Reply With QuoteWelcome Shish. I'm with you, experiments without warning aren't experiments, and have no business happening with such a large install-base. Pull up a chair, and get comfortable.
Welcome Shish and LichtJF!
Carlos
Welcome Shish. I'm with you, experiments without warning aren't experiments, and have no business happening with such a large install-base. Pull up a chair, and get comfortable.
Cheers and beers DC.
I`m just a bit tired of all the carping and complaining over there and that was the last straw especially as all the polls held were not in favour of the "little" no warning experiment.
Maybe it`ll stir up some of the other old timers, maybe not. Inertia is a great backstop.
Like an ol` 8086, slow but serviceable.
One advantage of old age...nobody can tell you how much cake you can eat
Welcome both!
Welcome all,
Shish, wherabouts in Gateshead are you? I'm from South Shields myself, lived in Gateshead (Festival Park) for a year before I moved to the US
Bok
Hi Mate.
Ex pat Sand dancer eh?
I`m just off Leam lane.
Nearly went to the US a while back as I was offered residence as part of my job but the wife (after having all the kids abroad) got to be unhappy more than 5 miles from Gateshead High St and the offer was an all or nothing family thing.
Would have preferred OZ myself after working round the Great barrier Reef and visiting various family there but the company wouldn`t wear it so settled down back home now where it`s the first and last time I`ve worked there.
Like an ol` 8086, slow but serviceable.
One advantage of old age...nobody can tell you how much cake you can eat
Know it well..almost went to OZ myself, had a choice of there or here 8 years ago..may well have gone to Oz if it had been Sydney or Melbourne, but it was Canberra....
I do miss the Quayside, my company still has their major offices on Team Valley
Bok
also a big welcome to rdrunr
You should come and visit, you wouldn`t recognise the Quayside now, more like Sydney Harbour what with the new Opera House/Theatre and all the new stuff.
Maybe post a pic from the webcams on the Tyne Bridge for you.
Like an ol` 8086, slow but serviceable.
One advantage of old age...nobody can tell you how much cake you can eat
Welcome guys.
Its great to have additional firepower on this project.
Was there last NovemberOriginally posted by Shish
You should come and visit, you wouldn`t recognise the Quayside now, more like Sydney Harbour what with the new Opera House/Theatre and all the new stuff.
Maybe post a pic from the webcams on the Tyne Bridge for you.Is that what that building was, on the G'head side ?
Bok
one and all.
Thanks for the warm welcome. Having hasd a fallout with an old teamate it is nice to be a part of Free-DC.
Now, What can we do about ARS?
Welcome Jarmo!
Carlos
PS (Bok, could you check my eOn, Dnet and DPAD signature? Thanks)
Last edited by em99010pepe; 06-05-2005 at 05:41 PM.
You've just got the wrong id's in there...
for rc572, this is the url for drilling down to your id's
http://stats.free-dc.org/new/usersta...72&name=440032
so in that url string is name=440032
that is your id for RC572.
Do the same thing for Eon and dhep to get those id's
Perhaps a screenshot in the FAQ ?
Bok
Once again I am going to try. Thank you.Originally posted by Bok
You've just got the wrong id's in there...
for rc572, this is the url for drilling down to your id's
http://stats.free-dc.org/new/usersta...72&name=440032
so in that url string is name=440032
that is your id for RC572.
Do the same thing for Eon and dhep to get those id's
Perhaps a screenshot in the FAQ ?
Bok
Carlos
EDIT:
Now I know what I was doing wrong. The ID's are in your stats page!
Might be some delays in answers Bok cos I`m actually in hospital just now but enjoying the benefit of a life in IT that I can access my home net via vnc.
Yep, the old Rank Flour Mill is now an international arts centre with a building size screen down one side and the big glass beetle is the all new singing and dancing Sage theatre and opera, performing arts etc which is just about to open.
Here`s the promo link with the webcams and all Gateshead and Newcastle webcams .
Anyway, enjoy a real time link to the old place. I`m off to raid the drugs fridge for a bottle of my favourite Carlsberg Special
Like an ol` 8086, slow but serviceable.
One advantage of old age...nobody can tell you how much cake you can eat
Another one joins the club. Welcome Beyond!
Carlos
and willebenn!! Welcome you two.
Thanks for the welcome. I got annoyed with ars and their nonsense and am contemplating moving my other accounts as well. Hope my contribution helps
-Mike
Welcome to a FREE team.Originally posted by rdrunr
Thanks for the welcome. I got annoyed with ars and their nonsense and am contemplating moving my other accounts as well. Hope my contribution helps
-Mike
Carlos
For all the new people, we are planning the coup of all coups. Right now we are the little start up that is putting a small dent in Ars' lead in Trial Factoring in Gimps. We figure they will never expect anyone to try to overcome their enormous lead. Arsians also feel it is insermountable and no one would dare try to take them on.
Well, we are trying. Presently in 160th place, we are moving up consistently. However, we do need some additional help. P4's are the best for this project, but the new AMD 64's work well with their SSE2 instructions.
If interested, check out the Gimps sub forum and go to the How to join thread.
Please feel free to start a thread announcing you intentions or asking any questions.
I am also in need of a refuge.
heretic
You're welcome here.Originally posted by heretic
I am also in need of a refuge.
heretic
I played alot of times a game called Heretic (FPS).
Carlos
heretic,
you're always welcome here
Bok
Thank youOriginally posted by Bok
heretic,
you're always welcome here
Bok
heretic
Heretic,
Come on in and make yourself at home. Seems like about 1/2 the team is from that side of the pond. (Notes: We're soon going to have to start stocking virtual tea and crumpets and some Guiness in the fridge.)
FreeDC Mercenary
everyone is welcome here!
i also used to play heretic.... great game...
