A question...
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A question...
My compsci teacher was telling us about things kids in his class have done. One of the apparently flipped the monitor. How could a program do that?
I imagine it involves making the program fullscreen and capturing an image of the screen before doing so. They could probably transform that image into an array and rotate and display it.
This would be done with Java, since that's the language the class uses.
I imagine it involves making the program fullscreen and capturing an image of the screen before doing so. They could probably transform that image into an array and rotate and display it.
This would be done with Java, since that's the language the class uses.
Uhm... remap the screen and recompile the video driver? Oh, wait, no open source on Windows...
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Eeh... yes... sorry for that, I had been drinking a couple of beers that night My point was that video card drivers for Windows usually aren't open source, and that therefor you can't just alter them a bit to flip the screen and recompile thembenryves wrote:'No open source on Windows' <- wth?
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I can't do anything that involves changing settings, since these are school computers.benryves wrote:You could just go into the video driver's control panel and select one of the rotation options.
Some drivers use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Cursor Key mapped as the default shortcut.
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programs can do ANYthing you want them to do, it just takes more time and code to make it workanykey wrote: I can't do anything that involves changing settings, since these are school computers.
and with school computers it usually isnt all that hard.. its just school afterall, i got the school's server to think im an administrator and messed around a bit
you can even kill most of those computers with simle batch files or starting up in safe-mode, restart in dos mode, format the hidden partition used by Illusion for the backup copy, restart in normal mode, and start messing around..
(although you could have a program kill Illusion or go around it and directly edit setting/memory)
just assuming yout school has Illusion installed and that they're clever enough to put it on a hidden partition..