Bundt

Tried to log in to hs, but it's telling me I'm banned till 7-25. I haven't even been on in over a week so I'm guessing this was a mistake. Can someone fix please? Update: Ban Id is #664

Thanks Brain. Whatever you did worked.

I just tried, still getting same ban ID #617 http://forums.ssgn.net/public/style_emoticons/default/cray.gif

I would like to echo op2rules comment. In fact, I think center should have a minibase that has a flag room, and can be used for actual flag games. That way you don't even have to leave center to flag!

Can a mod please look into ban ID #617? I did nothing wrong that I am aware of. Last time I was banned for no reason they looked into it and told me I was accidentally caught up in someone else's ban, and they fixed it. Does this happen a lot???

-∞ (negative infinity) you smell of elderberries, and like to always blame the lanc when you never lanc yourself!

Cool, glad to hear it. I thought it was interesting that the kernel32.dll.so that I compiled on the latest Fedora worked fine on the latest Ubuntu. That implies that you don't need one for each distro, but just a current one that keeps up with Wine releases.

I just tested on an Ubuntu 10.04 system. Simply install wine from the Ubuntu Software Center. Even on 64 bit you'll be running 32 bit Wine I believe. According to the Wine wiki: Installing 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit system If you just want to use Wine, there is no need to compile it using the instructions here. Just go to the downloads page and click the link for your distribution. Once you have Wine installed, you can use this kernel32.dll.so. I compiled it on Fedora, but tested it with Ubuntu 10.04 and it works fine. Just copy it to /usr/lib/wine replacing the original (make a backup copy first). Let me know if it doesn't work for you. This is by far the easiest way to get Continuum working on Wine.

BDwinsAlt, what distro are you running? I might be able to help you get it working.

I have never heard of the Discretion subspace client. Do any of the popular servers support it? (And for the record, I was going to look into offering to be a maintainer for Discretion in the Fedora repos, but since the Fedora distro is not worth using, I won't bother )

Wine is so easy to install on the popular distros using the package manager, it seems like overkill to have a script try to do it. Installing Continuum is also super easy. I personally would only care about having a script that handles the non-trivial part of getting Continuum running, which is getting a working kernel32.dll.so, and perhaps backing up the original as you suggested. I could be wrong, but I imagine most linux users are somewhat technical and know how to do basic stuff like installing a package and copying a file. Having the working kernel32.dll.so files available for the different distros is what I would care about. Btw, I would have just used the kernel32.dll.so that is hosted on subspace2.net, but it doesn't work on Fedora.

Ok. If it is going to work for more than one distro, I will need to build wine from scratch with the script. The Ubuntu one would be easy since it uses a replacement file for that Distro, but that file doesn't work on other Distros I have tried. So what I'll do is maybe make a "Quick version for Ubuntu" and a "Build wine and install continuum script" to cover most distros. This will require me to make sure each distro has the dependencies needed. I think I'll start by trying to build wine with required dependencies on Ubuntu, then try it on Suse/Fedora/ect, then do the quick version (since its fairly simple to do that already) I run Continuum on Fedora 13 and I have a working kernel32.dll.so. Anyone running Fedora can simply install wine via yum, install Continuum in the normal way using wine, and then copy this kernel32.dll.so to their /usr/lib/wine directory. What about designating a maintainer for each popular linux distro who volunteers to maintain a current kernel32.dll.so for their distro? I would be happy to volunteer to do this for Fedora. EDIT: btw if anyone is interested in how to easily build a patched wine on Fedora (using the source rpm) I will be happy to post the steps here. Note that I run the standard wine installed through yum, I simply built the patched wine to get the working kernel32.dll.so file.

that part was my favorite. you were trying to be funny by summoning him into base this ford guy sounds pretty awesome Actually I wasn't trying to be funny, I was trying to get my team to help in base. That's why the ?summon feature exists. He could have turned on antisummon if he wanted to avoid being summoned. I was summoning other players as well, and many of them remained in base and helped. Only Ford decided to start killing his own teammates because he was upset we were drawing people away from his little party in center.

The part Courage forgot to mention was that FordPrefect began teamkilling our lanc (me) and others multiple times after being summoned to the base. I was the one who reported him to RareItanium, and Ford even admitted to doing it on pub chat, so no point arguing about it. He deserved the ban.