Cmdr Nova

Windows XP registers a .nfo as a System Information file. Double-clicking opens System Information. Soultions (for those who don't know any better): Open it in Notepad or Wordpad. Or, Rename to .txt I'm checking out that script right now. [ 03-04-2002, 16:00: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

quote:Originally posted by Urza: Hmmmm Nova's answering machine: "If you want to learn how to register BCM, press one. If you want to learn how to put your sys profile in your sig, press two. If you want to know why you're getting flamed, press three. If you have a really stupid question, press four. If you have a legitimate question, press five. If you want to ask something that's in the appendix, press six. If you want to flame Cmdr Nova, press seven."*presses 7* "Please stay right where you are, while trained professionals come to your location for "troubleshooting"." (Inspired by: The Whack a Troll game and detractor "Troubleshooting".) (Yes, I'm a megatokyo fanboy. ) quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: quote:Originally posted by HiPingScoba: What does "TTFN" mean?TaTa Frigging Nutcase or TaTa For Now, depending on who's writing it. LMAO! [ 03-04-2002, 15:45: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

Anytime.

quote:Originally posted by LordBane: i have to post in the exisiting one, silly me Sorry, I forgot to mention that. You have to post in an already-existing thread in the Support Forums. There was a TON of clutter and similar/duplicate problems in separate threads. It was about time to clear it out. Oh yeah, and you have to register and put your sys profile to technically get any tech support. Make sure you do that first.

Posts are deleted if they aren't posted in the right forum. We like to keep everything organized and clean here. Here are some important steps to get you off on the right foot: [*]Read the welcome message to get a feel for what the forum's like. [*]Register the game if you haven't already. [*]Put your system info in your sig. [*]Other important information for new users can be found here. Now, on the part about technical issues: [*]Upgrade your drivers. [*]Patch to the latest version. [*]Read the Troubleshooting FAQ to search for anything related to your problem. [*]Read the support forums, and/or use the search function to find anything related--your problem might have been solved. [*]Post your technical problems in the forum that matches your problem. No double posting, please! [ 03-03-2002, 15:45: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

quote:At least the CDKEY was deleted out of my user INFO! LOL.Um, it's only supposed to be in your profile for registration purposes. After that, you NEED to delete it, or else someone might use it. quote:So, how did your wife end up getting hold of the CDKEY?Probably same way my mom did when she started to clean the house and threw away my CD sleeve. Luckily, I wrote it down already.

quote:Originally posted by Cryptic: Man you guys are harsh. If do recall this is the newbie discussion? Whats with all of the attitude? I have been a supporter of BC3000AD for a long time. I have purchased at least 3 copies of this software for friends.??????You'll have to excuse some of the other vets. We just don't like trolls and detractors here. It gets stale, you know. Anywhoo, I think your system looks up to par. Perhaps a driver upgrade for that Geforce would be in good order. If you're really in need for a CD-Key because you really lost yours, you'll have to wait for Derek to help you. Finally, we're just users. Diehard users. Although Gallion did create the Appendix, he's just a loyal fan of sorts. 3000AD is a small company. If you find the little bit in the back few pages of the manual, you'll see. Oh, and if you haven't already, go and patch to 1.0.06. It's in the Announcements section, I think. That should squash more CTDs, but it may invalidate your savegame(s). Anywhoo, welcome aboard. (And everyone else, remember to play nice. This is the n00b forum, after all. I don't wanna hear another RTFM out of anyone here. )

See the "Forum Archives" section. It's at the very top. There's also a lot of other important info there. [ 03-03-2002, 11:01: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

quote:Originally posted by Roberto: Doesnt that radiate your crew when you stay cloaked for so long??? It should do.When it gets over 100%, they slowly get radiated. I usually try to keep below that, but you know how it is when you're deep under cover in enemy territory.

