IRC logs for #openttd on OFTC at 2008-12-15
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09:12:13 <dihedral> we're all gonna die!
09:12:36 <Forked> I'll deal with that later
09:12:48 <Forked> busy enjoying my coffee now
09:13:19 <Eddi|zuHause> tomorrow, i promise.
09:14:52 <jerker> hi! after slightly more than a week of happy openttd'ing here's some new junctions. :-) http://www.update.uu.se/~jerker/openttd/ :-) Since I made them, they must be brilliant (err), but hmm wouldn't it be great to rate different junctions?
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09:16:15 <petern> i for one just build what is necessary
09:17:00 <jerker> i'm more into the Build Beutiful Things With Rails and then damn I got to fill them with some traffic, let's see what we got.
09:17:03 <petern> bah, why does every little web based interface require its own login system and database
09:18:14 <planetmaker> jerker: pretty slow junction, I'd say. And long signal length for straight...
09:18:28 <planetmaker> at least for train lengths > 2 tiles.
09:19:02 <jerker> Mmmm. But compact and lockfree.
09:19:04 <petern> i think a nice simple pbs junction is more elegant ;)
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09:20:20 <planetmaker> jerker: compact, yes, lock free yes :) But max speed 60 odd km/h for trains turning.
09:21:52 <jerker> planetmaker: only for those turing left?
09:23:11 * Forked fetches some more music from home
09:23:17 <Forked> too much Eels make you weird(er)
09:23:18 <planetmaker> jerker: for trains turning both directions. 111km/h for turns in both directions coming from East/west with TL > 2 tiles
09:23:50 <planetmaker> hm... and also North-South. The diagonal parts are in all cases max 2 tiles long.
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09:24:57 <planetmaker> jerker: mind that a s-shaped bend does not count as two bends.
09:26:29 <jerker> for a right turn, diagonal (four squares)
09:26:58 <jerker> how many wagons fit in? two per square?
09:27:32 <planetmaker> approx. two per tile. Depends upon train set
09:28:28 <planetmaker> right, the 2nd image is better wrt right turns :)
09:30:48 <planetmaker> jerker: you might gain a lot (considering 2nd image, if you bridge the East-West straight lines over the left turns which then could be one level lower.
09:30:59 <planetmaker> and straight diagonals.
09:33:10 * jerker is trying to comprehend
09:35:56 <planetmaker> jerker: build left turns like the right turns - and accomodate the straight tracks using bridges over them.
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09:37:49 <dihedral> lol - someone loging in as oftc? :-D
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09:39:18 <planetmaker> hanseatic understatment - or undercover ;)
09:39:21 <dihedral> jerker, you do know the openttdcoop junctionary, right?
09:39:59 <dihedral> pm: what say you to freeform map edges for wwottdgd?
09:40:09 <jerker> dihedral: yep, but i didn't find this particular junction there
09:40:26 <dihedral> no you would not - the junctions there are usually for very high load
09:40:52 <dihedral> huge ass networks :-P
09:41:11 * planetmaker goes reading on freeform edges.
09:41:18 <dihedral> with probably more trains in the junctions than you have in your entire network :-P
09:41:23 <planetmaker> ... the screeny in the first post looks great :)
09:41:25 <dihedral> (slight overstatement :-P)
09:41:58 <dihedral> it looks like it would make a nice difference to playing too :-P
09:42:24 <dihedral> and if you really wanted water all the way round - there are rivers and canals :-P
09:43:15 <dihedral> now it would be lovely to get the map generator to detect if there is a river grf (if it still does not come with openttd) and generate rivers :-)
09:43:32 <dihedral> pm: how is IS doing btw?
09:44:05 <planetmaker> ... it should work afaik.
09:44:13 <planetmaker> But currently I have like no time at all.
09:44:58 <planetmaker> dihedral: it doesn't need river grfs in order to create rivers. normal water tiles do, too ;)
09:45:13 <planetmaker> the biggest problem is a reasonable generation of rivers...
09:46:12 <dihedral> well - for wwottdgd it's enough for us to make a map :-)
09:47:01 <dihedral> and i think freeform map edges (ffme :-P) would be really cool for that event :-)
09:48:33 <petern> you can have rivers without the river grf, i believe
09:48:44 <petern> may not look as pretty mind you
09:49:10 <dihedral> i thought you needed the grf for rivers ;-)
09:49:25 <petern> you should get plain sea without it
09:49:31 <planetmaker> you don't need them. But it looks a bit boring without.
09:49:46 <planetmaker> petern: yes, that's what happens. I know from my attempt to create rivers...
09:49:52 <planetmaker> ... which is still sleeping ;)
09:50:04 <dihedral> hmmm.... perhaps you guys would like to include a river grf with openttd?
