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MadCatX
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Kernel 3.2 and above should handle DFGT just fine, although the patch has never been tested with that wheel. If you add "hid.debug=1" parameter to the kernel boot line, you should get some extra debugging info in dmesg which should help us figure out what's going on.

You're probably missing something like "libusb1-dev" package, that's why LTWC won't compile.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
I guess it's quite logical for a PHP developer to use a Mac. Chances are that his code will run on some kind of LAMP server so developing on a UNIX based system makes sense. The other things like multitouch, fully integrated auto updates etc. are just a bonus.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
I suppose that getting a part time job is out of question?
Quote from frotto110 :
In my moms opinion this is same as prostitution, you are selling your body.

That is nonsense, donor blood can save someone's life. As long as it's done in a hospital with sterile instruments, it can't hurt you, but making blood donations a source of income is a bad idea too.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
Quote from Racer X NZ :Except apple rewrite java and you can't use the standard updates

No, they don't. They merely add the OS-specific glue to OpenJDK
Quote from Racer X NZ :
It can ONLY be updated with apple updates and they do NOT support 10.4 or 10.5

You could still extract the JRE from an up-to-date MacOS X or install a preview JDK which includes JRE if you were for some reason still running an outdated MacOS X version. Apple is simply trying to encourage their users to stay up to date which I think is a good thing, arguably much better than MS zombifying WinXP.
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Quote from Racer X NZ :
And as macs have no issues most users don't even accept that this is real !

They do have no less issues than any other OS, that's why there are regular service packs issued for MacOS X.

I'm not particularly fond of Apple and their products either, but if you want to criticize it, please get your facts straight first.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
Quote from Racer X NZ :
If your running 10.4 or 10.5 update your OS as your screwed for support.
If your running 10.6 you MAY get the update from Apple, or not......

Or you can just update JRE which takes about 30 seconds, it's completely free and works on every platform supported by Java.

Quote from e2mustang :once i read an article of a hacker who said it way easier to write viruses for mac than pc. i just cant find it but i will !

I suppose that's just a matter of perspective. One might also argue that it's much easier to exploit opensource software because you have the entire source you can read to look for possible loopholes.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
That's kinda what I've been thinking for some time, but there's no way I'm spending the extra cash on a MacBook. (I'd end up installing Arch on it some point anyway:tilt

Back on topic, wasn't this actually a Java issue which could've been exploited on all platforms, not just MacOS X? I tried to google some real info about the vulnerability and all I got was a rather vague "Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 7 and 6 Update 27 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Scripting." How's that for a good description?
It's not like it really matters, I just hate it when a [product XYZ] is blamed unjustly.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
I have no knowledge of PRISM or PHP for that matter, so I might be completely wrong here, but calling onLoad() to send buttons to a new connection seems kinda wrong to me. I didn't really get the "this->connID" business, was your plan to use multiple instances of the plugin, one for each connection?

Anyway, does this work?


<?php 
    
public function onConnect(IS_NCN $NCN
    { 
        if (
$NCN->Flags == 0
        { 
            
$this->sendButton($NCN->UCID);
             
            
console('conn id ' $NCN->UCID ' | ' $NCN->UName); 
        } 
    } 

    public function 
onDisconnect(IS_CNL $CNL
    { 
            
ButtonManager::removeButtonsByGroup($CNL->UCID'test'); 
            
            
console('disconn id ' $this->connID "\n");  
    } 

    public function 
onLoad() 
    {   
        
sendButton(0);  
        
console('Test plugin loaded'); 
    }

    private function 
sendButton($_UCID)
    {
        
$btn_close = new Button($_UCID'testbtn''test'); 
        
$btn_close->Text('Click me'); 
        
$btn_close->L(120)->T(40)->W(20)->H(20)->BStyle ISB_CLICK
        
$btn_close->registerOnClick($this'click'); 
        
$btn_close->send(); 
    }
?>

MadCatX
S3 licensed
Quote from Sobis :I didn't even know that there is an ignore function here! Thank you for informing, I will make sure it gets used properly

It's a nice thing to have, but it still shows you a message that a post by user X has been blocked. I'd prefer if there was just "This thread contains some blocked posts" kind of reminder.
I filtered that guy out only because I couldn't resist to provoke him to fire yet another salvo of kid/son/troll nonsense (and they say one can never have too much free time ) and I really began to feel like a spammer.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
Quote from Tomson(FIN) :im just so confused, seems like everybody speaking the same person? or what? who is this guy... what am i missing..

Believe me you're not missing anything because it's impossible to have a civilized discussion with him. He's the first guy I've ever added to my ignore list, he really is that dumb. But I've got to admit I had a good laugh reading his ill-conceived ideas and his fallback mode where he started to insult you when he was about to loose an argument
MadCatX
S3 licensed
If I'm not mistaken, UCID tells LFS which guests will see a specific button. When it's set to 0, only local host will see the button, 255 sends button to all guests.

I'd check if your application is actually getting IS_BTC packets.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
Quote from TRKAC :Lol kid no offense but you really dont know what you are talking about,maybe you cant read,maybe you are just a little "slow" up there ,who knows.
Like i said on default settings the car handling sucks,180 degrees spins at 20 km/h,cant turn the wheels enough on higher speeds

Actually it's you who has no idea how the physics behind the car's motion works. The first effect is called "oversteering". A front engine rear driven car like XRG will oversteer a lot because there is no mass in the back that would "push" the wheels to the surface. When you add too much throttle, the wheels start spinning and the car slides.
The second effect is "understeering". 6th grade physics tells you that the faster an object moves, the higher force is needed to change it's direction by certain amount at a given distance, and tyres can only produce so much force. Simply put, the faster you drive, the worse the car will turn.

