jo so now that I'm paying taxes (about as rich as Jamerio by now) I'm looking into purchasing a few electronic essentials and would be glad for some helpful input
1. new mouse (about 35eur)
got an MS 3.0 atm but need a 2nd mouse for work notebook, might either use 3.0 there and buy a new gaming mouse or use another 3.0 or something, any thoughts? no wireless crap, needs thumb buttons for forward/backward
2. tv/monitor (about 200-300eur)
found out my new flat has digital tv only (about to come anyway) which my old tv can't do. will either go for new large monitor or new tv. is it ez to get tv onto pc so i can use the monitor for it as well? would save space + money that way =) won't play much but won't hurt if it's 120hz tft either
what about this?
Samsung SyncMaster P2470LHD
3. mobile (about 250-300eur)
looking into motorola defy but apparently it's borked so will have to wait for them to fix it or look into something else. would love to have android but what I basically need is outlook exchange access, some sort of navigation and long uptime.. so something more traditional might do the job, too. if it has no camera it's a bonus as I'm not allowed to have one at work, they'll rip it out and I'll lose warranty anyway. :-<
gogo input =)
edit: added some price ideas
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just pick it up at the beach
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Update: We were able to pay the rent for the servers, thanks to everybody who donated. Any surplus or futher donations will be used for paying rent in the future.
Year after year, it's again time to pay the rent for the
#cpmpickup servers, and as usual we are lacking money. The rent for a full year is 310€ but so far we got merely about a 100€ covered. If we do not collect enough money to pay the rent
by the end of the week, all pickup servers including GTV and mumble will go down and it will be very tough (or rather close to impossible) to find a similar offer for the same money in the future.
So please, dear CPMA community, make up your mind whether all the hours of pickup fun, talking crap on IRC and keeping the European (read: whole) CPMA community alive is worth a few bucks of your money or not. It's fairly cheap compared to other activities like movies or pub crawling, but unfortunately it's not completely for free either. The more people contribute, the cheaper it is!
You can donate using e.g. Paypal or your credit card. Thanks to everybody who's contributing!
Links: #cpmpickup,
Donation website
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In late autumn 2008, the Russian Gaming Expo
IgoMir was supposed to be the first public showing of a long awaited Q3 movie... but it never happened.
Now, well over a year after it was
meant to be released, and
1 trailer later,
Lubomir "
Silu" Silhan from the well-known group
han-sai productions has finished his project. The long awaited Q3 Highlights movie featuring
Fan "
RazerJ" Zhibo is called
manJu, and shows almost 11 minutes of widescreen frag highlights from Q3 events, all performed by Jibo himself.
Merry Christmas from China, Russia and Czech Republic!
- Movie File - 1280x544 - H264 (manJu.zip) 681MB
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The latest version of ChallengeQuake3, the recommended open-source client for Q3 CPMA, has been released today! Version 1.46 comes with a lot of rewritten code especially in the input department, as well as changes to the sound system. Several cvars have been renamed, so you might want to have a look at the full changelog for details.
24 Nov 09 - 1.46
add: hopefully worked around some vistajoke mousewheel issues
add: m_limit (default: 0 = off), the maximum post-accel speed to use
chg: sensitivity renamed to m_speed
chg: rewrote pretty much all the mouse code
chg: removed the DI code in favor of "raw" mouse input
this means only mouse1-mouse5 are supported on windows, sigh MS...
chg: updated freetype from 2.3.5 to 2.3.11
05 Nov 09 - 1.45
note: this release REQUIRES arb shader support
if your card doesn't have it, use an older version
add: hw gamma should work on Vista
add: r_measureoverdraw is actually useful
add: r_speeds is far more useful now
chg: sound attenuation is biased
i.e. distant sounds are much louder than in 1.43
since it's still more correctly spatialised than pre-1.43, this is
the best compromise i can come up with
chg: r_fullbright works in vertexlight mode (only)
instead of lightmap only, where it just wasted bandwidth and vram
chg: r_customwidth, r_customheight renamed to r_width, r_height
chg: hardcoded r_mode garbage and modelist removed:
r_mode 0 (default) = current desktop resolution, depth, hz, etc
r_mode 1 = custom resolution etc
note: r_mode 1 WILL NOT tolerate invalid r_displayRefresh values any more
chg: require opengl 1.4 or higher
removed r_allowExtensions, r_primitives, r_ext_compiled_vertex_array,
r_ext_multitexture, r_ext_texture_env_add
chg: removed a bunch of useless/obsolete cvars:
r_logfile, r_showcluster, r_facePlaneCull, r_ignoreFastPath, r_drawSun,
r_simpleMipMaps, r_offsetFactor, r_offsetUnits
chg: don't tablist cheatvar noise if cheats are off
chg: removed the last bits of legacy altivec cruft
chg: rewrote pretty much all the dlight stuff
not only does it actually work reliably now
but it's also massively improved in terms of quality
fix: ignorehwgamma 1 would fail to apply sw gamma to some images
fix: roqs failed to apply sw gamma
fix: sv_floodprotect could block all commands indefinitely
12 Aug 09 - 1.44 (server only)
fix: unbannable player exploit (stanway/auriemma)
Unfortunately
promode.org is currently down, but you can still grab the files here at ESReality.
