Comments for Dave's Place / Metamusing

Comment on Is there anything broccoli can’t do? by dlh

dlh — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:04:44 +0000

Hahaha, ok fair enough, thanks for the laugh.

Comment on Is there anything broccoli can’t do? by Kirsten

Kirsten — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:07:53 +0000

I’m gonna go with “make my three-year old smile”.

Comment on How to fix constant disconnects when turning in quests in World of Warcraft by JD

JD — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:59:28 +0000

Disabling flow control did seem to help for quite a while last night I was almost convinced that the issue had been resolved until we hit Naxx and I DC’d in the middle of a boss pull, and then again on trash about 30 minutes later I dc’d about 5-6 times total but it did seem like thing ran much more smoothly until the DC’s started. My last ditch effort to resolve this tonight will be to switch my cable modem to go through a USB connection instead of my NIC, hopefully this will bypass any issues that may be network card related.

Comment on How to fix constant disconnects when turning in quests in World of Warcraft by dlh

dlh — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:03:17 +0000

Hi JD,

Thanks for the update. Sorry, I wish I had a solution for you. It still amazes me how long this issue has been going on with WoW. In the almost 3 years since I originally posted this I have played a ton of other online games, including a number of MMORPGS (EQII, Tabula Rasa, Lord of the Rings Online, Warhammer Age of Reckoning) and NONE of them have had this disconnect issue, yet Blizzard can’t seem to fix it on their game. Pretty lame if you ask me.

Anyway best of luck and thanks for posting,

Comment on An open source alternative to Hamachi by RF

RF — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:28:44 +0000

You are correct, socialVPN is open-source (GPL v2).

Comment on An open source alternative to Hamachi by Raze

Raze — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:33:47 +0000

Can anybody like put some + and - things with all this alternatives. Would make things more easy. At least for one of the program.

Comment on How to fix constant disconnects when turning in quests in World of Warcraft by JD

JD — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:03:53 +0000

Just as a quick update. I was told today that Blizzard is also suggesting that you disable a netowrk card setting called “Flow Control” which I am going to attmept tonight. I will post back with results from disabling this setting.

Comment on How to fix constant disconnects when turning in quests in World of Warcraft by JD

JD — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:47:47 +0000

Hello,
I’m hoping for at least something else to try from the community here as this issue is about to drive me insane. I never had the seemingly random disconnect issue until I installed Wrath of the Lich King last week. Now, I will be disconnected several times a night from both WoW and Ventrilo. It seems that the disconnects happen most when I talk for an extended period of time in Vent however they do happen at other times as well. Vent will lag and people will stop being able to hear me, the game will stall and then I get dc’d. I originally was using wireless so I switched to a direct line, I then switched to running connected directly to my cable modem which also did not resolve the issue. I tried all standard fixes, disabled checksum and forced full 100mb duplex on my network card, removed wtf and all addons etc to no avail. I finally called my ISP last night and they told me that it appears that my cable modem was bad, I was so happy that I ran right out and bought a new one. I got home, set it up and things really did appear to be fixed for about an hour at which time I was dc’d again, and then again about an hour later so on and so forth. I’m now at my wits end with this and have no idea what to do! I am running Vista 32 if that matters for anything. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!!

Comment on What if WWII was a game on xbox live? by Drew

Drew — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:09:06 +0000

Holy cow, that is hilarious! Thanks for posting that.

Comment on More news on George RR Martin on HBO by dlh

dlh — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:19:59 +0000

Yup - that series gets BETTER book by book, not worse. If you liked gardens of the moon, pick up the subsequent books, they’re great.

Comment on More news on George RR Martin on HBO by Matt

Matt — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:41:14 +0000

Have you read “Gardens of the Moon” by Steven Erikson? Only has 3.5 stars on Amazon, but I highly recommend it. It’s a very good read.

Comment on More news on George RR Martin on HBO by Drew

Drew — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:22:16 +0000

I concur. The 4rth book got way off track from the original story, annoyingly so. Only hints of the previous story line and associated characters.
Here’s hoping HBO does well with the pilot and elects to continue with a series.
We can all continue our vigil for the 5th book. Though it would seem from Martin’s site, that he has been working on it and in fact is nearing completion, albeit with quite a few delays.

Comment on More news on George RR Martin on HBO by dlh

dlh — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:29:39 +0000

Hey Matt,

Yeah, truth be told I did not like the most recent of the series - the first three were really great and set up this HUGE cliffhanger, and then…the 4th book does not cover any of those characters, and focuses mostly on Brienne. Very frustrating - what the heck happened to Tyrion? Does Daenerys come marching back to assault Westeros and take back her throne? I’ve had to wait years to find out, and the only solace has been the adventures of Brienne which I could give a fig about.

