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Sep 16, 2001, 1:35pm

You're clueless. Suck filter, and I urge the rest of you that may try to
reason with idiocy to do the same.


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Sep 16, 2001, 6:26pm

WOULD YOU STOP TRYING TO SELL US ON ANOTHER UNIVERSE YOU FUCKING FOOL?

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Sep 15, 2001, 8:55pm

I just moved my PCs from my basement workshop to a nice home office (former
master bedroom) because my tinkering machines had finally claimed the last
bit of available space. I'm not sure if it's the smaller size of the room or
the extremely odd geometry or the absense of flourescent shop lights or the
fact that I'm working off of desks now instead of tables and counters, or
maybe the fact that there's some decor in here (part carpet, part hardwood,
wood panel walls, some REAL windows, those of you who have ever almost lived
in a basement 24/7 know what I mean), but AW's standard graphics and
textures actually look 25% decent. That's a 15% improvement.

Anyone else have any comments on this interesting phenomenon?

Oh yeah, if you're a music fan and your PC's in a cavernous room, try moving
it into your bedroom or somthing, it's almost incredible how much of a
difference it makes.

Sep 16, 2001, 1:09am

I'd hardly call this terrorism. Radon is a child, plain and simple.

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Sep 16, 2001, 5:42pm

And came back the DAY after.

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Sep 16, 2001, 1:36pm

MULTIPLE OBJECT SELECTIIIIIIIION!!!!!! YAYYYYYY!
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Sep 17, 2001, 11:18pm

Yup, they were EXTREMELY prompt to take care of that one, about an hour
between the report confirm and the actual removal.

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Sep 17, 2001, 5:28pm

*filter before he starts*

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Sep 17, 2001, 5:27pm

I too ASKED the same QUESTION and recieved NO RESPONSE.

EXCEPT for one from GOOBER KING stating that JFK ISN'T ALL THERE!


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Sep 22, 2001, 1:26pm

Is it just me or is this thing only actually functioning one day out of the
week anymore and that all the useful stuff never actually makes it to the
server?

Sep 24, 2001, 10:33pm

*looks up from his biology textbook* Whee, I'm needed.

1) LOSE WINDOWS ME! Win98SE has the same compatability, if not better and
has fewer, errrrr, issues.
2) Detonator 3 drivers for video card.
3) LiveWare 3 drivers for sound card.
4) Put a real fan on that tbirdy.
5) Find Motherboard Monitor (software) and configure it to watch your CPU
temps. 50C is bad place for your CPU to be. 30 is ideal.
6) Install DirectX 8a, or whatever the heck the latest version is.

If that doesn't fix it, contact me at wing at systemrecall.com and I'll see if
I can't recreate it as closely as I can.

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Sep 25, 2001, 5:02pm

HEH, I still run a 66MHz :)
Albeit as a toy/Linux test platform/DOS legacy support.

By standards in my home town set by the High School, where the VAST majority
of computers are located, 33MHz is approximately average. Does this mean
that my 66MHz machine, by Hereford standards, is not outdated?

Outdated is anything older than two point five years.

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Sep 26, 2001, 5:29pm

What the FUCK are you talking about? Goddamn, what do you do to your car?
Pump it up with phat exhaust pipes and take a screwdriver to your muffler
and attatch quadruple wings to your trunk in hopes of being cool?

1GHz is by far NOT standard AT ALL yet. My primary use CPU is a 700MHz by
design, though I've milked it to nearly double that. The STANDARD system is
a Dell Dimension 4100, which, if you will do a little research, has sold
twice as many 900MHz units than 1GHz units. And ferchrissake you lamer, CPU
speed is by far NOTHING compared to CPU bandwidth. What good is a 2.0 GHz
computer which is causing a traffic jam on the FSB by essentially trying to
cram 2000 semi trucks onto a three lane highway about 4 miles long. A 1.8GHz
Athlon 4, on the other hand, does the same, except using a six lane highway
and 1800 trucks.

Don't get the analogy? Go back to PC school, riceboy.

Wing, out.


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Sep 25, 2001, 8:46pm

Absolute dissapointment.
D3d is still shitty.
OGL looks HORRIBLE (would be GREAT if it weren't for damn cheapshit
lighting)

*sigh* Call me when 3.3/4.0 rolls around.

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Sep 26, 2001, 5:44pm

Also emailed to roland at activeworlds.com

Regardless of what I do in AW, so long as it opens, dialup networking works
properly. HOWEVER, once I quit AW, whether it is to change graphics modes or
whatever, ALL incoming traffic to my modem CEASES.

It does NOT drop the connection, and I can SEND all the data I want, but NO
incoming connections are completely ignored and are not even processed by
the modem as they would be if firewalled. Additionally, when I attempt to
disconnect from the dialed network (ISP), the dialog will remain open,
though the connection is dropped, and control of the modem will be
relinquished. However, due to the window being stuck open (disconnect button
ghosted, only OK and details showing, clicking OK only drops it back to
systray), I cannot reinitiate a connection to that network. However, it
allows me to initiate a fully functioning connection to another, until of
course I launch and close AW. The only way to cream these stuck open
connections is to either reboot or log off of my Windows username and log
back on.