CNQ3 1.46 (Windows)
CNQ3 1.46 (Linux)
CNQ3 1.46 (source)
source: IRC /
thread by
brut on the forums
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Reuploading CNQ3 1.43 files as the original filefront links on promode.org are down.
edit:
CNQ3 1.46 Win32 available at
ninemil.com - cheers ninemil!
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Former CPM hero and legendary movie maker
subz has put together a small piece of art for one of his favourite games back in the days: UT99. You might remember his skills from other well known movies such as
Rocket Science (Q3) and
The Oblivious (UT), and again he comes up with something quite refreshing, me thinks. But go check it out yourself.
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:-(
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Change to Q3-ish settings: 75% (66)
Keep current settings: 13% (11)
Change to something else: 13% (11)
Not everyone is happy with the current TDM settings in QL, and with a
Featured 4v4 TDM Cup at Clanbase coming up soon it might be a good idea to gather some feedback from the community.
Should Clanbase change the TDM settings to something more Q3-ish (timelimit 20, weapon respawn 30, MG ammo 50) or keep the current QL settings?
Poll requested by
exp!.
Original journal
here.
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Yes, sometimes.: 37% (29)
No, never.: 28% (22)
Yes, always.: 18% (14)
Yes, most of the times.: 18% (14)
There are plans to host a voice com server for pickup games in
#cpmpickup, so we want to do a user survey to find out if there is demand for it.
Would you use voice com in pickup games if a voice com server was provided for the games?
(Note: This is not about teamspeak vs. ventrilo vs. mumble, the particular platform will be chosen once there is enough demand to actually host a voice com server.)
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basically I don't like how google gets bigger and bigger, and one day my uni account will run out as well. what I'm looking for is an email account that
* is free
* is reliable
* has not just 10MB space
* supports IMAP
* won't go down in a week or two
suggestions/ideas/what do you use?
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XIS is not a word, rep. really.
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Tomorrow, January 9, Microsoft is going to release a public beta of what is supposed to be the next big thing in operating systems:
Windows 7. As many users were really disappointed in Windows Vista, which was only released 2 years ago, Microsoft promised to listen closely to feedback and improve their OS around the wishes of the Windows community. Windows 7 is said to be faster and easier to use than former versions and comes with a bunch of new features for the desktop, including new software such as Internet Explorer 8.
*
Windows 7
*
New features
*
Videos
*
Windows 7 Beta demo video from CES 2009
Apparently the number of downloads will be limited to 2.5 million copies, and the beta will stop working on August 1, 2009. So better be quick to download it once it is released (probably evening hours in Europe).
source: the interbits.
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Aussie mate made us watch this movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067185/
It's pretty good, go watch it! :o
Also nice soundtrack by Cat Stevens
Also nice player:
http://www.atunes.org/ . I havent figured out how to make it stop stopping playback when you switch playlist, other than that very nice :o
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Now that I got the pictures out, I might as well write about my personal experience at the event. Timeline might be a bit off but you easily lose track of time and what is going on at Dreamhack. So I'll just try to remember what happened when. It ended up being a bit too long and about all sorts of random crap so be warned.
I also uploaded some videos from the event which you can find on the last page of this article.
Click next page to start the read.
other links:
* My Dreamhack Gallery
* My Videos from the event
* DeaTh's galleryArticle Page:
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2,
3,
4,
5 ||
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Here's my share of pictures from the Dreamhack Winter 2008 event in Jönköping, Sweden. Unfortunately it was fairly dark at all times and my camera is rather crap (Fujifilm Finepix J50) but hopefully you can get a bit of an impression from the event regardless.
