OMFG that bug report of yours is simply surreal. How can a developer act "there is no bug" like that? it is obviously a (ridiculous) bug.
I tried to post this there, but apparently I need a 'valid bugzilla account', so, maybe you can do that for me:
"Guys, this is insane. How can a package installer not check the results of the write() operations it does and abort on errors before making changes to its database it is beyond me. And this developer blaming the users for the problems and closing the bug report is pure nonsense.
You may flame me, but my advice is to do what I did some time ago. Switch to gentoo and never look back at this mess.
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You can download teh stage1 from internet and start from there... No need for the gentoo livecd (but the minimal one is small and powerful, very handy. I use it to recover files from b0rked windows xp machines before reinstalling them).
before starting the game. It will do exactly what you say;
unfortunately, in my experience, it is necessary to tweak down the eye-candy a bit so the game can always refresh @ 85HZ (my monitor's 1024x768 refresh rate). In regular quake3 it is trivial, but it's a bit tricky in Urban Terror with the damned smoke grenades and whatnot; If the game goes below the monitor's rate with this flag on things start to get 'interesting':)
Well, I use familiar linux on mine and wife's pocketPC (ipaq), and installing applications is a matter of issuing 'ipkg install '; Of course the PDA needs to be connected to the internet, but since it runs linux, it's fairly trivial;
Yay I know svets come from russia, and are pretty decent tubes... Just warning against sovteks, most of them are crappy (guitar-amp-wise, mind you, they are good for other applications).
Tee-hee... Thanks for the elaborate answer, but still No way a tube will take that much current. Mind you, tubes are not coupled directly to an 8 ohm load, but tipically to some thousand-ohm loads (output transformer's primary), so, given the high voltages, you end up with miliamps for every 100W.
Errr I am talking about guitar amps here... I agree that for hi-fi stereo amps tubes vs transistors is a moot point, since they sound the same and the transistors are way cheaper... But for guitars there are a huge difference. Music 'sourcing' here, not reprodution.
> 'BTW Russian tubes tend to be the best followed by Czech.'
Dude, russian tubes (sovteks) are crappy. Svetlanas are ok, JJs are better. But of course, the best is to find some 60's and 70's leftovers (rca, phillips, mullard), those are the best. I will not even mention that made-in-china tubes, those don't count:)
Indeed, thats why tube amps need a coupling transformer between the tubes and the speaker... or else you would need an speaker with a 5kohm impedance or such:)
I must disagree.... The best DSP-amp out there takes a spanking from even the shittiest tube amp out there... try it yourself and see. For example, compare a line 6 amp to some crap like a fender blues junior; Amazingly, the fender sounds much better than the line6.
There are tons of things involved in guitar amplification, and DSPs are still a long way behind, but surely getting closer every day.
I don't get the 20A thing, dude... Maybe it's news to you, but tubes usually operate at hundreds of volts between the plate & cathode (typical value is around 500V, but it varies wildly depending on the tube and the circuit design), so 20A seems a bit too damn much eh? lets see, 500V x 20A = 10.000 watts... pretty impressive, for sure... but kinda inexistent:)
Ops forgot to mention that is always useful to apply patches to the driver in the vanilla kernels, because linux is a lazy bastard and could not care less about our poor soundcards;-). The homepage is here.
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OMFG that bug report of yours is simply surreal. How can a developer act "there is no bug" like that? it is obviously a (ridiculous) bug.
I tried to post this there, but apparently I need a 'valid bugzilla account', so, maybe you can do that for me:
"Guys, this is insane. How can a package installer not check the results of the write() operations it does and abort on errors before making changes to its database it is beyond me. And this developer blaming the users for the problems and closing the bug report is pure nonsense.
You may flame me, but my advice is to do what I did some time ago. Switch to gentoo and never look back at this mess.
peace.
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it has binary dumps for quite a while now...
pg_dump --format=c
peace
You can download teh stage1 from internet and start from there...
No need for the gentoo livecd (but the minimal one is small and powerful, very handy. I use it to recover files from b0rked windows xp machines before reinstalling them).
peace.
