I know you're joking, but theres a lot of truth to that. Ever since I got my geforce2mx400 I became much less productive. Spending 5+ hours a day learning random things just to get an idea I thought of coded became 5+ hours a day of random fragging. It takes a lot of disciplin to be a productive gamer, and I don't think I have it.
Doesn't matter. You want them to find it, because then you can sue them. It's a simple bait, and I've seen it a few times over the years. Remember AOL requiring a checksum of a random aim file? Same concept. Really easy to work around (just include the file), Legal mess.
Ever play RTCW? alright then. doom and quake 1/2's stories were more in the readmes and the manual, as at that time it was too hard to actually have the story unfold in game. I really loved the story on doom1, specificly episode2->3 as it really shows what the game is all about. You die, go to hell, then have to fight your way out.
Until you go and upgrade proftpd and it kindly forgets to mention that the new version uses a new config format, so you're left with no ftpd until someone notices. (happened a few months back)
Something similer happened to me yesterday. A friend of mine immed me saying his computer kept saying it had 60 seconds to reboot, and something about rpc crashing. So I responded with a screenshot of dir c:\ running on his machine. Moral of the story: I'm an asshole. (For the record, I then told him where to get the patch, and how to cancle a running shutdown.)
"Why should community authors help SCO sell their wares and fund the holy war against, essentially, themselves?"
Because it's the only way to remain free. 'I may not agree with what you are saying, but I will defend your right to say it to the death'. We can't just stop supporting a large userbase because the company that produced their os is now doing some things that are against some peoples ethics/morals.
I bought my case there, much cheaper than shipping would of been. Overall the store wasnt bad, much better than bestbuy or something. Just stay away from the monitor isle or you'll never be able to leave. mmmm lcds...
sidenote: does anyone know why all these display monitors that could do 2048x only run at 640x?
Only one person should be talking at once, and it currently works great in halflife now. Even dialup users can talk on mic without lagging any more than normal.
WiFi has horrible latency and bad jitter. I've ran VNC fine off a colo'd server. Common remote desktop tricks apply of course -- no using transparency, use solid colors, avoid pixmaps like the plague. None of these rules are needed, but if you follow as many as you can you end up with a much more workable experience. Also look into TightVNC, it has better compression methods.
"But who would rather watch than play? When all you need is a computer, why use the same computer to be a spectator?"
You have to see the pros to know why. You camping spawn on a pub doesn't even begin to compare to the intensity of watching the pros pull off amazing rounds. Watching the big tourneys is so excitnig because theres so much on the line ($60,000 last CPL). It really can and does come down to just one man left, lose the round and you're out, 3 people left with the bomb down.. and pull off an ace round and take them all out. its so much more exciting than just killing newbies randomly. It's not for everyone, but to really showcase how spectator friendly it is, check out the cs movies on csflicks.net and demohq.com If you'd like to see an actual match you can get the CPL demos from cpl.netfire.com, or some other random demos at sogamed.com and gotfrag.com.
# Names that mean something (Internet Explorer vs Mozilla/Konqueror, KDE/GNOME vs Windows) Try it and get sued. Not much you can do here, Adobe and Microsoft own most Word(tm)s.
# A way to do everything graphically (yes I know that we have unmatched power on the command line but doing things graphically works for everyone) It dosn't work for people without powerful enough machines to push a good gui. However, this point is moot anyway, as you really can do everything from a gui now.
# Internet Connection Sharing (yes it would be very helpful) You can share connections for an entire isp with a linux box.
# NTFS write support (would help people out) Being worked on. Currently with the newest ntfs drivers you can write to existing files, but not create new ones. # Installation without a CD or a Floppy (using a Linux box you insert a HDD, format it, put all the installation files, put the HDD in the new computer and boot for installation). Windows cannot do this. I have done it in linux though. Just look at the knoppix project. You could easily put a knoppix cd onto a hdd and run it the same way. # Simple folder naming convention like Program Files, Document and settings, (what the heck does var, etc, proc mean anyway?) etc... Windows has the WORST naming convention ever, baring FreeBSD of course. Whats important is consistency and lack of overlap, Something Debian does nicely. # A single distribution that comes out every two years with only non-beta software (version x.xx.xx.xx of something doesn't meant a thing to me either, give me a version 1, 1.5, 2005 or something that Joe Blow can understand please) Try 'Debian 3.0r1". Debian's stable tree has nothing but tested applications that have been used long enough to know nothing will break. And the 3.0r1 is no more confusing than 95 OSR2 or 98SE.
