If you want your tickrate changes to have any noticeable benefit you must change a few other server variables as well as change the Windows Kernel Timer Resolution (pingboosting)
To change the Windows Kernel Timer Resolution (pingboost a server) all you need to do is run Windows Media Player. It does not need a file open, it just has be running in the background, if you do not do this, your servers fps will be limited to around 64 frames a second.
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I ran into that little gem while researching TF2 server optimizations and saw this as a solution to be able to use tickrate over 66 on Windows while scrolling through the wiki. Although I am personally using Linux for my TF2 server.:) http://whisper.ausgamers.com/wiki/index.php/Tickrate
Reminds me of the time when I recall hearing about some games' servers actually requiring a full 3D graphics card in the box in order to run even though the game server program didn't render anything, just ran in a command prompt window.
This is one major reason why I refuse to use PostgreSQL: VACUUME for the fail.
Why the hell do we have to hand hold PostgreSQL to get it to clean up after its self? MySQL has no problem doing it on its own nor does any other databases that I know of require such an operation. Its also quite lame to run a dedicated daemon to monitor and tell PostgreSQL to clean up its mess. Another thing which was a past problem was the user permissions were just terribly implemented making it a complete joke to use for multi-user environments. Now it does appear that was resolved.
The reason why I really have such a huge problem with VACUUM is that there is just no way in hell that a user program could ever know a good time to issue the cleaning procedure, that should be the database's job, not the user program period because it won't ever know about all the transactions going on and so forth. Imagine if the Linux kernel required root to issue some commands to have the kernel clean up after cache handling messes every once in a while to ensure continuing operation of the operating system and then a couple years later the devs figured creating a dedicated daemon to automate the command issuing tasks would be sufficient... it just doesn't make sense.
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I do truly miss it from the days I had my easy disk 64MB thumb drive. I don't understand why vendors stopped putting the switch on them. I guess they could break over time or been having issues with them getting stuck in a position in the past, but I didn't personally have problems with my easy disk read only switch.
They could at least put them on external hard drives since that would be useful when hooking up a drive to a known virus/malware infested machine to run cleaning/diagnostics software off of and won't have to worry about the drive becoming infested as well.
If this is true, then why are almost all new movies coming out with free MPEG4 copies now?
Umm they're not free since they're usually at least ten dollars extra for that combo edition and they're time limited licensed DRM crap that uses Microsoft's Media Player DRM at that.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day Extreme Edition and Live Free or Die Hard are both examples that I know of that had came with an HD resolution MPEG version of the movie that had a very limited time span that you could actually watch it since the license server only ran for a year and/or valid license after the DVD release.
After that limited time you couldn't watch your "digital copy" on your computer (funny I thought DVDs were already digital...) then those discs became virtually useless unless you figured out a way to strip the DRM from them.
back in 2007, when she got interested in this, a famous African Grey Parrot named Alex lived at a nearby animal cognition lab. So she and her colleagues created some new music, something no bird could have heard before, and they played it for Alex.
"We were shocked, basically, when we put on these tracks and saw him bobbing his head what looked like to the beat," Schachner says.
Unfortunately, Alex died soon after.
Possibly the birds are in pain from such a terrible selection of music that they feel the urge to display shake it off gestures to show their great disgust.
I had my first website on XOOM, anybody remember them? Yes the company that tried to make a living by selling clip art and animated gifs. Unfortunately they always had a robots.txt file that denied web crawlers access to members.xoom.com which means everybody, including me, who had a website on XOOM wasn't archived by the wayback machine.:(
They were eventually partnered or bought by NBC to have iNBC.com of which died within soon after without warning and everything was lost. Well if you can even call it a loss. Yet another example as to why webmasters must ensure to keep a backup of their web sites on their local machine and/or by other means.
I too absolutely hate the new QT interface and I want them to bring back the ability to use the wxWidgets interface that was used in 0.8.6 releases. Apparently the wxWidgets interface of VLC is no longer maintained, therefore they dropped it in the 0.9 releases. Because of this I still continue to use 0.8.6 on my machines.:(
Sierra / Vivendi Games pulled the Tribes 2 master servers and various other classic Sierra Online games last November. Sad thing is that Tribes 2 never had a patch released to make it possible to play online without the authentication system through Sierra's master servers. Sure there are currently a few workarounds, but none are realistic. So basically once Sierra killed the master server I lost my ability to play Tribes 2 online that I paid for six years ago. Hell I even bought the Linux port from tuxgames additional to the Windows release because I enjoyed playing it both on my Linux and Windows machines.