See the forum archives. And read everything else there, as well. You'll need it in the future.

quote:Originally posted by Race Bannon IV: does Nova jam out to Outcast or U2?Yea. Um, both. I listen Outkast or U2, depending on what mood I'm in. (I am for real. ) Um, nice speech there. Sadly, I'm not sure exactly what I don't like right now. I'm in a little place where I'm really tolerant of everything, and my interests change from place to place. I've been mostly Rap, Rock (Including Alternative and Rap Metal), and Techno/Dance lately. But I've been known to swing it a bit by listening to some classical/orchestral, and Jazz/New Age. So I'm not so much into debating music and stuff; I like some parts of certain genres and ignore the stuff I don't like, so that's why I really don't not like anything. And I'm in the young generation that hasn't listened to an LP yet. Digital all the way, baby! Oh, and I don't know why, but Tenacious D is pretty high up on my list. Been listening to their music a lot lately. (My cousin had me listen to their CD over Christmas break, and I've been listening since....)

Re-installed a new version of those forums. Any registered users have to re-register, and go through the sig tests again.

Thank you much, SC.

Oh, and see here for the official discussion on this. [ 02-26-2002, 16:19: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

Okay. Here's the smack if you haven't gotten it yet. The coolest online radio show, this side of the internet, The Basement, is in a downswing, and is currently broadcasting what could quite possibly it's last airing. You CANNOT miss this. If you don't know what it is, then at least head to the B2 site. Oh yeah, and Orion Fleet's own FC Blades is the headmaster of the gig. Enjoy. (Be advised, this is a somewhat adult show. Somewhat. ) Listen to this if you know what's good for you. Even if it's just for this once. Just consider it a favor to listen. See the B2:Radio site (newly revised) NOW! 2 E-Mails from Blades and the B2Crew are below. quote:Greetings chaps. I know things have been quiet as of late, and I for one havent been around as much recently as I would have liked to be. This is mostly due to excessive work at the moment and my fight to preserve my other great online love - B2 RADIO. Some of you already know that we're in trouble, and are facing imminent closure unless we can gain support in our 11th hour. Im asking that you take some time out from your day tomorrow (tuesday 26th) to listen into www.b2radio.co.uk for what may well be the final time in an effort to raise awareness and stave off the executioner. I know that most of you have little or no interest in this project, but those that do - please - do me a personal favor and listen in from 8.30 (gmt) and give your support. Im not asking for anything more than that, and this small contribution could make all the difference to me and my station. Like Im fond of saying, this isnt an order, but a request. I ask you as friends to help me out and I hope you will be able to do so. Details follow. Regards, FC Karl "Blades" Savage Orion Fleet Commander ------------------------------------ That is the question on many peoples lips. Well, from tuesday evening 9pm + (GMT) you'll all find out ..... providing you listen into what may be our final presentation of The Basement on B2 RADIO. If you've been keeping up with current events on the forum, you'll be aware that there has been a lot of discussion lately as to the future of this program and the producers who present it. Due to an alarmingly hectic work life, lack of time to prepare and organise, it is very possible that The Basement will cease broadcasts for the last time after tomorrow evenings show. Now, the main reasons have been mentioned above, but the single biggest reason for stopping production is due to listener figures. In our first season, we pulled in an audience that was upwards of 20 concurrent listeners during each and every show. Promotion wise, we did fairly well. Our equipment may have been shit, our sound quality appaling, and our broadcast skills little better than those of a four year old, but we did quite well. Reason being we promoted ourselves in an area where listener interest was pretty high, and we capitalized upon it. After the break from our first season, we lots out ability to readily promote ourselves in the previous arena. Even though our equipment was improved upon, and our broadcast skills improved in leaps and bounds, we could never quite recapture the same level of enthusiasm as we had done in our first season. Despite the fact that we enjoyed doing it, it was becoming apparant that without vast improvements in our listener ratings, it wasnt worth the time and energy involved to continue broadcasts - especially considering the hectic work schedules we both have and the even increasing need to better prepare and produce our programs. We broke for what we initially thought was going to be a month in the begining of January so we could rest and recouperate and work on new material and production improvements for the new and improved third season. Despite the good intentions and hard work put in, arguments between both the shows producers as to the format to adopt, as well as what expenses to pour into the project began to turn things sour at B2. The end result is this :- It's too much to do with so little actual reward. Now, it's not that we dont appreciate the listeners that we have who usually stick with us during our productions, it's just that without growth things stagnate. All through our second season we