09:50:21 <planetmaker> you'd need MB's permission. His rapids are nice :)
09:51:16 <dihedral> or start a thread in the forums and ask some authors, with a statement in the first post that all attached grf's are free to distribution with openttd if the devs wish to do so :-P
09:51:37 <dihedral> or that they are GPL'ed
09:51:53 <planetmaker> Though MB might agree to inclusion. OpenTTD has already quite some grfs by him...
09:52:11 <planetmaker> if it works the easier approach.
09:52:54 <dihedral> well - the dev's still need to say they would want it :-P
09:55:34 <petern> it's still nice to ask permission
09:56:32 <petern> grr, my socks have shrunk
09:57:39 <Eddi|zuHause> mb is typically a nice person if you ask him
09:57:55 <dihedral> petern, which though would be a nicer approach? asking the devs if they want it, and then asking MB, or the other way round ;-)
09:58:00 <petern> *cough* george *cough* ship *cough* ecs *cough*
09:58:22 * dihedral pats petern on the back
09:58:25 <petern> best approach: write a river generator for the terrain generator :)
09:58:45 <petern> then there'll be more need for it, heh
09:58:46 <dihedral> i have not the slightest about the generator :-P
09:59:29 <dihedral> and it would need some configurable settings for the generator i assume :-)
09:59:44 <dihedral> i think i would be the wrong person for that kind of job
09:59:56 <dihedral> i prefer network and console stuff :-P
10:00:30 <dihedral> talking of network - perhaps i should update my move patch
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10:07:45 <planetmaker> dihedral: definitely :)
10:08:16 <dihedral> petern, moving players in the game from one company to another?
10:08:27 <dihedral> including to/from spectators
10:08:42 <dihedral> current status uses an extra network packet
10:09:02 <dihedral> it's in fs, as a hidden ticket
10:09:08 <petern> what about join game as spectator, decide to start as new company?
10:09:15 <dihedral> if you feel like it, you could re-open it for me
10:09:25 <dihedral> petern, should be possible :-)
10:09:51 <dihedral> for wwottdgd i had forced every client to join as spectator, and let the server memorize where a user was last moved to, and next time they joined they were automoved :-)
10:10:52 <dihedral> let me check - out of the top of my head i would say 1306 but i am not 100% sure
10:14:06 <dihedral> bjarni did something with it, so it was not public anymore
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10:15:57 <dihedral> did not see that, sorry
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10:16:56 <dihedral> so you would like a method that people can join a server as spectator and then decide to start a company (or join one and be promted for a password)?
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10:18:06 <FloSoft> argh, i want to be knived! not forked! XD
10:19:03 <FloSoft> i had to correct that damn ident-daemon, sorry for reconnects
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10:19:54 <petern> dihedral, or switch from any company to another, password allowing
10:20:07 <petern> as a server option though
10:20:55 <dihedral> sure - will do something nice :-)
10:20:58 <roboboy> anyone know the correct way of aborting a form close in vb?
10:21:14 <dihedral> hmmmm.... petern: with gui?
10:21:28 <dihedral> or is a console command good enough for starters?
10:22:44 <petern> might be a suitable menu it can be bolted on to
10:22:48 <petern> although thinking about it
10:22:53 <petern> the "give money to client" option is stupid
10:22:59 <petern> it should be "give money to company"
10:23:58 <dihedral> then one should move it to the company window
10:24:17 <dihedral> and have the option of giving money to a company with no currently logged in users
10:25:01 <dihedral> and a 'join' company button in the same window
10:27:02 <Zuu> roboboy: I though there was a event for user want to close a window in VB6. But it's not in VBA, but could be one of the differences between VB6 and VBA though. (I've been coding quite some VBA lately and have had the issue that I can't detect when users close window on the x-button)
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11:24:22 <Eddi|zuHause> anyone fit with databases? does an "UPDATE" sql-command raise an exception when the row does not exist, or does it add it?
11:25:50 <Eddi|zuHause> so i need to "SELECT" first and check if anything is in it, and then use "INSERT"?
11:25:54 <TrueBrain> but there is a command which does both
11:26:14 <TrueBrain> UPDATE INSERT .. INSERT UPDATE .. can't remember what it was exactly :p
11:26:23 <TrueBrain> (well, it also kind of depends on your DB :p)
11:26:56 <Rubidium> it's insert into X on duplicate key update Y for MySQL
11:27:07 <Eddi|zuHause> i'm using sqlite
11:29:25 <TrueBrain> as far as I know, sqlite doesn't support that (well, 2 didn't, don't know about 3)
11:31:08 <Eddi|zuHause> is there a short version for checking "if <tuple> exists in <table>" without naming each row?
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11:32:13 <Eddi|zuHause> or can i declare a table that each complete row should be unique?
11:32:21 <Eddi|zuHause> wah i hate databases...
