I recently gave up on L4D because Valve has broken the ability to play Versus mode on advanced difficulty
IIRC, wasn't that changed while the game was still in beta? Personally, I think that it's better this way anyway, because in Versus mode the main challenge is supposed to be the Special Infected (controlled by players) anyway, not the Horde. If you want a tougher Versus game, a tight-knit team of opponents should suffice.
They brought Advanced Versus back after they broke it the first time, it broke most recently with the update that gave us Survival mode. It's not just the quantity of commons, but increased damage from everything, including FF and fire, that made it more challenging.
Melee cooldown also pissed me off quite a bit, it's gotta be off for Advanced.
It makes it so you can't just melee-spam your way through a mob of horde. As a player I agree it's annoying, but it's annoying in the same way that being out of breath while you're running is annoying. I can see why they did it; it makes it so you have to shoot your way through a mob, or even better for the Teamplay aspect of the game, get teammates to kill the Horde that's mobbing you at the moment.
Agreed, for normal difficulty, which is all valve seems to care about.
And while I'm ranting, the lobby system sucks.
It doesn't work perfectly, but I can see why they wanted it that way; you can either join a random game with random strangers, or you can find a group of friends to play with. Left 4 Dead isn't the type of game where you want a traditional game-server model, which is best for Deathmatch and CTF, or similar styles derived from those. Instead, you want everyone to start at the same time, like in an RTS. A lobby is the best model for that.
I recently gave up on L4D because Valve has broken the ability to play Versus mode on advanced difficulty (With our own dedicated server, not one of their public ones). Normal difficulty just isn't very much fun. They have to fix this in L4D before I would even *consider* buying L4D2. Melee cooldown also pissed me off quite a bit, it's gotta be off for Advanced. And while I'm ranting, the lobby system sucks.
For instance, it clarifies that all operating systems associated with card processing have to run antivirus software, while many had thought this was only about Microsoft Windows.
great, now I have to run ClamAV on all my fully-patched and secured dedicated web servers that don't store CC data anyway.
I thought about writing my own AV program:
#!/bin/sh
echo "scanning for viruses..."
sleep 10
echo "no viruses found."
exit 0
1. buy an unlocked E70 on the Internet
2. install your AT&T SIM card in the phone
3. profit!!
I've had one for about 18 months on AT&T, it works great. GPRS is a little slow, but it works (iPhone doesn't have 3G either). The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to use the phone as a bluetooth modem.
Cross-platform is now officially the hottest thing for desktop environments. First, KDE announced that KDE 4 was being ported to Windows and OS X. Now, the lesser known Enlightenment project is doing the same thing. Student Dzmitry Mazouka is now porting the Ewl and Etk libraries to the Win32 platform. How about finishing Enlightenment 0.17? I've been waiting for almost 8 years now...
From Wikipedia:
When the Attorney General determines that an emergency exists he may authorize the emergency employment of electronic surveillance before obtaining the necessary authorization from the FISA court, after which the Attorney General or his designee must notify a judge of the court not more than 72 hours after the Attorney General authorizes such surveillance. So it takes zero days for the wiretap to be in place. Once the AG authorizes it, they can start the tap and have 72 hours to submit the warrant request to the court. I fail to see the problem with the current setup.
Heh, that was July 30, 2006, I remember it well. Seattle City Power was taken out by nearby contruction. The UPSes came online, but one of the generators failed to switch on, so the batterys drained in ~15 minutes. The entire DC didn't lose power, but a good portion of it.
I recently got a Macbook, and have been using VMWare Fusion, which is currently a free beta. It's worked well with my Fedora 5,6 and CentOS 4,5 VMs, haven't tried Gentoo yet. Pretty polished for a beta, no complaints so far...
Aha! It started happening this morning! What the hell!?!?
Tracing the path to 65.54.245.72 on TCP port 25 (smtp), 20 hops max...
