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Science / Re: The Ye Science Thread

« on: March 14, 2014, 05:26:13 PM »

Wonder if this will turn out to be something remarkable? Hopefully it's not something more ordinary that's being over-hyped. But anyway:

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=42751  <- press conference scheduled this Monday for "Major Discovery at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics"

"I have a theory. A theory which is mine. That dinosaurs are skinny at the head, fat in the middle, and skinny at the end. That is my theory and that theory is mine."

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Skins, Models and Maps / Re: Faulty WAL files on Servers

« on: March 14, 2014, 05:22:56 PM »

Yes, that sentence doesn't parse very, my bad. It was long into the day for me. The two files I posted are identical to each other in content. You'll overwrite the old ones with these new ones.

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Skins, Models and Maps / Faulty WAL files on Servers

« on: March 11, 2014, 02:02:56 AM »

Maps affected:
subtransit
subtransit2
nobeer

The WAL files textures/mia/xsinsign.wal and textures/nobeer/sinsign.wal as downloaded from the TS have invalid offsets and cause R1q2 clients to terminate abruptly when the maps listed above are active. The fix is to hack the wals and update them per attached files. They are identical files with different names but once hacked, they load and display correctly.

Updates to servers and the TS HTTP server are recommended.

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Tech Junkie Lounge / Re: Funny Pictures (geek flavored)

« on: March 04, 2014, 08:19:59 PM »

We were suburban bordering on rural. We were surrounded by farms but it was a developed neighborhood of 1 acre lots built in 1952. We walked to school along the farm road, up hill, both ways, in the snow.

I think we were off the party line system by 1970 if not before but I do remember named exchanges too. The party lines were conventional ring but they used 20Hz and 30Hz ring voltages. The bell wiring was connected to a filter in the network block to select the ringer frequency desired. I think I might have a couple of rotary phones in the attic... I'll have to clean them up and offer them as antiques.

I have a vintage IMSAI front panel from an S-100 bus computer too.

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Tech Junkie Lounge / Re: Funny Pictures (geek flavored)

« on: March 04, 2014, 07:27:21 AM »

50 cents for a payphone call? LOL! I can remember when it was 10 cents.

Where I grew up we even had party lines. This was where two homes shared a line, they used two ring voltage frequencies to selectively ring the parties. Occasionally if you went to use the phone you'd hear the other party using it. Courtesy dictated you immediately hang up the phone and not listen in. You'd wait a while and pick it up again to see whether the line was available.

God I'm old...

 

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Quake / Re: Quake runs 100% CPU, why?

« on: February 27, 2014, 10:06:50 PM »

When I say %100 cpu I refer to one logical processor unit.  On my single core its one hyperthread.

The only thing I could get out of strace that seems to occupy the majority is

"gettimeofday ({##,##}, {###,###})" = 0

# being numbers.  Which is very similar to KDE traces which are usually filled with those gettimeofdays.  KDE is C++ but I think it is the libc time getting function.  KDE does not run 100% but then again the gettimeofday's are slightly less frequent and they subside to some extent eventually.  Makes it very difficult to trace bugs.

In Q2 they appear in blocks of about 20 gettimeofday's.  There is also a

clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {###,###}) = 0

also in blocks of 10-20, interspersed in the trace that does appear to be overtly connected with the gettimeofday.


When I run on the run level daemon, the daemon handler probably some how puts a check on the  gettimeofday  function through libc.  It probably running in between the program and the libc.  Its job is to handle these things after all.

Which may explain why when I run under the daemon -- I can't jump very high.  Sort of.


Urban terror also runs in a similar fashion.


All this is fine by me anyways, I was just wondering if there was conclusively a rational for running consecutive calls to the time.  Which if you did not know happens during server client sync.  Maybe in other instances.  Perhaps several functions all call for time and the time calls all get executed at once.  Which would mencingly  suggest its ease of aggregation in one single time call with 0 rewrite.   No?


Other interesting things in strace.... when handswitching, you can see the array search of the the config settings for the static change on the local client.  It searches until it finds it.  So if this and other game action sets where on top it would perhaps leave open the possibility of slightly optimized usage.  Although the overhead for that array is nearly nil it is getting stronger everyday.

Oh. You're on Linux. I didn't notice that fact before but I don't think you mentioned it originally.

Build a non-debug version of your client and run it outside KDE. Strace uses lots and lots of CPU to trace your program and isn't intended to be running except for detailed debugging. Asking why your client uses 100% CPU in strace mode is like asking why is the sun hot... answer: it does that.

As for the rest of the above quoted text. WTF are you talking about, dude?

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/dev/random / Re: The Strange and Interesting Thread

« on: February 19, 2014, 03:43:11 PM »

He kills 77 people... and gets to play video games in prison?

He killed eight. Wounded 69.

I didn't see anything about the 69 being wounded. The wording led me to believe he killed 8 with a single bomb and then killed 69 more with bullets at a different location.

Ah, I somehow interpreted it to mean wounded. I looked it up and yes, he killed those 69. It's amazing he only got 21 years. He should have gotten 50 years for each of the 77. He should never be released and he should be put in a deep dark hole for the rest of his life.

Breivik, a far-right fanatic, is serving a 21-year prison sentence for killing eight people in a bombing at the government headquarters and 69 more in a shooting spree at the left-wing Labor party's youth camp in 2011.

