You used to beable to get a TCP/IP connection between a PDA and a Windows Mobile device, over ActiveSync - however the last time I had a WM device to play with was over a year ago, so things may have changed.

I believe in ActiveSync if you go to File > Connection Settings there is an option in there to communicate using TCP. However, I think that only recent versions of WM (WM5, I think) actually present a usable network interface, which is part of the problem of getting WM to talk directly to applications on the host PC.

First thing I'd check is what version of WM you're trying to use, what version of ActiveSync, and whether or not you get an extra network interface when you enable TCP over ActiveSync...

Quote from birder :

If i can help at all with the new Barricade please PM me

The issue is that I just need a few hours of time to finish off the thing and give it a good test - which I'll probably need some help with. It's largely done, I just need to add a bit of code polish. I know I said I wanted to get it done last week, unfortunately personal circumstances changed. If it's quiet at work tomorrow I'll try and sneak some stuff in (shuuush)

Edit: If someone wants to come up with a pretty interface I'll happily accept it. What i've got now is basically just a really simple grey form (I'm no designer).

Quote from anttt69 :

edit: i just tried & got error message 'could not load file: /data /script /password=.lfs

Sounds like it's doing some funky with the cfg, or you've got some stray /'s, if you've not already fixed it..

Quote from anttt69 :

where can i find a server commands list?

X:\Path\To\LFS\docs\Commands.txt, under the "Host commands" heading

Comment it out. i.e.
"//password="

The two slashes mean that it's ignored. If it's ignored then it's not set.

It does look very pretty, I'll give them that

Quote from ajp71 :

This annoys the hell out of me.

I don't see why?

Edit: Actually I can understand why. I drive what is traditionally termed "aggresively", although I'm not anywhere near as bad as I used to be. People who sit under the speed limit, or aren't moving at my pace, do my head in also. I've been known to be on the way to a client's site following a co-worker and then have to take a longer, different route, because they were going too slowly.

Quote from ajp71 :

On the flat with no throttle it might just about work but as soon as you approach an incline or need to accelerate you just end up with a fully open throttle and no movement.

Which is why you then change down a gear or two to one that's appropriate? If someone stays in the lowest gear possible all the time then they're being a dick. There's saving fuel and there's driving like a cock. The two shouldn't be mixed and confused.

Quote from ajp71 :

It's also pretty bad for drive components to be running near the stall threshold all the time.

I've seen no evidence as such to be honest

Quote from ajp71 :

Surely it's better to either be coasting out of gear or accelerating with reasonable engine speed (probably around 2000rpm depending on car) with little throttle than being in gear at low revs.

Nope, there's a marked increase in the cars I've owned over the last few years. Even my '97 petrol Clio would be better off coasting in gear than out of gear I'm afraid.

Quote from Rtsbasic :

One thing I found that helps, is fuel economy goes up if I coast in-gear as opposed to in neutral. I guess it cuts the fuel supply off under these conditions.

It's interesting you should say that, because I've been told before that like diesels, modern petrol cars effectively only inject enough fuel into the engine to keep the thing going and that it's pretty much kept going through momentum.. Nice to see it's actually true in practise though!

I'm not a biker, so I feel I might be a little stupid here, but is the way in which the bike dips around the screen and the view stays constant that realistic? It seems a bit.. weird.

Quote from Mille Sabords :

Put it in neutral as soon as you reach the desired speed.

Practical evidence with my diesel Bora suggests this is a bad idea tbh.

I've also got to take umbridge with the advice of "accelerate slowly" that many hypermilers have given out. For the cars I've owned it actually makes things worse than if I accelerate to speed, and then keep in the highest possible gear.

Quote from Mille Sabords :

On a daily basis I try to anticipate as much as possible to avoid accelerating, keeping good distances with the cars ahead helps making a buffer for the nervous speed changes that take a high toll in your consumption.

Ditto, I'll never brake on the motorway unless I absolutely have to. Doing so is a killer.

Quote from danowat :

Is it more effiecient do to drive with the windows down, A/C off, or with the A/C on and the windows up?.

It's a relative thing. They did an experiment on Mythbusters and turns out that the drag caused by open windows only really exceeds AC at higher speeds, if I recall correctly. Something around 50mph.

