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03:07.47FlashCore 2 duo can run 10.7 (just checked)
03:20.43L4m3rsweet!
03:21.01L4m3rinstalls 10.7 on his 5 year old laptop
03:22.46FlashHowever, my MBP is feeling a bit long in the tooth... thinking about getting a new 'puter
03:23.55L4m3rI'm planning to do a new build as soon as the new Intel chips hit Newegg
03:24.47L4m3rthe lappy is secondary; it can rot a bit longer... the desktop is 6+ years old and ready for HTPC duty (and my Athlon XP-based HTPC just died, conveniently)
03:27.01Flashmy laptop IS my desktop
03:27.09FlashI'm thinking about fixing that
03:30.28L4m3rI wish I had time to build a new case :P
03:33.45L4m3ror some extra cash... I had a nice idea the other day
03:34.26L4m3rI have three extra Chieftec 601 (aka "dragon") cases in the garage. it occurred to me that one of them would look sick if I had it chromed. :P
03:35.20Flashthat would be a waste of money... cases belong under the desk
03:36.38L4m3rif you're going to go that route, you should just build the PC into the desk
03:36.58Flashno... to hard to take it out when you want to upgrade
03:36.59L4m3rless dust and more ventilation (because you designed it that way)
03:37.24FlashI have a desk with a tower cabinet, but I don't think I'll be buying another tower
03:37.45L4m3ronly slightly harder if you do it right- removable mobo tray and access panels and such
03:38.16Flashnow you are talking build-your-own rack (desk)
03:39.20L4m3ryou could certainly go to such an extent if desired, but I assume that you have an exsting desk with some aesthetic constraints :P
03:45.33L4m3rI just don't like to put cases in confined spaces, as it is generally bad for airflow
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04:14.00jeffmbut blast007, he's 13 he knows everything
04:15.46CIA-104opencombat: 03jeffm2501@gmail.com * r193 10/trunk/unit0/client/Input.cs: stipid macintosh not reporting buttons.
04:26.30Delusionaldid you say i should cd to the client directory before running?  or client/bin/debug?
04:28.43Constitutionblast007, also don't forget to print the entire bzflag source code so you can learn it
04:33.33jeffmcd to the dir
04:33.45jeffmand put the contents of the dependency zip in there
04:34.41jeffmman setting mail up on this is slow
04:40.52Delusional... the debug dir
04:41.01Delusionaland I have a window CONNECTING
04:42.01Delusionali guess now i need to set up a server at port 2501
04:42.49jeffmthe server executable will host on that by default IIRC
04:42.57jeffmdoesn't remember if it has a default config or not
04:43.19jeffmalso have no idea if iron python works on osx
04:43.26jeffmhaven't tried it yet
04:51.01jeffmnot that it will do anything when you connect other then send the world file
04:51.50DelusionalI guessed and put copies of all the dependencies in the  gameInstance/bin/debug dir...  I connected, now i can see the ground and sky
04:52.02jeffmcool
04:52.06jeffmdoes it show a hud?
04:52.33FlashDelusional: what version are you on?
04:53.05Delusionalthere's a blank radar  a chat window  a fps display.. and I guess that's the hud is in the upper right corner
04:53.11jeffmcool
04:53.15jeffmthen the scripts ran
04:53.15Delusionallion
04:53.27jeffmthose are all defined by python scripts and not hardcoded in the game :)
04:53.39jeffmthe server told the client to add those
04:53.40Delusionalthere's a sheild and a bullet
04:53.44jeffmyep
04:53.46jeffmsweet
04:53.54Flashdon't know what iron python is, but python works great on OSX
04:54.05jeffmthe idea is that if a game script needs to add a new GUI it can just add it to the scripts
04:54.17jeffmiron python is a C# implementation of python
04:54.23jeffmso it can call managed code
04:54.30jeffmand be imbedded in apps very easy
04:54.58jeffmthe server and client each have a set of scripts that define how the "game" part works
04:55.39jeffmhow does one take a screenshot on OSX?
