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  2. Posted

    Quote[/b] ]You can... sort of.

    When I did it I had to have my old account post restricted, and removed the email address. Then create a new account with your e-mail, and they'll transfer the posts.

    Hey, that's good news! I didn't know the 'renaming' was possible in this forum at all. I joined quite a while before I got actively involved in the community - and so I used my usual forums name instead of the name I use now everywhere else throughout the OFP community.

    I have now created an account called 'Daddl' instead (updated the email too). If one of the mods could just transfer my posts and post restrict this old account that would be great!

  4. Posted

    There has been some work on this, all that Joltan is looking for is the format to do what kegety's browser or OFPwatch do, in returning the strings and such.

    Well, actually I already can get the same information as OFP Launcher & OFP Watch. You see, there's an easy (and well documented) way of getting information on a server's status, and then there's another way - harder and not documented at all. The easy way simply uses standard Gamespy queries, and that's what OFP Launcher and OFP Watch use. While I have already implemented this method it neither works for non-dedicated servers nor VBS1 servers.

    The internal game browser that comes with Resistance & VBS1 on the other hand uses the other, 'hard' way of querying. It's a binary format as described in my first post - and there's no documentation available on the subject. Neither did forum searches nor inquiries at BIS or BIA yield any results.

    Why am I asking this? I'm currently working on a tool similar to OFP Launcher which supports both, OFP AND VBS servers.

  5. Posted

    ASE just uses the Gamespy style calls to query OFP servers (I've got that working fine already), not the ingame browser protocol (needed for non-dedicated OFP servers and VBS machines). I was hoping someone in the OFP community had already tried to work on this before.

  7. Posted

    I've got a pair of Meindel heavy leather trecking boots, which have served me well in rough terrain from Mexican tropical forests to the Alps for about ten years with only minor repairs. But whatever brand you choose: wear them some days before you decide wether to buy them. Good shops should allow you to take them home with you and to wear them inside your house. That way you can easily find out wether they're really comfortable (THE major factor if you're trying to do big tours in them). A good pair can easily cost 200 Euros and more, so it's better to try a lot of pairs before deciding on which to shell out all that cash (and if you get the right pair it's an investment well worth the money!).

    So while you should look for a brand that's known for its quality and a model that suits the task you should always put comfort over looks and names. After all it's your feet that have to walk in them!

  8. Posted

    I'm working on a combined OFP/VBS server query tool (a bit like the OFP Launcher) and while I have the standard Gamespy-style query for OFP dedicated servers already implemented I'm stuck with the VBS query. After some research I found that the query used is identical to the one used by the OFP ingame browser for LAN queries.

    Now the question is wether anyone in the OFP community ever tried to implement a query based on this instead of the (much easier) Gamespy-style queries? Any help (also some official comments from BIS) would be very much appreciated!

    What I know so far:

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    [*]The query packages used have 74 bytes with 32 byte of data

    [*]They are send (and answered) on the main gameport, not gameport+1 like the queries for dedicated servers

    [*]The first 4 Bytes are always '20 00 81 08'

    [*]the package ends always on '00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 AE 91 E1 EE 00 00 00 00'

    [*]the 6 bytes left inbetween consist of 5 bytes that change with every package and a sixth which seems to be an increment that is increased every 1-3 packages (this might depend on the connection delay to the server)

    Simply resending a previously logged package doesn't seem to work (but then a good part of the problem might also sit infront of the screen as I'm no experienced programmer/network specialist - it's all learning by doing), so I'm assuming the five bytes that change with every package contain some kind of timestamp/verification that the server checks before deciding wether to answer.

    Any ideas how to create a working query package based on this? The problem seems to be with those 5 bytes...

    Edit: typos

  12. Posted

    This release will exceed the CO2 absorbed by growing trees for at least the first 10 years, they say. Only later will the uptake of carbon by the trees begin to offset the losses from soils

    That's what you get when you quote stuff you don't have the background knowledge to understand!

    First: Clearcuts are about the worst way of managing your forests and are not practised anywhere where it's not just big logging companies flattening everything for big profits. Also you may note that the text mentiones that this problem only exists for the first years (and what it doesn't mention: also depends on tree species used and the soil) - after that the process turns around. Considering the time needed until a tree is harvested or dies of natural causes this is irrelevant. The same applies to planting new woods on sites where they don't belong (=peats) - of course there's places that aren't suitable for aforrestation, but quoting these human-made mistakes as an argument for forests as a polluting source is plain stupid.

    If anything it just proves that nothing is simple enough to fit in one phrase.

    For your information: I'm a graduated forester and have been working for several years at the university as a researcher.

  13. Posted

    2. the growing of new trees will in turn create more CO2.

    This is bullshit. By growing C is bound and only released again once the matter is burned or decomposes. Also, because of the short timescales involved (at max a few hundred years) burning wood (as long as it doesn't result in a permanent reduction of the sum and quality of the available wooded area) has nothing but a local and temporal impact on the CO cycle. There is the 'breathing' that also releases some CO2, but that CO2 was also absorbed from the atmosphere before, so no 'polluting there' - just a bit less absorbtion.