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/dev/random / Re: The Strange and Interesting Thread

« on: February 18, 2014, 07:10:07 PM »

He kills 77 people... and gets to play video games in prison?

He killed eight. Wounded 69. Have some compassion. He's only doing 21 years for the crimes. He only wants his PS2 replaced by something newer. I'd give him my Pong game console if I still had it. Maybe he'd go insane listening to it for 21 years.

As warden, I'd deny every "demand" he made and take away every luxury he has now, give him a Bible and allow no phone calls except to his lawyer. Visitors only one per week.

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Quake / Re: chat command for autorespond Engine/Version

« on: February 16, 2014, 09:07:04 PM »

What is command to find out what GFX u have in r1q2

cant remember didnt use it for few years... 

I don't remember any command, I've always used the Esc key to access the menu and manipulated the video mode that way.

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Quake FAQs, HOWTOs, and Articles / Re: Any links to Visual Studio 2008 ?

« on: February 16, 2014, 08:44:36 PM »

I strongly recommend VS2010 Express Edition for Q2 development if you are looking for a freebie compiler/IDE since that is what R1ch used for his r1q2 client/server. The link quadz provided gets you the old source but r1ch fixed a lot of bugs that existed in the old sources.

The Express Editions are all available for free download and I believe they all still support building native code in C/C++. I have a paid-for edition of VS2010 Ultimate that still has to redeem itself before I pop for an update so I can't say what the 2013 edition can do or how well it upgrades projects from 2005/2008/2010 editions but I know 2010 was better at upgrading from VC++ 6.0 projects than 2008 was.

If you use other compilers then you are off on your own because unless someone else has experience with those environments you won't get much help.

GCC is used in Linux and the 3.20/3.21 and the r1q2 code all compiles "correctly" on most Linux platforms.

I also have compiled r1ch's code in Xcode on OS X and it works as a server. Clients are more difficult and doing it on a Mac is not recommended for a novice.

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Quake FAQs, HOWTOs, and Articles / Re: The multiplayer deathmatch frag count always shows 0

« on: February 16, 2014, 08:21:00 PM »

Which mod is it? Is the source code available?

No, there is no change to an INI to repair this.

The change would have to happen in the server code since the frag count is sent as a status message to the client and the index to that status message is supposed to be STAT_FRAGS, which always has the numerical value 14. The HUD message is sent by the mod to the client and the client displays the items in the HUD per the messages. If the person coding that mod tried to insert new HUD items or change the values of the first 16 STAT items then the HUD will be screwed up when used with standard clients.

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Religion, and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist / Re: Death To *.*

« on: February 16, 2014, 08:09:13 PM »

-Iraq is more better with Sadam. AT least he controls everything.
-Libya with Gaddafi. Wasn't he starting to be supportive to the west?
-oh shit Syria. Wonder what would happen if Bashir was overthrown?

BTW I forgot about Egypt.

Seems to me that these Islam nations needs to be restrained by a dictator otherwise all hell breaks loose.

This was the foreign policy of the US and the European powers post-WWII, it didn't matter who was in charge as long as they were pro-west and anti-communist. This is why Iran, Iraq, Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, Libya all exist. Israel was also carved out as the Jewish homeland by Britain and the United States. The Shah of Iran was set up, all of west Africa was set up under the "protection" of the French and other European powers post-war... all to make sure communism didn't take root in those "areas of interest". Now we are dealing with chickens that have come home to roost.

Gaddafi shut his pie hole when Reagan slapped him down by bombing his house, he never postured as a strong man in international affairs again. But Libyans can hate the western powers for not taking him out and saving them decades of suffering and we shouldn't blame them in the least, the US foreign policy toward their country and their leader was idiotic.

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Religion, and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist / Re: Ye Religion Thread

« on: February 16, 2014, 07:58:19 PM »

Reality show snake handler dies from snake bite - http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20140216/NEWS01/140216005/Reality-show-snake-handler-dies-from-snake-bite

Best quote from the story - "Coots and the show's co-star, Rev. Andrew Hamblin, believe in a passage from the Gospel of Mark that suggests a poisonous snakebite won't harm them if they are anointed by God's power"

The passage says you can pick up serpents, it doesn't say you won't get bit. It also doesn't mention "poisonous serpents". Personally, if they want to do that, it's fine with me, I only hope they achieve commune with God before they add to the gene pool.

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Quake / Re: PAK file viewer for Linux?

« on: February 05, 2014, 09:42:46 PM »

The PACK format predates ZIP archives by a few years. PKPAK might handle it but i don't think it was ever open sourced. Phil Katz was the author but the ZIP format superseded it. In actual historical context ZIP files are glorified PAK files.

I made some tests on OS X but none of my ZIP handlers recognize the PAK file format and Pakscape isn't open source so you have to either use a Windows VM or WINE to run it.

Since Q2 knows how to extract the modules from PAK files, the code to do it must exist in the Q2 sources but I've never looked into it to see what could be done to make an open-source extractor for Linux and Windows to replace Pakscape. Some ambitious young programmer might want to take this up.

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Q2 Training Camp / Re: A Quake2 Theory Guide By Peter Briggs

« on: January 18, 2014, 06:56:04 PM »

I never followed the dueling scene so I have no idea who this guy was. It's nice to know he retired with a good opinion of himself. I read his work with interest and it was hard to get past some of the spelling errors (stirs for stairs) and the bragging about inventing tactics but it was informative.