This page asserts that "Xcode 4 is a free download for all members of the iOS and Mac Developer Programs.", continuing "Sign in to your account to begin the download." and according to Apple, an account costs 99$/year.

Maybe I am missing something big here, for example "free" meaning "free" as in "free beer if you buy a subscription", but I have since suggested installing Debian. Proper package management makes it vastly easier to install and develop software.

I use RecordMyDesktop.

The glitter.py script is your friend; it just outputs the audio bitstream. You can pipe that into sox but I wouldnt know how to capture the output of this in Windows *SCNR*.

Working example that outputs 16 seconds of the track "sidekick" (128000 = 8000 * 16): ./glitter.py `cat tracks/sidekick.glitch` | head -c128000 | sox -c 1 -r 8000 -t u8 - sidekick.wav

Before IBNIZ, viznut was using a C compiler to, well, discover minimal music. You should read his paper regarding algorithmic composition using small programs. und check out my repository of formulas for C programs that generate sound.

People without easy access to compilers (I met a gal a few days ago who had old OS X and no 99$ to spare for a dev account) should still check out a track from the repository as wave file to get an impression of the style.

I also wrote a program generating a crude chiptunes version of the IT crowd melody (of course, the melody is not algorithmically generated, but rather encoded in the source, feel free to consider that cheating).

I wrote something similar to IBNIZ, yet vastly simpler, a composing software called glitched (needs pygame 1.9.1). The forth variant I use has no subroutines or recursion and is not even turing complete and the stack has only 256 fields. However, it is compatible with that of several other implementations (see README). Like IBNIZ, it has live editing and stack visualisation.

It is important to note that sound made with this kind of tools is not limited to chiptunes. There is a video of an older version of glitched, doing Karplus-Strong-string synthesis.

(Apologies in advance to the users of a totally unrelated glitch library, which is also written in python. I have met one of it's developers last night and we agreed insane troll logic dictates a merger of our two projects to rectify the namespace collision. I may have to bring that up again when he is sober.)

There is a project called Minetest-c55. It is not as featureful as Minecraft, but written in C++ (using Irrlicht) and licensed under the GPL2 (or – as I remember – at your option, any later version). You can check it out on Bitbucket.

Disclaimer: I maintain a fork called Minetest (Minetest Delta) with some added features (new block types etc.), which can be found on GitHub. Look at the screenshots.

I'd suggest filing a bug then.

That really isn't supposed to happen, but then I only tested it with Gecko and Webkit. What Opera version are you using ?

Used to love XKCD.

Me too, I think the noise ratio is going up for at least a year. But then he is not at NASA anymore, so he probably does less math stuff. I think another problem is that honest criticism is not taken into account -- actually I asked Randall on IRC and he said that he fears getting obsessed with quality and prefers not worrying. While I see that this might be enjoyable, I think a little more thought couldn't be that damaging; just compare his approach to the Debian/OpenSSL disaster to my one to see what I mean.

Incidentally, 4chan is on the australian censorship list. Google is also censoring its search results regarding /b/.

IMO, an "educated" opinion from a technical crowd is in any way better than a simple Google query. I don't know, for example, how Google could possibly have a differentiated answer to the pros and cons of particular clients.

Unless you are looking for massive scalability (as in: 500 users in a single chat room), Jabber / XMPP can handle everything better than IRC. There are things like automagic contact lists (have everyone in your department on the list, centrally administrated), working encryption, publish-subscribe ... and of course the XMPP standard is easy to extend, as it's XML based.

considering that its been around for 5 years, the answer may not surprise you - or anyone for that matter: yes it is. i know only of one reliable way to crash it and that was a problem with the xmpp specification and has since been fixed. even running svn - which i do - does not necessarily mean there will be any instabilities.