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Miscellaneous / Re: Exam results
« on: October 29, 2010, 08:58:24 am »
The level of education is also much higher in Western Europe than in the USA (or so I heard), because the funds for education are better here. Generally, Flanders is renowned for its (relatively) high educational standards. (that means the tests are harder, not that the grades are better)

Also, passing here requires 50%, not 60. You might also want to consider the fact that I had no assistance whatsoever (no teachers and whatnot) to help me study the material. :)
This kind of stuff passes as 'pretty good' to the normal people out there. To me it's 'meh, could do better, but why bother'. :P Yes, I'm lazy. And no, I'm not crafting an excuse :)

EDIT: Oh yeah, should mention this. We have a kind of 'waterfall system' here.
ASO: Algemeen Secundair Onderwijs (General Secondary Education): For people who intend to go to university. Has a very broad curriculum.
TSO: Technisch Secundair Onderwijs (Technical Secondary Education): Has nothing to do with tech, but it is a more 'focused' version of the above. Very few people actually go to higher education from here.
BSO: Beroepssecundair onderwijs (Professional Secondary Education): Teaches professions like baker, butcher, cook... For people who want a job immediately after highschool. The cliché (that is partly true), is that these schools are filled with dropouts and occasionally tardmuffins. Not all of them are, though, I know quite a few nice people from those schools. And no offence intended.

These systems were conceived as completely separate, but in practice, it works like this:

ASO -> if you fail-> TSO -> BSO. Generally, ASO and TSO are approximately equal as far as educational level is concerned, but the practical minds are mostly in TSO.

Regardless, this creates opportunities for 'tuned testing'. You can effectively make tests that are very difficult/very easy without creating too much trouble. It's up to you do decide whether this matters, but meh. (I'm ASO by the way)

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Miscellaneous / Exam results
« on: October 29, 2010, 06:37:04 am »
In case anybody remotely cares: these are my 1st sem. exam results. (I only took a partial program, the rest will be in march/april)

French: 89%
Math A: 66% (miscalculations, and I completely blew one question which made up approx. 20%)
Math A (advanced 1): 80%

Only the math A result bugs me, but yeah... I'm kinda absent-minded, so add some stress => get guaranteed mistakes.

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Miscellaneous / Re: Don't spam!
« on: October 29, 2010, 06:31:25 am »
Reminds me of this banker, Jerôme Kerviel, who had to pay a few billions. (he was a rogue trader)
The sum was the equivalent of 177000 years of his work. Yes you read that right.

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KnightOS / Re: Feature Requests
« on: October 28, 2010, 12:02:40 pm »
Maybe you could ask Brandon Wilson to allow you to port/tweak USB8X/MSD8X? From what I've read, it's unlikely that he will do it himself, because apparently he doesn't have that much time.

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KnightOS / Re: KnightOS/Rogue Console - Eeems
« on: October 28, 2010, 07:39:45 am »
IIRC it's basically allowing programs to be 'notified' of certain events (e.g. file access or link port stuff). I don't know for sure.

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Miscellaneous / Re: Rubik's Cube
« on: October 28, 2010, 05:03:43 am »
I never really got the hang of the rubik's cube. How about a TAS of a chess game? :P
Would that do?
:P

The computer sucked. :P The 'losing' music was awesome... (well-known theme here)

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KnightOS / Re: KnightOS/Rogue Console - Eeems
« on: October 25, 2010, 12:27:05 pm »
It looks great! I thought it was a shot of a huge 384x128 calculator screen

KOS+Calc2net = win. Actually, THAT would be awesome.

@Deep Thought: I don't think he means the game. Rogue's just the title, right Eeems?

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Tous les applications ont une 'adresse d'origine' à 4000h, c'est-à-dire le début d'une page de la mémoire Flash. Il nous faut ce nombre fixe simplement pour que les invocations absolutes fassent ce qu'il doivent faire. C'est pour ça qu'on ne peut écrire qu'une application par page. (Impossible que le bloc 4000h-7FFFh contient deux séries différentes d'octets)

J'espère que c'est quand-même un peu plus clair maintenant...

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ASM / Re: ! and #
« on: October 24, 2010, 03:18:33 pm »
Calcsys is not always right about variable names, I've also seen Reals called [A] and such. I think it's a bug in Calcsys, not in the OS.

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KnightOS / Re: KnightOS
« on: October 23, 2010, 03:55:42 pm »
Nothing special.  Technically, it won't be at the same time without multiple cores, which the calculator does not have.
* mapar007 runs to Kerm to tell him to implement multi-core in his next ultimate calc project.


Nice to see the project is coming along (I don't visit that often anymore, sadly...). About semaphores: would that actually be necessary in this context? If the kernel routines use too much 'modern' access control, wouldn't that cause huge lags?


EDIT: oh, something to that effect has been stated already. Sorry to bother.

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[FR] Hors-Sujet / "Je suis notaire"
« on: October 23, 2010, 03:43:34 pm »
http://www.justinconseil.fr/index.php

J'ai toujours le fou rire.

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Miscellaneous / Re: Rubik's Cube
« on: October 21, 2010, 12:14:24 pm »
i can solve 3x3 in 1:40. this is the way from the official guide book on the rubik's website. as i have heard, there are quicker ways?
i would like to know these ways, any link to a website?
also i recently got a iq pyramid puzzle. im not sure how to solve it

Google 'Fridrich's method'. Also, it's possible to do the cube in under a minute using the 'newbie' method. I do it that way since I'm too lazy to learn Fridrich's. (100+ algorithms iirc) I can get times around 45-50 seconds without too much trouble (although it's been a while).

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Computer Usage and Setup Help / Re: Pentium II, Linux...hmmm...
« on: October 21, 2010, 02:33:36 am »
I still regularly use a P3+256Mb RAM+Fedora 10. In fact, it's my standard working PC. :D

RedHat should work fine if you strip it down a bit. It's what we use on our home server here (waaayyy older still than my computer, and runs fine with RH9 enterprise)

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Math and Science / Re: New RSA Algorithm discussion
« on: October 19, 2010, 03:40:29 am »
Lol never heard the Ruindows thing before, but in English it almost fits the OS perfectly ;D. People usually just say Winblows, Window$ and French people say Windaube. :P

We usually say Windhoos (=cyclone) or something. There's also this: (Rutt'n ahtenehenteh in West-Vlaams. Hilarious.)

(Note: this is not how ALL Flemish people talk)

On a more on-topic note: Rainbowcrack was not made for our purpose, because we're talking about a key that is far longer than the average password, and storing the tables for reuse is pointless in this setting (that's the No. 1 reason why you would use RC).

I'm sure you will agree with us after having read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA . This algorithm is invulnerable. Cryptanalysts have done all they could. Thinking that a bunch of youngsters with calcs can break a 1024-bit key, let alone find a flaw in the algorithm, is VERY utopic.

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Humour and Jokes / Re: Funny #omnimaga quotes (NSFW)
« on: October 19, 2010, 03:30:05 am »
I was referring to GoldenAcorn84, who posted about 'Winning the game has never been so easy' iirc.

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