stagnated. Although we're not going to give exact details of our usual listener figures for that period, it's enough to say that they were poor when compared to our first season, and quite frankly we deserve better considering the work and expense put into it. The fault, of course, isnt with our dear listeners, it's with ourselves. We didnt invest enough time in promotion, or prolonged development of concepts. In some cases, a lot of our material was regurgitated discussions that we've had before, just perhaps garnished up a little and re-presented to our small, but loyal following. The introduction of the B2 phone line had potential, but with the exception of a few kindly callers, never really took off. Neither did a few of our other grand ideas that came and went by the wayside during our second season run. Our plans and efforts for season three are sound ideas. They have a lot of potential and promise to be rewarding to produce and broadcast to the world at large - but without the support of our existing listeners and those who have jumped on board with us very recently we cannot be forfilled, and if that's the case, we cannot continue. Let me level with you. I DONT want to quit doing shows, but this isnt all my descision. I cant produce or host The Basement by myself, nor would I want to. I could draft in a new blood - but this project began as the work of three best friends - whittled down to two after our first season and now it threatens to be one. I for one wont do this alone (Nor could I) and would not want to bring in a stranger to the scene to get by. I cant/wont do this without my best friend at my side. Simple as that. For the majority of the time, we have both loved presenting The Basement - and I for one have a lot of very fond memories about the shows we have presented, the friends we have made, the people we've made laugh and the people we've made gag. I would love to do this and get paid for it, but thats a pipe dream that is unrealistic to persue. Anyway, onto more current news ... In the last few weeks, B2 RADIO has been heavily promoted. The station itself (If not THE BASEMENT) has attracted interest from around the globe. Our TLH (Total listener hours) for the month has jumped from pretty poor to pretty good - all in the space if a few short weeks. Now, this may not sound like too much to you, but to me it's a fairly impressive leap from where we were. I can check the listener stats pretty much any time day or night and find people listening in - and thats not to our shows but to the 24/7 automation. Potentially that represents hundreds of people who would listen to broadcasts of THE BASEMENT during it's normal run. Again, that may not sound too impressive, but it is when you consider just how many internet radio stations there are in the world. Add to the fact that it's a 24/7 LIVE broadcast and not just the same mp3's repeated endlessly on a stupid server machine, and you get an idea as to why Im excited about this recent upsurge. If we can capitalise on the new listener figures and continue to raise awareness to a fairly unique broadcast concept, we can make massive gains in the future ..... but we're not going to be able to do this if THE BASEMENT dies after tuesdays show. Bottom Line : If we are to continue, we need listener support. I've spoken to a lot of you over the last few days about this issue, and most of you have pledged to be around during tueday evenings broadcast to listen in and give your support. In advance, we thank you for your interest and participation and hope that with the efforts of the others on this mailing list, on the L365 community forums and chat rooms we can survive, improve and continue to be a source of fun for you. End of the day, thats what we're here to do - to provide you with hours of free entertainment and enjoy ourselves in the process. Currently we cant do both at the same time. With more support from our listener base we can. If we cant have both, we'll have none at all. And then that would be it. The end. I really dont want that to happen. I hope you lot feel the same. So, for one last time, please support us in our 11th hour. This time you reall can make a difference, and your participation on the show tomorrow will be the most important and valued it has ever been. Thanks again, and however this all turns out, I'd like to say that you guys have been great. We've enjoyed offending and ammuseing you. We hope we can continue to do it in the future. Take care, and see you tuesday night, 9pm + B2 RADIO CREW quote:This is just a quick follow up email. We're currently 60 minutes from what could be our final show. As detailed in the previous mail, this is our last chance. Tonight you can make a difference. New friends and old alike are invited for a frank online discussion regarding the future of B2 as well as the usual sort of smuttiness and insanity those old folk amongst you can recall from years past. And if you're feeling really helpful, why not pass the word along to your least favorite people and have them tune in? Give us a heads up first, and we'll rip 'em a new ******* live on air! How generous are we? Anyway, you know the time (8.30pm - midnight) and the place (http://www.b2radio.co.uk) so I shant bothering telling you. Seeya soon kids ... if we goin out, we doin it in style .... B2 RADIO CrewOh, and like he said: try to get most of the people you know to listen. (In appropriate cases. I quote the b2 site saying, "Whatever you do, don't let grandma listen .." ) Go get some folks to listen, and give Blades the heads-up. I wanna enjoy this.