3 core2.ge0-0-0-bbnet1.sef.pnap.net (63.251.160.2) 0.583 ms 0.609 ms 0.741 ms
4 10ge-3-3.r01.sttlwa01.us.bb.verio.net (209.168.94.241) 0.627 ms 0.560 ms 0.574 ms
5 129.250.8.66 176.046 ms 1.564 ms 0.629 ms
6 ten8-3.wst-76cb-1a.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.35.105) 171.988 ms 0.891 ms 200.322 ms
7 pos4-1.pax-76cb-1a.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.33.30) 27.736 ms 27.835 ms 27.853 ms
8 ten9-2.bay-76c-1c.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.37.161) 28.753 ms 28.554 ms 28.633 ms
9 * * * 10 * * * 11 * * *... Destination not reached
Anyone else ever find themselves without a route to any of hotmail's MXes? Once or twice per month, my mail server can't make a connection to any of the hotmail MXes. The outage typically lasts 12-72 hours, but never long enough to cause a bounce (5 days). I run tcptraceroute to port 25, and it dies at a msn.net router (the last hop that responds is 207.46.37.161). I'm on a Tier-1 ISP (Internap) sending 500-1500 messages daily to hotmail (and another 10-15k to other ISPs, with no problem). I submit to Hotmail support (gesthm@microsoft.com)... they always claim the problem must be on my end, and refuse to escalate. Just grabbing straws here to see if I'm not the only one...
Olympia was bought by Miller. The Tumwater brewery closed in 2003, and Oly is now brewed by Pabst in San Antonio (along with Rainier...sigh).
Red Hook is the only major brewery left in the Puget Sound area. (Well, you could count Pyramid or Hale's). However, there's a huge number of micro-breweries in WA, that are all way better than Oly.
Actually, I was going to mod him up, but decided to discuss instead. I don't really have time to get into Kerry's senate record, but here's a good article:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/10/ker ry _record/index_np.html
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a hundred copies
your ratio must kick ass! care to trade internet connections?
RHAT will have have to do something to differentiate.
They do, they have much better support
But traffic would be GREAT!
Washington has no income tax.. That is the point..
Income tax = progressive
Sales tax = regressive
There is no 40% of people who don't pay sales tax
I recently gave up on L4D because Valve has broken the ability to play Versus mode on advanced difficulty
IIRC, wasn't that changed while the game was still in beta? Personally, I think that it's better this way anyway, because in Versus mode the main challenge is supposed to be the Special Infected (controlled by players) anyway, not the Horde. If you want a tougher Versus game, a tight-knit team of opponents should suffice.
They brought Advanced Versus back after they broke it the first time, it broke most recently with the update that gave us Survival mode. It's not just the quantity of commons, but increased damage from everything, including FF and fire, that made it more challenging.
Melee cooldown also pissed me off quite a bit, it's gotta be off for Advanced.
It makes it so you can't just melee-spam your way through a mob of horde. As a player I agree it's annoying, but it's annoying in the same way that being out of breath while you're running is annoying. I can see why they did it; it makes it so you have to shoot your way through a mob, or even better for the Teamplay aspect of the game, get teammates to kill the Horde that's mobbing you at the moment.
Agreed, for normal difficulty, which is all valve seems to care about.
And while I'm ranting, the lobby system sucks.
It doesn't work perfectly, but I can see why they wanted it that way; you can either join a random game with random strangers, or you can find a group of friends to play with. Left 4 Dead isn't the type of game where you want a traditional game-server model, which is best for Deathmatch and CTF, or similar styles derived from those. Instead, you want everyone to start at the same time, like in an RTS. A lobby is the best model for that.
I like the idea, but it's really really buggy.
I recently gave up on L4D because Valve has broken the ability to play Versus mode on advanced difficulty (With our own dedicated server, not one of their public ones). Normal difficulty just isn't very much fun. They have to fix this in L4D before I would even *consider* buying L4D2. Melee cooldown also pissed me off quite a bit, it's gotta be off for Advanced. And while I'm ranting, the lobby system sucks.
