Astronomer

Yeah it's a glitch, and any dumbass caught there should be given a warning, then the boot if they go back. We have our rules, with latitude given to our Admins to mete out punishments to fit the crime and circumstances. White_Dragon is a regular and is not prone to glitching or wildly out-of-whack scores, so issue a ticket and light probation. Now we all know this is a glitch-zone, so any schmuck stupid enough to go there again gets what they deserve.

4 of us >XI< ijits and our spouses + 1 child and one young pup got together at Hunter's compound and bunker deep in the backwoods of Ontario, Canada, for tactical training, survival cooking, and drinking, all Canadian style. The Zombie Apocalypse is coming, and we needed to update our training so that we are prepared. Clockwise, from bottom-right: Astronomer, Merlin007, Hunter, and Belted.

Playing this evening with a full server, pings were spiking for everyone in the 400-500ms range, and regular game-play saw higher than normal pings causing lag that made the game near unplayable. It's been doing this frequently for the past few weeks. This was the worst that I've seen it in a while.

Happy Birthday, Sir!

Hope your day was better than the Brazilian soccer team's!

Crazy talented! The first one he does is in the original style.

Awesome game Labob! Many thanks for the work in getting it set up and running.

Happy birthday my friend. Congrats on yet ANOTHER successful orbit around the Sun!

Hi folks, I figured out that I had to copy the pb sub-directory over to the Call of Duty - World at War directory. Once I did that, all was, and is, well.

That was a bizarre amateur thing done by a couple of guys a few years ago. Some company actually hired them to do a version of it to sell their product. It's just...awesome!

These are a few years old, but dammit, they still bring a tear to my eye. Astronomy is beautiful.

Thanks!!!

Good to know it's still playing! I'll reinstall it and jump on next week!

I know Little_old_man, but I have to keep the spark of idealism alive within me, otherwise I'd stop giving a crap.

Elizabeth Renzetti It goes against journalistic instinct, but we should deny killers their glory Elizabeth Renzetti The Globe and Mail Published Saturday, Jun. 07 2014, 6:00 AM EDTLast updated Saturday, Jun. 07 2014, 6:00 AM EDT Comments closed The whole country watched Moncton, first with horror, then with caught breath. For a day, a gunman was on the loose, a city terrorized. And three people were dead, all RCMP constables: David Ross, Fabrice Georges Gévaudan and Douglas James Larche. A suspect is in custody. Police have released his name, too, but I’m not going to repeat it here. There are plenty of other places to find his identity and read about the trail of unearned grievances on his Facebook page. In the coming days, I’m sure we’ll learn more. I imagine it will be a familiar story of alienation and misplaced rage completely unattached to any actual injustice. This man is a suspect at the moment, nothing more. But he’s already succeeded in one thing: turning the attention of an entire country on himself. For a day, he and his stupid guns were the star of international cable news. I’m not sure we want these guys taking up any more of our public space, sucking our valuable air. It’s what they want, to live in infamy, on a public stage where the spotlight is always on them. This is why they dress like cut-price Sylvester Stallones when they go out hunting humans, and make videos to be endlessly played on YouTube, and write “manifestos” about how the world has done them wrong. We give them the attention they crave. Last Dec. 6, when I wanted to mark the anniversary of the murderous rampage at l’École Polytechnique that left 14 women dead, I realized that I knew the killer’s name but not the names of any of his victims. I went and looked them up, and it occurred to me that this was a second indignity committed against them. They are unknown, while his name lives on. The 22-year-old who killed six people in Isla Vista, Calif., two weeks ago did his best to ensure that his electronic ghost would persist after he’d taken his own life. Affluent, pampered and troubled, he felt ignored, especially by the women who “owed” him something. He left a trail of poisonous videos and letters behind to ensure he’d have the attention in death he felt so grievously deprived of in life. There are people who want to make sure that doesn’t happen. Richard Martinez is the father of Christopher Martinez, one of the victims of the Isla Vista killer. Mr. Martinez is incandescent in his rage, and he’s aiming that fury at America’s gun laws and a culture that he thinks inadvertently glorifies these criminals. “When the media puts the shooter’s name out there, they put his picture out there, they put his videos out there, they’re doing exactly what the shooter wanted – they’re completing his plan,” Mr. Martinez told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Mr. Cooper has a policy of not naming or showing the pictures of mass killers on his program, partly prompted by the impassioned plea of the father of another shooting victim, a young man killed in the 2012 Aurora, Colo., theatre rampage. Megyn Kelly of Fox News has the same policy, saying she doesn’t want to reward murderous “infamy.” 60 Minutes recently ran a story about a football coach who confronted a student after he’d killed three classmates; the killer was deliberately not named or shown. Does denying one killer his moment of glory keep others from following? It’s impossible to know, because you can’t measure absence. But there is evidence that some mass murderers play to an audience, and are well aware of their predecessors: “Many other perpetrators pay obsessive attention to previous massacres,” Ari Schulman wrote in The Wall Street Journal last year. “There is evidence for a direct line of influence running through some of the most notorious shooters – from Columbine in 1999 to Virginia Tech in 2007 to Newtown in 2012 – including their explicit references to previous massacres and calls to inspire future anti-heroes.” It goes against every fibre of journalistic instinct to suggest that there should be less information out there, rather than more. We are always pressing for more detail, more information, on the grounds that the public deserves all the facts possible in order to make clear-headed decisions. But there are many instances in which the media shield certain information, by law or by custom – publication bans imposed by judges, for one thing, or not naming minors involved in court cases. Perhaps that custom could extend to people who go on murderous rampages. What if, after initial identification, they were quietly ignored, and pictures of their Rambo costumes and their big-boy guns weren’t reproduced incessantly? That way, the act would be greeted with the contempt it deserves. That way, there would still be room to remember the victims: David Ross, Fabrice Georges Gévaudan and Douglas James Larche.

