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thank you jon for finally saying how SOE's situation really is.
some of us have been predicting and alerting people of its downfall for years all the while reviews and articles here and elsewhere kept throwing flowers at this company.
the question on my mind is this: if the company had had a clean slate before this debacle would this hack affect the company in the long term as much as it will probably do?
i think the best way to find this out is to compare the recovery of the PSN to the SOE devision; but i don't think any real numbers will be released by Sony to make such a study.
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Joined: 9/25/04
Start the SOE revamp with a computer game that lets gamers throw stones at Smedley.
Then fire him.
No bitchers.
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Joined: 9/21/08
SOE missed the boat.
They had the chance to make SWG and VG into great mmo's, all they had to do was listen to the paying customer/ the damn player base! and give them what they wanted.
SOE made their bed and now it's time they lay in it.
I pray they can pull something magical out their hat with EQ3....
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Joined: 1/25/07
Its not the security breach that made me step away from SOE, but the way they treat MMO's in their portfolio. Games like Vanguard and SWG dont get the dev attention they deserve. I would like to invest time in those because I really like them, but I quit them some time ago because they were barely moving forward. Because of the skeleton dev crew it takes so ridiculously long for anything substantial to be added or fixed in those games. I just cant take it serious anymore.
Same with DCU online. The release is just another half hearted attempt. Its just not complete and ready for release. Its too much of the same as with their other MMO's. Lot of plans, but realising it either takes way too long or wont happen at all. This made me not even interested in this title.
I feel bad for current SWG devteam because they did wonders with the few resources they have available to them. And they actually seem to take into account of what players ask for. But if you look at the timetable, its just not enough for a so called AAA MMO. Too slow and too late.
Its like they try to do a little bit of everything instead of focussing on less things and do their best with those.
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Joined: 1/29/06
I agree on that, the current SWG dev team...all 2 of them, are the best the game has seen in years and years. Of course you can't underestimate the benefit getting rid of someone like blixtev. If you dislike jedi, and arent interested in making them a fun, needed, viable class, then do NOT work on a star wars game...
The bottom line with SOE is that they are one of the worst run businesses I have ever seen. They have NO understanding of the fundamental nature of their product and the importance of their customers. MMO shops MUST realize they are in long term relationships with their customers and must always seek win-win approaches to development and problems.
You never, ever alienate your customers, en masse, and you never teach them that the time and effort they sink into your games is worthless because you can and WILL wipe it out, overnight, with no recourse or consideration. That is SOEs greatest sin.
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Joined: 5/24/08
GIving me 45 days worth of play on games I have no real interest in anymore is... okay, but it's not going to win over any favors. SOE needs show they care about games beofre I am willing to pay for new ones and expect any sort of support for my trouble and money.
parrotpholk-Because we all know the miracle patch fairy shows up the night before release and sprinkles magic dust on the server to make it allllll better.
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SOE has been making substandard games for years. They continue to over-hype and push out their garbage, with a new helping on the way 3 months after the current inevitablely fails. I hope the hack event finally pushes them the rest of the way off the cliff of failure. They need to give up their strangle hold on all of these well known IPs and let more talented teams give them the games they deserve. F**K you SOE.
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They hackers didn't just happen to choose SOE. They chose Sony and later SOE very much on purpose. Sony originally made it available to put thir party OS on the PS3, namely, Linux. They pulled the ability to do this and immediately started banning and pulling ppl up on charges. THAT is why they got hacked. they brought it all on themselves. They deserve it.
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Joined: 2/06/09
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reason.
Starting to get a feeling Sony itself loves dragging anything down around with it. Including SOE, and yes I'm also referring to in the past with NGE and every other stupid choice SOE has made. Getting an feeling that the gross incompetence wasn't fully SOE's fault but a mixture of Sony's itself, the parent company. Since I'm sure everyones seen how Sony went about with the data breach on their PS3. Since they brought down PSN themselves due to a faulty firmware update.
Then again their is no proof of that so just call it a hunch of mine.
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Joined: 6/29/06
The world is going to watch next month's E3. If SOE can't get their act together by then, what will Sony's booth be like?
What about their presentation? The NGP?
So many questions and every journalist will be asking 'what happened'.