11:32:50 <Rubidium> make all columns part of the primary key, or make a unique key containing all columns
11:37:14 <Eddi|zuHause> i'm trying to store (parent, child) tuples for a hierarchy in a database, where parent and child are technically foreign keys into a different table
11:37:28 <Eddi|zuHause> and i don't need duplicate edges
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12:03:27 <Eddi|zuHause> 'CREATE TABLE hierarchy (parent_cid INTEGER, child_cid INTEGER, UNIQUE (parent_cid, child_cid))' <- i think that's what i want... now only needs catching the non-unique-exception
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13:07:31 <TrueBrain> rather short than none at all ;)
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13:36:52 <edeca> Hrm, can newgrfs affect competitors? I changed some newgrfs and started a new game and there is no AI :(
13:36:57 <edeca> I had AI in a previous game with the same nightly
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13:45:55 <dihedral> edeca: did you check the config settings?
13:56:59 <TrueBrain> lol, some user said to me: wow, we live really close to eachother; our IP addresses are almost the same
13:57:27 <dihedral> 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2? :-D
13:57:53 <TrueBrain> I will remember that comment next time I am sitting in the train next to a cute girl with GRPS connection :p Mwhahahahahahaa
13:58:17 <dihedral> i had a candle light dinner the other day
13:58:29 <dihedral> 2 candles, 2 nice wine glasses
13:58:36 <dihedral> and i drank out of the bottle
13:58:48 <TrueBrain> so you were with 3 people?
13:58:53 <Forked> I think you did it wrong
13:59:08 <TrueBrain> that is just sad ..
14:02:04 <TrueBrain> so then .... still nothing to do .. lalala...
14:02:43 <Gekz> TrueBrain: learn to english?
14:04:26 <TrueBrain> I english, you english, we english
14:04:36 <TrueBrain> I guess you can use a few classes too
14:05:04 <Gekz> lets not argue about who's proficient in which english
14:05:12 <Gekz> because it will end with yorick getting banned again
14:05:43 <TrueBrain> just stating the facts here :)
14:06:27 <Gekz> Return to your bored state.
14:10:50 <bigg> im sturgling putting new gfr on any help
14:13:41 <TrueBrain> [translator started] ..... [failure] .... sorry bigg, I have no idea what you tried to say.
14:13:45 <TrueBrain> oh .. well .. that was easy :p
14:14:34 <Forked> you have less than 3 minutes to respond
14:14:58 <TrueBrain> yeah .. we should hire someone with a SLA of 3 minute response time :)
14:15:09 <TrueBrain> you think we can afford that?
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14:20:47 <TrueBrain> hmm .. google fails to load here on one machine ..
14:21:04 <edeca> dihedral: Config settings for opponents? Yes I made sure there was a max of 6
14:21:16 <dihedral> talking of yorick - that reminds me i still have to take out the garbage at home....
14:21:50 <dihedral> edeca: load the game and check the settings :)
14:22:11 <edeca> dihedral: Is it only that 1 settings?
14:22:26 <edeca> dihedral: I can't play at work, but I can confirm later :)
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14:24:09 <dihedral> number of ai's, and months after they start
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14:27:42 <edeca> dihedral: Yep, I'm fairly certain they were set right. Even if it's dumb, it's no fun without the AI
14:27:44 <TrueBrain> hmm .. google worked for a sec ... now it is gone again :(
14:28:28 <dihedral> TrueBrain, if he considers playing with the current (in trunk) ai to be fun - he will not like NoAI
14:29:00 <edeca> Heh, I was being sarcastic
14:29:06 <dihedral> esp not Yexo's General
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14:29:13 <edeca> The AI serves to develop towns for me to abuse later
14:29:30 <TrueBrain> I think I will start a nice game of cargodest ..
14:29:31 <dihedral> then i dont want to help you :-P
14:29:34 <TrueBrain> maybe that avoids my boreness ..
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14:31:34 <TrueBrain> you also need an AI I guess
14:31:38 <TrueBrain> I Think Yexo has one for you
14:31:44 <TrueBrain> else look at the forum :) (General -> NoAI)
14:32:35 <dihedral> is there no wraightai no more_
14:32:59 <TrueBrain> and yes, it is there
14:33:08 <TrueBrain> still, not as good as one of the other ones :)
14:33:51 <edeca> TrueBrain: Which other one? :|
14:34:06 <TrueBrain> (as I told you 3 minutes ago ;))
14:34:11 <edeca> More cryptic than a room full of dead people :)
14:35:37 <TrueBrain> or of course the wiki pages
14:35:43 <edeca> The development roadmap is interesting
14:36:53 <edeca> Well, the "requested features"
14:37:07 <edeca> I used to play miniin, so it's cool to see the better features getting into trunk
14:37:27 <TrueBrain> even for "requrested features" there are like N (with N > 10) pages
14:38:31 <edeca> Ah, well I found the one linked from "development", that's all.
14:39:11 <TrueBrain> damn, my CPU is overloaded .. scrolling in OpenTTD is a bitch iin that case :)
14:40:26 <TrueBrain> sounds like a plan :)
14:40:43 <TrueBrain> too big :) And updating my base-system in the meanwhile is a bad idea too ;) (Gentoo)
14:40:56 <TrueBrain> somehow my sound managed to patch itself over the netwerk to my esound server ..
