Thanks again to those who tried to help my sorry ass.
> Thanks again to those who tried to help my sorry ass.
> To all of those of you who tried to help me with my problem getting the
> force feedback to work with GPL, I thank you. I followed all of your advice
> to no avail. I downloaded updated software from Logitech, but still
> into the wheel was not connected. I know that I will probably get flamed
> for this. My only excuse is that I have not had the ff wheel for that long
> and my last wheel did not draw AC power. EL LAME-O excuse.
> Anyway, the game is just that much more AWESOME with the force
> feedback.
> Thanks again to those who tried to help my sorry ass.
"Why didn't you guys tell me to plug in the AC!!!"
Everybody makes mistakes, even me :-), it's how you deal with your
mistakes that tells others what kind of person you are
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
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"That?"
"That's just Greg's post. You know - the guy who didn't plug in the AC"
R.A.S. - Advice for the complete GPLer :-)
--
Peter H
GPL sucks ... you in ;-)
> Hehe...at least you're man enough to fess up. I would have just
> quietly slipped away and never mentioned it again.
Turns out my "anti-CarpelTunel"(sp?) squeeze ball had fallen behind my desk
and landed under the gas pedal. Didn't make any noise and was soft, but
obviously limited the travel..hehe. Luckliy it only took me a couple nights
trying to find it.
About 10 years, aboard a Navy Cruiser, I once helped a factory Systems
Engineer with a brain the size of Texas trouble-shoot for 2 hours a power
problem on a piece of equipment that was...
Unplugged....
Granted, the plug was 2 decks down and no where near us, but sheesh.... :)
-Larry
> Thanks again to those who tried to help my sorry ass.
I used to be a support technician for a software importer. One of my
assigned programs was a terminal emulation program, allowing a Windows PC to
log onto a networked mini-computer system (like a VAX VMS), even across a
modem link. Nice piece of code, easy to setup, which, considering the state
of internetworking at the time, was a real bonus and virtually bug free. We
were trying to sell a substantial number of these packages to a big steel
mill over here so we gave them a couple of copies to evaluate. I was told in
no uncertain terms to take every question/complaint from their IT department
very seriously indeed.
The inevitable happened, of course, and I received a support call. Basically
it worked, but it wouldn't accept certain logins... e.g. it was possible to
log in as "guest", but not as "admin". Cue about an hour on the phone,
walking through the settings, double checking stuff, etcetera. Finally I had
to admit it was out of my league and told the guy I'd get on the phone to
the developers as soon as they started work (9am Pacific, 4pm over here).
I spent another 40minutes relaying the problem and what we'd already checked
to the people in the US. They said they'd talk it over and call back... they
did, at 8pm our time to say "it should work, but try these anyway..."
What they gave me was rather complicated, but after about 40 minutes the
next morning the guys at the steel mill and I were back to square one. As i
stared at my keyboard looking for inspiration the light came on at my end...
"type qd;in as a login", I said, which prompted the VAX to ask for a
password. I had finally understood what was going on. There was a strange
duality in this program... locally it would echo the right character when
using an azerty keyboard (standard layout over here) as that part of the
program used the Windows interface, but for the remote side it would
directly pass on the keystroke (without translating it to a letter), where
it would be interpreted as coming from a qwerty keyboard (standard on those
machines). I'd never noticed this before as all our computer equipment was
provided by our parent company in the UK, including qwerty keyboards.
Doh!! -I should have spotted that a mile away, especially as admin has two
letters in it that have different positions on the two layouts. On the plus
side, I got it before the guys at the steel mill and the developers
themselves! ;-)
Jan.
=---
"Pay attention when I'm talking to you boy!" -Foghorn Leghorn.
<snip>
Idiot? I reckon it was a moment of genius to realise the difference between
the keyboards!
I'd chip in a story about my own stupidity but the only time I made a
mistake was in 1983 when I thought I was wrong but I was, of course, right
all the time...
--
Tony Whitley
GPLRank -0.54
MonsterRank 407 and falling...
"On some laps I'd get as many as fif*** corners really right, but Moss, he
gets them all right on every lap" - Von Trips after the 1961 German Grand
Prix.
You know, no matter how many time I hear that, I still think it's funny.
Thanks for bringing it up again :)
Marc
