Swordsower

I've never shot anyone. It is cheaper for the military to train you to be able to do the job of IT professionals, and then take money out of your check if you do it wrong. I've never had that happen either. The job that I do, a civilian would have to be paid $400,000 a year to do. I only make $84,000 a year. That's still a lot for me being 19…well, 20 in eight days, years old. The bottom line there is also that they subject you to a multiple choice standardized test to determine your aptitude, in the US called the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery). I maxed my ASVAB completely, meaning I could have chosen ANY job I wanted ever. The other thing is that if you have a bachelors degree, you can come in as an officer, and then the doors REALLY start opening.

The training is really good, or at least mine was. It varies based on the cadre, but I went to one of the more difficult ones. Training doesn't stop once you get basic and occupational done though, we do training exercises every week. The training is a lot of fun most of the time. I've only been in two years, and 1 of those years is a deployment to Afghanistan. Weapons training is a lot of fun. They give you a rifle, some ammo, and some targets, and the rest is up to you. The first time I ever shot a combat rifle I hit 34 out of 40, which is phenominal for a first try. Expert is 36 out of 40, and I can do that consistantly. As for my MOS training, IT in the military has a lot of variety. It started with A+, N+ and TCP/IP. Then Routers, Switches, Advanced Troubleshooting, Security+, and a number of other network security classes. Then Unix, Solaris, Windows Server 2003, and Microsoft Exchange. Unix was a LOT of fun, but not very useful in practice. Then comes CPN (Command Post Node) which is a series of useful classes on tactical communications technologies. A CPN is a network in a box. Then comes the FBCB2 training, which is a live military Google Earth terminal that goes in a vehicle and allows you to track the locations of all the troops in the area via GPS. That is a kick ass technology, but not easy to learn, and we get only a crash course. Then there's the final class, M3, Matrix Management Module, where they have a full blown battalion sized network in a room, and we have to set up the configurations fresh. That class is daunting, but still kinda fun. Back to weapons training, I've fired an M16A2, an M16A4, an M249, and M240B, a M203, an AT4, and an M9 pistol at training and qualification. I didn't get to shoot the .50 cal, or the Mark 19, and those two weapons are the reason NO ONE EVER WANTS TO ATTACK A CONVOY. The .50 cal is overkill encarnate, and the Mark 19 is a belt-fed, fully automatic grenade launcher. Could there be a more ridiculous weapon?

@Marsh: > Is there any system where you can join the military for like a year or two then leave. I mean actually leave never be called again, if a war breaks out you wont be recruited against your will. Or are you stuck for life no matter how much time you serve. Oh it depends on a whole lot of things it does. First, MOS. MOS stands for military occupational specialty. My MOS is 25B, IT Specialist. There are MOS's for just about everything, but do research, because it's harder to get promoted in some MOS's than others. Each MOS has a different role in the military, and there are different units made up of different MOS's. For example, the 25 series are signal. 25U is Signal Operator Maintaner, 25Q is Multiband Radio something something, 25L is…I dunno, I just know we call them Cable Dogs, they lay fiber. Typically, depending on the type of signal unit, you'll have a blend of these MOS's making up the 'task engine' of the unit. Then there are Support MOS's like Military Lawyers, Military Supply clerks, Chaplain assistants...bread and butter jobs that every unit has. Now, on to your question, Marsh. To enlist for 2 years, you need to pick an MOS that allows it. All the 'good' MOS's require at least 6 years. Once you leave the military, you're out. You don't ever have to do anything ever again once you've left, AND you're immune to draft. Just finish Basic Training and you're immune to draft, but you _want_ an honorable discharge, and there's no way to do ONLY basic, and still get that discharge. I get paid uber a lot though, so it's all worth it. Deployments suck, but they're not as bad as they used to be.

 I use Pidgin for my MSN, and it works quite well. Also, for virus scanning, I advise a cocktail of AVG, Spybot, and Ad-Aware. This cocktail is one I've used for six years, and I've never had any problems. If you can get your hands on a Zonealarm firewall or better yet, Zonealarm security suite, those are bad ass too.

