GODJonez
Why spam wiki?
2009-06-21 2:22 PM PDT
What's the point of having spambots spamming a wiki site that has only one regular visitor, that visitor being a mean sysop that hands over permanent bans to spammers with a great delay of approximately 2 minutes after the spam message was posted?
Seriously now. Why?
Seriously now. Why?
Is the (broken) soundcard breaking up?
2009-06-14 1:06 AM PDT
You might have read about my free Audigy 2 card. It has been working fine in Windows 7 after installing unofficial beta drivers for it, even power savings work correctly.
Yesterday something happened, though. First I just lost audio service, making all programs hang up when they tried to do any sounds. Well, simply restart of AudioSrv fixed that (Windows 7 has audio controlling as a service, so one can simply restart the service to reset all things related to sounds) but not everything was like before. The sound balance was off, way off.
Firstly all sounds played with less volume even though the settings and volume were the same, both in software side and on physical speakers. Secondly, the sounds were biased to front speakers while I would prefer the volume to spread equally to front and rear speakers for a nice surround sound. So I thought maybe restarting computer might make it better. It didn't...
So now all volume levels are dropped to half (or even less) with the same settings as before, with rear speakers lost the volume even more. I really don't like the way this is going, even though losing the card is not that big of a financial loss since I paid nothing for it...
On the same day we had some nice Left 4 Dead survival gameplay. As I had to beat Artaxs's time in The Drains, this is what we accomplished:
Shortly after the game we encountered a thunder storm here. It didn't take very long for it to somehow shut down my computer. At that point I deemed it better to unplug all the devices for the night.
Here you can see overdramatized thunder radar picture: http://screencast.com/t/Lma3whhyeQK
Yesterday something happened, though. First I just lost audio service, making all programs hang up when they tried to do any sounds. Well, simply restart of AudioSrv fixed that (Windows 7 has audio controlling as a service, so one can simply restart the service to reset all things related to sounds) but not everything was like before. The sound balance was off, way off.
Firstly all sounds played with less volume even though the settings and volume were the same, both in software side and on physical speakers. Secondly, the sounds were biased to front speakers while I would prefer the volume to spread equally to front and rear speakers for a nice surround sound. So I thought maybe restarting computer might make it better. It didn't...
So now all volume levels are dropped to half (or even less) with the same settings as before, with rear speakers lost the volume even more. I really don't like the way this is going, even though losing the card is not that big of a financial loss since I paid nothing for it...
On the same day we had some nice Left 4 Dead survival gameplay. As I had to beat Artaxs's time in The Drains, this is what we accomplished:
Shortly after the game we encountered a thunder storm here. It didn't take very long for it to somehow shut down my computer. At that point I deemed it better to unplug all the devices for the night.
Here you can see overdramatized thunder radar picture: http://screencast.com/t/Lma3whhyeQK
Summer time!
2009-05-30 8:52 AM PDT
It's been a hot day. My new wireless cycle computer (!) has a thermometer in it and it says 26 °C. The local weather station says 21.4 °C, though. Still, it feels quite hot here especially it has been chilly spring some time ago.
And seeing the weather forecast, tomorrow should be even hotter day. Maybe I'll get my new cycle computer a real test drive tomorrow then.
On Monday I will start my work at the Physics department of the University of Joensuu. I don't know what I will exactly be doing there, but I think I'll see what they have in mind for me then. Thanks to this summer job I will have money for the new computer. I had already placed the order for the parts but I have still not received them, the online shop is still short of the HD4770's, so I will need to wait for a little more for them to get more of those to also put one to my shipment.
For now I still use this older computer that I will then be turning to act as a server. I have not yet fully decided what OS I will put as the base, but I think I'll go with the new ClarkConnect beta. Until then I'll be mostly just chatting on IRC and browsing forums using Opera.
And seeing the weather forecast, tomorrow should be even hotter day. Maybe I'll get my new cycle computer a real test drive tomorrow then.
On Monday I will start my work at the Physics department of the University of Joensuu. I don't know what I will exactly be doing there, but I think I'll see what they have in mind for me then. Thanks to this summer job I will have money for the new computer. I had already placed the order for the parts but I have still not received them, the online shop is still short of the HD4770's, so I will need to wait for a little more for them to get more of those to also put one to my shipment.
For now I still use this older computer that I will then be turning to act as a server. I have not yet fully decided what OS I will put as the base, but I think I'll go with the new ClarkConnect beta. Until then I'll be mostly just chatting on IRC and browsing forums using Opera.
You think you can code?
2009-04-17 8:38 AM PDT
Prove it!
Write a program that prints out "hello world" without actually using any of those characters in the code.
Read more about it and user posted solutions here: Hello World without hello world
;)
Write a program that prints out "hello world" without actually using any of those characters in the code.
Read more about it and user posted solutions here: Hello World without hello world
;)
Easter Egg Hunt!
2009-04-10 8:59 AM PDT
Collect all the hidden eggs to uncover the secret message!
Here's an egg for you:
Post your answers, questions, hints, etc. as comments here.
Note: There are at least 18 eggs in total. If you can find them all, there might be a special prize for you!
Note 2: This event is not affiliated by Xfire in any way, it's my personally arranged hunt.
Here's an egg for you:
Post your answers, questions, hints, etc. as comments here.
Note: There are at least 18 eggs in total. If you can find them all, there might be a special prize for you!
Note 2: This event is not affiliated by Xfire in any way, it's my personally arranged hunt.
tx3000
2009-04-08 2:07 PM PDT
The part where I said " So to save yourself from even more humiliation, I am going to lock this right now." was a joke.
