The latest version of the DirectX 9 SDK (April 2005) pisses me off. You can no longer use Visual Studio 6.0 with it, Microsoft forces you to upgrade to a newer version of Visual Studio. I downloaded the free Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition which is actually pretty good, but it still pisses me off that I can no longer use my legit copy of Visual Studio 6.0. The free express version doesn't come with a resource editor.
It is possible to get the latest DirectX SDK working with Visual Studio 6.0, but it's a pain in the ass. Here is a website that goes into detail on howto get it working.
Here are some of the steps you have to go through (involves installing/uninstalling multiple different DirectX SDK versions):
1. Download the April 2005 DirectX SDK (scroll down the page to the "Older SDK Releases" section
2. Download the April 2005 MS Platform SDK (scroll down the page and download PSDK-x86.exe)
3. Go to Keith's site and download the April or June DirectX 9.0c D3DX Only Installer Download
4. Assuming that you are using the Summer or October 2004 DirectX SDK, go to the Lib folder and copy the Dxerr9.lib and Dinput8.lib files to a temp folder.
5. Uninstall the current DirectX SDK.
6. Install the MS Platform SDK (assuming you don't already have the latest version installed)
7. Install the April 2005 DirectX SDK
8. Install the D3DX runtime files you downloaded from Keith's site
9. Reboot
10. Go to the Lib\x86\ folder where you installed the April 2005 SDK and backup the Dxerr9.lib and dinput8.lib files
11. Copy the Dxerr9.lib and dinput8.lib files from your previous Summer 2004 or October 2004 into the \Lib\x86 folder.
And here is the reason why DirectX is now broken with Visual Studio 6.0
In the case of the Dxerr9.lib file, the reason for this is that MS compiled that library (don't ask me why they did this with only this file) with buffer overrun/security checking (as they do with all their.Net libs now,
hence the reason VS6 no longer works with DX) and any library function which makes calls to that library (e.g. to DXGetErrorString9) will cause linker errors
Also:
In the case of the dinput8.lib file, you will get this error when compiling a debug app. For some unGodly reason, this file seems to contain corrupt and/or incorrect debugging information. So you will see something like this if you don't use the older version. Incidentally, when comparing these legacy files, in April 2005 SDK, MS decided to include versions that are older than those in the October 2004 Update. Don't ask.
They broke Visual Studio 6 on purpose to force developers to upgrade to a more recent version of Visual Studio (with.net no doubt).. Luckily for a poor person (student) like myself, Microsoft offers free Visual Studio versions (Express Edition), which you can download here.
Oh, I thought he was referring to the more recent Wolfenstein 3D, not that OOOOOOLD pre first person shooter version.
Castle Wolfenstein was released in 1981 (I wasn't born until 1982).
For me the original Wolfenstein was always Wolfenstein 3D released in 1992.
I can see now how I could have made that mistake =)
I never played the original Castle Wolfenstein, but I loved Wolfenstein 3D, well, the first one I played was the "prequel" Spear of Destiny before I played Wolf 3D. Wolfenstein pretty much got me into computer games, once Doom1 and 2 came out, I was hooked on first person shooters for good (followed by the amazing quake1, 2 & 3).
EA would probably have gone the way of early computer game leaders like Broderbund and Sierra
The funny thing is, EA ate and shat out one of those two companies and they now own a stake in the other one (Broderbund was bought by Ubisoft, which EA now owns 19.99% a stake in). EA going the way of sierra is like saying "EA died and bought themselves out".
The CPU in the v1.x just isn't fast enough to run the dd-wrt firmware.
Not true. I have a WRT54G v1.1 and have been using DD-WRT v23 Final for several months now without a problem. When I used the "official" linksys firmware, I had to constantly reset the modem every day or so, but not after I installed the DD-WRT firmware. I noticed my bittorrent speeds actually increased when I switched to the dd-wrt firmware. I have it traffic shaping bittorent too, so that it doesn't hog all my cable bandwidth.
I only have 4 computers connected to it (2 wireless, 2 wired) and the speeds are amazing. My mom used to always complain about losing her wireless signal on her laptop when I was using the standard linksys firmware, but not after I switched to DD-WRT. I don't have all the extra features enabled though (maybe that's why it runs fine on my v1.1 cpu).
I've been using DD-WRT v23 for several months now and I love it, it's very stable from what I've seen. And bittorrent doesn't kill my connection like the official firmware used to do. QoS is nice and easy to configure, etc.
My router's only been up for 13 days, but thats due to a power failure.
I've been using DD-WRT v23 for several months now without issues. It's the best firmware I've ever used on my old WRT54G v1.1. Ten times better than the official linksys firmware. It's rock solid stable IMO (it is using a linux kernel after all).
