1 -"Eric has requested several in-kernel facilities solely to support his autoconfigurator"
Even if most of the requests seem ridiculous, we have seen stranger things happening (distro kernels ?). A modified Kernel Patch is just another kernel patch...
2 - "Aunt Tillie shouldn't have to build a new kernel"
Right. And this is the whole point of an auto config thingy. Modular autoconfig at runtime isn't either something for her. I don't see my Auntie Hot Swapping hdds or raid cards...
But why not have BOTH.
3 - "The autoconfigurator is bound to be an imperfect job/.../at least not in the presence of ISA "
My last computer (Abit VP6) has no ISA. and this will come more and more. And the Isa configurator I know in Linux is quite good as it is. So what is the problem....
I prefer an automated job working fine 99% of the time that everybody can use than no tool at all so you have to do it all manually...
4 - "kernel people are already drowning in bogus bug reports"
Then maybe an unified tool to configure the kernel would help reducing all those people that tried a new kernel and got something wrong and think it's a bug...
+ Do you implie you prefer they keep their free time for you ?
" if Aunt Tille has to build her own kernel, we have much bigger problems that Eric's autoconfigurator will solve."
=> "If Aunt Tille had the right to vote and decide for herself, we're in big trouble"
Who are you to decide what's good for Auntie ? And what if she needs that preemptive patch? Is it your problem ? Shouldn't you be pleased that Auntie Dear get's an interest in Preemtivevness and Frame buffers (* shudder *)
As I often said in my family (to my dad mostly) : I prefer to teach you how to do it yourself than just solve the problem and be on my way, caus next time you got the same problem you won't need me...Yes teaching you is harder, but not in the long term.
So, imagine all the trouble we can save to future generations who won't have to help Auntie with the new kernel config... 8)
1 - Probe for devices
2 - Get the source
3 - Configure, make, make install
Also this would mean a "Linux Update" that could have RPM + Kernels Update...
Please remember then to add an option in LILO that allow you to get back to "last stable kernel", because doing it manually is definetly beyond Aunt Titties...and most of the time beyond my own competence...
Also another side effect : when using a KVM sitch with no power link (passive) Memturbo seems to get 98 to check all keyboard - video - mouse and allow you to work just after you switched.
I just love this small soft.
BTW anyone has a hint on DVD Card with a 3309 chipset + Linux ?
Just a question to the moderator.
How can I be overated when my score was 1 ?
Was it SO BAD ?
this post will cost me a -1 Offtopic, but then I would love to get an answer 8))
"war without sacrifice "
on
The Drone War
·
· Score: 1
Humpf !
No war without sacrifice.
It's not because for this one the US in on the right side of the trigger that on the next one they won't be on the bomb side.
+ Casualties, civil oe military, and from any camp, IS sacrifice.
On this one, your sacrifice is keeping feeding your economy so as to leverage taxes to sustain the army. Maybe not a very big one, but still a sacrifice.
+ On an other point of view, keep training on SU27
and Quake, for the next fighter will most certainly have to have those skills (a drone is not fully automated yet, and if you have a flying Fighter Drone, how long before the first Fighter Robot ? and guess how you will control it ? Sharpen your keyboard, get better mouses, E-War is announced (sic)
Well, without speaking of Nukes, please note ther ARE weapons in Space...
1 - An old scheme to destroy russian Sats was to propell steel balls from an US sat, thus destroying the solar panels and damaging the sat itself.
Cheap, Efficient, and does it validate as a Weapon ?
2 - Nukes are not the only way. Their was once a "Study Military Sat" with a microwave canon.
Not powerfull enough to kill all Russians, but enough to irradiate 2-300 square kilometers, with enough power to sterilize all sperm producing species in the zone.
Think "Long Term"
3 - Any person having to deal with the military and their budget (300 BILLIONS US$ this year ?^something like that I think) will tell those guys have military sats, some of them equipped with dense lasers. Not a Nuke, but enough to fry a ballistic missile.