On linux/nvidia drivers just export
:)
__GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1
before starting the game. It will do exactly what you say;
unfortunately, in my experience, it is necessary to tweak down the eye-candy a bit so the game can always refresh @ 85HZ (my monitor's 1024x768 refresh rate). In regular quake3 it is trivial, but it's a bit tricky in Urban Terror with the damned smoke grenades and whatnot; If the game goes below the monitor's rate with this flag on things start to get 'interesting'
cheers.
Definitely. :)
I also happen to have Windows and HL2 code in some HD somewhere
peace.
Sure there is a demo;
Google for 'doom3 leaked demo'
IIRC, someone from ATI released it in the wild;
peace;
oh really?
with linux at least you can upgrade for free. well, same goes for windoze, but it is not exactly legal;
peace.
Well, I use familiar linux on mine and wife's pocketPC (ipaq), and installing applications is a matter of issuing 'ipkg install ';
Of course the PDA needs to be connected to the internet, but since it runs linux, it's fairly trivial;
cheers;
windows 9x
'nuff said.
Well if you have some leftover ECC83, ECC82, ECC81 and EL34 I may buy them :)
And, the pair will weight 160 kilograms... not to shabby for 2+ megawatts, I say. :-(
Try that with solid-state...
cheers.
Yay I know svets come from russia, and are pretty decent tubes... Just warning against sovteks, most of them are crappy (guitar-amp-wise, mind you, they are good for other applications).
cheers.
Tee-hee... Thanks for the elaborate answer, but still No way a tube will take that much current. Mind you, tubes are not coupled directly to an 8 ohm load, but tipically to some thousand-ohm loads (output transformer's primary), so, given the high voltages, you end up with miliamps for every 100W.
cheers.
well, let's concede that a non-playing guitar type has no idea about wwhat line 6 or fender are... :-)
cheers.
Errr I am talking about guitar amps here... I agree that for hi-fi stereo amps tubes vs transistors is a moot point, since they sound the same and the transistors are way cheaper... But for guitars there are a huge difference. Music 'sourcing' here, not reprodution.
cheers.
sheesh there are no 'guitar microphones', dude, unless you are into acoustic guitar, which o'le hendrix surely was not.
they are called 'pickups';
cheers.
Gold plated? I bet you can do pure GOLD cable for that money.
Hilarious.
> 'BTW Russian tubes tend to be the best followed by Czech.'
:)
Dude, russian tubes (sovteks) are crappy. Svetlanas are ok, JJs are better. But of course, the best is to find some 60's and 70's leftovers (rca, phillips, mullard), those are the best.
I will not even mention that made-in-china tubes, those don't count
cheers.
You must be kidding... 30k for a tube amp? Tube amps are so fucking simple that you can probably do them yourself in the backyard!
Geez these 'audiophiles' are surely smart... a market to be explored.
cheers.
Indeed, thats why tube amps need a coupling transformer between the tubes and the speaker... or else you would need an speaker with a 5kohm impedance or such :)
cheers
Funny, but not very far from the truth...
I must disagree.... The best DSP-amp out there takes a spanking from even the shittiest tube amp out there... try it yourself and see. For example, compare a line 6 amp to some crap like a fender blues junior; Amazingly, the fender sounds much better than the line6.
There are tons of things involved in guitar amplification, and DSPs are still a long way behind, but surely getting closer every day.
cheers.
I don't get the 20A thing, dude... Maybe it's news to you, but tubes usually operate at hundreds of volts between the plate & cathode (typical value is around 500V, but it varies wildly depending on the tube and the circuit design), so 20A seems a bit too damn much eh? lets see, 500V x 20A = 10.000 watts... pretty impressive, for sure... but kinda inexistent :)
cheers
15 instances of notepad? are you insane?
get a tabbed text editor, like ultraedit32 for windowz.
cheers.
Ops forgot to mention that is always useful to apply patches to the driver in the vanilla kernels, because linux is a lazy bastard and could not care less about our poor soundcards ;-). The homepage is here.
cheers