I've gotten better about it, but framerate used to be my biggest guilty pleasure. Everyone knows it doesn't matter if your game runs at 60fps or 600fps, but watching that number jump above 100 is fun.
Might not be a problem much longer, see http://goatse.cx Quote: ALERT The CX Registry has shut off the goatse.cx domain suddenly and without warning. They have cowardly cited a section of their AUP with allows them to remove sites at their discretion. Please e-mail info@nic.cx with your opinion of this matter.
So first the machine that hosts loopback.goatse.cx loses its dns, then the box that hosted irc.goatse.cx goes down (both mine), and now the parent domain is battleing with nic.cx. Things do not look good:(
(posted with karma bonus because the word needs spread, and I've got more karma than the fucking pope.)
Not native windows, but decently fast. My only problem is 1) need to 'net start ext2fsd' on boot (I'm sure there is probably a way to automate it, but I'm no windows admin). 2) Winamp5 seems to list my songs double when using the jump feature. Its fast enough that I can watch high quality por^H^H^Hmovies off of it without lag or excess system load.
"So cut them some slack, who cares what they used to do and say as long as they've changed and improved. Don't blame the current distro for how it used to be managed."
Ever run win2k3? No? Because win9x sucked so hard? double standards are fun.
"Why should one have to pay Valve in order to use their game offline"
Because you make serious amounts of money off of it? This isn't for mom and dads all night cs party, its for places that charge hourly rates of playing, or for places that charge large entrance fees(lan competitions).
Ask any of them about the Chris Hill asking for a CoD disk to install on tourney machines. Its really not steams fault, they could of had the competition sans network (minus any form of spectating and broadcasting, not sure if CoD has that yet but cs normally has HLTV and a shoutcast with commentators).
You arn't owed any bug fixes legally, morally sure, but not legally. You buy whats on the disk and thats what you own, just like buying MS Word 5 doesn't warrant a copy of Office 2k3. HL is and always was full of bugs, but thats why a lot of people just clan so if someone does exploit them, thats their reputation and their clan.
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\counter-strike.gcf could easily be put on a cd, or SMB share, or whatever. Update one machine, mirror it to the rest. They really should of just ghosted an installed tourney machine to other machines, rather than running around with the same disk everywhere on the day of the tourney.
No, I just read gotFrag often and am tired of these kiddies bashing steam for things that arn't its problem. Steam has plenty of problems, but you shouldn't blame everything on it.
CS has always been a free mod, and still is. There was only one point when it wasn't, and that was during steams beta test (when anyone that wanted to could sign up for a steam account and play cs without a cdkey of any kind)
As a user, you don't have to keep track of valve at all. But if you're going to give away $300,000+ in cash and prizes, it might help to get your shit together.
People also don't realise that WON was going down anyways, its Sierra's network, not valves (see `whois won.net`). Valve was nice enough to offer us steam and many new updates(Jan 14th will bring a huge update fixing bugs in the money system), and still supporting such an old game. If you don't like it, delete halflife and reinstall off of your cd. Don't update, because you didn't buy updates, you bought whats on the cd.
Everything in gaming is now blamed on steam. my fps is bad, steam sucks. my ping is high, steam sucks. my aim is bad, steam sucks. my arm hurts, steam sucks.
Because the Inquirer is filled with vast gaming knowledge. The update was released on wednesday, like they have been for the past... 5 or so months now. cXg just never connected the gaming machines to the internet until the day of the event(friday) causing them all to have to pull the patch then.
" Who's ever going to want to host a large Counterstrike lan party again if simply trying to run the game causes such horrific problems?"
People that know what they're doing, I'd assume. A few weeks ago there was the CPL, easily twice as many CS players, lots more if you coun't the BYOC. CPL had no problems with steam, and everything ran smoothly. All you need to do is plan properly, maybe even plan your event so that valves top employees won't be busy at CES.
Buy the lan center edition of Steam? Download a full cache to one machine and mirror it across the entire network? how about INSTALLING STEAM BEFORE EVERYONE GETS THERE? This wasn't in any way valves fault, cXg should of planned ahead, theres been an update every wednesday for months now, and they act as if it was some big suprise. Next time plan ahead and get everything installed and working, instead of getting up on the loud speaker asking for a Call of Duty cd because they don't even have it installed.
Send me a demo and proove me otherwise. I'm pretty sure you've never actually played quakeworld, and have no idea what air control actually is. Think being able to rockjump off of a platform while holding backwards. and end up back on it by just turning your mouse at the right time.
Quake2 added multiplayer savegames for coop. Evolution, not revolution, but still a nice feature expanding on the fun that is coop. Quake2 and 3 would both be more fun if they used q1's physics. I don't know about you all, but I find it fun to just run around in bunnyhop circles in q1, rocketjumping up to high places, etc. If you don't like it, you don't have to do it (in singleplayer, in multi just play on a server where its banned) BH in q2 and 3 had ZERO air control. In q1, to change directions midair you look to the right/left. In q2/3, you launch a rocket to the left of you ( and kill your speed)
q3's menu system was somewhat revolutionary, I don't remember any game(sans quake1) having such a useful menu system while ingame(see halflife pre-steam, where accidently hitting esc meant about 8 seconds of resolution changes/waiting for menu to load/exiting back into game)
"What incentive do these big players have to block music downloads?"
