RIP Elwood
Posted by NedFox on Saturday 12 September 2009 - 00:55:40 |
Today, we learned our beloved Elwood Blues has passed away.
Too soon, unexpected, and we're all devestated by the news.
Our condoleances to his family. We do wish them strength in these rough times.
Ride on Dave, wherever you may be.
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RIP Deadeye
Posted by NedFox on Friday 26 October 2007 - 19:05:33 |
Last wednesday, Deadeye died due to a heart-attack.
Our thoughts are with his family, and wish them strength coming time.
This all was a very big shock for us !
On behalf of the TimeZone Warriors,
NedFox
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Joint Operations NILE Editor Tutorial by Damor TZW
Posted by Damorfasu on Sunday 12 September 2004 - 13:57:38 |
I am currently working on a Joint Ops NILE tutorial. As compiled and created by myself. With additions from this forum and individual sites. I have gotten some of the information from other sites and am looking for input. I am looking for Recommendations on what else should be added or modified. This is still a work in progress. and not completed yet. This site address is temporary and the final will eventually reside at www.timezone-warriors.net. I will await your feedback.
Here is the tutorial address:
http://www.timezone-warriors.net/tzwfiles/Nile Editor Tutorial.htm
Damor
www.timezone-warriors.net
DF:Joint Ops and Operation Flashpoint
Death and carnage shall follow me like the rains follow a hurricane. It is inevitable....
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TZW Smashes SETI 100,000 Mark
Posted by TONIK on Friday 09 July 2004 - 01:47:43 |
For just over a year and a half, various members of TZW have been taking part in the SETI distributed computing project. Today, Fri 09 June 2004, we reached the unthought of goal of 100,000 Work Units completed, the last official SETI Certified Milestone.
We are now retired from the SETI Project and from tomorrow will start a new distributed computing project for Cancer Research.
For more information, click the links below:
SETI: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
Cancer Project: http://www.grid.org/home.htm
Thanks to each and every member who contributed to the total and lets hope we see the same strong support for the Cancer Project.
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Joint Operations Typhoon Rising at THG
Posted by TONIK on Sunday 04 July 2004 - 13:38:20 |
All safe back home
Posted by NedFox on Wednesday 14 April 2004 - 14:59:08 |
After attending to the LAN in Cambridge all Tizzies made it home safely.
Thx mr. and Mrs. Zorlac for being such great hosts !!!!
Footage
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BFVietnam: 3 Days to Deployment!
Posted by Fish on Saturday 13 March 2004 - 11:04:17 |
Battlefield Vietnam has long gone gold and is about to hit the streets. Release in the USA is 15 March. In the UK it's 19 March, though I'm not sure about the rest of Europe in other languages.
The big question is whether the game will be the same monster hit as the original Battlefield 1942. BFVietnam certainly looks gorgeous (although that's a matter of taste), from the very flash cover art to the screenshots and pre-release videos. The real proof will all lie in the gameplay.
Just a quick reminder:
- The official website is at Battlefield Vietnam
- There's an official UK webpage which includes screenshots that are easy to get at
- EAGames have had BFVietnam user forums running for months now. Lots of useful things on there
- Plenty of fansites have sprung up already. There's a useful FAQ at Planet Battlefield. Interestingly, they say that the choppers in BFV will have better flight characteristics than in BF1942's Desert Combat and handle more like a flight sim. Another promising site is BF-V.com, part of a network which also houses good sites for Desert Combat and Call of Duty among others. In Europe, Jolt have a forum set up and ready to roll
A nice touch on the official website is the Days to Deployment timer on the upper right-hand side. Well worth finding out how this works and borrowing the idea!
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Joint Ops: Release May, Demo April
Posted by Fish on Friday 12 March 2004 - 01:59:28 |
Two posts on the Novaworld forums from Novalogic PR staff suggest that Joint Operations will be released on 18 May in the USA. It may or may not be released simultaneously in Europe:
Right now the official release date is 18th May in the US. Europe are going to try and release simultaneously, but not all territories will be able to because of the time it takes to localize the game. If this date changes an announcement will be made.
The second post is in response to a question about the beta test and says
The official consumer demo will be released early April so you don't have long to wait.
This still leaves the question of whether European players will get a chance to participate in the beta program or whether they will continue, as now, to palmed off with slippery undertakings and yet more soporific screenshots.
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Techno-Pr0n: Cool and Quiet PCs
Posted by Fish on Friday 12 March 2004 - 00:09:11 |
A recent thread on our newsgroup threw up the pesky question of how to keep our PCs cool and quiet. Here are a few ideas, some not entirely serious. They may become part of an occasional series.
Zalman TNN500A
First up, the mother of all cool 'n' quiet solutions. The Zalman TNN500A is a monster-sized case that uses passive cooling throughout in the form of heatsinks and heat pipes. Six heat pipes draw heat away from the cpu and to the outside of the case, while another two deal with the graphics card. No less than ten heatpipes deal with heat in the hard disk racks. PSUs are normally good for plenty of noise and heat, but in this unit Zalman use one of their own 400-watt silent units.
Just assembling this beastie is a challenge. The case itself is made from heavy-gauge aluminium and thus acts as a huge heatsink, but it weighs in at a hefty 25 kg, as much as a large PC monitor. And the result? Not totally silent, since you'll still hear the hard disks and the optical drives. And not necessarily totally cool either since it's only rates for a 3.06 processor at maximum. Still, you can reflect that you'll probably be the only person on the block using one, not least because the estimated retail price is a cool 1400 US dollars.
