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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 21:57 Edited at: 27th Nov 2005 21:57
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what happened to the forum today? I couldn't access it...

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ThinkDigital
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 21:59
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Me neither.

AdamGameSource.com 3d Model Competition

Don't support the ANJL: You were a noob once too.
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Turoid
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:02
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Me also not...


.::Studying game design at the moment::.
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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:02
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It went down a long time


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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:06
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And there I was laughing at the Munkeynuts people

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:06
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eh?

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:10
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They seem to have lots of mySQL problems

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:11
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The server just had a little nap.

Fat kids always win at see-saw.

The world is full of idiots. But an unusually high percentage seem to appear on my TV screen.
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David R
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:12
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That's why you don't give servers sleeping pills


See details at http://lightningstudios.95mb.com/sig/buildDetails.txt
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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:15
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Quote: "The server just had a little nap."

A little 24 hours i use this forum a lot felt like ages

Dbmad C++ programmer
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blanky
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:24
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Quote: "The server just had a little nap."


More like a coma.

16-colour PNGs pwn.
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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:28
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Servers dont sleep - laptops do... Rich.. Is this site being run off a laptop?

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David R
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:30
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Quote: "Servers dont sleep - laptops do... Rich.. Is this site being run off a laptop? "


In Rich language, nap is equivalent to either an explosion or total death. But the server could still be a laptop


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Richard Davey
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:35
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It's a laptop of course, and someone accidentally hit 'Hibernate' after finishing a game of Solitaire on it.

Fat kids always win at see-saw.

The world is full of idiots. But an unusually high percentage seem to appear on my TV screen.
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blanky
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:36
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Pentium 90MHz with 32MB RAM, running the Linux kernel v0.9, sitting in a basement in America somewhere with a 10GBit uplink.

It isn't pretty. The TGC staff have to hire a dedicated computer-restarter. (That's why the pages timeout occasionally).

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David T
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:38
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Wow. I only just noticed they were back. And I've already read quite a few threads too.

"A book. If u know something why cant u make a kool game or prog.
come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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Hawkeye
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 22:49
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Rich decided it was time to ban all the irc users again - it was only with a very large bribe of benie babies and signature coffie mugs that I was able to presuade him to restore access for all irc people


I am but mad north north-west; when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw - Hamlet, Hamlet
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ionstream
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 23:28
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It wasnt working before, but now it works.

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 27th Nov 2005 23:34 Edited at: 27th Nov 2005 23:34
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We sabotaged the forums after Rich failed to meet the ANJL ransom:
3 Buckets of gummy bears.


The cat era has begun.
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Briere
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Posted: 28th Nov 2005 04:12
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wtf does the ANJL do.
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Wiggett
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Posted: 28th Nov 2005 04:36
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frame innocents like benjamin, making us believe that he is megaton cat and spreading confusion.

http://www.angelfire.com/wizard2/spacerecon/index.html
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ionstream
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Posted: 28th Nov 2005 04:36
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Anti-Noob justice league. Avengers of all the people who had to deal with "ok i got dbp how to make a mmoorppg?? lolkthx."

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Jeku
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Posted: 28th Nov 2005 10:54
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It's likely that Rich changed some of the code and didn't test it. PHP errors must be turned off, thus causing the entire page to quite before it starts. At least that's how it works on my server. It's a pain in the hynie trying to squish bugs with no error info :-P

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 28th Nov 2005 13:56
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Nah, not guilty. Apache seems to like randomly pausing on the server for some reason, which requires a restart of the service. I would have done it sooner, but was away for the weekend. It doesn't happen all that often (once a month maybe), and I'll consult the log files when I get a chance.

Exit Planet Dust
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Lukas W
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Posted: 28th Nov 2005 13:59
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and i was hoping that the new apollo was being uploaded

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editor: 14% | survive mode: 30% | multiplayer: 0% | story mode: 0% | DEMO: 18%
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Neofish
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Posted: 28th Nov 2005 15:29
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Me too

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blanky
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Posted: 28th Nov 2005 17:15
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I still recommend the dedicated computer-kicker.

