Root Access

Oliver Salzburg

00:10

Sweet, regular expression support was just merged into Stylebot \o/

Journeyman Geek

02:41

whut?

Seth

02:54

Has anyone ever had Windows decide your password is wrong all of a sudden? I just did a fresh install and after a couple of reboots (updates) it won't accept my password at all.

This has happened to me before on this computer (and only this computer), so I'm starting to think it's some sort of hardware problem although I can't quite imagine what it would be..

Journeyman Geek

03:22

windows what?

Seth

windows 7

Journeyman Geek

might be corruption of some sort, maybe in the file that stores the password?

tried breaking into the system? ;p

Seth

yeah I tried/

Journeyman Geek

with what?

konboot? the offline password changer disk?

Seth

chntpw

On an ubuntu LiveCD

I didn't have a Password recovery disk.. hadn't made one yet.

(this is a brand new install)

I also tried a system restore to an earlier registry, but that didn't work either.

So I guess I'll just reinstall the whole system :/

Journeyman Geek

03:47

I've come to a conclusion that I am incapable of using a linux gui without a quake style terminal

been working on a course that uses fedora and xfce. Pretty much kept hitting f12 all the time

Seth

How does Fedora work with your (I'm supposing) a debian background?

As in, how "different" is it?

Journeyman Geek

04:05

here? mainly the package manager

a lot of the other things are the same, until you go in deep

Seth

That's what I thought. I like that.

Journeyman Geek

it uses systemd rather than upstart for example

Seth

What do they use as a package manager again?

@JourneymanGeek Isn't upstart an all Ubuntu thing?

Journeyman Geek

yum

Seth

(or mostly Ubuntu thing)

Journeyman Geek

04:07

@Seth: I THINK fedora was using it at a point. Point being if you need to write a startup script, you're going to need to do it differently

Upstart

Upstart is an event-based replacement for the traditional init daemon — the method by which several Unix-like computer operating systems perform tasks when the computer is started. It was written by Scott James Remnant, a former employee of Canonical Ltd. Rationale The traditional init process is strictly synchronous, blocking future tasks until the current one has completed. Its tasks must also be defined in advance, and they only run when the init daemon changes state (such as when the machine is powered on or off). This leaves it unable to handle various tasks on a modern des...

Seth

yes.. It's certainly rather different ;)

Journeyman Geek

RHEL 6 uses it, as does fedora 9-14

Seth

Oh that's a cool link.

Journeyman Geek

but at a user level, the 'transition' is not bad

yum search works to find stuff (but its sloooow) as does yum install

Seth

Interesting. Do you think apt is more powerful/easier to use than yum? Or is there not much of a difference?

Journeyman Geek

05:15

@Seth: apt is 'easier' as far as metapackages go

but for most use, not much difference

Hennes

06:55

Morning

soandos

07:56

Anyone know anything about registry auditing?

Hennes

08:21

Wat do you mean with that? Check if a value is present? Monitor it all the time and check if it changes?

soandos

@Hennes second one

Its enabled in GP

and I set it to audit on the dialog box

it just does not show up in the event viewer

Hennes

I never played with it.

Set via group policy and pushed? Or set on the local machine?

soandos

local machine

I feel like I am missing something very basic

I basically followed this: windowsitpro.com/systems-management/…

Oliver Salzburg

wtf someone left their dog at home and it's howling like crazy

This has been going on all Sunday as well

soandos

08:39

@JourneymanGeek any ideas?

Journeyman Geek

08:49

@soandos: from what I've looked at, its not something I have done before :/

Oliver Salzburg

@soandos Did you reboot?

Oliver Salzburg

09:10

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A: Request: Please make takedown notice public, and upload it to Chilling Effects

Here is a copy of the takedown request from CipherCloud. Stack Exchange sent a copy to all users who had posted content. I am making the letter available here at the URL below, and as images below: http://www.pdf-archive.com/2013/04/20/notice130419/notice130419.pdf

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Q: CipherCloud DMCA notice

CipherCloud just filed a DMCA notice with stack exchange to take down the question How is CipherCloud doing homomorphic encryption? (now deleted by stackexchange). Since I obviously can't post the full question+answers here, a short summary of what it contained: The question itself asks if/how...

teylyn

anyone here?

