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General Discussion / Re: Why has the default colorset never changed?

« on: July 12, 2014, 06:01:54 PM »

All that extra color data would have to be sent over the network.  It takes 6 bits to represent 64 colors, but 32 bits to represent arbitrary RGB color. 

Now here's where it gets interesting.  Say you have 10,000 bricks in a scene, thats an extra 260,000 bits to go from 6 bit to 32 bit color.  On the "DSL" network setting, the packet size is 350 bits.  Thats 743 packets to send the extra color data.  The packet rate for the "DSL" setting is 20/second.  It would take 37 seconds to send all of that extra color data.  And that's in an ideal scenario where you're maxing out each packet.  In reality, it would probably take about a minute. 

The bottom line is that 64 is more than enough unless you're trying to build some kind of goatse mural.

Adding just 2 more bits for each color would make the maximum colorset size 256 instead of 64, which is a huge improvement. That would be 20,000 extra bits instead of 260000, so it would take no longer than 5 seconds.

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Drama / Re: Reindeer

« on: July 12, 2014, 05:39:23 PM »

Clearly he isnt changing too much.

Are you serious? WTF has Caribou done wrong over the last 10 months?

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Drama / Re: Okiver is apparently "hacking" and spamming chat

« on: July 12, 2014, 11:57:18 AM »

Denmarks ISPs have a lot more than 400 Gbps of bandwidth.

The 400 Gbps was not supposed to be an actual estimate. I was just demonstrating it's impossible to catch Okiver.

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Drama / Re: Okiver is apparently "hacking" and spamming chat

« on: July 12, 2014, 10:37:20 AM »

Good luck with your power bill

Uhm...the main issue is infecting the tens of millions of computers, not electricity. My point is that it's impossible to catch Okiver.

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Drama / Re: Reindeer

« on: July 12, 2014, 10:34:20 AM »

I can confirm that Reindeer is the same person as Caribou. I found out when he registered for HamHost about 10 months ago. But Caribou has changed and has a solid 10-month track record of being a kind forum user who has changed and doesn't cause any problems. Stop harassing him with the whole "Igloos" past.

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Drama / Re: Okiver is apparently "hacking" and spamming chat

« on: July 12, 2014, 10:29:49 AM »

we need to teach okiver a lesson

ideas anybody?

Assemble a botnet with a total bandwidth of 400 Gbps and DDoS all Denmark ISP's.

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Off Topic / Re: my internet has been extremely unresponsive lately.

« on: July 12, 2014, 10:15:47 AM »

Why don't you try pinging your router over the LAN? That would determine if overheating or poor cables are responsible. I highly doubt it, but just try.

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Drama / Re: Fact Sphere Is a bot. oddly enough.

« on: July 11, 2014, 08:42:19 AM »

Fact Sphere of Fact Globe is usually Pacnet.

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General Discussion / Re: https support?

« on: July 11, 2014, 08:40:38 AM »

I think blockland.us should have actual HTTPS support because it's becoming used more and more. It'll make logging in to your forum account more secure.

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General Discussion / Re: Do you think theres any hope for RTB? And do you miss it?

« on: July 10, 2014, 06:49:41 PM »

It's good that RTB is gone because the corrupt Ephialtes has been removed, and their monopoly on hosting services has been broken.

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Drama / Re: Okiver is apparently "hacking" and spamming chat

« on: July 10, 2014, 06:38:28 PM »

Okiver would not waste his time trolling a free build server. There's a risk of getting his new BL_ID revealed.

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Modification Help / Clear all bricks

« on: July 09, 2014, 01:35:43 PM »

How do you delete all bricks on a server with a script? This is what I'm currently using:

Code: [Select]

for (%i = 0; %i < MainBrickGroup.getCount(); %i++)
{
%group = MainBrickGroup.getObject(%i);
for (%b = 0; %b < %group.getCount(); %b++)
{
%group.getObject(%b).delete();
}
}

Only 49-51% of the bricks are deleted every time I execute this, and it causes some bricks to not be cleared properly. What's the correct thing to do?

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Drama / Re: Crime Scene Do Not Cross

« on: July 09, 2014, 09:07:53 AM »

I just said I used wired internet not Wifi for my laptop

Regardless of if the LAN link is Ethernet or Wi-Fi, the computer is still connected to the outside cable, fiber-optic, DSL, or satellite ISP.

When I host I only run my Dedicated window nothing else, and I have never experienced this happening before so the chance of the OS doing it is 30/100

Unless you log resource usage with Performance Monitor, there's no way to tell if the Blockland server or OS was doing a CPU-heavy task for a few minutes.

Read your post again,   trying to dismiss the fact that it could be DDoS

I was not dismissing that the cause of the downtime was a DDoS. Instead of saying something like "no it's not", I used logic and reasoning.

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Off Topic / Re: New LG G3 is out - Need Android Advice

« on: July 09, 2014, 09:00:08 AM »

It takes a 1.9ghz quad core processor to run android smoothly at the same time ios requires a 1.2ghz (not sure) dual core processor smoothly without any hiccups

I have a 1.2 GHz single-core CPU and Android 4.0 runs smoothly.

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Off Topic / Re: New LG G3 is out - Need Android Advice

« on: July 08, 2014, 10:19:09 PM »

Battery size doesn't mean better battery life. It all has to do with the hardware, software, etc.

I know, and that's why the Droid Maxx has about the same net life for me as the LG G2 does, even though the Maxx has 3600 mAh instead of 3000. I always under clock the CPU and screen brightness is usually in the negatives. The Maxx is root-locked so that's why it would probably have the same net life as a LG G2.

Also i'm pretty sure the LG G3 is the only phone with a 3000mAh+ battery.

LG G2 has 3000 mAh and Motorola Droid Maxx has 3600 mAh. Even though they're one year old they have good battery. Something as new and expensive as an LG G3 is not available to me unless I want to wait until August 2015. My phone would be 5 years old by then, meaning it would be unusable, so even a early 2013 phone is better choice than waiting.