Worst timing I think. Sony finally had momentum against Xbox, NGP/Xperia was launching etc.
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Problem with SOE is the executive suite. They have not had in inkling in a long time. They had a great game in SWG and instead of fixing it, they destroyed it. EQ II was never a good sequel to EQ. Nothing subsequent has been more than mediocre.
Sony's only recourse, far as I can see, is to bring in some new blood at the top that has some vision. They could still rise from the ashes with some new leadership.
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If sony would make it legal to modify or Jailbreak PS3, I might buy one later when all the hacking stops.
If sony develop new MMORPG all 2011 graphics, epic story, no station cash store other than selling goods between players, and an actual system that people like without an items shop I believe that sony could make it, but with the condition sony is in right now, based on all their recent reputation, account compromise on many customers, and sony actually almost cost me a lot of money with another game due to leaked information although that security hole was closed really fast after I got the game company outside sony to change all information on my account.
Sony should have never have got involved with the Hotz hack, they should have simply let it be, as no one did anything wrong, not violated peoples privacy to begin with, and kept their security up to date sony could have avoid all this but since they wanted to play so did the hackers, and the hackers won.
45 Days of free game time is just useless to me and if I actually wanted I would rather sue sony for a few thousand than get 45 Days free lol I mean 45 days free of EQ 2 which is already free to play, and games that go back to development before 2009, I am sorry but these games are just too old, and while Sony maybe trying to say sorry to all its customers it is just not good enough for me to return for any reason even with free time.
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SOE is a popular target and for good reason. From a marketing perspective they really have to have a Dominos Pizza moment when they admit their games suck and they have made poor decisions in the past but promise to make changes. I have never have done marketing work for a gaming company but my comerical would be a video camera following Smed being escorted out of the building by security.
We honestly only represent a small sliver of their profit margins for SOE but we set the tone for sucess or failure. No one will buy a game today without doing research online about the game and all SOE products will be treated with extra scrutiny. The SWG pre-cu vets will not forget and not be silenced not now, and not 20 years from now. SWG is a dying game they should give away the classic version and let people have their own servers. New games need to have open worlds and freedom of choice its where everything is moving twards anyway. I say if they don't have their Dominos moment externally and internally they might as well shut off the lights now.
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Hey Jon:
You said about DCUO something I completely agree with!!! You said, "While I personally enjoyed the game while I played it, there were just too many bugs and exploits, not enough content, and too much time and pushed deadlines with any updates in content." This is completely accurate state of the game.
Now, look at the pros and cons of the official review by MMORPG (copied below for you). Under Cons, there is no mention about the complete lack of content (the content is actually listed as one of the Pros of the game), and the bugs are described as little and annoying. One con that was mentioned that is accurate is the terrible chat interface.
Just thought I'd point it out since your comments are spot on about the game, and the MMORPG.com official review was at best misleading about the game. Perhaps it is time for someone at MMORPG to do a fast re-review of the game?
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
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{mod edit} No soe did not deserve it and neither did those of us who play there games.
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People keep saying Sony was targetted for special reasons, but the truth is their network security was terrible. It was only a matter of time before someone exploited it. Unpatched servers, known vulnerabilities, missing or improperly configured firewalls, lack of intrusion detection system, etc.
Even after all the time spent "fixing" the network it has been hacked two more times and had a seriously ameutur level security mistake go live.
This isn't a case of "it could happen to anyone", because most networks are not this poorly secured. Odds are this isn't over with either, because the issues span the entire Sony network.
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As a life time subscriber to DCU I have mixed feelings, on the one hand I want to play DCU as I intended when I bought it, a side MMO that I would play casually while waiting for ToR and GW2.
On the other hand, as I said in the Cryptic thread, some one big needs to fail big to make sure developers go back to making good games, not marketable monetisable cash cows.
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Monetisable ? What the hell is that.
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So many worlds,so much to do, so little done, such to be...Alfred Lord Tennyson
I would like to see SOE focus on EQ. They can't seem to focus on building great games and keeping players happy at the same time. They just don't manage well. I played EQ during the golden days, I've had the station pass account, and I love my PS3. I don't hate SOE, I hate their management style. They do whatever they want without concern for the players. They ONLY care about money. I know, they are a business. BUT their business is PLAYERS, not just games.