14:41:01 <TrueBrain> I wonder how it managed to do that ..
14:41:01 <edeca> Heh. As long as you're using paludis ;)
14:42:03 <TrueBrain> the latest emerge is really good :)
14:53:11 <TrueBrain> I really need a function: clone N times :p
14:53:32 <dihedral> one TrueBrain is more than enough :-P
14:55:44 <TrueBrain> cargodest makes innercity transport really hard
14:56:51 <TrueBrain> I already have 40 RV for 2 towns ... that to connect via 1 airport :p
14:56:58 <dihedral> i had a nice setup ones - with a few trams feeding stations and then joined the 5 cities with trains
14:57:16 <dihedral> and they all wanted to go to the badly setup tram-stops :-S
14:57:25 <TrueBrain> haha, cargodest doesn't blanace cargo over 2 nearby stations :)
14:57:36 <dihedral> like 2000 people at a main station waiting for trams
14:57:56 <TrueBrain> you either need to use: no unloading, to avoid trams moving pax within the inner city
14:58:00 <TrueBrain> or add an insane amount of trams :)
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14:59:11 <TrueBrain> that you can't balance airports sucks ... :p
15:01:13 <TrueBrain> but okay, in general 'transfering' stuff is bad for income :)
15:01:29 <dihedral> laters - i am off home :-)
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15:15:42 <TrueBrain> hmm .. it would be useful in cargodest if you can indicate to a train it should only pick up goods for stations he directly connection (and not: next hop)
15:24:33 <TrueBrain> it takes a while, but enoug heffort, you can balance your cargodest network pretty nice :) Hehe
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16:01:27 <Eddi|zuHause> hm... why can't they ship external HDs with decently long USB cables?
16:02:17 <Eddi|zuHause> i mean 1m hardly suffices for placing the HD on the desk
16:09:13 <Eddi|zuHause> hm... preformatted with VFAT... to what should i change that? (it should be readable in case i need to access it from a windows disk...)
16:09:44 <petern> last set i got had ~ 15cm cables
16:10:06 <Eddi|zuHause> the 1m was an estimate... could be 80cm or something
16:10:28 <Eddi|zuHause> 2m or 3m could actually be useful...
16:10:58 <Eddi|zuHause> anyway... reformatting? ext3? ntfs?
16:10:59 <Rubidium> Eddi|zuHause: 16 MB FAT for the Windows drivers for the file system used for the rest of the HD
16:11:48 <Eddi|zuHause> i have no good experience with accessing linux fs from windows
16:12:14 <Rubidium> 2 GB FAT for a virtual PC image?
16:13:15 <Eddi|zuHause> i'm feeling experimental today, i might actually try ntfs
16:13:50 <petern> ntfs does not work well if you need to use it with linux, heh
16:15:23 <Eddi|zuHause> so stay with fat? does not strike me as a good idea either...
16:16:00 <benjamingoodger> NTFS is the best 1992 has to offer
16:16:19 <benjamingoodger> besides the UNIX one that was developed in the same year
16:17:03 <petern> what you need is a filesystem that doesn't need unmounting
16:17:06 <benjamingoodger> unless you have files over 2GB, I'd use FAT32 just because it's more reliable; otherwise; you're stuck with NTFS
16:17:21 <Eddi|zuHause> petern: suggestions?
16:17:22 <petern> NTFS is more reliable than FAT32
16:18:22 <Eddi|zuHause> i've had NTFS drives attached to this linux box before... besides of access rights and occasional hiccups with big files, i have not had significant problems
16:18:26 <benjamingoodger> petern: it's more reliable until it breaks, at which point you curse yourself wishing you'd used FAT32
16:18:57 <Eddi|zuHause> and i can't guarantee files to be less than 2GB
16:19:23 <petern> mainly because FAT errors usually go unnoticed
16:20:24 <benjamingoodger> once, after I reinstalled windows, it wouldn't allow me to access any of my personal data because I wasn't the right user
16:20:31 <Eddi|zuHause> really, with the improvements to NTFS handling in the past years, i fancy this one as the most platform transferable one
16:20:53 <benjamingoodger> I was using the right username, so I suppose it was just the user ID, which I couldn't access or view
16:21:09 <petern> you should be able to fix that as administrator
16:21:20 <benjamingoodger> yes, I should have
16:21:32 <petern> although saying that, i have a filesystem with files that administrator can't delete...
16:24:27 <planetmaker> There's always a possibility to delete them... as last resort use a huge magnet ;)
16:24:57 <benjamingoodger> that doesn't usually work, you know
16:25:28 <petern> yeah, i kind of need the rest of it :p
16:25:30 <planetmaker> benjamingoodger: show me a usual HD which is not suceptible to magnetism.
