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The first rule of Hamster Club is "Don't talk about Hamster Club."
But you can fake it with judicious use of...
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Now it's moved out of the basement, it's called Project Hamster.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Thanks. I thought the CP editor already has that functionality so I never tried looking up for an HTML code. Oh! CP already have that, the Paste As functionality. Just saw that while testing it with this post.
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A fat old rapper.
'Pasties Prime'
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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When the New York Times revealed this month that hackers had recently breached its networks, what turned the heads of security experts wasn’t that the attacks had occurred. It was a top antivirus company’s unusually candid admission about the limits of its own technology. I challenge you to a battle of wits.
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The battle for the future of computing is no longer a contest between tablets and PCs. Wearable computing is the hot new category, with startups like Pebble introducing “smart” watches while Apple reportedly tests a similar device (which former PandoDaily staffer Greg Kumparak asked for way back in August) in its Cupertino headquarters and Google prepares its own “smart” glasses. Wearable computing in general, and smartwatches in particular, could be, as The Verge’s Chris Ziegler writes, “the Next Big Thing in consumer tech.” If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude.
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Opening the files that constituted the source code for Photoshop 1.0, I felt a bit like Howard Carter as he first breached the tomb of King Tutankhamen. What wonders awaited me? I was not disappointed by what I found. Indeed, it was a marvelous journey to open up the cunning machinery of an application I’d first used over 20 years ago. An application so ingrained in our culture that its name is a verb.
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Leslie Nielson[^] knows that!
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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We would like to, in a factual manner, break down what the possible outcomes of having a majority of web browsers based on WebKit are, for web browser vendors and developers alike. Let’s start with some common questions... WebKit means different things to different browsers.
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A change that’s been occurring in the scareware industry over the last few years is that most scareware today also classifies as ransomware.... Without advanced malware cleaning skills, a system infected with ransomware is usable only to give in to the blackmailer’s demands to pay. In this blog post I describe how different variants of ransomware lock the user out of their computer, how they persist across reboots, and how you can use Sysinternals Autoruns to hunt down and kill most current ransomware variants from an infected system. You never know what you're gonna run into out there.
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God do I hate that stuff. Had an infection that took me several tries of System Restore to finally get rid of it. Then there was the time I just reinstalled my system.
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The Internet, it seems, has found its version of vinyl chic. Just as the LP has enjoyed a second spin among retro-minded music fans, animated GIFs — the choppy, crude snippets of video loops that hearken back to dial-up modems — are enjoying an unlikely vogue as the digital accessory of the moment. Making a comeback? More like never left. Animate all the things!
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Apparently pixel art is cool once again, and if you are reading this blog, chances are, you like pixel art. As my first actual article on the site, I thought I’d make a little tutorial on how to pixel your own 16*16 sprite, that you can use as a favicon for your website or game. There are many ways to go about pushing pixels, and this is just one of them. Sadly, this tutorial will not teach you how to draw or come up with nice ideas, sorry. Also I will not go into program-specific details, you need to have some basic familiarity with the software you want to use. Because the world needs more icon-sized 8-bit art.
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We live in a wonderful time when programmers can be so naive about the workings of Big Business. I’m not being the least bit snarky there, either. I see so many young developers working in startups and progressive agencies, blissfully unaware of just how poisonous corporate culture can be sometimes. But they do tend to live in a tech-savvy bubble, and sometimes it’s helpful to see how “real people” use the tools our industry gives them. I once worked for a company run off a couple Excel spreadsheets, just like JP Morgan.... Don’t hate the spreadsheet, hate the game.
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Over the years I’ve owned quite a few computers. An endless series of PC compatibles that mostly differed from each other in CPU speed or memory capacity. But before the PC era computers were a bit different in that they differed vastly from each other. The advent of the PC homogenized personal computing to a large extent, this is now due to the proliferation of mobile platforms and various tinkerer devices (Raspi, Arduino, etc) changing again but for the longest time it seemed as though x86 was what computing was all about. What computers helped shape the course your life?
