BlueBat - Slashdot User

Comment I live near Rochester NY (Score 1) 394

by BlueBat on Thursday April 02, 2009 @02:11PM (#27433941) Attached to: Time Warner Expanding Internet Transfer Caps To New Markets

We currently have Frontier DSL and if this happens to Rochester and it's surrounding areas we definitely wont be going to TWC. It may be faster, but we do a lot of media uploading, our pictures not illegal, and we can go beyond the 5GB limit in a single weekend. I guess they just don't want our business.

Comment Paying the OS Game Developers (Score 4, Interesting) 269

by BlueBat on Friday January 02, 2009 @01:14AM (#26297015) Attached to: Pushing Linux Adoption Through Gaming

Paying the OS Game Developers sounds like a good idea but most companies just wont pay for frivolity. In these uncertain economic times, I just can't see any but a Game company putting any money towards game creation. Especially if they don't receive a direct source of revenue from their investment. All of that said, I would certainly like to see it happen. If not that, how about some way for people to pay for features added to games that are already in development so that a game will be made better. If that sounds silly, then just a way to donate a few bucks would be good. I'm not talking paypal either, I don't trust the company as they have too much control over my money and I have none.

Comment Re:Gamers shall... (Score 4, Interesting) 272

by BlueBat on Saturday August 30, 2008 @09:28AM (#24809531) Attached to: The Gamer's Bill of Rights

Actually, I hate not being able to go directly to the menu and choosing to play the movie or going to a scene or even seeing the extras. After the second or third time that you have put the movie in, it gets VERY annoying that I can't skip all of that crap. The first time is fine when I want to see the trailers and such but after that, they are just annoying. Let me watch what I PAID for and stop bugging me you jerks.

Submission + - ASUS Motherboard Defect

Submitted by typezero303 on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @05:30PM

typezero303 writes: Something happened to me over the past couple of months that I felt should be shared with

everyone.

I've been in the computer industry for quite some time, and I know my way around hardware...

and I know when something isn't working the way it should be.

About a year ago a bought and built a Opteron 2XX machine. Having had good performance from

ASUS boards in the past, I decided that I would use their Opteron motherboard. It had

everything that I needed, and was a good price.

So I built a dual 244 Opteron System, with 2 Gigs of Ram, Radeon X850 video, and a bunch of

harddrives.

I work in audio production, so I didn't need anything to high end in video, but I did need

the memory access, and the processing power.

Regardless... around November of 2006 I downloaded an updated version of CPU-Z (V1.36)...

This was the first version of CPU-Z that suported HyperTransport(HT) link speed. So having

done the test I saw the the HTLink on CPU0 was running a 1Ghz, which is fine... but the HT

on CPU1 was running at 200Mhz. This caused some alarm. So I did a bunch of checking, but

couldn't find any imformation about this sort of problem on my motherboard.

Then X-mas hit, and I had other priorities to deal with. Once everything calmed down, I got

back into it... ran a bunch of test, including SisoSoft Sandra Pro Business on my server,

and it didn't give me any indication that anything was wrong... c'ept that my CPUs could

only get up to 50% usage, and that HT on CPU1 was only 200Mhz.

I contacted AMD, and within a day they gave me a bunch of test to run to see if it was the

CPUs, or the motherboard. The most obvious was by swapping the CPUs from their sockets. I

did that, but the problem saied with CPU1, which led AMD and myself to beleive it was an

ASUS problem.

So I contacted ASUS. Told them what the problem was, and sent in my motherboard. Several

weeks later, after a lot of hassle, and calling, e-mail, and freaking out a little over the

phone the *sarcasm*wonderfull and helpfull*/sarcasm* ASUS customer suport to me that they

would send me a new motherboard, as they could not fix my current board.

I got my motherboard back last week, put everything back together, and wouldn't you know

it... the problem is still there.

So i called ASUS tech again, talked to their Server technitian.

