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General Discussion / Squall's Gunblade?
« on: 2001-08-05 14:42:00 »
If you want to make your own then search on http://www.download.com" TARGET=_blank>www.download.com for Microangelo (a program for making icons and cursor files).
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General Discussion / Real Media Download - Help me please...!!!
« on: 2001-08-04 22:05:00 »
I'm pretty sure that what you ask is impossible, because the company making RealPlayer doesn't want you to do this (because of copyright issues).
But, you can always try finding a program that emulates RealPlayer (ie sends the same commands to the server) but dumps the results to drive instead...don't know if such a thing exists though.
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General Discussion / FF X (Kissing Part) - For Adults or Children ?
« on: 2001-08-09 14:14:00 »
P3r50n411y I find 31337 h4xx0r sp34x 3v3n m00r 4nn0yin'...
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General Discussion / Eyes on Me..??
« on: 2001-08-10 00:06:00 »
Eerrr said it. I really hope Joey got the extreme irony in his own post...
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General Discussion / Where can I get ff7 fixed sf for live card?
« on: 2001-07-31 18:14:00 »
Didn't think so at least...only getting around a little in the summer, the rest of the year I'm quite settled I think...
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General Discussion / Where can I get ff7 fixed sf for live card?
« on: 2001-07-31 16:02:00 »
Ficedula: The server isn't down...it just doesn't support the sf2 file type (it actually tries to execute it as an executable and feeding the browser the output...which naturally doesn't lead to anything). This is a known problem, I'm sure Cain will fix it *sometime* but it might take a while. Until then I suggest you zip the sf2 (zip is among the file types the server can recognize).
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The FFSF members might take this post as a sign that I'm back home. Well I am but I'm leaving again tonight for another week...
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General Discussion / Final Fantasy? Not every time...
« on: 2001-07-03 17:16:00 »
Miller: MMORPGS is just another word for MMCRPGS.
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General Discussion / Final Fantasy? Not every time...
« on: 2001-07-02 19:23:00 »
The makers of The Longest Journey is from Norway 
Haven't played it yet though, probably should sometime...
On RPGs:
I don't think character development is all that is needed for something to be an RPG, though I can agree that FF is something of a hybrid.
I have not heard anyone mention the *real* PC RPGs yet...the Ultima series (nine installments so far if I remember correctly) is probably the most successful of these. Then there's all the online RPG games, both the old type (MUDs, multi-user dungeons, mostly text based) and the new MMCRPGs (Massively Multiplayer Computer Role Playing Game, like Ultima Online and EverQuest).
If you have a look at the original meaning of RPG (pen, paper and strange dices) it becomes clear it is quite far away from the console RPGs (whether or not they should be called RPGs are another discussion), PC RPGs stay much more true to the RPG tradition. Not that that makes the console games any less fun (I'm not much of a PC RPGer myself).
[EDIT: Added section on RPGs]
[This message has been edited by dagsverre (edited July 02, 2001).]
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General Discussion / Final Fantasy? Not every time...
« on: 2001-07-01 20:24:00 »
I would personally call Final Fantasy an adventure game rather than a RPG game because there is very little freedom, everything happens linearly. It's not like you can change the story-line yourself as you go.
Not saying anything against FF here, I love FF I just don't consider it a true RPG. And I don't think there's anything negative by not being a true RPG either.
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General Discussion / FFX MUSIC DOWNLOAD!!!
« on: 2001-07-13 13:44:00 »
Greatly simplified:
It is impossible to write a virus for Linux because programs don't have write access to most areas. Meaning, if you start a program named ff7.exe (it isn't exe in linux but for the sake of the discussion) then ff7.exe isn't allowed to write to any program files. In fact, it is not allowed to write to anything in the entire machine except for the user directory ("My Documents"), which it has to write to to save your documents.
So, say that a virus is run in Linux, it has no way to spread itself because it can't write itself to disk, and it is gone when you reboot the system. No matter how good you are in coding doesn't change the fact that it is impossible to create a virus for linux (that is, assuming linux systems are bug-free and correctly set up...they usually aren't but that doesn't help the viruses as all the systems have the errors in different places).
Oh, and I don't mind people not bothering to try...in fact I'd be perfectly happy with linux even if I was the only one in the world using it, because it's so nice to use for programming etc. I guess you have to be a programmer to really appriciate the system.
[This message has been edited by dagsverre (edited July 13, 2001).]
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General Discussion / FFX MUSIC DOWNLOAD!!!
« on: 2001-07-12 22:35:00 »
I can kind of agree to that...
