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I may be a few days late on this one, but I'm just chiming in on this interesting topic to give my opinion in the form of a little good idea/bad idea. Good idea: I've been thinking about it, and wiring RJ-45 ports to a usb hub and plugging in cat-5 with usb ends would be fine as long as you are only connecting copper wire to copper wire. Excellent idea. As they say in my neck of the woods, "Youse guys is owwsome." A bad idea? Running it through a router - that is where the layer 1 differences between 802.3 and USB come in to play. That would seriously fry the router. As for signal attenuation, a repeater or an ethernet hub I think would work fine as long as you don't plug in more than one usb device. Extra usb devices through one port need a hardware usb bridge interface to sort out the signals. A usb hub is kinds of akin to an ethernet layer-2 switch in that respect.

1) I don't think it's really feasible. 2) That being said, if you're an uber directx programmer and an excellent reverse engineer with an entire team of people like you, you could make a directplay client that pretends to be Halo, then decipher the game's protocol (reverse engineering the PC version of Halo1 would be a good start), make it sniff out the score status messages, and after that, making it interface with a win32 program should be cake. 3) If you think for a minute that it's a worthwhile venture, refer to point #1 above :)

If you want a teach-yourself book that's really complete and at a bit faster of a pace than a dummies book, check out the O'Reilly books like Programming PHP. I'd be lost without that book since it's not only a tutorial but a near-complete reference as well. O'Reilly's usually my first stop on any given programming topic, though.

Just so you guys know - there's a pretty cool hack that I read in the January '07 issue of Popular Science: Controlling an iPod wirelessly using a glove embedded with an RFID tag. Here's the link: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/9fc1ebc...ecbccdrcrd.html It's a pretty cool hack and it's great for all the DIY'ers here, if you can afford it, that is. The individual parts are pretty cheap, but the total for the whole thing adds up pretty quickly, and iPod's aren't exactly throw-away items if you screw it up. I'd love to try it out for myself if I was willing to get the parts for my own iPod - finances are a bit tight for me. If only someone could figure out how to modify the design for the first-gen shuffle... *hint, hint*

That's some good feedback there, Moonlit. Thank you. Finding a PPC emu that would run in OSX86 might fix a lot of the hardware problems since the devices are all mac-supported then. I'll see what happens.

The section on Q in this month's episode got me thinking- What's you guys' opinion on some PowerPC emulators for my Intel Mac? It would be great to run Myst or Riven again. My PC runs Win2k and the Ubisoft-published versions of the game won't run on it - and runs on XP, go figure - and also won't run on Intel Macs. I know I could just google something like this, but having opinions on this and that will give me a somewhat objective (or at least unpretentious gonzo) viewpoint with which to sort out the ton of useless junk out there.

First off, please don't yell. Secondly, there's a difference between hacking a cracking. People here don't take kindly to this kind of stuff. You'll be called a noob, sent to the short bus, and banned from the site. Because of the number of people asking this kind of stuff has multiplied exponentially lately, it's getting on a lot of people's nerves and they are not very tolerant of messages like "Hey, can you help me crack my schools network?" or "I want to get into this restricted web site - how do I do it?". It's just not cool. The internet was made by hackers, not phone phreaks and their digital descendents.

Like having the cluster running the vmware process that in turn is running windows? I don't see a problem, except maybe one. I'm not a clustering expert (or a vmware expert, for that matter), but from what I saw of openmosix, you have to specify every process that you want it to run distributed-ly(?). BTW, if you can find a better way to turn distributed into adverb, let me know. As in, if you want a disributed web server, you have to specify that it will run the apache deamon across the nodes. Nothing else will be running across multiple computers, so every computer is still running their own instances of the OS and so on. I don't know if it will distribute dependent daemons as well, so each computer might end up processing a lot of the same thing and actually share very little, making the performance boost negligible. But I might be wrong, so don't listen to me. In fact, forget I even posted.

K, I'll test it out. Thanks!

I like the itunes program, but I never use the store - I just rip my own CD's since I mainly listen to music that I think is worth dishing out money for. As for what type of iPod, I only use one when I'm running (I hate running, but I have to, so it's better than a CD player that skips all the time) so I only ever really needed a memory stick w/ a headphone jack and enough memory to last me about a half hour - so I got the Shuffle. As for DRM, I don't care. I like my cd's - they sound better than MP3.