4 - Take something the size of MIR (ISS anyone ?)
Drop it anywhere on a city.
And then sept 11th will look like a childs party.
(Yes I know it is VERY difficult to aim something like MIR, we've seen it already. Nevertheless...)
5 - If James Bond had to face it in the 70s, you can be sure somebody did it in the 90s. Maybe not the sat that eats other sats, but lasers on a sat are not that hard to put.
Just imagine Hubble with a Laser. You already have the high precision lens... But then I'm much too far ahead. 8)
6 - and last.
Even if we are on Slashdot, "but no one thinks anyone has nukes up there now" doesn't count as an argument.
Do you know how many military sats the US has launched ? or USSR ? just think for 5 sec, and remember that we are not told everything (I know, lame comment, but true, nonetheless).
So many weapons have been experimented. If they went to the Electronic Spy Cat (I don't find the link, but search Slashdot & Cryptome), sending a nuke in space in secrecy is really a fast done job.
Hoping to read from you
thanks for the correction
on
The Euro
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· Score: 1
Sorry, my school history course are not @ 1920 yet 8)
More seriously, close ties ? with a standing army on your ground ? closely tied is more to the point...
Thanks for the point anyhow. Maybe that could be a nice revenge, Irish people segregating on GB people (You are out of Euro zone. May I see you Passport ? 8)
"Found the 1241 drivers, grabbed, compiled, insmod'd and modified XF86Config to use the new driver"
Ok.
Now do the same with the widgets...8)
So, no fun 8)
I don't WANT to grab, compile, insmod or anything.
I want to Click. And wait some. Possibly answer a few question (How do you like my colors ? You think 65000 Colours will be enough ?...) and then go(Yes I think my computer is a she... She acts like one anyway 8)
called SHIBUMI (don't remember author) about a Mother company regrouping all petroleum producers, specifically spying and killing all people having to do with new power sources...
And after reading, have a good strong look at US history and day to day practices, and make an educated guess.
Also, I seem to remember that first Electric car came out in 1954, and Fuel Cell (working) was 1956 (patented)
Now 50 years just to tel people Hydrogen CAN be used as energy source seems to me quite a long time to divulgate scientific research...
Hoping to read from you,
(Hey moderator ! Answer with words, or mod me up 8)
2 - Because I"ll have access to a HUGE bandwith (FXP is the term here) (Coolness +8)
3 - Because I can (Ditto 8)
4 - Fucking Race horse too boring, let's go Space Opera !!!
5 - C'aus if I take the right one, I will have access to ALL the Phone Network...(nice, Coolness +4)
6 - Caus I can hunt the ISS AND see the track the progression record on CNN Live 8)
7 - Caus the insurance company that just rejected my file IS responsible for the Sat...
8 - I WILL save on Long distance caus I have 16 000 phone lines available
9 - Caus I can
10 - If the only thing you ask is "Ok I have the Sat, no what" please go to the parlor and get a Perrier. Sparkling water Might be a little too much for your overexerted mind...
11 - (last idea) Caus I can have a 801.11 Network that is large as half the USA.
I want to install Nvidia drivers on a Dual PIII.
Mandrake 8.1
X 4.1 something.
Ok now you go and install just with the Widgets.
Try.
Hard.
Then write me tomorrow and tell me about the exhilirating experience.
I lost a nice 2 hours before getting back to Make.
Yes Mandrake is Way easy to install.
But not yet as polished as windows.
Sometimes it can be complicated to install something on Windows.
Sometimes it's just impossible under X on Linux.
And Johnny Lawnmover WON'T have the same patience as me and will install a Bootleg Windows within 30 minutes.
It's not only a learning curve problem. It's just you cannot yet compete with Windows on "Dummy Mode PC User".