How about legal? regardless of whether its legal or not now, if theres a law making it illegal only the ISP's with N thousands of users will be harassed to follow the law. Mom and pop who wired up their building and bought a T1 are fine. Mom and pop who bought a few T1's and service their urban town are fine. Aol who bought out thousands of mom and pops has to comply.
"They're not going to enter my house just so that they can hear me talking sweetly to my GF." Hrm, good way to find pickup lines./signs up for fed-school.
"Fake" isn't the right word. No one claimed it was in a row, and he did still beat the game in 11 minutes. Nothing was speed up, all he did was piece together the 'best of' runs, which is the exact same thing done in any other speedrun of a game( see quake done quick).
" I believe that whole "unfamiliar" concept is blown way out of proportion."
I agree, people don't realise that computers are odd things. Windows is an unfamiliar interface compared to everything else in this world, why would linux be any different? Until we can get a full holographic interface we can't have fully familure interfaces, and even then that would be really ineffecient -- I'd rather do things in the real world if they were that familure, instead I'd rather familurize a new interface like vim and get far more control than a familure interface, like a postit note.
The customizability also offsets this. In windows, you have to familurize yourself with every new version. In linux, you make your enviroment to what you prefer with every new version (well, every fresh install that you forgot to back up ~/.* and ~/*rc)
Could you do us a favor and ask when ConditionZero[no current release date, many have passed] and Natural Selection 3[supposed to come out last 'holiday season'] will come out?
Atleast you did it in the wrong dir. I was working on adding another domain to/etc/apache/vhosts/(each domain gets its own file), and all of a sudden I notice the dir is empty. It wasn't empty when I started.. scroll up 4 lines and I see rm * in my buffer. To this day I still have no clue what I was intending to do, but from now on no more working on a server with customers without proper amounts of caffiene.
Why all of the effort? If the windows version of itunes can play them, you can just play it while recording from the output device. You're stuck only getting 1:1 ripping, but youu could batch the job and run it overnight (or while listening to the cd in whole)
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I've gotten better about it, but framerate used to be my biggest guilty pleasure. Everyone knows it doesn't matter if your game runs at 60fps or 600fps, but watching that number jump above 100 is fun.
UML(UserModeLinux, linux modified to run as a runtime executable for virtualhosting) runs under cygwin.
Might not be a problem much longer, see http://goatse.cx Quote:
ALERT
The CX Registry has shut off the goatse.cx domain suddenly and without warning.
They have cowardly cited a section of their AUP with allows them to remove sites at their discretion.
Please e-mail info@nic.cx with your opinion of this matter.
So first the machine that hosts loopback.goatse.cx loses its dns, then the box that hosted irc.goatse.cx goes down (both mine), and now the parent domain is battleing with nic.cx. Things do not look good:(
(posted with karma bonus because the word needs spread, and I've got more karma than the fucking pope.)
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd
Not native windows, but decently fast. My only problem is 1) need to 'net start ext2fsd' on boot (I'm sure there is probably a way to automate it, but I'm no windows admin). 2) Winamp5 seems to list my songs double when using the jump feature.
Its fast enough that I can watch high quality por^H^H^Hmovies off of it without lag or excess system load.
"So cut them some slack, who cares what they used to do and say as long as they've changed and improved. Don't blame the current distro for how it used to be managed."
Ever run win2k3? No? Because win9x sucked so hard? double standards are fun.
"Why should one have to pay Valve in order to use their game offline"
Because you make serious amounts of money off of it?
This isn't for mom and dads all night cs party, its for places that charge hourly rates of playing, or for places that charge large entrance fees(lan competitions).
Ask any of them about the Chris Hill asking for a CoD disk to install on tourney machines. Its really not steams fault, they could of had the competition sans network (minus any form of spectating and broadcasting, not sure if CoD has that yet but cs normally has HLTV and a shoutcast with commentators).
You arn't owed any bug fixes legally, morally sure, but not legally. You buy whats on the disk and thats what you own, just like buying MS Word 5 doesn't warrant a copy of Office 2k3. HL is and always was full of bugs, but thats why a lot of people just clan so if someone does exploit them, thats their reputation and their clan.
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\counter-strike.gcf
could easily be put on a cd, or SMB share, or whatever. Update one machine, mirror it to the rest. They really should of just ghosted an installed tourney machine to other machines, rather than running around with the same disk everywhere on the day of the tourney.
No, I just read gotFrag often and am tired of these kiddies bashing steam for things that arn't its problem.
Steam has plenty of problems, but you shouldn't blame everything on it.
CS has always been a free mod, and still is. There was only one point when it wasn't, and that was during steams beta test (when anyone that wanted to could sign up for a steam account and play cs without a cdkey of any kind)
As a user, you don't have to keep track of valve at all. But if you're going to give away $300,000+ in cash and prizes, it might help to get your shit together.