VB6 only supports up to DirectX7 from what I understand. There are online tutorials for both subjects. I bought Learn C++ in 24 Hours, which was very educational, an overall good book, and also a book I can't remember the name of that focused more on elements of game design and less on actual code. It was more of a game building Zen book. The way I learned was by figuring out simple modifications I wanted to make, and making them. The other thing I did was as started picking it up, people would ask how to do things, and I'd just go ahead and compile them a version of the source with whatever it was they wanted. Also, when in doubt, I asked Robin. That worked pretty good in the past, my only rule of thumb is I try not to sound like too much of a jackass when I'm asking him. That's just me though.

Which version are you using? Have you tried downloading a fresh copy to see what it would do? I haven't seen this error before, it's very peculiar.

192.168.X.X is a local IP address. Must use port forwarding. http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/smf/index.php/topic,1598.0.html

He could be having firewall issues. Make sure that his firewall isn't blocking him, and also, if the issue persists, try http://www.dyndns.com/ DynDNS will allow you to set up a free URL you can use in place of an IP in the client. Very handy tool.

Delete the two files. Those are the error handling processes the code uses if the GetVar fails, meaning that it's not doing it right. If you delete those two files, then it will re-create them from the defaults, and you should be good.

Did you do any modifications to the source code and/or have you installed ELI yet?

Is this the first time you've tried to run the server on that computer? Did you install the Eclipse Library files?

COLA means Cost Of Living and Allowances. Any time a US soldier is stationed anywhere where the economy is doing better than the US economy, we get paid extra to compensate. The Euro is doing better than the dollar, hence us getting paid about $100 extra per month depending on rank and dependants. Germany is awesome in some ways, and crappy in other…I'm tired of being ripped of on phone service and internet though.

I'm stationed in Germany though, and I'm gonna have my wife come live with me out there for about a year and a half before we both get moved elsewhere. I don't rightly know what my next duty station is going to be, but I'm looking at either Fort Gordon, or Arifjan, Kuwait. As an assignment, Kuwait is the tits. Hazard pay, combat pay, fire pay, COLA, and it's not really even a combat zone. The weather is bull though.

My wife lives right on Wrightsboro, 'tween the mall and the Dominos. Hell, I was just there in November.

The other thing I can think of is that it's like an Icon of a hammer representing blacksmithing, and when they're doing that, it blts above their head. That would be a script executing an emoticon in the midst of the script itself. Can has moar clarity? ~€rypto

Er, kinda cryptic, but what I'm getting is you want to display a picture when a person speaks, or does anything else that would broadcast a message when they act. The idea being, someone says something, and it shows you an image of their face or something. ~€rypto

Y'know, the funny thing is I'm deployed out of Germany. The cool thing about that is that I have all my passport information taken care of, and flying between any two EU nations is cheap as hell. I'm probably going to visit England around mid October. I'll probably be in Germany until January 2012.

I'm in Bagram, same timezone as Kabul, +4:30 GMT. As I type this, it is 5:35 AM where I am, and 8:10 PM in New York. It's not as bad as it could be, but I still preferred nights. The worst part is that I have a harder time talking to my wife when I'm on days, because she lives in Augusta, GA, same timezone as NYC.

So I have some bad-ish news. I'm being moved back to day shift. The time difference is about 12 hours or so, so being moved to days means that I'll only be on during what is night to most of the Eclipse community. FUUUUUUU

Right after the 3 lines of code that made the box transparent, within the same subroutine.

I'll test Robins' strategy tonight when LTC Haggard leaves.

Yeah, as soon as I figure out how to do it. The one I'm working on right now is a doozy, though. I'm trying to create an attribute to function as an area a person can stand in to change the control of a set of maps, which would be, in practice, similar to Starwars Battlefront's CP system. Its…tricky.


Heh, I'm basically at the point where someone asks for a feature, and I build and compile it, and keep the download. Anyone asks in the future, and I know what I have.

Did you look in data.ini in the server folder? I can't look myself until a lil' bit later, but where I would think it would be. Might could be in the source…I dunno, I'll have to look later.