SOE please do the following to survive:
1. Producing crappy games.
FOCUS on making Everquest the best game out there. When EQ Next comes out make EQ1 free to play. Maybe even EQ2.
2. Producing way too many expansions.
Expansions are great, but shelling out $40 every year for new content is just fleecing the players for cash. We want growth yes, a raping no. Many other successful games do free updates. For FREEEeeeeee! BTW EQ1 really began to die after PoP. Quick travel is great, but can leave the world feeling fragmented.
3. Ignoring the forums and players opinions.
NEVER ever ever do a NGE again. WTF? I played SWG after the NGE and all the outrage, but I can relate to what the pre-NGE players talk about. SWG is a shell of what it should be.
PLAYERS = success. You business is PLAYERS, making games is how you bring them in.
4. Treating Developers like "red-headed step-children"
Granted there may be the need to stay on top of employees, but they are the most in touch with the game (your product) and the Players (your Business). Players are keenly aware of the way your treat your staff. We want GMs in the games. STAY involved and we will too. One of the things I lkike about Rift is that the GMs are present. EQ1 used to have a dedicated GMs per server, people who solved problems and talked with you. This is called customer service, that is what we notice most.
SOE has had (has) crappy managers and managment, but for a time all of these games have been fun. SOE needs a focused (said this alot I know) direction and business plan. A plan that includes Players and Employees in discisions and consequenses. Any company that acts like a giant ego moron will suffer cyber attacks (can u say Microsoft! !?! It's a modern world businesses need to protect against the new-age crooks, even when they are liked.
These are just my opinions folks. I've played many MMORPGs, and I know what I like. I would like to see SOE survive, but only if they wise-up.


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Thanks, but I have been posting pictures of all South of Europe. Yes it is a beautiful place but I would not say I live there;
, not even in Porto the one I have posted the last pictures (actually that time i was there with my boat).
Born in Lisboa that is a very beautiful place but I lived most of my live here:
In that peace of land that goes inside the sea. It is called Baleal and it was an old fishing village, particularly whales (Baleal means the the place of the whales). Of course that was so many centuries ago that it is very rare to see one there now. I have posted several photos from Baleal and I still have there a summer small house. Now I live on the country, near by in a place called Coimbrã.
Baleal is really a very beautiful place:
The old Chapel:
And it can be pretty savage sometimes with 25ft waves crashing against these rocks:
Now I still have a view for the sea, but I live on the countryside:
Regarding beauty, Canada is one of the places I want to go, particularly to British Columbia. One of the few regrets I have was not have managed to find the money to go there 20 years ago, on a dirt motorcycle tour, kind of a sportive event, camping in the middle of the nature. I was invited, they would had a motorcycle for me and the logistics to have food and gasoline on the wilderness, for me and 5 more riders. I bet that is forbideen now
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military's technological superiority is increasingly challenged by China, and efforts to maintain an edge are complicated by shrinking defense budgets that have cut money for development, the Pentagon's top weapons buyer said on Tuesday.
Frank Kendall, the deputy undersecretary of defense for acquisition and technology, told lawmakers the U.S. military's technological superiority is being "challenged in ways that I have not seen for decades, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region," where China is pursuing a rapid modernization program.
Hagel 'deeply concerned' about health of U.S. nuclear forces
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Friday he was "deeply concerned," over the health of U.S. nuclear forces after the drug and cheating scandals this month, and that some nuclear officers felt their mission was taken for granted during 13 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Hagel, who ordered a high-level review of nuclear forces on Thursday, told a news conference that the problems affecting missile launch officers were caused by a range of factors.
Pentagon chief orders nuclear forces review amid probe of drugs, cheating
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered a high-level review of the state of American nuclear forces on Thursday, days after missile launch officers were caught in a drug investigation and dozens were accused of cheating on their certification exams.
Hagel will convene a meeting in the next two weeks of officials responsible for U.S. nuclear weapons to examine the leadership and culture of the force, said Rear Admiral John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman.
US military sees risks in China-Japan tensions, seeks restraint
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – The top U.S. military
commander in the Asia-Pacific region acknowledged his concerns
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day after Japan's prime minister evoked comparisons to Britain
and Germany before World War One.