Or play on the cal-i ran servers like pub.team3d.net. Bots are stupid and always will be. They can shoot great and react instantly, but they dont know what to do. All you have to do is plant in a weird spot and they'll never defuse, or plant in the open and shoot them through a wall as they all go for the bomb instead of shooting you back.
Bots are good for practice however, And you don't need 1.6. Check out PODBot(google for it) for a nice bot for 1.5 or earlier.
" Hmmmm.... CPL? or QuakeCon?".." being an ego trip for Angel et al."
You no longer have to make that choice -- You said something negative about angel, that means you're banned.
It really is sad how teams can be caught ghosting and not even punished one round, yet Chris "Recon" Hill gets thrown out for doing nothing (He runs his own tournament, but wasnt advertising for it or anything).
As fr the last comment, Theres CyberXGaming, KillerLan, and plenty of other lan tourneys. The only real alternative to cal is UGS, which is good enough. Korea has no action in the CounterStrike team -- All of the good teams are from europe; specificly sweden. Swedens leauge (SEL) is even played from lan centers and taken very seriously, so their teams are always more prepared.
Those numbers are just plain wrong. They count both bots and 'fakefull' servers. Fakefull is a plugin used by desperate admins who cant get users to join their server, so they create fake clients to trick people into joining. Of course without these halflife would still win, but those numbers are still misleading.
It would be %linux, or maybe %vmlinuz depending on how it is setup. This actually works for UML, but obviously not with a standard install. And you dont type the last char of $PS1, so that # just comments out the line.
If anyone else needs the fun sucked out of a post, contact me.
Does anyone know if the $10/mo is per box? We have 4 cable boxes at the house, and it would be nice to upgrade but an added $40 would suck. does anyone know? The timewarner website is of no help.
And thats insecure game design. I'd rather have a game boil down to whoever has lower latency than whoever can hack their client to mangle timestamps.
A better method is what halflife does -- Check clients ping, check what they saw $ping ago, then process. The downside (for us LPBs, but upside for dialups) is I can run past a hallway, see an enemy a the other end, and keep running. then in ~400ms, I'm dragged back to the hallway because according to the server, they shot me.
#1 True, but having their distributor bought out wouldn't help them.
#2 Its optional now, Everyone that wants to test is welcome to, Everyone that isnt dosn't have to. Just dont bitch when 1.6 comes out and theres something you dont like, you had plenty of time to help test and report bugs/inbalances. Personally I have 1.6(steam), 1.5, and 1.3 installed. You're not forced to play any.
#3 Then you dont get to play. Thats why I'm probably not going to use it once they start charging.
Valve (creators of Half Life et al) is doing something similar. Theyre currently testing something called Steam.
Steam lets you download a game you have access to(meaning, subscribed to from steam once the test ends. currently its all free) and play it on the fly. You only download the sounds/maps/textures that are about to be used, so the download time isnt too bad. It caches also, so after the first time you dont notice it as much. This is helping them betatest the new version of Counterstrike much easier, as they can push updates whenever they want and fix minor things without having to wait a few months to release another patch.
While the Steam system works great, Its scarey to think it will enable pay as you play style billing. Who really wants to pay $.50/min to play counterstrike? (example figure, again its currently all free, and in the future they'll start it with comparable prices as a one time fee, but you have no garuntee thats all they'll use it for).
The upside is of course Valve no longer needs a distributer so being bought out would be up to them. This is nice in the face of all the vivendi buyout rumours you see every few months.
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I know you're joking, but theres a lot of truth to that. Ever since I got my geforce2mx400 I became much less productive. Spending 5+ hours a day learning random things just to get an idea I thought of coded became 5+ hours a day of random fragging.
It takes a lot of disciplin to be a productive gamer, and I don't think I have it.
Because they refuse to tell anyone the terms screwing third party developers who have nothing to tell their users?
Doesn't matter. You want them to find it, because then you can sue them. It's a simple bait, and I've seen it a few times over the years. Remember AOL requiring a checksum of a random aim file? Same concept. Really easy to work around (just include the file), Legal mess.
