Ooh...that sounds just like the time I (tried to)subscribed myself to the HTML newsletter.......
But I didn't do it!

Usually, it's not a good idea to put a 'shutdown -r now' in crond.hourly :)

I don't know much about unix/linux, but that sounds like it restarts the server every hour. Yeah, that doesn't seem to be a brilliant idea :). (They actually did that???)

hm... don't know linux either and don't really care as of now.

I'm guessing that no, they didn't *actually* do that, and that he just said that as a joke.
i.e.
one guy says "I almost got in a car accident today."
another guy says to him "that's why you don't drive with your eyes closed."

the first guy didn't necessarily ACTUALLY drive with his eyes closed; the second just said that to poke fun at him.

Your supposed to keep your eyes open? Ohh, that explains why I failed behind the wheel! LOL

I'm not stupid, really. Isn't it possible to mess around in an ini file and copy-paste something to the wrong line, by accident placing it in 'crond.hourly' instead of in 'onKernelPanic' or whatever?
(BTW, 'didn't *necessarily* mean', as in, 'but it could mean'? :) )

heh.
onKernelPanic sounds like some majorly bad stuff is going down.

AAH!! OH GOOD GOD HELP US ALL! KERNEL PANIC!!!

sounds like some Martial Arts technique from an anime...

So, on Linux you get an 'onKernelPanic' event, say, twice an hour?

:P

Our Win2K Advanced Server has never given me problems... whereas the Linux box has terminal problems!

terminal... as in fatal, or the terminal?

As in fatal.

Kenji-san! use 'Kernel-Panic' megabomb, hai!

Oooooookay... either you've been watching too much anime or something <scary music> BAD HAPPENED! </scary music>

Well, I've made a rather interesting discovery.
In TIGCC, if you use the function push_parse_text, and pass as arguments any *executable* text (e.g. push_parse_text("1337->x"), where -> is the store symbol), it EXECUTES the code when you view the return variable, rather than just parsing functions. In other words, in the example I gave, the variable x would be CREATED when the return variable is typed on the home screen.

I'm using this in the next version of MLib. To clear things up:
mlib("execute","3|>bin") (|> is an approximation of the conversion symbol)
will create the variable 'ml', as usual. However, when you type 'ml'<enter> on the home screen, rather than get a list of the results, {0h11} will be stored in the list!!

if the code was
push_parse_text("Define haha(x)=Func:Return \"Hey Kerm, I Banged Your Mom!\":EndFunc")

then, when you type 'ml'<enter> on the home screen, you will get a "Non-algebraic variable in expression" error, but the function haha, taking a single argument, returning the string "Hey Kerm, I Banged Your Mom!" will be CREATED.

Two new functions have been added that do this:
1. mlib("execute",code_string) will execute the code in code_string
2. mlib("executeall", code_string_1, code_string_2, code_string_3, ..., code_string_n) will consider EVERY argument to be code, and execute them all.

Look for MLib version 2.05 soon! Other new features include reading a byte or bytes from files, finding the dimensions of a picture, placing a sprite anywhere on the screen, determining whether the calculator is hardware 1 or 2, and finding the battery level on a scale of 1 to 6.

What's all this about banging Kerm's mom? ;-)


That code is a bit too advanced for me, but speaking of programming, I spent some time on Kill Bin Laden today! Now I have the title screen, the first "mission", and I FINALLY got my graphics to work in grayscale.

Sprite32(x, y, height, my_sprite, GetPlane(0), SPRT_XOR);//YAY!

Are you the real No_One_2000?

Yes. How to tell the difference:

no_one_2000_ is the real one

_no_one_2000_` is the fake one

notice the '_' at the beginning, and the '`' at the end.

Correction: The list should return {0b11}, not {0h11}. Little difference there :-p

I sent a program called "Chat 3.0", which is a TI-89 BASIC Misc. program on Monday, and it isn't the list yet!
Have you receive my progs ?
If not, mail-me please why it isn't in the List
(In french please, because my English is limited)

Français--
Mon Français est limité, mais il peut prendre un moment pour votre programme être téléchargement, peut-être une semaine, ou deux.

English--
My french is limited, but it may take a while for your program to be uploaded, maybe a week, or two.

My (attempted) french comment:
Mon français est très limité aussi. J'ai trois ans de le cours français. Je dèteste _no_one_2000_`. Il (ou Elle) est très stupide!

Just use 'Elle' when referring to _no_one_2000_` ...
I'm pretty sure we'd be using the right gender ...

You know what would be really cool, is if TI-Calc could somehow make it so the pages automatically display the right language for you according to what country you are in........same with times.
Any ideas, brilliant TI programmers?

