Actually, it would have to be 65C02 or better. You couldn't do "ldx #$FF" on a 6502, you had to do "lda #$FF" and then "tax" (transfer A to X). The ability to load immediate into the X or Y registers was added on the 65C02.
No, LDX #$FF is a perfectly valid 6502 opcode. 65C02 only added a few minor things like pushing and pulling index registers, and fixed a few minor hardware bugs. It's kind of irrelevant though, since the 7800 has a 6502C, which uses a plain 6502 core.
I don't see how you come to that conclusion - this seems a lot more primitive than Blargg's NTSC emulation, or the PAL emulation in VICE. They actually try to recreate the various artifacts generated by old display systems, while this is just adding noise, blur, and delay filters.
I was hoping that they would have added a config options for it by now, but apparently not. The fix is the same as before:
1. In the game list, right click on Half-Life 2: Episode One, and select "Properties".
2. Click on "Set Launch Options..."
3. Add "+sv_cheats 1 +fov 90 +default_fov 90".
4. Click OK, Close, and launch the game.
5. Headache-b-gone!
If HL2 gives you headaches, while other FPS games do not, this fix is for you. It sets the field of view to 90 degrees, instead of HL2's default 75.
I guess I should've known better than to leave out the disclaimer:
"Yes, I know about LaTeX, and we have quite a few happy LaTeX users here. It's not for everyone though, and I'm looking for an alternative for the MS Word users."
I guess I should've known better than to leave out the disclaimer:
"Yes, I know about LaTeX, and we have quite a few happy LaTeX users here. It's not for everyone though, and I'm looking for an alternative for the MS Word users."
How does KWord compare to MS Word when it comes to writing large documents? Our PhD students always run into problems with MS Word when they work on their dissertations. As the document grows larger, more and more weird things happen: footnotes jump around, images move to other pages, tables get resized for no apparent reason, and so on. We're mostly a Mac shop, so when Adobe decided not to make an OS X version of FrameMaker we kind of ran out of a decent alternative, but since there seems to be a native Mac port of KOffice I guess we should take a closer look.
I like VLC better, but on my Mac Mini I have to use MPlayer when playing movies over the wireless network. VLC handles the buffering better, but the controls are unresponsive. If you have a few megs of cache (to compensate for wireless wonkyness), it takes several seconds between pressing pause and the movie actually pausing. Seeking with the ffwd and rewind buttons is even more painful.
I'd really like to switch to VLC though, as MPlayer stutters in high bitrate scenes, no matter how big I make the cache.
Of course, the ISP:s aren't refusing to identify customers because they're a bunch of swell guys. They make a bunch of money selling fastbroadband connections, where the faster ones are primarily used by file sharers. Forwarding warning letters would also be a bunch of extra work, and they have nothing to gain - they'll just lose customers.
The only solution is legal download services. TV shows, which make up a large part of the traffic, are distributed in an antiquated fashion, and the technology is here to change that.
Imagine if music was distributed the same way that TV shows are. The new song of your favourite artist would only play on radio stations in the US, where it's interrupted by commercials halfway through. After a couple of months it'd start to play on radio stations in the rest of the world. Only after a year would you be able to buy the CD in a store, but it would be protected by DRM so you couldn't pick it up a few months early on your visit abroad. Bizarre, isn't it?
Let's hope iTunes TV download service turns out well, so we can finally get fast, legal downloads at a decent price.
OK, the question I need to ask myself is: do I download the hi definition torrents in a couple of hours, or do I wait a year or two until they show up here in standard definition.
The downside is that you'll likely never hear back from them. Even if the bug is solved, you'll never know until they release a new version. They may decide that the behavior is "works as intended" and ignore you. There is no way to follow the progress of your bug.
And until they start communicating with people who file bug reports, people are going to keep complaining in public forums. Quietly waiting for months for Apple to (maybe) release a fix in the next update is rarely an option. Bitching in forums will usually get sympathetic replies from other users suffering from the same problem, and every now and then someone has a fix or a workaround that'll work until the official patch is released.
Sun, on the other hand, handles these kinds of things in an exemplary way (assuming that you have a support contract of course). If you file a bug report, a tech will get back to you for more details. Once the bug has been confirmed by their developers, you're informed. When they have developed a fix, they send out a test patch for you to try, and you get to confirm that it solves the problem. Granted, this is not the kind of support that you can give end users, but professional admins with a support contract deserve nothing less. Oh, and if you ever restricted access to an NFS share by subnet on Solaris 8/x86, you may buy me a beer;)
Amen to that, I find Spotlight slow, buggy, and a giant leap backwards from good old Sherlock. I was really hoping that they would fix the worst bugs in 10.4.2 (delay before it starts to search, making it possible to search by name contains as default), but Spotlight fixes are mysteriously absent from the release notes.
Sherlock used to find my files in a fraction of a second. Spotlight often takes almost 30 seconds before it's done, defaults to a fuzzy search method that doesn't return useful hits, doesn't find documents I know are there, and doesn't remember settings I change.
