Joel Schultz

Yes, but here's the thing I about VNC. If your "WinVNC" is like "RealVNC" or "UltraVNC", these VNC programs operate more or less by taking screenshots of your PC. Windows Remote Desktop is different. In a way, it reminds me more of X Windows, in that you can have a server doing the processing and a terminal doing the display. I believe that, while there is some bitmap (screenshot) traffic, the majority of the traffic is encoded drawing commands (what a developer would call GDI calls). The performance difference between WRD and VNC is as different as night and day. Since WRD seems to be working on a GDI-redirection layer or lower, I would assume that this would give it an advantage over VNC. Hence, back to my question: has anyone tried Remote Desktop with UC?

Has anyone tried to run UC on one machine and remote desktop into the UC box from a second computer? I'm pretty sure such a thing, if possible, isn't "officially" supported but nonetheless lack of "official" support has never stopped some of us from trying crazy stunts anyway. I'm thinking about trying this, except I would rather avoid the hassle of figuring out what port(s) need to be opened in my Linksys router (and XP firewall?) if I can avoid it since that would involve travel were something to go wrong. I don't have a second PC -- well I do (it's a laptop) but it's "untouchable" since it belongs to my wife's employer and it steadfastly refuses to have anything to do with my PC, not to mention she could get in trouble if I mess around with it.

Man, I think I need one of those...

Glad to hear you're alright, SC.

Good trailer! Looking forward to this one...

Papi: Thanks, I was looking for something like that. SC: Doh! I spent my time searching the MS site, not the 3000AD forum And come to think of it I was a contributor on that 3000AD thread too... General public: I take it no one has had system restore bomb on them like I have?

Is there anyway to do a direct download of the 90+ MB file required to install Windows XP SP2? My system restore function doesn't any more (it crashes) and I'm hoping that reinstalling SP2 will correct the problem. Unfortunately, I can't find any way to DL it direct from Microsoft. Anyone have any ideas? Preemptive strike: I've already installed it a while ago so Windows Update doesn't give me the option to do so any more. And I'm scared of running the "uninstall" function on it. Better still would be if someone who's had system restore crash & burn just trying to start the screen and managed to fix this would post what they did. Thanks.

I was thinking, "wow, she's really got a good arm"...

TNT2? I had one of those. It was forced obsolete on my machine by some game I purchased two or three years ago. I gotta hand it to you if you've managed to get by on that for as long as you did. But you can't dodge the upgrade bullet forever I'm sure you can find some cheap cards out there that'll meet minimum requirements that won't put too bad a pinch on your wallet.

If the contract leaves them an "out" for things beyond their control (i.e. production/supply problems) they may be clear. But I know next to nothing about contracts except to read the whole thing before signing them. No matter how many pages. Which reminds me how long it took me to sign the real estate sale contracts (over an hour of reading). The point being that what they are and aren't responsible for is quite likely already spelled out somewhere in the paperwork. That'd be the first place to look for answers. Outside agencies (e.g. laywer's opinion) would be second. My 2 cents. Well, 1 cent; I don't think my post is worth 2

NOOOOOOO........ Well, that just about tops off a perfectly lousy weekend for me. As PA dweller I ought to root for Philly, except I think Philly's annoying. I'll probably be rooting the Pats on in spite of what they did to Pittsburgh. Besides, some part of me thinks its better to have been the team that lost to the #1 team in the NFL than the #2 team. (It would've been better not to have lost but that isn't an option). Call me silly, perhaps.

I originally intended to start this as a "Go Steelers!" thread, but I decided in the interests of broadening its scope to make this a general football divisional/AFC/NFC championship and Superbowl thread. So, who are you rooting for in your division? NFC? AFC? And later, of course, the Superbowl? (OK -- Steelers time!) Saturday's win was about as ugly as they come. I think Jets' Doug Brien will need a bodyguard the next few weeks (although he's welcome to stay in our town for a while ) But a win is a win!!! If this is the worse we can get and with a little bit of luck still win, the Steelers should rock! That said, any other Steelers fans around here nearly pitch their cookies at way too many points during the game? That was a horribly, horribly close game... Like Roethlisberger said, he tried to lose the game but the team didn't let him. If we never see that many mistakes from him again, it will still be too soon... See everyone next week at the AFC championships! And (hopefully) again after that! GO PITTSBURGH STEELERS!

Wha... I guess it's not just Tac who manages to dig up the weird stuff.

Just about anything can be dangerous if the user is imaginative enough...

quote: There is no secure software without 3 premises: 1) You get the soft in source code. 2) You analyze ALL the code. 3) You generate & install executables yourself. And I always get mad when someone suggests this. Yes it would be secure, but it is impractical to the point of uselessness. 1. You credit Joe User with too much patience and/or intelligence and/or technical savvy to accomplish #3. 2. How do you know some hack didn't write a trojan into the source code? (I could do that.) Oh, thats what #2 is for. How many Joe User's are competant at that? How many Joe Programmer's who are competant would read a million lines of code to analyze for bugs? I am, I could, and I wouldn't (unless I was paid to) -- I have better things to do with my time like playing UC, thank you very much... I've seen Firefox, and tried it. Tabbed browsing nice. Seems slower than IE. Seems a bit less stable too on some of the web applications we try to run. An impressive version 1, at any rate. But still not quite enough incentive for me to switch away from IE. Maybe in another version or two (and the incorporation of some of the "extensions" into the codebase) I'll change my mind. [ 12-23-2004, 10:54 AM: Message edited by: Joel Schultz ]

quote: game design is not a democracy I love that point. That needs to be inscribed on virtual stick and marketed to every game forum for virtual beating into the virtual skulls of those who just don't get it... (probably because their brains are only "virtual").

quote: If you can't have fun while you're working, what's the point of working?I suppose most people work in order to live: eat, have place to stay etc. But you raise an interesting question, which makes me wonder how much to people really like their jobs and/or have fun on them. Sounds like a new thread to me...

Inspired by this thread. On a scale of 1 to 5: 1: "I hate it and could never have fun with it" 2: ^^^ between vvv 3: "It's just another job to me with nothing to really like or dislike" 4: ^^^ between vvv 5: "I love it and always have fun with it" How much do you like or dislike your current job? I'll start: 4

The company FlyingThingz is the creator of this RC plane. They have a number of other flying oddities, from a witch on a broomstick, an F1 racer, and American flag. Personally I can't wait to see a video of Snoopy's Red Baron doghouse when they get that model out of development...

I thought the trailier was lame. It didn't really show squat.

If it gets to court. Bet they end up wasting some millions settling instead. Sometimes I think it would be nice if, instead of settling, someone would say, "Forget the cheap way out, I'm ripping these guys a new one in court!" Sounds like something up SC's alley, huh? Of course, it's not my money my wishful thinking is using...

Holy crud, this sounds like pretty much what anything using OpenGL or D3D is doing when you use model and viewport transformation matrixes. And probably every other 3D API ever invented too (3DFX). This goes way beyond games. This sounds like ANYONE using 3D and who includes the ability to view the object from different angles.

DS @ 7.4%!

Already pre-ordered...

LOL!