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U.S. military giving troops more leeway for religious clothing and beards
The Pentagon took steps on Wednesday to give individual troops greater latitude to wear turbans, head scarfs, yarmulkes and other religious clothing with their uniforms, but advocacy groups said the new policy fell short of what they were seeking.
U.S. budget watchdog eyes steps to control military health costs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The most effective way to control the rising expense of the military healthcare system is to boost cost-sharing among retirees, the Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday, endorsing an unpopular step Congress has repeatedly rejected.
The non-partisan CBO said the Defense Department spent some $52 billion in 2012 for its TRICARE healthcare program, which covers about 1.8 million troops and their 2.6 million family members, plus 5.2 million military retirees and their families.
Chinese inexperience a factor in warships' near-miss : U.S. admiral
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese operational inexperience and communications difficulties on both sides contributed to a near-collision between the USS Cowpens and a Chinese warship in the South China Sea last month, the head of U.S. forces in the Asia-Pacific said on Wednesday.
Admiral Samuel Locklear, the head of U.S. Pacific Command, told a Navy conference the Cowpens, a guided missile cruiser, was monitoring China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, as it conducted operations in international waters for the first time when the incident occurred.
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Yeah, 49 is right, they do love the Sounders up there, certainly more than the Mariners.
But it kind of exemplifies my point. They have an MLS team that outdraws the baseball team and would probably outdraw the Sonics or an NHL team. Weird city like that. With the Canadian dollar virtually 1 to 1 with the American Dollar, QC seems like the right place to put a team. That way the Country of Quebec can have 2 teams. <insert separatist joke here>


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Based on the electrical conducting properties of the polymer Polypyrrole (PPy), the researchers, from the University of Pittsburgh, have demonstrated a novel way of loading specific drugs onto an array of electrodes and triggering their release into cultured neurons, allowing for a more precise insight into the cellular mechanisms of neuronal networks.
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In that description, we pointed out that Augustus Heaton wrote his seminal pamphlet titled Treatise on Mint Marks in 1893, and even at that time, he was aware of the existence and the rarity of the 1892-O Micro O, a variety that had been made only the previous year in a remote branch mint 1,100 miles away from Heaton's Washington, D.C., home.: "It is remarkable that he knew of its existence. Even in today's information world, varieties are seldom discovered within a year of their production."
Heaton's Mint Marks pamphlet devotes what, for him, is an extended description of the 1892-O Micro O. Heaton organizes his text by denomination, then by mintmark, so that the issue follows immediately after the 1861-O Seated half under the section titled "The O Mint Coinage of Half Dollars":
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"I think it is a courageous and powerful statement about who we are in the state of Vermont," the Democrat said. "I also believe that this legislation speaks to the heart of this state, and certainly to my heart."
The legislation creating marriage-like "civil unions" reached the governor's desk shortly before lunch time, just a day after the House gave its final approval. And by the time of a 2 p.m. news conference, he had already signed it out of view of TV cameras, photographers and reporters.
Dean said he signed the bill privately because he did not want the ceremony to be a triumphal party by supporters of the law. Instead, he said, it was time for the state to begin healing.
"In politics, bill-signings are triumphal," he said. "They represent overcoming of one side over another. These celebrations, as the subject of the matter of the bill, will be private."
The law will allow gay couples to form civil unions beginning July 1. That will entitle them to all of the hundreds of rights and responsibilities available to married couples under Vermont law in such areas as taxes, inheritance and medical decision-making.
Other states will probably not recognize Vermont civil unions, and such status will not entitle gay couples to any the benefits available to married couples under federal law in areas such as taxes and immigration.
Nevertheless, no state has gone further than Vermont in giving gay couples something approximating marriage.
The bill came about after the Vermont Supreme Court unanimously ruled in December that gay couples were being unconstitutionally denied the benefits of marriage. The court left it up to the Legislature time to decide whether to let gays marry or to create some kind of domestic partnership.
The legislation passed after strong debate in which opponents argued that homosexuality is "against natural law." Opponents have warned that they will make their anger known at the polls in November when members of the Legislature are up for re-election.
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Here's a KB we just published that talks about an issue where performing an operation on a VM in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager fails with error 801:
When performing any operation on a virtual machine (VM) in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), the job fails with the following error: VMM cannot find the Virtual hard disk object' error 801
This can occur if VMM has orphaned records in the database showing snapshots that no longer exist.