Or have EVERYTHING available through Widgets. Including the Make command, with Make Dep, Make World, every option, but on a nice GUI. Not just "special graphical widgets" that often propose the same configuration options as the one you just tried with different names and colors.
I'm used to Windows (since V2.0 8| at the time I was looking for apps on REM, the concurrent, but didn't find any...)
I'm installing Linux since Redhat 4.x
And it's still not my day to day OS.
I come, install (better and better), play for 3-4 hours, then want to duplicate my favorite app from Windows (Quake 8) and ends up 5 hours with Nvidia drivers / Open GL and others just to hear that "Quake won't install, Open GL not recognized" and other swearwords.
Windows is "Dummy Mode Friendly"
I want Linux to be the same.
Just like MacOSX. 2 modes. 2 worlds. Together. And let the hacker take hane and let the luser use shiny GUI
Now flame me. I want to use Linux. It has come a lloooonnngggg way. But not yet versatile enough ? possibly.
I want an OS where I don't have to engage my brain to work. caus I don't have 5 hours to solve a problem.
Thanks Razzlefrog, you just answerd the same I'd have 8)
I (also) have that TNT2 Ultra +Tvout, and I'm still using it to this day... on a PII350 that makes DVD+Divx+Mp3+TV Net browsing (It was such a fad at the time 8)
I also put Logitech Radio Kb + Mouse, and those are nice remotes (104+Keys remote ! Wow 8)
But back to the point...
I took that old PC because turning it to a DVD player cost me less than a standalone, it can do all the thing a DVD does+the rest (Divx, Neorage,Browsing, Porn on Tv 8)
Also, some people (me at the time) have the budget either for Pc or for DVD. This allowed me to take both, with some problems (drivers for DVD card, W98 stability against How The F**K Do I Get Linux on TV Out ?)...
Today this is a W98 box (simpler) stable (=> so hacked that MS wouldn't recognize it's Registry 8) and Ghosted.
I have no concerns, it works flawlessy, I play DVD all zones, Games (BroodWar : old; slow; thousands of players online, and VERY nice on TV), I have Internet And Mp3 on the HiFi, and I'm thinking about the Videoprojector and 5.1 speakers.
Of course definition IS terrible, but my TV is the student model (Big&Cheap) and can accomodate without problem 800*600. It's even better than regular PAL, so 8))
Sorry for the 22" Trinitron, I got carried away 8|
1 / As usual, see the most powerfull, Expensive and complete video card (which specs look slightly like my last computer, btw)
2 / As my parents doesn'nt budget me anymore (Alas !), stop daydreaming and get a Geforce 2Mx, which is MORE than enough for now (ok, let's say enough)
=> I mean the day you have more than 2 softs that can use Geforce 3, maybe then...
Until that date, Ge2Mx is more than enough for Quaking.
I mean, for the price of a GE3Ti, I could buy a Desktop computer 8| This isn't the rat race, it's just a game race...
For instance, this could be used in a car and help the computer make the difference between the SUV in front of me that is breaking and the SUV on the AD in front of me...
Could also help the car find it's place on the road, caus 3D would allow positionning...
Could have REAL Biometrics
Could have Real 3D Pron...
Uh, I think my brain just took the wrong turn here 8)
Congrats. You just described the "Sudden Death" Issue.
Look, this is life points you speak about. -1 means you are dead for a few seconds.
I know. I tested for quite a long time and -1 in life is almost always fatal.
Just as the old trick of having "EF FF" in life is better than having "FF FF".
"FF FF" usually ends up with your player @ -65 465 in life , instead of +65...8|
Shocking to see the effect on vampire weapons 8) (Diablo 1 Players welcome 8)
Without a cheat code, how do you get to Diablo under 5 minutes ?
How do you beat Diablo with a Level 1 Paladin and a big and nice 4hits points dagger... ?
How can you test that the green monster will follow you, that the AI is good... ?
