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Comment Python (Score 1) 634

Definitely Python, as it can both teach regular programming pretty easy and also can teach OOP concepts easily as-well
So, learning python can be a start to learn C++/C#/JAVA and help understand it much more. Also, It's quite easy language, you can do pretty much whatever you want, it will help you understand sockets, file parsing, oop, variables a bit less though (it will make a new programmer a bit confuse) but overall it's a great language and I couldn't be thinking how my life would be without python :)

Comment Bars that require 21+ is ridicules (Score 1) 198

Because of requiring such age for entering bars in the states, the young guys there just want to drink (and do drink) much more than he would have drank if it was legal. They fly abroad all over the world and see that they can drink over 18 and only in their home they can't. That's truly ridicules, and I think that's one of the reasons that lots of people in the states do drugs (like much more comparing to the rest of the world).
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Journal Journal: Facebook automation script?

Once I've done that "send message to all the girls" (*it started with a bet though*) on one social network, I've had lots of request for scripts (see the related journal - Ultimate computer usage ).
Some of them, as you can guess are not in some weird social security sites without any security or randomization stuff, so I had to change my ways in order to do automatic stuff on lets say, facebook.com;
When I've start

Comment Eclipse or Vim (Score 1) 1055

Eclipse is very nice IDE and very useful, though competitor to Visual Studio (which isn't free and very CPU/memory consuming)
Vim is great if you get to know most shortcuts and download (/create/modify) a nice .vimrc file (http://dotfiles.org/.vimrc).

Check them out and configure whatever you want :) Goodluck.

Comment Best Solution IMO (Score 1) 424

hey there,
I think the best solution for this issue is using linux as a os, with 2 desktop sessions, one per each monitor.
afterwards, you should map each controller to each virtual desktop you're using. if you need Windows in-order to run these games (I'm not familiar with them), just install VirtualBox with windows on it, and run 2 different sessions of it, each in every virtual desktop. now, you need to run initial run to each game (in each VirtualBox) and just play using the 2 controllers. Another thing you need to do, is SetFocus, for each controller in each VirtualDesktop, so in-case someone of you click on the controller, it will be focused in his session while if a 0.10 seconds later the other player will click in his own controller, the focus should be automatically set on the other's player VirtualBox within his own Virtual Desktop session.

Good LUCK!

Comment Re:Cool (Score 1) 164

You can use ipchains instead since iptables is deprecated. Also, slackware package manager is not the best, and I'm a slackware big fan, if you're intrested in packages for slack, you should check http://slackbuilds.org/ and http://packages.slackware.it/ and http://www.linuxpackages.net/.
in the first one you compile the stuff yourself and only download a configuration to create the package, in the other 2 you just download pre-made packages (like rpm) - it's okay once you get used to it (with packagetools, upgradepkg, installpkg,removepkg) but it's still not as good as debian based package manager (apt-get) or gentoo repository.
I find myself compile lots of stuff that other Linux users don't even use (or know how to compile if he/she is Ubuntu users).
But the OS do exactly what I want it to do! nothing more, nothing less! and that's what Slackware is all about.
If you want to compile your own kernel, easy, exactly the same kind of easiness from other distros, but I don't know, I just felt inlove with Slackware!.

About your iptables problem, do this :


Looks like you didn't enable iptables in the kernel. I think you need to have the ipchains module enabled.
Try enabling these, and the other boxes listed below them.
Networking>Network Packet Filtering>Core Netfilter>Netfilter Xtable support
Networking>Network Packet Filtering>IP Netfilter>IP Tables Support


(from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=278456)

Goodluck,
Zuk.

Comment are you aware that the incidents are 1/April joke? (Score 1) 508

"The following was written in the spirit of April Fool's Day. Brian is following the story and if there are real reports of outbreak, he'll report them in a separate post."

It's actually written in title, and still get's too much focus like those event's are real (although, they could occur, but there's a need to tell the people who read this that the whole post is a April fools joke.

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