To resolve this issue, remove the orphaned objects from the database by following the steps below.
1. Stop the System Center Virtual Machine Manager service on the VMM 2012 server. 2. Back up the Virtual Manager database. 3. Open SQL Management Studio and run the following script on the VMM database:
DECLARE custom_cursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT VHDId, VDriveId from
dbo.tbl_WLC_VDrive WHERE [VHDId] NOT IN
(SELECT VHDId from dbo.tbl_WLC_VHD WHERE VHDID IS NOT NULL)
DECLARE @VHDId uniqueidentifier
DECLARE @VDriveId uniqueidentifier
OPEN custom_cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM custom_cursor INTO @VHDId, @VDriveId
WHILE(@@fetch_status = 0)
if(@VHDId is NOT NULL)
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WHERE VDriveId = @VDriveId
FETCH NEXT FROM custom_cursor INTO @VHDId, @VDriveId
CLOSE custom_cursor
DEALLOCATE custom_cursor
This resolution can also be used for 801 errors when perfoming a Physical to Virtual conversion (P2V). Information on that solution can be found here:
959596 - Description of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 update to address physical to virtual (P2V) issues (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959596)
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2756886 - Performing an operation in Virtual Machine Manager fails with error 801
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Thanks J.C. Hornbeck. Very good!
Thanks for your script. I need remove a cluster from SCVMM 2012 SP1, to recrate the certificates used by BITS. Them one node was not removed. After execute the script. The node was removed rightly. Them i added again the cluster, the certificates was recreated and i happy.
We just had to run this on our Production Env. Sadly; the error causes more damage than what the KB states. Error 801 completly kills the Create VM process when running through SCORCH and PowerShell. It's sad that Microsoft took over 2 years to fix the
error. Looks like they fixed it in SCVMM 2012 SP1 UR6.


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She is in the process of recording a compilation CD of her work with the acclaimed New York-based contemporary music ensemble Wet Ink, which is visiting UCSD. Wet Ink will also perform Jan. 12 at Conrad Prebys Music Center in a program including Rosenberger's "TEXTUREN," the centerpiece of the new CD.
The piece is inspired by a garden near where she lives, something she describes as "a place that bewilders, dazzles and shakes you up, among delicately changing colors, textures, fragrances and sounds."
For as long as Rosenberger can remember, and perhaps before that, she has taken in the world around her, whether the sounds of her mother playing flute, piano and guitar, or the utterances of nature.
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"Ha ha, I'm-a-Wario-and-I'm-a-gonna-ween!" Sadly, that phrase was my first experience with Mario's evil twin. Ever since Mario Kart 64, I chose this portly plumber who's incapable of color coordination, as my secondary racer. Whenever Bowser was unavailable, I'd cruise the streets in Wario's pimped out ride.
There's more to this chubby character than his oversized nose and his go-kart prowess, however. Unbeknownst to most, Wario is also a skilled platformer. He may not have the fame or agility of his plucky enemy, but Wario's ability to shape-shift easily rivals Mario's ability to reach new heights.
Luckily, Nintendo realized Wario's oft-ignored potential, so they threw him in a portable platformer for a green-tinted system. This innovative platformer that involved shape-shifting gameplay was clearly well-received, because Nintendo soon produced a follow-up for the Game Boy Color.
This sequel, Wario Land II, somehow fell into my lap over a decade ago, but sadly, I never touched it. I briefly owned a Game Boy Color, but I traded it for some console games during the late '90s. Even though I lacked this colorful 8-bit portable, I still had the option of playing it a few years later with the Game Boy Advance, but instead, I let my dust-filled closet eat away at the tiny cartridge.
Well, as I was preparing to move about a month ago, I came across some of my old Game Boy games. One of these was Wario Land II. I'd recently heard positive comments about the Wario Land games on Retronauts and other 1UP blogs, so I decided to see for myself how well they'd aged.
As I inserted my Wario Land II cart, I ignored how it awkwardly jutted out of the rear end of my Game Boy Advance SP. Instead, I focused on the bandits pilfering Wario's goodies. I was surprised that mere thieves had the gumption to steal from a fiend such as Wario, but they managed to make off with the goodies safely. And so, the adventure commenced.
