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  1. Twiggy
    December 14, 2013 09:37:04 AM
    Twiggy
    Did you know that although Mario is more detailed in Super Mario 64 DS, he actually has significantly less amount of polygons than Mario in Super Mario 64?

    The power of proper texturing :3
  2. Cat333Pokémon
    December 13, 2013 11:43:57 PM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Going pretty decently, especially now that I'm finally done with classes.
  3. Twiggy
    December 13, 2013 08:23:43 PM
    Twiggy
    Hi, Scotty. How's life for ya?
  4. Twiggy
    December 9, 2013 06:18:49 AM
    Twiggy
    As part of in-flight entertainment, I decide to watch I Am Sam after deciding that "well, there's not much to choose from".

    ...oh my.
  5. Twiggy
    December 6, 2013 09:58:42 AM
    Twiggy
    If you ever make a new desktop, skip the HDDs and SSDs, and just get a SSHD.

    5400 RPM notebook HDDs are not supposed to be competitive with real SSDs

    I keep telling myself that, but Windows Event Log and stopwatches don't lie.
  6. Twiggy
    December 5, 2013 09:44:18 AM
    Twiggy
    *notices that Windows CE qualifies as a real-time OS in some cases*
  7. Twiggy
    December 4, 2013 09:12:14 AM
    Twiggy
    I think I might eventually bite and buy FFVII and FFVIII for Windows together when the deal shows up. It's leakyleak day.

    One thing Intel graphics still do well: support for old DirectX games without looking like a hot mess due to missing support for old stuff.
  8. Twiggy
    December 3, 2013 08:02:54 AM
    Twiggy
    "Windows NT. Now the only difference between a PC and a mainframe is about 900 lbs."

    Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20, and now I understand what's up with this after reading the Ars Technica article about the fall of OS/2.
  9. Twiggy
    December 3, 2013 05:46:03 AM
    Twiggy
    It's interesting to see that the top three smartphone platforms can, and will exchange places when going from a country to another country's stats.
  10. Twiggy
    December 2, 2013 11:23:43 PM
    Twiggy
    They seem to have dropped support.

    Seeing as they went and tried to convert everything GPL to LGPL (perhaps for Windows RT?) and rewrote the code to be much more friendly to mobile platforms (Unix-styled code won't work well in mobile environments and Windows NT), maybe FluidSynth couldn't be kept?

    Windows 8.1 actually brings a lot of things to Windows Runtime that make apps like VLC possible (and right now, release imminent), like I/O access (example: DVD playback).
  11. Cat333Pokémon
    December 2, 2013 10:56:48 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    No. I know it uses SoundFonts in older versions.
  12. Twiggy
    December 2, 2013 04:54:03 AM
    Twiggy
    Hmm... have you tried playing a MIDI file in the latest release of VLC?
  13. Cat333Pokémon
    November 28, 2013 01:32:47 PM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Yeah, I use Windows Media Player to rip CDs.
  14. Twiggy
    November 28, 2013 05:46:24 AM
    Twiggy
    Does your [insert CD ripping program] automagically fill in the track data?

    (Every modern x86 client computer has at least one of them no matter what OS.)
  15. Twiggy
    November 27, 2013 10:59:46 AM
    Twiggy
    I think my signature move is probably posting so many VMs in a go.
  16. Twiggy
    November 27, 2013 10:13:36 AM
    Twiggy
    First impressions:

    Wizardry 6 is way too clunky.

    Wizardry 7 is still too clunky for my own good.

    I've gotten a good feel of Wizardry 8, though, with the sample party, and I feel at home.

    I guess I'm shelving 6 and 7 for now.

    After a decade, a lot of things change with regard to both game design and presentation. Whether it's good or bad depends on your point of view...
  17. Twiggy
    November 27, 2013 12:42:42 AM
    Twiggy
    *wonders whether there's a good reason why GOG.com might give you the Windows version by default for games that had both DOS and Windows versions*
  18. Twiggy
    November 26, 2013 11:47:15 PM
    Twiggy
    Seen in Wizardry 7 Gold (a Windows 3.x/95 Win32s game) readme:

    Quote:
    Screensavers were originally designed for older computer monitors to avoid "burn in", damage caused to the screen by leaving your monitor on. Even though modern monitors no longer need screensavers, they are still an interesting distraction!
    Makes you wonder how old are these monitors that burn in. (Turning off the monitor is the best "screen saver", anyway.)
  19. Twiggy
    November 26, 2013 11:07:31 PM
    Twiggy
    I ended up selling my Android tablet today.
  20. Twiggy
    November 26, 2013 04:30:51 AM
    Twiggy
    Six drives in My Computer.