16:26:04 <benjamingoodger> oh, I'm not saying they're not susceptible to magnetic fields
16:26:35 <benjamingoodger> but I've seen HDDs attacked with degaussing coils and emerging completely unscathed
16:26:40 <planetmaker> ah... always those nasty boundary conditions which make void the easy solution...
16:26:59 <Eddi|zuHause> i don't suppose linux has a tool similar to the windows "safely shut down usb device"?
16:27:21 <benjamingoodger> it's known as "umount"
16:27:24 <Eddi|zuHause> at least eject /dev/sdc doesn't work
16:27:44 <planetmaker> Eddi|zuHause: in what way "doesn't work"?
16:27:58 <Eddi|zuHause> eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
16:28:44 <Eddi|zuHause> eject /dev/sr0 works as intended (dvd drive)
16:29:44 <Eddi|zuHause> and i remember it worked with usb sticks
16:32:40 <Eddi|zuHause> hm... when i open "system:/media" in konqueror, it shows the drive and an "eject safely" option, which unmounts the device, and then shows an error "could unmount, but not eject"
16:34:02 <Eddi|zuHause> i'm really tempted to use ntfs now...
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16:35:19 <Eddi|zuHause> err... is it advisable to enable compression?
16:36:32 <Eddi|zuHause> "Initializing device with zeroes" ... i should probably skip this part
16:37:37 <planetmaker> Eddi|zuHause: are you then sure it's mounted where you think?
16:38:09 <planetmaker> Suse 11 mounts it under the device name like /media/myfancyUSBstickName
16:38:23 <Eddi|zuHause> yes, i am sure i can read the output of "mount" and compare it with the output i memorised
16:38:51 <Eddi|zuHause> /dev/sdc1 on /media/Elements type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,flush,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=lower)
16:38:57 <Eddi|zuHause> this is the new line
16:40:08 <planetmaker> Eddi|zuHause: and eject /media/Elements ?
16:40:35 <Eddi|zuHause> apparently eject does actually unmount it prior to emitting this error message
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16:44:17 <Eddi|zuHause> but now it doesn't mount anymore... aside of calling mkntfs and changing the partition table, what else should i do?
16:45:06 <Eddi|zuHause> i can mount it manually, but the automounter gets confused
16:46:15 <Eddi|zuHause> NTFS-fs error (device sdc1): parse_options(): Unrecognized mount option locale.
16:46:16 <Eddi|zuHause> NTFS-fs warning (device sdc1): parse_options(): Option utf8 is no longer supported, using option nls=utf8. Please use option nls=utf8 in the future and make sure utf8 is compiled either as a module or into the kernel.
16:48:14 <petern> udev + hal seems to handle everything automagically
16:48:37 <Eddi|zuHause> i don't know what it actually uses...
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17:29:25 * SpComb wonders if SDL is a better library than ClanLib
17:31:07 <Rubidium> what defines better?
17:31:44 <Rubidium> e.g. Allegro's better w.r.t. MIDI handling than SDL, but the rest is IMO worse than SDL
17:34:49 <SpComb> in terms of a 2D network multiplayer game that has physics
17:35:33 <Rubidium> looking at the API I'd go for clanlib
17:35:40 <SpComb> ClanLib is a surprisingly large library that gives you a lot of funtionality
17:35:48 <SpComb> ...but the quality is a bit meh
17:36:10 * Rubidium likes Allegro's API ;)
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17:37:10 <SpComb> so I was kind of wondering what OpenTTD thinks about SDL
17:37:16 <SpComb> I guess you don't use SDL's networking stuff
17:37:33 <Rubidium> does SDL do networking?
17:37:58 <Rubidium> oh, the extra sdl net library
17:39:41 <Rubidium> seems like clanlib depends on sdl
17:39:54 <SpComb> it has 23k lines of OpenGL code
17:40:18 <SpComb> and the SDL code is missing a lot of functionality... so I assume our game right now actually uses ClanLib's OpenGL code, not the SDL code
17:42:32 <Rubidium> clanlib seems to have quite a few dependencies
17:43:11 <SpComb> the compiled library files are, like, over 100MB in size :P
17:43:25 <SpComb> does not sit well with the 200MB quota that they have on student accounts here...
17:45:02 <SpComb> what annoys me a lot with ClanLib is that there isn't really any sensible mainloop support, and things like network/input/timer events are horrible
17:45:16 <SpComb> strace'ing an application written using ClanLib is... ugh
17:45:28 <SpComb> there's like 120 system calls for receiving and sending an UDP packet
17:45:53 <Rubidium> that's more than strictly necessary I reckon
17:47:53 <SpComb> and then there's like two dozen calls to getpid() per graphics frame
17:51:46 <yorick> yapp is really too complicated with all the dummy-proof
17:54:28 <SpComb> hrmph, SDL's network API is stupid
17:57:06 <Eddi|zuHause> <SpComb> does not sit well with the 200MB quota that they have on student accounts here... <- they used to do that here, too, but you could just fill out a form to request more
17:57:24 <Eddi|zuHause> i have not seen any enforcing of quotas lately, though
17:57:49 <Eddi|zuHause> and i believe my emails alone make up like 600MB
17:58:03 <SpComb> yeah, I need to work on that some day... there's no fuse (well, it's installed, but not configured to give student users permission to use it), and then there's a scratch disk with no quotas, but they clean that out way too often
17:58:31 <Eddi|zuHause> where half of that goes on 3 emails of 100MB size each (some automatic svn diff sending going haywire)
18:05:22 <digger> Need help how to arrange semaphores
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18:06:22 <Eddi|zuHause> one signal between any two trains.
