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bowen // User Search
bowen // User Search
Apr 6, 2003, 3:07am
I tend to get double telegrams in the non-beta browsers a lot. Maybe they're
related.
--Bowen--
Apr 13, 2003, 1:59am
[View Quote]"ryan" <ryan_jacob at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Sounds like a psychological issue to me...
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> $70 a year sounds like a lot..
> $2 a week sounds like very little
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$2 a week is a lot if you're on minimum wage, pay for a car, pay for insurance, pay
for rent, pay for internet access, et al.
--Bowen--
Apr 15, 2003, 4:23am
[View Quote]"ubermonkey" <henry at wcalliance.com> wrote in message
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> Could someone in beta pass this along to the beta NG?
>
> I'm relatively certain this is a bug. Setting water opacity to 255 does not
> make it opaque anywhere EXCEPT outside the "high detail" square around the
> user. The central square is ~50% opaque, but the low detail areas seem to
> function properly. Very infrequently (and seemingly randomly) the opacity
> becomes correct, but then returns. I have not tried this using a "full
> opacity" mask yet, but I will.
> [update: tried other video modes, d3d without T+L always renders the water
> is 100% opaque, color does not affect, same with opengl. Above symptoms are
> for d3d with T+L and software]
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> Also: Setting the water color does not alter the color of the surface of the
> water, only the fog color while underwater. I don't know if this is
> intentional.
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> Aside from that, so far everything works great.
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> Athlon XP 2100+
> 512 mb PC2700 RAM
> 128mb GeForce4 using latest reference drivers
> SBAudigy2
> WindowsXP
> DirectX 9a
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Apr 17, 2003, 1:42am
[View Quote]"sk8man 1" <gzanone at optonline.net> wrote in message
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> I'm on 2k and it seriously never crashes. I think it also handles RAM
> differently. I seem to be able to do more things at once than I was/am able
> to do with XP and ME.
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Although it has some incompatibility with 9x programs.
--Bowen--
Apr 17, 2003, 2:38am
[View Quote]"sw comit" <swcomit at swcity.net> wrote in message
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> If I recall, they're using a sun server which is Unix (I think).
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A form of it?
--Bowen--
Apr 17, 2003, 4:18pm
[View Quote]"andras" <andras at andras.net> wrote in message
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> bastillion wrote:
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> Last time I got the dump it was around 7 gigabytes and it is still growing! You
can't compress it with WinZIP but only with GZip (of course since the server is
running under Unix, that is not a problem).
> Just to create the propdump takes almost a day! I don't know if the SUN server
supports DVD writer thou :)
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There should be a way to do some sort of live-updating with it. On a change it
changes the image instead of doing a once in a while propload, or something.
--Bowen--
Apr 20, 2003, 3:39am
[View Quote]"wunderbyrd" <nospam at npspam.com> wrote in message
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> I suppose. I've never had a program written for 95 or above (game or
> otherwise) that wouldn't run - only programs that were written for DOS
> (and used direct hardware access, etc) have run into incompatibility
> problems (and even then, some of them have worked quite well).
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> Unless you're running a lot of programs from 1992, I don't think
> compatibility is a real reason NOT to run Win2k. Otherwise, you need to
> get new programs since 9x is a DEAD platform (thank goodness!)
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To me, XP is more 9x than NT. The program I'm referring to was made around 1997/98.
I wish developers would start making programs for Linux. If they can do it for MAC
why don't they use that free mutli-platform window sdk (forgot what it was called)...
especially for games, all you need is fullscreen (which would be silly not to support
in that)... and if you're going to research the different OS specific functions for
one, why not multiples?
--Bowen--
Apr 20, 2003, 5:17pm
[View Quote]"agent1" <agent1 at shatteredplatters.com.nospam> wrote in message
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> bowen wrote:
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> Microsoft says "Windows XP is built on an enhanced Windows 2000 code base"
(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/planning/techoverview/default.asp).
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Microsoft says IIS is secure too. I'd say Win2K is a 50/50 between NT and 9x, but XP
is leaning more towards a personal user style than a huge network style (even though
2K and XP support both networks and home users).
--Bowen--
Apr 20, 2003, 5:15pm
[View Quote]"strike rapier" <strike at rapiercom.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In such a case they shouldent be given eject or PS then.