    Hmm... drive shuffling?
  21. Twiggy
    November 23, 2013 11:22:12 PM
    Twiggy
    *plushies*
  22. Cat333Pokémon
    November 22, 2013 09:49:49 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    How do you intend to do that?
  23. Twiggy
    November 22, 2013 08:16:11 AM
    Twiggy
    *buys Cat333Pokémon*
  24. Twiggy
    November 21, 2013 04:35:46 AM
    Twiggy
    It's quite telling that if I want a thin ultraportable that still keeps an optical drive, I'm basically stuck with Toshiba Portege (HOW did they cram in a functional tray-loader?!)... and I still don't think they'll keep churning out the optical-drive models for too long.

    *wonders whether Cat333Pokémon has ever tried CHKDSKing his own burned discs*
  25. Cat333Pokémon
    November 21, 2013 01:20:59 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Nor am I, if I can avoid it.
  26. Twiggy
    November 21, 2013 12:41:16 AM
    Twiggy
    I've noticed that I rely on optical media a lot, especially when it comes to burning large ISOs to write-once discs.

    I'm so not joining the optical-drive-less "revolution".
  27. Twiggy
    November 20, 2013 12:01:13 AM
    Twiggy
    Weirdest thing I've learned today:

    CHKDSK is perfectly capable of checking a UDF-formatted optical disc.

    Code:
    C:\windows\system32>chkdsk d:
    The type of the file system is UDF.
    Volume SupportDisc is UDF version 2.01.
    
    CHKDSK is verifying ICBs ...
    ICB verification completed.
    CHKDSK is looking for orphan ICBs ...
    Search for orphans completed.
    CHKDSK is verifying ICB links ...
    ICB link verification completed.
    CHKDSK is verifying link counts and parent entries ...
    Link count and parent entry verification completed.
    CHKDSK is checking system files.
    CHKDSK is checking the directory tree for cycles.
    CHKDSK is identifying lost files.
    Lost file identification completed.
    CHKDSK is verifying object size for ICBs with alternate data streams ...
    ICB object size verification completed.
    Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
    
       4584512 KB total disk space.
       4357328 KB in 802 files.
           440 KB in 200 directories.
             2 KB in 1 alternate data streams.
             2 KB in 1 stream directories.
           282 KB in use by the system.
        226458 KB available on disk.
    
          2048 bytes in each allocation unit.
       2292256 total allocation units on disk.
        113229 allocation units available on disk.
  28. Cat333Pokémon
    November 19, 2013 12:05:55 PM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Actually, it's not curved...but because of that fact I need to calibrate it a bit more.

    The 2DS seems to work pretty well but certainly feels different than holding a 3DS.
  29. Twiggy
    November 19, 2013 10:57:27 AM
    Twiggy
    You know, when it comes to pseudo-random number generators...

    If said PRNG used raw accelerometer input on a device where the accelerometer is mandatory and not too precise...
  30. Twiggy
    November 19, 2013 09:33:34 AM
    Twiggy
    What do you think of the 2DS?
  31. Twiggy
    November 19, 2013 09:13:39 AM
    Twiggy
    dat curved glass
  32. Cat333Pokémon
    November 19, 2013 09:11:05 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Sure do! It's 1080i.
  33. Twiggy
    November 19, 2013 08:33:24 AM
    Twiggy
    You have a HD CRT TV? Nice!

    720p?
  34. Twiggy
    November 18, 2013 07:27:02 AM
    Twiggy
    Apparently Windows Media Audio Professional uses panning stereo at extremely low bit rates (like 32 kbps)

    Somehow, it's not noticeable
  35. Cat333Pokémon
    November 16, 2013 12:49:45 PM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Frogs are fun to poke.
  36. Twiggy
    November 16, 2013 10:37:25 AM
    Twiggy
    Chester
    Kinniekins
    Froabble

    One of them don't quite belong there...
  37. Twiggy
    November 16, 2013 08:17:44 AM
    Twiggy
    Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 machine suddenly gaining Emoji support?

