Alphabetical Conversation

[incognito]

Uncanny issues I seem to have with DooM on Slackware.

[PluMGMK]

Very intriguing I'm sure, care to elaborate?

[incognito]

What I had as an issue was the lack of midi sound fonts installed on my system, TiMidity++ played no sound, solved with an awesome soundfont called Musyng Kite.

[PluMGMK]

Xylophone is one of the instruments available with those? Glad you solved it either way!
Speaking of x-words I didn't make up myself, xasers are something I've come to be quite interested in recently!

[Ambidextroid]

You've got to tell us then, what are these xasers you speak of? With a name like that I can't help but imagine some kind of super four dimensional laser crystal.

[PluMGMK]

Zero extra dimensions are involved, I'm afraid. But you're right that xasers are related to lasers. They are lasers that produce X-Rays. I would have thought it impossible, but apparently if we relax our definition of a "laser" we can get one that produces hard X-Rays. Such lasers are apparently free-electron lasers, that work by accelerating free electrons through an alternating magnetic field to make them oscillate. Normally there'd be mirrors at either end to produce positive feedback for a certain wavelength and give a nice coherent beam, but mirrors don't exactly work with X-Rays, so they just have a really long accelerator. The resulting radiation isn't all that coherent then, unfortunately, so it's not like a true laser-beam. Still useful though, or so I'm told.

[Ambidextroid]

Ah, that makes more sense. I do wonder what such a device would be used for though, since my only knowledge of X-ray use is scanning bodies by casting shadows, which isn't really possible with a laser. Interesting nonetheless!

[PluMGMK]

By using short X-Ray bursts, it's apparently possible to produce X-Ray Diffraction patterns to study the structure of certain proteins, which would just be destroyed by more sustained radiation.

[Reese Riverson]

Counting all the times Plum has Ninja posted several members here on the forum, it's no surprise of his use of linux coding skills to make a post detection bot.

[Ray502]

Darn it, then that means Plum may finally use his super skills to the fullest to ninja post everyone at will.

[Reese Riverson]

Everyone forgot about Ray502 screaming into Master's ear, since Plum has created his army of ninja posting bots to take over.

[Ray502]

Forgetting that fake event was for the best. This thread must survive!

[Reese Riverson]

Good grief Ray, you're continuous denial and Plum's Ninja posting bots broke my scroll wheel function on this forum!

[PluMGMK]

Have I missed something?? I can confirm I haven't unleashed a self-coded posting bot since Record Day. And it was hardly skilfully coded.

[Reese Riverson]

I wish you could explain why my scroll wheel refuses to work on Rayman PC then, if you weren't the mastermind behind it, Plum.

[PluMGMK]

Just the vagaries of your browser. Though it's odd to see that sort of thing happening in Firefox…

[Reese Riverson]

Keep thinking it's Firefox, eh? I'm using Chrome, Plum. Though I've been tempted to switch to Firefox, as of late.

[PluMGMK]

Let me retract what I said then. It doesn't surprise me at all that your scroll wheel stopped working in Chrome! I assumed Firefox based on your lovely openSUSE screenshot.

[Reese Riverson]

Maybe I should have been more clear to which machine I was using.

[Ambidextroid]

Now that you mention it I face a lot of scrolling issues on this site, but always on my iPod touch. Every now and then it goes into some sluggish state where it takes a second to respond to my finger, and I have to restart safari to fix it...