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This current stalemate is caused because neither party wants to leave the EU and because they don't want to carry the can for cancelling Brexit and denying the majority 17 million Leave vote that WON. And they have no way to squirm out of it with a soundbite - like they usually do. The entire nation knows we're being betrayed and that democracy is a sham, If I could vote a blood thirsty killer to execute every last one of them, I would.Do what we do in the USA, send reality TV clowns into office until the globalist "elites" (parasitic paper-pushing weenies) take a hint. Mockery is more potent than violence in today's world. Calling someone a nerd and giving them a verbal wedgie while you stuff them into a rhetorical locker will bring more popular support to your side than random massacres.
After dealing with the nightmare of Windows 10, I've decided to finally switch to Linux.
Next week I'm finally gonna get my hands on my new Dell laptop that uses Ubuntu Linux 16.04.
But I got some questions, hopefully not too many as I hope to get the thing up and running in one week.
My most important question is: What is the best firewall, antivirus, and anti-spyware for this OS?
ML: I don't know, I've never used any of them. Though I should probably use a firewall. I've never set up a printer and I dropped the network programming class: I know nothing about this.
Also, how do I install programs that I downloaded from places other than the Ubuntu Software Centre? I know it involves a command line, but I doubt its the same Windows command line of "CD [directory]" "[installer].exe", etc. I've been looking up some YouTube videos and the only clue I have is "sudo" something.
ML: Ubuntu is forked (derived) from Debian. Both use apt or some sort of GUI front-end for it to install programs, most of which come as *.deb files and are usually stored somewhere. Yes it is a huge pain in the butt to chase down software dependencies, but you get used to it.
Sudo I think is short for Superuser (admin) do. It's a way to get temporarily read/write/execute privileges for files and folders in your root (admin) directory, which is /. Contrast with su, which elevates the current terminal session to superuser (or maybe it just opens a new session as a superuser in the current terminal, I don't know which - same end difference though so who cares?).
Is WINE already included with this OS, or do I have to install it?
ML: You probably have to install it, ask on an official WINE support forum because the approved method of doing so changes once every few years. In 2012 it was Wine Helper, a bunch of bash (a type of terminal emulator) scripts. Be prepared for pain.
Also, are there built in media players into the OS already that let me listen to music and watch videos? If not, what Ubuntu Linux media players should I download and install?
ML: I use only VLC.
I also plan on using VMware to run a Windows XP virtual machine as some sort of "training wheels" until I get used to Linux. Is it preferable to emulate the 32 bit or 64 bit version of Windows XP?
ML: I know that VirtualBox only supports 32 bit emulation. No idea bout VMWare.
mednafen --version
Starting Mednafen 0.9.36.4
Build information:
Compiled with gcc 4.9.1
Compiled against zlib 1.2.8, running with zlib 1.2.8
Compiled against SDL 1.2.15, running with SDL 1.2.15
Running with libsndfile-1.0.25
Compiled against libcdio 0.83 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, running with libcdio 0.83 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Swedes regard lying to bed someone the same akin to aggressively raping them. That's hardly a sensible culture.That sounds obsessive. If you see rape in everything, you have
How do you find these LBA tables? Well you need to run pSX with logging enabled and you need to log all CDROM IO. now just play the game as normal and save the log. Any time you see a line in the log such as
[015b009c] cdrom: setloc 00000000:00000002:00000005
it will be closely followed by lines such as these
[015b00a4] cdrom: read byte 07801800 = 09 (800584dc)
[015b00a4] cdrom: write byte 07801800 = 01 (800584ec)
Those address in the brackets
(800584dc)
(800584ec)
Are a part of the function "setloc". mark the entry point of that function in your disassembly.
You need special emulator with debugger built-in like no$psx or ePSXe debug edition.From what I understand, emulator memory can be accessed using something like Cheat Engine or a hex editor that can view and edit processes. How could I view memory on an emulator without a debugger?
Actually, since I know about this, it's possible to do and I have done a minor change in my own copy of the (original) game just to make sure everything was working correctly (my game actually has slimes correctly give slime oil... woo?).
The files themselves are hidden from normal disk tools so you can't just open up the image and grab whatever file you need, you have to use a tool or manually extract the files to even get the data. On top of this there are at least two compression types used on pretty much every file, so you also need to be able to both decompress and later compress the files back into the original format to reinsert into the game. If your file ends up larger (which it almost certainly will, since even a single byte change can drastically affect the result size of a compressed file) you will basically need to rearrange things on the disk to be able to get it back in, so it's not just a simple hex change like you were hoping for.
I have made a tool for myself to do testing with that is able to extract files from the disk, decompress files and compress them again with a file exactly the same size as the original if nothing was changed, and then put them back on the disk (effectively making a new disk of sorts, so file size changes don't matter), but the tool itself is just a command line thing i threw together mostly just for the compression handling. It's not really something everybody could easily work with, and it's just set up for the original game so far anyway but IZJS has the same compression, it's just files are in different locations (which only matters to actual use, not getting them/putting them back iirc) so I'd have to figure out what's file matches up where.
The only real problem I have with making a mod for it currently is that I haven't gone through the code for the AI yet to fully understand how it works - a partial understanding doesn't really go that far for something like this. I also wouldn't want to do a simple stat change to enemies because it's effectively the kind of half-assed hard mode that many games end up with where it's the same exact enemies that you can handle the same exact way, they just hit harder and take longer to kill for no real reason. There's also quite a few other things I'd love to look into first, because you can very easily exploit a few things (particularly battle speed) that can give you a pretty unfair advantage, but the AI/enemy "gambits" would still be the most important thing to understand to really get things going.