Bob

perhaps

teylyn

I have trouble getting the code formatting to work. It's weird

here: superuser.com/questions/585687/…

Oliver Salzburg

@teylyn You need to indent with 4 more spaces

Because it's in a list item

teylyn

You mean in the VBE?

where do the 4 more spaces go exactly? each row of the code?

Oliver Salzburg

09:21

@teylyn Yeah, let me do it real quick, it's a pain in the editor ;)

teylyn

got it. Working on the indent

thanks @Oliver. I never thought that a numbered list would be recognized. This place is getting snazzier every day.

Oliver Salzburg

@teylyn You're welcome :)

teylyn

@oliver, wo in D lebst Du?

wenn man fragen darf

Oliver Salzburg

Bei Frankfurt ;)

teylyn

Hab mal ne Zeit in Eschborn gearbeitet. 6 Monate Deutsche Bank. Ughh

Ich bin in der Naehe von Koeln grossgeworden. Seit 2001 leben wir in Neuseeland. Ist etwas geruhsamer.

Oliver Salzburg

09:28

Hehehe das glaub ich ;)

slhck

Where's Daniel? Let's have a German conversation and annoy everyone :P

Journeyman Geek

09:58

I've got no place to complain, I've had annoying conversations in tamil before XDXDXD

Hennes

@slhck Ich mochte mein Farrad zuruck <sup>tm</sup>

Enough German? ;-)

Journeyman Geek

lol

ugh, having one of those moments when I have an assignment, know exactly what to do, yet my brain dosen't seem to want to connect those neurons.

Hennes

In Dutch we say "die grap heeft een baard" (That joke has a beard" / "Das Witz hat einen Bart")

slhck

@Hennes Yeah, same saying here :)

Hennes

Ah, good to know.

I know I can translate things literally. But the meaning might not get translated as easily.

The "I want my bicycle back" is from world war II. Countrary to what young people assume that did include horses and bicycles. Motorised cars and tanks were relative new (used in ww-i, but as an exception)

The retreat from the Netherlands was augmented by borrowing bicycles. Something we keep on yammering on about. Even after nearly a century

Which really does not show our better side. :(

Journeyman Geek

10:04

lol

Einsteins Grandson

10:28

anybody here?

do you use Linkedin?

don't you know how long does it take to apply the changes i made on my profile?

i set my profile to be invisible

but maybe it takes 24 hours until i will actually be invisible.... so that it is impossible to look me up in linkedin search

Oliver Salzburg

Hello?

Anybody here?

Einsteins Grandson

;o)

sense of humour, i see

Oliver Salzburg

I would assume those changes to be instant, but I don't have an account there and I never used the site ;D

Einsteins Grandson

ok

thanks

Oliver Salzburg

Try opening your profile page with another browser where you're not logged into the site and check

Hennes

10:33

Grah!
find / -type d ! $ -path proc -o -path dev $ -prune -o -print -maxdepth 1

not working as I expect it to

I can try opening it.

Which name do you use on Stinked In ?

I am trying to get all dirextories in /

for a in /* ; do echo $a ; done | grep -v blah should work

Assuming I want to exclude /dev/ and proc

but I am sure find can do that natively,

Also, clippy needs a 'fuck off clippy!!!!!' button

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Oliver Salzburg

@Hennes What was wrong with find / -type d -maxdepth 1?

Hennes

I want to filter out /dev and /proc/

So far I got this:

find / -type d ! ( -path proc -o -path dev ) -print -maxdepth 1

But that uses a GNU specific extension.

I try to avoid those to generate universally working answers

Not just 'this works on linux of you use distribution this or distribution that`

Oliver Salzburg

find / -type d ! $ -path /proc -o -path /dev $ -print -maxdepth 1

Hennes

maxdepth is the GNU specific extension

Oliver Salzburg

Yeah, I also get a warning, but it seems to work right

> find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments.

Hennes

10:40

The OP of superuser.com/questions/585261/… mentions Linux, but I would like to post something which just works verywhere

Even on Slowaris or BSDs

Note I am one of those people who accept 'it just needs to work' at work, but when at home I want to do things the right way.

A warning is a stain on my honour

Oliver Salzburg

for a in /*; do echo -n "$a " && find $a |wc -l; done

This is fun :D

Hennes

Better than what I got so far.