    Here. Chances are you already have this installed

    If only there was an easy way to insert them in Windows 7, but then again, you'd call me an emoji freak in no time.
  38. Twiggy
    November 16, 2013 12:28:32 AM
    Twiggy
    Ah, that's right. I was viewing with Notepad

    Syntax highlighting is one of these things that you don't notice until you lose it.
  39. Cat333Pokémon
    November 16, 2013 12:20:21 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    It's already commented out, though.
  40. Twiggy
    November 15, 2013 11:48:39 PM
    Twiggy
    Can't wait for the day when hyphens is supported by all

    P.S.: Try killing the X-UA-Compatible meta tag on the pages here. I want to see how IE11 handles Victory Road as itself, and not a 2-year-old browser.
  41. Cat333Pokémon
    November 15, 2013 11:13:26 PM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Try the <wbr /> tag. It doesn't yet work in all browsers, though.
  42. Twiggy
    November 15, 2013 11:11:06 PM
    Twiggy
    Note to self: -ms-hyphens can deal with made up words like Noivern properly

    I ended up with Noi-vern
  43. Cat333Pokémon
    November 13, 2013 10:42:23 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    It looks oddly supportive of things I never thought Microsoft would support (VMs on Linux), the RAR archive format, and what appears to be working VMs. (They're too large for me to test right now.)
  44. Twiggy
    November 13, 2013 01:30:20 AM
    Twiggy
    I just realized this exists

    No more shady downloads, uninstall/install dancing or skipped testing for poor students
  45. Twiggy
    November 9, 2013 07:41:29 AM
    Twiggy
    So Windows 3.0 running in protected mode threw compatibility warnings on some older Windows apps that required real mode

    Sometimes hardware gets in the way... for good reason.
  46. Twiggy
    November 9, 2013 07:31:54 AM
    Twiggy
    Do you find it surprising that Media Player Classic and VLC eat into battery life compared to Windows Media Player and the Video app?
  47. Twiggy
    November 8, 2013 09:29:09 AM
    Twiggy
    *keeps thinking "Why am I learning C++ in uni when I want to write C# in reality"*
  48. Twiggy
    November 8, 2013 09:13:36 AM
    Twiggy
    Wow, they weren't kidding about how a lot of things are "already done for you" in C#.
  49. Twiggy
    November 8, 2013 09:08:20 AM
    Twiggy
    Wikipedia actually has a section on comparing Java and C# code

    I can't read Java
  50. Twiggy
    November 7, 2013 06:58:58 AM
    Twiggy
    I had a very strange dream about you and me last night.

    For some reason we lived in the same house.

    We lived in the same room, even.

    It felt really awkward when I "realized" what's going on in my dreams. There was no one else in sight.
  51. Twiggy
    November 5, 2013 11:44:22 PM
    Twiggy
    What about Symbian T9 phones?

    (Ignore the fact that they are no longer in production)
  52. Cat333Pokémon
    November 5, 2013 01:08:46 PM
    Cat333Pokémon
    I prefer not having a smartphone, so if I get something newer, it'll still be a feature phone.
  53. Twiggy
    November 5, 2013 10:36:38 AM
    Twiggy
    Say, if Nokia were to come out with a 525 that combines a no-contract $100-ish handset and threw in Bluetooth ear buds, would you still want it? Or will you want to stay with your phone? Or will that be the one that tips you over the proverbial edge?

    Funny enough, I sometimes want to go back. Other times, though, I want to go big.
  54. Twiggy
    November 4, 2013 09:18:58 AM
    Twiggy
    Speaking of KeePass, it's kind of telling when a given amount of master key transformations that would be done in a second on an Ivy Bridge Core i5 laptop takes well over the lockscreen timeout on a phone.

    I'm stuck with the default value of 6,000 because my phone is, to put it mildly, too slow. KeePass has a function to determine how many transformations would take for a second to pass - apparently, something that a Core i5 doesn't break a sweat is something that mobile phone processors cry about.

