The boredom meter was hitting dangerous levels again, so I turned the C program I posted in my last JE into a self-compiling, self-running program.
Basically, wrote a simple bash script that extracts the C program from itself (tail -n 17 $0 > tmp.c), then compiles the program, removes the temporary file, and runs the C program.
Isn't that thrilling?
You know you wanna try it... go ahead. It's C, should compile fine with any C compiler.
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
char x[] = { 37,34,43,1,42,39,1,40,35,1,42,1,44,1 };
int c;
for( c = 0; c < 14; c++ ) {
if( x[c + 1] == 1 )
printf( "%c", ( ( ( x[c] * 2 ) ) + x[++c] ) );
else
printf( "%c", ( x[c] * 2 ) );
}
printf( "\n" );
return 0;
}
(Yes, this is how bored I am.)
Ahh. For some reason I keep thinking how funny it would be to sing "I'm dreaming of a white Kwanzaa". Get it? A "white" kwanzaa?
Anyway, I got $130, chocolate, the spider-man game for PC, and a remote control Mini Cooper. I also had a glass of grape juice spilled on me (and it wasn't my fault).
That mini cooper is awesome, it's incredibly fast and it's a huge scale. I'm not sure what the scale is, but it's bigger than 1:6.
I have a hard decision to make. I'm replacing my PowerBook in the next month or so. I should have about $2,000 to spend. Do I buy a dual 1.25 GHz PowerMac G4, or do I stick with the iBook/PowerBook? I would like to have the PowerMac for its power and SuperDrive, but I do like to take my computer to friends' houses. What do you think?
Well, here it is, Christmas Eve.
My parents seem to have bought me some gift in a box bigger than my little brother. I didn't ask for anything this year, so I'm curious... I did mention wanting one of those R/C Hummer H2s, but I didn't ask them to buy it for me. That reminds me, I should go downstairs and shake the box.
Anyway, I have a new PC in my cluster... the aforementioned "Tiburon", another 166MHz Pentium system. I was planning to overclock it to 200MHz, but it wouldn't even boot Linux or Win95 when overclocked (too unstable).
Slackware 9.1 has an improved install system. You pop thru the package selection menus, then all the packages are installed while you go get another coke. (Previously, you went through each category and waited for those packages to install before moving on to the next category.) The only way it could be better would be if it started installing packages in the background.
Speaking of the cluster, I'm quite annoyed that Feztaa has managed to pass me in the distributed.net stats. *glares* I'm running my cluster again, so we'll see if I can catch up.
So anyway, what are y'all doing today & tomorrow?
Paris Hilton is an ugly ho. She looks like some kind of frickin' alien. Who likes skeletons anyway?
Um... yeah, like that had anything to do with spam. YMMV. HAND.
Okay... I just traded an ethernet hub for a PC. Yes, I'm a pathetic geek with no life. Anyway, I need to name it, and I have yet to think of anything. So I was wondering...
How do you name your systems?
I just posted this on MacSlash in response to a troll. FYI, I'm a white hispanic american. And yes, these are my actual thoughts on the whole issue, but not all of them.
Kwanzza (or however the **** you spell it) isn't even an african thing, it's just the invention of the misguided blacks who think they need to "be african". If you want to be african, move to africa. Stop thinking "African American" and start thinging "A Frickin' American".
Africa is a sucky place in a sucky condition, so why the hell would you want to imitate africans? They've obviously screwed themselves up even beyond americans. (And I'm very pro-american, I live in the US, born in the US. I'm just giving a comparison.)
I finished Descent, on the easiest difficulty level. I even found three secret levels (I believe that's all of them), and yadda yadda yadda.
So now I'm going to replay the game at the next difficulty level. w00t!
Oh yeah, I upgraded my athlon box to 2.4.23, and downloaded disc 1 of slackware 9.1. That means I haven't got all the KDE junk, but I can always install the slack 9.0 KDE junk if I want it.
Hi, I'm JDWTopGuy. I don't use my real name because I think that if you want privacy, you gotta do your part.
I'm a mac bigot, a linux bigot. My favorite prompt is:
export PS1='[\u@\h:\w]\$ '
My favorite linux distro is Slackware. I program in REBOL and Java.
I think that any computer not running distributed.net is a computer being wasted. I don't waste my computers.
I think that Descent is the greatest computer game next to 4x4 Evolution 2.
I'm a talk radio addict. Limbaugh & Hannity, thank you very much.
-JDWTopGuy
I'm now the prowd owner of a locked (onto Cingular) Nokia 5165. Note that it's GSM and Cingular is switching away from GSM, so I can't use it with Cingular.
Not that I even talk on the phone.
d00d i 4/\/\ 73h 1337 h4x0rz i g07 73h c311 ph0n3z0rz d00d Edit: for more leet-speak check out this comment.
