008: So, who's gonna get post #666? Wait a second..... Awww, fu$@%*$#!

I do whatever I want to do in my free time. It varies a lot.
by wolupgm6 at 10:48 PM EDT on July 7, 2008: Ha! I Got 665 & 667!!
by marcusss at 11:33 PM EDT on July 7, 2008: Don't need anymore bad luck in my life.. Have enough already ;)
by hcs at 7:47 PM EDT on July 8, 2008: Guys, you gotta help me, this song has burrowed its way into my brain and I'm going to go insane if I can't place it. It something like this. It feels like an anime ending song. Notice the tempo change, I think that is either the chorus or another song that has somehow gotten stuck in here in my mind.

Apologies in advance for the whistling.

edited 8:07 PM EDT July 8, 2008
by DChronos at 8:31 PM EDT on July 8, 2008: I see the number 666 just about every other day on the counter at work. I even randomly look at my mileage counter and there it is, 666 miles... I've even received a paycheck for $666.66. Top that bad luck.
by wolupgm6 at 11:19 PM EDT on July 8, 2008: i have a nephew who was born 6/6/06? does that count?
by wolupgm6 at 8:10 AM EDT on July 18, 2008: hmm... damn, my school blocked hcs, 99% of proxy pages and even operator. does anyone have a batch to change ip adress?
by nensondubois at 2:43 PM EDT on July 18, 2008: No I don't feel like helping but google does.
by wolupgm6 at 11:20 PM EDT on July 18, 2008: netsh.exe

does anyone have this?
by hcs at 7:40 PM EDT on July 24, 2008: Feel free to stand in awe of my glorious education.

edited 7:40 PM EDT July 24, 2008
by Maple at 11:02 PM EDT on July 24, 2008: *takes another brick from the wall and flings it at hcs*
by wolupgm6 at 4:44 AM EDT on July 25, 2008: yeah, yeah, yeah... two more years and ill have my honours degree in it. then who's laughing? maybe unknownfile? maybe not... we'll have to see...
by marioman at 8:27 AM EDT on July 25, 2008: Congrats hcs. Now get out there and make some money!

edited 8:29 AM EDT July 25, 2008
by MarkGrass at 10:08 AM EDT on July 25, 2008: Congrats, hcs! Hope the best in life for ya!
by nensondubois at 5:27 PM EDT on July 25, 2008: Yes congrats. I hope to go to computer science in college in a few years.
by wolupgm6 at 11:21 PM EDT on August 15, 2008: hmm... with a few lines of code you can create a random website loader. lets see if it works with youtube...

results= it does. nothing can be more random then what it chose...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBsxqQIu_5s
by hcs at 11:47 PM EDT on August 22, 2008: Behold, I have become a Patron of the Arts!
by hcs at 4:45 PM EDT on September 1, 2008: Some new photos: Video Games Live (not so new) construction site

One of them now graces my desktop.

edited 12:04 AM EDT September 2, 2008
by hcs at 2:35 AM EDT on September 13, 2008: A while ago I decided that I throw together a tune every day, to practice and learn. That lasted all of two days.
I'm going to try to do that again... Here's the lamest thing I've ever abused a keyboard with.
by unknownfile at 9:39 AM EDT on September 24, 2008: I have job. Being jobby, I went out and got headphones and foods. It pays piss pennies, but hey, it's still a job. I hope someday to kick ass and take names in an epic quest to get a life. In the meantime, I ave to enjoy the crap I get.
by Mouser X at 9:51 AM EDT on September 24, 2008: For a limited time (this week only! Or less!) I may have internet access on my PC. Yay! My brother is visiting, and setup his wireless router so that he could use his computer while here's here. Since he's not planning on being here long, I doubt this will last very long. At least this means that I can *finally* get Portal registered... I bought it more than 2 months ago, and haven't been able to use it! Now if I only had a better video card... I got Spore, but it requires pixel shaders 2.0, and my GeForce 4 only supports 1.4. It also requires online registration.