For instance, it clarifies that all operating systems associated with card processing have to run antivirus software, while many had thought this was only about Microsoft Windows.
great, now I have to run ClamAV on all my fully-patched and secured dedicated web servers that don't store CC data anyway. I thought about writing my own AV program:
#!/bin/sh
echo "scanning for viruses..."
sleep 10
echo "no viruses found."
exit 0
Maybe this should be modded Funny, but it's sure as hell not Informative (it's a joke/troll, duh)
1. buy an unlocked E70 on the Internet
2. install your AT&T SIM card in the phone
3. profit!!
I've had one for about 18 months on AT&T, it works great. GPRS is a little slow, but it works (iPhone doesn't have 3G either). The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to use the phone as a bluetooth modem.
IANAL.
Heh, that was July 30, 2006, I remember it well. Seattle City Power was taken out by nearby contruction. The UPSes came online, but one of the generators failed to switch on, so the batterys drained in ~15 minutes. The entire DC didn't lose power, but a good portion of it.
I recently got a Macbook, and have been using VMWare Fusion, which is currently a free beta. It's worked well with my Fedora 5,6 and CentOS 4,5 VMs, haven't tried Gentoo yet. Pretty polished for a beta, no complaints so far...
P4 3.0 2GB RAM, while emerging glibc:
It's *Perceptive* Pixel, http://www.perceptivepixel.com/
A geographical load balancing solution, such as Coyote Point's Envoy or F5's Global Traffic Manager. Very expensive though.
You mean here.
Aha! It started happening this morning! What the hell!?!?
... ...
Tracing the path to 65.54.245.72 on TCP port 25 (smtp), 20 hops max
3 core2.ge0-0-0-bbnet1.sef.pnap.net (63.251.160.2) 0.583 ms 0.609 ms 0.741 ms
4 10ge-3-3.r01.sttlwa01.us.bb.verio.net (209.168.94.241) 0.627 ms 0.560 ms 0.574 ms
5 129.250.8.66 176.046 ms 1.564 ms 0.629 ms
6 ten8-3.wst-76cb-1a.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.35.105) 171.988 ms 0.891 ms 200.322 ms
7 pos4-1.pax-76cb-1a.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.33.30) 27.736 ms 27.835 ms 27.853 ms
8 ten9-2.bay-76c-1c.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.37.161) 28.753 ms 28.554 ms 28.633 ms
9 * * *
10 * * *
11 * * *
Destination not reached
Anyone else ever find themselves without a route to any of hotmail's MXes? Once or twice per month, my mail server can't make a connection to any of the hotmail MXes. The outage typically lasts 12-72 hours, but never long enough to cause a bounce (5 days). I run tcptraceroute to port 25, and it dies at a msn.net router (the last hop that responds is 207.46.37.161). I'm on a Tier-1 ISP (Internap) sending 500-1500 messages daily to hotmail (and another 10-15k to other ISPs, with no problem). I submit to Hotmail support (gesthm@microsoft.com)... they always claim the problem must be on my end, and refuse to escalate. Just grabbing straws here to see if I'm not the only one...
Intel's Jones Farm campus uses primarily wireless. Here's an article in Cisco's Packet magazine (free registration and stupid Flash program required).
Mod parent up!
Thanks for letting us know, Gav! Transgaming rules!
OK, I dunno, maybe it's not official, but I know 3 John/Jonathans that go by Jack.
"Jack" is a nickname for "John" or "Jonathan". I'm suprised so few people know this...
Olympia was bought by Miller. The Tumwater brewery closed in 2003, and Oly is now brewed by Pabst in San Antonio (along with Rainier...sigh).
b rewing.com/w .laconnerbrewing.com/i ng.com/
Red Hook is the only major brewery left in the Puget Sound area. (Well, you could count Pyramid or Hale's). However, there's a huge number of micro-breweries in WA, that are all way better than Oly.
Some of my favorites:
http://www.elysianbrewing.com/
http://www.pike
http://www.baronbeer.com/
http://ww
http://www.scuttlebuttbrew
Actually, I was going to mod him up, but decided to discuss instead. I don't really have time to get into Kerry's senate record, but here's a good article:
r ry _record/index_np.html
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/10/ke