I was at find / -type d ! $ -path proc -o -path dev -o -path .snap $ -maxdepth 1 -exec echo starting a find in {} \; with the ideas to exec a new find in each dir

excluding dirs you do not need: /dev/ /proc and .snap snapshots

Oliver Salzburg

It's best executed from a root shell though ;P

allquixotic

11:27

@OliverSalzburg I've seen shell scripts that don't even involve rm that can nuke your system; careful

hell, even echo can be dangerous with redirection

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic Oh I've deleted tons of files by accident with find

So I've learned my lesson ;P

Journeyman Geek

ok, I'm confused. I apparently got alerted to an edit that happened TWO YEARS AGO

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek That's weird. What post?

Journeyman Geek

1

A: Setting Google results to stay in a language, regardless of location

Try going to http://www.google.com/ncr

OH

suggested edit

facepalms

Oliver Salzburg

As in, someone just suggested a new edit and it was already rejected?

Journeyman Geek

11:38

ya

Oliver Salzburg

Heheh, I can relate ;D

Bob

12:13

@OliverSalzburg That's crazy.

I really really hope they challenge it.

Oliver Salzburg

The streisand effect is pretty strong with this one ;D

I found out about it through Slashdot

Einsteins Grandson

is there any software that let me call free to landline in USA?

like for 4 minutes only

i remeber it was possible with VoipCheap, VoipStunt... etc.... but that was like 5 years ago...

after 4 minutes, the call was ended

Oliver Salzburg

No idea. If I want to make a phone call, I usually use my phone

Sathya

use Google voice/skype

Einsteins Grandson

it charges me like 1 USD per minute and when you call US call center of Walmart, Apple, HP.... it can be as long as 40 minutes

once i waited for 1 and half our to be connected to the operator

;o)

Oliver Salzburg

12:26

I thought you only wanted to call for 4 minutes?

Einsteins Grandson

;o)

i will be naive to believe, i will be able to get the answer in 4 minutes

;o)

Oliver Salzburg

Right. So where's the problem?

Why you would call a support hotline in the US is beyond me anyway :D

Bob

@OliverSalzburg Yea, you'll just end up rerouted to India anyway.

I kid, I kid.

Einsteins Grandson

;o)

no, they are Americans

Just imagine, my friend is in the USA... there is an item that cannot be purchased in Europe.... but i need to ask for some details...

about the item

then i get the answer

i buy the item

pay with the credit card

the mailing address will be the address of my friend

once he is back in europe, i meet him and he gives me the item

Oliver Salzburg

There is this new thing on the internet

It's called "email"

Einsteins Grandson

12:35

no

Oliver Salzburg

Yes

Einsteins Grandson

there are complicated questions that can be answered only via phone

or in person

;o)

or

you can't wait for the answer

Sathya

I hate calling on phone.

Einsteins Grandson

you need the answer now....

Oliver Salzburg

Oh right. Because I bet your spoken English is so much more awesome than your writing

Sathya

12:36

would rather send an email / use the live chat feature

Einsteins Grandson

Americans speak worse English than I do

;o)

Oliver Salzburg

You said those calls take you 40 minutes

That's not really in favor of your argument that a phone call is quicker than handling it by writing

Einsteins Grandson

it is

you get the answer to your email on the next day

Oliver Salzburg

No, it's not

Einsteins Grandson

which is later than in 40 minutes

what is your phone number Oliver

i will call you to check if it works...

if you have landline

but maybe it works for cell phone also

Oliver Salzburg

12:40

lol

You calling me would be a nightmare coming true :D

btw, if your friend is in the US, why don't you email him and have him call the support hotline?

Jacob Jan Tuinstra

@All Hi y'all

Sathya

hey @Jacob

Jacob Jan Tuinstra

@Sathya I thought I'd visit y'all here instead off Google-fu

Einsteins Grandson

nightmare? i am killing you in your dreams each night?

;o)

Oliver Salzburg

I prefer the trolling to be limited to text

Hennes

12:53

Before MS bought it I would just have mutters skype

But these days just downloading it takes effort unless you create an account .

Sathya

@JacobJanTuinstra feel free to drop by anytime, somebody or the other's bound to be here

anyway, heading home. talk later

slhck

13:51

I wonder if I should feel proud that at my office, I can hear a children's choir singing while I'm programming. Certainly makes it feel… more epic.

