Unfortunately an essay is something else, to be good generally it has to have some logic in it, it has to be written in an understandable way for its intended public, and it shouldn't contain mistakes. For those reasons I'll spare you an analysis of what you wrote. Since you don't like dissections of your writings, I hope you'll be more than happy.
Leper? In my eyes you're able to appreciate something for what it is and what it gives to you without considering it a forced replacement for something you miss, since you don't miss it.
If you're a leper, you're a lucky, happy and wise one. Something that generally couldn't be said of other real or virtual lepers.
Edit: Boris, I also play and enjoy Trackmania, which is as close to reality as a Salvador Dali painting. I play it for different reasons. But as for LFS, I immediately liked the effort of simulating something which isn't real (I refer to most cars and to all tracks), but struggles to be as close as possible to reality. NFS is unsatisfactory in that respect: it's neither fish nor flesh. It's not informational about reality and that makes it closer to Trackmania than to LFS. Most simmers who don't strive for doing something in real life love the informational aspects of sims. There's nothing strange in it. That's why some people likes to play hardcore sims instead of arcades where reality is only a surface that gives absolutely no clue about how stuff really works. In this (and not only in this) I'm with Kev and Xaotik. I guess that Scawen had to learn a lot of things coding LFS, I learn a lot of things just playing it, and I'm happy with it. Moreover I drive decidedly better since I play LFS, and that's something that helps me in my real life, although I never race or drive at the limit when I'm on a real road. Could you say the same about NFS?
No, I'm not scared, I've done some dangerous things in my life, although I'm old enough not to do dangerous stuff at the moment. I don't care that much about my life, I don't have a deep survival instinct, but I'm 36 and a lot of people would suffer if I did something stupid, but I'm not scared, just responsible.
Paradoxically I'd fly a plane and sooner or later I'll learn to do it, and not in a sim, but I'll have to do it when my mom is dead and only if my girlfriend is by my side. We've always thought it would be romantic to die together, so that wouldn't be a problem. Definitely, it's not fear.
Edit: a cousin of mine was a pilot of Frecce Tricolori. He died in the Netherlands a lot of time ago for an engine failure, so he decided to crash in a safe spot instead of ejecting over a crowd. He always loved speedy cars and planes. That never scared me. His name was PierGianni Petri, he died in 1979. My father was in the Italian Air Force and I live in Udine, which is near Rivolto, base of Frecce Tricolori. when Piergianni died I lived in Villafranca di Verona near the military airport, home of 3° Stormo. Planes don't fascinate me, flying does.
Why would you want to understand such things? Whenever I try to understand why someone wants to be a real life racer, I find their reasons irrilevant for me... Fame, money, women, love of cars, competitivity...
None of these things is good enough for me to want to be a real life racer. But I like the additional immaterial layer of virtual reality when it comes to something I'm only marginally interested in real life, it fascinates me for a countless numbers of reasons. I'd drive a sports car gladly just to try, but nothing more than that. I'm quite comfortable with my life, but if someone asked me if I'd prefer to be - if I wasn't myself - Tim Berners Lee or Michael Schumacher, I'd say Tim Berners Lee instantly.
Knowledge and fun are the keys, for me. LFS is for me a better way to the knowledge and fun I'm interested in. I recognise that my reasons may be at the same time impossible and easy to understand, but I would say the same of yours.
So personally I try not to question other's people interests because if you want you'll always find something better for someone else to do depending on your logic/tastes, if you really want, although doing so you may forget that each human being is unique, and so are his/her reasons.
Edit: and Blueflame, if I believed in ignore lists you'd be one of the very few having the honour of getting in, since you always try to stir up trouble. When you get it please don't be offended. You were looking for it.
It depends on the type of connection, really. PPPoE needs an MTU of 1492 (standard value), while PPPoA 1500. Packet fragmentation issues generally lead to performance decrease, but in most cases this decrease can be barely noticeable since network appliances (including nics or OSes handling nics) generally do a good job at reassembling packets. For sure it's some added strain, however, that can be easily monitored with Wireshark (which does a good job at identifying packet fragmentation and reassembly).
If the BT Home Hub is half a serious router, it should give the possibility of adjusting MTU too. Generally this would be needed only to lower it down to 1492 if PPPoE is used, or if - for whatever reason - the provider uses non-standard values. In Italy Tele+ needs some adjusting of this sort for some business users since they use a traffic shaping technique that needs lower MTU values.
Hubs don't have IP addresses. Maybe you're not using the correct term.
A simple cable tester doesn't help, really. I doubt it's a cable problem, but unless you use a Time Domain Reflectometer you're not going to really see if the cables are fit for network traffic or not.
Whatever the network appliance having IP address 192.168.1.254 is, it shouldn't time out with pings unless there's a really heavy network traffic, or a nic jamming it (or, again, if it's faulty): it happened to me, for instance, when I used a single STP-FTP on a 3com Superstack 3300: all the network traffic slowed down to a crawl, even if all the other UTP cables were fine. The cable tester didn't complain about the cable.
I doubt you have a problem with cables, but if you test with pings some network appliance ensure you only have the testing pc connected. The simpler things are, the faster you'll recognise the faulty equipment. So, once you know something is good, write it off: experiment combinations later.
Also try to meter your network , you may have a nic generating extremely high traffic.
for basic diagnostic, use nslookup, tracert and ping.
