I've moved the posts out into here, for obvious reasons. I'd be interested in potentially drawing a little more attention to this, perhaps.
I agree, but there's a line that needed to be drawn prior to myself being a mod, and erasing then re-drawing that line now could be considered equally as irresponsible. The way I would've dealt with things and how they are dealt with are potentially 2 different things. I agree that there should be a "if you want to program, go and learn properly" mentality.
However, the issue is not only with allowing these requests, but also how people respond to them. I have no real right to vet or prevent responses. If people continue to answer and post complete code for people to copy and paste, then the lessons are not going to be learnt. Short of preventing people from doing what they want (i.e. by restricting their freedom), there's not much the mods can really do at the end of the day aside from making things easier for others. We've tried to acheive this by splitting off this sort of stuff.
From a purely personal point of view I try and endorse this by providing limited, basic code, or just by providing conceptual answers, and I'm a firm believer that this is the best way to learn to program here. I truly believe that the LFS community is bad at teaching people to program, but the only reason for that is because the community doesn't cater for this. There are others that do and we should all be pushing people to those instead.
Don't worry, I do (take it as constructive)
Don't take anything I say personally; I do swear a lot, but it's just how I express myself
I agree, but there's a line that needed to be drawn prior to myself being a mod, and erasing then re-drawing that line now could be considered equally as irresponsible. The way I would've dealt with things and how they are dealt with are potentially 2 different things. I agree that there should be a "if you want to program, go and learn properly" mentality.
However, the issue is not only with allowing these requests, but also how people respond to them. I have no real right to vet or prevent responses. If people continue to answer and post complete code for people to copy and paste, then the lessons are not going to be learnt. Short of preventing people from doing what they want (i.e. by restricting their freedom), there's not much the mods can really do at the end of the day aside from making things easier for others. We've tried to acheive this by splitting off this sort of stuff.
From a purely personal point of view I try and endorse this by providing limited, basic code, or just by providing conceptual answers, and I'm a firm believer that this is the best way to learn to program here. I truly believe that the LFS community is bad at teaching people to program, but the only reason for that is because the community doesn't cater for this. There are others that do and we should all be pushing people to those instead.
Don't worry, I do (take it as constructive)
Don't take anything I say personally; I do swear a lot, but it's just how I express myself They're tolerated because they're not in an area which has any value for a programmer looking for non-trivial help.
The Insim/Program request was created for the precise purpose of allowing this "crap". All other reasonable and non-trivial requests go in the main forum, or get moved there when I notice them.
This simple segregation gives the best of both worlds; The useful bit to programmers is more easily searchable than it was previously (because you can do a decent search ignoring this requests subforum), and program requests and very basic help is "tolerated" which has nurtured a few new programmers which are coming for the fore.
How you feel this is at all relevant for this thread is beyond me, however. I hope you feel this is acceptable. If not may I suggest that you just ignore this part of the forum. No one is making you read it. It was also made expressly at several people's moanings, including my own. It's working rather nicely for everyone else, but yourself it seems.
It's probably the result of some errant dragging or copy/pasting. I've removed it.
For the record, it was CSS.
You can unlock LFS on multiple PCs.
You can only use one of them in an ONLINE game at any one time (trying to do so will yield "username is already online" errors). Single player or local LAN game is fine.
I'd recommend not unlocking LFS on the new computer until you're content that it's setup correctly and stable as you only get upto a maximum of 2 unlocks, which gets topped up each Friday. Using the DEMO to test (in single player) should be sufficient to tell you whether or not to unlock.
You can only use one of them in an ONLINE game at any one time (trying to do so will yield "username is already online" errors). Single player or local LAN game is fine.
I'd recommend not unlocking LFS on the new computer until you're content that it's setup correctly and stable as you only get upto a maximum of 2 unlocks, which gets topped up each Friday. Using the DEMO to test (in single player) should be sufficient to tell you whether or not to unlock.
The OP's issue has been answered. Take any further personal issues to PM please.
You don't use the mouse for pitstop options (F12). It's all done via the arrow keys. If you're using the arrow keys to steer you need to use shift+arrows.
I only partially agree. Yes many elements of the traditional Indy film, such as pure luck of the situation, etc. The cameos did grate a bit, but I liked the nods to the other films.
My main problem was that it was written for the 12 year old audience. I'm sure my 6 year old nephew will love it for that reason. I'm trying not to give anything away, but why the **** was the origin of the crystal skull explained in that way. The way the entire story merges into the various conspiracy theories from that era was very cool, but I just felt short changed. Its not that I'm not into that sort of thing. I love SciFi. A lot. I just don't think it had a place in an Indy film. If it was explained through "God", then it would've followed through the other films nicely.
All in all, I was quite disappointed and would not spend my money again on this film.
As you've alluded to, the biggest issue is not the size of the stdlib, but more a case of consistancy. There is no structure in PHP regarding various things - be it function naming format, whether or not it's haystack, needle or vice versa. That is PHP's largest problem these days and sadly without breaking compatibility, in a very big way, it cannot be fixed
There are plenty of applications and frameworks which help with this, and the various classes which have been introduced into PHP recently show a willingness to conceed that PHP is "broken" (in terms of spaghetti naming, argument ordering, etc.), but can't be fixed right now.
These frameworks immeasurably help in coding with PHP, although they do clearly add some overheads, which in some instances are actually pretty significant.
