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/me swings his Emerald Green Ford Escort wildly... No, but seriously, if that happens... well... then we'll just have to see how things go, eh?

...what the fuck was that? /me shrugs.

Jesus motherfucking... Do some research, FFS, just... just once? *snaps his pencil, looks confused, then puts it back in his pocket protector*

It's a WIKI. Let's look at the definition of a wiki, shall we? "a Wiki is a type of website that allows the visitors to add, remove, and sometimes edit the available content." Right, seems simple enough. What are you again? Oh yeah, that's right, a VISITOR. So if we add these two factors together, we end up with a pretty simple answer... do everyone a favour and delete the spam as you see it. It's not difficult, it doesn't take a lot of time, but I'm really sick of hearing people whine about how something's not to satisfaction when they could really just make a little, tiny effort, just for 15 seconds, just to fix it. That's what a goddamn wiki is for, community editing, so WHERE'S THE COMMUNITY?!

Spot the Community Support Officer?

It's also possible that she has an open or easily crackable wireless access point too, or that her connection is shared further down the line with other customers who provide her internet service.

Autorun, but that requires the system to have it enabled and doesn't often work for USB sticks because it's off by default. Otherwise? No.

You're correct, that is Antitrust.

Over two years old. You bump like the skinny kid on the see-saw. Edit: Hell, this thread's so old the latest poster was melodic. That's saying something.

Telnet is no longer installed by default on Vista. Use Putty as a substitute, or for the real Windows Telnet client, http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1793/vista_...l_telnet_client.

The physical size will not matter, the resolution is the only thing you need to worry about, and even then pretty much every graphics card will work fine with just about any resolution, so no worries.

It's special because he custom designed and made the thing himself, you douche. Jesus, what the hell happened to DIY culture? *groan*

Keep learning.

Congrats.

Samples are the raw sounds (for example a recording of a piano playing middle C or a synthesised bass hit) and instruments are basically a set of parameters to alter the samples on the fly. You can use instruments to change the attack, decay and sustain of a sample among other things. One use for this is changing how quickly a note dies after you strike a key without editing the raw sound itself. Many instruments can refer to a single sample. You don't need to use instruments at all though, and some module formats don't even support them, you can quite easily compose a tune using only samples. The way the notes are played is that the sample is played at different speeds. Much like if you speed up or slow down a recording of a human voice, the pitch changes as you increase or decrease the speed at which the sample is played. The faster you play the sample, the higher the frequencies in it become, and the higher the pitch sounds when you hear it. Depending on the original sample it may not sound as good or as realistic as you'd like but for simple waveforms it works well, especially digitally synthesised sounds. This is why I personally prefer to use VSTi (Virtual Studio Technology Instruments) plugins, they deal with the pitch of the note themselves and many can generate or play more accurate samples on the fly though they're not part of the original idea at all because they're not real sounds stored in the modules. Try making a new module, adding a sample (could be ripped from another module or one you've made or found yourself) and playing something simple such as a nursery rhyme or a simple tune from a radio or advert jingle.