With Windows and Plug&Pray, it's just to reinstall Windows and the programs over and over again, and perhaps try different drivers, until things works. This also means that a Windows system can run without being 100% in order.
What I don't like about it is the unnerving thing that I never know if the system is fine or not. In Linux there is always a reason. So, if you know enough about the system, it's just a matter of changing some text files and things are in order.
Not implying that I know linux that well myself. I've just never gone through that repeated reinstall cycle, but rather searched desperate for non-existant hints on what I'm doing wrong...I guess the difference is that in Windows, the system might be doing something wrong, while in Linux you are likely doing something wrong. It's theoretically easier to correct yourself than the system, but it's even easier not to correct anything I guess.
Computers today are way too complicated anyway. They should have been consumer products, not some hacker tool. Why aren't text editors and web browsers as easy as gaming consoles? Why did the shitty i386 architecture get so widespread? We should all go and get ourselves some macs...
Of course, for us programmers this is all a great bonus as we get the incredible flexibility with it...
Joey: They are still viruses, but they are targetting the PC rather than Unix, so Unix has nothing to do with it. You can really call them BIOS viruses instead (though some of them does install themself in the hard disk boot sector and only uses the BIOS to perform the installation).
Idea for a cool virus: An email virus that patches Outlook on the end user system. The virus would have total control over the computers out- and ingoing email, and can replicate very easily with small chances of getting caught...luckily ILOVEYOU shut down the binary attachment door most places so it can't get around that easily anymore...if ILOVEYOU was coded smarter we would never have got rid of it...
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General Discussion / FFX MUSIC DOWNLOAD!!!
« on: 2001-07-12 13:25:00 »
I wouldn't advise to low level format...not if you are talking about that option in your BIOS settings at least. It has a potential for destroying newer hard drives because it formats them like the older ones...or so Jari told me. The newer BIOSes don't have a low-level format option anyway...
If you are really paranoid about it you can always get hold of a linux boot-disk and type "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda". Should wipe things clean. Or, you can download a tool from the manufacturers web-site (those custom hard drive tools are usually quite good...at least the ones I've touched...lets you recover a totally broken hard disk sometimes).
Now for what I really wanted to say. Look on why viruses exists in the first place. Granted, in the later years it's been a lot of 31337 script kiddies that have taken advantage of Microsofts idiotic system design, but traditionally viruses is something that had prestige...creating a good virus really proved you knew your stuff. So I think most people created them to test their abilities and perhaps gain some bragging rights.
Anyway, the old-school viruses and the new-school viruses are like two completely different worlds. There is NO WAY that any old school virus were written in a high-level language. Those viruses were able to completely integrate themselves into exisiting programs...detect which parts of the programs were unused, and put themselves there. The best viruses never left a trace, files had the same file size and date, only by doing a CRC check could you detect anything (these days we have virus scanners of course).
I would say that unless you rely on the total incompetence of Microsoft to get it spreaded then assembly is a must for doing viruses...and assembly programmers aren't really few in this world. In fact I had the impression they were all over the place
Lastly I want to mention that in other operating systems than Windows there are no viruses, because the designers of those systems weren't so beyond belief incompetent in their system design. So for a virus to attack a Unix system it has to attack at boot time (when forgetting to take out the disk before booting).
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General Discussion / And now, the forecast for the summer
« on: 2001-07-13 13:48:00 »
Ahh, the FRIENDLY, MATURE atmosphere swiftly lowering itself over this board lately...gotta love it...
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General Discussion / And now, the forecast for the summer
« on: 2001-06-19 16:23:00 »
School is career. Girlfriend is life. Which is most important?
Actually, Joey, I would tend to disagree with you on this one (and this time you have actually posted something I would not take for a troll if it came fromsomebody else). Then again both me and Qhimm live in countries where you can jump all you want in the social security net without finding holes in it...I would say that careers are in general less important to people here than elsewhere (of course it varies from person to person, I tend to care even less about career than most people around here...I have no idea what Qhimm's priorities would be).
In reality there will always be compromises in prioritizing from day to day so it does kind of fail to discuss things in this way anyway.
[EDIT: I just went *too* far off topic there...this should make it at least a little better]
[This message has been edited by dagsverre (edited June 19, 2001).]
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General Discussion / And now, the forecast for the summer
« on: 2001-06-18 15:06:00 »
No problem with me at least. In fact, if you prioritized differently I would have to troll this forum dead to get you some free time on your hands...real life should always have priority!
(Then again I'm not involved with the remake, so it really shouldn't affect me as much of the rest in here)
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General Discussion / Nvidia has done it again...