18:06:27 <Eddi|zuHause> simplest rule ever...
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18:08:53 <digger> I have long a long line. The line is one-track on most of length because of cost.At some places
18:09:34 <digger> There are two tracks. So real railway works. The trains can move in either directions.
18:10:19 <Aali> bi-dir double track doesn't work very well in ottd
18:10:23 <digger> They should never move backwards from destination. If a line is buzy, it waits on two-track
18:10:48 <frosch123> do you play with 0.6.x or with nightlies?
18:11:07 <digger> If I build two-track line, I make it one-way , it is trivial.0.6.3.
18:11:14 <Aali> so at those passing lanes, you should probably let trains going one way always use the passing lane
18:11:29 <Aali> and trains going the other way can use the mainline
18:11:54 <digger> ---<====>------------<=====>-----------<=====>-----
18:12:02 <Eddi|zuHause> digger: if you use twoway signals, having 2 trains may cause a deadlock, if you use 1-way signals at the sidings, you can have 3 trains, if you also use presignals, you can use a few more
18:12:13 <Aali> but with the signals in 0.6.3, you can get deadlocks
18:12:27 <Eddi|zuHause> but the presignals only work in one direction, so the other cannot be presignalled
18:12:37 <digger> Yes, I got. 2 trains come from 2 directions to same semaphore
18:12:42 <Eddi|zuHause> if you use nightlies, you can use path signals, those work significantly better
18:13:13 <digger> what is nightlies? Anyway at network one play 0.6.x
18:13:16 <Eddi|zuHause> digger: for the 2 track sections, put one way signals for each direction
18:13:20 <Aali> with path based signals or PBS, you can make passing lanes that never deadlock
18:13:54 <Eddi|zuHause> and do not put signals on the single track sections
18:15:54 <Eddi|zuHause> hm... it appears that ntfs does not compress files copied to the drive, even if the drive is marked to compress
18:16:48 <SpComb> lines 38 and 57 are the actual recvfrom/sendto calls on the actual UDP socket
18:16:56 <SpComb> the rest is just garbage
18:17:24 <SpComb> plus the millions of one-socket select()s that are used to implement the single-threaded event-based stuff in ClanLib
18:18:01 <SpComb> haet, the ClanLib devs should run strace on their code and then go stick forks in their eyes :<
18:19:06 <Eddi|zuHause> i have no idea what that is supposed to tell us
18:23:10 <SpComb> there's probably some C++ class (CL_IPAddress?) with a constructor that calls getaddrinfo somehow, and some kind of temporary object is being created somewhere
18:23:22 <SpComb> created, and discarded, created, and discarded... completely useless
18:24:48 <Aali> its a bad case of java disease
18:25:39 <Aali> everything does everything
18:25:49 <Aali> everything is "fool proof"
18:26:25 <Aali> I am, the question is, are you sure Wolf01?
18:26:37 <Wolf01> at least if everything = Chuck Norris
18:27:42 <Aali> Chuck Norris "jokes" were never cool :/
18:28:12 <SpComb> basically, if you ever hear someone claim that ClanLib's network code is "efficient", you can just laugh at them
18:28:43 <SpComb> that's disregarding the CL_Socket copy constructor that leaves the address family initialized to random garbage and the threading deadlock bugs in CL_NetSession
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19:23:46 <Belugas> so... an idea is an object...
19:25:57 <Wolf01> you have to pay for ideas and dreams, and if you try to copy them you are a thief, so yes, they are objects
19:27:55 <Belugas> it's bad for da brain
19:28:34 <Wolf01> sorry, I'm playing with access and databases, so I think I have something wrong on my brain
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19:32:21 <Belugas> can barely call Access a database ^_^
19:32:47 <Wolf01> no, I'm using MSSQLExpress for the database
19:38:08 <Belugas> aaaah.... now you (start) to talk :)
19:39:11 <Wolf01> I might sound stupid, but I'm not crazy ;)
19:40:53 <Wolf01> I have to define 10 colors for the priority, what's better? [Grayscale|GreenToRed]
19:41:43 <SmatZ> bear in mind ~10% of male population is more or less colourblind
19:42:27 <Wolf01> I have numbers too, but I like the background color :P
19:42:53 <planetmaker> Wolf: blue to yellow is a good transition
19:43:38 <Belugas> or.... red yellow green
19:44:08 <Wolf01> that was the second choice ;)
19:47:53 <Wolf01> uhm... DOH! 9 colors, not 10... 0 to 240 / 10 = intervals of 24 units not 30!