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 29th Nov 2005 08:32
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Quote: "I still recommend the dedicated computer-kicker.
"


Server kicker?

Experienced DB http://www.greatgames3d.com (work in progress site)
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gamesmad
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Posted: 29th Nov 2005 21:13
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Random story related to crappy computer things. My previous PC was chugging along smoothly until I pushed the desk forward, knocking the case a little, I heard teh hugist clunk anf it turned off. I opened up the case, and my PSU had bent the bracket screws and fallen onto my (almost) priceless 1GB ramstick. I lifted up the PSU, and was greeted by the grizzly sight of a large chunk being missing from my RAM I now have a new PC, but cant affored that much RAM again, I have 256mb

I didnt think it was very funny then, but I do now see the funny side of my £8.99 PSU causing over £100 of damage because I knocked the desk...

Will

Team leader of Games Mad! and 3D designer, modeller and animator for Cyrain Studios.
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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 01:22
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Lesson: Cheap PSU's cost money...
A number of friends "invested" in the eBuyer 500W PSU's a year or so back. Most of those have since gone up in smoke (quite litterally). The "best" one lit the room a lovely shade of "OH MY GOD ITS BRIGHT" white and managed to nuke the Motherboard, CPU, RAM, GFX and Hard Disk. I think the CDRW survived though

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re faze
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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 04:17
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why do you need a 500 watt psu again
and if your psu falls like that your pc is a piece of crap, ive bumped my pc countless times and nothing like that happened to me.

hey, even I need someone to talk to about my troubles...
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JoelJ
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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 04:35
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Quote: "why do you need a 500 watt psu again "

umm.. for a good Video Card/Ram/CPU...

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 08:19
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Quote: "why do you need a 500 watt psu again"


Quote: "your pc is a piece of crap"


How ironic that you said both... Does your PC run on a 150W PSU?

I'm currently running on a 620W as I plan on upgrading to SLi in the future and didn't want to get a new PSU as well as a second GFX card. I reckon I'm currently using about 400-500W of the PSU with only 1 gfx card (7800GTX) and a Athlon X2 4400+.

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re faze
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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 16:30 Edited at: 30th Nov 2005 16:34
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damn, im running fine with a 140 watt psu, while having an ati 9250 graphics card, an 80 and 250 gb internal hard drive, a dvdR and cdRwm, a belkin wireless network adapter (and a floppy which i never use )


i have a decent processor and ram (intel p4 @ 2.6 ghz w/hyperthreading) and 2 256 mb ddr ram sticks.

Quote: " I reckon I'm currently using about 400-500W of the PSU "
wow. you dont pay for your own electricity do you? because if you did you'd have a 140 watt like me! the max i would get is probably 220-240 watts, i thought 500 watts is for like a server or something.


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not sure if the wattage is the same in the us as in the uk as i think we run different voltages.

hey, even I need someone to talk to about my troubles...
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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 16:38
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The voltages are different - that is true - but the systems still require the same power. What they cant get in voltage (you use 120v compared to our 240v I think), they get from drawing extra curent instead.

I feel confident in saying "you're wrong" there is no way on earth a 140W PSU could power all that!
My 300W PSU shut down when I tried to run a 2.5Ghz AMD (lower wattage), 6800GT, 2 hard disks and so on...

You're either INCREDIBLY close to the limit of the PSU, or you've looked at the wrong number

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JoelJ
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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 16:42
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Quote: "I'm currently running on a 620W as I plan on upgrading to SLi in the future and didn't want to get a new PSU as well as a second GFX card. I reckon I'm currently using about 400-500W of the PSU with only 1 gfx card (7800GTX) and a Athlon X2 4400+.
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why not just buy me something, rich boy?

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 17:31
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Because the transatlantic shipping would be a nightmare..

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