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| tomman |
Posted on 18-10-30, 12:03 in First!
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Dinosaur
 Post: #1 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
Hello world~! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-10-30, 21:17 in First!
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Dinosaur
Post: #2 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
I find the "post as another user" stuff here really weird. Never saw similar functionality under any other message board/forum software. Also, the color scheme does make kinda hard to see the buttons on some displays (like my "brightness-control-screwed-up-forever" LCD panel on my ancient Dell). Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-10-31, 14:16 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #3 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
https://games.slashdot.org/story/18/10/31/0247243/kids-apps-are-flooded-with-ads In other non-news, "apps" for kids are actually not suitable for kids, yet lazy parents keep leaving their kids unsupervised in front of so-called smartdevices. Color me shocked. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-10-31, 14:33 in Greetings from 2002! (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #5 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
Time to hook up the 386SX-40 then, since winners don't cheat and I'm too lazy to fire up the emularity again. But then, it's just a 386SX (and one made in 1993, no less!), so I've already lost. Still will do it because every excuse to run IE3 or Arachne on it is good. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-10-31, 14:34 in First! (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #4 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by SuperMikeMan The only color scheme there that looks more or less suitable for my display is... the Win3.x one :/ Kawa here, edited your post to see if I fixed this correctly. UPDATE: it now works, thanks~! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-10-31, 15:03 in Greetings from 2002! (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #6 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
First try: IE3 on my 386SX-40 ...and it's a complete failure: I can't even logon because the page doesn't even render to anything remotely resembling a message board:  Next stage: DOS! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-10-31, 16:45 in Greetings from 2002! (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #7 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
Posting this from Arachne 1.97 (GPL) on PURE DOS, as God and Bill intended! Still better than IE3... ---- Update because this board don't let me double-post until tomorrow!?---- Proof The board renders... rather interestingly. Oh, coming to this post was a immense pain in the 'nads, I tell ya! Originally I had installed Arachne 1.93 (which was the most recent version of the revived GPL source back when I last toyed with it, almost a decade ago), but for whatever reason this had a weird bug that rendered HTML forms unusable (I could fill them, but nothing would be POSTed to the server), so I was unable to logon. Turns out there was a release in 2013, after a long hiatus. A floppy disk and 30 minutes later, here we are. And looks like Arachne even manages to introduce a few line breaks on its own! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-01, 10:46 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #8 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by CaptainJistuce In other words: people browsing from (OH MY GOD!) older/underpowered devices (MEEE!!!) will feel like landing into a minefield when opening a page full of embedded videos. Flashblock is a godsend for those cases (yes, it works with HTML5 video too, making places like "that asshole known as the xscreensaver dev" blog USABLE), but development on it seems to have been discontinued and won't work on whatever Mozilla is trying to pass this week as a "web browser". So my vote is... don't bother. Or if you must, at least have a (OPT-IN!) checkbox somewhere to enable rendering of embedded videos. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-01, 12:37 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #9 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
> PHP 2007 called, it wants its meme language back. Didn't you got the memo that says all the kool kidz in the block now shit Javascript from their very expensive Macbooks!? If I ever were to write a message board software (hint: it won't happen), I would pick Java Enterprisey, naturally. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-01, 23:45 in First!
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Dinosaur
Post: #11 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
So today I posted something at this thread, and decided to do some formatting edits on my post. Now it seems a grue ate my post or something, as no matter how many times I edit it, it always come up EMPTY! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-02, 00:10 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #10 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
Love this week's n-gate Not only it presents Hacker News stories bullshit-free, as an interesting addition, they now measure the level of bloat on each article. Apparently CNBC is at the rock bottom of the Javashit scale, with a page load of almost 15MB across slightly over 300 requests. You've read it right - FIFTEEN MEGABYTES of absolute garbage just to display a "368-word article". Fuck, I could install the final release of Ultimate Doom for DOS and still have space to spare on those 15MB! Plus this automatically makes your piece-of-BS-disguised-as-journalism unreadable to anybody on Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-02, 00:49 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #12 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
Reminds me of the class of interesting issues I used to get at $FORMER_WORKPLACE_PRODUCT, due to the use of a rather novel approach to historic records tables, when someone decides to be an ass and click twice a button that should be clicked only once. The whole story and design is a pile of WTFs I may confess someday, but at least that is replacing a even bigger pile of WTFs (their solution for keeping previous versions was to clone the database to a entirely new database, because redundancy has to be redundant!) I was almost forced to do the same - what saved me was the fact you can't do that at JPA (in fact, working with dynamic data sources is... well, to this day, I'm not even sure if this is even doable from a standard J2EE app container), so I had to come up with the current mess we have. Still, it works wonders as long as noone clicks those buttons that shall be clicked once more than once. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-02, 13:17 in First!
