Quote from Nobo :

Whats going on there?

It was an accident in the testing of the LFS forum upgrade. I had thought that Victor/Bob had sent out a PM or email explaining this though

It's nothing to worry about and you can delete it.

Edit: May I remind you that no one on the LFS moderator te ... ask you for your password at any time.

http://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/Keys#LFS_World_commands_in-game contains a comprehensive list

Quote from S20LEN :

So if i get it from where you recomended £5pm for 47 slots could i make 2 servers out of that for the same price?

I'd suggest talking to the people who offer those services directly (http://www.storm-servers.net/contact.htm for storm-servers)

Several months ago the naming scheme of several files that LFS uses was altered. It's likely that the files you have downloaded do not conform to this naming scheme.

Ian wrote a handy tool which can help you automatically resolve this:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=34759

Sorry, but you're not being very clear with what you're trying to achieve. You appear to want to run an online server, but you're also implying that you can't play online normally. Can you clarify? If you're running a very old version of LFS you will need to update for various reasons.

If you're just trying to run a server have you seen this thread:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=9572

I appreciate you want help, but without being less vague it's very hard for us to give you any at all...

Either wait til Friday, or use this form and ask nicely;
http://www.lfs.net/?page=mailus

It's there by design. and no, although you can rename it if you wanted.

Quote from morpha :

Oh and please upload the gif to your own webspace

mickyc30 the image is pointing at the attachment in the lfs forum. If the attachment is removed the image will not show.

It's also considered very bad manners to include/link to images not hosted on your own webpage (this is known as hot linking). The reason for this is that if your site gets hit by a lot of traffic it will also affect the site the image is hosted at.

Also the original hoster could replace the image with something rude

I don't believe that ghost mod has been updated for the latest version of InSim, therefore it won't work.

It's in the works (apologies for my tardy-ness), I'm shuffling work and personal commitments a lot at the moment, hence it not being done. I have every intention of doing so, however (just bear with me, if you can )

At the end of the day it's not just what you drive, what you do for a living (which does affect it), or the risk of what you may hit, but also the risk of the vehicle sketching out and causing an accident in itself.

Insurance is nuts at the end of the day, but it's a necessary evil unfortunately

The software running the forum has been updated It's not just you.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Vi is a bitch and shouldn't be allowed. Pico I can cope with for simple tasks, but I never got around to learning the shortcuts in Vi and I still don't even know how to exit the editor!

I'll give you that on first glance Vi(m) is complicated to use. I won't deny it, however once you get used to it the handy things you can do all from the keyboard outweigh the simplicity of alternatives like nano, pico, etc. I spend a lot of my time remotely connected to servers, both Windows and unix-like, both with very fast connections and very slow connections. Apps like Vi(m) just work perfectly regardless at the end of the day, hence why I had put time into it.

The sad thing I occasionally find myself trying to save things by using the various shortcuts, in other programs

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Emacs is a bag of shit too. I don't care how many anoraks tell me it's coding nirvana, it's still Emacs and I still don't want to know. Emacs is like perl - it's a behemoth that needs to be destroyed.

I'm with you on Emacs though. Whilst similiarly complicated as Vi(m) I don't see any benefit for the massive number of plugins to it. It strikes me much like eclipse - just too much.

Quote from Ian.H :

Cream's quite a nice extended gVim if using on windoze.

I shall check it out

Quote from Ian.H :

For PHP, PHPEd pretty much wears the crown IMO.

Now it's funny you say that. Many years ago I used to use very early versions of PHPed and swore by it. Fantastic little application in it's day, but the whole integrate IDE thing started getting on my tits.. Do you feel it's still worth using in this day?

Hmm, I was under the impression that the friend stuff was gonna be disabled Guess not..

Furthest down I can ask anyone about would be about mid-Devon, I'm afraid Fordie If it's of any use I can poke them and see what they say, but I fear that may not be far enough into pirate territory...

I will point out that a lot of the social networking gumpft has already been disabled As for the bookmarks and tags.. meh I think other things were being concentrated on at the time.

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

I did understand that (after a few goes, admittedly :shy!

I did reword it a few times, so I apologise if you got it between edits The nytol I took has kinda worn off now though

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

I know, I was just as bad when I was trying Python earlier

You'll wear out your tab key if you use Python too much It's a known bug!

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

Out of curiosity, why doesn't the output get used as the message?

