thanks. I'm gonna install a test webserver tonight.

I just found this killer remote support app that essentially is the same as using gotomypc, at least i dont think you need to configure your router/firewall in order to use it. I think in actuality it uses ssh and vnc in order to make the tunnel. Its called Crossloop and its 100% free unlike dimdim where you dont even get the same capabilities.

I'm very excitied to see the new additions to the finally being implemented HTML5. The next big step i would love to see implemented is ipV6 so they can finally abolish ipv4 and the ieee passing 802.11n.

Yeah canvas is pretty cool, also the video and audio tags are a good idea. It's too bad that Mozilla is pushing to have Theora and Ogg as the video and audio implementation, because they're both trash compared to H.264 and AAC.

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Originally posted by Lorazepam:
Yeah canvas is pretty cool, also the video and audio tags are a good idea. It's too bad that Mozilla is pushing to have Theora and Ogg as the video and audio implementation, because they're both trash compared to H.264 and AAC.

ive never heard of theora. is it as hard to find a player as ogg? I never understand why people like those wierd ass codecs that are never going to hit the main stream. They should just do flac if they are gonna go exotic.

h264 is a great standard tho. is it still hardware based?

Yeah you can still get hardware h264 decoders. People like them because the code is GPL'ed and patent free. People are dumb.

Is this function useless since they introduced oop into php?

goto in general isn't useless, in PHP it will be used to create a whole new chapter in "PHP Programming Horrors"

seems kinda useless if your program uses pointers and callouts. I guess its for people who want to be even lazier programers.

Gotos are used in the linux kernel for error handling routines. Loops are done with gotos in assembly. It has its uses, it's just abused horribly by BASIC programmers.

Just watched a talk on Python's global interpreter lock. It was designed to make python run in a thread-safe fashion on single core machines, and it works just fine there. Different story on multi-core machines. Guy ran two CPU-bound threads and watched them make over 3 million system calls.

good news for september, the ieee is set to approve 802.11N as a standard. I wish it had more bandwidth like it was originally meant to have. My router only does 200 mbit which is better than ethernet, but it was originally spec'd at 300-600 mbit.

all i want now is a cisco managed router and managed switch, but thats easy enough to get off of ebay for a reasonable price

why cell phone companies should have better security

writing a flow chart for a function that i am adding to one of our old vb6 programs. I cant believe how many different aspects you need to think about when writing a simple function.

Sounds like a crazy function.

yeah, it looks like im breaking it off into 2 different functions so there will be less code and it will be easier to understand if somebody looks at it in the future. I need to remember to add my comments.

its going to read a datafile that i will give it and then generate a bigger data file that will print out increments of a given quantity. So if my original file says the quantity needed is 250, it will print 250 records including the starting number from the original file.

its a really good beginner's challenge for me

I've been playing around with clisp lately. Pretty neat language.

i just came across Mono, and was wondering if anybody has tried it or heard anything good or bad about it.

It's usually a version or two behind .Net, WinForms doesn't really work the same.

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