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Sluggy Freelance Presents Years of Yarncraft! with the usual hysterical references. Cyb

This has become a VERY Frequently Asked question therefore this new shiney Sticky thread is appearing. Suggestions other than asking how to start (which the thread is about) are welcome, I will remove anything that doesn't relate to the topic or is asking what to do (since the entire topic is...

I have a FAT PS2 console (Yep I got it in 2002) I didn't buy the network adapter when I had the oportunity. So here are a few questions (always huh?) Sony doesn't seem to sell the original one anymore. Apart from the extortionary $75 from Ebay brokers any ligitimate way to get one? If not or...

All right has anyone used Doxygen extensively? (I mean for projects with more than 100k lines of code scale). I am trying to find a way to have my version comments used within doxygen. What would be idealic is a heirarchically browseable structure for each version. Currently versioning is...

I've been looking at scripting languages for embeding into a project I've worked on off and on for the last 7 years. There is TCL (Tool Command Language) There is Lua (not an acronyme apparently) What else? The main thing is I wish to use the scripting language to read data from memory (IE data...

Vista has continuously become unpopular. Not for reasons most people who like it expect. One is it's incredibly expensive to diploy in medium to small businesses. The other is that it has features most business DON'T WANT AT ALL, on there machines. Where I work the IT people and the IT manager...

More Programming humor (SOS) SOS - scream on stupidity For those who have EVER dealt with instruction sets this one should make you feel ... a bit less serious about them: A proposed instruction set for a microprocessor from Brian Dulap of Ohio State University. Cyb

Welcome to the world of "I've got to have the next big thing". COUGH Designer cats anyone? (First it was dogs now... cats). If you can spare 22k (US) feel free to get a cat, also there are several nominal fees involved including the cost of a THERAPIST for your new pet. (Probably will need it...

This might be of interest to some (heh) I am sure people (some again) may have heard of PAR archive's etc. What is a PAR file anyhow? The simple version is PAR is short for PARITY. Parity refers to the count of 1's bits in a string of bits (byte word double word quad word are strings of...

Autorun (if you folks aren't familiar with it) is where you insert a disk and windows runs 'crap' on it 'automagically' I have this disabled on my machine, SO why does lightscribe need this DANGEROUS (and for me inconvienent) feature (that Microsoft should be SUED for implementing)? I think the...

I'm not clueless however it seems finding this title in the US is rather difficult it was released in August of last year and yet Amazon.com "appears" to be the only seller (at $85). A lot of sites aren't indexed anymore because of the abuse of flash and spontaneously generated pages. (Google...

So there I was looking for a Mariah Carey album (NOT) and found this interesting webpage of Celebrity WISDUMB. Remember polution isn't the problem it's all those impurities in our air and water! :D Cyb

Since this group of people should find this quite funny (and sad at the same time) here are the most ANTI TECHNOLOGY groups in the US. It is quite interesting if you look at who they are LOL. Cyb - living with people who simply can't change (I sware)

So I've been pulling my hair out over this particular class I made and it's driving me a bit batty. I'm not sure if the class is the fault or something else, essentially it takes file and presents it as a virtual array up to as large as the OS can handle (64 bit indexing however iostream->read...

Read this and laugh a lot gee those unused parts save lots of power too :D Cyb

Some of you might appreciate this more than others. Gaze (in dismay or what have you) at this web page. It basically uses a FPGA to create the original hardware of the Entex' adventure vision system (it uses an 8048 processor WOW I had to port stuff from that beast before it was a big pain)...

Yes folks if you have Vista Preloaded Microsoft Vista on computers Microsoft offers a Downgrades from Vista. Lenovo is one of several company's offering this. Cyb

This is a very interesting article on Microsoft and it's endless woes. I wonder if we will hear things like "We are a computer company not a software company" coming from Microsoft? (For those of you who are clueless this is a quote from a VP of Atari before they became a software only company...

More Game humor for those who have played FF7 and dealt with people trying to revive Aeris. This one is a bit scarey to read :D Cyb

All right so you folks are a bit too serious about your programming. REALLY you are you just didn't know it... YET Here is a few interesting things ... Goto Considered DANGEROUS Why you should read the manual Compiling Zzz.... Political Problems Stormchasers... Why the Red Light never...