Here’s hoping the 5th book is great and gets the series back on track. Even if it doesn’t though, the first three are fantastic, and an HBO series recreating all that would be great fun if done well.

Comment on More news on George RR Martin on HBO by Matt

Matt — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:05:07 +0000

I finished the first 3, but haven’t started on the 4th yet. Heard it was a little looooong in the tooth.

Comment on HBO picks up George RR Martin’s Fire and Ice series by More news on George RR Martin on HBO at Dave’s Place / Metamusing

More news on George RR Martin on HBO at Dave’s Place / Metamusing — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:50:37 +0000

[...] Last winter I noted that HBO had optioned the rights to George RR Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series of novels. I incorrectly assumed this meant they were going into production but it turns out that at the time they simply optioned the rights, and they’ve recently announced that they’re funding the production of a pilot episode. Pretty great news really - it still doesn’t guarantee we’ll be seeing the series on HBO, but it’s a significant step forward and increases the chances. Here’s hoping it’s good - as the article I link to notes, if anyone can pull this off it’s HBO. [...]

Comment on What slapdash carpentry looks like… by dlh

dlh — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:03:05 +0000

Hey,

Susan owns the house. I can’t actually nail into the basement floor there, at least not without some other major work. Some idiot left a full bag of cement on the floor under the stairs, and at some point the basement flooded, so those cross beams on the floor are laying on this uneven substrate of mostly solid cement, but if you whack it with something it pulverizes. I spent some time trying to beat it off the floor but it was basically hopeless. As to anchoring, well…I did debate doing that. It boils down to the fact that neither of us think we’ll be in this house in 5 years (so long as the housing crisis doesn’t screw us, anyway) and it’s not worth much money, so not worth putting much effort into maintaining it.

Comment on What slapdash carpentry looks like… by kevin

kevin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:29:51 +0000

not bad! what’s holding those up? just the nails at the top? if that’s all, you should rent a powder actuated nailer to drive some nails into the concrete. You might be avoiding that if you rent, but from what I can see… you’d be doing the landlord a favor! Here’s one at Home Depot - http://tinyurl.com/6kjdfq
Either that or run some 2×4’s along the bottom to anchor them to the bottom of the stair stringers.

Comment on The fates were kind to me today by dlh

dlh — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:05:49 +0000

I agree - donations of PBA badges welcome!

Comment on The fates were kind to me today by Drew

Drew — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:48:02 +0000

If you had a PBA card you would have been in the clear regardless of foolish other drivers

Comment on What slapdash carpentry looks like… by Drew

Drew — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:46:01 +0000

It looks like it gets the job done.

Comment on The new Incredible Hulk movie? Mediocre at best. by dlh

dlh — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:15:46 +0000

Nick FTW! That would explain it.

Comment on An open source alternative to Hamachi by Jon C

Jon C — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:45:30 +0000

You can check out
gbridge at
http://www.gbridge.com/
or social vpn http://socialvpn.wordpress.com/
Both are free. I think social vpn is open source.

Comment on The new Incredible Hulk movie? Mediocre at best. by Nick S.

Nick S. — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:53:33 +0000

Actually, it was “David” on the tv show.

Comment on The new Incredible Hulk movie? Mediocre at best. by dlh

dlh — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:28:38 +0000

Hey - you’re right! Now I don’t remember why I loved the Hulk so much when I was a kid. Shame on me for having a crappy memory

Comment on The new Incredible Hulk movie? Mediocre at best. by kevin

kevin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:29:19 +0000

“David” Banner? Don’t you mean Bruce Banner?

Comment on Delicious food tip: celeriac by dlh

dlh — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:10:39 +0000

Thanks for the laugh in return, hahaha. Rat meat…funny thing is as soon I read that and was like…yep, he’s right, it does.

Comment on Delicious food tip: celeriac by Nick S.

Nick S. — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:25:39 +0000

Thanks for the tip, I’ll give that stuff a try if I can find it, even though that picture you posted looks like the rat meat from Morrowind.

Comment on Friday fun for halloween - Zombie outbreak by RHLeBD

RHLeBD — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:55:38 +0000

More Zombie:

curl “http://google.com/robots.txt”

and you get:

User-agent: zombies
Disallow: /brains

User-agent: *

Comment on Incidence of type 2 diabetes doubled in the last decade by Drew

Drew — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:05:07 +0000

fried twinkies + 2 quarts of soda + 6 hours of videogame daily = you’re going to be fat and get diabetes

Will that fit on a bumper sticker?

Comment on Credit where it’s due: Netflix and Blu-Ray fees by dlh

dlh — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:44:36 +0000

I guess it doesn’t bother me that much - I’d rather pay an extra buck every month for the ability to get Blu-Ray, versus a sliding fee based on what I used. If the availability of Blu-Ray is not much higher in a year or so I’ll be singing a different tune I guess, but for now, I’m happy with how they approached this.