I forget which organization advocates this, but they are urging media outlets to not give out any information on the perp, not even their name, but to focus on those killed and/or injured, and the community impact. Why give the cowardly shits the notoriety that they crave? Canada's equivalent of the NPR, the CBC, did just that on a segment of their nightly current affairs show, "As it Happens" regarding the recent incident in California. It was quite refreshing, informative, poignant, and it put these sort of incidents in proper perspective.

Holy crap Viprz. You and your family stay safe. This guy is playing solitaire with 47 cards. I hope they catch him or take him down before someone else gets hurt or killed.

What am I seeing in the first 2 pictures?

Niiiice! Is the boss gonna shell out $$ to make the rig road-worthy?

Hey Merlin, Hoping you're having an awesome day!

I won one at a trade show a year and a bit ago. I'm a gadget guy so I set out to find actual uses for the thing. I tried the same thing for a Microsoft Surface RT tablet that I also won, but luckily I got a gift receipt so I could return it for a store credit. A canon 70D DSLR was the happy outcome there. The iPad is handy for remotely logging into servers via SSH, for troubleshooting networks, for reading the news (FlipBoard spanks Google News), for controlling my Hue Lights, home theater receiver-amp, satellite receiver/PVR, and Apple TV; reading forums and whatnot on the InterTubes, streaming music to my bluetooth room-filling speakers, and most importantly, my mom has an iPad. She's in her mid 70's with reduced mobility, and my dad is 88 and in declining health. I call them on the iPad's video chat app, FaceTime, 4 nights a week: 3 on the days that my dad has dialysis and once on the weekend. Dialysis can kick the shit out of my dad, and with the FaceTime chats, I can tell at a glance at my mom how dad's dialysis went, and the conversations take my mom's mind off of her troubles. I can show her our garden, the work done on the house, the cats and dogs (which she loves), and just chat while I prepare supper. She wishes all of her sisters and friends had iPads. She prefers the video chats to the telephone and says it's almost like visiting. I can do almost all of the above with my Google Nexus 7 tablet, but the ease of connecting with my parents (and my wife who lives in all-Apple ecosystem of iPhone, iPad, and iMac) means that the iPad does have its uses. I'm no Apple fanboi - my servers all run Linux plus one BSD machine, my main rig is a built-by-me Windows 8.1 powerhouse, and I have a Lenovo laptop converted into a Hackintosh so I'm familiar with the environment should I need to troubleshoot my wife's system (no need yet 17 months in).

Still having issues. I downloaded the PB legacy files and the COD WAW definition files there as well, and set it to find my game. I can see a button to update the PB.exe file (which I don't so), but no option to update the game definition, which I THINK is the issue. I'm still getting the PBinitfailure error. I'm running Windows 8.1, which I was running before the re-install and everything was working fine. My firewall has been turned off (no big deal - my network is protected with a Sophos Unified Threat Management Server). I'm stumped.

Good to know! Will try it again...and again...and again...!

I copied the .dll and .htm files to the subdirs, but I still got a Punkbuster Init Failure after about 10 minutes of play. Very confusing.