04:55.58Delusionalshift option 3
04:55.59FlashI use Grab
04:56.06Flashbut that works too
04:56.22Delusionalerr.. shift apple-3
04:56.31Delusionalnot option
04:56.49Flashhttp://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X#Shortcuts
04:57.33Delusionalthe file appears on the desktop
04:58.22jeffmwonders if filezilla exists on the tosh
04:58.45Flashyes
04:58.58jeffmDelusional: when it said connecting, did it have some graphic crap above the text?
04:59.39Delusionalthree periods... flashing
04:59.51Delusionalone two three.. zero.. one  two three
05:00.03jeffmlet me post a screenie
05:00.07Delusionaltook thirty seconds to connect
05:00.09jeffmI get some undesired crap
05:00.18jeffmbut I may have crap video
05:00.30jeffmyeah the server takes a while to startup
05:00.48Delusionalthe window resizes ncely...   i dont suppose i can move at all
05:00.56jeffmnot yet
05:01.07jeffmfirst connect takes a while too, it has to cache the map and scripts
05:03.20jeffmhttp://www.opencombat.net/unit0/Screen%20Shot%202012-04-24%20at%209.57.48%20PM.png
05:03.25jeffmthat's what mine looks like
05:03.38jeffmand I get those single pixel artifacts above the text
05:03.45Delusionaloh yeah.. there's a moving graphic behind the word Loading....   it looks good
05:03.54jeffmnot that
05:04.26Delusionalyeah i see that...
05:04.28jeffmin that screenshot it's the vertical lines between the test
05:04.39Delusionaland above  localhost:2501
05:04.41jeffmyou see those vertical lines too?
05:04.56Delusionalno
05:05.02jeffmok
05:05.03Delusionalonly horizontal ones
05:05.11jeffmthat move or don't move?
05:05.12Delusionalabove each letter
05:05.17jeffmok
05:05.19jeffmthat sucks then
05:05.34jeffmprobably need to get someone to make a better font system at some point
05:05.37jeffmfor fix openTK
05:05.44Delusionaltheir colors change
05:05.53jeffmyeah they aren't supposed to
05:06.00jeffmlinux and windows don't have tht
05:06.35jeffmbut hey, same binary running on windows, linux, and OSX :)
05:06.46jeffmyou could take your build, copy it to windows and double click it ;)
05:07.20Delusionalit is an .exe
05:07.24jeffmyep
05:07.42jeffmyou can also take it to ubuntu and double click it
05:07.51jeffmI'll have to wrap it up in a .app on osx for double click
05:07.57jeffmbut that's not to hard they say
05:08.03FlashI was about to ask if that was possible
05:09.18jeffmyeah there are tools for that in monodev
05:09.28jeffmand ways to package mono into the frameworks of the .app
05:09.39jeffmso they can download a .app once, then I can patch it at runtime
05:09.53jeffmand just update the .net components we build
05:10.06jeffmso no releases
05:10.23jeffmwhen a feature is added to live, we just update the patch system and it pushes it out to everyone on next launch
05:12.23jeffmConstitution: how do you deal with these backwards command keys and mouse wheels!
05:13.27Delusionalsystem prefs
05:13.56jeffmI didn't see a way to reverse it
05:14.47jeffmahh you can reverse command and ctl, but not the mouse wheel
05:15.10jeffmthat helps a bit
05:15.26jeffmcan't get rid of that muscle memory for ctl + S
05:16.14jeffmI'm a little bummed that windows 8 has bad video drivers for this thing
05:17.24Delusionalthere are more mouse options in the universal access control panel,  not the one you want though.
05:18.02jeffmprobably going to have to buy a mouse for it anyway, maybe it'll have drivers
05:18.21FlashI really like the Microsoft Mouse
05:18.22Delusionaldrivers?  what are drivers?
