Recent content by phybre

With a little work, you could probably get netbsd to run on some cheese and crackers, too. Would you really want to, though? I've always thought of it as kind of a last resort, when nothing else would work. Like on this DECstation to my left. I mean... ugh... ultrix, no thanks.

That might have been how they did it back when everyone thought security through obscurity was a fantastic idea. But hey, welcome to 2005. Bugs and exploits don't get addressed unless they are made public. Why? Because if they aren't made public the company can deny they exist, and besides these...

For those running civ on a work machine, maybe you should email Firaxis and ask for a boss key so nobody finds out you're performing theft of service on company property. And you need to learn how to read a bug report. "Potential" doesn't mean "can occur in every implementation". The relevant...

I agree with the original post in the thread. To claim that this game went through any serious QA is laughable. The release speaks for itself. Either we are supposed to believe that those dastardly game gremlins inserted all these problems at some point between the conclusion of QA and the...

It's an over-used term in the media for the last month or so. It's going to be the next Big Thing To Be Afraid Of On The Internet, with Sony's unethical copy protection practices. Of course StarForce hasn't been in the news for it yet, although their malicious, un-removable drivers are just as...

To the first paragraph, that's not correct. To the second paragraph, tell that to Garry Kasparov.

See, if I were Firaxis, I would have released the game next week, since apparently that's when it will be done. But I guess that's why I'm not Firaxis. I have stupid ideas like that.

The two vulnerabilities in zlib translate, in this context, to mean that if you're playing online it is possible to boot you from a game (oh noes!), and it is possible (under very particular circumstances) to force the game to crash. It's not as if there are armies of malicious hackers...

To simplify the chart somewhat: 1. Every GeForce ever made supports hardware T&L. 2. Every Radeon ever made except the 7000 (aka Radeon VE) supports hardware T&L. 3. Most of the chart doesn't really matter at all, since you shouldn't use anything older than a [Radeon 9700 / GeForce FX] to...

"Memory Decay" doesn't sound like any kind of error message I've ever heard of, but it might refer to the in-game AI. Those lines make it look like something has a random chance to do something and then on top of that, "memory decay" also occurs. Offhand I couldn't say what it refers to, but it...

It's probably not the biggest piece of crap this year, but it is the biggest piece of crap I've paid for this year. And it will be the biggest piece of crap I get a refund for if there's no very satisfying patch out very soon.

Ditto. Asylum FX 5200 256mb slightly overclocked but no artifacts, current forceware, current directx install. CTD, very rare hard reboot, flickering often precedes temporary game freezes. Terrain improvements often disappear. The flicking and the crashing have thusfar been separate for me...

They already released one piece of incomplete software. Ironic if they tried to say "when it's done" now.

Religion can be your main source of income to offset maintenance, if you've gone through Sullla's walkthrough. It's too important to ignore. If you spread your religion around and build the holy temple, you're rolling in dough in short order. That plus a steady flow of Great Merchants means you...

You can disable barbarians. Either in an in-game menu or in the config file, I forget which. But barbarians focusing on sacking one civilization to the exclusion of the others is a documented "feature" in single player and multiplayer Civ4. Probably some sort of snafu regarding weighted...