Oliver Salzburg

@slhck That would drive me crazy

slhck

@OliverSalzburg Definitely better than the kid learning violin

Ok, now it's getting annoying.

Oliver Salzburg

:P

slhck

Why do I find it amusing that I just had to force-quit the Microsoft Error Reporting app because it crashed?

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allquixotic

@slhck I've had to killall -9 apport-gtk on Linux; same difference

HackToHell

14:07

Bob

14:18

@Sathya email, maybe (but unfortunately too slow for some situations). I've found live chat worse than useless the majority of the time

@slhck I still have a screenshot of that from a while back. It was on a school-issued first-gen Atom netbook. With a whole host of background programs. Ran like molasses.

2

slhck

@Bob Nice one!

HackToHell

@Bob epic :D

slhck

I mean, not that you'd expect them to do anything with the problem reports.

Bob

Apparently, they actually do useful things with them.

Oliver Salzburg

HackToHell

14:21

Apparently

Bob

i.e. alert the company whose programs were involved, check any constantly crashing MS products, etc..

Oliver Salzburg

I get those every once in a while ;P

Bob

oh god

remember those 'unused desktop shortcuts' balloon messages?

Windows 8 revived them in the form of 'disable unused apps to increase performance'. Meaning startup programs in general.

allquixotic

@HackToHell Infinite recursion

if the installer is installing the installer, then who installed the installer that is installing the installer?

maybe it's installing itself so that it can install itself

yo dawg

HackToHell

14:45

allquixotic

Houston, we have a problem

my mouse is sticky!!!!

Bob

@allquixotic I won't ask what you've been doing.

(but I hear isopropyl alcohol is good)

allquixotic

@Bob mostly, eating lunch at my desk at work for years, because we have no cafeteria. well my mouse was slightly sticky, then I cleaned it with disinfecting Clorox wipes, and it made it a lot worse

also my hands tend to be naturally sticky very often because my traveling coffee mug gets sticky -- it can't be dishwashed because it's a weird shape with metal and rubber, so i have to wash it by hand, and it accumulates little sugar particles from the creamer

once i get to the restroom and wash my hands with soap i'm okay but in the morning i always have sticky hands due to this

Ben Richards

15:08

@Bob I tried BlueStacks. It works... but it is also a bit clunky and performance is slow. Multitouch does work, though. I tested it with FL Studio Mobile for Android. It runs and all, but very laggy.

It also needs persistant softkeys for home, back, etc. I have to swipe from the side to show that panel in full screen mode which also triggers the switch to different app function in Windows 8.

Clearly still a beta project.

Oliver Salzburg

@HackToHell You were using the dark theme, right? I just pushed an update where I moved all images to SE Imgur. I'd highly recommend updating ;P

Seems like raw.github.com isn't cached :\

Tanner

wtf... pc from Dell won't activate. have to call the number. O_o it's new.

Hennes

15:30

XP on Dell ?

Tanner

hm? nah it's windows 7

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: I tend to favour cyberclean for stuff like that

basically modified silly putty, absorbs oil and gets into those little crevices

Hennes

I heard for XP they were going to stop them (Not just dell, all OEM BIOS activates)

allquixotic

@Hennes cool; that'll just result in an uptick in piracy probably

Journeyman Geek

lol

Tanner

15:34

@Hennes wut

allquixotic

people will be using Windows XP until 2050, I think

Journeyman Geek

and in a lot of cases you shouldn't need to actuvate

allquixotic

XP is going to be used as long as FORTRAN, and longer

Journeyman Geek

SLP for example, which is apparently how the cool kids pirate XP

@allquixotic: its 'good enough'

even if these days It drives me nuts not to have the 7 style searchable start button

allquixotic

it will only stop being used when computers no longer ship any BIOS compatibility support and require, baked in, UEFI

and then once all the mobos that supported BIOS die out and stop being produced

Journeyman Geek

15:36

@allquixotic: down to one active system and one 'in case' laptop we have stashed away somewhere

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek oh I'm sure preservationist organizations will keep idle (non powered) working XP systems "on ice" (isolated from the environment, probably air-sealed) for hundreds of years so they can read old data and run old programs

DOS too, come to think of it

Journeyman Geek

lol

yeah, we were planning on that

for some reason the one old office desktop we kept cause it was in the best shape... stopped working

@allquixotic: or send a guy back in time

allquixotic

in 2350 they'll be like, "man, this Core i7 3770K is a relic! my fingernails have more cores than these old digital integrated circuits"

Journeyman Geek

John Titor

John Titor is the name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2036. In these posts Titor made numerous predictions (a number of them vague, some quite specific) about events in the near future, starting with events in 2004. However, as of 2013, these events have not taken place; he described a drastically changed future in which the United States had broken into five smaller regions, the environment and infrastructure had been devastated by a nuclear attack, and most other world powers had been destroyed. To date, ...

