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xfirestorm
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Is Airio capable of checking all cars for their paths and alert the server admins or selected players about a violation of the path, like all 4 tyres of a car leaving the road? And it would report in a maner of player name(login and display name), lap/time of race and sector?
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
LX6 is one of the harder cars to control in LFS, might I suggest practicing with something a little bit easier to control first? Like the XRT or if you're feeling confident LX6s younger brother LX4? And remember, take it easy at first, once you get used to the car and the track, floor it.
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :Disagreed, way too long and wide for anything else than GTRs and fast single seaters. Same goes for Le Mans too.

Long, maybe, but even Spa can be driven in about 3:30s with a road going car, so I wouldn't say that long either. Wide, not really much wider than any track in LFS now.
As for Le Mans, you probably haven't heard about the Bugatti Circuit, doesn't use much of the "original le Sarthe", only the dunlop chicane and last corner of the ford chicanes, but still. Use the long for endus, short for TBOs and similar?

I'm not saying that they have to put these tracks in, I kinda like the fictional tracks, but before making a claim like that, think it over twice. And just as a reminder, I'm guessing that KY1 is a blast with UF1 for you. What I mean is, not every track is suitable for every car, even now in LFS, and we still have them all. So because a certain track is too long/wide for a certain car class is not good enough reason to not include that track.
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Depends on what are you going to use the car for. If you want to get from point A to point B the in the most comfortable way possible, then based on your description megane is the best choice.
Need I not remind you that the streets aren't a race track, so it really doesn't matter if car X is faster in 0-100km/h by 2 seconds compared to car Y.
Other thing is, if you're going to use it on the track as well. Then I'd buy me the megane for comfortable driving around and an old banger for the track. :P
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from Kristi :Seems like Cadillac were too pussies for a rear wheel drive car.

I really couldn't care less, just wanted to "prove" the point that FWD V8s did and still do exist. Were they any good? I sure as hell don't have a clue.
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from Bandit77 :@Reiljans: duuuuude... in which universe does this analogy make any sense?

In this one. Because comparing car stealing to breaking the terms of a license agreement is just plain stupid.
By cracking you're not denying anyone the use of the software(yes is a crime), unlike by stealing a car, you're denying it's use to someone.
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
FWD V8s exist anyway, even if that toyota is a V6.
USofAs first V8 FWD car was 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado

And there is many more:
Cadillac Eldorado (ALL of them), Oldsmobile Toronado (some of them), Buick Riviera (some), Cadillac Fleetwood (post 96), Cadillac Deville/DTS (current production), Cadillac Seville/STS (previous generation and earlier), Lincoln Continental (last generation),

EPIC first post tho.
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from Bean0 :Most XRT skins fit XRG too, without looking odd.

Didn't even think of that. My appologies!
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from TehPaws3D :(Yet there is like 9 working pirate bay torrents that nobody wants to shutdown, hint hint.)

Because torrent trackers are not in violation, since they don't *have* the software, but only info where the software can be downloaded from(other P2P connected PCs). It's tricky to shut down a torrent site, most have been shut down by their owners only because they got tired of the presure from the officials.

As for drawings, AWESOME! Can you do an XRR on Kyoto?
I'll even provide a screenshot.
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from GeT_RiGhT :Guy can u give me this skin?

What good is a XRT skin to a Demo player?
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Nice vid. Nice skins. Nice driving.
Finaly a non-drifting video.
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from mazex :Unix to PC

Didn't realize that Unix was a complete architecture, always thought it was an operating system.

And even if you meant, port a game from Unix to Windoze, you've got to be kidding.
The only few games we have for *nix systems native, there is usualy a win32 compilation of the game, so no port necesary.


About version numbering, you gave chrome as example, and here is my example:
Wine.
They have been developing it for over 10 years now(actualy will soon be 20 years since project start) and they just recently came over the "oh so magic 1.0" and I believe the current stable release is at 1.2.2 or something like that. So you could say that wine was on similar version numbers than LFS for like 12-15 years at least, and it was far from unusable. My first version was, I believe somewhere around 0.6, 0.7 or something similar, still officialy in beta stage, but it worked perfectly even then(with the apps that were in the winedb).

My point is, why bother with the version number? It doesn't change the game in any way.

Quote from Squelch :Convention says that < 1 version numbers are in alpha and not feature complete. That could be said of LFS, and we did have the alpha tag until recently, but who says LFS has to be conventional?

Actually 0.x can mean alpha or beta, but even 1.x or even 1222.x can have beta and also alpha releases.
Alpha release is usualy just for internal testing, usualy not available to public, so even in this "directive" LFS is unconventional, don't you think?
Also software versioning usualy have 4 numbers, like so:
major.minor[.build[.revision]]
Where build can be either, alpha, beta, RC, release(0,1,2,3).
That is the conventional way of versioning, where LFS is different again.

But once again, what's the point?
When I'm catching my arse on the race track around the corners, I really don't care if it say LFS 0.6B or LFS 60.0XYZ. A number wont change my experience.
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xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from samjh :Darn.

So LMP2 cars could potentially have more powerful engines than LMP1?!!!! How strange!

And I see that the ACO continues to ignore the disparity between diesel and petrol...