FWIW, Tom's Hardware have a thorough review here.
VapoChill Light Speed
This one's from the Danish frigidaires Asetek and uses the more conventional phase-change approach. That's to say, you are basically bolting a fridge on to your CPU. However, it's an all-new unit and certainly looks gorgeous (the pic shows that it's an almost perfect match for a Lian-Li case). The unit can happily chill processors putting out up to 250 watts of heat, comfortably in excess of even the most badly behaved new Prescott P4 processor from Intel. Quiet goes out the window when you've just added a thrumming fridge to your PC, but then this unit is for the well-heeled extreme overclocker searching for those elusive moments well in excess of 4 ghz. Alternatives are other models from Vapochill or their rival Prometeia. None is remotely cheap.
The Inquirer got to play with a VapoChill Light Speed and you can read their review here. A snip at just 829 US dollars.
Enermax EG475P-VE Noisetaker
Now for something a little more modest, the latest in Enermax's range of quality PSUs.
The new Noisetaker is rated for 470 watts, giving plenty of juice for overclocked or well-stocked systems. It's got two newly designed fans for quiet operation, SATA power connectors, a braided and shielded main cable, manual adjustment of fan speed and a clever feature which keeps the PSU fans running for a couple of minutes after you've powered down the PC, so helping to return the PC's internal temperature to that of the room.
Xtreme Systems gave this one a lengthy going over in a fair and thorough review. "The PSU is barely audible even when the fan dial is turned right up to its maximum ... strong, silent and feature packed," they conclude. Crappy power supplies can cause untold problems with sudden BSODs or reboots for no apparent reason, so it's worth investing in a good one. This unit sounds a corker. No information on prices or availability as yet.
Water Cooling
Water and electricity do not mix, right? Many associate water cooling with the nutty end of the overclocking scene or with those quite likely contemplating insurance fraud or, alas, a sudden end to this vale of tears.
ÐeáðÈ¥é TZW pointed us to Kool 'n Quiet, a truly excellent site and webshop. Kool 'n Quiet explain the intricacies of water-cooling in detail on their site and they only sell top-quality kit.
For a rundown of how water cooling works and what you'll need, check here. As Kool 'n Quiet point out, water is about 20 times more efficient than air at transferring heat and a water-cooled solution is quiet. There's only a near-silent pump and a quiet 120mm radiator fan to disturb you. Furthermore, nervous types will be glad to learn that "The only potential problem is with water leaks but with the quality of the connections used and an extended initial test period before starting the computer, there should be no dramas. De-ionised water [which is what you fill the system with] is not a conductor of electricity, so even a small leak may be harmless."
Kool 'n Quiet sell water cooling kits and other parts from the German company Innovatek. Their InnovaSet kits, which provide all the parts you'll need, range from 120 to about 210 ukp including VAT. If that sounds a lot of money, reflect that you don't want any accidents with this gear and it is of very high quality. And in addition, unless you are a skilled DIYer, you might prefer a complete kit rather than sourcing the parts yourself and hoping they work together.
There are scores of other water cooling kits on the market and more companies are climbing on the bandwagon every day. In the UK and Europe, there's a good round up at Extreme Cooling. They sell everything from awesome Prometeia phase-change units to water cooling kits from Koolance or humble fans and cpu coolers.
Shuttle ST62K Zen XPC
Finally in this article, there's the option of simply throwing out the large, noisy, power-hungry conventional PC and getting something a whole lot more ... serene. Enter the new Shuttle ST62K Zen XPC which has been getting rave reviews. It's smaller than the other units in Shuttle's SFF range and also a lot quieter. Shuttle have dispensed with a standard PSU inside the unit in favour of an exterior "brick", i.e. a solid state transformer - bigger but otherwise just the same as those on our PC peripherals, laptops, etc.
The Zen XPC uses the brand-new ATI Radeon 9100 IGP chipset with integrated video. According to reviewers, this offers far superior video quality compared to the integrated chipsets from Nvidia and Intel. It won't be suitable for heavy gaming, though light gaming is apparently possible - sounds like low details and 800 x 600 on fairly undemanding fare. Nor does the Zen XPC have an AGP slot, unlike the larger models in Shuttle's range, so you can't beef up its relatively modest 3D performance.
However, that isn't the point with this unit. It's designed for SOHO use or in the living room - office tasks, surfing and email, DVDs, music. Drop in a P4 800 fsb, 512mb of decent RAM and a big hard disk and you'll probably have an extremely capable unit. And a quiet one, too - removing the PSU and an AGP card from the mix means that you've taken out a fair chunk of the heat the system generates, so you don't need nearly so much fan power.
Among many reviews of the Zen XPC are those at Silent PC, Tech Report, Bit-Tech and Sudhian (which is also one of the best sites on the net for coverage of small form factor PCs).
Tuxers please note: The Radeon 9100 IGP chipset is too new to have been fully integrated into Linux yet. But an enterprising owner is plugging away and has everything more or less working now except for IDE DMA and hardware sensors which probably wait on patches from ATI. His web page recording progress is here . An alternative is the Shuttle SB62G2 (Intel i865G) and Mandrake Linux. "A Marriage Made In Heaven?" was the title of Sudhian's enthusiastic review here.
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ArmA 2 rocks