Sierra has pretty much written off the Tribes franchise since the major failure of Tribes Vengeance. There was a rumor a few years back that Sierra was willing to hand over the entire franchise to anybody around $100,000 or so I heard. Apparently its considered worthless to them. Not only would I like to see Tribes 2 return, but also an upgraded Descent 2. Sure there's the D2X and variants projects, but I want a true completely redone Descent 2 for current hardware. I personally didn't care for Descent 3 at all. I always thought that a Descent game for xbox 360 arcade might bring back popularity for the game and give it a chance for current generation of gamers. But of course I'd prefer a PC version (Linux especially;).
I found a much better informative article. Even though the damn site won't let you see the printable version first since web browsers tell the NYT server you came from slashdot.;)
I was in the same boat. I had a few Red hat servers and one Red hat desktop, but then received an email that they were no longer providing up2date support for non-enterprise customers. I then switched to Debian for servers and Ubuntu for my desktop, never had looked back since. Now with my desktop I did try Fedora (its crap), Slackware (good, but package management not to my liking), and then just used Debian for a while until a heard about Ubuntu.
I still got my Red hat 5.2 Deluxe edition box with the discs and manual. It was the first Linux distribution I tried and got me hooked around 1998 or so. I didn't purchase it as it was handed to me by somebody who didn't understand it and gave up. Used it on my old AMD Am486 SX2-66 box back then.:)
Because of my initial good experience with Red hat I didn't look to try out other distributions cause I stuck with what works all the way to Red hat 9 (I kept my servers at 7.3 though at the time, too much bloat in 8.0 - 9).
No Machine so far has been a great alternative for VNC and the like to work with remote Linux desktops and even virtually. I've tried both their free NX server edition and the FreeNX server. FreeNX still needs some love/work in making it easier to get up and going, especially on Debian. The free NX server edition works better than FreeNX because I've been experiencing refresh/display corruption over time using FreeNX and not with the retail/free NX server using the same NX client (of which is always free, currently anyway) on Windows and Linux desktops.
I especially liked how extremely well NX works with slow connections, not necessarily slow on the client side, but with extremely pitiful 128kbps upload speeds from the server such as my home DSL connection when I'm away. I use to prefer VNC until I found out about NX of which is just more enhancements to the X11 protocol over SSH as far as I can tell (I'm definitely no expert as to what all goes in behind the scene). It Just Works(TM).:)
Why bother hacking one when you can get an HDHomeRun that has dual-tuners and it is networked across ethernet! Now it won't directly hook up to any TVs or what not, just computers. MythTV and other favorite software suites works with it just fine. It does have a $180 USD price tag though last I checked of which makes it out of your reach if you're having to get a coupon for a DTV converter box...
I just finally upgraded to 3.0 from 2.0 on my workstation and installed 3.0 on my laptop, and just now there's a hint of an update coming soon... although a few months away, but still I hate being outdated.;)
I haven't even bothered to check, but does openoffice.org finally support automated updates like firefox instead of the old, a bit annoying, download and unpack to install latest version routine?
Well its about damn time! It is my opinion that the reason why the Sharp Zaurus (specifically SL-5500 and onward) never had much of a following is because in order to do GUI applications on the platform you either write GPL software or you must buy a QT license from TrollTech. So, I couldn't legally write a freeware app that wasn't GPL/open sourced without a QT license even though I wasn't doing anything commercial with QT. You might ask then why didn't you use a different GUI toolkit on the Zaurus? Well because there was no such thing as an alternative cause all Linux distributions for the Zaurus used QT (Qtopia) for the GUI, all of them. Even the X server running on the Zaurus was GPL'd and written by TrollTech that had no exceptions clause.
Ever since I looked up all the license material and realized what was going on I have hated TrollTech ever since for being so damn monopolistic on the Zaurus PDAs. Either you do GPL software or you pay a license, there is no option three basically.
Now that TrollTech has been bought by Nokia and for seeing the light of day we can now add QT to the list of WxWidgets and GTK+ of GUI toolkits that are acceptable to be used by any licensed software. And hopefully we can now finally end the license bullshit TrollTech caused on mobile platforms.