My apologies to tx3000 for going a bit overboard.
My apologies to tx3000 for going a bit overboard.
Alien Alt Invasion
2009-04-06 3:05 PM PDT
Is this a big April joke or what? The forums have suddenly got infected.
I mean, come on people, what are these about?
Troll eXchange 3000
Games Discussion is the new Atlantica Online forums
Pocoyo on crack
Homosexuality-obsessed alt?
You want me?
If you want more, just read some random topics on the forums.
I mean, come on people, what are these about?
Troll eXchange 3000
Games Discussion is the new Atlantica Online forums
Pocoyo on crack
Homosexuality-obsessed alt?
You want me?
If you want more, just read some random topics on the forums.
April Fools Aftermath
2009-04-02 3:16 AM PDT
So the yearly joke is over now.
In my opinion the previous years' jokes were better, this Hfire thing was quite lame. But the people's reactions on the forums were always the best thing in Xfire's april fools jokes, and it was this year too.
What I like in Xfire's jokes is that they are interesting in technical aspect. For example changing the game names and icons, that required editing the web code and database contents. Having the site in 1337 language dynamically created on the fly was also interesting in technical view. And now having all videos redirect to some specific videos, keeping count of them to later allow viewing videos normally.
Gotta love the Xfire web team making this possible, instead of fixing some "easy" bugs such as { and } characters getting messed up in blog posts and having escaped characters turn into HTML entity codes in video comments.
EDIT: See? Those were originally { and } but turned out to numerical entity codes
So what were we left with after all this?
Some people really didn't seem to know that such a thing as April Fools' day existed. There are people from many cultures using Xfire and this concept of making mad jokes in one day of a year is not known to everyone.
Some of the Xfire chat logs (names changed, I am feeling nice):
And I even got a PM on forums:
...
In my opinion the previous years' jokes were better, this Hfire thing was quite lame. But the people's reactions on the forums were always the best thing in Xfire's april fools jokes, and it was this year too.
What I like in Xfire's jokes is that they are interesting in technical aspect. For example changing the game names and icons, that required editing the web code and database contents. Having the site in 1337 language dynamically created on the fly was also interesting in technical view. And now having all videos redirect to some specific videos, keeping count of them to later allow viewing videos normally.
Gotta love the Xfire web team making this possible, instead of fixing some "easy" bugs such as { and } characters getting messed up in blog posts and having escaped characters turn into HTML entity codes in video comments.
EDIT: See? Those were originally { and } but turned out to numerical entity codes
So what were we left with after all this?
- 37 locked topics in General
- 16 locked topics in Technical Support - OPEN
- 4 locked topics in other forum areas
- a few topics not locked about the case around the place
- threats to leave Xfire (like every year)
- people dying (at least they posted they died)
- lulz?
Some people really didn't seem to know that such a thing as April Fools' day existed. There are people from many cultures using Xfire and this concept of making mad jokes in one day of a year is not known to everyone.
Some of the Xfire chat logs (names changed, I am feeling nice):
And I even got a PM on forums:
...
Summoning of Spirits
2009-03-07 6:42 AM PST
Who doesn't like music? Who doesn't like music you can download for free? Who doesn't like the idea that video game fans that can produce music make awesome remixes of video game music and put them for free download? The answer should be nobody.
Now the OverClocked ReMix community has made their largest album arrangement yet, Summoning of Spirits
Show your support for free music and get something to enjoy at the same time and download it now!
Now the OverClocked ReMix community has made their largest album arrangement yet, Summoning of Spirits
Show your support for free music and get something to enjoy at the same time and download it now!
Season start
2009-02-20 6:07 AM PST
It was a beautiful winter day, sun shining, -4.0°C outside, calm wind and I am out of shampoo. That obviously means that I take out my bike to snowy roads and try to catch the advertised special deal to get some cheap shampoo.
Well, as I guessed, the tires hadn't held their pressure very well. It was so and so that the rims didn't break the inner layer, I guess the snow on road softened the ride enough to prevent that from happening. It was not very pleasurable though, since one needs to apply more force to beat the extra friction caused by empty tires.
Well, once I got to a service station where was an air pump I could actually use, I could check the pressure levels, they were something in between 1 and 2 for both front and rear, while they should be somewhere around 5 or 6 usually. So, refilling them up and then it was nice to go on.
Surprisingly there weren't any other problems, breaks worked, gears worked and nothing seemed broken.
After the trip I had caught quite a sweat, even though I even used the thinner jacket. And, well, I ended up not using the special deal for shampoo after all. The reason was quite simple, there was even better deal there, bigger bottle of some lesser known brand for the same price.
Well, as I guessed, the tires hadn't held their pressure very well. It was so and so that the rims didn't break the inner layer, I guess the snow on road softened the ride enough to prevent that from happening. It was not very pleasurable though, since one needs to apply more force to beat the extra friction caused by empty tires.
Well, once I got to a service station where was an air pump I could actually use, I could check the pressure levels, they were something in between 1 and 2 for both front and rear, while they should be somewhere around 5 or 6 usually. So, refilling them up and then it was nice to go on.
Surprisingly there weren't any other problems, breaks worked, gears worked and nothing seemed broken.
After the trip I had caught quite a sweat, even though I even used the thinner jacket. And, well, I ended up not using the special deal for shampoo after all. The reason was quite simple, there was even better deal there, bigger bottle of some lesser known brand for the same price.
