##UPDATE##: This was an April fools joke:

To reproduce the ID: 90
1) host a game, no teams
2) join any Deluxe as player 10
3) start the game and when IN the game…
4) check out your player ID (it will say 90 when you really are 10, it will say other weird stuff for 11-24)

(below is archived text for humor sake)

Here is a video of me showing a hosting a 90 player game with the LTHQ host

A little secret we’ve been working on trying to break the 24 player limit in the LTTO protocol. I’ve been closely working with Brian on implementing this.

Hope you enjoy the video…

(Please note the date of this post….)

Not that it is anything big (pretty simple)… but added two chat pages (one for embedded into a web page, or one that opens into a new tab/window in the browser)… Using Mibbit for the javascript based chat client. It’s using Rizon, and the room is #doug-tech-talk (irc.rizon.net).

I’ve been building VM images, ISO images, then capturing video of using the DVD (it’s too large to fit 700MB) image and going through the process of extracting ZIP file and so forth.

I believe I hack some 4GB DVD’s kicking around here (the image is not that big, about 800MB zipped and 1.8GB unzipped). For those that understand “sparse” filesystems (space is allocated on use), the virtual disk is 4GB total, but only 1.8GB is used, so you need to have space to allow the virtual hard drive to grow up to 4GB (worse case).

As for why the image is larger, I’ve added the native VMware ‘guest’ drivers (for mouse and screen as well as access to host printers — you should see all host printers on the guest). Also I’ve added more management menu software. Also drag and drop is supported (can drag a score file [HTML] to/from either host/guest desktop).

If you are interested in battery and battery performance like I am, and after reviewing Peukert’s Law and looking at some other people’s work (spreadsheet), I figured I’d make a simple calculator that uses two points along the performance curve to calculate the Peukert’s Exponent.

Why? All electro-chemical power sources have variable capacity… This might be a rather shocking thing to discover after looking at all the numbers floating around batteries.. (i.e. NiMH AA 1500mA, or a 45AH 330 CA group 27 lead-acid, etc.)

Generally, battery manufactures will NEVER give you all the information to accurately understand the performance of their products. With most lead acid batteries (ones designed for long term use, like Marine or Deep-Cycle), you should be able to locate two pieces of information: the capacity (aka C/20, 20=20 hours, 95%+ of the time it’s 20 hours) in Amp Hours (AH), and the RC (Reserve Capacity in minutes @ 25 Amps) … With these two bits of information, you can determine the performance of a lead-acid battery at any reasonably* current load/demand. For those that don’t provide RC, you can often divide the Crank Amps (CA or MCA, not CCA) by 6 and get a good estimate in minutes what the RC would be.

*=reasonable as in the battery does not get too hot (excessive current), or the current is too low and on par with “self” drain (aka parasitic drain)… in these two cases, the current you present to the battery is not the majority of what the battery is experiencing.

Check out the simple calculator at: http://dx9s.net/5-2/battcalc/