**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Thu Jan 04 03:00:01 2018 Jan 04 10:49:29 let's hope my N900 will be more resilient than a Dell laptop :P Jan 04 10:50:12 the peripheral power block on my laptop(usb, ethernet. etc) kicked the bucket Jan 04 10:50:53 and to hope I will get many years of service from it Jan 04 11:31:26 I find Dells pretty solid. Jan 04 11:48:08 what is usual bandwidth usage for multiplayer games (even LAN only). i've never played any, but might want to try one Jan 04 11:48:21 <1Mbit/s Jan 04 11:48:33 depends, from few kbits to tens of kbits Jan 04 11:48:33 or even a few dozen Kbyte/s actually Jan 04 11:48:46 but ping is the most important Jan 04 11:49:09 netcode is surprisingly efficient, to get it in as few packets as possible Jan 04 11:49:11 (also keep in mind that saturating your uplink will actually kill your ping) Jan 04 11:49:13 yeah, to reduce ping Jan 04 11:50:38 cool. i'll try it with a friend sometime soon Jan 04 11:55:23 It would depend heavily on the game. Are you concerned about upload (hosting) or download, total usage? Jan 04 11:56:13 just speed :-) Jan 04 11:56:36 we'll actually be doing it over 2G/33G Jan 04 11:56:44 work your ping baby, work it Jan 04 11:56:58 2g is bad expect 100-200ms MINIMUM Jan 04 11:57:17 with 3g you might get to ~20-30ms Jan 04 11:57:26 which is acceptable Jan 04 11:58:10 but heavily depends on network status and additional routes Jan 04 12:04:18 i'll test and inform how it goes Jan 04 12:05:16 first have to decide what game we'll use ... maybe battle for wesnoth Jan 04 12:05:35 oh, so turn based? not fps? Jan 04 12:06:33 then its usually miniscule amount of data Jan 04 12:06:34 shooter? i don't like shooting games. i can play racing though, e.g. torcs or whatever else is available/good Jan 04 12:49:08 I doubt that anyone really cares but to follow up on what I said I should do when I am back at work: Apparently the D-Link DUB-E100 hardware version D1, which seems to be the current version, still uses the same USB vendor and device identifers (2001:1A02) as the hardware version C1, which was current in 2013. Consequently, no change to the asix Linux driver is necessary to support the hardware version D1. Jan 04 12:53:09 sicelo: There are driving/racing mods for some FPS games, such as Quake Rally for Quake (original) and Q3Rally for Quake III: (Team) Arena. Jan 04 13:05:45 I believe Doom and Quake should be kept separate from the more modern murder simulators. Jan 04 13:24:27 sixwheeledbeast: Are there many crows in a murder simulator? ;-) Jan 04 13:25:31 Are there many crows in a murder? Jan 04 13:25:53 at least one, if murder is good. Jan 04 13:27:05 That was a pun. A group of crows is called a murder, like a school of fish for a group of fish. Jan 04 13:27:45 “a murder of crows”. Jan 04 13:27:59 Being serious tho, shooting "aliens and monsters" is completely different to simulated people. Jan 04 13:28:20 what about people that are monsters? Jan 04 13:28:49 btw. if you think of murder of crows, imagine that: http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=33217 Jan 04 13:28:53 Or persons that are illegal aliens in a political sense? Jan 04 13:28:55 And yes the pun was so subtle I didn't see it until you mentioned. Jan 04 13:29:19 Or even legal aliens, I suppose. Jan 04 13:29:26 hmm Jan 04 13:29:49 long reading, but read it Jan 04 13:29:59 and imagine the scene Jan 04 13:33:16 Is a lawyer who is an illegal alien a legal alien? Jan 04 13:33:32 Or an illegal legal alien? Jan 04 13:36:09 illegal alien with a law degree? Jan 04 15:37:45 guess