That would require them to have duplicate copies of the site - in however many languages people need.

ALL 14 MAIN INDIAN LANGUAGES!!!!

Hah... good luck. I doubt that the TICalc people know *any* of them.

Dude, there's a thingy on Altavista's Babelfish translation where it will automatically translate the whole of a site......(free).....they could use that!

Not for the Indian languages, no.

And it has all sorts of HORRIBLE translation problems. Hence, why half of Pedro Silva's posts are totally unintelligible :-p

Yeah, babelfish is pretty bad. But when you think about it, it's kind of hard to make a perfect translation unless you know both languages, because syntax is different for some languages (ex. most adjectives in french go AFTER the noun instead of before it), and that just makes things more confusing.

I can make inunderstandable (is that a word?) posts without babelfish! :D

Try 'unintelligible'.

yeah...

The irony is that I just used that word in the post you replied to :D

I was trying to use a variety of words... but I can't. Because I am schtoopid. :"""-(

Not as schtoopid as _no_one` and "ac"...

DOWN WITH FRAUDS!

Well, thanks a lot for the optimism!!!!

How would they translate l33+5p3@k?

Only a week? That's nothing. I submitted a program in AUGUST that still has not been put on the list. In fact, I tried to submit it again today, and it was successfully uploaded. Which means THEY DELETED MY FILE WITHOUT EVEN CONSIDERING TO PUT IT UP. >:-(

I had the same problem. I uploaded about 10 mario levels with screenshots and everything (took me a LONG time to upload) and the next month, I check my queue thing, and they're GONE!

Poor no_one ...
Me, I haven't uploaded anything since forever! I need to start working on some of my unfinished projects ... actually, I made a program that would calculate the number of times needed to double a random decimal until it became an integer. But I lost it when my calc crashed ...

0->C
rand->N
Repeat N=iPart(N
N2->N
C+1->C
End
Disp C

A *truly* random decimal would have an infinite number of digits. Therefore, you would *never* stop doubling it to get an integer, since there would always be more decimals.

A "truly random" number does not need to have infinite decimals.

If a random number doesn't have an infinite number of decimals, then it could be generated through some mathematical formula. Therefore, for a number to be 100% random, it must impossible to generate through a routine.

aren't there machines that can generate REAL random numbers (not pseudo-random)?

there are definetly random number machines...if you just had a semiconductor that had a 50% chance of bridgeing a gap with electricity with any given burst, then you could get a random stream of zeros and ones...like on a TV when the channel isn't tuned in and there are random black and white dots

Yes. And these machines are not generating the number through a preprogrammed routine. They are taking advantage of a natural situation where randomness occurs.

I think I saw something like this before,

you have an elastic rope-type thing, wound up on a crank. It's tied to a brick, placed on sandpaper. If you roll the crank, eventually, at random times, the elastic will pull the brick along the sandpaper, creating a randomly generated... thing

Fine then. So I'm politically (and mathematically) correct, my program would calculate the number of times required to double a PSEUDO-random number in order to make it an integer. Good enough for y'all?

ok...let's try this on 1/3...doubling it...

.333333...
x2= .666666...
x2= 1.33333...
x2= 2.66666...

when do we reach 1?

>> when do we reach 1?

I didn't say become 1, I said become an integer. The average is somewhere around 43-46 times.

Besides, there's nothing random about 1/3... duh. I can generate that in less than a full line of code.
1/3
AAH! done!

Actually, it IS random. Any number is random. It's just that the chances of getting a random decimal that comes out nicely like 1/3 are very slim.

for a second, I thought you were insane; then I realized you're right. any number can be generated randomly, given an infinite chance of any outcome.

You can produce a totally random (or at least it seems totally random) binary disgit (bit) with two transistors, two resistors and a potentiometer. I had a circuit diagram that would make one of two LEDs turn on when you pressed a button. You need the potentiometer for adjusting the circuit- sometimes you get more '1's than '0's, so you need to tweak it a bit. Once set, however, it's fine.

if I threw an egg at a wall I could generate a random thing

*laugh*

see how many inches from the ground it hits your sister/brother/younger sibling/older sibling/sibling

Actually, mine was a bit more complex than that. Same basic idea, but it would store the results to a list, display the average, graph the results, and you could pause/resume calculations.

>> N2->N
That would take the variable N2 and store it to N. You should have 2N->N so it doubles N and stores the result in N.

Why the hell do they not update? Are they lazy or something? I submited 2 files. One of them was Super Mario v2.0 from Void Productions. I submited it because they didn't have it yet. But Void did.