Um... I can't see the question or poll without voting. And when it's closed, then I can't see it. Which is a bad thing if we plan to keep stuff like this for posterity. SC?

Tell me about it. That little puppy (DeeEnEs) works wonders. That way, I don't have to go to the site to keep updating my IP everytime I restart. Damn, now I've got to start actually putting my site together. And you know how much I like work. :rolleyes

*grin* So what has the Energizer Bunny been up to lately? Well.... I reformated my computer last Friday, because of another screw up with Windows.... But after.... I tweaked around, and found that Dynamic DNS place and decided to make a server. (Yeah, spur of the moment like that.) So I slave all weekend trying to set up IIS to do PHP and junk. Well, I've got somewhat of a board there, and I'm starting to move on with the site. Visit my site http://twilight-illusions.ath.cx:8080/. A copy of the splash page is here, in case of downtime reasons; the forum link won't work on that copied page, though. (Obviously.) The boards are here. Watch out for some downtime. It's hosted on my DSL with a 150Kbps upload speed (kilobits not bytes; that equals around 12-15KB/sec like when you download with a web browser.) And, downtime is subject to me playing online games or shutting down or crashing my computer or crap like that. It needs work, but I like the forums I've set up so far. They're pretty freeform. Give it a visit; and don't crash my computer please. And yes, I am a Freelance Idiot on Medpacks. (You'll understand when you see my forum.) Consider this a friendly stress test. Go. Now. [ 03-04-2002, 22:17: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

quote:Originally posted by Vanethian: Well, it never happened that a Police Department would try to explain his role to the public through a PC game and this is an awesome idea! I don't know if this happened in USA or in other parts of the world but it's the first time in Italy i've ever heard of a project of this kind. Well... it's really awesome, uh? I've seen games based on Police forces (i.e. SWAT3), but never one that was actually worked on or requested directly by the police. Cool.

quote:Originally posted by Fractux: Darn, I was hoping there would be a huge chunk missing like you see on cartoons. LOL!!!

ROFL!!! I have no idea where you guys get this, but this is just plain wierd. Jeeze, you don't find this everyday. (Unless you surf the internet like my cousin.) And about Elio, just don't mind him. He's just a Staff Chief.

Well, that ordeal's passed now. Back to high-speed for me! Boo-yah! /me 0wnzorz j00r 14ggy 56k!!!!! Bwahhahahahahaha!

One word describes it all: boom To me, it wasn't that the US was playing that bad (well... not that bad.), it's just that Canada just exploded with a huge offensive barrage in the third. Coolness. It was like they were a perfectly tuned machine. It was like-wow. Bah, but both teams had a combo of my favorite NHL players (yeah, lots of the top teams had players on both sides), so it's not a crushing defeat. (Now, it probably would be a crushing blow if one of those completely foreign, non-NHL teams beat the US or Canada, but that's not the point. Or is it; I'm in one of those medpack-moods where I lead myself in circles, excuse me.) Still, I liked some of the earlier games a lot. Especially those where the teams were just a little too hyped up with the strategy of "knock everyone else out of the game".

Great game so far. Looks like it's gonna be close. ** Go America! *And again.* [ 02-24-2002, 17:40: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

Kazaa/Morpheus. THey're both on the same network... Being able to find a fast user to download off of depends on what day you download. Weekends are great to do that kinda thing. I wouldn't know about anywhere to find good J-Pop songs. Most of mine are ones that friends told me about. [ 02-24-2002, 18:03: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]