I'm more into doom myself - but then i'm an oldie
Welcome to the DIMES effort and to Free-DC...
Good to have you here!
on a side note. rsbriggs, whats happened to your DIMES output? I have just upped mine in response to you passing me, and youve slacked off?
Dunno - I really haven't checked any of the clients in about a week. Perhaps they've all died off?
FreeDC Mercenary
Welcome heretic and willebenn.
Hope you guys will have fun here.
Original Doom was the best one... other than that I've not really liked FPS's too much..Originally posted by heretic
I'm more into doom myself - but then i'm an oldie
Still play Diablo II though
Bok
I had an SGI workstation with 16 graphics processors that I played Doom 1 on. I could play it in 1600 x 1200 sometime around 94/95 with good framerates. It is probably the most expensive games machine I have used
heretic
DII? I had to give it up because I was spending way too much time playing it. When the xpac was first released, I was in the top 40 of amazons reaching level 99 and with a 100% pvp build!!! The good ole days of playing DII.
I've had every DII character and build up to between 80 and 90. You name it, I've probably done it.... Strafe and Multi-Zons, Hammer Pallies, IronSkin Barbs, Trapper Sassies, Druids, Necros in any flavor you can name, Fire, Ice and Lightning Sorcs (they kind of suck, but my CB sorc was kind of fun). At one time I had nearly 200 active accounts (1500+ characters going), and needed a spreadsheet to track all my characters and gear - for no other reason than to make sure none of the accounts timed-out...
Oh, and I've only ever played a single softcore game, the very first one - through killing Diablo... I played nothing except hardcore thereafter. I would hate to even guess how many characters I lost to the lag monster... I can still remember nearly every death, and every time I was PK'ed...
That game ate nearly 6 years of my life. And I mean it ate them!
In those six years, I never got more than 2 or 3 hours of sleep per night; sometimes I would play from Friday after work straight through until it was time to go to work on Monday morning. And to this very day I am unable to sleep more than a couple of hours at a time...
Hey - we could put together a Free-DC team. On-line. Hard-Core. Pick a realm....
Last edited by rsbriggs; 06-06-2005 at 07:57 PM.
FreeDC Mercenary
Nice to see another refugee Heretic.
There seems to be a lot of spinning wheels over at Ars but still the same people and God help anybody trying to keep up with a thread or subject as it zips down the page.
More posts don`t mean more real activity.
Personally, I still play Elite on a C64 and have done since it came out but I dabble in Eve online (lot like Elite) and an occasional burst of Halo.
I used to know one of the top guys in the UK for SGI graphics stations and he was a pain cos he made so much money when we were all just starting off in IT and earning pennies. I am a REAL oldie.
I may not be around too much the next week or so as they`re sorting out some spinal surgery for me so I`m getting a lot of tests and suchlike. Even got a travelling bed as I shuttle between 2 hospitals and you want to see the 3x28in widescreens it has. Would be magic for playing a high res shooter on but the IT boss won`t lend me one.
Anyway, how`d you like a bed that cost £420,000 and has it`s own computers and screens built in courtesy of Fujitsu?
Like an ol` 8086, slow but serviceable.
One advantage of old age...nobody can tell you how much cake you can eat
Good luck Shish.
Going in for surgery myself on thursday, though it's nowhere near as severe, 3 hour op on my sinuses....
Bet it costs me a lot more than you though
/Bok wishes for the NHS in this case..
Bok
Mine`s private, paid for by my ex (Brazilian) employer (now on Blue cross) and my lifetime insurance with Bupa courtesy of a court settlement after an accident in the North Sea in 1978.
It also helps that I got the IT director here his job and he is a childhood friend.
But the NHS is coming on leaps and bounds and this hospital now has bedside phones and net access from a private company (not too expensive unless somebody rings inwards) though mine is via the hospital network with a vpn to home.
Anyway, I got my own room, my own staff and even my own chef (he`s Hungarian but I`m teaching him), not exclusive of course, as well as beer in the drugs fridge. Not exactly the NHS you probably remember but I`ve also known the ward sister since she was my girl friend in primary school and it is around £520 a day for this room.
Just been to another hospital today for a scan on their super scanner and I may or may not be having an op soon to remove a tiny piece of bone broken off one of my vertebrae which is lodged in the nerves and wreaking havoc. They will also decide whether to repair the disc which is bulging in over at the same time. Whether I can walk or not after this is debatable but I have to get something done cos I`m getting a lot of scrambled signals up the nerves which are converting pressure sense to heat and playing havoc with the circulation because of it.
Not too worried, I`ve had a good working life and life in a chair doesn`t bother me.
Just need to keep the visitors down to a reasonable level to get some peace and quiet so I can re do my CCNP. Not that I need to work, I have good enough pensions when I fully retire.
Anyway, now need to figure where I can put the 2 home dual Athlons to good use as they`re running F@H just now as well as Dimes but I may try a change.
Like an ol` 8086, slow but serviceable.
One advantage of old age...nobody can tell you how much cake you can eat
I play Diablo 2 stilll. Actually I just got into it. I am not that good though. I'm a lvl 51 barbarian that has a bunch of skill points stacked into Axes (they are COOL AS HELL) and the Concentrate skill.
I like big muscle head characters. Mages are always too powerful in Multi-Level Dungeon style games, I like to hack and hack and hack my way through stuff.
I see sorceresses running through with this little dagger spell that shoots out blue daggers and they walk through anything they touch. I like getting surrounded by 20-50 cows and hacking my way out over the course of like 6 or 7 minutes. That's real fun.
I'm on the USEast Server. The username is LubeUpThePope and the character is Kith-Khan. Anyone can PM me to find out details of when I play and maybe we could get a game running.
My roomie is a Necro that raises things and has them fight for him. He'd play too.
-Jeff
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