Why is it people believe just because somebody doesn't receive weather information over the TV that their lives are at risk and that the government is going to be sued. If anybody is truly serious about staying on top of weather information they would have a weather radio and listen to the National Weather Service at critical times operated by NOAA. There are even radios that can be bought cheaply that automatically turn on whenever severe weather is going on in your county or area.
In my experience of NOAA weather radios they are far more reliable because with all weather radios I've seen so far operate off of batteries which will allow the radio to continue to operate with or without power to the home compared to that of TVs where well: no power, no TV, no weather information.
I have read a few articles that give the impression that once analog broadcasts are turned off then the digital broadcasts will be allowed to boost their power output, but by how much I have no idea. Hopefully this is true because some stations broadcasting in the same county as on the receiving end is just terribly difficult to pickup. The worst so far is WTVF (CBS) here in Nashville, Tennessee that I have noticed.
Sounds about right to me. I have bought various brands of CFLs and they die the same no matter which brand, named like GE or never even heard of brands, die awfully quickly compared to what is said on their packaging. The "outdoor" floodlight CFLs are a complete joke as after a few months they begin to not be as bright they once were or after a few minutes of warming they're back to normal light level, but that's a sign they'll stop working soon.
Meanwhile I've had incandescent bulbs last for years contiguously without replacement such as hallway and living room lights saying on most of the time compared to bedroom lights where they're turned on/off a lot more frequently. Now as for energy savings I haven't seen any noticeable reduction in costs in the electric bill, but I sure as hell have noticed the costs associated with forking over a lot more cash toward an CFL and having to replace it just a few months down the road compared to an incandescent bulb that seem to last forever in comparison.
Another thing is that no matter what kind of CFL I get after a while they hurt my eyes and end up giving me headaches, no noticeable flicker my ass! Then again I'm not an average person since I can see CRTs flicker when they're not running at least 85Hz and everybody else is like "I don't see anything wrong with the monitor".
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I ran into that little gem while researching TF2 server optimizations and saw this as a solution to be able to use tickrate over 66 on Windows while scrolling through the wiki. Although I am personally using Linux for my TF2 server. :)
http://whisper.ausgamers.com/wiki/index.php/Tickrate
Reminds me of the time when I recall hearing about some games' servers actually requiring a full 3D graphics card in the box in order to run even though the game server program didn't render anything, just ran in a command prompt window.
They spent the entire season moving towards something, but we never really got any idea of the something until the last 45 minutes of the season.
So, it's nothing new we haven't already seen on FOX before such as Prison Break (every damn season)...
This is one major reason why I refuse to use PostgreSQL: VACUUME for the fail.
Why the hell do we have to hand hold PostgreSQL to get it to clean up after its self? MySQL has no problem doing it on its own nor does any other databases that I know of require such an operation. Its also quite lame to run a dedicated daemon to monitor and tell PostgreSQL to clean up its mess. Another thing which was a past problem was the user permissions were just terribly implemented making it a complete joke to use for multi-user environments. Now it does appear that was resolved.
The reason why I really have such a huge problem with VACUUM is that there is just no way in hell that a user program could ever know a good time to issue the cleaning procedure, that should be the database's job, not the user program period because it won't ever know about all the transactions going on and so forth. Imagine if the Linux kernel required root to issue some commands to have the kernel clean up after cache handling messes every once in a while to ensure continuing operation of the operating system and then a couple years later the devs figured creating a dedicated daemon to automate the command issuing tasks would be sufficient... it just doesn't make sense.
I do truly miss it from the days I had my easy disk 64MB thumb drive. I don't understand why vendors stopped putting the switch on them. I guess they could break over time or been having issues with them getting stuck in a position in the past, but I didn't personally have problems with my easy disk read only switch.
They could at least put them on external hard drives since that would be useful when hooking up a drive to a known virus/malware infested machine to run cleaning/diagnostics software off of and won't have to worry about the drive becoming infested as well.
If this is true, then why are almost all new movies coming out with free MPEG4 copies now?
Umm they're not free since they're usually at least ten dollars extra for that combo edition and they're time limited licensed DRM crap that uses Microsoft's Media Player DRM at that.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day Extreme Edition and Live Free or Die Hard are both examples that I know of that had came with an HD resolution MPEG version of the movie that had a very limited time span that you could actually watch it since the license server only ran for a year and/or valid license after the DVD release.