With regards to security issues (which is mostly what stems many sysadmin related arguments I've had with people regarding PHP, and in turn has affects "users" understanding and opinions on it), in the right configuration and the right hands PHP can be secure. However like all software it can contain bugs or be misconfigured. Things like the hardening patch (now Suhosin), having sensible PHP configuration, and good filesystem permissions go a long way, along with coding practises.
I guess it's a matter of perspective and how you listen to music at that time.
I often work with music on in the background and usually I'm not listening to the words all the time. However, on the rare occasion I sit down to actually listen to music (and do nothing else) I like to listen and warble along to the lyrics (or at least a close approximation).
I often work with music on in the background and usually I'm not listening to the words all the time. However, on the rare occasion I sit down to actually listen to music (and do nothing else) I like to listen and warble along to the lyrics (or at least a close approximation).
Given that the skins are jpgs and need to be in that format for the skin tool (which is a compressed format, so you'd have to detect the change and then re-covert on each change/request), and given that you'd have to find some way of detecting where was being clicked/edited/changed (taking into account occlusion, if it was being used in 3D mode) - "quite difficult" Breizh
Creating a new skinning tool would be easier than modifying the existing one, probably
Creating a new skinning tool would be easier than modifying the existing one, probably
If you wanted this to be endorsed by the devs, it's likely this would only run on "official" servers run by themselves and a few trusted individuals. Since there are rarely any "official" servers, I doubt we'd see this for the moment.
I'm sure that a community run thing would work well, but it would obviously require buy-in from server administrators.
I'm sure that a community run thing would work well, but it would obviously require buy-in from server administrators.
Sorry, I must be confused.. You can't use 2 clients (using the same LFS licence) to find yourself online, the master shouldn't let you do that as it would constitute using the same licence twice, online. You also can't use "find a user online" for local games that don't use the master.
Locally also unbanning yourself shouldn't make a blind bit of difference (unless there's an interesting tie-in [read: bug] with the ban list on a client affecting a username lookup).
/unban USER wouldn't unban a master server ban, only a local one.
Or were you actually trying to do something else?
Locally also unbanning yourself shouldn't make a blind bit of difference (unless there's an interesting tie-in [read: bug] with the ban list on a client affecting a username lookup).
/unban USER wouldn't unban a master server ban, only a local one.
Or were you actually trying to do something else?
You mean Multiplayer > Find user online? Make sure that you've not typoed the username. Also check LFSWorld. Could be the user has received a master ban, however.
At the moment, screen capture (either using screen capture software, or using screen output), send to streaming server, which people connect to using WMP/VLC/whatever. You can bypass the streaming server if you have enough upload bandwidth available, to just stream from where ever you're recording from.
There are various methods in acheiving this and outlining them all might take some time. It all depends what resources you have available to you. The one thing that is certain you'll need is a decent amount of bandwidth (upload) somewhere, typically on your actual front end server which users connect to.
That's if you want to stream it live during the race.
If you want to stream it afterwards you can just use something like camstudio to generate a SWF, or something similar, and pop that on the web.
There are various methods in acheiving this and outlining them all might take some time. It all depends what resources you have available to you. The one thing that is certain you'll need is a decent amount of bandwidth (upload) somewhere, typically on your actual front end server which users connect to.
That's if you want to stream it live during the race.
If you want to stream it afterwards you can just use something like camstudio to generate a SWF, or something similar, and pop that on the web.
I think fordie is more after a centralised server solution, rather than a just client... Or have I misunderstood?
Ok, you'll have to explain what a GPS sports watch is used for... I realise it's for tracking, etc. but I don't see how it can be used to improve yourself much - it's not like analysing a lap surely?
Never had an issue with public folders on the various client's I've used it at - provided the exchange server has enough memory available, it should be ok Perhaps it's time to start thinking about bunging more hardware at the problem (obviously I don't know your infrastructure, so I don't know what the situation is there..)? Unless the users are at a remote site and they're accessing them using Outlook over HTTP RPC (aka Outlook Anywhere), in which case there's not much you can do about that if the office upload sucks or if their line is constantly being raped...
There aren't really any other alternatives I could happily recommend, especially if multiple users are all trying to use the same calendar. There are various replacements for Exchange as a whole but aside from a caldav server, which Outlook doesn't support natively, there's not really much for a standalone calendaring system. Exchange is kinda the defacto
Perhaps it's time to start thinking about bunging more hardware at the problem (obviously I don't know your infrastructure, so I don't know what the situation is there..)? Unless the users are at a remote site and they're accessing them using Outlook over HTTP RPC (aka Outlook Anywhere), in which case there's not much you can do about that if the office upload sucks or if their line is constantly being raped...There aren't really any other alternatives I could happily recommend, especially if multiple users are all trying to use the same calendar. There are various replacements for Exchange as a whole but aside from a caldav server, which Outlook doesn't support natively, there's not really much for a standalone calendaring system. Exchange is kinda the defacto
Impressive skills. How incredibly nutty though - probably has the turning circle of an imperial war cruiser, he would've made a nice skin streak on the road surface if he'd fallen off (some poor bastard has to clean that up!), and I'm sure I'd be "pleased" if I was held up by someone doing that in the UK...
What do you mean by "drift script"? What do you want it to do? Odds are that you can probably do what you want with LFSLapper and you don't need a whole new application written...
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Certainly seems to be an interesting concept. Do you take the risk and save money by using force india, or do you spend more and take the safe positions?
I know what I'm going for at least.. (one of my drivers was Antony) Set the action of whatever you want the indicators set to /press 9, press 0, etc. This simulates pressing the indicator buttons, which themselves cannot be changed at the moment.
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