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I've got two laptops to test on, was thinking to use a VPN tunnel to increase latency between them. That way I can test with the two computers in the same room but still have one of them behave like it is a couple of countries away.

Have been looking for free OpenVPN services but all I've spotted seems to only support browsing the web on TCP80.

Does anybody know a free OpenVPN server that I can use that supports non-web tunneling? Or do you have a tip for me to get "real lag" in a different way?

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Thanks for that tip, I'm actually using OpenGL.

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http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-3D-Game-Programming-DirectX/dp/1598220535/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y

]]> /pr/res/3851.html#3899 >>3863
So you want to learn how to do things always from a programming perspective?

That honestly is not a good idea. If you're just programming for fun then by all means do it your way. But just giving some advice, if you want to do this as a career or if you just want to actually get good at it it's a bad idea to do that.

Math exists for exactly this reason. Math is completely abstract and is meant to be that way so you can understand the pure logic of something without the concepts being encumbered by details of any specific cases.

If you learn how to do this from a programming view it is absolutely impossible to not get the math concepts too. The only difference is that now your understanding is bogged down by programming specifics. You won't be as flexible, to be able to apply those concepts to other situations as easily as if you just learned the pure abstract math (logic) of it.

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]]> /pr/res/3891.html#3895 >>3894
You are absolutely correct. What I said about execute rights only applies to shell scripts, the compiler apparently uses rights rwxr-xr-x.

]]> /pr/res/3891.html#3894 >>3893
Hm, is that really the reason for that? I always thought "./hello" was needed simply because "." is not on the PATH(i.e. if one were to add it then "hello" alone would work, just as with executables in "/usr/bin")

]]> /pr/res/3891.html#3893 >>3892
Oh, and one has to run the said executable with syntax ./hello, because it does not have execute rights.

Good job, next make it with GTK hullo world!

]]> /pr/res/3891.html#3892 You can change that with the -o flag, e.g. "gcc hello.c -o hello" would generate an executable "hello" in your current folder.

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So, as is about to become evident, I'm new to programming. About as new as they come. But I'm not sure if my problem is basic or actually something software-related, so I could do with some help.

Okay, so I'm running Ubuntu 12.10, and intending to learn C using GCC in Terminal. I have a basic Hello World I've copied from a tutorial I'm using, saved as a text document (I'm putting all this in case I've done something really stupidly wrong) named hello.c

Now, as I understand it, to compile this code, all I need to type in Terminal is "gcc hello.c". But this gives me literally nothing, it just moves on to a new line as if I hadn't typed anything (pic related).

tl;dr: complete noob can't compile basic code.

]]> /pr/res/3617.html#3890 >>3887
>Also, companies don't care nearly as much about education as they do about work experience.

Well, still get the degree though, because when comes the time for lay-offs, the policy may be that all workers in non-senior position with no degree get the boot, no buts and no explanations.

This is doubly so, because people with no degree usually don't get to unions.

]]> /pr/res/3617.html#3889 >>3888
explain!

]]> /pr/res/3617.html#3888 >>3887
Does not know what he is talking about.

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