even better? you can pipe the output of your video card into play using stdin, then you can listen to you moving the mouse around and other such things that affect the screen. Create your own musical symphony!

Just listened to your sample. Very nice. MrCode = Aphex Twin.

LOL. I had to download VLC just to play that file, but it was strangely worth it. Binary music! Very creative.

Oh, and it's not terribly loud. 1/4 of my volume bar was just right for listening to it in a quiet bedroom. That's laptop speakers, though.

it may be a little more considerait to ping your own network ip address. either way, it's odd that the windows/ndis driver doesn't work properly.

Dear MrCode,

This is the way I see it. Life may not intrinsically have any meaning but you can create meaning for your life.

I want to keep this simple so that is all I will say. Just think about it.

Hooray!!! Thank **** for that!

Good job!

In almost all languages but shell scripting, non-zero is true and zero is false.

Bad? No more; Where ignorance is bliss, Tis' folly to be wise.
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

I'm glad I'm not intelligent and/or educated enough to worry about abstract philosophical dilemmas.

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I'll save my sympathy for people with real problems.

Read the whole response and don't just pick parts out of it to dwell on:

I don't understand you. You have very strong beliefs about things that you don't want to believe. You are completely unmotivated to seek any form of spiritual beliefs because you believe they are bogus and you are completely depressed to only believe in the scientific. You desperately want there to be more to the universe than the 'cold hard truth' but you refuse to listen to anything that would say otherwise.

You are stuck.

You never say anything new.

And you always wine about it.

Honestly, this sounds like depression to me. But you also refuse to seek advice from a professional and you refuse to take medication because both of those options don't line up with your mundane observation based view of the universe.


My advice?

Stop worrying about what the universe does when ultimately nobody has enough power to do anything about it. For example, we might one day have the technology to blow up the sun or even keep it from exploding. However, we don't have that technology now. Nor do we have any technology close. We may be able to throw a few nuclear bombs at it, but it would be nothing more than a mosquito prick.

Do we worry that the sun may randomly explode or fizzle? No. We are comfortable to believe that, from it's current mass, it has more than 5 billion years left in its life. All we care is that it continues to burn during our own life. But all our wishes and technology about the sun are just beliefs. We can't guarantee that it won't do something unexpected. Hell! we couldn't even reasonably determine that the sun isn't intelligent. We aren't next to it, we can't touch it, and without special scientific gear we can't listen to it. How do you know all the RF, Light, and energy it spews out isn't some form of communication? Human religions tell us that we are the only intelligent entities other than 'God' and angels. Do you believe this? I don't. But who am I to say that Religions got that part wrong, they could be right. I will never know and it doesn't affect my life as I don't need to talk to the sun. But I suppose it would be neat if I could. Then again, the sun would probably be disinterested in what I had to say because it probably can't see me here on earth. It's so large, It probably thinks I'm just a pigment of color on the earth.

Anyway, It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you are happy believing it. This is the same with life styles.

One of the main goals of psychology is to help you determine what makes you happy long term. That is, what ever you do won't negatively impact you or others long term.

If thinking about the universe makes you sad, then keep busy and think about more productive things. Talking about things that depress you are only going to make you more sad.

Honestly, If I didn't know better. I would say you get a kick out of reading the responses people type back to you. Which is fine. That's another area of psychology as well. But I would say it's not very nice or healthy to have people care enough to respond to you only to not take their advice. It's a little one sided. Try doing nice things for people that do nice things for you back. That could be as simple as receiving a smile and a thank you. Visit a retirement home and play some music for them. Sit and listen to them. Some old people have amazing stories about life that could teach you a thing or two.

Any way, I think this is the last response I'm ever going to give you on the subject. You've made me stop caring about what you think as it never changes.

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I bet the majority of my posts are in general, and that is saying something, considering I have 800 or so 'official' posts in the technical forums.

Don't feel bad, I'm about x100 worse.

In a nutshell, yes, your fear is irrational on multiple levels.

1. Nobody walks around looking to start a free will versus determinism discussion. I'm 33, and I can count on one hand how many times that kind of discussion has popped up. Couple that with the fact that I took a Philosophy course in undergrad, and you should get an idea of how often it pops up in casual conversation.

2. Who cares? I don't mean that to sound rude, but really... you believe what you want to believe. Nobody has been able to conclusively determine free will versus determinism in all the years philosophers and theologians have discussed the matter. Trust me, el1t3haxx0r in whatever collaborative project you work on is not going to develop the earth-shattering proof to answer that ageless question. The consequence of that? Who gives a rat's butt what el1t3haxx0r thinks? He cannot prove his side anymore than he can disprove yours (and vice versa). You believe what you want to believe. You don't need an elegant, mathematically-sound proof to justify your beliefs. And realize, even if you were in some bizaro universe that did require it, the same would be true for the other side. I'm pretty sure they can't offer that elegant proof for that side either.

3. You need to come to grips with the idea of putting aside intellectual and philosophical differences with people so you can work together. Seriously, something as abstract as free will versus determinism? You might have an aneurysm when you meet someone that thinks differently than you about DRM. If you refuse to work with people that hold differing views than you, you should really plan on doing solo projects for the rest of eternity.

4. You derive your interest in programming because you enjoy getting a computer to accomplish a specific task. Your interest and enjoyment is not tied to an underlying philosophy anymore than you are interested in a first-person shooter because you believe in a monotheistic religion as opposed to polytheistic/atheistic. The two are completely unrelated.

The nslu2 only has 32 meg of memory and can run linux. That being said, you would be surprised what will run bsd.

No, it's a supercomputer.
Think I've found the desktop version:
http://www0.epinions.com/VTech_Power...ay_~full_specs
Not much information in the "full specs".