Mine doesn't slow down at all- in fact it seems to run faster. In windows, there seems to be some hard limit locking me at 60fps- it doesnt go any higher. I've fiddled with all the settings like maxfps, but it refuses to go any higher. In Linux, It often sits around 80-100 fps, depending on the scene, and it feels a lot smoother.
What drivers are you using for that Geforce2? I use the closed NVidia driver, but I know a lot of people have some issue with them and use the slower open source drivers instead. If so, try the latest NVidia drivers and see if it runs faster
Telstra isn't the only internet backbone provider in Australia... They are the largest, only because they are the dominant phone company.
There is also Optus, who provide excellent service and are slowly taking over Telstras business.
Ozemail/UUNet, sucky, overpriced, but still alive and kicking
Primus - Small, but I'm pretty sure they have there own link
There was also one.net, but it recently went broke
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Microsoft will tell you that WMA @ 64k is cd quality, bla bla bla, but I did some tests here, and it about the same as ogg@64k. It also doesn't scale up well, and 128k WMA still sounds like shit, while 128k OGG is almost CD quality (I couldn't pick the difference).
(Those were in blind listening tests with headphones, btw)
Ok, I'm about sick of this. THERE IS NO INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN AUSTRALIA. Ok? Got it?. The Only "Censorship" is from the Federal Police shutting down websites that contain illegal content (i.e. child porn, bomb making 101,... ). The same thing is done is the U.S.
There are no restricted sites, no great-big-firewall, no proxy server we are forced to go through... the only filtering done is at the client end- ISPs have to sell software like NetNanny at a reduced price to customers. We do not have to buy it if we don't want it.
Now can you Americans _please_ stop with this bullshit... Australia is not fascist, we are not oppressed, we are in fact one of the most free nations on earth, and to be told otherwise by people from a country that comes up with things like the DMCA, the US Patriotic act, and holds hundreds of innocent civilians WITHOUT TRIAL just because they are of arab descent.... well, who's the oppresive government again?
The X-Files has been dying for years, but it has just managed to barely stay alive due to a strong cult following. I think Mulder leaving was the final nail in the coffin though, and the show had no hope of survival without him... I mean, he _was_ the show.
I run Linux 2.4.16-pre1 on both my desktop machine and a server and have never had any probs (except for the odd system slowdown due to ext3 sync()`ing, but winME was much worse.) Ironicly, I run windows XP as a NAT server on my dialup box, because it also has to run some windows-only software that doesnt like wine. It took me HOURS to get the bloody thing setup and working, and I spent another 3 hours downloading all the patches, plus a virus scanner (AVG... very good- www.grisoft.com), ZoneAlarm, and then had to wrestle with XP's bullshit "User friendly" configuration while it told me that everything I did wasn't a good idea. After all that, XP's built in 'firewall' (which is on even though I turned it off) conflicts with ZoneAlarm, and constantly locks down all internet traffic, requiring a reboot. It also runs like a sloth with 520mb ram on a 1.5 ghz p4. And to top it all off, XP constantly refuses to connect to my ISP... which are running "Incompatible" windows2000 servers.
is if jupiters magnetic field created a wormhole to a few billion years ago, and we sent a probe through which had a small amount of bacteria in it. It then lands on earth, and over the next few billion years ends up evolving into Humans...... what a paradox. What came first? the human or the probe;-). Oh dear... my heads starting to hurt.
(Ok Ok I know... but I've just finished watching the new Planet of the Apes movie)
Jupiter has no solid surface, It is a gas giant. Technicaly it is a Brown Dwarf- which is a star that never got large enough to start a fusion chain reaction. It is extremely unlikely that any sentient life could form there, especialy considering the gravity is strong enough to compress the hydrogen atmosphere into a liquid metal at it's core, which produces the strongest magnetic field in the solar system.
Europa, on the other hand, has everything life needs to flourish. Water- most likely in a huge ocean under the surface ice, and energy- mainly geothermic energy produced by the mammoth gravitational force exerted by jupiter (the same ones that make io the most volcanicly active body in the solar system), as well as a phenominal amount of magnetic flux produced by hydrogens metalic core.
Now if you ask me, I'd prefer to burn a probe up in a dead star then a moon which could possibly support life.
Oh GOD I hated that show. Here in Australia we had to watch two seasons of it. The results? Bardot and Scandil'us. Both of which disapeared as soon as TV show did.
Hot Is an understatement. As I write this (11pm), its 31 degrees outside. It got up to like, 45 today. I new today would suck when I woke up at 6:30 and it was already above 30 degrees.
