IRC log for #bzflag on 20120426

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01:51.30Constitutionjeffm: which mac mini did you get?
01:52.43jeffmConstitution: I did not get a mini
01:52.50jeffmI got a 13 inch macbook pro
01:54.12Constitutionoh
01:55.46jeffmI was almost  to going to get a mini
01:55.56jeffmbut my laptop was dying anyway
01:56.23jeffmand I got a discount and interest free financing from my school
01:59.30Constitutionoh, so it's your primary laptop, even?
01:59.36Constitutionnever thought he would live to see the day
02:00.02jeffmit has windows on it now :)
02:00.10jeffmtho I have to redo the windows install
02:00.19jeffmwindows 8 isn't too happy with the apple hardware
02:04.07jeffmit'll be getting more ram and another drive next week
02:08.27allejojeffm, did you install Windows over OS X or use bootcamp?
02:08.38jeffmbootcamp
02:27.10allejolike const, i never thought i'd see the day :o
02:27.20jeffmI've owned macs before
02:27.29jeffmheck, blast007 bought my old mini
02:27.44jeffmand my first non commodore computer was a mac
02:28.28allejowow i always took you as a windows only person
02:29.13jeffmnew I didn't get a PC until I was like 23-24
02:29.31jeffmwhen it had windows 95 and nt
02:30.19jeffmthats how I know it's a bit of a rip off for what you get ;)
02:30.36allejolol i can't disagree with that
02:31.24jeffmI mean the macbook is a good machine
02:31.35jeffmit's quality built
02:31.52jeffmwish it had an option for desecrate graphics in the 13 inch form
02:32.41blast007I'm stuck with my current laptop because I do not want a touchpad ... kinda eliminates almost every single (if not every) currently manufactured laptop :P
02:33.11jeffmyeah not much other then some lenovo ones that do that
02:33.18blast007even those have both
02:33.35blast007they do not have a trackpoint-only laptop anymore
02:33.42jeffmahh
02:34.09DTRemenakit's ignorable
02:34.13DTRemenakis a Thinkpad user
02:34.25DTRemenakhas the touchpad disabled in the bios
02:34.33blast007yeah.. I'll probably end up with a newer thinkpad eventually, and do just that
02:34.53blast007this one is starting to end up like my last thinkpad - starting to break in half ;)
02:35.23DTRemenakI love the thing though.  best build quality I've seen in a laptop (macbooks included).
02:35.36blast007oh god, I've love how durable they are
02:35.54blast007I've had this thing since late 2006, and I use it all the time
02:35.56DTRemenakand a nice non-glossy screen with good viewing angles
02:36.25DTRemenakmine's a 2008, I think.  T400.
02:36.30blast007I'm on my third battery, my 6th pack or so of trackpoint nubs, and I've literally worn a groove in the trackpoint left click button
02:37.12blast007and the only real issue with it is that wifi doesn't always work after I restore from hiberante (and doing a repair on the connection fixes that)
02:37.27blast007well, that, and the "starting to break in half" part ;)
02:37.28DTRemenakI don't use it that heavily; tends to get a few weeks of (very) heavy use a year
02:37.49blast007it's been my main system this whole time
02:37.57DTRemenakwhich bit is breaking?  can't be the hinges ;)
02:38.25blast007the shell cracked near the edge of the CD drive
02:38.29DTRemenakahh
02:38.35Constitutionjeffm: that's my main contention for apple these days. Aside from the OS (which I personally find easy to use), you are getting an elegant, solidly-built machine, unlike the (IMHO) ugly, cheaper, worthless plastic construction HP or acer notebooks that you are bound to break something on.
02:38.40jeffmepoxy!
02:39.01blast007think that happened on my last one as well.  also, now, the bottom is starting to generate a crack.
02:39.25DTRemenakyeah, right around the optical bay is a weak spot; it flexes a bit, unlike the entire rest of the chassis
02:39.51blast007this one is an R60e.  last one was a T20 or T21.
02:40.04blast007damn good systems
02:40.20DTRemenakI'm always amused when I try to do what I do with mine to other peoples' laptops.  Like pick it up by one corner.
02:40.40DTRemenakthought my dad's hp was going to fall to bits when I did that without thinking
02:40.58blast007with the T20, BZFlag actually ran faster in software rendering.. (had an S3 Savage 4 chipset)
02:41.04DTRemenakewww
02:41.13jeffm3d decellerator
02:41.34DTRemenakmine was the first batch of T400, with the switchable Radeon
02:41.39DTRemenakdrivers are a MESS
02:41.47blast007the Savage actually swapped textures around as well...  I had white ground, grass as one of the mountain segments, and a mountain flying overhead
02:42.26DTRemenakmy current windows drivers are a hodgepodge of the original lenovo drivers for the 3450 (which is in it), the updated drivers for the 3650, and the current desktop ATI drivers.