If Apple doesn't get this sorted out before the semester starts in September, I'm going to have to downgrade a bunch of machines, something I'm not looking forward to...
Are there any 3rd party apps out there that offer workarounds? Something that put file search back into Sherlock would be ideal.
Nope, I have the exact same problem here, and no external drives. If I (try to) search for "quicktime" it'll start chugging after "qu", and after about 30 seconds, and a bunch of useless documents containting "qu" in the list, it'll register the rest of the query. Clearly it should at least wait for 1-2 seconds of inactivity (and/or the enter key) before it starts to search.
Search results are also more or less useless, the fuzzy content search rarely returns what I expect, and often it misses content that I know is there. Something predictable like "name contains" is much more useful, but as others have noted it's impossible to change the default.
But what really blows is that they removed the file search functionality from Sherlock. It did exactly what I needed, and it did it fast.
Normally I'd agree with you, but it really wreacs havoc with the squad system. I mean, for obvious reasons I'd like to play together with my two friends in a single squad. With all the troubles with finding a server and joining it, we've never managed to get the three of us on the same team on a ranked server.
FWIW, the 1.01 patch addresses a lot of the problems with the server browser. Unfortunately it introduces a bunch of new bugs, but finding and joining servers is (slightly) better. Not that it matters much though - 1.01 is fully supported by ASE. Yay for ASE.
Admittedly it'd be cool to cover a huge area with one base station, but I'd really like to see some improvements to the transfer rates. Whoever came up with the 11 and 54 Mpbs numbers must have been smoking something - I don't think I've ever seen either go above 8 Mbps. OK, so high speeds are good marketing, but getting 1/10th of the promised performance is pretty lame.
DICE have acknowledged the problem with binding to different input devices (i.e forward with mouse button, backwards with keyboard), and a fix should be in the first BF2 patch. As a workaround, use the secondary column for the mouse, and the primary for the keyboard.
Yes, I'm referring to the backend. All I really want is video and music playback, I don't actually need the TV tuner and PVR functionality. They're shutting down the analog TV network in a couple of years here, and until then I'm happy with my old VCR.
(repost since my cookie got lost and I ended up posting as an AC)
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Actually, it would have to be 65C02 or better. You couldn't do "ldx #$FF" on a 6502, you had to do "lda #$FF" and then "tax" (transfer A to X). The ability to load immediate into the X or Y registers was added on the 65C02.
No, LDX #$FF is a perfectly valid 6502 opcode. 65C02 only added a few minor things like pushing and pulling index registers, and fixed a few minor hardware bugs. It's kind of irrelevant though, since the 7800 has a 6502C, which uses a plain 6502 core.
I don't see how you come to that conclusion - this seems a lot more primitive than Blargg's NTSC emulation, or the PAL emulation in VICE. They actually try to recreate the various artifacts generated by old display systems, while this is just adding noise, blur, and delay filters.
Actually, C*Base is the preferred flavor nowadays, and 3.3 was just released:
C*Base 3.3
You gotta move with the times, man.
Database server down. Any reason why slashdot doesn't coralize or link to mirrordot in every article?
I really, really, really wish this would run on my Mac, back end and all.
Is no one working on porting it?
I was hoping that they would have added a config options for it by now, but apparently not. The fix is the same as before:
1. In the game list, right click on Half-Life 2: Episode One, and select "Properties".
2. Click on "Set Launch Options..."
3. Add "+sv_cheats 1 +fov 90 +default_fov 90".
4. Click OK, Close, and launch the game.
5. Headache-b-gone!
If HL2 gives you headaches, while other FPS games do not, this fix is for you. It sets the field of view to 90 degrees, instead of HL2's default 75.
I guess I should've known better than to leave out the disclaimer:
"Yes, I know about LaTeX, and we have quite a few happy LaTeX users here. It's not for everyone though, and I'm looking for an alternative for the MS Word users."
I guess I should've known better than to leave out the disclaimer:
"Yes, I know about LaTeX, and we have quite a few happy LaTeX users here. It's not for everyone though, and I'm looking for an alternative for the MS Word users."
How does KWord compare to MS Word when it comes to writing large documents? Our PhD students always run into problems with MS Word when they work on their dissertations. As the document grows larger, more and more weird things happen: footnotes jump around, images move to other pages, tables get resized for no apparent reason, and so on. We're mostly a Mac shop, so when Adobe decided not to make an OS X version of FrameMaker we kind of ran out of a decent alternative, but since there seems to be a native Mac port of KOffice I guess we should take a closer look.
Of course, why do people think l33t sp33k was invented in the first place?
I like VLC better, but on my Mac Mini I have to use MPlayer when playing movies over the wireless network. VLC handles the buffering better, but the controls are unresponsive. If you have a few megs of cache (to compensate for wireless wonkyness), it takes several seconds between pressing pause and the movie actually pausing. Seeking with the ffwd and rewind buttons is even more painful.
I'd really like to switch to VLC though, as MPlayer stutters in high bitrate scenes, no matter how big I make the cache.
have a Radeon 9600. It is approximately 5 years old
Er, no. Your Radeon 9600 is just over two years old.
