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inb4 you get drunk eating bread
Btw, homemade bread is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times better than storebought bread, especially when it’s still warm.
Phonetically Phamous (dice said:
MasterP said:
Steam matchmaking wasn’t using them muchwell thats no good.
There’s nothing we can do about that, they’re set up correctly. Valve made significant changes to the matchmaking system a couple months ago which basically did two things: make it incredibly hard to get a non-friends game going and make it almost impossible to get a server in your region. I’ve complained to Valve several times and they’ve done everything from reinstalling the game to reinstalling Steam and (of course) none of that worked. What’s happened is they’ve coded out sv_region and are doing the region selection on their servers, poorly. If you type sv_region in console you’ll likely find that it’s set to -1. If you set it to east coast (0) or global (255) it will autoreset it back to -1. I think they partition regions according to ISPs, which is defeats the purpose of actually having a matchmaking system.
I might be wrong on that, idk, but that’s what it looks like IMO.
I turned the L4D2 servers off because Steam matchmaking wasn’t using them much and CSS was having issues. It didn’t really fix the CSS issues so I’ll go turn them back on.
Below are the L4D/L4D2 servers we are currently hosting:
L4D #1 – gaming.wcu.edu:27031
L4D #2 – gaming.wcu.edu:27032
L4D #3 – gaming.wcu.edu:27033
L4D #4 – gaming.wcu.edu:27034
L4D #5 – gaming.wcu.edu:27035
L4D2 #1 – gaming.wcu.edu:27036
L4D2 #2 – gaming.wcu.edu:27037
L4D2 #3 – gaming.wcu.edu:27038
L4D2 #4 – gaming.wcu.edu:27039
L4D2 #5 – gaming.wcu.edu:27040
L4D2 #6 – gaming.wcu.edu:27041
L4D2 #7 – gaming.wcu.edu:27042
L4D2 #8 – gaming.wcu.edu:27043
L4D2 #9 – gaming.wcu.edu:27044
L4D2 #10 – gaming.wcu.edu:27045
L4D2 #11 – gaming.wcu.edu:27046
L4D2 #12 – gaming.wcu.edu:27047
L4D2 #13 – gaming.wcu.edu:27048
L4D2 #14 – gaming.wcu.edu:27049
I’ve put them in the OP for convenience. Also, if you join our steamgroup you’ll get them on the main menu.
They are completely unmodded, stock servers which is becoming increasingly hard to find these days.
Back in the Win98 days they had a web-based OS 7 emulator. Everything worked like it did on a real Mac, up until it emulated a crash. That part was realistic too.
Dude no, f.ing no.
No bananas in pajamas.
Dammit nickname, the nightmares tonight are going to be worse than the time zombies caught me and took their time.
NuRayZ said:
every time i ever used dell support they send me to a guy in india.
That’s because you got a cheapo.
That was just the last bad experience. When I worked at NCSU we sent people to the local Apple stores all the time and about 25% came back dissatisfied and still having issues. We sent people to a couple different stores so meh, idk.
Sure there are good and bad techs but I hate going into a store for tech support because you can never tell when they take their helpful hat off and put their salesman hat on. I’ve worked retail tech support before, it’s not fun or pretty.
Bitey said:
Apple has been in the top 20 for customer support for the past 10 years I think, so you heard wrong, customer’s aren’t treated like idiots, they are treated like people with a problem with their computer…. Try getting that kind of support at Microsoft, try getting in-store support from Microsoft… You won’t get in-store that is for sure, and secondly you have to pay for tech support for Microsoft…If you actually buy a copy of Windows you get free phone support. If you buy your OS from HP or Dell then Microsoft has no service contract with you and is not obligated to help you. If Apple let 3rd parties market their computers they would do the exact same thing.
The last guy I sent to an Apple store for an iphone issue was told that his poor reception was because he had a bad sim card and he was told to buy another one. Not only did that not fix his reception issues but sim cards have absolutely nothing to do with cellular reception. That’s like someone calling HP because their wireless adapter is broken and HP sends them replacement RAM sticks, it just doesn’t happen. Support from PC manufacturers has gotten lightyears better over the last few years though. For example, HP sends the customer a padded package to return their computer for repairs and pays for shipping both ways. If you want service from Apple my understanding is you’re screwed if you don’t live near an Apple Store.
Bitey said:
inb4 knowledge base, yeah Apple has one of those too and plenty of the articles solve the problems, in fact 9 times out of 10 an article is used to resolve the customers issue, people just prefer to “talk to somebody”.Microsoft is the same way, most solutions come straight from a KB article. If you go to their message board you can get unlimited free support by certified MS techs. It’s not as fast or convenient as phone support but you get the opinions of dozens of reps, at least one of which is bound to have encountered your problem before.
Bitey said:
This isn’t right, Apple still supported tiger up until about 2 months ago. So technically they aren’t much different from MS in that regard, often times the reason Apple drops support for out of date OS is that they change so much in new OS’s that things no longer work, like for example from Tiger to Leopard, what was .Mac became MobileMe, .Mac was an internal system designed to work within Tiger, when they made the change to MobileMe, hey guess what *edited* in Tiger and .Mac started breaking and stopped working. So instead of beating the dead horse and continuously having to gift people free *edited*, they just stopped supporting it.Not to flame or anything but this isn’t really an explaination, it’s an excuse. When Microsoft continues to support an OS they release updates and features as though it were still a primary OS whereas Apple only releases critical security updates. You think there’s a lot in common between XP and Windows7? From an update and core-foundation standpoint they have absolutely nothing in common. If MS were like Apple, there wouldn’t have been an SP3, they wouldn’t still be coding DirectX patches to make it compatible with new games, and they wouldn’t be making all their newest software compatible with it.
inb4 you argue otherwise bear in mind that Final Cut Pro 7 requires 10.5.6 to install.