If I'm teaching people to suck eggs, shoot me
* Getting into the highest possible gear (leaves you with no acceleration, obviously). For instance I can just about manage 6th slightly above 30 on a flat, so if I can I'll get into that. Gives me on average about 10mpg more if I'm doing a short run city trip. I've always been taught this, but a few people I've been in the car with don't do it?
* I've been starting to time my traffic light changes a lot more, i.e. if I'm coming up to the lights I'll do my best, without being annoying, to not stop. Even just crawling forward made a difference.
* Tend not to use as much significant engine braking
* Around Bath some of the hills are derestricted and are safe to do this - effectively coasting in-gear with the brakes applied lightly as needed. Whilst this can cause your brakes to wear our a little quicker, it seems to be more cost efficient.
* Filling your tank when it's cold - you actually get a slight bit more for you money. Maybe over time you might get significant savings, I'm not sure.
* Normal things like tyres being properly inflated, etc.

Edit: Pooo. I'm slow today.

Quote from will300 :

wow i think they closed the thread

If the thread was closed you wouldnt be able to post in it. Based on the progress it would appear that this is a dead project, or shaun is working on some super secret stuff and doesn't want to give anything away yet. Take your pick.

Quote from Becky Rose :

well I for one am not too lazy to use public transport, i'm considering taking a big fat fuel burning jumbo jet to get there - all in the spirit of using public transport .

Ditto Cheaper, comfier and faster than driving given the price of fuel. Horrifying really.

Hope you "get well soon" Mackie, would be nice to see you there

Quote from Eclipse2000 :

your pretty much saying politely how sht my guide is!!

I've quoted the below for you again.

Quote from the_angry_angel :

It's nothing personal, sorry.

The fact that you're giving people bad advice is the issue here. It may get their server working but there are bad practises demonstrated.

Quote from the_angry_angel :

Erm, not that I mind another guide

I meant that as a thank you, and I assume you didn't take it as such. Let me take this opportunity to say thank you.

Quote from the_angry_angel :

as a mod u should be at least showing some sort of positive to someone putting in a effort to help the lfs community

So regardless of whether or not it is good advice I'm supposed to drop all my knowledge and opinions?

I'm sorry to bring it up but it was a conception that I had in my younger years that people with any sembilance of control should no longer have an opinion and should act as a whole. But quite frankly this is unreasonable. We're all people here and at the end of the day I am personally going to have an opinon over anything. If I could take off the moderator "hat" to post normally then I would.

Quote from Eclipse2000 :

but instead i get a douche and a mod thats a know it all!

I'm being polite. I've not been rude. I've pointed out mistakes.

I don't know everything. I've never said I know everything. I've never implied that I know everything. I do know about computer systems and networking though because thats my job. I don't know everything about this stuff, and I'll happily admit that. I'm not that arrogant.

I'll happily admit that I can't do many things. I can't manage solaris well (little practical experience). I can't manage every single router under the sun. I'm not all that familiar with juniper boxes. I don't know enough about ipv6 to feel confident putting it in. My drawing skills are ****ing awful. I can't paint. I have all sorts of personal problems which I'm sure make you a better person than me.

Shall I go on to make you happy? How far do I have to go to prove the point?

Quote from Eclipse2000 :

O fck you, this is why i hate the live for speed community i try to help and then i get shit on!

I'm giving you constructive criticism. It's not like I've said "OMGWTFZ THAT's SHIT UR POOO D0000D" is it?

I'm not stopping you from writing your own guide. Please feel free. If you want to carry on supporting people then please do, I'm fed up with it tbh.

I've not been rude. I've not attacked the colour scheme of your opening post (that was hard tbh). I'm giving you friendly advice on correcting the post. So what's the problem here?

If you want to have a strop then feel free, it's no skin off my nose.

Erm, not that I mind another guide but there are some issues with this one which I'm pointing out as I notice them. It's nothing personal, sorry.

1. It's riddled bad ideas. For "noobs" this doesn't matter, but if the "noob" wants to learn more you're leading them down a bad path.
2. You don't need to use a loopback adapter to connect to your own server. That's the whole point of 127.0.0.1 (a default loopback if you will). You've also demonstrated putting 123.123.123.123 as the IP with a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0. That's a non reserved IP and should NEVER EVER be used for private LAN usage.
3. I see no reason for telling someone to setup a loopback adapter. Whilst I've mentioned this twice, it's such a big issue I thought I'd mention it twice. If you were making a virtual machine be the server and were connecting your VM to that loopback and then preforming NAT between the 2 networks on the physical machine then I could understand. However you've made no reference to doing that. I will repeat, there is no need for a loopback adapter.
3.

Quote :

Yes I RECOMMEND Turning Off Your Firewall And Any Protection To Allow A Un-Interrupted Connection!

Err... if you're incapable of properly configuring your firewall software/hardware then you shouldn't be running a server in my opinion. Sorry.
4. Your bandwidth assumptions - why? There is a documented formula and there's the calculator in the full version of LFS.
5. Your pps explanation isn't 100% accurate.