I should figure out a way to make it ring so that I can use it as an excuse to ignore people I don't want to talk to.
Any suggestions on what to do with a cell phone with no service?
Behemoth pumped out a whopping 97.1KB to y'all last night. Each hit on / brought up phpSysInfo, which in turn referenced a bunch of graphics and stuff, each hit on dnet.cgi ran a custom log analyzing script which ran through just over 1000 lines of log. Each hit on favicon.ico was a 404. Here's the log (my own accesses have been removed):
172.210.54.198 - "GET
/dnet.cgi HTTP/1.0"
172.210.54.198 - "GET/favicon.ico HTTP/1.0"
137.112.131.139 - "GET / HTTP/1.1"
68.63.46.132 - "GET / HTTP/1.1"
68.63.46.132 - "GET / HTTP/1.1"
68.63.46.132 - "GET/dnet.cgi HTTP/1.1"
68.63.46.132 - "GET / HTTP/1.1"
24.165.93.140 - "GET / HTTP/1.1"
24.165.93.140 - "GET/dnet.cgi HTTP/1.1"
24.165.93.140 - "GET/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1"
24.165.93.140 - "GET / HTTP/1.1"
24.165.93.140 - "GET / HTTP/1.1"
24.165.93.140 - "GET / HTTP/1.1"
24.67.5.97 - "GET/dnet.cgi HTTP/1.1"
68.63.46.132 - "GET/templates/classic/classic.css HTTP/1.1"
68.63.46.132 - "GET / HTTP/1.1"
68.63.46.132 - "GET/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1"
68.63.46.132 - "GET/templates/classic/images/redbar_left.gif HTTP/1.1"
68.63.46.132 - "GET/templates/classic/images/redbar_middle.gif HTTP/1.1"
68.63.46.132 - "GET/templates/classic/images/bar_right.gif HTTP/1.1"
68.63.46.132 - "GET/templates/classic/images/redbar_right.gif HTTP/1.1"
68.63.46.132 - "GET/templates/classic/images/bar_left.gif HTTP/1.1"
68.63.46.132 - "GET/templates/classic/images/bar_middle.gif HTTP/1.1"
66.11.183.126 - "GET/dnet.cgi HTTP/1.1"
66.11.183.126 - "GET/templates/classic/classic.css HTTP/1.1"
66.11.183.126 - "GET / HTTP/1.1"
66.11.183.126 - "GET/templates/classic/images/redbar_left.gif HTTP/1.1"
66.11.183.126 - "GET/templates/classic/images/redbar_middle.gif HTTP/1.1"
66.11.183.126 - "GET/templates/classic/images/redbar_right.gif HTTP/1.1"
66.11.183.126 - "GET/templates/classic/images/bar_left.gif HTTP/1.1"
66.11.183.126 - "GET/templates/classic/images/bar_middle.gif HTTP/1.1"
66.11.183.126 - "GET/templates/classic/images/bar_right.gif HTTP/1.1"
Ok here goes: Here's a direct link to my POTS-connected 90Mhz linux system (firewall is up protecting everything but finger and http... I hope). I'm probably going to be online for a couple hours (it's 7:30 CST now).
For phpSysInfo (which takes about a minute to load and will probably crap my machine out if too many people hit it): http://172.210.54.198/
For my custom distributed.net stats LIVE: http://172.210.54.198/dnet.cgi
Please remember that if you cause it to crap out, the IP will change when it reconnects. Let me know what you think of the system. Portscan all you want, but please, no pingflooding or attempted rooting. I'm already having 2nd thoughts.
"Have fun!"
Okay... as you may know, I have a 90Mhz pentium system with a 500MB hard drive and 32MB of RAM.
The question is, how much junk can I load it with until it explodes? I'm already running penggy (dial AOL from linux/*BSD), ip forwarding/masquerading, distributed.net client and personal proxy, finger, hourly stats run script, and squid (in a feeble attempt to speed up browsing over the network).
Anybody got recommendations on what else I could put on it? I suppose I could install apache and use http for my RC5-72 stats instead of finger.
Hello world!
I have a strange desire to factor a large number and win money from RSA Labs. Here's a little theory I have, and if anybody has any comments, I'd be glad to hear them.
If I have a huge number that is the product of two "large primes", and I just want to find those two primes, I should be able to:
1. Search only a fraction of the numbers, because the factors are supposedly large primes. Obviously therefore we can safely (?) skip large sections of numbers.
2. Skip all even numbers.
Am I missing something, or does the likely space = n/8 where n is the number to factor?
Of course the optimum search window would actually be a little further away from the 1/2 line because obviously it's quite unlikely that 2 is a factor.
Anyway... I'm at level 16 (or is it 17?) of Descent. I'm an addict.
Speaking of addicts (j/k), Rush Limbaugh returns on monday, and that will probably be the most listened-to broadcast in the history of the program. I'll definitely be listening.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