19:53:54 <jerker> how do I check out a specific release from SVN, not the trunk? (using command line svn in Linux)
19:54:26 <frosch123> start with 'svn ls svn://svn.openttd.org'
19:54:57 <frosch123> but do not checkout the whole repository :p
19:56:33 <planetmaker> jerker: get mercurial and get it all ;)
19:57:10 <frosch123> when you search for stable releases, they are under 'tags'
19:59:55 <jerker> problem is i cant faind r17500 (or whatever) that some servers are running, get version missmach. 0.6.3 etc are easy :)
20:00:21 <jerker> s/faind/find/ s/missmach/missmatch/
20:00:31 <frosch123> oh, so you do not want a release :) try 'svn co -r17500 svn://svn.openttd.org/trunk'
20:00:58 <frosch123> but, err r17500 is in the future :p
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20:02:58 <jerker> frosch123: thanks! but now #openttdcoop is gone so there is no hurry..
20:03:37 <planetmaker> jerker: you're searching for the version of our public server?
20:03:48 <planetmaker> that's a nightly, which is even available as binary.
20:04:16 <planetmaker> and if the server machine wasn't unreachable right now, it could even tell you the download location :)
20:04:25 <jerker> planetmaker: well, yes. :)
20:05:41 <jerker> planetmaker: However, i tried the binaries, but my Ubuntu 7.10 didn't like the debian ones... (however the links from www.openttdcoop.org to the www.openttd.org seem to go wrong)
20:07:07 <planetmaker> jerker: then svn co -r14660 && ./configure && make
20:07:26 <planetmaker> eh... the svn is missing an argument ;)
20:07:39 <frosch123> but do not checkout the whole repository :p
20:08:14 <planetmaker> yeah... many antique branches in it ;)
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20:21:08 <SmatZ> " Timing buffered disk reads: 4 MB in 3.54 seconds = 1.13 MB/sec" I guess something is wrong with my UDMA
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20:21:40 <frosch123> I guess you tested your network file system :p
20:22:06 <SmatZ> that's slow even for 100mbit ethernet :)
20:22:50 <yorick> that's my average internet speed :p
20:22:54 <valhallasw> fairly fast for 10mbit though ;)
20:23:24 <valhallasw> my internet speed actually is faster ^__^
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20:25:15 <Eddi|zuHause> 1,äppelstücke MB/s are the typical rate when DMA is disabled
20:25:30 <Eddi|zuHause> other signs are full processor usage during disk accesses
20:25:49 <yorick> I still don't like the fact that they use "MB" to make it sound faster :p
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20:31:29 <valhallasw> apples in my hard drive? :O
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20:44:11 <yorick> why does my infrastructure sharing patch crash on desert maps saved by 0.6.3 with an oldpool assertion?
20:45:11 <SmatZ> " Timing buffered disk reads: 230 MB in 3.00 seconds = 76.61 MB/sec" much better :)
20:45:20 <SmatZ> now I understand why fsck took ~5 hours :-x
20:47:17 <Belugas> the Messiah, he will come again
20:47:33 <Belugas> pom Pwiiiin pin pa poum...
20:48:06 <Eddi|zuHause> yorick: because the rich people in the deserts have too many pools
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20:50:21 <Eddi|zuHause> hm... filling a 1TB disk via USB takes quite a while
20:50:28 <yorick> Eddi: aha, but I personally thought it was because icecream has no bones
20:51:02 <Eddi|zuHause> also, you meant desertion...
20:51:35 <Eddi|zuHause> why do all good series get canceled?
20:54:15 <Eddi|zuHause> warum, warum ist die banane krum?
20:54:49 <frosch123> [21:54] <Eddi|zuHause> why do all good series get canceled? <- I can neither prove nor disprove that. There are no good series.
20:55:18 <yorick> because they grow to the light
20:56:00 <Eddi|zuHause> well, let's substitute "good" by "enjoyable"
20:56:17 <Eddi|zuHause> yorick: you failed.
20:56:27 <Eddi|zuHause> yorick: every child knows the answer to that one...
20:57:20 <Eddi|zuHause> even google knows it...
20:57:32 * Belugas sends "Roy Buchanan - The Messiah Will Come again.mp3" to SmatZ
20:57:48 <Eddi|zuHause> "weil niemand in den Urwald zog und die Banane gerade bog"
20:58:36 <yorick> aha, bananas are negatively geo-tropic
21:00:10 <Belugas> but full of potassium, which make them perfect if ever you are prone to cramps
21:00:38 <Belugas> and for the vicioous ones too, since you can PEAL them
21:01:34 <Eddi|zuHause> why can't you people call it Kalium, which is the element's REAL name?
21:02:23 <Eddi|zuHause> i mean you kept the element's symbol "K"...