Without the codes, all the testers would have to make that 85 hours playgame in order to get to that last scene they have to test, then be killed within 5" because that monster is Really a boss...8)
+ Without cheat codes, I would !NEVER! have finished Doom2.
I'm not even sure it's possible to finish it without cheating...
So, here's the answer : cheat codes are mostly for testing the game.
In the old time, you screened the Hex and looked for change (everytime you got hit, a handle changed,...) and, after "much" Try and Crash, you got what you wanted (EF FF in strengh and Stamina...)
Slashdot Mirror
1 -"Eric has requested several in-kernel facilities solely to support his autoconfigurator"
/.../at least not in the presence of ISA "
Even if most of the requests seem ridiculous, we have seen stranger things happening (distro kernels ?). A modified Kernel Patch is just another kernel patch...
2 - "Aunt Tillie shouldn't have to build a new kernel"
Right. And this is the whole point of an auto config thingy. Modular autoconfig at runtime isn't either something for her. I don't see my Auntie Hot Swapping hdds or raid cards...
But why not have BOTH.
3 - "The autoconfigurator is bound to be an imperfect job
My last computer (Abit VP6) has no ISA. and this will come more and more. And the Isa configurator I know in Linux is quite good as it is. So what is the problem....
I prefer an automated job working fine 99% of the time that everybody can use than no tool at all so you have to do it all manually...
4 - "kernel people are already drowning in bogus bug reports"
Then maybe an unified tool to configure the kernel would help reducing all those people that tried a new kernel and got something wrong and think it's a bug...
+ Do you implie you prefer they keep their free time for you ?
" if Aunt Tille has to build her own kernel, we have much bigger problems that Eric's autoconfigurator will solve."
=> "If Aunt Tille had the right to vote and decide for herself, we're in big trouble"
Who are you to decide what's good for Auntie ? And what if she needs that preemptive patch? Is it your problem ? Shouldn't you be pleased that Auntie Dear get's an interest in Preemtivevness and Frame buffers (* shudder *)
As I often said in my family (to my dad mostly) : I prefer to teach you how to do it yourself than just solve the problem and be on my way, caus next time you got the same problem you won't need me...Yes teaching you is harder, but not in the long term.
So, imagine all the trouble we can save to future generations who won't have to help Auntie with the new kernel config... 8)
only use this way :
1 - Probe for devices
2 - Get the source
3 - Configure, make, make install
Also this would mean a "Linux Update" that could have RPM + Kernels Update...
Please remember then to add an option in LILO that allow you to get back to "last stable kernel", because doing it manually is definetly beyond Aunt Titties...and most of the time beyond my own competence...
98SE with 256Mo Ram (I LOVE cheap Ram 8)
Problem solved using MemTurbo 2.
Also another side effect : when using a KVM sitch with no power link (passive) Memturbo seems to get 98 to check all keyboard - video - mouse and allow you to work just after you switched.
I just love this small soft.
BTW anyone has a hint on DVD Card with a 3309 chipset + Linux ?
My physics class is a little behind me, but :
a fast reactor would produce shorter lived, but critically dangerous byproducts (Cesium something I think).
Byproducts that are much^n more expensive to store , even if it's only for 5 000 years...
If somebody care to correct me 8)
-As for RAM, you will alway need N+16 Mo RAM, where N is the amount you have as of today.-
This rule always proved true 8)
Yes I comment on my own post. 8)
Just a question to the moderator.
How can I be overated when my score was 1 ?
Was it SO BAD ?
this post will cost me a -1 Offtopic, but then I would love to get an answer 8))
Humpf !
No war without sacrifice.
It's not because for this one the US in on the right side of the trigger that on the next one they won't be on the bomb side.
+ Casualties, civil oe military, and from any camp, IS sacrifice.
On this one, your sacrifice is keeping feeding your economy so as to leverage taxes to sustain the army. Maybe not a very big one, but still a sacrifice.