You don't even have to. Just crack the password(or sniff, whatever) of a respectable ebay user and get a big scam up quick.
Ever play RTCW? alright then.
doom and quake 1/2's stories were more in the readmes and the manual, as at that time it was too hard to actually have the story unfold in game. I really loved the story on doom1, specificly episode2->3 as it really shows what the game is all about. You die, go to hell, then have to fight your way out.
Until you go and upgrade proftpd and it kindly forgets to mention that the new version uses a new config format, so you're left with no ftpd until someone notices. (happened a few months back)
shutdown -a in a console. you need to be administrator I believe. (yes, thats -a, contrary to windows normal use of /a)
Something similer happened to me yesterday. A friend of mine immed me saying his computer kept saying it had 60 seconds to reboot, and something about rpc crashing. So I responded with a screenshot of dir c:\ running on his machine.
Moral of the story: I'm an asshole.
(For the record, I then told him where to get the patch, and how to cancle a running shutdown.)
"Why should community authors help SCO sell their wares and fund the holy war against, essentially, themselves?"
Because it's the only way to remain free. 'I may not agree with what you are saying, but I will defend your right to say it to the death'. We can't just stop supporting a large userbase because the company that produced their os is now doing some things that are against some peoples ethics/morals.
Thats all fun and good until you factor in user stupidity.
I send you this file to have your advice.
I bought my case there, much cheaper than shipping would of been. Overall the store wasnt bad, much better than bestbuy or something. Just stay away from the monitor isle or you'll never be able to leave. mmmm lcds...
sidenote: does anyone know why all these display monitors that could do 2048x only run at 640x?
Only one person should be talking at once, and it currently works great in halflife now. Even dialup users can talk on mic without lagging any more than normal.
root@bean:~# umount /home/blender/tmp/ /home/blender/tmp: device is busy /home/blender/tmp: device is busy /home/blender/root on /home/blender/tmp type ext2 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0) /home/blender/root on /home/blender/tmp type ext2 (rw,loop=/dev/loop1)
umount:
umount:
root@bean:~# lsof |grep blender
root@bean:~#
11:38:01 up 87 days, 15:28, 14 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
yay?
(not directly related to grandparent, but shows lsof isnt the end of all mount problems)
WiFi has horrible latency and bad jitter. I've ran VNC fine off a colo'd server. Common remote desktop tricks apply of course -- no using transparency, use solid colors, avoid pixmaps like the plague. None of these rules are needed, but if you follow as many as you can you end up with a much more workable experience. Also look into TightVNC, it has better compression methods.
"But who would rather watch than play? When all you need is a computer, why use the same computer to be a spectator?"
You have to see the pros to know why. You camping spawn on a pub doesn't even begin to compare to the intensity of watching the pros pull off amazing rounds. Watching the big tourneys is so excitnig because theres so much on the line ($60,000 last CPL). It really can and does come down to just one man left, lose the round and you're out, 3 people left with the bomb down.. and pull off an ace round and take them all out. its so much more exciting than just killing newbies randomly.
It's not for everyone, but to really showcase how spectator friendly it is, check out the cs movies on csflicks.net and demohq.com
If you'd like to see an actual match you can get the CPL demos from cpl.netfire.com, or some other random demos at sogamed.com and gotfrag.com.
# Names that mean something (Internet Explorer vs Mozilla/Konqueror, KDE/GNOME vs Windows)
Try it and get sued. Not much you can do here, Adobe and Microsoft own most Word(tm)s.
# A way to do everything graphically (yes I know that we have unmatched power on the command line but doing things graphically works for everyone)
It dosn't work for people without powerful enough machines to push a good gui. However, this point is moot anyway, as you really can do everything from a gui now.
# Internet Connection Sharing (yes it would be very helpful)
You can share connections for an entire isp with a linux box.
# NTFS write support (would help people out)
Being worked on. Currently with the newest ntfs drivers you can write to existing files, but not create new ones.
# Installation without a CD or a Floppy (using a Linux box you insert a HDD, format it, put all the installation files, put the HDD in the new computer and boot for installation).
Windows cannot do this. I have done it in linux though. Just look at the knoppix project. You could easily put a knoppix cd onto a hdd and run it the same way.
