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« on: April 10, 2014, 08:05:20 pm »
I knew about ARPANET, Usenet and stuff, but wasn't that stuff used for research / military usage only? I thought it was with the popularization of the internet that those networks started to be used outside that range, hence why I'm surprised about that hockey necropost.
I have seen logs from usenet discussion, for example those in which Torvalds announces he wrote a basic OS for Intel 386 processors (Which later became Linux), but those are usually programming or research oriented.
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« on: April 10, 2014, 07:58:57 pm »
If you want to manage battery you can always turn off the calculator. This basically is to look cool to your classmates, I guess it would end up being annoying after a couple of days.
Any plans to put all of your screensavers together and put one at random when the calculator fires it up?
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« on: April 10, 2014, 10:39:43 am »
Please someone explain me why/how Google Groups have some posts predating the Internet? Were those from message boards on primitive forms of network like the Minitel?
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« on: April 10, 2014, 10:06:59 am »
I had to do something similar at work. A team wanted to share a common Adobe Digital Editions library, but ADE forces the library to your Documents folder. So I made a symlink towards a directory on the company's servers that holds the actual library.
I should do this with my Documents folder on my laptop. I have 50GB of available space on by Dropbox, so I might as well make use of it.
EDIT: I did it, I switched my Documents on my 50 GB Dropbox. It's simple really.
(For Windows 7)
1. Choose the location where you want Dropbox to place it's files, or let it take the default location. You need to take note of where it's placed.
2. Right-click your Documents folder and select Properties.
a. In the location tab, change the path to your Dropbox folder. Press OK or Apply.
b. A window will ask you if you want to move your Documents there. Select Yes.
Your documents will be moved in the Dropbox folder and Dropbox will sync all your files on your cloud storage. You could do the same on another computer and have a synced cloud-based Documents folder, plus a backup solution in case your files falls in an unrecoverable state.
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« on: March 12, 2014, 02:51:27 am »
Since Goto reads from top to bottom, wouldn't this case be if the Lbl instruction is the very first?
Also, Goto seem to break flow of code and mess up the call stack, so it is not reccomended to use it. For some it is despicable to use it. I tend to keep my code free of gotos, but I know a lot of programmers use them.
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« on: March 12, 2014, 02:35:16 am »
I think a "favorite" Basic instruction is a bit of a stupid question. Those commands all serve a purpose and some are more appropriate in a specific context than another. So in a way, all of them are my favorite. Except goto. Go to hell goto. Bring your little brother Lbl along with you please.
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« on: February 25, 2014, 05:27:15 pm »
There are a lot of patents or copyrights that are no longer refreshed by the companies who hold them. I do not know about Nintendo consoles though.
Thing is, even if patents are still pending, clones are not necessary illegal. A company can allow other to use their patents. The thing with clones is that Nintendo doesn't care about them.
They stopped making NES and NES games long ago. They no longer get revenue from the console. Also, most people don't care about 25 year old consoles. Companies making clones do not make a lot of money off them (compared to current-gen consoles) and they do not hurt current-gen consoles sales. It would be more of a pain for Nintendo to sue people who make clones or ROMS or whatever of old consoles rather than let them do their thing.
So go ahead, download any ROM or any ISO off the internet and play them on emulators or clones, no one will care enough to stop you. If anything it could allow Nintendo to make extra sales if for example you were to play the old Zeldas unlegitimately, then like the series and buy Skyward Sword, A Link Between Worlds or Wind Waker HD (plus the consoles those are played on of course).
The only thing I see that could piss them off is that they make less sales of Virtual Console games, but those don't bring in the revenues the new games do, so they don't seem to mind that. They just know there is a market for retro games and people stupid enough to actually buy them because "Hey! I can play the original LoZ on my Wii now! Thanks Nintendo!".
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« on: February 18, 2014, 06:50:46 pm »
3 of the numerous ways to leave Omnimaga:
- Open a new tab and type http://cemetech.net
- Go to the kitchen and cook yourself some food
- Do some homework
How to go back to Omnimaga
- Start your favorite browser of not done already and click on the Omnimaga tab
If you don't mind, I'm gonna leave Omnimaga for a while using way #2.
Of course anybody that knows JuJu a bit knows he's never going to do #3.
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« on: February 18, 2014, 06:45:46 pm »
I really suggest storing them in your database. The Blob type can contain just about anything, and it's much easier to manage your permissions in the database than using the filesystem.
And considering it's a blog post, it should be stored in a markup language (HTML, BBCode, etc.) so it will probably be better to store it in a text-based type rather than a blob.
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« on: February 05, 2014, 01:01:48 am »
 Selfie from my recently reinstalled Windows 7 host. You can see in the bottom-left corner my most used applications, including VMWare to get in my Lubuntu Virtual Machine, which has a pretty awesome wallpaper itself.
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« on: February 03, 2014, 09:08:53 pm »
Did you try specifying the step of the loop to 1, like this:
For 1->X To 300 Step 1
For 1->Y To 216 Step 1
Blue PxlOn X,Y
Next
Next
My guess is the basic incremental value is set to something other than 1, but I could be mistaken. I suggest you check it out.
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« on: February 02, 2014, 09:01:47 pm »
Chrome is probably using stuff out of your cache when using Omni. To clean your cache in Chrome, go to Settings -> Tools -> Clear Browsing Data. Then select only "Empty the cache" and click the "Clear Browsing data" at the bottom of the page.
Then try logging into Omnimaga again.
I know this erases all of your cache but Chrome is stupid like that. You can't erase stuff based on websites you visited, it's either all or nothing.
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« on: February 02, 2014, 07:40:03 pm »
Pinkie's Pride was an ok episode in my opinion. I did however notice the rubber chicken glow rainbow, so I'm starting to wonder if those objects might be the key to the hexa-box. That would be a really an obvious hint to tell us that those objects have some importance, and I see one thing that importance might be related to.
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« on: January 30, 2014, 07:19:14 pm »
In time, you'll learn that the Goto command is counter-indicated in almost all of the programming languages existing, because it breaks the flow of your program. In TI-BASIC thought there is a lack of essential alternatives (like subroutines), so you can't really avoid it. However, your case is one in which you can use a more efficient structure, which is the While loop. It will make your code a bit faster and you can program an exit condition if you need to. I'm going to give you an exit condition to try out. How would you change your code to exit the strobe by clicking Enter? To do this you'll want to know how the While condition works (why While 1 loops infinitely) and how to read keystrokes. After that it should be fairly easy to pull it off. Good luck 
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« on: January 27, 2014, 06:55:31 pm »
Builderboy made a particule simulation post in his physics lesson thread, I reccomend you check it out ( http://ourl.ca/4279/169816). You can also search online for how to program your automaton to simulate realistic snowflakes. I might try doing this in Axe, see how that comes out.
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