+ On an other point of view, keep training on SU27
and Quake, for the next fighter will most certainly have to have those skills (a drone is not fully automated yet, and if you have a flying Fighter Drone, how long before the first Fighter Robot ? and guess how you will control it ? Sharpen your keyboard, get better mouses, E-War is announced (sic)
Well, without speaking of Nukes, please note ther ARE weapons in Space...
1 - An old scheme to destroy russian Sats was to propell steel balls from an US sat, thus destroying the solar panels and damaging the sat itself.
Cheap, Efficient, and does it validate as a Weapon ?
2 - Nukes are not the only way. Their was once a "Study Military Sat" with a microwave canon.
Not powerfull enough to kill all Russians, but enough to irradiate 2-300 square kilometers, with enough power to sterilize all sperm producing species in the zone.
Think "Long Term"
3 - Any person having to deal with the military and their budget (300 BILLIONS US$ this year ?^something like that I think) will tell those guys have military sats, some of them equipped with dense lasers. Not a Nuke, but enough to fry a ballistic missile.
4 - Take something the size of MIR (ISS anyone ?)
Drop it anywhere on a city.
And then sept 11th will look like a childs party.
(Yes I know it is VERY difficult to aim something like MIR, we've seen it already. Nevertheless...)
5 - If James Bond had to face it in the 70s, you can be sure somebody did it in the 90s. Maybe not the sat that eats other sats, but lasers on a sat are not that hard to put.
Just imagine Hubble with a Laser. You already have the high precision lens... But then I'm much too far ahead. 8)
6 - and last.
Even if we are on Slashdot, "but no one thinks anyone has nukes up there now" doesn't count as an argument.
Do you know how many military sats the US has launched ? or USSR ? just think for 5 sec, and remember that we are not told everything (I know, lame comment, but true, nonetheless).
So many weapons have been experimented. If they went to the Electronic Spy Cat (I don't find the link, but search Slashdot & Cryptome), sending a nuke in space in secrecy is really a fast done job.
Hoping to read from you
Sorry, my school history course are not @ 1920 yet 8)
More seriously, close ties ? with a standing army on your ground ? closely tied is more to the point...
Thanks for the point anyhow. Maybe that could be a nice revenge, Irish people segregating on GB people (You are out of Euro zone. May I see you Passport ? 8)
"Found the 1241 drivers, grabbed, compiled, insmod'd and modified XF86Config to use the new driver"
Ok.
Now do the same with the widgets...8)
So, no fun 8)
I don't WANT to grab, compile, insmod or anything.
I want to Click. And wait some. Possibly answer a few question (How do you like my colors ? You think 65000 Colours will be enough ?...) and then go(Yes I think my computer is a she... She acts like one anyway 8)
called SHIBUMI (don't remember author) about a Mother company regrouping all petroleum producers, specifically spying and killing all people having to do with new power sources...
And after reading, have a good strong look at US history and day to day practices, and make an educated guess.
Also, I seem to remember that first Electric car came out in 1954, and Fuel Cell (working) was 1956 (patented)
Now 50 years just to tel people Hydrogen CAN be used as energy source seems to me quite a long time to divulgate scientific research...
Hoping to read from you,
(Hey moderator ! Answer with words, or mod me up 8)
Bad Booze contains Ethanol & Methanol.
Ethanol also contains Hydrogen.
=> Booze Cell !
Don't Drink & Drive !
Drink, Drive & Speak on the Phone 8)
Think easy :
1 - Because I can.
Coolness Factor +10 8)
2 - Because I"ll have access to a HUGE bandwith (FXP is the term here) (Coolness +8)
3 - Because I can (Ditto 8)
4 - Fucking Race horse too boring, let's go Space Opera !!!
5 - C'aus if I take the right one, I will have access to ALL the Phone Network...(nice, Coolness +4)
6 - Caus I can hunt the ISS AND see the track the progression record on CNN Live 8)
7 - Caus the insurance company that just rejected my file IS responsible for the Sat...