    As for forests being permanent sinks - that is also wrong: only when they get fossilized (sp?) and thus are removed permanently from the equation (until another generation of dumbass people starts burning the resulting coal/oil for convenience again). That is not the case usually so if you add up the absorbtion and release of C over their lifetime cycle trees are basically neutral (= neither sink nor source). I.e.: they act as a short time buffer, nothing more.

    The CO2 problem arises only from fossil fuels as these add ADDITIONAL C to the cycle, thus increasing the total ammount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

  15. Posted

    So you think bullets are better? crazy_o.gif

    Hell yes. Think about the potential these weapons have as siege weapons. Against civilians.

    Compared to bullets!?! Bullets kill. Being moderately burned on 1/64th of your body doesn't.

    If that's your eyes you're blinded for ever... hardly a weapon that 'doesn't harm innocent civilians' - at least you've got to aim a bullet while that thing is inteded for 'crowd control'.

  16. Posted

    The Raelian Revolution, the world's largest Atheist, non-profit UFO related organisation - over 60,000 members in 90 countries - working towards the first embassy to welcome people from space... destroying the myth of god and sweeping the world with the most politically incorrect and fearlessly individualistic philosophy of non-conformism

    What's so different from believing some aliens created us to believing god did? Do they have more prove than religion? Pffft... They're not even atheists as they just believe in some other kind of 'higher entity' that created us.

  17. Posted

    A 29 year-old man had at least one dozen cups of Glühwein; level of alcohol in the blood: more than 6 per mill.

    One should mention that he's assumed to have been drunk even before strting to drink the Glühwein - you don't get such a high level of blood alcohol from a dozend Glühwein alone (not even if it's 'mit Schuß').

    Some people simply don't know how to ENJOY the good things. Instead they simply waste them! crazy_o.gif

  18. Posted

    Ha, wait until the bavarian battlesmurf resurfaces! biggrin_o.gif

    Anyways, the christmas markets are a very old tradition all over Germany (and France, too). And no, while most of the art stuff sold there is prohibitive expensive, the Glühwein is dead cheap and during lunch breaks (or preferably after work) people tend to go there in big crowds to warm up and have a good time. Also there's all those winter specialities like Magenbrot, geröstete Maronen, etc. The Bratwürste you can eat all year round.

  19. Posted

    By the way, do any of you swedes or norwegians know if Glühwein is something like Glřgg/Glögg?

    Same thing - only it tastes better and actually has alcohol. It's also easy to prepare yourself. All you need is some spices, some fruits, lots of cheap (of the 1 litre for 50 cents kind) red wine and a big pot to heat it in.

    Edit: BTW: I think you'd find most people from Nürnberg disagreeing with you calling them 'bavarians'. Most would actually be quite insulted!

  20. Posted

    Which defnition are you refering to?

    Quote[/b] ] * Black Friday (1869) - a stock market crash in the United States

    * Black Friday (1919) - a riot in Glasgow stemming from industrial unrest

    * Black Friday (1939) - a day of devastating fires in Australia

    * Black Friday (1978) - a massacre of protesters in Iran

    * Black Friday (1982) - known in Britain after Argentina invaded the Falkand Islands, sparking the Falklands War

    * Black Friday (shopping) - the day after American Thanksgiving, one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

    (source: Wikipedia)

  21. Posted

    And, of course they plan to give away $100,000 - Why not make the prize $50,000 and make it a free download? Surely that would be more in step with their stated goal of educating us all.

    Because they hope more $&%$§ like you will buy it ('just out of curiosity' of course) thanks to all the free public relations they got for all around the world?

  22. Posted

    Here you go:

    Quote[/b] ]Total Freedom

    From the first contact with the Operation Flashpoint community until the moment the first email hit our mailbox only 15 minutes past. And until Kenji Nakamura from Yokohama wrote us it took just about two hours. "I don't really play Operation Flashpont anymore. I only test the addons I made and I'm happy when others enjoy my work." he clarifies immediately. "The programm is the best for experimenting. The limits I encounter I see as a challenge."

    Like Kenji many Flashpoint disciples around the world think. Now that there's a modification for nearly every modern conflict curios like vampire and zombi mods are made, too. Gary Hay from New Zealand thinks that the LegaWarz mod (a malapropism of 'Lego Wars') is especially funny. He knows that there have been much better programs released since 2001 but he stays loyal to Operation Flashpoint: "I stick with it as there's no tactical shooter that's as realistic." John Ueckert from the United States describes himself as a 'Game Enthusiast' and tells us what games he's addicted to. Nevertheless Operation Flashpoint is still ranked first for him. Mainly because of the possibility to play on the huge islands even over LAN. The coop mode makes it possible.

    All Operation Flashpoint fans agree on one thing: Such total freedom - be it in the game or when creating new content - no other programm offers. Matt Skillet from the USA says: "Only Operation Flashpoint 2 will be able to replace the original." Gary Hay even suspects that work on the sequel is taking so long because the developers at Bohemia Interactive feel the pressure from the community: "They have to add a lot of things to compete against all the mod artwork."

  24. Posted

    Why don't you talk to the people in the VBS resources forums. People there have the software - and in general are very cautious about recommending VBS to 'gamers'. It's expensive and it's a bad thing to shell out a lot of money based on wrong expectations. This is simply the wrong forum.

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