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Help on forcedownload script!

Bullard120 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:25:21 GMT

Sorry if this is in the wrong section, first post here, but anyways I need help with my force download script, it was working, but for some reason now its not, it trys to download my whole server file! So can you tell me if this is right?

// where it says AddDir("") Where the "" is put your file dir..eg: AddDir("sound\music")
// resource.addfile is used to download seperate files FROM your dir you have chosen.
// Eg: resource.AddFile("Models\materials\som.vmt")

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function AddDir(dir) // recursively adds everything in a directory to be downloaded by client
local list = file.FindDir("../"..dir.."/*")
for _, fdir in pairs(list) do
if fdir != ".svn" then // don't spam people with useless .svn folders
AddDir(fdir)
end
end

for k,v in pairs(file.Find("../"..dir.."/*")) do
resource.AddFile(dir.."/"..v)
end
end

AddDir("addons/Mad_Cows_Weapons")
AddDir("addons/DurgzMod")
AddDir("addons/NYPD_Players")
AddDir("addons/legs")
AddDir("addons/KeypadCracker")

resource.AddFile("")

Official Portal 2 Discussion Thread

initrd.gz — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:13:33 GMT

Yea, maybe late x1, but...

I liked the old Wheatley voice... Was a lot more friendly, and the more calm voice when activating glados was a lot better. =/

How I got in trouble at school for "hacking"

immibis — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:10:00 GMT

Our school uses a program called inGOT to measure, monitor and limit internet usage. It stores a copy of everyone's remaining balance (it measures usage in dollars for some reason) in an Access database on a shared folder. That copy isn't used for anything apart from displaying balances on everyone's computers. The small program used to display the balance is called "inGOT Balance".

I discovered that the folder the database was in had almost every permission for every user. That's including "change permissions", but strangely not "delete subfolder".

I wrote a program in VBA in Excel to send messages to other people who had the program running, by changing their full name (to whatever the message is) and balance (to $-12345 to signal that there's a message). It worked fine, until someone asked me to allow messages to be sent to multiple other users.

While adding that feature, I accidentally introduced a bug causing messages to be sent to every user, instead of just the ones you chose. Although I fixed it, someone had copied the broken version from the shared folder where I was working on it to their desktop. Although I told them to close it and reopen it to get the fix, I don't know if they did so, and I certainly didn't realise they'd copied it to their desktop. They then used it to spam several messages to someone.

inGOT Balance has a setting, which was turned on on the school network, to pop up when your balance is negative. So, when the program set everyone's balance to $-12345, it popped up on every single computer that was logged on.

Including the one that "Administrator" was logged on to.

Which was on the other side of the room from me.

(about this time, a teacher came into the room and asked the admin why her internet balance was $-12345 and why it said "From : ")

Although I quickly deleted the copy of the program I'd been working on, this person who had copied it to their desktop was able to show the admin anyway. Since he knew I was the only person in the room who would know how to do this, of course he guessed it was me.

And that's how I got in trouble today at school for hacking.

Anyone with electronics experience please help.

Koolguy007 — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:06:16 GMT

I just received 2 Apple //c computers, but I did not receive a cord to go with them. I was wondering if there was anyway of using 6 of these +5V Fixed-Voltage Regulator 7805 - RadioShack.com to get the necessary 15V that this thing requires. I know I'll have to piggyback them to get the 1.2A, but is there a way to add there voltages together?

Computer Help

Dragonheart — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:32:56 GMT

I am relatively new to computer gaming

First a few things before the problem,
I got a new graphics card today
A bug in the new game StarCraft II that causes many graphics cards to fry has sent me into a moderate to severe paranoia
That's why I got a program to tell me the fps of my games.

I've noticed that most people's gmod games run at about 60 fps, before my new graphics card, mine ran at 16-17 fps, after the new graphics card it runs at 90-97 fps. I tested a few other games and got no more than 60-80...

...Then I ran The Sims 3, its first loading screen was 400fps, and then the first part of the intro video made it jump to 1400fps. At this point I am worried because those are high numbers, then the load menu stayed at about 500fps, but I quit the program immediately because of the paranoia cause by StarCraft menu screens.

First I must ask if fps is even relevant, if so answer the following
How many fps is safe?
If it is too high, how long would it last before overheating begins?
It's possible that it was that high before, but the program I use to monitor fps has me worried right?
Could it be a glitch in the fps monitoring program?

I am clearly very, very worried right now, and I like an answer before I try and play the sims 3 again.

Batch is acting up as usual.

LimEJET — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:00:53 GMT

So I got tired of entering the pathnames to my DOS games manually every time I start DOSBox, and since they're on an external HDD, there's the chance that they might switch drive letters, so shortcuts are out of the question too.

I'm trying to make a dynamic menu system that expands when new game folders are added. In Batch, that is.

And, as usual when dealing with Batch, there are problems.
First, I want to number the file entries, so I make a counter like this:

Code:

SET /A count=1

FOR /F %%n IN (blah) DO (

    ECHO %count%. %%n

    SET /A count=%count%+1

)

Problem is, it does diddly-squat. it just echoes 1. I've tried +=1 too, no change.

Problem number two is another variable that simply won't print:

Code:

FOR /F %%n IN (blah) DO (

    SET name=        %%n

    ECHO %count%. %name:~-8%

    SET /A count=%count%+1

)

Where %%n is a folder name, and %name% adds 8 spaces before %%n. It then only reads the last 8 (so basically, this is aligning each line to the right). This outputs:

Code:

1. 

1. 

1. 

1.

If I replace %name% with %%n, it outputs

Code:

1. name1

1. Name2

1. Name3

And so forth. BUT, and this is what confuses me, if I do this:

Code:

SET %name%=%%n

it still outputs only "1. 1. 1."

Any l33t h4x0rs that can see what's wrong?