I am using DD-WRT on my WRT54G v1.1 and I love it. I used to have alot of problems with bittorrent and having to reset my modem all the time (with the official firmware from linksys). I got sick of linksys never posting an updated firmware with bugfixes, so I tried out the DD-WRT firmware and I haven't looked back since. There are so many more features, it's just an amazing package. Setting up QoS with dd-wrt couldn't be easier. It's feature packed, and it runs linux, what more could you ask for:)
Disks under ntfs become so badly fragmented that it can take the best part of a day to repair a large partition.
My disks only get really fragmented when I download several gigabytes worth of files via bittorrent. Once a month I need to defrag, and it takes me less than an hour to defrag both partitions on my 250gig SATA-II hard drive on my new pc. On my old pc though (with a smaller 120gig IDE hard drive), it took much longer to defrag.
I am not a Google user and Adobe can't dare to bundle anything with programs my segment uses. Also I am on OS X , thank God there is no "toolbar mechanism" on OS X (yet!)
Apple isn't much better with their "bundling" of software. In order to install iTunes in Windows, you are forced to install Quicktime aswell. Supposedely because iTunes uses Quicktime to play songs?!. They could have just included a quicktime dll in iTunes if iTunes really did use some quicktime technology to play mp3s. But instead, they just slip you their media player aswell and have it set (by default) to load into the system tray whenever you start windows. Yet another service that installs itself into the startup list, making windows take even longer to boot up.
I bought a copy of windows XP when I built my new gaming rig. It's kinda hard to build your own gaming rig without a copy of Windows. Sure, I could have pirated a copy like my friend does, but I rather just spend $100 (Canadian) and not have to worry about it.
I love linux as much as the next slashdotter, but linux has a pretty limited selection of video games. I play Oblivion, Call of Duty 2, etc.. I own a LOT of games that only work with windows, so I'm stuck using windows. I guess I could blame the developers for not writing cross-platform games, but it's not really their fault. Windows has the biggest market, so it's cheaper and easier for a game studio to design a game that only works with Windows. Of course there are some companies that I respect because they do release their games for multiple platforms (id software and epic to name a few)
Hard drives and blank media are so cheap right now, I don't see why people would need to store their backups online. I bought two 250 gig Western Digital SATA2 harddrives for exactly $200 Canadian ($100 each), and thats after adding the 15% sales tax (I live in Ontario). I also bought a spool of 100 blank Maxell DVD+R's for ~$33 after tax. It cost me more to buy the 100 empty slim cases than the 100 blank dvds oddly enough.
I'd suggest doing a series connection, cool water going to the chipset then CPU because its heat output should be much smaller than the CPU.
Personally I'd do it the other way around, have the cool water going to the cpu first, then to the chipset. The cpu is going to generate alot more heat than the chipset, so you want to provide it with the coolest water first IMO. Everything else you mentioned I would agree with though (definitely avoid using Y splitters).
I look at benchmarks the same way. The only thing that is important to me is how the cpu/video card/[insert hardware] performs in real world situations. I'm a gamer so I tend to look at real game benchmarks and avoid crap like 3Dmarks. The people that tweak their systems every last bit so they can get an extra 100 score in 3dmarks are just dick-wavers IMO.
In 1987 a bill to place the Fairness Doctrine into federal law passed the House by 3 to 1, and the Senate by nearly 2 to 1, but it was vetoed by President Ronald Reagan. Among those voting for the bill were Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.). In 1989 the Fairness Doctrine easily passed the House again, but didn't proceed further as President George Bush threatened to veto it. In 1991, hearings were again held on the doctrine, but President Bush's ongoing veto threat stymied passage.
Sadly, I fear that Apple is becoming no different than others.
After owning 2 ipods within the period of a year and a half, I would definitely say Apple is becoming no different than others. It took me 6 months for them to replace my first ipod under warranty, each time I sent it in to them, they would send it back a few weeks later supposedely "fixed". But, the same issues would shortly return a day or two after I got it back (songs skipping, hard drive whirring sounds, crashes, lockups, unable to boot it up at all, unable to sync my song list via itunes, etc..). After the 3rd time they finally agreed to replace it with a new unit, which is working fine so far (only had it for 2 months so far). The only good part wa that my old ipod was a 4th gen 20gig ipod and they replaced it with a 5th gen 30gig video ipod.
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The latest version of the DirectX 9 SDK (April 2005) pisses me off. You can no longer use Visual Studio 6.0 with it, Microsoft forces you to upgrade to a newer version of Visual Studio. I downloaded the free Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition which is actually pretty good, but it still pisses me off that I can no longer use my legit copy of Visual Studio 6.0. The free express version doesn't come with a resource editor.
It is possible to get the latest DirectX SDK working with Visual Studio 6.0, but it's a pain in the ass. Here is a website that goes into detail on howto get it working.
Here are some of the steps you have to go through (involves installing/uninstalling multiple different DirectX SDK versions):
And here is the reason why DirectX is now broken with Visual Studio 6.0
Also:
They broke Visual Studio 6 on purpose to force developers to upgrade to a more recent version of Visual Studio (with .net no doubt).. Luckily for a poor person (student) like myself, Microsoft offers free Visual Studio versions (Express Edition), which you can download here.