C (and C++, which is just an extension to C at the end of the day) isn't memory managed (as such - I'm not going to get into the complicated argument of user malloc'ed memory, and stuff that the compiler will magically free in certain situations as its a bit complicated), which means you have a fair bit of control over how everything gets allocated, etc.

Character arrays (also known as NULL terminated strings - this is why you tend to write to length of string - 1, so that you can terminate the string with a \0 - InSim isn't fussy in most cases, however it's still good practise tbh) are pretty much your basic string. It's effectively an area of contiguous memory which you write to. In this case it's 64 bytes all sat next to each other. What strncpy and it's cousin memcpy do is take one string (or item of memory) and copy it verbatim into your destination area of memory (in this case a 64 byte area of memory, which is your character array).

Since your dealing with memory you don't need to assign the return value to your Msg variable, as you've just written the location to which it is actually stored in.

strncpy returns pointer to the location of the memory of which it's written to. So (if you're still following), when you assign the output of strncpy to your Msg variable you're trying to assign a pointer to a character array, and that pointer is pointing to the location you've just written to. So ineffect you're trying to overwrite the memory you're pointing to by telling something that you're pointing to that memory (I've tried really hard to make that easy to understand, but I may have lost some people here, I fear). This is daft for obvious reasons, although perfectly "valid" if the datatypes all matched up (which they don't in this case). In the compiler's eyes this is invalid because a pointer to a character array and a character array are fundamentally 2 different data types. It doesn't care too much that you're doing something potentially a little silly

Now that may be a little confusing, but I think that's about as clear as I can make it without turning into a whole tutorial on C and memory Hopefully it's relatively understandable?

Edit: If not gimme a buzz via pm and we'll figure out a way of getting in touch if you like. I can't spare a lot of time in the evenings, but we can figure something out...

A char * is a pointer to the location of a character array in the memory (think of it as an address). Depending on how pedantic your compiler is setup to be, will depend on whether or not it'll allow you to do the code that was given as an example originally.

EDIT: Whoa, I've just noticed what you're doing in the code above (I need to start reading more carefully today).

Dont' assign the output of strncpy to your message. What you want to be doing is something like this;
or, if your compiler is really fussy;

You're more in the realm of C, rather than what may normally be considered the ++ parts of C++

You'll notice I use strncpy, rather than strcpy. The reason for this is that if you try and copy something too large for the character array, you'll end up out of bounds. strncpy allows you to state the max length to copy into the memory destination (your Msg, in this instance). If someone can push too far you can end up with usable exploits, etc. It's a bit out of the realm of discussion, but basically treat everything with care at this sort of level. There is no "real" bounds checking when you're this far in the dirty stuff

Edit 2: I think you might need to a quick read over of what pointers and references are dougie..

Quote from Krammeh :

I really should stop scan reading things

Hehe, I keep doing the same thing today.. It must the weather

It's a character array, not a std::string ("subtle" difference, so you must treat it as a char array)

Vim is my editor of choice these days, be it gVim, MacVim or Vim (http://www.vim.org/)

Quote from the_angry_angel :

It cannot be done in pure javascript without some server side stuff behind it.

Ahem

Quote from Stigpt :

"Ok so lets just change all Players.Count to MCI.NumC"
Well MCI.NumC at max can be 8. So if you have 9 players, that last player wont be updated.

Unless something has changed since I last looked at InSim, you should always get multiple MCI packets if there are more than 8 players (it would be stupid if you didn't). You never need to request any MCI packets, if you've enabled then, and even then if you did you get the same behaviour.

Edit: Sorry, I've re-read the post by Stigpt, he doesn't make it very clear that he was explaining things again. I've ammended this post as appropriate.

Quote from shashdev :

Oh, I knew that. Unfortunately, my brother didn't. So, I guess this would just be a little thing to add?

I didn't say it wasn't a good idea. I was trying to point something out if you weren't aware of this simple fact, as you failed to say if you were or not.

Quote from shashdev :

Ahhh, never mind the suggestion. Why did I post this?????????

Look dude, I wasn't rude, I didn't say your idea was shit. I was offering friendly advice incase you weren't aware of something. If you think you're being hard done by I can change my tune so that you really are.

If you want to go and have a strop like a 4 year old, then please feel free. It's no skin off my nose. I just don't understand what the problem is.