People also don't realise that WON was going down anyways, its Sierra's network, not valves (see `whois won.net`). Valve was nice enough to offer us steam and many new updates(Jan 14th will bring a huge update fixing bugs in the money system), and still supporting such an old game.
If you don't like it, delete halflife and reinstall off of your cd. Don't update, because you didn't buy updates, you bought whats on the cd.
Everything in gaming is now blamed on steam.
my fps is bad, steam sucks.
my ping is high, steam sucks.
my aim is bad, steam sucks.
my arm hurts, steam sucks.
Because the Inquirer is filled with vast gaming knowledge. The update was released on wednesday, like they have been for the past... 5 or so months now. cXg just never connected the gaming machines to the internet until the day of the event(friday) causing them all to have to pull the patch then.
" Who's ever going to want to host a large Counterstrike lan party again if simply trying to run the game causes such horrific problems?"
People that know what they're doing, I'd assume.
A few weeks ago there was the CPL, easily twice as many CS players, lots more if you coun't the BYOC. CPL had no problems with steam, and everything ran smoothly. All you need to do is plan properly, maybe even plan your event so that valves top employees won't be busy at CES.
Buy the lan center edition of Steam? Download a full cache to one machine and mirror it across the entire network? how about INSTALLING STEAM BEFORE EVERYONE GETS THERE?
This wasn't in any way valves fault, cXg should of planned ahead, theres been an update every wednesday for months now, and they act as if it was some big suprise. Next time plan ahead and get everything installed and working, instead of getting up on the loud speaker asking for a Call of Duty cd because they don't even have it installed.
I've got a 20gig ext2, 60gig ext3, and 20gig win2k3.
Debian reads all three fine.
Windows reads all three fine.
Send me a demo and proove me otherwise. I'm pretty sure you've never actually played quakeworld, and have no idea what air control actually is. Think being able to rockjump off of a platform while holding backwards. and end up back on it by just turning your mouse at the right time.
"How were those revolutionary in any way? "
Quake2 added multiplayer savegames for coop. Evolution, not revolution, but still a nice feature expanding on the fun that is coop.
Quake2 and 3 would both be more fun if they used q1's physics. I don't know about you all, but I find it fun to just run around in bunnyhop circles in q1, rocketjumping up to high places, etc. If you don't like it, you don't have to do it (in singleplayer, in multi just play on a server where its banned)
BH in q2 and 3 had ZERO air control. In q1, to change directions midair you look to the right/left. In q2/3, you launch a rocket to the left of you ( and kill your speed)
q3's menu system was somewhat revolutionary, I don't remember any game(sans quake1) having such a useful menu system while ingame(see halflife pre-steam, where accidently hitting esc meant about 8 seconds of resolution changes/waiting for menu to load/exiting back into game)
"What incentive do these big players have to block music downloads?"
How about legal? regardless of whether its legal or not now, if theres a law making it illegal only the ISP's with N thousands of users will be harassed to follow the law. Mom and pop who wired up their building and bought a T1 are fine. Mom and pop who bought a few T1's and service their urban town are fine. Aol who bought out thousands of mom and pops has to comply.
"They're not going to enter my house just so that they can hear me talking sweetly to my GF." /signs up for fed-school.
Hrm, good way to find pickup lines.
"Fake" isn't the right word. No one claimed it was in a row, and he did still beat the game in 11 minutes. Nothing was speed up, all he did was piece together the 'best of' runs, which is the exact same thing done in any other speedrun of a game( see quake done quick).
" I believe that whole "unfamiliar" concept is blown way out of proportion."
I agree, people don't realise that computers are odd things. Windows is an unfamiliar interface compared to everything else in this world, why would linux be any different? Until we can get a full holographic interface we can't have fully familure interfaces, and even then that would be really ineffecient -- I'd rather do things in the real world if they were that familure, instead I'd rather familurize a new interface like vim and get far more control than a familure interface, like a postit note.
The customizability also offsets this. In windows, you have to familurize yourself with every new version. In linux, you make your enviroment to what you prefer with every new version (well, every fresh install that you forgot to back up ~/.* and ~/*rc)
Hrm, never thought of the Esc possibility, that must be it. and CVS for configs is a great idea, thanks.
Could you do us a favor and ask when ConditionZero[no current release date, many have passed] and Natural Selection 3[supposed to come out last 'holiday season'] will come out?
Atleast you did it in the wrong dir. I was working on adding another domain to /etc/apache/vhosts/(each domain gets its own file), and all of a sudden I notice the dir is empty. It wasn't empty when I started.. scroll up 4 lines and I see rm * in my buffer. To this day I still have no clue what I was intending to do, but from now on no more working on a server with customers without proper amounts of caffiene.
Why all of the effort? If the windows version of itunes can play them, you can just play it while recording from the output device. You're stuck only getting 1:1 ripping, but youu could batch the job and run it overnight (or while listening to the cd in whole)
The one here in Austin was vulnerable. (or so I've heard...)