« on: 2001-06-19 16:35:00 »
"but all the countries in Europe are up in arms about him rejecting Kyoto when not even *one* EU country has ratified it themselves"
If we ratified it after Bush said that you would not ratify it no matter what, our industry would suffer but not yours, and that would have been unfair to the industry and would have created big problems with ratifying it here (as well as worsening the economy).
The general opinion is that Bush destroyed it. If Bush had said yes, people would have ratified it, hence, he destroyed it. And since Clinton started the process, doesn't that make Bush an even worse bastard for stopping it?
Your points on not including China and India doesn't take into consideration that it is *not* the population of a country that decides. I'm pretty sure 300 million americans in cars are able to pollute much more than a billion chinese on bicycles (not a nyanced picture but you get the idea).
Personally I would like to see the EU ratifying it, screw our economy...we are starting to see effects on the heating over here now, northern europe gets more and more rain every year and southern europe gets more and more dried up every year. Our metrologs says it's the CO2, of course you are free to distrust that.
I don't hate Bush personally, I dislike american conservatives in general (I'm sure they are very nice as people, I just have other opinions). Bush must of course just do what the people (or the buisnesses?) decides.
The world would have been a boring place if everyone thought the same though.
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General Discussion / Nvidia has done it again...
« on: 2001-06-19 16:30:00 »
Did the EU top-meeting in Göteborg, where Bush attended, reach the media in US? Just curious.
(Aside from all the violence and so on, the news in Norway managed to show us some phootage of a guy wearing an exxon shirt, having some other people with Bush masks tied in ropes after him...excellent! Humor is the way to go, not violence...)
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General Discussion / Nvidia has done it again...
« on: 2001-06-18 15:11:00 »
If you are still interested in this, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/18/0041248&mode=nested" TARGET=_blank>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/18/0041248&mode=nested will probably get filled up with discussion on the topic pretty soon. It is about the review at http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,2332,a%253D4167,00.asp" TARGET=_blank>http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,2332,a%253D4167,00.asp
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General Discussion / A New Mod for General Chat
« on: 2001-06-04 02:36:00 »
The newsgroup was the best place on the net for some months, one year ago. Lot's of small questions, and five or six regulars hanging around...I'd say it had about five posts a day (none in slow periods, twenty in good ones), not a lot but on the other hand we didn't have to put up with too much trolling.
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General Discussion / I'm curious...
« on: 2001-05-30 17:30:00 »
OK, I have a theory. Know how people in non-english speaking countries can say things like "fuck you very much" when you buy something from them? Some tourists clearly have had their fun when those unhappy sellers ask them what "thank you very much" would be in English. Stuff like that happens all the time.
So, my theory is that Joey perhaps never learnt proper english. When he asked someone what a computer would be in English, someone told him "girlfriend". In the same way, "wash the floors at Square" became "do programming for Square". It works the other way too, for instance "you make me sick Joey" became "I'm your greatest fan, I'm going to name my first child after you, Joey" (which is why he keeps posting).
Anyway, I'm seriously reconsidering if we're dealing with a very well done troll here. This might be a tragic person getting his daily kick out of this board...
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General Discussion / Picture formats
« on: 2001-05-24 19:23:00 »
Get yourself Photoshop...or at least Paint Shop Pro. Both can handle hundreds of formats.
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General Discussion / Anarchy!
« on: 2001-05-06 05:18:00 »
Frisked (don't know the word but I get the meaning I think) for wearing trenchcoats...this reminds me of the old "hellmouth" slashdot.org articles describing US high school situations. Can't say I felt like switching nationality after reading it...
I guess it's human nature to harass people being different but it's definitely more exposed in some cultures than others.
And trenchcoats are actually kinda fashion here...
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General Discussion / Authorization for the FF7 Remake forum
« on: 2001-05-17 22:54:00 »150
General Discussion / Authorization for the FF7 Remake forum
« on: 2001-04-26 23:31:00 »
My stance on this (I don't have anything against this being said in public, though you are free to mail the answer if you think that is better):
I would really love to help, but I don't have the time.
If you give me permission I can always read the forum and try to help as much as I can, but all the help I'm likely to give will only be through posts in the forum (IE you would only get another person trying to push through his opinions without doing any really work). So it's up to you, if I get admission I'll read and comment when I can and if I don't I don't really care about that either, it just means more time on my hands for other stuff.
And if you think the game can benefit anything from using some parts of the legacy engine you should of course authorize me at once. Music engine comes to mind but that part is written just as much by Ficedula and you already have him in.