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  3. Posted

    11 minutes ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    Has anyone else been getting virus warnings when visiting the forum? G DATA has been going crazy, popping up a warning on every page. It refers to a virus being found in files downloaded from files.catbox.moe , and the only way I've been able to get rid of it is to go into my hosts file and set the address of that url to 127.0.0.1.

    I've warned tOH and asked him to pass it along, but I'm not sure whom else to warn. Just take care as you browse.

    Not related to the forum itself, it's the filehost I uploaded the 910 logo to for my interface fix.

    You can edit the script to take that bit out if you want (or mirror it on Imgur or whatever and repoint it) but I personally doubt it's a problem.  It's an anonymous filehost, so other people probably uploaded malware downloads or something.

    Still, it's best to be careful though.

  5. Posted

    http://danshive.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/upcoming-songs-of-egs.html

    Dan Shive said:

    The next four storylines of my webcomic El Goonish Shive are being planned out. While this is all subject to change, here are some songs that come to mind when I think of certain parts of these upcoming stories. Please note that I have no sort of official connection to these songs; they simply come to mind when thinking about these stories.

    "Eye Of The Tiger" by Survivor
    "East Bound And Down" by Jerry Reed
    "Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down
    "When You're Evil" by Voltaire

    This in 2010.

  7. Posted

    I'm saying this from memory but: a while back (few years back?) an aeroplane went off course when in UK airspace.  This was responded to by a (military?) jet scrambling to check up on it, which lead to breaking the sound barrier at low altitude.

    I was eating in the kitchen at home at the time, and first thing I noticed was a shockwave of air slamming into the side of the house, very loudly, as if someone was trying to blow the back door in or something.  The next was audible aircraft noises.

    Our windows were fine, but my sister mentioned that a few windows at School were not.  I think I also heard from someone also that one teacher was convinced that it was a bomb exploding, as she had lived near an airport and experienced aircraft sonic booms which were not that loud (presumably being at higher altitude).

  8. Posted · Edited by HarJIT
    more accurate date (take 2)

    Others have focused well on the newsworthy losses of life in 2016.  I will list the losses as regard EGS fandom material:

    2016 January 31: ImageShack deletes all non-paid content.  Most embedded ImageShack images (whether on 910CMX or Keenspot forum) cease to be retrievable.

    2016 February 27: 910CMX server falls while being moved, physically damaging hard drives and backups, and with it the previous seven years of forum, corresponding to what was then half of EGS's existence.  The forum starts from scratch seven days later.

    2016 December 8: 910CMX forum temporarily ceases to load anything but the main page.  More permanently, gallery and avatar images go missing, including gallery images posted into threads such as Strip Slaying.  Dan withdraws his endorsement.

    Have I missed anything?

  9. Posted

    10 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Or upgrade to linux.

    […]

    Note that it IS possible to do most of upgrade on running system. If the system is designed by someone with actual brain. Case in point, almost any distribution of linux. It would still be inconvenient if you can't choose time to upgrade.

    Oh, I use Ubuntu when I can get away with it.

    Seriously, even kernel updates can be run to completion in the background to take immediate effect on next boot.

  11. Posted

    1 minute ago, ijuin said:

    I find the extended automatic install-update-on-shutdown issue especially problematic when my whole reason for shutting down was due to my battery charge being critically low (and therefore not enough uptime left to power the installation). Really, the install should happen at the next startup rather than during shutdown.

    I suppose if the entire thing happens at startup, and the option to install or defer is presented at startup, yes.

    What I was referring to was leaving it to install updates and shut down overnight, then powering it up the next morning with the intention of using it to find I was locked out for another several hours yet (even though it had allegedly finished installing updates) with no escape as it finished installing the anniversary edition.

  12. Posted

    Hence why when you "shut down and install updates", you have to wait until it's finished shutting down and allegedly finished installing updates, then try to turn it on and log in again, in case it's set to lock you out while it installs an entire "edition" for several hours after that.

    I am still angry about this.

  13. Posted

    On 01/03/2017 at 11:25 PM, Scotty said:

    why we went straight from windows 8 to windows 10 because windows 9 would potentially break everything.

    Which was fitting as 8 was 8 because it was after 7, 7 was 7 as it was after Vista (6), and Longhorn/Vista was 6 because XP was NT5.1, NT5 being 2000.  Now, I'm pretty sure XP logically deserved its own version number externally if not internally (7 and 8 were internally 6.1 and 6.2), so 10 (internally also 10) could be considered to have brought the version numbers to where they logically should have been.

  19. Posted · Edited by HarJIT
    "...orthography ease"? Fixed. Can anyone spot any other mistakes?

    In the first place, it's effectively a mnemonic, not a binding rule, has a number of exceptions, tends to invert if it's not supposed to sound like the vowel in "tree", and this generally goes to indicate how unnecessarily complicated English orthography is.

     

    Example of sounds to letters more regularly (egzampŭl ov saundz tu letŭrz mor regyularli), using a breve mark for pool->pull, bean->bin, bot->but (yuzĭng a briv mark for pul->pŭl, bin->bĭn, bot->bŏt): Ĭn dhŭ fŭrst pleis, ĭt'z a efektĭvli a nemonĭk, not a baindĭng rul, haz a nŏmbŭr ov eksepshŭnz, tendz tu ĭnvŭrt ĭf ĭt'z not sŭpŏust tu saund laik dhe vaul ĭn "tri", and dhĭs jen'rali gŏuz tu ĭndĭkeit hau ŏn-neseserĭli komplĭkeitĭd Ĭnglĭsh orthografi ĭz.

  22. Posted

    ... is that to say that the spellbook defines a callback, and then registers a reference to it in the mage (for an onUpdate event or whatever)?  I guess Tedd could work out how to register his own callbacks (say, from a watch) in that case, but he might have to watch a spellbook as it is created (to see it being registered) and when a spell is being gained (to see it being invoked).  In this case (a) a cloned copy of the spellbook would remain static and not update, unless/until its callback is sepeartely registered, (b) if the spellbook is destroyed the mage may run into an unmatched dependency upon gaining a new spell (unless magic works such that the reference is also destroyed), which could be anything from silent to fatal (knowing Dan, more likely the former).

    The diametric alternative, of course, would be the spellbook acting as a client, actively re-downloading the information from the mage intermittently.  An more efficient possibility is intermittently querying the timestamp and, if it's newer than the one it has stored, re-downloading the information.  These are less elegant but avoid making the spellbook a dependency of the mage (they instead make the spellbook dependant on the mage).  Also, an exact clone of the spellbook would work as is, unless the mage has some mechanism to prevent a given revision being downloaded twice, in which case it would be a race as to which spellbook gets a given update and which one does not.  If not, then the mage is essentially a queriable API, which Tedd could study by gazing at a spellbook as someone gains a new spell.

    …
    "the mage is essentially a queriable API" never thought I'd say that.

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  25. Posted

    2 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Of course they some how manged to screw it up.

    The issue being how they try and consolidate the difference in how Windows and Linux do file permissions etc.  They basically mount the home directory using a different NTFS wrapper than the drives, which includes extra metadata on the files (and borks when that isn't present).  More info here (coincidentally, that's the same Sven Groot responsible for the Ookii.org EGS resources).