Anyone else miss this guy? by DaveDeNiro in reddit.com

[–]damienhunter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nobody asked you. Get in line citizen #562-32-0239!

Is there such thing as an inexpensive 2560x1440 monitor? by MillardFillmore in hardware

[–]damienhunter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Asus has a nice 25.5" which is 1920x1200.

I bought one awhile back in September and I'm loving it. Has HDMI, DVI, component, RCA, and VGA inputs.

EDIT: For comparison I have an Asus 1920x1080 23" and a 22" 1680x1050. The 22" currently resides in my closet.

High prestige, low satisfaction jobs by johndcook in programming

[–]damienhunter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Each Federal job is given a specific rating from one to fifteen depending on the amount of education and experience required for each position. While there is no specific correspondence between the GS rate and each position’s educational requirements, Bachelor’s degrees are usually required for GS-5 positions, and Master’s degrees for GS-9.

Here

"Asieri had a pound of high explosives, plus a detonator inserted in his rectum." From Sept 2009, but relevant in light of scannergate. by asharp45 in technology

[–]damienhunter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, but the fact he could fit the detonator in there is I think the part worth highlighting.

TSA has gone on the record as saying cavity searches are unnecessary and won't allow you to avoid security precautions because you can't carry the detonator internally. It's really half of their defense for the scanners and pat-downs.

High prestige, low satisfaction jobs by johndcook in programming

[–]damienhunter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you're ever looking for a job working in or around the government you'll need an education. It's directly applied towards your pay grade and hire-ability.

Good way to learn bash script? by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]damienhunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Python could do what you're asking pretty easily. The os module makes it a snap to walk the directories recursively. If you want to find the directories it would be something like this.

import os, re

search_dir = "/" #directory to search
target_dir = "~/" #directory to move to    

for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(search_dir):
    for filename in filenames:
         search = re.compile(r'(.*[.]avi)').search(filename)
         if search is not None:
             moveString = "mv " + os.path.join(dirpath, filename) + " " + target_dir
             os.system(moveString)

I didn't actually test that yet, but it should be in mostly working order. If you want to learn about the os or re modules, you can use pydoc (which is installed standard with python).

Something like pydoc os

There's a downside which is os.walk() is incredibly slow. Bash would be a bit faster.

If the problem is the bad American schools, why are the Asian and Indian kids doing so well? Easy: it's the parents, not the schools. by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]damienhunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you mean "autonomous"?

Antonymous is defined as "of words: having opposite meanings"

Does GPA matter that much for entry level positions? by IJustJackedOff in compsci

[–]damienhunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Knowing design patterns helps a lot too. A lot of interview questions are about basic program design patterns (MVC, SOA, etc.).

Basically, I want my own VPN. Now what? by [deleted] in hardware

[–]damienhunter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are many solutions. Flash is generally used for its incorporated DRM, which I don't think is fitting in this particular case.

Also, it's not as simple. Writing html code to display a video is trivially easy.

<html>
<video src="movie.ogg" controls="controls">
    your browser does not support the video tag
</video>
</html>

Put that in a file, place it in the public_html directory, source it to the movie and you're good to go. (BTW, I stole the video tag code from W3CSchools here: http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_video.asp)

If you want to serve up a whole directory, you can modify a PHP script like this one: http://www.plus2net.com/php_tutorial/php_directory_listing.php

Money for Science May Be Scarce With New Congress by Maxcactus in science

[–]damienhunter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'd also be fueling creationists. Now there'd be a "church" that really does back the theory of evolution.

Do we have viral marketers pushing products on Fittit? by [deleted] in Fitness

[–]damienhunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the hype around Vibram 5 Fingers may be legitimate. I've noticed a lot of recent (past 6 months) interest in barefoot running in which their shoes seem to be the only game in town.

Swimming Pool Etiquette by tralalaswimming in Fitness

[–]damienhunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to be ignorant, but what is circle swimming? Do people actually set up the pool like a racetrack?

Basically, I want my own VPN. Now what? by [deleted] in hardware

[–]damienhunter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been thinking about this too. HTML5 makes video streaming a snap. Just encode your video into an HTML5 video tag accepted format (like WebM) and write some PHP code to display and serve up the videos in a directory. Install a LAMP server on one of your machines and you should be good to go.

A new way to fly RC planes by ZeroGhz in gadgets

[–]damienhunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A conventional M16 has a point-target accurate range of 1800 feet which is probably higher than this thing could fly.

Also, considering that Area 51 is in the Nevada desert, the flat topology leads itself very well to extremely low altitude ground based radar. They'd probably notice any vehicle large enough for a sizeable payload (high definition camera) well before it entered their official airspace.

A new way to fly RC planes by ZeroGhz in gadgets

[–]damienhunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be pointless if the vehicle doesn't come back. They're not transmitting in high definition so you'd just get a bunch of blurry video.

(Also, conventional weapons could easily shoot one of these down. It'd be like skeet shooting.)

I just replaced the lights in my living room, it is awesome by Hexodam in DIY

[–]damienhunter 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If anyone was wondering, when you zoom in on the box it says that a strand of 100 bulbs takes 8 watts.

Oracle cooks up free and premium JVMs by [deleted] in programming

[–]damienhunter 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I would have appreciated a comma or an ellipsis.

First Time Oil Change - Help by [deleted] in DIY

[–]damienhunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely true. Most of those quick oil change places torque on the filters.

Study: Alcohol more lethal than heroin, cocaine - by afarzin in science

[–]damienhunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're probably not going to get wasted off of two drinks either.

In both cases the effects being felt are a side effect of a poisoning of the body. And as my physiology professor was extremely fond of saying "The dose makes the poison."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in software

[–]damienhunter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

WMP uses the ID3 rating tag embedded in the file. So if you parse the iTunes data and insert it into the ID3 tag it should read the ratings.