What the hell is "M-13"? If you don't even know enough about Mara Salvatrucha to understand that it's MS-13 then there's no reason to believe anything you have to say.

FWIW, I grew up in LA and I understand exactly who MS-13 is and where they came from. I would be careful of dissing them on the Internet as they have no sense of humor. And no, I have nothing to do with them, I'm just a white boy from the valley who knows who they are.

Wait a minute now, this is just cargo cult security advice. Yes, MD5 has been broken since the 1990s and now is considered useless for anything other than file integrity checks. On the other hand, SHA1 has had theoretical breaks but it's not actively exploited in the wild and few, if any, of the attacks include being able to choose the substitution "text" at all, let alone adding a trojan.

The advice has been "don't use SHA1 in new projects" not "immediately eliminate all existing usage of SHA1." Yes, Google and others are getting rid of SHA1 but it's because of potential future risk rather than existing risk.

If the hash is intended for anything other than a simple file integrity check, it should be *at least* SHA-256 for future proofing. If not, md5 is fine to check for bit-flipping. Not that we really see that anymore.

nevermind

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Quote from MadCatX :

"radeon.dpm=1" in the kernel bootline. Besides saving a lot of power on idle it provides better performance as well.

Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a go when I reboot.

Is tire physics a finished problem? I majored in math at the university but that's a long ways from really understanding physics. Well, I tried looking around since I can sort of read the math and I remember seeing one really old paper from around the 70s (nothing newer seemed to show up on Google) about how, this was unsolved.

What I mean is, areas of physics that are well understood show up on Wikipedia as well understood, tires don't seem to be done. Of course, it's entirely possible that the Pirelli engineers consider this a finished problem but I'm sort of doubtful considering the way the tires were graining in Austria.

Quote from Degats :

AMD A10-7700K APU using onboard graphics, I did find that the official AMD driver works better than the open source one on this machine so far (several games, not just LFS).

Catalyst is still way ahead of open driver. In the past, I've had to use Catalyst to run LFS and pretty much any game. I was shocked to see that LFS actually worked with the open driver when I came back after a year and a half. I'd guess that it works for me because Arch Linux uses a very recent version of the driver and my ATI 6950 is way over spec for LFS.

Quote from vitaly_m :

> this will not work. Use sudo sh -c "echo 450 > range"

You're right, I don't use sudo so I shouldn't have suggested specific code, just the idea to "do it as root."

Wow, so much to talk about in this thread. I wish I could really speak my mind but I'm a US citizen and the NSA has chilled my first amendment rights so I need to self-censor.

Quote from Racer X NZ :

Here's some evidence to support my claim that the US etc trained and funded ISIS.

This is no suprise. Syria was in a terrible civil war and lots of folks wanted the US to intervene. I mean, lots of folks outside the US. I remember looking at this a long time ago and saying to my wife, "don't worry, they won't send our boys because Syria belongs to Russia". So, since we can't send the Marines, what will the US Govt do? Send the CIA. That means training and arming insurgents. The funny thing about insurgents is that they have a cause they're willing to die for but it doesn't always really line up with the goals of the US. Oh yeah, and to finish the story, it turns out that ISIL was willing to fight our battle in Syria, big suprise.

Heck, this isn't even new. We armed the Taliban long before we showed up in Afganistan.

All of that just goes to show that the US three letter agencies have completely spun out of control. But hey, what do you want me to do about it? Would things be better if we had voted McCain into office instead of Obama? We don't ever get a real choice or a real voice in the runaway monster we call a government.

FWIW, I prefer ISIL over ISIS because it's the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant ... and that's what Al-Jazeera calls them and they speak Arabic.

Just for fun, here's a nice report of how the CIA had a Mexican cartel kill a DEA agent because he knew too much: http://narcosphere.narconews.c ... operation-gone-awry-say-l

Quote from MadCatX :

From kernel 3.16 the attribute won't be world-writable anymore so you'll need proper access right. I'll hopefully write a udev rule to automate this before 3.16 comes out.

Interesting news. While a udev rule would be nice, the issue seems easy to solve from the command line.

Of course, that does assume you have root access to the machine you attached the wheel to.

Quote from Keling :

Wine 1.7.19 64bit on Arch/Linux.

$ optirun wine LFS.exe
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winemp3.acm": libmpg123.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winealsa.drv": libasound.so.2: cannot open shared
libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Sound works fine for me on 64 bit Arch. I believe you need to install the lib32 versions of libmpg123 and libasound.

Edit: I believe that's multilib/lib32-mpg123 and multilib/lib32-alsa-plugins

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I've just given this patch a short run and it looks good here.

Distro: Arch Linux
WINE: wine 1.7.19-3
Driver: xf86-video-ati 1:7.3.0-3 (the open driver)
I already had dx9 installed via winetricks

FYI, Arch Linux is a rolling release so we always have the latest and greatest software. The downside is that, every once in a while, the constant upgrades can break things.

Quote from kdo :

Nice vehicle! It look like an american car but i cant remember which one

It looks a lot like the Chevy Impala. I'm not an Impala guy but it reminds me of a friend's car, I think his was a 1967 but don't quote me on that.

@OP, that looks really nice, I would like to see this in LFS.

Quote from Scawen :

I haven't heard of any ways to run DX10 / DX11 software on Linux or Mac. I am under the impression you must use Wine and it supports up to DX9.

