xor42

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by xor42 2y ago
True, although if you're in the EU, there should be a 30 days reference period. "In all EU countries traders are obliged, when offering a discount, to indicate the lowest price applied to the item at least 30 days before the annou
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by xor42 2y ago
Regarding the Quake engine and its evolutions (Q3, Call of duty, RTC Wolfenstein), the most common trick was to modify the rendering mode of all player entities so that they are drawn above everything else. The engine has a flag that is mai
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by xor42 3y ago
A bit off topic, but I have recently acquired a PCB which uses a Conexant CX92755. It is kind of supported by the Linux kernel, but I am completely unable to find a user manual / proper datasheet for this chip. If someone happens to ha
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by xor42 5y ago
My guess is that airplanes are cool/fascinating for a lot of people. Aerospace is a field where a lot of things are unknown to most of the population, which triggers curiosity even for the smallest details. I have done IT consulting in
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by xor42 5y ago
My first experience with Delphi is quite recent actually. I've done quite a lot of C/C++ programming & reverse engineering (the latter as a hobby) and recently had to scratch the itch to take a closer look into the ecosystem o
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by xor42 9y ago
Actually it depends on how far you want to go. You can jump to protected mode with a few lines more. But you won't have a very interesting exercise. Basically, one would have to setup multiple registers like the GDT which sets the prot