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Dinosaur
Post: #13 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
PSA: don't expose your new iShinies™ anywhere near helium Because using quartz oscilators wasn't Courageous™®© enough, Apple switched to MEMS oscillators, which are prone to get stuck if exposed to certain particles, like helium atoms, rendering your device pretty much bricked until said obstructions dissipate on their own. Not a problem for you or me, but certainly this is not so great for anyone servicing helium-filled apparatus (from MRI/CT scanners to those newfangled helium-filled HDDs to something more mundane, like balloons) where the risk of a He leak is always present. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-03, 20:49 in Embedding roms in images
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Dinosaur
Post: #14 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
Wasn't there a SNES ROM that was also a valid DOS executable? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-03, 20:59 in Emulation is for NERDs.
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Dinosaur
Post: #15 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
NERD official homepage Apparently they've also came up with the NDS emulator used on the Wii U. Oh, they're hiring! - look at their coding challenges. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-05, 14:33 in The Copyleft Bust Up: loopholes, licenses, and realpolitik
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Dinosaur
Post: #16 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
Software licenses must die. I have nothing else to add to yet another "software licensing" thread, so I'm moving out. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-06, 21:33 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #17 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
I'm glad I don't sell video games for a living... And they still wonder why all the nerdrage and hategasm after those (non)announcements!?!? Disclaimer: I've never played any game made by those studios, and will not do so anytime soon. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-06, 21:39 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #18 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
Feature request: Friends/foes list. To me the useful one would be the foes list, as there are always certain members whose posts became... undesirable to deal with, so instead of risking flamewars and potential bans, it's best to ignore whatever they have to say and move on. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-07, 10:41 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #19 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by Nicholas Steel Gamers are not pissed due to that - they're angry because of the snarky "DO YOU DO NOT HAVE PHONES?" remark. Pulling shit like this is like using to a Texas pick-up truck show to launch a electric bike as the centerpiece show and then trying to calm down a pack of angry rednecks with shotguns with a lame "hey, do you do not drive bikes?!" PR statement. Blizzard could have used a more sensible approach to announce their cellphone game without picking on the hornets' nest. Say, a side announcement or something, and a token "but we're still committed to PC games and there is more to come!" release - sure, that would have still caused nerdrage (because haters gonna hate and this is the Internet), but NOT at the level of this PR hurricane - this is solely their fault! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-07, 10:58 in Nintendo Switch emulation is now among us (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #20 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 day |
So I was reading some console-related news, just to learn that the Switch is following the longstanding tradition of Nintendo consoles which are emulated Too Soon™. In fact, there are now two very active projects, which are even capable to play retail games: - Yuzu: From the Citra crew (it greatly helped them that both the Switch and 3DS run the same OS), here comes the most advanced Switch emulator so far. Multiplatform, open source, and while it requires a rather new high-end gaming rig (with emphasis on "single-threaded CPU performance") to achieve playable speeds, it can now run several commercial games. Also I like their monthly progress reports (wasn't Dolphin who started with that great idea?). Unfortunately, to get started also requires having access to a hackable Switch to dump a bunch of stuff (mainly keys and sysfiles), a task that seems rather daunting to PokéRAWMz kiddies and anyone willing to just take a look. - Ryujinx: Written in C# (but targeting .NET Core), and not so advanced as Yuzu, but it's already showing some great potential. Plus there is collaboration between Ryujinx and Yuzu devs, so that's very cool. Man, this stuff reminds me back when the GBA was at its apex... and so were emulators, allowing me to play muh Pokeymanz (among other hot GBA games of the era) on my horrible Deceleron box with near-native performance! But the GBA was a far simpler animal, you didn't needed a gaming rig to play, there were no touchscreens or online features involved, and gaming in general was much more enjoyable back then. Still, amazing stuff to see, no matter if you care or not about the Switch. I guess Nintendo is hardly pleased with the news, but I guess they're too busy printing money again. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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