01-05-2005 03:14									#61
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident really? let me try. holy cow, you can. And I've only been playing for 6 years.

Don't be too ashamed - it's only a short time ago I found out that you can save the production queue - well, I'm a newbeeie, I have only played 4 years

	01-05-2005 03:40									#62
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident like it's that difficult to go up to file and hit save. anyways I know about ctrl-s for saving games in civ and smac. And that's what is important.

But it saves a lot of time. Most people would use the mouse to go to the save button, but in programs where you're mostly just using the keyboard it does get annoying to have to take the hand of the keyboard to save...
In many games it's a lot of help to be able to have a shortcut to the save menu (so you don't have to go through tons of other menus before you get to save)


Anyway, enough of this threadjack

	01-05-2005 03:47									#63
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quote: Originally posted by BlackCat Well, how many knows that you can drag popups in SMAC/X with the mouse ?

Same goes for Civ3.

	01-05-2005 03:59									#64
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quote: Originally posted by alva Same goes for Civ3.

Yeah, but there the popups doesn't hide crucial messages that vanishes after few seconds

	01-05-2005 04:07									#65
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It can be a life saviour, believe me.

	01-05-2005 04:17									#66
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maybe I should play more Civ3 - unfortunately, I think SMAX is so much better.

	01-05-2005 05:05									#67
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Ughh.....this reminds me of doing Verizon technical support.


He is actually an example of a relatively above-average moron.

You don't want to know how far down the food chain to the epsilons turning their wheels in the basement it goes.

	01-05-2005 06:02									#68
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident like it's that difficult to go up to file and hit save.

The thing is it's damn handy to hit ctrl-s every time after typing a paragraph (a lot handier than going to file and hit save every time). Then, if your PC crashes or whatever, you never loose more than a paragraph worth of work...

	01-05-2005 07:44									#69
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quote: Originally posted by alva quote: what IP is it? Type it in your browser window and I promise you there will be some free porn there.

Unless you're running an HTTP server on your machine ( with said porn as content ) , 127.0.0.1 will just give you an error in a browser .

	01-05-2005 16:14									#70
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quote: Originally posted by Locutus The thing is it's damn handy to hit ctrl-s every time after typing a paragraph (a lot handier than going to file and hit save every time). Then, if your PC crashes or whatever, you never loose more than a paragraph worth of work...

Autosave.

	01-05-2005 16:19									#71
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Autosave sucks. In most games autosave just creates a new save for each turn, so in the end I have 100000+ files for one game

	01-05-2005 16:26									#72
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quote: Originally posted by Adagio Autosave sucks. In most games autosave just creates a new save for each turn, so in the end I have 100000+ files for one game

don't autosaves generally overwrite each other...

	01-05-2005 16:27									#73
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Sometimes yes, but not always

	01-05-2005 16:28									#74
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Maybe they've changed this in new games, I haven't tried to use this feature for at least 5 years

	01-05-2005 16:29									#75
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quote: Originally posted by Adagio And another one of our tech-teachers didn't know about ctrl+s

XON/XOFF or "save file?"

	01-05-2005 16:31									#76
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns That is one of the first things you need to learn to get anywhere with networking so if you do not know that address, it reveals that your networking knowledge is virtually nil.

Nowadays you don't need any networking knowledge. DHCP handles it quite nicely, (un)fortunately.

	01-05-2005 16:37									#77
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quote: Originally posted by alva Autosave.

Auto-save is time-based, pressing Ctrl-S is content-based. Sometimes I only write one sentence in an hour, in which case auto-saves would be wasted effort then. Sometimes I can type a full page in the space of about 5 minutes. I would be seriously f*cked if I relied on an hourly auto-safe feature and after typing 10 pages at that pace my PC would crash...