k1ller's blog http://css.setti.info/blogs/k1ller Just another Css.setti.info weblog Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:57:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Blogs are working again In server upgrade aftermath blogs have been down for couple days. Now the blogs are working again. Problems were mostly caused by MySQL 6.0 alpha release. http://css.setti.info/blogs/k1ller/2007/12/08/blogs-are-working-again/ Is FPS affecting accuracy in Counter-Strike: Source It seems that people with good FPS can fire more accurately than people with low FPS. It is obvious that crosshair recovers slower than with high FPS - but does that affect accuracy? What are we testing? Effect of FPS to accuracy was tested by shooting at a wall with M4 (without ... http://css.setti.info/blogs/k1ller/2007/08/30/is-fps-affecting-accuracy-in-counter-strike-source/ Extracting data from Psychostats 3 rank listing Here's a small script to extract maybe interesting data from Psychostats 3. Mostly a reminder for myself but anyone else who is interested about PS3 stats can use this method too. Blog interprets : D as smiley so "K : D" is written with space, same as with "K : ... http://css.setti.info/blogs/k1ller/2007/07/19/extracting-data-from-psychostats-3-rank-listing/ Hard disk crash and recovery Hard disk failure My hard disk drive started to slowly degrade. Windows boot up time grew longer and sometimes the hard drive was crunching something for 5 - 30 seconds. Later on the crunching time was between 5 - infinity. Then it was clear that something is wrong with the drive ... http://css.setti.info/blogs/k1ller/2007/04/27/hard-disk-crash-and-recovery/ Firefox in Europe and at Setti Firefox on the run Web analysis organization, XiTi Monitor, has released the latest report on Firefox market share evolution in Europe and globally. On Setti the shares of different browsers are: Firefox 52.8 % Internet Explorer 33.4 % Opera 12.5 % Safari, Netscape, Mozilla, Kongueror and others have the rest 1%. IE is really crappy browser. ... http://css.setti.info/blogs/k1ller/2007/04/18/firefox-in-europe-and-at-setti/ Psychostats top-10 domination Top-10 domination by Finns One Romanian and one Pole (who has Norwegian flag?) to  overthrow. http://css.setti.info/blogs/k1ller/2007/04/16/psychostats-top-10-domination/ Alternative skill ranking Psychostats 3 is quite good ranking system but it might not tell everything about the goodness of some player. Here's what I tried to look for from PS3 database: Consider a player who has K : D ratio 1.0. That kind of player on average kills only one player per round. ... http://css.setti.info/blogs/k1ller/2007/03/30/alternative-skill-ranking/ Level of gameplay and team balancing Gameplay level Currently the plugin "nonoobs time" (reserve slots for regular players) is inactive due to some technical issues (PS2 stats are not computed anymore) and the fact that there is maybe not enough online time for all regular players to be considered as regular visitors. Plugin is custom written so ... http://css.setti.info/blogs/k1ller/2007/03/21/level-of-gameplay/ Stupidities in the modern world Stupidities in the modern world There are some weird things in the so called modern world (that is, western countries). Here are some samples from countries which pretty much think that they belong to these "modern countries". Some of them actually are "modern" in almost every sense but still it's amazing how ... http://css.setti.info/blogs/k1ller/2007/03/19/stupidities-in-the-modern-world/ Moderation on mboard and how well it works Messageboard at Setti mainpage had to be changed to moderated when there started to be too much stupid one-liners. The difference between from page 388 backwards to onwards is like day and night. Stupid messages completely disappeared. There are still stupid people who post stupid messages but it is relieving ... http://css.setti.info/blogs/k1ller/2007/03/05/moderation-on-mboard-and-how-well-it-works/