Actually the internet over here is pretty good. International links are a little slow, but not that bad. The only real problem is broadband, which sucks everywhere in the world, not just AU.
As far as idiotic legislation and whatnot, hardly any of it gets past the talk stage. I have yet to see any internet censorship at all. There are no national firewalls or anything.
I would assume that 90% of the junk in space is small metalic parts right? So why not put up a satalite a few hundred k's in front of the ISS, with a powerfull electromagnet and a very strong hull? If the magnet was strong enough, it would pull in a lot of the small parts, which would no longer be a threat. That would then just leave the larger pieces of debris, some of which could be thrown out of orbit by the magnet, and the rest would be a lot easier to dodge.
In news today, Nasa scientists spent all last week trying to find the source of the contaminant on the Lens. After many hours of brainstorming, one of the engineers spilt coffee on a button labeled "Lens Cap". Shortly after, the camera apeared to be functioning correctly. Head NASA Scientists are trying to work out the function of this "Lens Cap" button, but the British designer of the button cannot be contacted, and Nasa officials are still unsure what has happened.
"Ok.I'm almost at the top. Just over this ledge"
*grunt, groan*
"Ahh! WOOHOO! I've reached the summit of Everest!"
*beep beep bip bip bip beep beep*
"Oooh. Looks likes someones left a message here. I wonder what it is? I'm sure I's some inspirational message of congratulations. Lets see..."
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It's not just that they are Diesel- The Collins class were a major fuckup by the AU Government. They are too noisy to be of any real use, and also have severe computer problems (They can't even fire a torpedo without crashing).
There is a project in place to fix the problems, and I don't know how much success they've had so far, but when the Collins were first produced they were a joke.
Let me see.... USA
Stealth bombers, w/ laser guided bombs. Russia
Stealth ships, with supersonic torpedoes Australia
Collins Class Submarine, with extremely noisy engines.
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... only to have it rejected. What gives?
It's possibly your wine setup. Get the latest version of WineX from transgaming.com, it should run sweet.
Mine doesn't slow down at all- in fact it seems to run faster. In windows, there seems to be some hard limit locking me at 60fps- it doesnt go any higher. I've fiddled with all the settings like maxfps, but it refuses to go any higher. In Linux, It often sits around 80-100 fps, depending on the scene, and it feels a lot smoother. What drivers are you using for that Geforce2? I use the closed NVidia driver, but I know a lot of people have some issue with them and use the slower open source drivers instead. If so, try the latest NVidia drivers and see if it runs faster
Well I don't know about AoE2, but Half-Life runs perfectly under Wine.
Telstra isn't the only internet backbone provider in Australia... They are the largest, only because they are the dominant phone company.
There is also Optus, who provide excellent service and are slowly taking over Telstras business.
Ozemail/UUNet, sucky, overpriced, but still alive and kicking
Primus - Small, but I'm pretty sure they have there own link
There was also one.net, but it recently went broke
Microsoft will tell you that WMA @ 64k is cd quality, bla bla bla, but I did some tests here, and it about the same as ogg@64k. It also doesn't scale up well, and 128k WMA still sounds like shit, while 128k OGG is almost CD quality (I couldn't pick the difference).
(Those were in blind listening tests with headphones, btw)
Ok, I'm about sick of this. THERE IS NO INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN AUSTRALIA. Ok? Got it?. The Only "Censorship" is from the Federal Police shutting down websites that contain illegal content (i.e. child porn, bomb making 101, ... ). The same thing is done is the U.S.
There are no restricted sites, no great-big-firewall, no proxy server we are forced to go through... the only filtering done is at the client end- ISPs have to sell software like NetNanny at a reduced price to customers. We do not have to buy it if we don't want it.
Now can you Americans _please_ stop with this bullshit... Australia is not fascist, we are not oppressed, we are in fact one of the most free nations on earth, and to be told otherwise by people from a country that comes up with things like the DMCA, the US Patriotic act, and holds hundreds of innocent civilians WITHOUT TRIAL just because they are of arab descent.... well, who's the oppresive government again?
Yes... deciding not to include an AOL icon in XP.
Great. So just as I finish single player rtcw in windows, out comes the Linux binaries. I could have avoided all that dual booting.!!!!
The X-Files has been dying for years, but it has just managed to barely stay alive due to a strong cult following. I think Mulder leaving was the final nail in the coffin though, and the show had no hope of survival without him... I mean, he _was_ the show.
ZoneAlarm Wasn't my choice. If I had it my way, It'd be running Linux, but my employer likes things done his way.