    Makes me wonder why C# is significantly more secure... and consistent.
  55. Cat333Pokémon
    November 4, 2013 08:55:21 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Easy: Java is the most common security hole these days for drive-by viruses, and it's completely browser-independent.
  56. Twiggy
  57. Twiggy
    October 31, 2013 10:46:18 AM
    Twiggy
    Things I've learned yesterday:

    Server software adds a lot of seconds to your boot times.

    They tend to register as services, though. If you do not need immediate use of them (like me and Oracle Database Express Edition, as I only need to use them for assignments), and don't want to manually activate them yourself, use Delayed Start from Services. (Type Services in the Start Menu/Screen in any Windows computer running Vista or newer.))
  58. Twiggy
    October 30, 2013 12:11:44 AM
    Twiggy
    Something on some other guy's laptop managed to +H and +S everything in the root directory of the flash drive I was using while hauling long file copies.

    ATTRIB saved the day, but...

    I asked him whether he runs any anti-malware.

    "None."

    *facepalm*
  59. Twiggy
    October 28, 2013 10:35:03 AM
    Twiggy


    What if a PC emulator capable of running Windows XP acceptably with JS exists
  60. Cat333Pokémon
    October 28, 2013 10:33:40 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    *looks at ever-changing standards* Do I need to answer that?
  61. Twiggy
    October 28, 2013 10:32:34 AM
    Twiggy
    Not even to write a single word on the page?
  62. Cat333Pokémon
    October 28, 2013 10:31:05 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Yet some people still can't write working JavaScript code.
  63. Twiggy
    October 28, 2013 10:29:46 AM
    Twiggy
    Huh, so they can emulate entire PCs (old ones) with only JavaScript these days.
  64. Cat333Pokémon
    October 19, 2013 09:31:18 PM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Nah, found someone with one of them.
  65. Twiggy
    October 19, 2013 12:36:38 PM
    Twiggy
    No more ponies!

    But...

    Whoa, where'd you get some kinda fancy screencap device? Or is there a site where you plug in the details?
  66. Twiggy
    October 17, 2013 09:12:23 AM
    Twiggy
    Time to relearn Modern IE!

    I think I really like 8.1.
  67. Twiggy
    October 15, 2013 04:45:07 AM
    Twiggy
    Have you wondered how many North American and Latin American 3DS owners imported the Southeast Asian Ocarina of Time 3D for the boxart and compatibility?
  68. Twiggy
    October 12, 2013 05:24:09 AM
    Twiggy
    I kind of miss framebuffer-based transitions in 4th and 5th gen Pokémon games

    It's also a bit funny how some outlining errors still persist as if it was still on 5th gen.
  69. Twiggy
  70. Twiggy
    October 11, 2013 11:34:46 AM
    Twiggy
    They're getting there with Bay Trail stuff, though.

    Sometimes I'm glad that the keyboard I'm using is a standard US QWERTY keyboard.
  71. Cat333Pokémon
    October 11, 2013 11:22:42 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    The Atom is pretty meh.
  72. Twiggy
    October 11, 2013 07:57:21 AM
    Twiggy
    Hmm... the slowest piece of hardware than can run Windows 8 (RT)...

    NVIDIA Tegra 3, or some forgotten Atom? Or a mid-life Pentium 4?
  73. Twiggy
    October 9, 2013 12:15:36 AM
    Twiggy
    Dying hard disk drive? Unexpected blue screens? Mysteriously errors? Crashes?

    Sounds like the first hard disk drive in my old rig. xD
  74. Cat333Pokémon
    October 8, 2013 06:12:39 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Nope.
  75. Twiggy
    October 8, 2013 03:50:37 AM
    Twiggy
    Hey, Cat. Have you noticed any kind of improvement in audio quality with regard to stereo streamed audio in virtual surround mode on the 3DS? I don't know what happened, but it doesn't sound atrocious now in Gates to Infinity.
  76. Twiggy
    October 7, 2013 09:16:25 PM
    Twiggy
    The minimum specifications for PC versions of games intended for next-generation consoles like the Xbox One and PS4...

