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00:01.47Winnyblast007: it runs vista quite well, too
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02:42.41short_circuit.. an aside... Starship Troopers 3 was way better than 2. But not as good as 1. Worth a watch if you loved 1.
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04:35.22Thumper_short_circuit: there was a 2?
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05:24.53short_circuityes
05:26.26short_circuitbzrobots get brokeded?
05:27.56short_circuitor is it controlpanel.o
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19:31.15blast007Is there a way on OSX to pass specific paramaters to the 'bzflag' executable besides having to do it via the terminal?  (Like how on Windows we can add -badwords to the target of the shortcut)
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19:53.42Winnyblast007: don't think so.. but I have an idea
19:55.13Winnyhm, guess not
19:56.17blast007was wondering if there is something in the properties of the .app that could be changed
19:56.41Winnydoesn't look like it
19:56.46Winnybut I havent googled yet
19:57.39Winnyahh, maybe you can do it via applescript
19:57.46Winnyand make a shortcut that runs that applescript
19:59.20blast007hrm
19:59.27blast007is that easy to do?
19:59.31blast007(for a typical user)
20:00.31Winnytrying to do it via automator now
20:00.43amathiswishes he had a mac
20:01.17amathisI would love to be able to run all that wonderful software like photoshop, illustrator.. but I refuse to install windows ever again
20:01.34Winnygood choice :p
20:02.05amathisI mean, don't get me wrong... if some of the big corps like adobe started supporting linux I would never leave
20:36.22temp_distamathis: once  you get into the apps, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc are essentially the same on either platform
20:36.43temp_distsome support stuff is still better on OSX tho - like font handling
20:37.15temp_distAdobe replaced the Open/Save dialog with a custom one on Win - so it's more like OSX
20:37.54amathisI would just like to run the product itself, but I refuse to run windows in general
20:39.22temp_distcough*hackintosh*cough
20:40.00blast007you should really get that cough looked at. ;)
20:40.17temp_distjust getting over the cold :)
20:41.01blast007I've been thinking about getting another mac..
20:53.38BulletCatcherOn MacOS it shouldn't be too hard to write a clickable shell script that executes BZFlag with the desired parameters.
20:56.22blast007k
21:12.32BulletCatcherOr maybe not.  A simple shell script that works fine from the command line apparently needs something else to work when clicked.
21:13.04blast007BulletCatcher: doesn't execute?
21:13.33BulletCatcherA dialog pops up asking what application to use.
21:14.02blast007hmm
21:14.31blast007did it have a .sh extension? (and chmod'ed to be executable?)
21:15.57BulletCatcherIt is mode 755 (i.e., executable) but a .sh extension (and no extension at all) does not help.
21:16.15blast007try using .command instead
21:16.48temp_disthere's a technote http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Porting/Conceptual/PortingUnix/unix_environments/chapter_7_section_8.html
21:17.11BulletCatcherThat works, although it leave a Terminal window open after quitting.
21:17.55blast007maybe I'll just write a C# launcher application and make them install mono  ;D
21:18.00blast007(only half kidding)
21:19.13BulletCatcherFlash ought to know how to do this.  Maybe he'll chime in at some point.
21:19.45blast007easy to do on linux (just have to edit the launcher)
21:19.54blast007s/linux/Gnome/  at least
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21:48.24a_meteoriteblast007: uh yeah, you'd need a .sh/.command (which opens Terminal, but it should close the window when done, not necessarily Terminal itself)
21:48.39a_meteoriteApplescript should be able to do it without anything opening
21:49.08blast007yup, I'm just including a note that they can probably do it that way
21:49.16a_meteoritecommand line arguments likely seems foreign to Apple
21:49.53a_meteorite"if it's not GUI-able, it's useless"
21:49.58Winny;D
21:50.00a_meteoritewtf http://i.gizmodo.com/5158138/obamas-pick-for-anti+trust-chief-sees-google-as-a-monopolist-threat
21:50.36a_meteoritelisten up obama underlings, Google is not evil. Microsoft is.
21:50.43a_meteoritewait until Google is evil
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22:34.57blast007for those interested: http://bzexcess.com/2009/02/bztips-1-client-side-chat-filtering/
22:54.17BulletCatcherA postscript to yesterday's ATI driver discussion: The version 9.2 installer from ati.amd.com installs the 8.582 driver, which is only slightly newer than the 8.573 driver currently available in the Fedora 10 fglrx RPM from rpmfusion.org.
22:54.24BulletCatcherFurthermore, the ATI installer bombed out and left the system in a state where X didn't work at all.
22:54.27BulletCatcherAlthough the ATI driver from rpmfusion.org nearly doubles the glxgears frame rate, with the ATI Radeon HD 2400 XP video card BZFlag 2.x still gets only 20-40 FPS on a simple map in a 640x480 window.
22:58.32blast007fun
23:00.24a_meteoriteoh wait...
23:00.29BulletCatcherIt'll have to do.  Next I'll install 32-bit Fedora 10 to test my hypothesis about getting sealed in teleporters.
23:00.39a_meteoriteer, this is #bzflag. I did not mean to post that gizmodo link. way offtopic.
23:00.51a_meteoritefor some reason I thought I was in ##pm
23:01.52blast007BulletCatcher: okay
23:02.09blast007suppose I could try 64-bit Ubuntu as well  ;)
23:03.18BulletCatcherI configured the disk on this system with 5 different root partitions, so I will be able to test other distros too if needed.
23:04.57blast007has spare drives laying around
23:05.15TD-Linuxblast007, I never knew of that feature
23:05.27TD-Linuxpromptly blocks all mentions of 'fish' from his client
23:05.52blast007lol
23:08.46TD-Linuxohloh is either fail or BZFlag is extremely diverse http://www.ohloh.net/p/bzflag/analyses/latest
23:09.05TD-LinuxXSLT???
23:12.45blast007TD-Linux: http://bzflag.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bzflag/trunk/bzflag/doc/
23:14.09blast007file hasn't been edited it over 5 years ;)
23:14.13blast007in*
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