Comment Re:230V 16A (Score 1) 497
He looked really shocked when we gave him one.
Insulation is important.
Comment No wonder they didn't want to update it (Score 2) 153
Sources/DANAE/ARX_Script.cpp is 13719 lines in size, most of which handles script parsing and evaluation simultaneously, in a uselessly convoluted way. It deserves a proper rewrite from scratch.
I do like how they used names from Greek mythology to refer to certain components of the source code: Athena handles audio, Eerie handles some graphics, Mercury handles user input, Hermes is probably there for communication or saving/loading, Minos is only there for pathfinding and Danae gets everything else.
Comment Re:No money (Score 2) 190
Averages don't say much here, we need more statistics. There could be more Linux users among the outliers, while the medians among users may be the same for all OSes.
Comment Stupid move (Score 2, Informative) 450
If the owners of a website are willing to get paid for using a CAPTCHA system, then I guess they're also willing to lose most of their users because of it.
There are other methods to keep your website clean.
Comment Re:Fuck Dubai (Score 4, Funny) 107
Yes! Penetrate all their firewall holes!
Comment Re:I knew that since 2008 (Score 1) 64
In other news: ACO is ancient. !news.
Comment Re:How to get out of work on a progeamming team (Score 1) 814
Vote for documenting before coding. End of discussion.
Same goes for this issue. Avoid the use of abbreviations. And if you do want to have it detected programmatically, you can always add some markup (quote `abbr.` in backticks?), provided your software understands such things.
Comment Re:Tax bills can't originate in the Senate (Score 1) 571
Replacing it with what? Blanks?
Comment Re:Public expectations... (Score 4, Funny) 655
Sorry, Linux won't support scissoring until 2.6.38, the patch is still pending. And by patch I mean dental dam.
Comment See also: Rent a Friend (2000) (Score 1) 134
Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours 154
An anonymous reader writes "Aaron Ardiri challenged himself to port his classic PalmOS version of Lemmings to the iPhone, Palm Pre, Mac, and Windows. The porting was done using his own dev environment, which creates native C versions of the game. He liveblogged the whole thing, and finished after only 36 hours with an iPhone version and a Palm Pre version awaiting submission, and free versions for Windows and Mac available on his site."
Microsoft To Add Yet Another Smartphone OS This Year 179
GMGruman writes "Someone at Microsoft either really loves mobile operating systems or can't make up his mind as to which to use, because Microsoft Thursday announced yet another mobile OS, its fifth. The new Windows Embedded Handheld OS will succeed Windows Mobile 6.5 and run on at least some existing Windows Mobile smartphones. It is not the same mobile OS, known as Windows Phone 7, that Microsoft earlier this year said would replace Windows Mobile and break with it in terms of compatibility so Microsoft could better compete with the iPhone and Google Android OS."
Comment Re:Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalkers (Score 4, Funny) 145
Yet you'll never see or hear him coming.
Backdoor Found In UnrealIRCd Source Archive 174
l_bratch writes "A malicious backdoor was added to the UnrealIRCd source archive some time around November 2009. It was not noticed for several months, so many IRC servers are likely to be compromised. A Metasploit exploit already exists."
Comment Re:Kill it with FIRE (Score 1) 135
I'm sorry to report that, ironically, mr. Fire was sacked last Thursday.
