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Because smoking makes you look cool, especially if you smoke them Cowboy Marlboro's -- sure makes you a cowboy! Drinking is cool too. Should hire Michael Jordon to make a Just Do It commercial for smoking, sex, drugs, alcohol, and gang violence. And of course, smoking will in no way have any harmful side-effects or harm your health or get you more or less closer to getting cancers or having problems breathing or ...

What does "triple dot" mean?

But it's for an AI bot that is supposedly better than Bjorn's.

MOM IS MAN AND SOMEHOW BILLING OP OF SSC (SSC HAS FEMALE-WANNABE BILLING OPS? WT?). THIS THREAD SHOULD BE PINNED FOR LIFE. An example of a bug or glitch is when you set thrust speed high enough for rockets (leave default rocket speed alone) and then go humbugging around with the rocket, which will cause your ship to have 3 thruster graphics, and will enlarge your ship animation graphics by 10x. Another example of an interesting thing is if you set the maximum energy for a ship to -1, which will give you an energy of 65535 and possibly making the ship have no energy usage when firing weapons or susceptible to taking damage (untested). The maximum initial energy is 38527.

Bump.

That's ASSS fault. *whistles* EDIT: I think there is a NamePassword sort of thing for global.conf. I gotta look it up. EDIT2: There is a "Password" -- so I added that and restarted the zone.

That's what I did... using the information PoLiX provided.

Zones restarted (except for Nintendo Basing and Dragonball Z). It may take 24 to 48 hours for changes to settle in completely. I'm not sure how directory servers handle the changing of NamePassword's. EDIT: ds1.hlrse.net and ds.hlrse.net restarted.

Audrey and Mom talk too much.

This is what i do with Central. All the main SSC zones are hardcoded. Central uses passwords for individual zones only. I think they expiring after 24h i can check. Also, I realized that there should be no conflict in zones using the same password, because the security method of each zone having a unique password just means that's the highest degree of security level for zones. Of feature requests for Sharvil's directory server, this would be awesome: * Ability to manually add zones (regardless of NamePassword) * Ability to manually add zones based on a fixed non-expiring NamePassword (can be used to "permanently" reserve names) * Ability to block certain IPs from broadcasting to the directory server * Ability to block certain IPs from retrieving listings Hehe. By the way, Sharvil's directory server accepts pings in case you want to find out if the server is still up. This way we can build an automated list instead of having to manually check and keep lists up-to-date. To ping any directories running Sharvil's server, just send a 4-byte packet to port 4991 (and if you get a response, it is still online). This feature has been around since v1.0.

I have a younger brother who is rather arrogant and ignorant, and he is 8 years old (I think). He is very intelligent and smart, however, and probably knows quite a bit more than the average kid his age. He's really into science, experiments, how things work, etcetera. In fact, he has his own desk in the living room that is [literally] trashed with piles of garbage (of which include wires, motors, fans, screw drivers and other tools, soldering iron, etcetera). The problem occurs when he makes a mistake and fails to admit it and apologize (if necessary) to the appropriate people. The scenario here is that my car needed one of its lights replaced. He was holding the package containing the bulb and was opening it. He handed the light bulb over to my uncle (a car mechanic), then separated the paper from the plastic cover of the bulb's package, and finally ripped the paper side apart and crumpled both the plastic and whatever was left of the paper. I quickly informed him that what he just did was a very stupid thing. His reply to this was, "No, because we're replacing the bulb." To this, I said that he is incorrect, because nobody knows whether (1) the bulb is dead, (2) it's just a faulty wire or connection problem, (3) I got the wrong bulb, (4) whether the bulb was dead or not, 1, 2 and 3 -- plus "until the bulb's status is confirmed and successfully replaced". Instead of doing the right thing -- which is to admit that he is wrong and apologize for what he did -- he continues to shrug it off and stuff. I ask him to admit that he is wrong and apologize to me. He says "No, not even for a penny." At this point, he is in a state where you cannot put any reason into him (totally blinded to reason). I decided to ban him from the computers and movie watching (an authority I have since I am the system administrator). He also said that he won't ever admit and apologize. Note that I was never angry or frustrated during his whole process. I was and still am calm. I'm just simply disappointed. What do you guys suggest? How should I resolve this? One challenge here is that if he ever gets to, for example, a certain level of frustration for being prohibited from using the computers and watching movies (he uses the computers primarily to lookup stuff on instructables.com), he could very well insincerely admit and apologize just to attain his desire of using the computer or watching movies. This would be wrong because on the inside he didn't really apologize or admit he is wrong ("I'm always/still right!").

