Destructive Incorporated

Can you believe how hard it is to find a quick cheat sheet for using mencoder (included with mplayer) to encode various video formats?

>> Ok, first of all, the dowloader for the updates - exclusively for Windows XP? Did Microsoft and EA Games have a behinds the door meeting because the crappy, buggy, full'o'holes OS XP sales are down? Another theory thought up from my next door nieghbor is that they hired a mentally challenged individual (a retard who doesn't speak liberal) and asked for his input at critical stages of the game remake - er - developement. Then once he was done giving him his heartfelt advice, they fired him like a steak on a grill.
>> All I know I recieved a game for my birthday I cannot play on Windows 2000 (My current OS). Thanks EA Games for excluding the few (I'm guessing here) who still run the reliable and non-intrusive (as far as I know) operating system Windows 2000. As for that NSA key, the CryptoAPI and the mysterious 3rd key in the encryption coding, I think it belongs to Mulder from the X-Files (See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/security/news/backdoor.mspx?mfr=true

This Gentoo-based distro is going to be one to watch. Rock-solid stability and endless flexibility, all wrapped into a 3.3GB LiveDVD environment packed to the brim with the latest builds of the latest software. So then, what makes Sabayon Linux so special? I'm glad you asked.

The strength of this OS comes not only from the abundance of current software available, but also from its roots in Gentoo Linux, which has long been known for its adaptability and pure speed. Gentoo's portage houses thousands (tens of thousands?) of programs which can be installed, via source, using every setting specified in make.conf, using build options depending on my USE flags. Dependencies are all resolved automatically by emerge (best thing since sliced bread). Boot scripts are easily modified with rc-update (so far my favorite runlevel modification tool). System updates (Sabayon follows the ~arch branch) can be made as easily as 'emerge –sync && emerge -uvDNa world' followed by 'etc-update' which will keep my install up to date with the latest security patches, bug fixes, and killer new features. There are hundreds of Gentoo reviews online and anything more in-depth goes beyond the scope of this article. Sabayon provides a very capable "livecd" environment with tons of the newest software all pre-installed to accomplish work fast. If work isn't your thing you can always kick back and play a little Cold War, or Quake 4 as both

I was thrilled when I saw Firaxis bringing out a new edition of one of my favorite Sid Meier's classics, 'Railroads!' Of course Railroad Tycoon doesn't quite stack up to the Civilization series, but it still entertained me for hours upon hours. First thing I did was look for some reviews of Railroads!, and found them quite lacking, which surprised me. So, trusting Sid wouldn't do me wrong, I went and bought Railroads! thinking I'd have a game to enjoy for some time to come.

This Gentoo-based distro is going to be one to watch. Rock-solid stability and endless flexibility, all wrapped into a 3.3GB LiveDVD environment packed to the brim with the latest builds of the latest software. So then, what makes Sabayon Linux so special? I'm glad you asked.

The strength of this OS comes not only from the abundance of current software available, but also from its roots in Gentoo Linux, which has long been known for its adaptability and pure speed. Gentoo's portage houses thousands (tens of thousands?) of programs which can be installed, via source, using every setting specified in make.conf, using build options depending on my USE flags. Dependencies are all resolved automatically by emerge (best thing since sliced bread). Boot scripts are easily modified with rc-update (so far my favorite runlevel modification tool). System updates (Sabayon follows the ~arch branch) can be made as easily as 'emerge –sync && emerge -uvDNa world' followed by 'etc-update' which will keep my install up to date with the latest security patches, bug fixes, and killer new features. There are hundreds of Gentoo reviews online and anything more in-depth goes beyond the scope of this article. Sabayon provides a very capable "livecd" environment with tons of the newest software all pre-installed to accomplish work fast. If work isn't your thing you can always kick back and play a little Cold War, or Quake 4 as both

Ever since I saw the first announcement of Flight Simulator X I was really excited to play it. I'm no plane nut or anything... I'm not even sure WHY I was so hyped up over it. Now, after playing Flight Simulator X for approximately 8 minutes, I am happy to say that I am even more excited about uninstalling it.

If anyone here is using a pentuim-4 powered laptop that doesn't throttle the CPU down below 2.0Ghz you should take a look at this: its called the n60 bug and I've written a little page describing how to get around it. To the best of my knowledge this is only a Ubuntu bug. I have compiled a 2.6.15 kernel with the vanilla p4_clockmod.c file which is available for download from the following website: 8cylinder.org

I have been playing around with a bunch of different things trying to improve the 3D performance of the Radeon 7500 mobile in this laptop. I've seen glxgears scores up in the 1000 range, and even saw one guy scoring 1400+...

I am getting a mere 220fps right now so I figured I'd document my journey to better fps. In the past I have seen big gains by enabling SBA and FastWrites, but this was on desktop Nvidia cards (a 6600gt and 6800)... This mobile 7500 probably won'ttake to overclocking very well (and I'm not going to overclock it to wring another 30fps out) so I'll have to focus on driver compatibility and tweaking. BTW, my A643200+@2.5ghz/1gb pc4000/gf6800@450/850 yields about 12000fps, and my Semp2800@2.0ghz/1gb pb4000/gf6600gt@536/974 averages around 7000fps. When I started they were 8000fps and 5000fps respectively.

ok, this is going to be brief cause my battery is about to die.

To get hamachi working through an iptables firewall in linux using firestarter:

add the following to /etc/firestarter/user-pre

While working to implement one of the most important features of desinc's site (the kiss photo gallery), I took a good look around to find the best program for the task. I had experience with Gallery v1 a while back before we lost a good chunk of server data, including the old kiss gallery. We also host a couple of user accounts who run gallery v1 on their pages so I decided to give it a look.