What I immediately noticed was how different Wario's gameplay was from Mario titles. Instead of hopping and bopping, Wario would scour levels for treasure. Unlike his good-natured enemy, Wario couldn't die, so his game was easier in a way. Instead of having to deal with bottomless pits, Wario had to solve brain-teasers.
None of the game's puzzles are as difficult as those found in Braid, but they're still fun to solve. As I mentioned earlier, Wario can change forms, but I never described the process. When Wario is touched by an enemy or environmental obstacle, he often transforms. Let's say that Wario needs to break a concrete floor. Wario could try waddling over the ground, or he could eat a piece of cake that an enemy tossed and enlarge his midsection instantaneously. If he chose the second option, Wario would then be able to break the rock-solid barrier and move on.
Wario Land II includes many other similar puzzles that allow him to swim, burn objects, and squeeze his way through narrow tunnels. Most of these are solved through common sense, while others take a little more brain power.
While solving the game's puzzles, players will also want to focus on gathering as many coins as possible. They'll need these for Wario Land II's many mini-games that bestow players with valuable awards. In each level, players will find a mini-game door that'll award them with a treasure, and they'll come across another mini-game at the level's exit that will reveal a map. To solve these mini-games, players will need the hundreds of coins that are strewn about Wario Land II's levels.
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Yeah, sorry I managed to get a friend to forward the package to me. Figured that I might as well do all the distribution.
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default fan speed at 100% on 9600GT
I have a 9600GT PCX nvidia graphics card and I'm using the proprietary drivers version 180.29 on a Debian linux desktop.
The problem I have is the following:
Whenever X is not started on my server, the GPU fan speed is at 100%. The reason is that
1) nvidia driver starts adjustung GPU fan speed only when X starts. When X stops, the driver stops adjusting the fan speed.
2) When not adjusted by the driver, default fan speed of the GPU is 100% (I assume it's the defaut from the GPU BIOS)
The noise is terrible and might be quite unhealthy for the fan. You should hear it (I assume you have :))
So, first, I'm worried about the durability of my fan when it does such a jetplane noise during boot, from power-up to the start of the X server.
Second, the noise is such that it's not practically workable to stop X when I don't need to work in the GUI, even though I would like to.
What are the solutions to this problem?
I guess it comes down to either reduce the default fan speed (preferred), or tell the nvidia driver to keep adjusting the fan speed when X does not run.
Any help appreciated on solving this issue. Thanks by advance.
Re: default fan speed at 100% on 9600GT
Same here.
I think a small GPL fan control kernel module, submitted for inclusion in the kernel would be awesome. It could load and do its thing much earlier in the the boot process and would be independent of X.
On getting the default reduced, I wonder if we'd make more progress complaining to nVidia, or to MSI, Asus, Gigabyte, etc. It's probably a firmware thing.
Re: default fan speed at 100% on 9600GT
Use nvclock.
Re: default fan speed at 100% on 9600GT
With Xorg running, I get this:
# nvclock -F 90
When Xorg is NOT running, I get this:
~ # nvclock -F 90
Re: default fan speed at 100% on 9600GT
First of all you need at least 0.8b4 of nvclock and second not all cards are handled well yet but I could use testing if your model doesn't work yet.
Re: default fan speed at 100% on 9600GT
Same behavior for us both, yes. I did try 0.8b4.
Edit: okay to help you (and myself) with some testing. I'm clever enough to make edits in the source, then recompile and try again, but not much more. I am completely ignorant of hardware.
It's funny though that the --force option works when X is started. As if nvclock was in fact acting through the driver rather than acting directly on the GPU... I even changed the code to bypass all the error checks and go directly to the same routines that are succesful when X is working. In which case nvclock runs but has no effect. The ouput of getclock shows that it does not manage to contact the card.
BTW, thunderbird, it might be worth for you knowing that the registries for my 9600GT PCX are not "inverted" like nv50.c assumes they are.
With X running, nvclock -f --fanspeed 10 first gives a getclock values at 65% (which is really 35%, probably), then setclock sets 10% but you can hear that the fan really goes at 90%, before getclock reports a value of 10.2%. The reason is that the formulas in the code start with "1 -" which is probably not appropriate for this particular chipset. It is remotely dangerous because (probably) the user could stop the GPU fan completely.