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The course my life what?
DEC: PDP, VAX
WOPR, Deep Thought, ...
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Computers I have gladly seen the back of...
zx81
atari portfolio
Acorn RiscPC (graphics mode options were worse than previous A3000)
HP Pavilion (Turion 64) - a blue screen nightmare
The ones that got away..
Commodore Amiga (a major regret)
Atari Falcon (costly)
Owned (but sold)
Atari 800 (30yrs & faultless operation)
Panasonic CF150 Portable (Green LCD)
Apple Performa 6200
HP 620LX (WinCE 2.11 - upgrade)
rev.A iMac (bondi blue)
+lots of PCs that I've built myself. (still do)
Still have
PDP11-23 (processor section only - no disk drives)
Atari ST/STe x 3 or 4 (as spares)
Apple G3 (last beige model) x2
Apple Quadra 610
Apple LC / Performa 450 (basically the same)
Apple Newton MP130 (spares with intention to repair someday)
Apple Newton MP2000 (MP2100 upgrade) - still in use
Atari XL (lots of spares) 600xl, still in use
Atari XE-GS/GM (x2 knackered spares)
HP Jornada 720 (x3 2 for spares)
Toshiba JournE Touch (Windows CE 6)
Raspberry Pi rev.B
3 or 4 more working PCs (XP64 x2, ubuntu studio 12.04) + lots of spare parts.
Jeezuz!! and I thought the pile was going down.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
modified 23-Feb-13 20:24pm.
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Quote: Apple Newton MP2000 (MP2100 upgrade) - still in use Yes! I remember being so impressed with these devices when they were new.
My first employer had some fantastic early '90s SGI Iris and Indigo boxen that I loved playing with. Should have grabbed one when the company went under...
I'm still sort of half-seriously looking for a NeXT cube and an original Be Box. I built up a Tyan Tiger-based machine (dual Athlon XP) to run BeOS when they ported it to x86. Neat toy, but ultimately it went nowhere and the machine ended up running Win2k (quite well I might add). Great machine until the voltage controllers died and the smoke went out of it...
I get nostalgic for those old systems sometimes - then I'm reminded that a modern Mac does most of what they could, faster, with far better app and peripheral support. If I want to relive the old days I can just fire up a Terminal session.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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The NeXT boxes are fetching silly money on eBay these days, with or without packaging.
Funnily enough I also built a Tyan Tiger 230 system (2001/2 I think - fog rolls in..) That lasted about 3 years (Win2k) until the Athlon64 came out. Yay! I've been using those machines ever since. (I've replaced everything , incrementally)
I was lusting after those SGI boxes around the time that Nintendo 64 was released. Didn't they do development of N64 on SGI? or they provided the GPU for it. A real shame they went under.
The hand-writing recognition on the MP2000/2100 was way better than previous models, thanks to the StrongArm running at 160MHz or whatever it was. I left it with the main battery out for over 3 months and it had retained all the information when I went back to it. Amazing.
I really miss the simplicity of older systems, as they don't put barriers to the hardware.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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Who says it's love? It's more like taxes.
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When we think of the comma character we often think of it as a separator. It separates values in an CSV file, it separates items in lists, it may separate index values in multidimensional arrays (in other languages) and more. But in C++ an obscure way of using them was as an operator. The reason it never made it big as an operator and into the typical programming psyche is that largely it is seen as useless or some kind of "syntactic sugar". So in this article we try to show how it works, why it has a stigma and some possible uses for it that may prove useful at some point in your career going forward. Eats(), Shoots() and Leaves();
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Why does he keep saying C++, it's a C thing. And C# doesn't have it.
I think the only times I've use the comma operator is in for loops:
for ( i = 3 , j = 5 ; ... ; ... ) ...
for ( ... ; i = GetSomething() , j < k ; ... ) ...
for ( ... ; ... ; i++ , j++ ) ...
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