    Yikes!
  77. Cat333Pokémon
    October 6, 2013 01:48:47 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Yes, they learned from Microsoft that they can't keep supporting all the intermittent versions (like service packs or the latest patches for Windows) without going crazy.
  78. Twiggy
    October 6, 2013 12:43:19 AM
    Twiggy
    Do you think it tells something that Ubuntu now defaults to extended support versions for new users?
  79. Twiggy
    September 27, 2013 10:15:27 AM
    Twiggy
    It's a bit funny when your laptop's own chipset does not support memory faster than DDR3-1600. At least it makes me not think about upgrades in term of speed.
  80. Cat333Pokémon
    September 25, 2013 11:14:31 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    I like how only three Monster Hunter games equal that many Vita games.
  81. Twiggy
    September 25, 2013 10:11:08 AM
    Twiggy
  82. Twiggy
    September 24, 2013 08:25:46 AM
    Twiggy
    The Surface RT feels like a budget not-budget 10" tablet.
  83. Twiggy
    September 24, 2013 08:12:33 AM
    Twiggy
    I miss T9 Symbian phones. They are pretty much smartphones for feature phone user, with capable hardware... and you can use them as feature phones.
  84. Cat333Pokémon
    September 24, 2013 07:59:30 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    I miss when everyone had a feature phone. Apart from the obvious part about people not being distracted every five minutes, they were a lot more unique than a black/white rectangle with a big screen.
  85. Twiggy
    September 24, 2013 06:27:33 AM
    Twiggy
    You know, a part of me hopes that the Nokia 515 makes it to the US market. Why? For you. So you have a versatile feature phone. You won't be using it for things that a smartphone can do, but it's still a Swiss Army Knife for mobile things.
  86. Twiggy
    September 22, 2013 08:33:59 PM
    Twiggy
    *looks at clock*
  87. Cat333Pokémon
    September 22, 2013 08:27:42 PM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Good morning
  88. Twiggy
    September 22, 2013 08:09:08 PM
    Twiggy
    I think I woke up too early... xD
  89. Twiggy
    September 21, 2013 10:25:59 AM
    Twiggy
    /me sometimes does this in places that don't recognise /me
  90. Cat333Pokémon
    September 21, 2013 10:13:55 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Nah
  91. Twiggy
    September 21, 2013 10:01:47 AM
    Twiggy
    Do you miss Clippy?
  92. Cat333Pokémon
    September 21, 2013 09:45:01 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Clippy has detected a paperclip.
  93. Twiggy
    September 21, 2013 07:18:41 AM
    Twiggy
    It looks like you lost your favourite Pokémon list. Would you like help with-

    Bad Clippy, bad!
  94. Cat333Pokémon
    September 20, 2013 10:35:51 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    I prefer feature phones because they can't bug me with notifications and don't give me the option to distract myself anywhere.
  95. Twiggy
    September 20, 2013 08:33:39 AM
    Twiggy
    Perhaps this is a good time for me to start evaluating my options for upgrading my phone... Or going back to a feature phone, but I need tethering, so there's that.
  96. Twiggy
    September 20, 2013 07:55:06 AM
    Twiggy
    *prints a PDF file off USB*

    This is why I didn't go with an iPad or a 10" Android tablet...
  97. Twiggy
    September 19, 2013 07:51:18 AM
    Twiggy
    I see Jelly is now Jelly-coloured.

    Tell him I said hi - and tell him whether he can either accept the friendship request or open up VMs. It feels a bit awkward, but if it's like that for privacy reasons, I understand.
  98. Cat333Pokémon
    September 18, 2013 10:44:53 PM
    Cat333Pokémon
    My favorite are the ones that allow you to "unverify" an account.
  99. Twiggy
    September 18, 2013 10:25:10 PM
    Twiggy
    Hehe. I guess I never told you about some kid that used my email address as his/her "parent's" email for a children's site. That was even easier to nuke as the cancellation link is right in the verification email.
  100. Cat333Pokémon
    September 18, 2013 11:36:55 AM
    Cat333Pokémon
    Phht, one? I get about two or three of those a week with one of my other e-mail accounts from folks thinking it was picked up by a name squatter. It's turned into an entertaining game of shutting down accounts and trolling the people who own the accounts. That'll teach 'em to use someone else's e-mail.

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