8 - I WILL save on Long distance caus I have 16 000 phone lines available
9 - Caus I can
10 - If the only thing you ask is "Ok I have the Sat, no what" please go to the parlor and get a Perrier. Sparkling water Might be a little too much for your overexerted mind...
11 - (last idea) Caus I can have a 801.11 Network that is large as half the USA.
"turns out to be a pretty second-division Europan power"
Well, this sumarize a point of view I've heard quite some time.
Also that possibly Britain will lose it's power as EU comes.
I mean Great Britain will explode into Etats Souverains with separate power (Ireland first ?)
It's money, if falling, will keep it out of EU, and GB will have lost both the remnants of it's empire and a good access to EU riches.
So GB is in for an All or Nothing bet that the pound will somehow rise and allow them better access to EU.
If everything else fails, they will become a US Free Trade Zone (=>> a Mall, Island sized) and Jersey will boom as a wonderful Fiscal Paradise.
I just hope they won't try a Secession anytime (Kernel Alert, GB forked it's own branch 8)
Get a Modem Bank, 10 pieces of them, and run them in parallel...
You'll get all the speed you want
+
You 'll get some respect from thge old IT guys, who used the same sort of solution, back in 1985 8)
Of course, 10 dialup access + 10 modem might be costly, but then, broadband has no price 8)
Hey tell me :
I want to install Nvidia drivers on a Dual PIII.
Mandrake 8.1
X 4.1 something.
Ok now you go and install just with the Widgets.
Try.
Hard.
Then write me tomorrow and tell me about the exhilirating experience.
I lost a nice 2 hours before getting back to Make.
Yes Mandrake is Way easy to install.
But not yet as polished as windows.
Sometimes it can be complicated to install something on Windows.
Sometimes it's just impossible under X on Linux.
And Johnny Lawnmover WON'T have the same patience as me and will install a Bootleg Windows within 30 minutes.
It's not only a learning curve problem. It's just you cannot yet compete with Windows on "Dummy Mode PC User".
Or have EVERYTHING available through Widgets. Including the Make command, with Make Dep, Make World, every option, but on a nice GUI. Not just "special graphical widgets" that often propose the same configuration options as the one you just tried with different names and colors.
I'm used to Windows (since V2.0 8| at the time I was looking for apps on REM, the concurrent, but didn't find any...)
I'm installing Linux since Redhat 4.x
And it's still not my day to day OS.
I come, install (better and better), play for 3-4 hours, then want to duplicate my favorite app from Windows (Quake 8) and ends up 5 hours with Nvidia drivers / Open GL and others just to hear that "Quake won't install, Open GL not recognized" and other swearwords.
Windows is "Dummy Mode Friendly"
I want Linux to be the same.
Just like MacOSX. 2 modes. 2 worlds. Together. And let the hacker take hane and let the luser use shiny GUI
Now flame me. I want to use Linux. It has come a lloooonnngggg way. But not yet versatile enough ? possibly.
I want an OS where I don't have to engage my brain to work. caus I don't have 5 hours to solve a problem.
Ok.
Thanks Razzlefrog, you just answerd the same I'd have 8)
I (also) have that TNT2 Ultra +Tvout, and I'm still using it to this day... on a PII350 that makes DVD+Divx+Mp3+TV Net browsing (It was such a fad at the time 8)
I also put Logitech Radio Kb + Mouse, and those are nice remotes (104+Keys remote ! Wow 8)
But back to the point...
I took that old PC because turning it to a DVD player cost me less than a standalone, it can do all the thing a DVD does+the rest (Divx, Neorage,Browsing, Porn on Tv 8)
Also, some people (me at the time) have the budget either for Pc or for DVD. This allowed me to take both, with some problems (drivers for DVD card, W98 stability against How The F**K Do I Get Linux on TV Out ?)...