05:18.32Flashbut I don't see a way to reverse the scroll wheel
05:18.38jeffmthe things that apple doesn't write that make intel video suck
05:19.33Delusionalon my mac...  when I run a second screen,  when the mouse is on the second screen, all the controls are reversed except pointer motion
05:19.46Flashnot me
05:20.00Flashthat's weird
05:20.03jeffmheh, apple won't let me have a second screen until I give them 40$
05:22.41Delusionali could send you one of those adapters,  i probbly have at least two of the one you need.
05:22.55jeffmthe mini display port to hdmi?
05:22.59Delusionali have three kinds, at least two of each
05:23.09Delusionalyep, got it
05:23.10jeffmamazon has them pretty cheap too
05:23.16jeffmI was going to just order one, thanks
05:23.23FlashNice thing about my old MBP is it has a DVI connector
05:23.31Flashthose mini things are annoying
05:23.41jeffmI have an adapter that will let me replace the optical with a real hard drive
05:23.52jeffmFlash: wasn't an option on this machine
05:24.06Flashyes, they stopped doing that a while ago
05:24.21Delusionalserver craps out after three join/leave cycles
05:25.07jeffmit's supposed to quit after a player parts
05:25.17jeffmit may not kill all the threads on the mac
05:25.23jeffmthat's what i have to investigate
05:25.51jeffmis Pages any good for a word processor?
05:25.57Flashyes
05:26.04jeffmworth the 20$
05:26.06Flashit's a better Word than Word
05:26.07jeffm?
05:26.13Flashget the whole iLife package
05:26.33FlashPages is better than Word; Keynote is better than Powerpoint; Numbers is tolerable
05:26.53jeffmI don't see iLife in the store
05:27.07Flashoops, I mean iWork
05:27.16FlashiLife is picture stuff
05:27.25jeffmnope
05:27.39Flashyou looking at the app store?
05:27.40jeffmthat just brings up the individual products
05:27.42jeffmyeah
05:27.52Flashprobably they just bundled when they sold media
05:27.54jeffmcus apple hates disks it seems
05:28.16jeffmthis thing didn't even come with install disks, the bios goes and gets lion of the interwebs
05:28.18Delusionalthey'll drag you kicking and screaming into the future
05:28.46Flashyeah, I'll have to upgrade to 10.6 so I can get the app store before I can upgrade to 10.7
05:29.14jeffmI saw somewhere you could get 10,6 for free for that reason
05:29.35Flashthe one article I read said you had to buy them both
05:30.29DelusionalI should have stayed at 10.6. Almost all the features in 10.7 are designed for laptops and or tablet, even phone.  I dont plan on getting any of those items, and upgrading was a bit of a hassle
05:31.14jeffmhttp://www.amsys.co.uk/2012/blog/free-10-6-upgrade-for-10-5-mobileme-users/
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12:58.20blast007Flash: they don't sell even, say, a flash drive of 10.7?
12:59.30blast007bleh, seems even the flash drive version needs you to have 10.6 first ....
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16:53.20ConstitutionJeffM: I've never noticed the mouse wheel direction being different between mac and windows
16:53.48JeffMConstitution, on windows when I spin the wheel up the scrool bar goes up, on the mac it goes down
16:54.12Constitutioneh... 10.7?
16:54.31JeffMyeah
16:54.49ConstitutionI thought you could invert that in Mouse/Trackpad settings
16:55.06JeffMI'll have to look again
16:55.11Constitutionthough they changed the default to be more like swiping a touch screen phone, for some reason
16:55.42ConstitutionI think you have to uncheck the "natural direction" setting, or something like that... I'm still on 10.6 myself
16:56.05JeffMall I can do on the trackpad pannel is turn on/off various swipes
16:57.28Constitutionhttp://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110704113843418
17:24.18Constitutionblast007, I think the flash drive 10.7 installer is standalone... at $70, it had better be
17:25.01JeffMso I guess apple's design is now 'we have market dominance in one sector, make all things fit that design!!!!"