Test platforms:

System A (Multihorned network server/standard use)
Win98SE
GeForce II MX
3x 3com Etherlink III PCI adapters
1x Digicom Systems v.90 Winmodem
SB Live Value
IE6
256mb PC2100 DDR RAM
700MHz Duron CPU at 1300MHz

System B (Light use)
WinME
TNT2 m64
1x 3Com Etherlink 3 ISA
1x Digicom Systems v.90 56k
IE5.5
128mb total; 64 PC100, 64 PC133 at 100
300Mhz K6-2

System C (Testing only)
Win98SE
TNT2 Vanta LT
1x 3Com Etherlink 3 ISA
1x Digicom Systems v.90 56k
IE5.0
128mb PC100
550MHz K6-2

Sep 26, 2001, 8:54pm

The subject says it all, confirmed on all three test platforms outlined in
"3.2 screwing up DUN"

Sep 26, 2001, 9:33pm

Midis sound like shit. Wavs have a handy dandy click after each play. Same
with MP3. Just ran all 3 systems through WMP update, it worsened midi
playback and changed click to a pop. Come ON Roland, you can do better than
this, in fact, you did LAST version.

Sep 26, 2001, 9:36pm

Getting so pissed off with this that I forgot to list the sound boards I
tested.
SB Live Value
SB Augidy (Reviewer's prerelease)
SB Ensoniq
SB 16 PCI
SB 16 ISA
AC'97 onboard.
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz DSP

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Sep 27, 2001, 12:17am

*shrug* I never noticed a single difference between the Value and the
Platinum, other than software package. I think the Value is just OEM and
Plat is retail :)

Of course, I could be wrong.

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Sep 27, 2001, 1:23pm

The control thingy's optional. And git a bigger tower :)
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Dec 18, 2001, 9:24pm

Odd, I've just started experiencing the same problem. Many of my CDs no
longer work with certain drives and certain drives with only certain CDs.

However, since I have like 5 drives on some systems, it's a non-existant
point to me.

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Dec 18, 2001, 5:35pm

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Dec 18, 2001, 6:43pm

Heh, let me tell you this, in the state's BEST school things aren't any
better, except that we have 19 people in about half the classes whereas most
schools have 32 in some, 44 in others.

Maryland is in the process of changing from one standardized testing system
to another (MSPAP + MFT's (5 of them) to MSPAP + MFT's (4 of them) + HSA's
(4 of them) to MSPAP + HSA's (5 of them)

Guess which class gets to take ALL of them? If you said mine, you're exactly
right.

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Dec 18, 2001, 7:01pm

[View Quote] Freshmen and Seniors eat lunch together. 'Nuff said.

Dec 18, 2001, 9:20pm

One of my vice principals looks like a walrus, tusks and all. Oh, and he
also shoplifts CAFETERIA FOOD!

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Dec 18, 2001, 9:59pm

That's it, I'm transferring
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Dec 19, 2001, 7:04pm

Well, you learn somthing new every day. I just ran this check on all my
boxes and EVERY one of them had one of these ghosts for EVERY CDROM and most
newer hard drives (older ones all use generic drivers it seems) EVER
installed.

This also includes drives installed before a "dirty" reformat. A dirty
reformat consists of removing the Windows directory through the DOS deltree
command after preserving the c:/windows/desktop elsewhere, and then copying
the old desktop back over it the new one.

Apparently this is because the Windows registry was not removed (where the
PHARQ do they store it at? the MBR?) and the ghosted drives are cataloged
there.

Why it was done like this, I don't know. I'm just an over-intelligent sysop,
not a Microsoft programmer.

[Worthless junk follows]
Dirty formats are preferable in a multiple-system mission critical situation
because no essential data is lost (windows, naturally, because of it's
nature is not essential)
and it takes literally minutes as opposed to up to six hours to back up,
high level (or even better, low level) format, reinstall Windows, reinstall
the drivers, reconfigure the drivers, reinstall the software (since the
registry was lost it is NECCESSARY for a properly functioning system to
reinstall, not restore from backup unless registry entries were dumped),
restore files and restore any neccessary user info. It can also take a long
time to reestablish network functionality with a clean format (I'm unsure of
why this is, but Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2k and XP don't like to network with
NT4 as the login server)

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Dec 19, 2001, 7:54pm

1) The USS Lincoln isn't an aircraft carrier and sure as hell isn't the
second largest boat we got
2) Aircraft carriers are deep water vessels, the likelihood that they come
anywhere near a lighthouse anywhere except Norfolk on the Atlantic coast
would seem to be slim to none.
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Dec 19, 2001, 9:30pm

Hrmm, it would seem my database was wrong. *spanks USN.dat*

Oh well, at least I'm not gonna lose points on that evil paper I'm doing for
social studies on facts and statistics about the US armed forces now.

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Dec 19, 2001, 9:32pm

[View Quote] 4) The joke was intended to "lighten up" the NGs, I couldn't resist the
oppertunity to slaughter it.

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