I haven't been catering specifically to those systems in any way. I haven't spent even 5 minutes trying to cater to them. LFS worked in DX8 on those systems (using Wine) but actually it works better on them after the DX9 conversion because it's better supported (I think that is the case, but again, this is a bit vague and not researched, don't really know much about Wine).

I don't believe DX10/11 is even on the radar over at winehq.org. If you are willing to spend 5 minutes to help improve support for Wine, you could take a look at http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectX-ToDo and see the current state of DX9 support. Some things work, some don't.

That said, even though I've used Linux as my desktop since 1996, I support 32-bit XP + DX9 and I have a couple more reasons why it's the right choice.

1. That's what the big boys do. The Elder Scrolls Online, a 2 month old AAA MMORPG with a budget that's rumored to be $200 million USD agrees with you.

2. Poor people. Yup, I know, the poor are a terrible target market because they don't have any money but the reality is that XP is going to be around for many years. For a lot of people using what used to be cheap computers, upgrading XP to 7 means buying a new computer. The sad fact is, a lot of people just can't afford to do that.

And, finally, just because you asked, not because I think it matters, here is my story of having XP exploited... I've been a computer guy since forever then about 9 years ago I moved to Mexico and just left all my computers behind. 80+ hour weeks can get to you after a couple decades and I'd just had enough. Anyhow, about 6 months later my family came to visit and the brought me a brand new "decent but cheap" laptop as a suprise gift.

Well, by then I had chilled out on the "screw this" attitude so I went to TelMex and picked up a DSL box, took it home and hooked it up. I didn't have a signal so I just went and took a nap. 4 hours later I woke up and, like magic, my computer was just online. I was pretty underwhelmed by how slow the laptop and internet were so I took a look at my processes and saw a ton of stuff that shouldn't be running. Digging around a bit, I saw that the machine was compromised so I just reformatted and installed Linux.

Sorry for the long post, I sort of wish I could address some of the stuff flying around this thread but even this post is off topic.

The "wonderful people" over at NBC decided that English soccer is more important than F1 qualification so they're going to tape delay the broadcast for 15 hours
It turns out the Univision has a sports channel that will show the live qualifying in Spanish. If you have Dish, it's channel 869, at least here in Texas. Gracias a los Latinos!

You can test your memory with memtest86. Get it at http://www.memtest86.com/

Yes, Arch Linux + WINE + G27 (and DFGT) has worked great (with FFB) for a year at least. The downside is, if you don't have a recent Logitek wheel, you don't have driver support and thus, no FFB.

For the haters: Diablo II has more FPS under WINE than under WinX.

Xwang, yes, you have it right. For what it's worth, I highly recommend the G27 as I prefer leather and steel over plastic and foam rubber.

I have both the DFGT and the G27 and run Arch on both computers. Both wheels work great and have force feedback support. I love my G27 but the DFGT works great for half the money (here in the USA).

If you have driven with a wheel and know that you love it, get the G27. If you're not sure, or don't have the money to spend, get the DFGT; it's good enough and not that expensive. Well, at least for the people where I live.

PS: I use the script I posted above to set the range I want, though I use 270 rather than 180 now.

Last edited by rowdog, Sat, 8 Sep 2012 06:15. Reason : PS

Did you remember to open up the InSim port within LFS? If not, enter the command
before you start your app.

It also depends on the car. I had a '68 Chevelle with a big block 454 that could tear up a set of tires in a matter of seconds

Quote from Nadeo4441 :

I don't know about sim talent, but I had a interesting situation last winter. I encountered some black ice on the road while braking, my wheels locked up and I began to go sideways for a while. I instinctively released the brakes and made a quick wheel turn to counteract the slide. These are reflexes from lfs, so in my opinion you do learn something from the sims you can use in real life. Mainly how the car will react under some circumstances.

This. LFS quite possibly saved my life and my wife too. Last week I was moving so I had this 18 foot UHaul truck and I was towing a trailer behind it too. We were crusing along a highway out in the country of East Texas and the rain just started pouring down. I cut my speed down to about 40 mph or so and I'm coming down this gentle hill into a left hand bend. I see a little water on the edge of my lane but didn't really have anywhere to go. Sure enough, I hit that puddle and it's a lot deeper than it looks and we start sliding right up onto the curb. I felt this horrible lurch and I just *knew* we were going to roll. My reflexes kicked in and I did the same as you, and was just barely able to hold the road. I can't say one way or the other about racing, but getting those "instincts" down kept me, my wife, and my cats from getting scattered along the roadside with all of our belongings.

Freeciv is a great way to waste a day or, in my case, a decade. Freeciv is free as in "free beer" as well as in freedom.

http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

meh. Ban the crasher for 999 days, caution Lewis about leaving enough room, and forget all that bs about tires, champ points and "Pastor is special so leave him extra room". Either Lewis was within his rights or not and FIA said he was so he was. Pastor never had a prayer of making that corner so ban the crasher.

I'm not saying that Lewis wasn't an idiot to ruin his race, just that it's irrelevant to the ruling.

Quote from BigPeBe :

For some reason this workaround never did it for me, instead the one posted by Framaris works very well

I suppose I was a bit silly to think that Google wouldn't do their best respect the Finnish law. Thanks to Framaris for pointing out BlockAid, that seems like a great project and I'm glad to hear it's working.

I don't know if this applies to the Finnish blockade but many of these are implemented as DNS blackholes. If so, you can just use external nameservers.

One provider is Google, use 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for nameservers or see what Google says about it here:
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/