Anyway, for the last few weeks I've been working and going to school. They've cut back the hours I had at work, so I tend to show up whenever I can because I need the money. I also got the LEGO Death Star 1.5 weeks ago, and I've been working on that. I finished building the Detention Center/Block last night. It's a pretty neat set.

I guess that's all for now. Mouser X over and out.
by hcs at 9:00 PM EDT on October 4, 2008: blah

The blah is in reference to the fact that user names are apparently case insensitive, which I only just now realized.

edited 9:07 PM EDT October 4, 2008
by marioman at 10:08 PM EDT on October 4, 2008: That probably isn't a bad thing. Otherwise, someone could register as hcs, HCS, HcS, Hcs, etc.
by nensondubois at 1:02 PM EDT on October 5, 2008: I did some crappy but good .Spc sets at Snesmusic.org
by ugetab at 1:47 PM EDT on October 5, 2008: Just to put this somewhere without resurrecting an old topic:
Single-Track speedup fix for Mkart 64. (Got bored and rechecked everything. 2 numbers in a fast track were switched around in the original calculation)
http://www.angelfire.com/nc/ugetab/Mkart64_speed_update.zip
by nensondubois at 9:46 PM EDT on October 9, 2008: I hate clinics... and one thing lead to another resulting in... http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/11/9/1574507/Boston%20Heart%20Attack%20.mp3

edited 9:47 PM EDT October 9, 2008
by SmartOne at 9:38 PM EDT on October 19, 2008: How I unspend my !time.
by Mouser X at 10:00 AM EDT on October 20, 2008: I spend my time on homework, and work. :( Last night though, I stayed up until about 3-3:30 am (and thus got about 2 hours (most likely less) sleep) playing Etrian Odyssey on the NDS (using an emulator). I've been intending to the get the game for awhile, but after having a chance to actually play it, I've decided that I'll have to hunt down a copy somewhere. It's pretty fun. At least, it was for the little bit I played of it. Something I thought was a little funny: My "lead" character has a picture which fairly distinctly implies that they're female. Nonetheless, the game has no distinction for this, and uses "him" and "his" to refer to the lead... It's a little odd, especially since their name is "Sarah" even.

Oh, and I got LEGO Batman running on my computer (I knew that error message was lying!). It turns out I had somehow disabled DirectX on my PC... I suspect that LEGO Rock Raiders is the culprit there, since it will crash under WinXP with DirectX enabled. I've only played a little bit of LEGO Batman so far. With as much of it as I've played though, I think I need to play LEGO Star Wars (the first one) again. I recall having a lot more fun with that...

Now to leave for class (I hope I'm not late).

[EDIT] I made it in plenty of time. I learned how to read from a file using 2 different methods (by line, and by token), and of course using a "hybrid" method. Cool stuff. Mouser X over and out.

edited 12:02 PM EDT October 20, 2008
by SmartOne at 12:30 PM EDT on October 20, 2008: Emulating Mac System 7 with Basilisk and OS9 with SheepShaver is pretty fun. See, playing the Mac version of Jazz Jackrabbit 2 on Windows XP is so much cooler than simply playing the Windows version. :P

Treasure MathStorm and Sim City 2000 for the win. If anyone somehow owns a copy of HyperStudio 3.1, hook me up, please! Memories.
by unknownfile at 1:34 PM EDT on October 20, 2008: Do I know you from somewhere, SmartOne?
by nensondubois at 8:53 PM EDT on October 20, 2008: Nesdev forum, perhaps?
by SmartOne at 11:15 AM EDT on October 21, 2008: Perhaps. :P
by nensondubois at 5:53 PM EDT on October 21, 2008: How did you like that Boston heart attack?
by SmartOne at 6:58 PM EDT on October 21, 2008: The Patriots are patriotic. :P
I stick out my tongue a lot. I need a tongue-in-cheek emoticon.
by nensondubois at 9:27 PM EDT on October 21, 2008: If you say so. ?) Does anyone want to see a picture of me?

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