Look up the Freespace SCP. You can get the original games (for the data files) off gog.com for $10 each.

I've never been a fan of Flash/Java/Javascript/ActiveX.

Let random webpages run arbitary code on my computer? Sounds like a great idea!

Some marketeer must have come up with that one.

"Portion of this graph that looks like Pac-Man."

I'm surprised Slashdot compiler doesn't bitch that I call strlen() on every loop iteration.

Wow. When I got bored with having to write it for the 12th damn time, all I did was this:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    srand((unsigned)time(0));
    char* target = "Hello, world!";
    char work = (char)(rand()%97)+32;
    int cycle = 0;
    while (cycle != strlen(target)){
        while ((work = (char)(rand()%97)+32) != target[cycle]) {}
          putchar(work);
        ++cycle;
    }
    return 0;
}

My favorite of these were the old Comcast ads.

The ones that said something alone the lines of " Unlimited internet! Download music and more!"

The point of a netbook is size and weight, not speed. More power is nice, but the creep up towards 12" screens is annoying.

> ... because people with depression must wear black on the outside, as black as they feel on the inside.

I hear they seem a little 'strange'.

As far as cleaning up after this crap, I've been relying on Trinity a lot. LiveCD, boots, mounts and scans. http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12

The only problem is, you need some Linux skills to use it. Last time I applied it, it missed the Windows partition and I had to go in and manually mount it.

If I were better with rolling Linux LiveCDs, I would add more scanners and set it up to run out of X

Attempted murder? Now honestly what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted -c-h-e-m-i-s-t-r-y- peace?

10 yrs ago, $11/credit, used books for ~$30-$50 (math books about $75). I'm having issues looking up the current fees.

This already exists... I went to community college for about $300-$400 a semester, including books, supplies and parking. What, just because it's on the internet, it's a new concept?

Oh. RIGHT...

My external IP works from inside too.

Wow. This is the first time that that old fearmongering "Your computer is BROADCASTING an IP ADDRESS!" ad makes sense. :V

God, I love flashing out from under active systems. tldr: Hooray for updates that break wireless and then the whole router. Also, how moronic is it to have the default wireless config be "ddwrt" SSID with no security and no password?

I heard about this on Wednesday, but made sure I had remote admin off [why, God, why would you ever have that on unless you're doing weird voodoo with a wireless point NATting inside your internal network?] and sailed on, planning to takedown and flash sometime Saturday.

This news pushed it to the top of my cut list. People, I know this is old hat to many of you, but backup, backup, backup. I had in hand before I started:

* Settings backed up.
* A copy of the old firmware
* A copy of the new firmware

First flash seemed to go just fine, router said it was rebooting... and then didn't. Uptime still read 20 days. Issued web GUI reboot command... nothing.

Went to the closet, unplugged, replugged. Correct version confirmed, traffic flowing... wireless vanished. What the hell. Went in, redid all the wireless settings. Nope. But I do have a Linksys_SES_blahblah network in view. Nah. Couldn't be.

Unplugged the router again... nope, the SES net is still on the air. Good. Plugged the router back in... "ddwrt" net appears. Aw crap. Plugged the laptop in and changed the password and took the (unpassworded, unencrypted) net off the air. Fuck, that's a moronic default config.

To make a long story less long: flashed back to v24-sp1, reapplied my saved config, flashed the new config, it broke AGAIN. Thought for a minute, applied saved state, crossed fingers... and everything worked. Phew.

Now I have to go around unconfusing all the laptops. Desktops should be fine, since they (hopefully) didn't re-DHCP while the router was at 192.168.1.1 ...

Judge doesn't get tech, nothing to see here. Move along.