Oh, I thought he was referring to the more recent Wolfenstein 3D, not that OOOOOOLD pre first person shooter version. Castle Wolfenstein was released in 1981 (I wasn't born until 1982). For me the original Wolfenstein was always Wolfenstein 3D released in 1992. I can see now how I could have made that mistake =) I never played the original Castle Wolfenstein, but I loved Wolfenstein 3D, well, the first one I played was the "prequel" Spear of Destiny before I played Wolf 3D. Wolfenstein pretty much got me into computer games, once Doom1 and 2 came out, I was hooked on first person shooters for good (followed by the amazing quake1, 2 & 3).
The funny thing is, EA ate and shat out one of those two companies and they now own a stake in the other one (Broderbund was bought by Ubisoft, which EA now owns 19.99% a stake in). EA going the way of sierra is like saying "EA died and bought themselves out".
So I'm a retard for liking Wolfenstein, Doom1-2 & Quake1-3. Gee thanks.
So you insult shoot em up retards, but than you whine that a first person shooter that you like doesn't make the list?
Not true. I have a WRT54G v1.1 and have been using DD-WRT v23 Final for several months now without a problem. When I used the "official" linksys firmware, I had to constantly reset the modem every day or so, but not after I installed the DD-WRT firmware. I noticed my bittorrent speeds actually increased when I switched to the dd-wrt firmware. I have it traffic shaping bittorent too, so that it doesn't hog all my cable bandwidth.
I only have 4 computers connected to it (2 wireless, 2 wired) and the speeds are amazing. My mom used to always complain about losing her wireless signal on her laptop when I was using the standard linksys firmware, but not after I switched to DD-WRT. I don't have all the extra features enabled though (maybe that's why it runs fine on my v1.1 cpu).
I've been using DD-WRT v23 for several months now and I love it, it's very stable from what I've seen. And bittorrent doesn't kill my connection like the official firmware used to do. QoS is nice and easy to configure, etc.
My router's only been up for 13 days, but thats due to a power failure.
Firmware: DD-WRT v23 (12/25/05)
Time: 00:27:13 up 13 days, 27 min, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
I've been using DD-WRT v23 for several months now without issues. It's the best firmware I've ever used on my old WRT54G v1.1. Ten times better than the official linksys firmware. It's rock solid stable IMO (it is using a linux kernel after all).
I am using DD-WRT on my WRT54G v1.1 and I love it. I used to have alot of problems with bittorrent and having to reset my modem all the time (with the official firmware from linksys). I got sick of linksys never posting an updated firmware with bugfixes, so I tried out the DD-WRT firmware and I haven't looked back since. There are so many more features, it's just an amazing package. Setting up QoS with dd-wrt couldn't be easier. It's feature packed, and it runs linux, what more could you ask for :)
I don't know about nanodots, but I've had some experience with microdots when I was younger.
I stopped using Acrobat reader a long time ago. It's so frigging slow and it's a huge resource hog.
I use FoxItReader. It's super fast, the download is less than 1 meg. The only downside I've found is that it only works with Windows.
I bought a copy of windows XP when I built my new gaming rig. It's kinda hard to build your own gaming rig without a copy of Windows. Sure, I could have pirated a copy like my friend does, but I rather just spend $100 (Canadian) and not have to worry about it.
I love linux as much as the next slashdotter, but linux has a pretty limited selection of video games. I play Oblivion, Call of Duty 2, etc.. I own a LOT of games that only work with windows, so I'm stuck using windows. I guess I could blame the developers for not writing cross-platform games, but it's not really their fault. Windows has the biggest market, so it's cheaper and easier for a game studio to design a game that only works with Windows. Of course there are some companies that I respect because they do release their games for multiple platforms (id software and epic to name a few)
Hard drives and blank media are so cheap right now, I don't see why people would need to store their backups online. I bought two 250 gig Western Digital SATA2 harddrives for exactly $200 Canadian ($100 each), and thats after adding the 15% sales tax (I live in Ontario). I also bought a spool of 100 blank Maxell DVD+R's for ~$33 after tax. It cost me more to buy the 100 empty slim cases than the 100 blank dvds oddly enough.
What about this petition
I look at benchmarks the same way. The only thing that is important to me is how the cpu/video card/[insert hardware] performs in real world situations. I'm a gamer so I tend to look at real game benchmarks and avoid crap like 3Dmarks. The people that tweak their systems every last bit so they can get an extra 100 score in 3dmarks are just dick-wavers IMO.
So you've had sex? ... What's it like?
Here's a quote from the fifth paragraph:
it's in a english-US directory "en-US" but the noactivex.html file is written in what looks like german:
I just tried it again to try and reproduce it and I now get this: http://safety.live.com/utility/site/default_Serve
Cool beta!