Bitey said:
I’m with all of you though, you won’t catch me gaming on a Mac unless it’s just all I have at the time. For what I do as a career (editing, directing, sound work), I will always choose Mac, simply because the Final Cut Pro Suite of applications are fantastic and nothing released on Windows can touch the functionality or ease of use on it.
inb4 Adobe.. I used it and it actually is almost just like FCP, one thing that bugged me and they may have fixed it since then, but you can’t drag and drop blocks of footage like you can in FCP. So while they are similar I still just prefer FCP.
Even the free video editor in Vista/Win7 allows you to do that, I can’t imagine it’s not a feature in Adobe CS5.
Bitey said:
At the end of the day I hate Apple as a company for how they treat their employees, customers, and lies told daily.Their in-store support implies that their users are idiots and from what i’ve heard they treat their customers like them too. It’s really sad. They have the potential to do so much for their customers yet ruin it with elitism. How they treat 3rd party “allies” is downright contemptable. When they upgraded from OS7 to OS8 it was solely done to invalidate the licensing for all their 3rd party manufacturers so they’d have to renew them for the new OS. Like they had the 7.x update patch ready to deploy and said “hey lets make this a new OS instead”.
Pink Monkey #13 said:
that incendiary ammo can’t be legal…
All the ammo I posted was legal. They’re a pretty solid retailer, the last thing I ordered from them (30 round pistol magazine) shipped the same day.
They group doesn’t even have all the land they need to build this mosque. They’re still negotiating purchase terms and amount with ConEd which is surprising because utilities, especially power companies, almost never sell property once they buy or imminent domain it.
The last bash they made was the “they always say it’s better than the last version” commercial which aired for about 2 weeks before they realized Windows7 really IS better than Vista and quickly pulled it.
HP’s biggest seller right now is their line that looks like Macbooks.
Mac fans spend $2500 on a Macbook and are satisfied simply because it looks good and plays music but when the average person buys a PC laptop they expect desktop performance from it for under $400.
higher =/= hire
If you make that mistake on a job application you’ll definately be “randomly” given a drug test.
Bitey said:
MS didn’t ignore Apple on the Vista bashing commercials, they just didn’t have a come back….
What could MS say to refute a lie? All Apple was doing is driving home stereotypes for how bad the OS was even though most of the problems either weren’t serious issues or had already been fixed. You can’t advertise that your competitor is lying in their advertisements, that only works in politics.
If MS cared they would have wiped the floor with Apple back on OSX10.0-10.3 which were extremely hyped and were lightyears worse than Vista. Combine the pure fail of the original Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP pre SP2, and Vista and you might get to the same ballpark as the early OSX releases. They could have, at any time, annihilated Apple for how they let OS7 rot without adding any significant feature for 6 years, their extremely underhanded legal postering towards 3rd party manufacturers in OS8, and the way they hyped, released, then completely abandoned OS9. Then they released 10.0 which actually removed features previously in OS9 like CD burning and DVD playback and was extremely unstable. It was so bad they gave a free upgrade to 10.1 which still had all the stability issues of 10.0 and even diehard mac fanatics refused to use it as their main OS because of how slow it was. 10.2 fixed the stability issues but was still widely criticised as being slow and unresponsive even on brand new computers. 10.3 was so cool that a couple lines of 10.2 computers literally didn’t have the hardware capability to install 10.3, they met all the minimum requirements but were locked out because of a bootloader change hardcoded on the motherboard. Apple refused to make 10.3 compatible the old bootloader but 3rd party groups later created a workaround that tricked the 10.3 installer into thinking the computer had the newer bootloader. Oddly enough, once installed, the OS didn’t care what bootloader you were using.
One thing I find interesting that Apple gets away with that Microsoft never could, whenever Apple releases a new version of their OS they completely drop all updates and support for the previous OS. If you have a problem or a new bug is found you’re simply told to upgrade to the new OS and/or buy a new computer that supports the new OS. Compare this to Windows 2000 which was support through 2010 (9 years after replacement), Windows XP that is supported through 2014 (8 years after replacement) and Vista is supported through at least 2012 (3+ years after replacement). It would also have been hilarious if Microsoft had told every Windows Vista user that complained about speed issues to buy a new computer designed for Vista… hilariously expensive to settle the class action lawsuit, that is…
MasterP to Major after shooting the 4th boomer in a row: If you one more boomer up on me I’m going to rage, remove you from my friends list, ban you from WCU, and log into Nickname’s steam and remove you from his friend’s list.
Didn’t happen again after that
The only reason Apple has done so well the last few years is because Microsoft has simply ignored them. If MS were to launch an agressive advertising campaign that bashes them they way they’ve bashed Windows they’re screwed.
I mean Apple routinely lied in their commercials about how bad Vista was and people believed it. I haven’t seen a bash commercial in a while now, mainly because Windows7 is pure win. Now that they can easily win, it’s the perfect time for MS to start an all-out brawl.
The hate probably had something to do with you getting your entire team covered in boomer bile during a tank/event, something you did with an alarming frequency last night.
Start – Rightclick Computer – Management.
Select Disk Management.
It’ll give a message about initializing your new disk, use all the default settings.
Find your new disk in the list, rightclick it and select format. Do a full format in NTFS, default cluster size.