Today this is a W98 box (simpler) stable (=> so hacked that MS wouldn't recognize it's Registry 8) and Ghosted.
I have no concerns, it works flawlessy, I play DVD all zones, Games (BroodWar : old; slow; thousands of players online, and VERY nice on TV), I have Internet And Mp3 on the HiFi, and I'm thinking about the Videoprojector and 5.1 speakers.
Of course definition IS terrible, but my TV is the student model (Big&Cheap) and can accomodate without problem 800*600. It's even better than regular PAL, so 8))
Sorry for the 22" Trinitron, I got carried away 8|
First, some of us haave the money for the card, but not for the Trinitron 22" Monitor.
Second, Do you prefer you DVDs on TV (with armchair and Family) or on Monitor (on the bed with a coke) ?
+ Bleem (RiP)
I know. But Tekken 2-3 are still Very Good Games
As are most PS1 Games.
And you can play Tekken at a reasonable speed, with Friends, (I mean dual PIII - 1Gig + small Ge2-64DDr IS overkill. But I never played so fast 8)
1 / As usual, see the most powerfull, Expensive and complete video card (which specs look slightly like my last computer, btw)
2 / As my parents doesn'nt budget me anymore (Alas !), stop daydreaming and get a Geforce 2Mx, which is MORE than enough for now (ok, let's say enough)
=> I mean the day you have more than 2 softs that can use Geforce 3, maybe then...
Until that date, Ge2Mx is more than enough for Quaking.
I mean, for the price of a GE3Ti, I could buy a Desktop computer 8| This isn't the rat race, it's just a game race...
Hoping to Frag you Soon 8)
For instance, this could be used in a car and help the computer make the difference between the SUV in front of me that is breaking and the SUV on the AD in front of me...
...
Could also help the car find it's place on the road, caus 3D would allow positionning
Could have REAL Biometrics
Could have Real 3D Pron...
Uh, I think my brain just took the wrong turn here 8)
So, basically !
Middle finger on it's own is Ctrl-Alt-Del
A fast pumping motion is WebPorn
Small Finger and Index are for launching windows
A close fist to Quake some arse...
A shooting motion to "Kill" a process...
Yeah, I can see how this will improve the pantonime in front of my computer... 8)
Thanks for saying in a few words what I couldn't express in much more...
Radiation + Chemicals (PcB is a motherboard component, carcinogenic AND DNA active)
=> Have fun, and wiggle the tentacles to say hello 8|
"another way would be to store -1 or something"
Congrats. You just described the "Sudden Death" Issue.
Look, this is life points you speak about. -1 means you are dead for a few seconds.
I know. I tested for quite a long time and -1 in life is almost always fatal.
Just as the old trick of having "EF FF" in life is better than having "FF FF".
"FF FF" usually ends up with your player @ -65 465 in life , instead of +65...8|
Shocking to see the effect on vampire weapons 8) (Diablo 1 Players welcome 8)
Without a cheat code, how do you get to Diablo under 5 minutes ? ... ?
... ?
How do you beat Diablo with a Level 1 Paladin and a big and nice 4hits points dagger
How can you test that the green monster will follow you, that the AI is good
Without the codes, all the testers would have to make that 85 hours playgame in order to get to that last scene they have to test, then be killed within 5" because that monster is Really a boss...8)
+ Without cheat codes, I would !NEVER! have finished Doom2.
I'm not even sure it's possible to finish it without cheating...
So, here's the answer : cheat codes are mostly for testing the game.
In the old time, you screened the Hex and looked for change (everytime you got hit, a handle changed,...) and, after "much" Try and Crash, you got what you wanted (EF FF in strengh and Stamina...)
the PCI Latency patch should solve Cracking / hissing, and the 686B problems with large files.
The first link will allow better bandwith/memory management (among others)
The best test for the patch is a rocket under Quake3
I mean, if I can still hit you with the rocket, it's YOUR latency you'll have to patch 8))