After that limited time you couldn't watch your "digital copy" on your computer (funny I thought DVDs were already digital...) then those discs became virtually useless unless you figured out a way to strip the DRM from them.
back in 2007, when she got interested in this, a famous African Grey Parrot named Alex lived at a nearby animal cognition lab. So she and her colleagues created some new music, something no bird could have heard before, and they played it for Alex.
"We were shocked, basically, when we put on these tracks and saw him bobbing his head what looked like to the beat," Schachner says.
Unfortunately, Alex died soon after.
Possibly the birds are in pain from such a terrible selection of music that they feel the urge to display shake it off gestures to show their great disgust.
I had my first website on XOOM, anybody remember them? Yes the company that tried to make a living by selling clip art and animated gifs. Unfortunately they always had a robots.txt file that denied web crawlers access to members.xoom.com which means everybody, including me, who had a website on XOOM wasn't archived by the wayback machine. :(
They were eventually partnered or bought by NBC to have iNBC.com of which died within soon after without warning and everything was lost. Well if you can even call it a loss. Yet another example as to why webmasters must ensure to keep a backup of their web sites on their local machine and/or by other means.
I think I've seen that before, oh wait I know....
Hold on give me a second here...
Ah now I remember, it's called Prison Break, right? ;)
right?.....
I know... I know... get lost, I see how it is!
RFC0 had only NULL content, therefore wasn't retrievable due to pointer dereferencing causing segfaults, oh the headaches...
I too absolutely hate the new QT interface and I want them to bring back the ability to use the wxWidgets interface that was used in 0.8.6 releases. Apparently the wxWidgets interface of VLC is no longer maintained, therefore they dropped it in the 0.9 releases. Because of this I still continue to use 0.8.6 on my machines. :(
Check out GPUReview's video card compare and see what the theoretical performance differences are:
http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php
It does appear that the just announced cards aren't listed on that site yet to compare against unfortunately.
Ahh, well I'm definitely an idiot for not knowing what a time code reader is.
Ummm what? is that suppose to be an April fools joke or you can't tell time?
Last time I checked there are only twenty-four hours in a day...
Yet there's no such thing as fsync() in standard ANSI C. But there is fflush().
A few years back there was a discussion about the confusion on Linux: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/fflush-and-fsync-378849/
Sierra / Vivendi Games pulled the Tribes 2 master servers and various other classic Sierra Online games last November. Sad thing is that Tribes 2 never had a patch released to make it possible to play online without the authentication system through Sierra's master servers. Sure there are currently a few workarounds, but none are realistic. So basically once Sierra killed the master server I lost my ability to play Tribes 2 online that I paid for six years ago. Hell I even bought the Linux port from tuxgames additional to the Windows release because I enjoyed playing it both on my Linux and Windows machines.
Sierra has pretty much written off the Tribes franchise since the major failure of Tribes Vengeance. There was a rumor a few years back that Sierra was willing to hand over the entire franchise to anybody around $100,000 or so I heard. Apparently its considered worthless to them. Not only would I like to see Tribes 2 return, but also an upgraded Descent 2. Sure there's the D2X and variants projects, but I want a true completely redone Descent 2 for current hardware. I personally didn't care for Descent 3 at all. I always thought that a Descent game for xbox 360 arcade might bring back popularity for the game and give it a chance for current generation of gamers. But of course I'd prefer a PC version (Linux especially ;).
I found a much better informative article. Even though the damn site won't let you see the printable version first since web browsers tell the NYT server you came from slashdot. ;)
I was in the same boat. I had a few Red hat servers and one Red hat desktop, but then received an email that they were no longer providing up2date support for non-enterprise customers. I then switched to Debian for servers and Ubuntu for my desktop, never had looked back since. Now with my desktop I did try Fedora (its crap), Slackware (good, but package management not to my liking), and then just used Debian for a while until a heard about Ubuntu.
I still got my Red hat 5.2 Deluxe edition box with the discs and manual. It was the first Linux distribution I tried and got me hooked around 1998 or so. I didn't purchase it as it was handed to me by somebody who didn't understand it and gave up. Used it on my old AMD Am486 SX2-66 box back then. :)
Because of my initial good experience with Red hat I didn't look to try out other distributions cause I stuck with what works all the way to Red hat 9 (I kept my servers at 7.3 though at the time, too much bloat in 8.0 - 9).
Yeah no kidding. I noticed a week ago that it now requires me to login in order to view the "Moderation Comment Log".