My biggest issue is that the number one thing that a "noob" doesn't get is why you need to port forward or even that it needs to be done, and you've done the exact same thing I've done, which is to just point people at portforward.com. There is a legitimate reason for doing so, but it's a shame.

CasseBent, Da_Hoe, Huru-aito, illegal or Moonclaw will be able to tell you the reason, assuming that you weren't the only person in the ban list banned by chanserv (unlikely as that's a UK DSL provider owned IP), aisde from Kid.

I've given CasseBent a quick poke about this thread, but he appears to be afk I'm afraid.

You can run it on almost anything you like. The resources requirements of a LFS dedicated server are tiny. You could happily run it on a 400MHz machine running Linux/*BSD/OpenSolaris (headless), or windows 2000.

The real issue is bandwidth. If you don't have much or it's unreliable, then I wouldn't recommend running a server from home. You can use the calculator in the non dedicated version of LFS (the normal version) to give you an idea of how much you need (Multiplayer > Start New Game, configure your parameters and you'll get an idea on the left). There are also providers, such as 500servers, who will make things much cheaper for you in the long run (especially if you only plan to host a LFS server, nothing more).

I also wouldn't recommend using a laptop as a server - they just aren't really suitable or designed for continuous running, especially in confined spaces.

If you want to build a small box just for LFS, then I can happily recommend almost any of the VIA Epia mini-itx or smaller system on a board solutions. I've run a full server from one (an 800MHz box, with a single IDE hdd, 512 MB of RAM) in the recent past and it used practically no resources. With LFS, currently, the real hog is bandwidth.

Hope that helps.

Camping in the UK isn't quite as exciting, sadly

You need more beer amp88. Always more "beer". I'd also probably take an extra blanket and some plastic bags of some kind. Rubble sacks work quite nicely for keeping stuff dry, or wet stuff wet. Possibly add some plasters or something if someone else isn't taking any.

Quote from J@tko :

Still loving this vid tho http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OIIRmIQVXrE

That's fantastic

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

Not proud of it (yeah right!!) but at one stage or another in my life I
have done these points.

Another good one is delicately balancing hangers just on the edge of falling off, and then doing it to an entire aisle. Next time someone walks past and generates a breeze clothing carnage will ensue! (but you don't want to hang around and giggle - thats a recipe for security to get involved )

Edit: Ooh and I remembered another one, that one of my friends at school did on his last day at a popular supermarket. He was stacking wheatbix and boxed himself in. Waited until someone tried picking one up and then burst out.

I don't think they let him do much else that day..

1. Port forward (see portforward.com) to your LAN IP of the machine to be hosting the game. By default you need to port forward TCP and UDP 63392. If you change the port number LFS runs on then you need to port forward that port number instead.
2. If using dedicated server configure cfg file. If not using dedicated server, setup options in GUI.

It does say this at the top of the guide though.

Quote from Ian.H :

Heh.. didn't see your reply TAA (I should refresh the page before responding I guess)

I think we were both typing at the same time some how

Quote from Dygear :

Looks like I am getting ... OK ... at this. Still will would accept a value such as 22/3924, and that would not make sense.

That's because you've told it to


Edit
* the_angry_angel highfives Ian.H

Quote from Dygear :

Ok, could you explain why?

If you use perl compatible regex you can add additional options (aka modifiers) after the regex, such as making it case insensitive, or greedy, etc. Therefore you need some way to describe what's the regex and what any additional options are. PHP's functions assume that the first character should be considered to be the delimiter. As such you should avoid using anything that is a known regex operator or symbol. This includes \ which is used to escape a character from being evaluated.

Usually you'll see people use / as the delimiter, as that's what is used in perl.

Quote from Dygear :

And thank you, it worked. Could you point me to a good resource on this topic. I find the PHP Manual to be very much useless on this topic.

Regex's are very much a case of practising and sometimes trial and error If you're going to use perl compatible (which I suggest, as they are by and large "the standard").

Admitedly the PHP manual is crap, however they've got a good summary of modifiers and a basic reference on writing a pattern which is awful, but useful if you need to quickly check something whilst you're learning or haven't used a regex for a while.

regular-expressions.info is a site I've pushed a few people to over recent months, but I'm not convinced how useful it is any more.

The main issue with regex's is that they're so flexible they're quite tricky to explain without a good set of practicals.

My favourite tool for writing and testing a regex is RegEx Coach, which is absolutely awesome if you're having trouble or want to test a quick regex.

You'll need to wrap that in /'s

Are you planning on going all out, or do you just want to support the (123)-456-7890 format?

Edit: The following regex would match your example, but isn't particularly flexible.