Re: default fan speed at 100% on 9600GT
But when you let it use this register it works fine for you? The problem is that basically all cards use the register inverted mode (actually all other pwm registers on nvidia are used inverted) likely because the output is fed through an inverter to amplify the current. The lack of the inverted/non-inverted detection is the reason the code isn't in as I have seen both cases and likely I said in general it is inverted.
Could you check the pci vendor and device id of your card? (nvclock -D output contains it)
Re: default fan speed at 100% on 9600GT
Sorry for the delay, work's been hectic.
Below the output of nvclock -D. Since I did not catch much about vendor in what I got, I have also included what I could presumably gather from lspci and udevinfo.
lancelot@sherka:~/system/installs/nvclock0.8b4$ ./src/nvclock -D
root@sherka:/home/lancelot# udevinfo -a -p /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:04:00.0
Re: default fan speed at 100% on 9600GT
I found a fix for the fan noise. I am now able to reduce my fan speed to 35% whenever the 9600GT won't do it by itself, that is to say:
- when X is not started, whatever driver I'm using
- when I use nouveau rather than the proprietary nvidia module.
I thought I'd share since google tells me so many people have some kind or the other of excessive fan speed and noise issue with the 9600GT (including windows user...). If you have said issue, you may find what follows useful, however please be warned that whatever your try will be at your own risk.
In order to get a fan speed of 35%, you need to have the following values in your registers:
NV_E100 (0xe100): 00001b00
NV_E100 (0xe100): 00001900
I noticed a glitch that comes with my fix: after rebooting from a system with the fan speed fixed through the above register values, I get ugly color squares and/or lines flashing on my primary screen for approx. 1 second, in-between when the system leaves the BIOS and when it enters GRUB.
You'll find below a patch to nvclock which I used to set the above register values.
diff -rupN nvclock0.8b4/src/backend/nv50.c nvclock0.8b4-patched-20110623//src/backend/nv50.c
nvclock -f -F 65
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Amrita is a Sanskrit word that means everlasting life, and it also refers to the food of the gods. In a city that can often be cold and distant, what sets Cafe Amrita apart is that owner Robert Song has managed to create an unusually special and welcoming vibe, which has attracted a community of good-natured regulars who in turn welcome newcomers without judgment. (Some folks call it their living room.) The food is pretty good and reasonably priced, there's beer along with the usual cafe; drinks, the music is decent, and it's a great place to watch international soccer--even if you're not a Barcelona fan--and listen to amused jousting over whether Lionel Messi is better than Cristiano Ronaldo. We'll let you decide. Read more about Café Amrita >>
http://www.cafeandalucia.net The Rowe NetStar Internet jukebox over at this terrific tapas joint boasts over 100,000 songs (two for $1; five for $2) and even takes credit cards (sadly, the bar does not). There's only one catch: If your song's not on the 200 mostly r&b and Spanish albums already programmed in, you have to pay double to download it off the Internet. And if you've got even more money to burnaor you're just really drunkayou can skip your selections to the front of the line for an extra five song credits. But such a drastic measure rarely needs to be taken, since most people come to CafA(c) Andalucia to catch a buzz or to make a late-night meal out of intensely flavorful tapas like the Galician-style octopus ($9). Yet with such deceptively strong sangria ($18 pitchers), deliciously offbeat clientele, and gracious service, it's not like you'd mind waiting. Read more about Café Andalucia >>
http://www.cafebarastoria.com A few blocks from the rumble of the N train in Astoria, CafA(c) Bar beckons with the pleasant oom-chas of Eurodance-lite. The low vinyl couches by the door give way to candlelit Formica tables with mismatched chairs, where neighborhood couples sit and sip hot apple cider laced with brandy ($7) or share a bottle of Notios ($25), a dry and fruity Greek red. Especially recommended are a cachaASSa-less caipirinha (Rum Toucano, lime, and sugar) and the espresso martini (Stoli, KahlAoa, and a shot of espresso). The Mediterranean-influenced menu has many vegetarian and vegan treats as well as meat and cheese dishes. Read more about Café Bar >>