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 | Hey. I've been working on a home brew game since late last year, writing an engine in Haskell and GLSL that includes 3D graphics, basic physics and programmable game logic. The version in the second video shows the first appearance of lighting and importation of OBJ files (the cube was … |
| | Hi. In August I built a PC using a second hand Biostar TA990FXE "Extreme Edition" motherboard and AMD FX-6100 six core CPU @3.3 GHz at the core of it. I recently installed the Oracle Virtualbox VM on Windows 10 and tried running a couple of Linux and BSD OS instances, …  |
| | Hi. I've developed a bit of an interest in encryption as well as programming in Haskell since I last used this forum. So I decided to build a symmetric block cipher and test its properties to gain more of an understanding of such things. This is for research purposes as … |
| | Hi. I just thought I'd post this photo of me and some graffiti lights in Bristol. I'd never come accross such a thing before, but given the city's traditions I perhaps shouldn't be surprised. Steven   |
| | This snippit is a follow up to my first snippit, namely "Simple website hit counter" which is written in Perl. It does exactly the same thing using PHP. "Boring", you might say? Well, I have my reasons for wanting to learn this language and one needs to start somewhere :) …  |
| | I work for an ISP (BT Retail, business broadband) in the UK, on the help desk. We're getting a steadily increasing tricle of businesses calling us about Vista issues. However, I've not so far identified a case of Vista being "incompatible" with either the DHCP server of the RAS or … |
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| | Hi. I'm working on some Haskell code that takes some string input and processes it to return a list of integers, the reason for which should become clear when the app. eventually get finished. The list processing functions do what I want when I call "parse_data (contents)" in GHCi, but … |
| | Hi. I've been trying to get this simple function in Haskell to let me call it for many hours and come to a problem I can't find an answer for. The function is of type Float -> Float -> [Int] so I need to pass it two Float values. I've …  |
| | Hi. After many years of having a hobbyist interest in programming but doing other things for a job, I've decided it might be time to attempt a career change to application development. The other areas I've worked in, such as teaching English to non - native speakers, aren't directly relevant …  |
| | Re: Windows-clone? I've tried version 0.3 (alpha). Average uptime: 5 to 10 minutes. No, I'm not joking. Somtimes it would die after a specific event, other times it would just randomly bomb out for no apparent reason. Then it's the Black Screen of Death (not even an exception code). It crashed during …  |
| | Hi everyone. You may remember that I posted a short story here about a year ago. I've cobbled together another little tale and, as the first one seemed to be appriciated, I thought I'd give it an audience here in two parts. Hoping for your amusement, fellows. The message (part … |
 | Perhaps a worse fate is to survive for so long that we become weary of our own existance and long for it to end. Forever is a long time. Steven.  |
 | Re: Married or not [QUOTE=jwenting;289640]too shy to talk to women in the wild[/QUOTE] I said somthing similar to that to a friend once. You know what he said? [QUOTE=ben]I think strong larger is the key[/QUOTE] Since then I've found there's some truth in his advice :p . Don't get too drunk and try to … |
| | Hello again. I got a fancy prancy new mobile phone recently with video capture :p . I want to transfer a video I made on it (of me playing the guitar, badly) to GoogleTube, but the file is too big to put in an MMS message. I have a Yahoo … |
| | Hi. I haven't posted here for some time but I'm still a big fan. Anyway, I had an interesting dream last night and it inspired me to write a short story based on it. I hope no one minds if I post the first part of it here for your … |
| | Hi. I live in Japan in a city just outside Tokyo, although only for a few more weeks. Before a train's doors close here, a jingley little tune gets played to warn people still descending the steps to the platform they need to hurry up. The variety of tunes available …  |
| | Hi. I recently read that the current US federal budget predicts the US debt to GDP ratio will reach over 70% in 2011 and about 80% by 2020. This analysis assumes fairly strong economic growth. The question that springs to mind is, if a budget surplus can't be achieved during … |
| | Hello everyone. I'm trying to install a Ralink tech. wireless PCI network card on netBSD 3.1. I've looked at a netBSD online manual page and it says there is a driver for this chipset in the distribution I'm using (namely ral(4)). However, after booting up with the card physically installed … |
 | Apple has been engaging in the kind of anti-competetive behaviour you mentioned for some time now. So, I found it quite amusing when they were sued by Cisco over the iPhone name. |
 | The only way to gaurd against servers and networks overloading when under rare and extremely heavy load is to have large amounts of spare capacity sitting around doing nothing most of the time. This is potentially quite inefficient in terms of energy consumption and maintenance costs. I would much rather … |
 | Re: Mac Attack When you say "the DNS is changed to point towards porn and phishing sites", do you mean that (for example) the locally stored DNS entry for [url]www.hsbc.co.uk[/url] could be repointed to a fake version of this site? |
| | A teacher is more likely to be bullied by one of the staff of their school than it's pupils. This is something a member of my family has experience of.  |
| | Perhaps Sun deliberately make Solaris a bit tricky to use so they can keep selling IT support contracts for it. I wouldn't blame them, seeing as the software itself is free now. As to whether Solaris is actually unfriendly to the user I couldn't comment much, having not used it … |
| | Re: Linux in space The harsh conditions mentioned in Bill's report are primarily the cosmic rays the silicon components of a computer are exposed to in space. A cosmic ray is a fast moving proton ejected from the sun. If one hits a register it can cause a cascade of ionisation that can flip … |
