Mr Ekted

Winamp is a huge CPU hog, especially between songs. At least make sure it is minimized. I think you are going to have to deal with system pauses if you can't live without Winamp.

Decoupling weapon/special settings, and decoupling tiles from their position in the tileset (and adding more tiles properties) is *my* biggest thing for the future...if I have any say.

Perhaps you have some utility mapped to those keys as quickkeys?

If Priit wants to do it, he will do it, and it will not be based on any discussion made here. If Priit does not want to do it, it will not happen. In that case discussing it is pointless, unless you plan on making your own client and getting it accepted by the majority of SS over Continuum. I am not saying this can't happen, but I have not been impressed with the efforts and/or the skill of any who have tried so far. Continuum is our only hope, no matter how depressing that sounds.

If you blank out the directory server list, it will reset to the default ones. They work fine for me. Perhaps you have a firewall and are blocking UDP port 4990?

Update the bios..carefully. Re-seat your NIC, and update your NIC drivers.

Or a malicious zone operator could put code the all clients that deleted all files, etc.

If RAM is flawed but not destroyed, it can be used for a long time before glitching. Can you run your RAM tests in a loop for a few hours?

I'm sure it's not the choice of file system. Perhaps the clean install corrected a glitch from the previous one.

Continuum currently supports screen objects and map objects. Screen objects are positioned at absolute coordinates, like top left or bottom right or center. Map objects are at fixed locations relative to the map itself, so they move on your screen as your view changes. What you uare talking about is ship-specific objects. These would be displayed relative to a given ship's location on the screen. I have suggested this. Priit has thought of it also, and liked the idea, but he said it would be handled different from the others. It is currently still in the official Continuum suggestion box.

If the encryption key is 32 bits, and there are 8 encryption systems, then that's the same as a 35 bit encryption key. It would be better to just make a single very complex system with multiple stages and multiple mutation "functions"--something akin to MD5 but 100x larger. It only has to run once to make a table, so it doesn't have to be super fast. But it does have to be large enough that it's prohibitive to reverse.

Close AIM, ICQ, MSN, YIM, Quicktime, Real Player, Window Media Player, WinAmp, all toolbars, and any "always on top" apps. And I don't mean minmize to taskbar. Kill the processes.

Sounds like you need to update video drivers and/or Direct X.

I haven't thought it thru, but I think what you'd need is some kind of "sandbox" scripting language like java that's "crashproof" and only has access to what it needs. Would need to be a complete custom setup.

Allowing user dll's to load into Continuum would be giving access to the process space. Even the menu dll is checked before loading to prevent modification. From a security POV, this would be a very tricky thing to implement.

A proxy is a program running on a different computer in an attempt to take a different path from you to some destination, like driving a different road. This new path is not guaranteed to be shorter than the normal path, but it may be useful to route your data around a problem spot. Continuum supports SOCKS5 proxies. You would need to know someone running a SOCKS5 proxy, and they would have to be located in a topologically favorable location. Proxies can also be used to "tunnel" through a firewall for better security.

Open Office looks basically just like Word. It functions like Word. And it loads Word do-*BAD WORD*-ents. Nuff said.

I think he's very good too. His biggest problem is that he is a black box. He adds features without discussing them with ANYONE--maybe his ideas don't match what's needed. He adds features and tells no one--so no one knows stuff's been added and we keep bugging him, and he keeps ignoring us. He doesn't do-*BAD WORD*-ent what he adds--so even when we know stuff's in there, we don't know how to use it. He takes very little input from anyone. A perfect example of all the above is extractable LVZ objects. Originally, LVZ were fully extracted on the client side. This caused a lot of grief because people want to override gfx/sound as they always have been able to do. So with 0.38, he reads objects right out of the LVZ and lets files in the zone folder override that. Perfect. Except there are a very few things that the menu code needs access to--for example, shipinfo.dat. I asked him if he could provide a hook so I can get objects from LVZ's myself rather than having to write my own code, right? He says he'll add the option to force extraction instead. Ok fine. He adds it into 0.38. Then 0.38 comes out and ppl start complaining about shipinfo.dat. I tell them there's a solution but I don't know what it is. I email PriitK. He replies with some ambiguous explanation of how it works. This is very typical of him. I post his answer. There are about 4 possible meanings. People try all of them, and none seem to work. I email PriitK about it again. He laughs at me for not understanding and says basically the same thing again. I press him and I finally get "Well the feature is in there but it isn't implemented"...whatever that means. Of course all of the above took about 4 week. So he wasted everyone's time by not telling people up front what was going on.

Yes, the fact that greens are client controlled AND different on every client (to some degree) is ridiculous. This is a great example of where the server needs to do it. http://forums.powerballzone.com/read.php?b...board=5&id=9846

Login to a different zone, and try to contact Pointman, head of EG. It is likely you are unfortunate enough to share some id in common with someone else who was banned. ?find Pointman <--- see if he is on :Pointman:-*BAD WORD*-o <--- talk to him

Cool things are cool.

Agreed. Love your poll choices.

Something on your system is grabbing the focus from Continuum for an instant. Could be some toolbar, some instant messenger (ICQ? MSN? AIM?), or some virtual desktop thingy.

Cont currently supports only WAV's, but you can do a lot do reduce file size. When I record a raw wave, it's 44KHz stereo. I can reduce the file by 8x by converting it to 11KHz mono. There was some discussion about supporting the Vorbis OGG format, but I haven't seen anything definite.

My bad, you are right.