17:33.01blast007Constitution: it says it needs 10.6 right on the ordering page
17:33.26blast007though it says to *upgrade*
17:33.38blast007so a clean install might be possible without having 10.6
17:33.58blast007Constitution: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD256Z/A
17:36.02blast007requirements list that you need 10.6 as well
17:41.24Constitutionyeah I think you can do a clean install from the USB key... I thought that was the whole point, in case you can't use 10.6's app store
17:42.15ConstitutionI don't understand why people would pay $40 more for physical media, when you can buy a $10 USB key and make one yourself
17:42.57blast007well.. they own a Mac, after all...
17:43.17blast007and look, that flash drive has white plastic and an apple logo! it's so.. hip!
17:43.46Constitutionzomg itz soooooo pretteh
17:48.44blast007Constitution: not everyone has faster Internet, either.  I think that's the main point of the USB option.
17:49.35Constitutiontrue
17:49.41blast007if you have fast internet, you'd just do the upgrade as the download, and make your own USB
17:50.24Constitutionheck, I think it even lets you make a DVD installer
17:50.48blast007which doesn't work on a newer mac mini without an additional drive ;)
17:51.05blast007but why would you need an optical drive when you have the mac app store!
17:51.08Constitutionheh... touch?
18:02.53rathisblast007: I can't remember the last time I needed an optical drive.
18:03.44blast007I use them quite a bit
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18:05.25blast007I mean, sure, I might create ISOs of my optical media and then use a virtual drive, but I still need an optical drive to make the ISO :)
18:06.40blast007and then there's games that require the original disk to be inserted and have DRM to ensure that it's there
18:07.09blast007less of a problem with newer games, but I have a lot of older games too
18:07.27blast007if I had a mac, I wouldn't have that problem though, because they wouldn't run anyway
18:08.33blast007(and the ones I have that *are* mac compatible would need an emulator on modern versions of OSX since they're for mac classic) :P
18:16.18Constitutionare we done, or would anyone else like to complain about outdated or alternate architecture software that doesn't run on newer hardware or a given architecture? ;)
18:20.00blast007Constitution: I could bash 64-bit versions of windows for dropping support for 16-bit windows software as well ;)
18:20.57Constitutionif you like :)
18:21.24blast007although they still work on 32-bit versions of Windows
18:21.37blast007and Windows 8 will still have a 32-bit version
18:21.45blast007so, not as bad as apple ;)
18:22.23blast007or at least, I'm making an assumption that 16-bit apps will still work on 32-bit Windows 8 - haven't tried, nor will I probably try
18:24.07Constitutionor we could all be purists and only run OSS and only use Linux
18:27.37blast007yeah, but then there's all this proprietary firmware and closed source drivers
18:27.44blast007my BIOS needs to be open source!!
18:30.15blast007oh, and software patents!
18:58.32rathisblast007: What is a 16-bit app that you still want to run?
18:59.13blast007most of them are DOS based, and then DOSBox works well for some of them
18:59.29blast007though I've been less than happy with the mouse responsiveness in some of them
18:59.48blast007(such as Descent II)
19:00.15blast007I have a collection of old computers lying around that I use for my "legacy" games
19:00.44rathisblast007: I can't find time to play modern games, much less "legacy" ones. :)
19:02.08blast007I don't pull out the old games much.. and some of them, like Doom and Descent II, have been open-sourced and ported to modern operating systems
19:02.30blast007heck, Descent II runs on my ARM based Nokia N800 tablet
19:06.21blast007I still remember playing Descent II over the LAN via IPX at my friend's house - first LAN party ;)
19:06.46rathisHow long ago was that?
19:08.03blast007mid to late 90's
19:08.35blast007D2 came out in '96
19:10.37blast007wish I had kept all the DOS based utilties for D2...
19:11.13Quolwishes he had kept his commodore 64
19:12.43Quolthat and my second guitar...should have never gave it away :(
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20:44.19JeffMeverybody wants to rule the world
20:45.03rathisinsightful
20:51.37Quolthanks JeffM.... now I have tears for fears in my head
20:52.06JeffMjust shout, shout it on our
20:52.21Quolheh
20:52.42Quolat least was a better song (IMO)
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