Solution? Move. EDIT: This isn't a practical solution.

I beg to differ on this -- rather the comment I have is that you fail at Subspace in missing the point of Subspace. A more appropriate approach would have been to simply say that the tradeoff I would be facing is directory server inconsistencies due to using a more secure method. Alright. (Comment: That is still a stupid security method, because all it takes is knowing the password to hijack zone names.) Lastly, it is untested as to how Snrrrub's and Doc's directory servers react when you use the inverse security method. EDIT: Priit's directory servers should be abandoned as primary directory servers. For the poor SSC zones that are locked within it -- we can simply use clustering/leeching functions of other directory server software.

Then we have a conflict, no? Priit's directory server uses a different method of handling NamePassword's than does Snrrrub's or doc flabby's. I believe that for Snrrrub's and doc flabby's, you have to have a unique password per zone. And for Priit's, you have to have the same password for all zones under the same IP. Am I incorrect?

Use the one from my signature. http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/randomsubsbar.jpg [img=http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/randomsubsbar.jpg] [url=http://getcontinuum.com][img=http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/randomsubsbar.jpg][/url]

Each zone on BlueT and SSCV uses a unique MD5 hash for its password.

All BlueT/SSCV zones broadcast to all the latest directory servers. I maintain that part of the server.ini. If it isn't showing up for you, well, I don't know what to say. IP=sscentral.com,sscentral.sscuservers.net,ssdir.playsubspace.com,nanavati.net,ds1.krslynx.com,ds.hlrse.net,ds1.hlrse.net

Add a "Save as BMP/PNG" option in the menu, where it would save a picture of the entire map at 1:1 ratio or 100% zoom (each tile would be 16x16). PS. Please make more updates to DCME, rather than just do Discretion-only. DCME is a great universal tool.

Recently BlueT has attained two zones onto the SSCV network; their names are Realism Zone and Sector Eight. SSCV Realism Zone uses specialized SVS settings that are based on a more literal application of the original ship descriptions featured in the old Subspace v1.34 client and the characteristics implied by the . SSCV Sector Eight utilizes a unique wormhole-basing concept, where flag rooms are protected by a wormhole and the only way to get past them is to use the appropriate ship (this is a small basing zone). Both zones are worth checking out! (Be sure to grab some friends to play with too.)

Design flaw of directory servers, even with lack of complete knowledge on the protocol. One should, in my opinion, naturally consider fail-safes.

Oops.

k, everybody running Sharvil's directory server set your ZoneRefreshSeconds to 240 (4 hours).

if i gave you a mortar launcher, and told u to hit a specific target, could you do it? "grab the gate"... how do I "grab the gate" By clicking on it with your mouse, holding the click, moving your mouse upward on the vertical/y-axis, and while doing that moving your elephant through via keyboard.

4990 is the port that the directory server broadcasts, and the port directory clients use to retrieve listings from directory servers. 4991 is the port that ASSS and Subgame2 use to broadcast themselves to the directory server, and is the port on which the directory server accepts broadcasts from zones. You also have to factor in these things: * With UpstreamServers enabled, every 60 seconds (assuming this is what you have ZoneRefreshSeconds set to) your directory server will download a list from each directory server listed in UpstreamServers; all but ds1.hlrse.net does this -- I think doc flabby's Central does this as well * People other than Maverick's Perl instance is checking the directory server too * Doc flabby is also running the Perl script Maverick, how often does yours check the directory server?

NewEgg terminated their relationship with the supplier responsible. (It wasn't D&H.)