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek unrelated but similar: the Time Cube guy

Gene Ray

Time Cube

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Hennes

15:43

@allquixotic Reading old should not be a problem as long as you use and open standard.

That often means open source software, but there are really two axes:
1) Open vs closed (propriatry) standard
2) Open source program vs binary/closed sourrce

Word with odf is a nice new mix

HackToHell

16:47

@OliverSalzburg yep, will update

And stylish needs auto update ;p

Oliver Salzburg

Everything loads so much quicker now :D

HackToHell

uh huh, sometimes the css sprites would not load properly, this should prolly fix that

Oliver Salzburg

17:03

Yeah :\ GitHub didn't allow the file to be cached. I moved all images to Imgur now. Much better!

Tanner

"You're talking to a guy who doesn't do this." <--- excuse used by a user when he couldn't figure out what to put in the box that says "Name:"

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allquixotic

17:18

@Tanner wow

studiohack

18:39

WOOT WOOT! Finally got my active adapter, and now I have THREE displays on my desktop. sweet!

allquixotic

@studiohack what kind of active adapter is it?

studiohack

@allquixotic amazon.com/StarTech-com-DP2DVIS-DisplayPort-Active-Adapter/dp/…

Using Catalyst, I've made all 3 monitors think they are ONE monitor. So my resolution is... 3840x1024!

allquixotic

@studiohack the novelty of EyeFinity will quickly run out and you will hate it for the compatibility issues it introduces

much better to have the monitors be separate

Oliver Salzburg

19:10

What the... O___O entertainment.slashdot.org/story/13/04/22/1641211/…

Oliver Salzburg

19:36

0

Q: Why is YouTube buffering/loading behavior so horrible in Chrome?

I have been suffering from this for months, possibly even years, and I still don't have the slightest clue about the cause. Let's say I open a video on YouTube in Chrome, like Jamie Hyneman's Thoughts on Designing and Making with CAD, the player will instantly stop playback after the advertismen...

firefox google-chrome video youtube

I'd really love to get to the bottom of this once and for all :P

Humm... maybe I should have actually given this some thought before ;D

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg that's weird o_O

I was actually remarking last night at how wonderful a job Chrome/Flash was doing, because I watched like 3:30 hours of TotalBiscuit's "WTF is..." gaming review videos, all on youtube in 720p HD, with no lag/stuttering

and it never really streamed ahead more than a few seconds; it only fetched enough of the movie for the next couple of seconds, then would stop buffering, I guess to save Youtube's own bandwidth because people might stop watching the video half way through and throw out megabytes of data

I guess if your internet connection is inconsistent and stalls if the data flow stops, that could be a problem

but I'm on LTE and for some reason it was rock solid last night whereas usually it would be all over the place

Oliver Salzburg

19:54

@allquixotic That's exactly what I'm observing. It's not always a problem, but often enough so that I can't ignore it :P

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg I think the more interesting question is why your internet connection can't handle this streaming pattern of stream ~10s, wait awhile, stream ~10s more, repeat

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic I always assumed that to be a CDN-related issue

allquixotic

whereas it can handle, say, stream ~35minutes at a time without stopping

Oliver Salzburg

According to YouTubes own speed test, it shouldn't be an issue

Well, I disabled the built-in Flash Player now and now I get the same behavior as in Firefox

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg ah so you are using the NPAPI plugin now instead of Pepper API