I'm not giving up on N900 just yet after all XD Jan 04 15:37:58 yay! Jan 04 15:47:05 wait, N900 is vulnerable too :< Jan 04 15:47:24 but at least it isn't in pieces on my desk Jan 04 15:47:26 it isnt, according to fmg it's errata prevents it Jan 04 15:47:32 * my original N900 is, but not my backup N900 Jan 04 15:47:38 KotCzarny: what? Jan 04 15:48:02 you are talking about speculative fun that hit media recently ? Jan 04 15:48:16 Spectre, yes Jan 04 15:48:22 hits everything since 1994 IIRC Jan 04 15:49:06 02:11 #maemo freemangordon> sixwheeledbeast: well, I guess n900 is safe from at least Variant1 Jan 04 15:49:07 with KP and modern kernels, as because of thumb errata BTB is flushed on every context switch. Jan 04 15:49:10 02:15 #maemo freemangordon> sorry, it is Variant2 that I meant Jan 04 15:49:13 hah Jan 04 15:50:06 not sure that means it's immune entirely Jan 04 15:50:24 although, N900 is single-core? Jan 04 15:50:33 maybe that gets the other piece of the puzzle Jan 04 15:51:47 luke-jr: IIUC it is not about the matter of cores, but the way those cores work Jan 04 15:52:05 speculative execution, branch prediction, etc Jan 04 15:52:33 freemangordon: IIUC, having multiple cores can be used as part of the exploit Jan 04 15:52:55 but, IIUC, having single core does not prevent it Jan 04 15:53:08 but single core plus what you said *might*? Jan 04 15:53:34 yes Jan 04 15:53:47 however, the info I hit so far is too fuzzy Jan 04 15:53:53 how's Devuan looking? or is there any other reasonably updated OS for N900 these days? Jan 04 15:55:08 luke-jr: by devuan you mean maemo-leste? Jan 04 16:02:23 [13:31] I find Dells pretty solid. Jan 04 16:02:28 looks like mine wasn't Jan 04 16:02:33 :P Jan 04 16:02:55 or maybe my chingchong powerbrick killed it Jan 04 16:03:05 non-Dell Jan 04 16:03:45 no DRM chip Jan 04 16:04:14 the DRM chip in the charger talks to laptop and allows charging Jan 04 16:04:24 the third wire Jan 04 16:06:27 I took cable from defunct original charger and soldered a barell connector on the other end to plug charger Jan 04 16:06:38 *to plug 3rd party charger Jan 04 16:06:41 17:49 < KotCzarny> with KP and modern kernels, as because of thumb errata BTB is flushed on every context switch. Jan 04 16:06:58 yay for ARM erratas :D Jan 04 16:07:34 but, err ... running js code in microb is way too slow anyway Jan 04 16:07:39 and n900 is mostly a single-user phone Jan 04 16:07:49 (and there is no real security between apps) Jan 04 16:07:54 so .... who cares? :) Jan 04 16:09:34 just get a Palm TX, problem solved Jan 04 16:09:40 * CatButts hides Jan 04 16:13:35 I have several 10+ year old dell laptops with no issues myself. I know of plenty other people who have more modern ones with no issues. Jan 04 16:57:31 Dell Latitude E6400 Jan 04 16:58:05 then maybe my wonky powerbrick killed it Jan 04 16:58:23 after the main one died, I used multi-voltage brick Jan 04 16:58:25 cheap one buys twice. or ten times Jan 04 16:58:39 i hate those noisy pieces of sh*t Jan 04 16:58:59 by noisy, you mean electrical noise Jan 04 16:59:03 or coil whine? Jan 04 16:59:07 both Jan 04 16:59:14 lol Jan 04 16:59:37 would it be no surprise if powerbrick killed laptop's innards? Jan 04 16:59:45 yup Jan 04 17:00:35 it's better to buy used originals than those cheap replacements Jan 04 17:01:06 it was what was at hand Jan 04 17:01:11 and I stuck with it Jan 04 17:02:11 read some pages on dissecting phone/laptop chargers Jan 04 17:02:34 it's really convincing to see how they behave under load and sometimes even in idle **** ENDING LOGGING AT Fri Jan 05 03:00:01 2018