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by Zyx
Mon Jul 31, 2006 13:41
Forum: The Village Square
Topic: The netherlands and their legalisation politics
Replies: 6
Views: 7019

On theoretical level, we hold the ideas of democracy and personal freedoms quite high around here. One thing that goes with these is that everyone is entitled to their opinions and people can freely go around and talk about stuff. In democratic system, we'll even discuss about all kinds of stuff and...
by Zyx
Mon Jul 31, 2006 13:20
Forum: Tech help & discussion
Topic: [HOWTO]Set crontab timing
Replies: 3
Views: 5941

hmm... this might be a bit late, seems I totally forgot about this and og. anway... anacron is a fun tool to have if you don't run your *nix-type computer 24/7, as unlike cron, it does the (routine maintenance) tasks when certain amount of time is passed (whereas cron executes tasks at a specific ti...
by Zyx
Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:48
Forum: Tech help & discussion
Topic: Simple programming
Replies: 5
Views: 6465

Chillum, if your intrests are learning programming by making small tools like "cm to meters converter", I'd advice you to learn a more high-level language than C(++) first. Something like Java, Python, Ruby or Perl. Er... maybe I should the perl out of that list, but anyway... except for J...
by Zyx
Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:24
Forum: General Gaming Discussion
Topic: New adventure games
Replies: 127
Views: 127453

Runaway was so bad that I had already almost forgotten it. "I don't know what to do with that". Illogical puzzles and the play mechanics (f.e. pixel hunting) were horrible.
It was a total pain to play it.
by Zyx
Tue May 02, 2006 22:10
Forum: Tech help & discussion
Topic: [HOWTO]Set crontab timing
Replies: 3
Views: 5941

of course, if you don't run your linux/bsd/mac box 24/7, you might want to install anacron instead...