BTW, a friendly advice: Calling someone who was genuinely trying to help you "slow" is a quick way to earn yourself a ban.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
Quote from lfs.net :
Live for Speed is a small development team dedicated to making the best online racing simulation.

Live for Speed is a serious racing simulator. No arcade modes, no steering aids - YOU have to do the driving.

Just because you can't simulate all aspects of the real life in a video game doesn't mean you should dumb the simulation down on purpose.

Simulation tries to get as real as possible, period. It usually has a steep learning curve and targets a specific audience. LFS is a simulation. Arcade on the other hand utilizes a simple and accessible gaming system everybody can master in a few minutes and have fun. DiRT is an arcade.
If you cannot see the difference between these two, I'm afraid any further discussion on this topic will be impossible.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
LOL, if it wasn't for his registration date, I'd seriously start to think that Vic got bored and wrote some Auto-Troll plugin for vBulletin to keep us occupied and get us off Scawen's back.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
Try LFSTweak, it'll probably let you modify most of what you need.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
I limit myself to CInsim but I don't think any of those libs is considerably more difficult to use than the other.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
You should choose the library by the language you want to write your application in. (In fact you don't have to use any library at all if you're willing to write all the plumbing code yourself)

For C# or VB.NET there is InSim.NET or LFS_External, but LFS_External hasn't been actively maintained for some time. There is pyInsim if you'd like to use Python (IIRC it's compatible with Python 3). With C++ you can use a somewhat low-level CInsim. And there's of course PHP-based PRISM, which is what you might want to use if your InSim application will be strongly web-oriented.

Keep in mind that these libraries were designed only to make talking to LFS easy, processing of the data you get from LFS still has to be done by you.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
I'd nominate DarkTimes for his amazing work on InSim.NET and pyInsim.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
I believe that a variation on a word describing one's male descendant is a common insult among the MW3 players community. His age would fit his behavior perfectly though...
MadCatX
S3 licensed
OK, just for the fun of it, let's say I don't have anything better to do than to reply to your pointless rant.

I find it particularly interesting that you ignore every help, hint or suggestion anybody offers you and jump right to insults. You shamelessly skipped the important part of my post, ripped out the last sentence, completely mangled its meaning and threw another blunt attempt to insult me. Might I ask what are you hoping to accomplish with this?

To ask you question (if it can be actually called a question):
Last time I checked, "us" meant a closely unspecified group of people, certainly not an individual. You seem to have noticed that you're on an Internet forum, where "us" means the community frequenting the forum. It is the community that can be very helpful and this forum is actually quite good example of the "from people to people" approach. Were you expecting the devs to read though every single post on this forum, especially when it's full of crap like this? Learn how this forum works, behave yourself and come back... then we'll see if there's anything that can be done to make LFS more enjoyable for you. Until then
MadCatX
S3 licensed
This is a Improvements Suggestions thread, not a rant arena. You don't come here to complain, you come here to present your ideas about how the game can be improved.
What kind of climax were you expecting? I always thought that people race because they enjoy racing in its purest form, not to get some artificial award in the end.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
Quote from Keling :
It does have some effect. Any electronic device turned on will increase the load of the generator, which is powered by the engine.

You're right, but this effect should be negligible, imagine that a common engine can accelerate a two ton car up to 160 km/h and compare it to the amount of work needed to power a bunch of 12 V light bulbs.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
@TRKAC:
I realize that I wouldn't post this if I wasn't so hopelessly bored, but seriously, is there something wrong with you mate? You've been following some pretty strange behaviour pattern since you opened your first thread.

1a) You complain about stuff
1b) You don't really suggest anything even though this is the Improvement Suggestions thread
1c) You haven't displayed much common sense - no offense, but some of the things you complain about have never been a problem even for the biggest dumbasses we had the honour to meet on this forum and believe me we've met a lot of "interesting" people over the years.
2) People try to explain to you how to get around most of the things you find annoying or why are things the way they are
3) You don't bother to listen and instead tell everybody to grow up, stop using drugs etc...
4) And to top it off, you argue about the most insignificant and stupid things.

What do you actually want from us? Everybody tried to be perfectly nice and explain things to you in this thread and all you replied with were insults. You've really got change your attitude if you want to get any help on this forum...
MadCatX
S3 licensed
It's a networking problem. You should check that your firewall is configured properly and that there is no excessive traffic on the network (like BitTorrent). A router restart might sometimes help too (if you have a router).
MadCatX
S3 licensed
So right now XMR is just a screenshot generator whereas LFS is a proper and very playable sim? No, thank you, if XMR ever evolves into something that I'd enjoy playing, I'll give it a shot.
BTW, does anybody else think that the graphics looks like it was drawn with crayons.
MadCatX
S3 licensed
I uploaded a testing version of 1.04 which should hopefully detect, use and release all G27s properly while not touching any other gaming device. Now when I say testing I mean I couldn't test it at all, so there's a possibility it just won't work. Unless you're having problems, stick to 1.03.
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