Thanks to all the people who made these 4 days such an awesome experience, in particular our great admins blaze and Dronar, and the CPM gangsters including fox.
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It's somewhat dark in Sweden at 4pm around this time of the year.
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First matches in the tournament area consisting of 8 computers for Q3 VQ3 and CPM Duelas well as the QW 2v2 tournament. Noisy CS teams shouting all day long included.
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toxter's config with reduced screensize so the hud elements fit around the screen.
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xrg shows up at the tournament area.
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Not quite sure who this was :-( bad memory.
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Death warming up for CPM.
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50% shaft grinning for the camera.
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voodoochopsticks, LuGia, Death
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Random shot of the BYOC area, holding anything between 7,000 and 12,000 players (don't know for the winter edition).
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xrg didn't want to stand while I was queueing for some food so he took a seat in a trolly standing around.
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He lasted for quite a while.. before some security guy told him to fuck off and get rid of the trolley. :~(
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most awesomehest pants I've ever sawed
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The Big Stage during the afternoon where the Quake and Counterstrike finals were played later on in the evening.
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Starcraft 2 booth by Blizzard. Jump in and play.
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not sure why I took this, go easy on me o_ö
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Pro 1 and Pro 2 were battling it out against randomers 1 & 2.
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Random place to play guitar hero. Rumour has it half the event was actually just guitar hero. Christ.
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The Swedish military was recruiting at the exposition area. :D
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Notice girl in white dress on right side. Won't get much closer to babes in this gallery, sorry.
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Some of those ended up being prizes for the Quake tournaments (Linux versions).
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Microsoft was doing a presentation about game development on stage, with quite some people following it. Would have loved to follow it but I was busy walking somewhere else.
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Ain't a true fan as long as the haircut doesn't show it.
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That kid was not the only one to lose some hair.
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voodoochopsticks lending xrg a shoulder to cry, me and toxter are not too happy either... we missed the opening hours of systembolaget (the only real place to buy alcohol in Sweden) by not even a minute. Yay 5 euro/beer at the pub then. :<
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Nothing special here, just the place outside Jönköping Central station. I like the colours.
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Awesome guy to say the least.
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xrg on ignore mode while pod1 tries to make a point
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were actually chop's glasses, but whatever
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mr_chin looking old and serious for once
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xrg always puts the lord first.
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..and Swedish sunshine everywhere.
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pod1 showed up late and officially dropped out of the tournament, and just went upstairs to have breakfast with xrg.
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Nobody wants to be lonely.
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One of the bigscreens was showing DotA games, this one was Schroet Kommando vs.. forgot. Cool game imo.
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The Quake tournament were shown on a separate bigscreen, with yet another screen showing some new game. Plenty of other stages including the Big Stage were all over the event, lots of room to promote stuff.
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found him lurking around in the exposition area
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Some interesting stuff with a white semisphere made of cloth that gets the monitor image from a beamer. View from behind.
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This is the view from the player's side. Fun idea but not really suited for anything competitive I'm afraid.
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Same mouses from a different angle..
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Massive keyboard, massive mousepad, massive hat, massive shaft.
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hanging around in the tournament area
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Being 23 makes you feel old at DH.
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The crowd following DotA on the bigscreens.
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..from the inside. True Poland spirit.
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..didn't help in the end.
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2gd and Joe were shoutcasting the Quake finals, here giving away some stuff from sponsors to the Quake fans.
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You know the story if you've been there. Thanks guys. :-/
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Joe and 2gd shoutcasting the VQ3 final between av3k and strenx
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strenx on left screen below the shoutcasters, av3k on right side below himself and strenx in the tournament area. Especially the 2nd map was a bit of a letdown but 2gd and Joe did their best to keep the crowd excited!
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Dreamhack was not just full of crazy fashion (and I'm not talking about chop or xrg here) but also had a lot of weird stuff going on everywhere. Here's a group of people sitting around on the floor in a circle, and everybody to walk past them had to join and extend the circle. o_ö
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Hate to say it but besides delaying the whole of Dreamhack, the CSers actually had quite some excitement going on during the finals on the Big Stage
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The prize awarding was delayed for hours, literally. We had to wait several hours for everyone to get their prizes before we could leave the event, and it took long enough to make any afterparty impossible because everything was closed by then (past 3am).
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Not too much into QW so someone will have to help out with names.
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What did you win again? I forgot :DDD
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Bulgaria (wuxia, Nzr0)