02:43.05DTRemenakand all the X drivers are just busted.  I can get 2d out of one, and 3d out of another, but not both at the same time.  and the third one doesn't support 1440x900...
02:43.18blast007heh
02:43.33DTRemenakso I normally run X with the 2d radeon drivers, and run anything 3d on a second x server
02:43.42blast007I'm gonna do my best to avoid the multi-GPU madness
02:43.54DTRemenakoh, that's with it in "discrete only" mode
02:43.59jeffmgood luck
02:44.06DTRemenakit's worse with the intel junk enabled
02:44.26DTRemenakthough the intel drivers in linux are actually pretty decent, the hardware blows
02:45.17DTRemenakit's actually one of the few things that's made me look at their newer models.  It'd be nice to have an nvidia chip again.
02:46.54blast007for me, it'd just be nice to have something newer than a Intel 845... :)
02:47.00DTRemenakhah
02:47.07blast007or 855, whichever one it is
02:47.53blast007then again, I don't game on my laptops.  I have this beast for that.
02:48.19blast007don't really need a shiny GPU to write PHP code
02:48.25DTRemenakone of the reasons I got it was so I wouldn't need to haul this machine to the occasional lan party
02:48.43DTRemenakmy friends around here don't usually have the newest games anyway, so the 3450 was more than adequate
02:48.44Quolhas been using an MSI GT780R for almost everything these days
02:49.31DTRemenakand it becomes my primary machine when visiting family, and there are occasional games involved there too.  got my aunt addicted to Portal... :)
02:49.52blast007heh
02:50.11blast007I can get 40 FPS in BZFlag ... at 640x480 ...
02:50.30DTRemenakthe stock lenovo radeon drivers were MISSING glcore.dll
02:50.37blast007nice
02:50.40DTRemenakso bzflag would only run in software mode
02:51.08DTRemenakmy current drivers are using the gl components from the current desktop drivers.  only disadvantage of rolling my own drivers is that windows says "TEST MODE" all the time ;)
02:51.13blast007dunno if I'm running any drivers from them, except for maybe audio.
02:52.49DTRemenakyeah, mostly I switch to vendor drivers.  the Catalyst desktop drivers don't support the lenovo powersaving stuff though
02:53.34DTRemenakand I do so love the 6-hour battery life...
02:53.57blast007I get around 5 with mine
02:54.06blast007with the battery that sticks out the back
02:54.12DTRemenaknewer cpus do a bit better
02:54.23DTRemenakthey're advertising 8+ now
02:54.28blast007the Pentium M doesn't do too bad though
02:54.34DTRemenakyeah, I have the "medium sized" battery
02:54.55blast007does way better than the Turion X2 I had..
02:55.03blast007that system got 1.5 hours idling..
02:55.05DTRemenakhah, the turion's power saving was a joke
02:55.09DTRemenakmy mom bought one
02:55.16blast007yeah, it had two speeds. full and half.
02:55.26DTRemenakcan't even turn off the unused core
02:55.27jeffmyeah my old lappy is an amd
02:55.35blast007my Pentium M can do 200Mhz increments from 1.6GHz down to 600MHz
02:55.35jeffmthe macbook does better at power by far
02:56.08blast007the turion would constantly overheat as well, so playing a game, it would downclock to 800MHz every 5 seconds or so and make the game jitter
02:56.13DTRemenakheh
02:56.15DTRemenakawesome
02:56.25blast007had a nVidia 7600 GT Go in there as well
02:56.45DTRemenakI'm sure that helped the heat problems....
02:56.56blast007oh, definately ;)
02:57.23blast007and for some reason, that company is out of business now... gee.. it's a mystery..
02:58.24blast007they also sold cheap mini-itx based PCs in full sized cases at walmart.  full sized cases because research showed the average walmart shopped equated performance with the size of the computer.
02:58.45blast007shopper*
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22:41.42Delusionalwosh i could see my tank model in-game
23:05.11JeffMwitch model, in witch game?
23:05.52kierraa broom shaped tank?
23:06.55JeffMGive that witch a broom, witches love brroms
23:07.14Delusionallooks like you are calling it Open Combat
23:07.56JeffMit would not be too hard to make it so you can see a tank mode
23:08.01JeffMI can try to get that working tonight
23:08.09JeffMthe model that is loaded is defined by a script
23:08.11Delusionalausum
23:08.26JeffMI'd just have to tell the local client to spawn a player
23:08.29JeffMthen it'll draw it
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