To rule out dns problems, have nslookup resolve www.google.com to an address and then try pinging the address, both numeric and alphabetic. When the problem comes again, do the same thing.
Again, TCPView can give you some hints. Wireshark is optimal to understand if and where there's a trouble.
Check points of passage one at a time. When you have the problem, does the router respond? Does the gateway assigned to the router respond? Does an external host respond? Try to identify correctly the point of failure first.
Anyway, if you use ping as a basic diag instrument, remember that not all hosts respond to ping or ICMP messages in general.
Try also pingplotter, it could help.
I've had acceptable results with Panorama Maker, but you really need good sources. Anyway the Tips and Tricks section for Panorama Maker can give some good hints.
Edit: Don, excellent job! I see hugin official pages also have a lot of tutorials. I suppose they are a good place for a start.
I've been watching this thread for a few days, unable to make up my mind. How to perform such tasks is common knowledge and I would help you if you had legitimate reasons, but I can't see anyone really good at the moment. The fact that it would be you (and not me) to have complete responsibility for an action that you may do doesn't help.
I'd leave the computer as is, in this case. You may not like the idea but I don't have any good reason to question your father's authority or to suggest a complete solution to your "problem".
Anyway suggesting to change passwords is a bad idea. There are methods that don't involve password changing and that leave no obvious traces because you can undo them all. How to perform such an easy task is a complete different matter that won't be discussed in this thread, at least by me.
The reason above is perfectly valid for me too. Maybe someone thinks that appreciating a neat piece of software or hardware is more stupid than appreciating a car. But there will always be someone who judges the world exclusively by his own meter because he's unable to evaluate simple differences between human beings.
Is it so difficult to accept that a race sim can be appreciated from different points of view and for reasons that may be different from "I'm frustrated because I cannot be a race driver so I'm a sim race driver?"
Once again the answer is obvious, except for those who feel horrendously deprived of some opportunity.
Exactly. LFS, as most (good) sims, attracts a very wide range of persons.
I mean, such a sim could be appreciated also by computer geeks who rarely give a damn about checking the oil level of their cars.
There's nothing wrong in appreciating a neat piece of software that has so many qualities in it, without missing real life racing. LFS is a simulator, but that doesn't mean 'replacement' for me. Why is it so hard for some people to understand that I might want to be something different than a race car driver in my life?
I played samorost 1 when it came out (being a flabber.nl addict helps), and up to date is one of the best web efforts I've ever seen for a flash game, along with the excellent Submachine series, but the design is far better. Eastern Europe cartoonists rule.
What did you do wrong... let's see. Information were way too generic and the topic title really sucks.
Steps for a research:
Identify the song: put "rocky I hate to say" as Google research. Identify the song as Rocky by Dog Eat Dog. Open Youtube, search with "rally dog eat dog". Otherwise search for "rally crashes" if the video isn't the one you want.
Yes, I can see his point. I just had to read the piece of news:
She gave Peres a volume of "The Book of Splendor," the guiding text of Kabbalah, inscribed "To Shimon Peres, the man I admire and love, Madonna," the Yediot Ahronot daily reported.
Although my point of view - for both obvious and subtle reasons - can't be sympathetic to the comment you're quoting, I can easily understand the reasons underlying, and agree to a certain extent. But don't believe the rest of the world is lucky, you'll see the same stuff almost everywhere.
Edited out an interpretation that's possibly wrong. No, not possibly wrong, completely wrong
Once Aphex Twin was asked by Madonna, whose better quality is as a businesswoman, to remix a song. He asked he would do it only if Madonna agreed to sound like a pig in that song. Madonna didn't reply, and she didn't have her remix.
The issue is probably related to graphic adapter drivers. Identify your VGA, search the forum to see if you find additional info and try another set of drivers.
I'd also open my PC and see if there are problems with the VGA chipset fans.
That's because when you connect to the other servers you have an outgoing connection which are generally always authorised in firewall/router default setups, while in this case you are accepting incoming connections.
The incoming connections, if you use a router, have to be explicitly defined because of NAT issues, but there's more, of course, depending on your setup. Refer to the excellent sticky post by the angry angel for additional information, you'll find most of the stuff about how to run an LFS server there.
From what I understand visiting the site, this could be a download service offering more than 800 million games online... 800 millions?
Anyway you would probably end up with the demo version of LFS. I wouldn't say it's illegal if you pay for a (needless) download service, but both the advertisement and the homepage are dodgy since there's no significant additional info about the offer. You're left in the dark until you submit your email address (which, for the record, I won't do) .
It was a good performance from a talented and fair racer.
Kubica has the added advantage to be at the moment one of the few likeable drivers in F1: he's not arrogant, he's not secretive and he likes speaking clearly, at least in Italian. His interviews are insightful because he tells things just how he sees them. Unfortunately this is a rare quality.
It's extremely simple, or better, it is obvious. If those information are protected (that's why we call such things intellectual property) you're not allowed to use them as you like. This right can only be held by the owner of the property, and in this case it's not McLaren, it's not Stepney. It's Ferrari. Those information are far from being free.
And again, if someone steals your car because you left your keys in it you're not responsible for the theft. It's always the thief who's criminally responsible. Your insurance could have something to say, but not a judge.
Yes, Mosley is clearly at unease (but not angry or annoyed) when the BBC reporter asks him about driver points not being taken away because he would have stripped them. All the lawyers in the council thought the same thing. But the outcome of the vote went in the opposite direction, and since that vote counts, driver points were not stripped.