No Machine so far has been a great alternative for VNC and the like to work with remote Linux desktops and even virtually. I've tried both their free NX server edition and the FreeNX server. FreeNX still needs some love/work in making it easier to get up and going, especially on Debian. The free NX server edition works better than FreeNX because I've been experiencing refresh/display corruption over time using FreeNX and not with the retail/free NX server using the same NX client (of which is always free, currently anyway) on Windows and Linux desktops.
:)
I especially liked how extremely well NX works with slow connections, not necessarily slow on the client side, but with extremely pitiful 128kbps upload speeds from the server such as my home DSL connection when I'm away. I use to prefer VNC until I found out about NX of which is just more enhancements to the X11 protocol over SSH as far as I can tell (I'm definitely no expert as to what all goes in behind the scene). It Just Works(TM).
Why bother hacking one when you can get an HDHomeRun that has dual-tuners and it is networked across ethernet! Now it won't directly hook up to any TVs or what not, just computers. MythTV and other favorite software suites works with it just fine. It does have a $180 USD price tag though last I checked of which makes it out of your reach if you're having to get a coupon for a DTV converter box...
I just finally upgraded to 3.0 from 2.0 on my workstation and installed 3.0 on my laptop, and just now there's a hint of an update coming soon... although a few months away, but still I hate being outdated. ;)
I haven't even bothered to check, but does openoffice.org finally support automated updates like firefox instead of the old, a bit annoying, download and unpack to install latest version routine?
Well its about damn time! It is my opinion that the reason why the Sharp Zaurus (specifically SL-5500 and onward) never had much of a following is because in order to do GUI applications on the platform you either write GPL software or you must buy a QT license from TrollTech. So, I couldn't legally write a freeware app that wasn't GPL/open sourced without a QT license even though I wasn't doing anything commercial with QT. You might ask then why didn't you use a different GUI toolkit on the Zaurus? Well because there was no such thing as an alternative cause all Linux distributions for the Zaurus used QT (Qtopia) for the GUI, all of them. Even the X server running on the Zaurus was GPL'd and written by TrollTech that had no exceptions clause.
Ever since I looked up all the license material and realized what was going on I have hated TrollTech ever since for being so damn monopolistic on the Zaurus PDAs. Either you do GPL software or you pay a license, there is no option three basically.
Now that TrollTech has been bought by Nokia and for seeing the light of day we can now add QT to the list of WxWidgets and GTK+ of GUI toolkits that are acceptable to be used by any licensed software. And hopefully we can now finally end the license bullshit TrollTech caused on mobile platforms.
Why is it people believe just because somebody doesn't receive weather information over the TV that their lives are at risk and that the government is going to be sued. If anybody is truly serious about staying on top of weather information they would have a weather radio and listen to the National Weather Service at critical times operated by NOAA. There are even radios that can be bought cheaply that automatically turn on whenever severe weather is going on in your county or area.
In my experience of NOAA weather radios they are far more reliable because with all weather radios I've seen so far operate off of batteries which will allow the radio to continue to operate with or without power to the home compared to that of TVs where well: no power, no TV, no weather information.
I have read a few articles that give the impression that once analog broadcasts are turned off then the digital broadcasts will be allowed to boost their power output, but by how much I have no idea. Hopefully this is true because some stations broadcasting in the same county as on the receiving end is just terribly difficult to pickup. The worst so far is WTVF (CBS) here in Nashville, Tennessee that I have noticed.
I assume this wasn't all invented by Shampoo by any chance?
Sounds about right to me. I have bought various brands of CFLs and they die the same no matter which brand, named like GE or never even heard of brands, die awfully quickly compared to what is said on their packaging. The "outdoor" floodlight CFLs are a complete joke as after a few months they begin to not be as bright they once were or after a few minutes of warming they're back to normal light level, but that's a sign they'll stop working soon.
Meanwhile I've had incandescent bulbs last for years contiguously without replacement such as hallway and living room lights saying on most of the time compared to bedroom lights where they're turned on/off a lot more frequently. Now as for energy savings I haven't seen any noticeable reduction in costs in the electric bill, but I sure as hell have noticed the costs associated with forking over a lot more cash toward an CFL and having to replace it just a few months down the road compared to an incandescent bulb that seem to last forever in comparison.
Another thing is that no matter what kind of CFL I get after a while they hurt my eyes and end up giving me headaches, no noticeable flicker my ass! Then again I'm not an average person since I can see CRTs flicker when they're not running at least 85Hz and everybody else is like "I don't see anything wrong with the monitor".