Yes and no, but LMP2 engines must be modified production engines, while LMP1 engines can be designed specificaly for the race car.
Take for example an F1 engine. How many engines exist with more displacement than the F1 engine? And the F1 engine is still more powerfull.
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
When you close the server, nothing is waiting for a connection on that port anymore, and that resembles as a closed port.
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from anbiddulph :I think he means that the banners on the tracks could be custom like skins on each server...

Thanks for the explanation, because I've had no clue what so ever about what he is talking about.
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Of course! That makes perfect sense!
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from edge3147 :What LFS needs is S3 to get finished and released so it will bring back old and many new drivers and many many more new servers.

Why does every thread on this forum lead to "LFS NEEDS S3!!!!ONEONE1"?
LFS needs only one thing. Less people that complain about every chickenshitdetail.
Love it the way it is.
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from Davo :How'd u get an XRT with demo? flaming nanas

Uhm...LFSVIEWER?
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from MadCatX :
[*](x)WRT doesn't work with most ADSL routers and there is no easier way to bricked router than messed up installation of custom firmware
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ADSL routers?
Haven't seen those.
And if you have the correct version of firmware for your router, and electricity doesn't run out right when you're flashing, everything should be fine. I've probably flashed tons of those and neither got "bricked".
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from ACCAkut :listen to this, its a rather flamboyant drive round one of LFS' shorter tracks (can you hear which it is? )

One of the SO?
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Yes, it's not ideal. But I'd rather lose 100kB/s on a 20Mbps line than only have have 100kB/s available.
And turning of torrents on PC2 sometimes isn't exactly an option. You know how brothers can be.
As for upload, you don't need to cut it in half, you can rate it at let's say 25% and ceil it up to 75% max, or whatever.
Hard to administer yes, but far from impossible.

I'm 100% sure that it's a better solution to do it like that for home use or even in small to medium sized companies. Larger companies like banks, insurance companies and all those high muckymucks have the money to buy "serious" hardware anyway.
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from S14 DRIFT :QoS doesn't really split bandwidth, it doesn't say "here you go, you two each get to have 256kb of a 512kb pipe" simply prioritises traffic, more often used for VoIP deployments alongside existing network infrastructure. Just says that when data is transfered, traffic marked with whatever DSCP value gets right of way. Basically like those "give way" signs on the roads.

This however is true, but you can work around this "problem", if I can call it that.
As an example I'll take a 1024kbps connection with 2 clients and only look at download.

Because 1024kbps is the upmost upper limit of the connection I'll mark that with iptables/ipchains in the mangle table as well as both connections to both clients/computers(or subnets for that matter). So I have 3 marks:
1 - link to teh worldz!one11!one
2 - pc1
3 - pc2

Then ussing tc I'll make the mark 1 as the parent class with rate of 1024kbps. Marks 2 and 3 will have rate of 512kbps and ceiling of 1024kbps.
And because borrowing is a fundamental part of HTB qdisc both clients will try to borrow more "bandwith" from the parent class(mark 1) until they reach their ceiling or there is no more "bandwith to borrow".
So if computer1 is idling, virtually not using any bandwith, the computer2 can borrow up to 1024kbps of bandwith(in theory) and is using up it's own rate and ceil, but as soon as computer1 becomes active and needs bandwith, tc will assign computer1 as much bandwith it needs until it reaches it's rate, and try to give it more if needed and if available(because of computer2 using it as well fully on).

I don't have anything against HP or Cisco. I have against all the vendors.(ok maybe a little bit more against Cisco, because of their, "you needz to take our 31337 classez to set up a connection on our most basic, heavily overpriced network equipment and don't even dream about something better until you really mastered our stuff", policy)
I like putting things together from scratch.
And I've been running the above scenario(with higher speeds) for years at home, worked ever since, and all that for nothing. Had an old computer laying around, only spent ~8€ for another NIC.
It get's complicated tho if you have quite a few computers running and you need to ensure each of them their share of bandwith. The script grows pretty darn quick in size.

Now, I don't know if the gfx interface of dd-wrt and/or tomato provide such functionality, but one can still SSH into them and play around with the settings.
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xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Get a decent router that supports QoS.
Like Linksys WRT54GL and load up dd-wrt or tomato firmware.
Or any other router that supports either of those firmwares:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/T ... ted_devices_and_revisions
If you'll have problems setting it up, feel free to contact me.

Don't see how this situation is at all funny tho.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :You could if you had some proper switches but I doubt you have £2000 for a HP Networking jobbie.

Just because it says HP doesn't mean it's any good. And certainly much overpriced for such a situation. At the worst you'd need a old pc, slap on a lightweight *nix OS and configure everything by hand. By far the best performance, specially on such a slow and "underused" network.
xfirestorm
S2 licensed
Quote from Mille Sabords :A wheel would be like getting a whole new game. It did it for me, I was a mouser for years and got a G25.

How and where?
I've been looking for a decent G25 that wasn't overpriced for a few months now. My FFB on my old wheel broke so now I'm stuck with driving without FFB.
I can get a G27 for ~330€ here, but that's a bit too much for a G25 with 4 more buttons. And then if I'm lucky I find a G25 for ~200-250€. To much, for a used wheel, considering a new G27 costs a tad over 300€. A while back when those were still available prices were around 170-180€. So now I'm pretty much stuck, and don't tell me ebay, because I'm not fond of that bidding system. In other words, I hate it. Do any companies in your countries still hold the G25 and would ship abroad?
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