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Off Topic / Is it me or is gamesurge dead?

« on: May 30, 2005, 10:07:01 PM »

It appears that GameSurge is under a massive network-wide DDoS attack.

They really should get some servers at DDoS-protected datacenters.

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General / juicy info

« on: May 30, 2005, 09:44:35 PM »

Anybody else remember the days when JP+Welder was THE way to take down a hive?

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Off Topic / PS3 v Xbox 360 v Revolution

« on: May 29, 2005, 04:07:18 PM »

That was since debunked; what they're saying is that it is possible that it might eventually come out sometime down the road.

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Off Topic / LM MAP!

« on: May 29, 2005, 12:34:58 PM »

|45.47215%2c-73.84184|

should be right.

Way up there in the canada eh? :p

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I already posted your GPS coordinates :p

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Off Topic / PS3 v Xbox 360 v Revolution

« on: May 19, 2005, 08:29:14 PM »

It may not matter how much more powerful the PS3 is than the XBOX360. The 360 may come out as much as a year earlier, but likely at least 6 months. This may push the PS3 back to second position.

One comment I heard about the PS3 videos was that the PS3's graphics were very aliased (blocky stepped edges), whereas the xbox 360 does anti aliasing on every single game all the time.

It seems to me like the XBOX360 has a more powerful GPU, whereas the PS3 has a more powerful CPU. But it may not actually matter, because SMP in games only can get you so far.

The graphics in the PS3 demos DID look better (other than the aliasing), however it's too early to tell if that is really true.

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General / Do NOT use Google's Web Accel

« on: May 19, 2005, 08:18:19 PM »

Unstickying to make room for an OFFICIAL IMPORTANT SOUNDING TOURNY! Also, Google took down the DL link due to complaints.

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No, Google took down the DL link because their beta was full and they didn't need any more people. Even Google can't sustain a huge amount of people without properly allocating resources to deal with it.

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Off Topic / OMG, It's Someone's Birthday Today!

« on: May 14, 2005, 02:03:46 AM »

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Time is now: 14th May 2005 - 08:00 AM

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Viewing Profile: Guspaz

Information
Home Page  http://teknews.net
Birthday   14 May 1985
Location   Next to archi
Interests  No Information

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General / What would you want to see in Source version?

« on: May 14, 2005, 01:57:33 AM »

If only the screen could be the actual headset on the rines heads, or the kharra's eyes. Lightly tinted green, all the waypoints and dialog that could feed through the left side of the visor lets say, would be transparent so you could still see. Skulks with red eyes, gorges with green, lerks with yellow, fade and onos black and white. Different shapes for different stages of course   

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You can do all that now with HL1. It's just that permanent fullscreen overlays are stupid so nobody uses them like that :p

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Off Topic / Quite an awesome finding!

« on: May 11, 2005, 01:31:40 PM »

And cheez and I can end our debate about how a colony could form without a queen (It turns out that drones can mutate a human to turn them INTO an egg)

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Off Topic / Quite an awesome finding!

« on: May 11, 2005, 01:41:23 AM »

Very amazing. The site just sucked up way more of my time than it should have, delaying a much needed sleep :p

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Off Topic / I need beta testers

« on: May 10, 2005, 11:41:10 PM »

They are ascii 1 and 2, which are "start of heading" and "start of text" respectively. Since they're non-printable chars, there is absolutely no problem filtering them out.

After filtering those two out, the file seems to upload fine:

http://tekfile.net/file.php?id=45:708a

I could filter out all non-printable chars, but I'm wary of the performance implications of doing that on stings up to 256KB in size. Also I wonder how exactly the "file" command determines what format the files are. If I filter out all non-printables, might it think everything is text?

Let me know if you have trouble with any other files.

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Off Topic / I need beta testers

« on: May 10, 2005, 11:18:20 PM »

Hmm, it is reported as an application/octet-stream...

Looks like my best bet is to filter out the chars in question.

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Off Topic / I need beta testers

« on: May 10, 2005, 11:17:19 PM »

Very good, you checked for file size after it was uploaded

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Yep, the HTML limit is only the first line of defence

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Off Topic / I need beta testers

« on: May 10, 2005, 06:24:40 PM »

Can you tar/zip/whatever it up and email it to me? (guspaz@gmail.com)

I'll need to run it through the pipeline and see what TekFile is coming up with internally. I might have to add an exception like support another MIME type, or stripping out that particular character.

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Off Topic / I need beta testers

« on: May 10, 2005, 03:17:25 PM »

to make it more fun, i can upload condumps, im not sure why.

i get the claim that in fact the document is not of type text.

edit: it seems to stem from teh following lines :

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Confused!-TSA has joined the game

Confused!-TSA has joined the game
RisingSun: Re.Re.Re.ReS WHORE
Confused!-TSA has joined the Kharaa
Type 'amx_help' in te console to see available commandsvaunted killed |GP|PsiRedEye22 with shotgun
Time Left: 2:57 min. Next Map: co_coreCyberPitz^Zephiris killed Tachyon with bitegun
vaunted killed CyberPitz^Zephiris with shotgun
`: FADE


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What is the file extension? TekFile checks both the file extention, and the mime type (as reported by the "file" utility). It only accepts htm, html, css, js, and txt.

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Off Topic / since i'm somewhat of a reg i feel

« on: May 09, 2005, 11:00:31 PM »

I know where you're coming from. Again, not nearly as serious as you, but I've got ADD, which can make me very irritable on occasion.

ADD tends to make people either focus on something super-hard, or be unable to concentrate on something. Luckily, gaming seems to be one thing I can concentrate on very well. Or is that unluckily since schoolwork is something I can't concentrate on?

Anyhow, it's that concentration and intensity that can lead to trouble when something doesn't go the way I'd like. I can get quite worked up about things in-game that probably don't matter.

Oh well, now you know.

And knowing is half the battle!

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Off Topic / I need beta testers

« on: May 09, 2005, 10:48:51 PM »

That's beyond my control, I use the standard HTML forms for uploading. In other words, it's all the browser handling the upload.

I just specify a file upload form and the browser does the rest.

It actually looks something like this (With other HTML stripped out):

<form name='formText' enctype='multipart/form-data' method='post' action='index.php'>
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="262144">
<input type='file' name='textfile' size=30>
<input type='submit' name='SubmitText' value='Upload File'>

And yes, I did forget to close the form tag. Confused, you have a nack for making me discover OTHER bugs than what you report :p

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Off Topic / I need beta testers

« on: May 09, 2005, 03:08:49 PM »

Done, it now checks if the file is only whitespace and treats that as an empty file.

Find more bugs please!

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Off Topic / I need beta testers

« on: May 09, 2005, 02:41:54 PM »

Hmm, I did...

It seems your file was not quite empty, but had a newline in it.

I'll look into filtering out stuff that only has whitespace.

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Off Topic / I need beta testers

« on: May 09, 2005, 02:13:13 PM »

Nice catch, I thought I covered that situation :p