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The GK's should never be given eject. The PK's should be forced to patroll the world
since it's so popular and the entrence to the universe. PK's have a huge amount more
control than the GK's. The only reason anyone applies to be a GK is to eject people
at the gate. They'll say stuff like "oh I want to help out" but all they do is use
the spam macro and eject people they don't like or stuff they find annoying.
--Bowen--
Apr 21, 2003, 6:56pm
[View Quote]"sw chris" <chrisw10 at skywalkeronline.net> wrote in message
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> To be quite blunt, blanket statements like that are rarely, if ever, true.
> Perhaps there should be better training and screening of GK's though. There
> are too many complaints and every single one of them can't be false.
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When dealing with the GK's, there's no false blanket statements.
--Bowen--
Apr 22, 2003, 12:21am
[View Quote]"sw chris" <chrisw10 at skywalkeronline.net> wrote in message
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> There's another one. Come on, Bowen. Not all GK's are bad. Some are
> pretty good. It just seems that their screening procedures are getting a
> little lax. Throwing words at the problem won't help. Getting the GK
> leaders to control their volunteers will.
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I know there's another one, I've yet to meet a GK that doesn't do any of what I've
stated -- and it seems I'm not the only one. You say it as though it's progression
towards being lax. It's been this way for a long time now.
> QuikWord should also be used a little less. Personalization brings people
> in. :)
Duh.
--Bowen--
Apr 22, 2003, 1:38am
[View Quote]"sw chris" <chrisw10 at skywalkeronline.net> wrote in message
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> Hey, don't get sarcastic with me... Being antagonistic definitely won't
> solve anything. You're arguing semantics, and we are both essentially
> saying the same thing needs to be done.
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There was no sarcasm invovled. I completely meant my duh.
--Bowen--
Apr 23, 2003, 1:49am
[View Quote]"pc hamster" <pchamster at attbi.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone:
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> "bowen" <thisguyrules at 7k2.4mg.com.ANTISPAM> wrote in message
> news:3ea49924 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> a
> what I've
> progression
> people
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> I have but ONE thing to ask Bowen. Have you EVER visited JunoDome? The
> GK's there are NO DIFFERENT than the PK's on AlphaWorld. The PK's are
> better screened because the PK's have MORE POWER & MORE RESPONSIBILITY!!!
> That's all.
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The PK group does not clump the commonly accepted replacement for swear words such as
"crap" into the same category as "shit". They've taken the guidelines and extended
them to what they see fit, not what is actually encompassed. It says refrain from
using words that people may find offensive, it doesn't say you're not allowed to.
And I can tell you, without a doubt, that the only group of people who find crap
offensive, are people over the age of 60.
--Bowen--
Apr 23, 2003, 11:48pm
[View Quote]"lara" <Lara at tnlc.com> wrote in message news:3EA7401C.EB0093DC at tnlc.com...
> I was pleased with 3.4.... until Build 480. The greyed-out Object Properties
window on other people's builds does not allow us to copy action commands off other's
builds in Alphaworld. I hope other Alphaworld builders who have always liked the
convenience of copy/pasting complex commands will politely (I'm having a really hard
time being polite about *this* change) ask AWI to fix this back the way it was.
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I agree. I'm forwarding this too the beta newsgroup. If anything, it should be made
an option for world owners to decide upon.
--Bowen--
Apr 24, 2003, 2:15am
[View Quote]"dion" <Dion at digevo.net> wrote in message news:3ea74cc1$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Why don't they not make the boxes grayed out but don't allow people to move
> the objects or modify the text (just select it)
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It's really not an issue to add a new state instead of just re-using the "you don't
have build rights" one. Make a special case just for the no moving objects that
aren't yours with non-read only edit boxes. (it's not that hard in theory, I've yet
to see how they implemented it though).
--Bowen--
Apr 24, 2003, 2:55pm
[View Quote]"dion" <Dion at digevo.net> wrote in message news:3ea7f996 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Well, that wouldn't work either. Someone could put solid off for an object
> in order to go through it.
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As I said, it's simply just writing a new state instead of associating it with the
"build or not-build" ones currently. Maybe a "build- but not editable" Which means
it would allow you to copy and paste and insert all you want, except it won't send
data to the server if you type something in.