| | It is interesting that the BSD license is more permissive of software being taken back into the propriatory domain than the GPL is. I mean this in the sense of the long and tiresome lengths the BSD team had to travel to free themselves from claims of pirating by AT … |
| | I invented an encryption algorhythm today and used it to "hide" the information in an unused password I came up with. This was done on paper, not with a program. However, I am planning to start laying some code down for this today (in Haskell, partly as an exercise to …  |
| | I think Dell has a decent reason to deprecate Vista; it will make there high end PCs look like they've got Sinclair Spectrum chips inside. 512 MB to boot the computer up? My brain doesn't have that much memory (and it's a high end model I can tell you). But … |
| | In my experience most people who go out of their way to say a language is bad haven't used it much. I was slagging off PHP on some forums a few weeks ago. Have I ever used it? No. But seriously, that a languages implementation is not as fast as … |
| | It reminds me of that Indecent Proposal film, where a billionaire offers another man $1 million to "borrow" his wife for a night. I know, objectifying women is bad :rolleyes: . Still, I just can't see someone indecently proposing a PS3 for someones wife. Sounds like a recipe for getting … |
| | Hello everyone and welcome to the next episode of Mushy-pea's blog. This entry is about my favourite language (except English of course) Perl. If you're a regular Perl user you might already know this; the developers of Perl 6 are using a prototype version of the Perl 6 interpreter written … |
| | Re: Microsoftzilla Yes, quite worrying for sure. My advice to those wanting a decent browser is: dump IE and Firefox and use Opera. Don't tend to hear much talk about security holes in that do you?  |
 | I agree. BSD is definitely better than Linsux. I just installed netBSD 3.1 on an old PII with 64 MB RAM today. Got the Xwindows desktop going easily. I tried to run X on Slax Linux a few weeks ago on the same machine and it was like "Arrrggg?!? Not …  |
| | Hello blog readers. So I was thinking, "how can I seriously depress the lovely Daniweb visitors today?". Then it hit me: The End of All Life (EAL). I was reading an article in Physics World a few years ago about some predictions on the long term survival prospects of life, …  |
| | Have you considered the possibility that it was diliberate on the part of the "Mc". I would imagine you've heard somthing about this: [URL]http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=12929_0_40_0_C[/URL] Good article by the way. Steven.  |
| | I was in a pub in Manchester recently for my friend Chris's leaving do (he's got a job in Spain :p ). Somehow a brief discussion about Mac OS X got started (yes, OK I started it). Most people I've met who've used it seem to think it's great because: … |
| | With all the disscussion about classical computing issues on Daniweb, I thought it was time for an explanation of quantum computing. As I'm sure most of you are aware, a conventional CPU performs operations by switching transistors on and off in order to manipulate values stored on registers. The registors … |
| | Well, I asked Dani and she said I could create a Haskell catagory in code snippits just by submitting a Haskell program :p . What self respecting code repository would be without one? So here goes, this program calculates the nth triangular number, given n by the user. Steven.  |
| | This is my first working perl script that does anything useful; that being to count the hits made on a web page and display the count graphically. To make the counter work on your web page (should you wish to), you will need to create images for the number tiles … |
| | First, it would be highly advisable to start your Perl script like this: [code=perl] #!/usr/bin/perl -T use strict; use warnings; [/code] I know you used warnings with the -w flag already, but adding strict will help with debugging as well. Also, you "MUST" use the -T flag as shown to … |
| | Hi everyone. Now, I`m sure that by now most of you are pretty tired of hearing the world`s politicians blaming everyone they can think of for the financial crisis, but....bear with me. My argument is that capitalism (in it`s current form) is unsustainable in the long term because it requires … |
 | I wouldn`t have believed time travel was possible through the use of programming, before I watched the Futurama feature length episode "Bender`s Big Score". It turns out you just need to utter the Universal Machine Language time code and bumf....a time machine turns up. Also, it`s a paradox correcting time …  |
| | Situation: You are in your house relaxing, just about to have a cup of tea. Then the phone rings, the doorbell rings and the kettle starts to whistle simultaneously. What do you do next? A: Answer the phone. B: See who is at the door. C: Take the kettle off … |
| | Hi. You are certainly correct in saying that even at 0 K a quantum system still contains energy. However, a quantum system in it`s ground state cannot emit any energy because the ground state is defined as the lowest possible energy state of the system. All it can do is …  |
| | Hi. I live in Japan and recently bought a second hand laptop, with Japanese Windows XP on it. When I got it home I promptly installed Opera 9.61 (my favourite browser :) ) and started browsing away. The only problem is that the install program thought I was Japanese and … |
| | Hi. If you gained the ability to look inside every other mind that exists, do you think you would lose the ability to hold any particular point of view, given that you were now aware of how everyone has reached their individual view. Steven.  |
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| | Hi. Some people might remember a post made a long time ago, which contained a link to one of [URL="http://www.zanorg.com/prodperso/jeuxchiants/index_eng.htm"]this set of irritating games[/URL]. Well, as you can see they're still there (plus a few more) and just as irritating as ever. But, what you might have missed the first …  |
| | Hi. I recently removed one of the user accounts from a Vista laptop I've been using. I was asked if I wanted to delete the user's folder as well and selected yes. However, after creating another user I noticed that the previous user's folder was still there. As the administrator, …  |
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