He asked: "Are you running the latest BIOS"
Me: "Yes, first thing I did."
Him: "How did you first realise that HT was running slow"
Me: "I first tested it in Nov using CPU-Z"
Him: "Thats a 3rd party tool. we can't take that as legit information"
Me: "I then backed it up with Sandra test, which comfirmed the problem. So I sent my

moherboard to you guys, you sent me a new one because the old one could not be fixed."
Him: "And did it fix the problem?"
Me: "No, otherwise I wouldn't calling you right now."
Him: "I see."
Me: "I've even contacted AMD again, and used their own tools for checking HT speeds"
Him: "And what did it say?"
Me: "It said that CPU1 HT Link was 'Physicly Not Conntected' and that speed was set to

200Mhz rather then 1000Mhz where it should be."
Him: "Thats an AMD tool, it's not a legit tool to use."
Me: "Your telling me that the company who designed, built, my CPUs, and was one of the key

creators in HT technology doesn't qualify as a 'legit' enough to make a tool to test their

own design? You've got to joking. You know what, I guess I'll have to buy a Tyan

motherboard to make sure that everything is working properly. Thank you, you solved my

problem."

There is a seirous problem with the K8N-DL motherboard where the CPU0 is fine, but CPU1

isn't conntected properly. In two motherboards I found this problem. I took a screen shot of this problem.
http://www.zero-trance.com/amd.jpg

If anyone else has, or might be looking into buying this motherboard, I would look into

this.

If anyone has some ideas as to what is going on, I'd really would like to hear about it.

Submission + - Homework!?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @12:45PM

An anonymous reader writes: With all the talk about Blizzard lately, I was asked a question about Guild Wars and World of Warcraft. While both games address different aspects, how would you get Blizzard to drop the monthly fee for WoW without trying to generate a force needed to compensate for the entropy of the players' need to play the game? After all, the no monthly free works for Guild Wars, so the model itself is fine. Or perhaps the question should be stated, how would you get this model to be the accepted form for all MMORPGs? Also, assume that the person asking me will not accept impossible for an answer. I would like to know your thoughts.

Submission + - Vista loophole allows for cheap install

Submitted by

PetManimal

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @11:59AM

PetManimal writes: "A loophole in Vista's activation scheme that lets users install an upgrade version of Vista on Linux machines and save up to $140 is spreading over the Internet and causing Microsoft a fair amount of embarrassment. The trick involves installing Vista twice but not entering the product key the first time, which effectively fools Vista into upgrading itself. While most home users are unlikely to try this, it may appeal to some PC DIYers and other power users:

The type of person most likely to benefit from this workaround are power users and hobbyists who own multiple computers running Windows as well as Linux and Mac OS X. Indeed, one concrete scenario would be someone with a used PC that's just one or two years old running either Linux or OS X who decides to convert it to Vista and buys the upgrade version of the OS to do so.
According to the last article, Microsoft is aware of the scheme and says it violates the Vista EULA."

Submission + - Linux.com | Linus fires latest shot in GNOME Wars

Submitted by

Rav3L0rd

on Saturday February 17, 2007 @09:27AM

Rav3L0rd writes: "Some bad blood between Linus Torvalds and GNOME developers is flaring up again. Previously, Torvalds has said that Linux users should switch to KDE instead of GNOME because of the GNOME team's "users are idiots" mentality. Now he has "put his money where his mouth is" by submitting patches to GNOME in order to have it behave as he likes. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/19372 37"

Submission + - Prototype Rollable eInk Display for sale

Submitted by on Saturday February 17, 2007 @07:21AM

An anonymous reader writes: Two years ago Philips unveiled a prototype functional electronic-document reader called the Readius. According to Cnet, Polymer Vision, which spun out from Philips in 2006, has come up with a commercial version of the Readius that will be available later this year. The commercial version is similar to the prototype but features some differences like a solid back so that it's more durable and it can display 16 shades of grey rather than just 4. From the article: "You can roll the 127mm (diagonally) E Ink display into a compact form factor that measures 56mm wide, 100mm tall and 21mm deep, so it will fit into a jacket pocket. The Readius can display 16 shades of grey and it has 4GB of on-board memory, so you can store all your books, emails and PDFs on it. It also features USB, as well as GPRS/EDGE and DVB-H connectivity, meaning you can download data wirelessly, too."

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