--Bowen--
Apr 25, 2003, 4:07am
[View Quote]"defiance" <Defiance at micro$oft.com> wrote in message
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> What a liar. I'm neither NCC nor did I do any of this crap.
> Grow up. And stop playing with monkeys 24/7.
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You certainly don't act like he does.
--Bowen--
Apr 25, 2003, 7:14pm
*grabs head and screams* SHUT UP
Apr 27, 2003, 3:11pm
[View Quote]"goober king" <gooberking at utn.cjb.net> wrote in message
news:3EAC0E35.5010202 at utn.cjb.net...
> Here Brock, let me take that gun off your head that's forcing you to
> read every post... :P
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It was your newsgroup guide. :P
--Bowen--
Jul 5, 2003, 5:30pm
[View Quote]strike rapier wrote:
> Ud be suprised, IPs and reverse DNS can work well some times
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Sometimes too well.
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--Bowen--
Jul 6, 2003, 4:29pm
[View Quote]..duo. wrote:
> not when someone has dynamic ones or a proxy.
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The ID is something unique to windows, that every computer has. As I
can take the same computer, and use an emulator to emulate windows and
not get the same computer ID or the ability to decrypt the password even
though it's the same machine.
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--Bowen--
Aug 13, 2003, 8:59pm
[View Quote]..duo. wrote:
> I know of a mac address (the ID I beleive your talking about) spoofer.
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It was my understanding that a device's MAC address was a permanent thing.
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--Bowen--
No of SETI units returned: 69
Processing time: 57 days, 10 hours.
(Total hours: 1378)
www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
Apr 30, 2003, 3:03am
[View Quote]"percipient" <percipient at {spamthis}percipients.com> wrote in message
news:3eaf557b at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> American ratings, right? Here in Canada movie ratings are quite different. R
> can run into what would be NC-17 in the states. "The Story of Us" which was
> R in the states, by the rules there I understand, was only PG in Canada.
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NC-17 is sort of a ... lesser porn than X.
--Bowen--
Apr 30, 2003, 3:58pm
[View Quote]"wing" <wing at transedge.com> wrote in message
news:3eafa660 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> If you're going to use movie ratings - X would require either an ID or a
> full beard to get in, while R only requires friends that work at the
> theater.
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Well, I guess I could've gotten into X when I was 13.
--Bowen--
Apr 30, 2003, 7:57pm
[View Quote]"swe" <swe at swe-e.com> wrote in message news:3eb03697 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> no, he's still refering to all the way hardcore! just, not showing as much.
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Yup, that's basically what it is. But Enzo is right, kind of.
--Bowen--
May 2, 2003, 9:22pm
[View Quote]"swe" <swe at swe-e.com> wrote in message news:3eb2eabc at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> artsy porn, no such thing, its just under cover porn really.
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I'm trying to come up with a good example of artsy porn... but the only thing that
comes to mind are strip clubs that don't allow women to get naked.
--Bowen--
May 1, 2003, 10:26pm
I wish I knew who you were... you just appeared out of nowhere and your citnumber is
pretty low.
--Bowen--
May 1, 2003, 11:13pm
[View Quote]"77" <n0zoa at attbi.com> wrote in message news:3eb1c585 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> i have netscape 4.78 with no probs and i voted for tourists to have access
> to all worlds but with restricted build rights. Jeez only 5 people have
> voted so far and the one i chose it at the top with 65%
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Doesn't work with mine. Seems some images and tables are quite messed up.
--Bowen--
May 1, 2003, 11:19pm
[View Quote]"77" <n0zoa at attbi.com> wrote in message news:3eb1c585 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> i have netscape 4.78 with no probs and i voted for tourists to have access
> to all worlds but with restricted build rights. Jeez only 5 people have
> voted so far and the one i chose it at the top with 65%
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It's not even valid HTML :
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.awnews.org%2Fhtml%2F
--Bowen--
May 2, 2003, 3:49pm
[View Quote]"ananas" <vha at oct31.de> wrote in message news:3EB2080A.26486CD0 at oct31.de...
> Nearly no web pages are valid HTML nowadays :(
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Even so, the mistakes on that page were silly compared to most. :) [The ones I make
are valid HTML now :D]
--Bowen--
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