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Remove Filter  | 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   |
| | 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 …  |
| | 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 … |
| | 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 … |
| | 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 …  |
| | 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 … |
| | 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, …  |
| | 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 … |
| | 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. 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.  |
| | 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, …  |
| | Hello everyone. A few months ago I got a cheap new mobile phone with video recording. I'd just heard about Youtube at the time. So, the obvious came to mind (video myself playing a tune on the guitar and post it :p ). What resulted from this became an object … |
| | Hi people. The idea of this game is to make people guess the answers to rather obscure questions, like.... Which of these two has the larger data capacity? (a) My CD collection (b) The hard disk on my laptop Steven.  |
| | Hi. In my house we have an IPv6 capable router, for which the owner of has kindly given me the password for the settings page. It is a Linksys DD-WRT wireless device with Linux installed. When you enable IPv6 support it gives you the option to enter a Radvd configuration … |
| | Hi. I was at work in my call centre today when a colleage asked me to have a look at a customer issue. We support BT broadband customers, but we're not BT (they just pay us to do it). So, this guy is saying he's getting slow web page loading … |
| | Hi. I've got this issue on my Vista laptop that's been there since I got the thing about six months ago. The system clock falls behind the actual time at a silly rate, which can be up to several minutes in a session but varies sporadically. Then every so often …  |
| | Hi. I've got a Packard Bell laptop that is specified as having 1 GB of RAM. However, looking in the Windows system information and the BIOS both show it as having 896 MB. Does anyone know how I would go about determining whether the missing RAM is being used for … |
| | Hi guys and girls. Has anyone else heard the new Radiohead album In Rainbows? The gimmick is, you can choose what yoy want to pay for it on their website. Steven.  |
| | Hi people. Just thought I would warn about a little issue I had with my Vista system last night. I tried to install [URL="http://www.colinux.org"]colinux[/URL] and the system crashed to a blue screen. When I tried to start it again normally it suffered some kind of kernel mode exception, did a … |
| | Hi everyone. Could anyone tell me how I can enable non - admin users to run programs installed by the admin user? I installed Opera 9.1 as an admin, but I'm not sure how to allow other users to access it. Any advice appriciated. Steven. |
| | Hello everyone. I informed Google of my forum website URL via the standard method recently. Within about five days, it started finding search terms inside my forum when given "Mushy-pea [search terms]". Nice one Google, I thought :) . However, when you click links that go from Google directly to … |
| | Hello everyone. I will soon be releasing an early version of my open source bulletin board system, PerlBB. Can you guess how I thought the name up :p ? I'm not going to say whats special about it here, but there will be plenty of promotion on my homepage when … |
| | Hello everyone. I recently "migrated" my 8 year old computer from Windows 98 to NetBSD 3.1. The installation went fine and the machine is able to connect to the internet through a local router :) . However, I still have a couple of questions to ask: 1. When you run …  |
| | Hello again. I browse through the code snippits section every so often, so I'm aware it's got an impressive collection of language catagories. However, something I think would benefit this section is the inclusion of a Haskell catagory. I've started learning this language recently (when I get time), so I …  |
| | Hello everyone. We were introduced to a nifty little tool in my job today (I'm in broadband tech support). It's called Go To Assist and it lets you "share" a customers desktop to help solve their problems remotely. I came up with tyhe idea of trying to do a reciprocal … |
| | Hello everyone. Does anyone know if there is a way to start a child process from within a script, then capture the child's standard output and exit code? From looking at the docs it seems that [code=perl] $status = system("command"); [/code] lets you capture the exit code but not STDOUT. … |
| | Hello everyone. I added an ethernet adapter card to a computer of mine yesterday and the keyboard stopped working. I've checked the connection and it's fine. The keyboard appears to be disabled at BIOS level because I can't get into setup by pressing DEL during the boot process. Windows still … |
| | Hello everyone. After 15 months without a job I have been offered a trial run in a......flour mill (water wheel included, but they don't use it). If I get the job I'll as close as matters be "Living off the land", something that has become somewhat rare in my country. … |
| | Hello everyone. I have been using the Haskell compiler GHC 6.6 a bit recently to test some simple programs (for learning purposes). In it's default mode it produces three output files for a given source file: a .exe, a .o and a .hi. The .exe is quite big and I … |
| | Hello everyone. You might or might not have heard of these poeple, namely the Bulletin (of the Atomic Scientists): [url]http://www.thebulletin.org/minutes-to-midnight/[/url] Their publications monitor how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction at our own hands and, (presumably to scare the hell out of us :p ) maintain a symbolic clock that …  |
| | Hello everyone. I need to write a Bash script to remove blocks of text from a given file. The idea is, the text to be removed will be marked by appearing between certain delimiter characters i.e. [code] Here's some text and ~this bit gets removed~, where tilda is the delimiter. … |
| | Hello everyone. I'm still working on that forum system I mentioned a bit ago (perlBB). Hopefully it'll be ready for Christmas :p . However, I ran into a strange problem while I was re-writing parts the two functions below. [code=perl]sub enter_post { my(@field, $input, $offset1, $offset2, $n, $name, $field_length, $flag_guest, … |
| | Hello everyone. I've got the stuff working I talked about here ( [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread68292.html[/url] ). Now, I am working on this problem; I need to check if a cookie is present on the client machine. It's presense will indicate the user is logged in. If it is there I need to … |
| | Hello everyone. Is it allowed to have a "use" statement inside an eval that is compiled separately to the enclosing program (i.e. eval EXPR, not eval BLOCK). The reason I want to do this is, I have modules of code that I don't want to be compiled every time my …  |
| | Hello everyone. I am currently working on the HTML / Javascript front end of a web forum system (perlBB). I have a couple of questions that would I would like to ask. 1. Is the way to include an external javascript file in a page like this? [code=HTML] <head> <link … |
| | I was wondering whether anyone else has experienced this. When a script I am working on got above a certain size, the line numbers quoted in the compile and run time error messages started to be inaccurate. The line numbers now seem to always be before where the error actually … |
| | Hello everyone. If you live in the UK and you watch the news this will not need explaining to you. But....that rubbish reality TV show Big Brother on C4 has caused a diplomatic crisis. Why? Jade Goody has been bullying the **** out of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty (using the … |
| | Hello everyone. I decided to try out XAMPP ( [url]http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp[/url] ), which contains a pre configured distribution of Apache 2.2.3. My intention is to use it for some local testing of a web application that uses Perl scripts. I got Apache running easily enough and it runs the sample Perl … |
| | Hello everyone. I'm working on getting threads of replies to work in my forum system. I'm using this function: [code=perl] sub read_fields { my($offset1, $offset2, $offset3, $offset4, $this_offset, $result, $n, $dbase, $data, @field_name, @name_length, $num_fields, $m, $check, $check2, $primary_key, $action, @passed_array); ($offset1, $offset2, $result, $dbase, $num_fields, $m, $action, $primary_key, @passed_array) … |
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