21:03:05 <Prof_Frink> Eddi|zuHause: That would make chemistry too easy.
21:03:14 <yorick> because it isn't capitalized?
21:04:23 <yorick> the name kalium is from the Arabic al-qali (potas)
21:04:40 <Eddi|zuHause> yes, all things created by god have to be capitalised
21:04:41 <Belugas> BECAUSE KALIUM IS AN OLD ARCHAIC FORM!
21:05:27 <yorick> Eddi: All Your Words Were Supposedly Created By God
21:05:27 <Prof_Frink> eddi|zuhause: so, nothing then.
21:05:41 <yorick> Prof_Frink: I assume he means supposedly :)
21:06:15 <Prof_Frink> of course, my name should be capitalised because I *am* god.
21:06:21 <Eddi|zuHause> well, that was the rule mister Martin Luther went by.
21:06:37 <Eddi|zuHause> the lord himself would be fully capitalised
21:08:36 <Eddi|zuHause> well, the "problem" is, that mister Marin Luther's publications coincided with the invention of mass book printing
21:08:54 <Eddi|zuHause> so his way of spelling spread through entire germany
21:09:26 <Eddi|zuHause> (for the uninitiated: he translated the bible into german)
21:09:59 <Eddi|zuHause> (so for the first time in the history, the bible was directly accessible by ordinary people)
21:11:05 <Belugas> Prof_Frink, it's now Why Where...
21:13:13 <Belugas> SHIIIIINE OOOOOONNN YOUR CRAAAAAAAAAAAAZY DIAMOND
21:14:22 <planetmaker> Eddi|zuHause: we then should start calling it oxygenium and hydrogenium too ;)
21:14:57 <planetmaker> but then I still remember my teachers quite confused face as I was talking about natrium with such vehemence...
21:15:25 <planetmaker> ... but no person knew what element to the heck I was referring to ;)
21:15:46 <planetmaker> I'll have a soda on that ;)
21:15:51 <Eddi|zuHause> what else would you call it?
21:16:09 <planetmaker> sodium is the English name... and was used in alchemy, too
21:16:27 <Prof_Frink> Another good album.
21:16:43 <Eddi|zuHause> but the symbol is Na as well...
21:17:05 <planetmaker> sure it is :) That's why it didn't occur to me that I was talking nonsense until I was told :P
21:18:32 <frosch123> hmm, why does my element table contain the english names instead of the latin :s
21:18:48 <Eddi|zuHause> damn i can absolutely not concentrate...
21:19:18 <frosch123> yup, belugas is singing too loud :p
21:20:05 <planetmaker> Am Weihhhnaaachtsaaaauuumeee...
21:21:06 <Eddi|zuHause> and damn you for putting that melody in my mind
21:21:39 <Eddi|zuHause> and i know all the melodies, but never the text to them...
21:21:47 <Belugas> frosch123 is jealousssseeeuh
21:22:01 <planetmaker> same here, Eddi|zuHause ... :S
21:22:15 <Eddi|zuHause> typical illness of an orchestra musician :p
21:22:45 <Eddi|zuHause> you played the melody 100 times each year, but never with anybody singing
21:22:48 <frosch123> Belugas: no, your quote was directly copied into the youtube bar of my browser :p
21:23:35 <frosch123> well, no, I preceded it with "pink floyd" to avoid possible crap
21:23:38 <Prof_Frink> Some openttd devs should go troll /. - There's an ask/. about free games
21:26:12 <Belugas> Guess who is the next one to be kicked!!!
21:26:38 * Rubidium assigns Prof_Frink to be the CSDTO
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21:27:33 <Prof_Frink> Since when does !password not work?
21:27:49 <Eddi|zuHause> since glx is not here
21:29:07 <Rubidium> Eddi|zuHause: you better concentrate on that piece of text you have to write instead of summoning random people ;)
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21:51:53 <SmatZ> good night planetmaker :)
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22:01:23 <Belugas> Drrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiing!!
22:01:43 * Belugas waves good bye and rushes through the DoooR :)
22:22:46 <CIA-1> OpenTTD: rubidium * r14678 /trunk/src/newgrf_engine.cpp: -Fix [FS#2435]: gradual filling graphics were not chosen according to the NewGRF spec (Maedhros)
22:31:54 <Nite_Owl> Does that effect already existing NewGrfs in any adverse way?
22:36:38 <Rubidium> depends on what you call adverse
22:37:12 <Nite_Owl> like no gradual loading sprites being shown at all
22:37:13 <Rubidium> now it'll show the vehicle is full from (1 - (1 / number of graphics)) * 100 percent loaded
22:37:28 <Rubidium> instead of only when fully loaded
22:40:24 <Nite_Owl> so if the vehicle set shows gradual loading now it will continue to show gradual loading with this change
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23:09:28 <Eddi|zuHause> it shows exactly the same graphics as before... only the thresholds are balanced differently
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