Oliver Salzburg

19:58

@allquixotic Yeah

I guess I should have tried that a lot earlier :P

allquixotic

I think going forward Adobe really wants to drop support for all their flash plugins except for Pepper API (cross-platform) and ActiveX, and even ActiveX may be on the chopping block eventually

but Windows is more likely to continue receiving updates than Linux

Linux/NPAPI is gone already

Oliver Salzburg

I don't have a solution for how to change it, but I believe this might be intentionally done as smart buffering on Chrome's part, with the idea being not to waste bandwidth (or it's some sort of cookie problem, does the issue persist in Incognito mode?). There is an extension called "SmartVideo" that will allow you to set how videos buffer. Other than that, I don't know a way to change this behaviour. Also, Tested is awesome. — Alex 13 mins ago

I actually always thought that this had to be the case

But I find that confusing because I would have assumed that they're able to detect if the user experience is crap

allquixotic

20:15

0

A: Is there OLE Automation in Java?

Recently (March 2013), an independent contributor added support for generic COM Automation to JNA, which is the last man standing in terms of native platform API integration from Java. JNA is still very actively maintained, unlike Jawin/JACOB/etc. See here for an example of how it is used. The ...

Ben Richards

20:46

@studiohack Those are great. Caveat though: They can only output up to 60Hz. On my 120 Hz 3D displays, I need a USB powered mini-DP to DVI-D active adapter. I got a couple. They were expensive, there weren't many other options, and they're incredibly finnicky and so I just don't use them.

Ben Richards

21:06

Other people should do this, but I have intent on participating, myself:

12

Q: (Re)Implementing Tetris

In the spirit of re-implementing classic video games, I would like to invite the community to create their best implementation of Tetris. For reference, a screenshot of the official NES version of Tetris. Required Features A reasonable scoring system must be in place, which rewards multi-lin...

code-challenge language-agnostic tetris popularity-contest

studiohack

@allquixotic I prefer the monitors separate, but I love having the option to make them one display, like for movies

so 98% of the time, yes, they will be separate.

@BenRichards I'm fine with that, at least for now. It's awesome having all these monitors!!

Hennes

For movies? WWWWWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDDDEEEEE screen?

studiohack

@Hennes yeah dude, waaay wide. haha

@BenRichards, you're sidran32! I thought I knew you haha.

Hennes

BTW. Why 3840x1024, why not 3072x1280 ?

1280 vertical is a tad low as resolution, but better then 1024

studiohack

@Hennes because I have three monitors who's individual resolution max is 1280x1024.

Hennes

21:12

Rotate them 90 degrees

studiohack

then I would get even moar space?

Hennes

that way you have three monitors at 1024x1280

studiohack

the same? just a different way?

Hennes

Well, same space. But 1080 vertical just is not enough (at least no for me). Too much scrolling up and down

studiohack

I have one rotated that way, the other two are horizontal.

Ben Richards

21:15

@studiohack Haha, yes! :P

@studiohack Where does it still say sidran32? :o

studiohack

@BenRichards I'm a diamond. ;)

Ben Richards

@studiohack Weirdo. :P

The only issue is getting the time to actually do Tetris before the deadline. And I have to learn SDL simultaneously because I want to do it with SDL.

I mean, I could do it in text-mode, or maybe do it in QBasic again. But SDL is new and shiny (in comparison).

And I haven't coded in QBasic in forever, and no doubt will have to fight now long-standing habits from C++ and Perl (which I spend most of my time in these days).

Ooh, it'd be even more fun if I did it in x86 ASM! But then I probably would miss the deadline. :P

allquixotic

ridiculous :( moving a folder on the same drive takes 0.01 msec on linux, and about 15 minutes on windows

@BenRichards you could always do it in Java and run it on IKVM calling .NET APIs

better yet, do it in VB.NET with a SWT GUI by generating a .NET assembly of SWT using ikvmc

then use the LLVM backend for .NET to compile the .NET IL to LLVM IL, and run that in your web browser using emscripten

there is actually an emscripten port of SDL, I think (they used it for Quake)

you could be super leet and write it in LLVM bitcode, but I wouldn't advise it.... you could write it something that compiles to LLVM bitcode, though (C++ would be great, though there are tons of other choices)

Ben Richards

21:31

@allquixotic There is a limit on source code length too :P

allquixotic

@BenRichards that sucks

images are added to the source code size?!

well sounds like you get to do procedural generation of the images

Ben Richards

@allquixotic I would have used proc generated images anyway. I don't need anything more than flat color shading.

Heck, I could just do it all in wireframe.

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