I run Linux 2.4.16-pre1 on both my desktop machine and a server and have never had any probs (except for the odd system slowdown due to ext3 sync()`ing, but winME was much worse.) Ironicly, I run windows XP as a NAT server on my dialup box, because it also has to run some windows-only software that doesnt like wine. It took me HOURS to get the bloody thing setup and working, and I spent another 3 hours downloading all the patches, plus a virus scanner (AVG... very good- www.grisoft.com), ZoneAlarm, and then had to wrestle with XP's bullshit "User friendly" configuration while it told me that everything I did wasn't a good idea. After all that, XP's built in 'firewall' (which is on even though I turned it off) conflicts with ZoneAlarm, and constantly locks down all internet traffic, requiring a reboot. It also runs like a sloth with 520mb ram on a 1.5 ghz p4. And to top it all off, XP constantly refuses to connect to my ISP... which are running "Incompatible" windows2000 servers.
is if jupiters magnetic field created a wormhole to a few billion years ago, and we sent a probe through which had a small amount of bacteria in it. It then lands on earth, and over the next few billion years ends up evolving into Humans...... what a paradox. What came first? the human or the probe ;-). Oh dear... my heads starting to hurt.
(Ok Ok I know... but I've just finished watching the new Planet of the Apes movie)
Jupiter has no solid surface, It is a gas giant. Technicaly it is a Brown Dwarf- which is a star that never got large enough to start a fusion chain reaction. It is extremely unlikely that any sentient life could form there, especialy considering the gravity is strong enough to compress the hydrogen atmosphere into a liquid metal at it's core, which produces the strongest magnetic field in the solar system.
Europa, on the other hand, has everything life needs to flourish. Water- most likely in a huge ocean under the surface ice, and energy- mainly geothermic energy produced by the mammoth gravitational force exerted by jupiter (the same ones that make io the most volcanicly active body in the solar system), as well as a phenominal amount of magnetic flux produced by hydrogens metalic core.
Now if you ask me, I'd prefer to burn a probe up in a dead star then a moon which could possibly support life.
You havn't seen Australian TV... Popstars was about the best show on.
Oh GOD I hated that show. Here in Australia we had to watch two seasons of it. The results? Bardot and Scandil'us. Both of which disapeared as soon as TV show did.
Yeah. !@#$ New Zealanders. Bah. Don't even have your own air force. (Aussies and NZ'ers are like Americans and Canadians, in case you havn't noticed)
Too true. I only voted for Little John because I hated Big Kim more.
Hot Is an understatement. As I write this (11pm), its 31 degrees outside. It got up to like, 45 today. I new today would suck when I woke up at 6:30 and it was already above 30 degrees.
Actually the internet over here is pretty good. International links are a little slow, but not that bad. The only real problem is broadband, which sucks everywhere in the world, not just AU. As far as idiotic legislation and whatnot, hardly any of it gets past the talk stage. I have yet to see any internet censorship at all. There are no national firewalls or anything.
I would assume that 90% of the junk in space is small metalic parts right? So why not put up a satalite a few hundred k's in front of the ISS, with a powerfull electromagnet and a very strong hull? If the magnet was strong enough, it would pull in a lot of the small parts, which would no longer be a threat. That would then just leave the larger pieces of debris, some of which could be thrown out of orbit by the magnet, and the rest would be a lot easier to dodge.
In news today, Nasa scientists spent all last week trying to find the source of the contaminant on the Lens. After many hours of brainstorming, one of the engineers spilt coffee on a button labeled "Lens Cap". Shortly after, the camera apeared to be functioning correctly. Head NASA Scientists are trying to work out the function of this "Lens Cap" button, but the British designer of the button cannot be contacted, and Nasa officials are still unsure what has happened.
"Ok.I'm almost at the top. Just over this ledge"
*grunt, groan*
"Ahh! WOOHOO! I've reached the summit of Everest!"
*beep beep bip bip bip beep beep*
"Oooh. Looks likes someones left a message here. I wonder what it is? I'm sure I's some inspirational message of congratulations. Lets see..."
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'FREE! Univerity Diplomas!'
'You can make $30,000 in under 24 hours!!!!'
'First Post'
'Cowboyneal was here!'
'I am l33t hach0r!!!'
It's not just that they are Diesel- The Collins class were a major fuckup by the AU Government. They are too noisy to be of any real use, and also have severe computer problems (They can't even fire a torpedo without crashing).
There is a project in place to fix the problems, and I don't know how much success they've had so far, but when the Collins were first produced they were a joke.
Let me see....
USA
Stealth bombers, w/ laser guided bombs.
Russia
Stealth ships, with supersonic torpedoes
Australia
Collins Class Submarine, with extremely noisy engines.
Something tells me we (AU) wouldnt win a war.