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Slashback: Armed, Cracked, Cables

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the timothy-is-out-blowing-things-up dept.

Slashback this holiday evening with just a few quick updates and follow-ups (below) -- I hope those to whom the Fourth of July is a significant holiday are out (responsibly) making things explode.

Nearly anything is better than ribbon cables. aibrahim writes "In the recent /. article about Serial ATA some people wanted to know where SCSI was going, and if Serial ATA could deal with some higher end workstation and low end server requirements. Apparently it has been decided that Serial ATA 2 (pdf doc) and Serial Attached SCSI are the answers."

Because being an American is all about first-person shooters. and i starve writes: "For any of you FPS fans out there who have been champing at the bit to see the newest product of our very own government's attempt at a multiplayer video game since Marine Doom your day has final come. America's Army, which utilizes the Unreal Warfare engine was created and designed by the United States Army and is TOTALLY FREE! go grab it off of File Planet right now!"

Before you hit your "JINGO" button, though, An anonymous reader cautions "In typical Army fashion the release of America's Army is a bust. All the servers are either full or down and the way it's set up, you can't play past the basic training without completing some of the training online. Since you can't connect to any of the servers to complete that training you basically can't play the game at all. What a waste of taxpayer money."

Nobody needs to make any cracks about this. Anonymous Coward writes "According to this CNN Article, [some cracks were] found on Space Shuttle Columbia this week, possibly delaying missions for the remainder of the year. This crack is similar to the crack found on Columbia's sister ships, Atlantis and Discovery. "

Worst pun in relation to this gets no prize.

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  1. Army Game Fix... by Skuld-Chan · · Score: 5, Informative

    look in the install dir /system/tours.ini

    make sure the following sections look like this,

    Dependency(0)=-1
    Dependency(1)=-1
    Dependency(2)=-1
    Dependency(3)=-1
    Dependency(4)=-1
    Dependency(5)=-1
    Dependency(6)=-1
    Dependency(7)=-1
    Dependency(8)=-1

    (farther down)

    TourSeq(0)=0
    TourSeq(1)=0
    TourSeq(2)=0
    TourSeq(3)=0
    TourSeq(4)=0
    TourSeq(5)=0
    TourSeq(6)=0
    TourSeq(7)=0
    TourSeq(8)=0

    There - now you can do all the training offline :)

  2. America's Army links, taken from bluesnews.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who hate fileplanet, click here for Mirrors.

    3dgamers has it here

  3. More about the art director... by writermike · · Score: 5, Informative

    For what it's worth, I know the art director on the Army Game project very well. Luke Ahearn is a real class act and will listen to any concerns you guys have.

    I used to work with him several years ago when he ran Goldtree Enterprises. They created Cylindrix and Dead Reckoning. They also released a number of FRPG utilities to help GMs run games. The web site is still online.

    Review of Cylindrix

    Review of Dead Reckoning

    It's really a pleasure to see the fruits of labor finally. Army Game has been pretty hush-hush since Luke left New Orleans for the project.

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