I noticed that the Hak.5 web site was put together by Wordpress and that it also has an RSS feeder - Is that a feature of wordpress, a separate plugin, or an entirely different entity. I'm wondering because I'd like to get some easy RSS action going on my news page, but I don't want to ditch my existing stuff I coded by hand for a one-click install thing (wordpress is a 1 click install option with my provider) if it doesn't have the features that I want to add. Pride vs Practicality - what a bitch. Anyhoo, even a yes or no would be fine. Thanks, guys.

Weird Al's a musical genius in my book, but I get distracted when I listen to him while I'm trying to hack. I alsways end up singing along. Especially the Pancreas song from the new album. "Insulin, glucagon, coming from those islets of langerhaans..."

Hatebreed always gets me going. With all the call-and-response they do it's like a hardcore punk singalong. They rocked at this year's ozzfest, too. Pantera's a classic - but sometimes i get too much headbanging going on that I get distracted from my hacks. My own stuff, too. I've been in and out of bands lately, but they've all had two things in common: They were all loud and obnoxious. The way music is meant to be. There's a lot I like to listen to other than hardcore/metal - Ska, trance, blues, even some Scott Joplin or some bagpipes (look up the Tartan Terrors some time - makes "Scotland the Brave" and "Amazing Grace" look like child's play), but when I'm getting my hack on, nothing softer than ear-splitting loud will do.

Well an MMORPG is no light undertaking - and that could be the understatement of the century. Well, the first thing you need for a project of that scale is a design document - detail how everything will work, and I mean EVERYTHING. Interface, game mechanics, user registration/logon, even the details of character looks, actions, monster, different gameplay features, everything. Get it all (every imagineable forseeable detail) written down in plain english. A good way to go about this, if you want to collaborate on the design document, is to set up a wiki. Take a look at sourceforge sometime and see how they have large projects running on that. After that, it's a matter of breaking the design down into bite-sized chunks and coding little bits at a time - and don't be afraid to ask specific questions on here even though not many people will probably answer this particular thread here. The question you're asking right now is a bit too general for the general hacker public to get un-lazified for. But I digress. The point is - get that design document put together and stick to it. As you go along, don't be afraid to modify it if you hit a brick wall or find a better way to do something. And that, as you were asking, is the best way in my opinion. and btw, try to stay away from putting tables in your HTML like you mentioned. At least not too many. Let the HTML to the structuring so you have a clean, logical DOM to work off of and let the CSS handle the look and layout unless you really can't do it any other way.

watching this thing out of context is fairly humorous. right now I just see darren in a donkey kong style victory dance, with his arms and fists out to the side and his mouth wide open.

I agree. Ghost it - if you do a disk-to-disk clone, it resizes automatically. If you still want to use the old HD with the windows installation on it, you might have some SID problems, not not mention some legal ones if you don't have licenses. That's how we copy HD's at work where we manage 700 (almost) identical systems, anyway.

No luck on the drivers so far, but I have a question. Have you tried reinstalling DirectX as well? By the way, that's an interesting article, armadaender.

But could you hold in the laugh when she's wondering why WOW was going so slow?

According to Apple's QA standards for when they make software, every function in MacOS needs to A) be accessible using a mouse with only one button, and B) be accessible with a keyboard, either through hotkeys, menu navigation, or command line. Both ways are probably listed in the help files. If you want the controller that came with a Mac to work (like the one that came with my MacMini, i guess), I don't know that it's possible to make it work on a PC without some fairly crazy skills and a big bowl of h4x0r flakes. Getting a 3rd party remote and mapping the button to the task seems easy enough, though. I wouldn't know though - just using the keyboard is a lot easier for me.

Bastrafe Mich and Los are great songs - see them live and it will blow you mind (or at least you'll walk away slightly singed - saying they use some pyrotechnics is like saying that thailand has had a little bit of turmoil lately.)

Hmm... I remember seeing this exact same thing when my army buddy was building his new computer - He thought that it was DOA and the Asus support was very pooey. I'll let him know about this and see if he got it to work. Maybe you'll actually be able to play Jenn in that BF2 game she proposed once (if?) you get this thing up and running!

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