# Simple folder naming convention like Program Files, Document and settings, (what the heck does var, etc, proc mean anyway?) etc...
Windows has the WORST naming convention ever, baring FreeBSD of course.
Whats important is consistency and lack of overlap, Something Debian does nicely.
# A single distribution that comes out every two years with only non-beta software (version x.xx.xx.xx of something doesn't meant a thing to me either, give me a version 1, 1.5, 2005 or something that Joe Blow can understand please)
Try 'Debian 3.0r1". Debian's stable tree has nothing but tested applications that have been used long enough to know nothing will break. And the 3.0r1 is no more confusing than 95 OSR2 or 98SE.
Or play on the cal-i ran servers like pub.team3d.net.
Bots are stupid and always will be. They can shoot great and react instantly, but they dont know what to do. All you have to do is plant in a weird spot and they'll never defuse, or plant in the open and shoot them through a wall as they all go for the bomb instead of shooting you back.
Bots are good for practice however, And you don't need 1.6. Check out PODBot(google for it) for a nice bot for 1.5 or earlier.
" Hmmmm.... CPL? or QuakeCon?".." being an ego trip for Angel et al."
You no longer have to make that choice -- You said something negative about angel, that means you're banned.
It really is sad how teams can be caught ghosting and not even punished one round, yet Chris "Recon" Hill gets thrown out for doing nothing (He runs his own tournament, but wasnt advertising for it or anything).
As fr the last comment, Theres CyberXGaming, KillerLan, and plenty of other lan tourneys. The only real alternative to cal is UGS, which is good enough. Korea has no action in the CounterStrike team -- All of the good teams are from europe; specificly sweden. Swedens leauge (SEL) is even played from lan centers and taken very seriously, so their teams are always more prepared.
Those numbers are just plain wrong. They count both bots and 'fakefull' servers. Fakefull is a plugin used by desperate admins who cant get users to join their server, so they create fake clients to trick people into joining. Of course without these halflife would still win, but those numbers are still misleading.
It would be %linux, or maybe %vmlinuz depending on how it is setup. This actually works for UML, but obviously not with a standard install.
And you dont type the last char of $PS1, so that # just comments out the line.
If anyone else needs the fun sucked out of a post, contact me.
Does anyone know if the $10/mo is per box? We have 4 cable boxes at the house, and it would be nice to upgrade but an added $40 would suck. does anyone know? The timewarner website is of no help.
Is it atleast giving the old disconnect and warn, or is it jumping to the automatic ban until 2008 like everyone else is unfairly getting?
And thats insecure game design. I'd rather have a game boil down to whoever has lower latency than whoever can hack their client to mangle timestamps.
A better method is what halflife does -- Check clients ping, check what they saw $ping ago, then process. The downside (for us LPBs, but upside for dialups) is I can run past a hallway, see an enemy a the other end, and keep running. then in ~400ms, I'm dragged back to the hallway because according to the server, they shot me.
#1 True, but having their distributor bought out wouldn't help them.
#2 Its optional now, Everyone that wants to test is welcome to, Everyone that isnt dosn't have to. Just dont bitch when 1.6 comes out and theres something you dont like, you had plenty of time to help test and report bugs/inbalances. Personally I have 1.6(steam), 1.5, and 1.3 installed. You're not forced to play any.
#3 Then you dont get to play. Thats why I'm probably not going to use it once they start charging.
Valve (creators of Half Life et al) is doing something similar. Theyre currently testing something called Steam.
Steam lets you download a game you have access to(meaning, subscribed to from steam once the test ends. currently its all free) and play it on the fly. You only download the sounds/maps/textures that are about to be used, so the download time isnt too bad. It caches also, so after the first time you dont notice it as much. This is helping them betatest the new version of Counterstrike much easier, as they can push updates whenever they want and fix minor things without having to wait a few months to release another patch.
While the Steam system works great, Its scarey to think it will enable pay as you play style billing. Who really wants to pay $.50/min to play counterstrike? (example figure, again its currently all free, and in the future they'll start it with comparable prices as a one time fee, but you have no garuntee thats all they'll use it for).
The upside is of course Valve no longer needs a distributer so being bought out would be up to them. This is nice in the face of all the vivendi buyout rumours you see every few months.