Of course, the ISP:s aren't refusing to identify customers because they're a bunch of swell guys. They make a bunch of money selling fast broadband connections, where the faster ones are primarily used by file sharers. Forwarding warning letters would also be a bunch of extra work, and they have nothing to gain - they'll just lose customers.
The only solution is legal download services. TV shows, which make up a large part of the traffic, are distributed in an antiquated fashion, and the technology is here to change that.
Imagine if music was distributed the same way that TV shows are. The new song of your favourite artist would only play on radio stations in the US, where it's interrupted by commercials halfway through. After a couple of months it'd start to play on radio stations in the rest of the world. Only after a year would you be able to buy the CD in a store, but it would be protected by DRM so you couldn't pick it up a few months early on your visit abroad. Bizarre, isn't it?
Let's hope iTunes TV download service turns out well, so we can finally get fast, legal downloads at a decent price.
Hello fellow Tech Reporters. I'm also glad to see that I'm not the only Model M fan around :)
OK, the question I need to ask myself is: do I download the hi definition torrents in a couple of hours, or do I wait a year or two until they show up here in standard definition.
Yeah, it's a tough one, I know...
The downside is that you'll likely never hear back from them. Even if the bug is solved, you'll never know until they release a new version. They may decide that the behavior is "works as intended" and ignore you. There is no way to follow the progress of your bug.
;)
And until they start communicating with people who file bug reports, people are going to keep complaining in public forums. Quietly waiting for months for Apple to (maybe) release a fix in the next update is rarely an option. Bitching in forums will usually get sympathetic replies from other users suffering from the same problem, and every now and then someone has a fix or a workaround that'll work until the official patch is released.
Sun, on the other hand, handles these kinds of things in an exemplary way (assuming that you have a support contract of course). If you file a bug report, a tech will get back to you for more details. Once the bug has been confirmed by their developers, you're informed. When they have developed a fix, they send out a test patch for you to try, and you get to confirm that it solves the problem. Granted, this is not the kind of support that you can give end users, but professional admins with a support contract deserve nothing less. Oh, and if you ever restricted access to an NFS share by subnet on Solaris 8/x86, you may buy me a beer
Amen to that, I find Spotlight slow, buggy, and a giant leap backwards from good old Sherlock. I was really hoping that they would fix the worst bugs in 10.4.2 (delay before it starts to search, making it possible to search by name contains as default), but Spotlight fixes are mysteriously absent from the release notes.
Sherlock used to find my files in a fraction of a second. Spotlight often takes almost 30 seconds before it's done, defaults to a fuzzy search method that doesn't return useful hits, doesn't find documents I know are there, and doesn't remember settings I change.
If Apple doesn't get this sorted out before the semester starts in September, I'm going to have to downgrade a bunch of machines, something I'm not looking forward to...
Are there any 3rd party apps out there that offer workarounds? Something that put file search back into Sherlock would be ideal.
Nope, I have the exact same problem here, and no external drives. If I (try to) search for "quicktime" it'll start chugging after "qu", and after about 30 seconds, and a bunch of useless documents containting "qu" in the list, it'll register the rest of the query. Clearly it should at least wait for 1-2 seconds of inactivity (and/or the enter key) before it starts to search.
Search results are also more or less useless, the fuzzy content search rarely returns what I expect, and often it misses content that I know is there. Something predictable like "name contains" is much more useful, but as others have noted it's impossible to change the default.
But what really blows is that they removed the file search functionality from Sherlock. It did exactly what I needed, and it did it fast.
Normally I'd agree with you, but it really wreacs havoc with the squad system. I mean, for obvious reasons I'd like to play together with my two friends in a single squad. With all the troubles with finding a server and joining it, we've never managed to get the three of us on the same team on a ranked server.
FWIW, the 1.01 patch addresses a lot of the problems with the server browser. Unfortunately it introduces a bunch of new bugs, but finding and joining servers is (slightly) better. Not that it matters much though - 1.01 is fully supported by ASE. Yay for ASE.
Admittedly it'd be cool to cover a huge area with one base station, but I'd really like to see some improvements to the transfer rates. Whoever came up with the 11 and 54 Mpbs numbers must have been smoking something - I don't think I've ever seen either go above 8 Mbps. OK, so high speeds are good marketing, but getting 1/10th of the promised performance is pretty lame.
Configuring keys SUCK!!
DICE have acknowledged the problem with binding to different input devices (i.e forward with mouse button, backwards with keyboard), and a fix should be in the first BF2 patch. As a workaround, use the secondary column for the mouse, and the primary for the keyboard.
Too many introductions that can't be skipped.
Rename the movies folder (found inside mods/bf2).
The Pinnacle box converts analog video to digital. For MythTV you want a TV tuner, like the EyeTV Wonder:
t vwonder
http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eye
Yes, I'm referring to the backend. All I really want is video and music playback, I don't actually need the TV tuner and PVR functionality. They're shutting down the analog TV network in a couple of years here, and until then I'm happy with my old VCR.
(repost since my cookie got lost and I ended up posting as an AC)
Thanks for the link, that looks promising.