Among others, yes. There have been many other trackers over the years/decades; FastTracker, MadTracker, ProTracker, Impulse Tracker, OctaMED, NoiseTracker and a shit-ton more, for various platforms and machines both historic and modern. Newer trackers can interface with VST plugins and some rely solely on the old school method of playing various samples at given time periods and with basic effects provided by the tracker (which may vary depending on the tracker and the format of the module). Example of a simple tune (first 4 bars of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) in ModPlug: ModPlug Tracker IT |C-401......|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... 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Lit- |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|A-401...... -tle |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... |...........|...........|...........|...........|G-401......|........... star |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... |...........|...........|...........|...........|...........|........... |...........|...........|...........|F-401......|...........|........... 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Quick rundown of what you're seeing: What the dots mean: 1 - 3: Note to play, octave to play it at. 4 - 5: Which instrument or sample to play that note with. 6 - 7: Effects (Portamento, Volume, etc) 8 -10: Other parameters (Speed, Tempo, Global Volume, etc) (The are 11 dots in the above paste, but only 10 while you're composing. I'm not sure what the extra dot is for but you wouldn't see it during normal use of ModPlug). Notes are inputted using a computer keyboard (or in some cases with a MIDI instrument). The layout of the computer keyboard varies from tracker to tracker but in ModPlug Tracker, each of the alphabetical lines correspond to octaves of notes on a real keyboard (by default, Q is C-4, or Middle C). I'll not explain them here but many other keys are useful when composing in ModPlug, for example the non-numpad number keys will change the octave of a note. Effects and other parameters are written with hex values, for example if I'd written M2F in the 3 rightmost dots of a column then I'd have told the tracker that I wanted to set the channel volume (that's the M part) to 2F (or 47 if you're not a base 16 kinda person). I chose to give each note its own channel (column) to add realism because I was playing with a piano instrument. Of course, when playing a real piano, if you hit C and then F the C doesn't stop because you hit the F key... so why should it virtually? Only one note can be player per channel at any one time, so giving each note its own channel is, while inefficient, the easiest way to avoid making a piano sound bad. Single channel = monophonic, multiple channels = polyphonic. Back in the day though this wouldn't have been very economical, module storage space (and later, sample space in sound cards) was at a premium and therefore samples had to be few or lower quality, channels had to be kept to a minimum because processing power was also lacking (though MODs supported a limited number, more modern formats support many more channels).

If you can run foreign applications, portable firefox will carry its bookmarks, cookies, etc with it.

Aww, cute. :)

See other thread. Troll or ride the shortbus elsewhere, don't know or care which.

Either it's retard season or someone's taking the piss. Whatever, long walk, short cliff, you guys know the drill.

Yeah, I had Putty on the original version for SSH tunneling, and I can write protect the SD card it's on... I was gonna try BitLocker but I'm not sure if I can do that with WinPE... Plenty of opportunities for paranoia-soothing tweaks though, I'm sure stuff like TrueCrypt would work too. Would work well for a hostile networking environment I think, it has minimal services and apps running, the device it boots from can be write protected, the OS runs from a RAM disk which means everything's gone after a reboot, SSH means a nice tunnel out to a known safe machine, disk encryption would be nice so if you lost the stick/card then your files would be safe or second best, file encryption for the stuff you'd rather not be found.

Ever wanted a livecd or liveusb version of Windows to carry around with you? Sure, there's USB versions of Windows floating around the torrent sites but their legality is questionable and who knows what kind of crap people have infected them with. Now you can make your own, and I did just that over the last few days... Using WAIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit) you can build your own USB or CD based version of Vista using Windows Preinstallation Environment 2.1. What this means is that you'll have a very basic copy of Vista (did I mention it's free and legal?) on which to build your own live "distro" of Windows. I'll admit there are caveats, it won't run every app that ever ran on Windows (for example anything that requires .net Frameworks) but it will run a ton of apps, including many portable apps (mIRC, VLC, Firefox, etc - the basics) and it doesn't come with Explorer so you'll have to find your own desktop environment (I chose bbLean). Drivers can be injected but it seems a bit of a pain to get everything working though thankfully I've not had a problem with networking. To download the WAIK direct from Microsoft, check out http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en and while I'd love to give a how-to I'm not going to be able to explain this particularly well. I might make an attempt in the near future, but in the meantime, here's a few starting points: http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/...windows-pe.aspx http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_bl...-0-usb-key.aspx http://grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com/2007...ot-dvd-wim.html http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/winvistape2.htm To give an example, here's a couple of screenshots of my effort so far:

Pretty much, yeah. As much as I enjoy working with Windows, sometimes when you start hacking with things you go outside of what it's expecting - like multi-partition flash drives. ;)

AmigaOS had this functionality 15 years ago, and it even had a RAD disk which was essentially the same but would survive a soft reboot. Trumps you, sir!

It can use a single partition, yes. If you use VMWare Converter you can even have your physical machine cloned in the form of a VM.