It’s a theory craft program that provides Death Knights with the possibility to optimize their gear to the best. It is not finished yet, so if you have any proposals or comments post them at Elitist Jerks.

I finally decided to do something against this and implemented a reCAPTCHA check on the registration page. I have made a patch for anyone who still uses ThWBoard.

• Create a reCAPTCHA account and download the PHP-API-wrapper.
• Unpack the archive into the inc folder in your forum directory.
• Download the patch from:
  http://www.4geeks.de/files/thwboard_recaptcha.patch
• Apply the patch with “patch -p1 thwboard_recaptcha.patch”
• Change private and public reCAPTCHA key in register.php and do_register.php
• …
• Profit!

To save you searching for yourself:

options = {'form_name' : {'attrs' : {'value':'your_value'}}}

Later in the template to show your form:

${tmpl_context.form(child_args=options)}

Make DRM invisible and people will use it.

(Un-)fortunately this is impossible by design. DRM wants to restrict usage and therefor can never be invisible.

I committed a new optimization method to Rawr. I hope people like and use it. It should be included into the next release of Rawr.

It’s nearly too stupid to be true but still a fellow student created it. Don’t press the wrong buttons!

The Von Kármán vortex street

Instead of a cylinder, I used a tilted plat, but it works nevertheless and is, imho, more interesting, because its no longer symmetric.

I try to implement some more boundary conditions soon, so i can produce some more interesting examples.

In the end I was successful:

Creating a grid with 1.5 mio points takes around 8.5 secs with the old code and around 2.5 secs with the new templated code. The only catch is, that you have to know the dimension at compile time, but if you do something like CFD, that’s not a problem.

Next stop: Calculating hierarchical surplus.

There are several possibilities:

BITS

Theory sounds nice, as always. You start the client, it notices your box is capable of running the new stuff. You click a button and some time later the download is finished and you can install the new artwork.

Back to reality: It did not work. At least not for me. I clicked the button. It stated: Starting download. Seconds later the button reappears and nothing more happens. And that’s if you are lucky. If it really starts it floods your connection, making any online activity nearly impossible. If you think: “Deinstalling the sh*t will help!” you are wrong. If you deinstall the eve client there is no more way to stop the download without using the command line. Thats user-friendliness a la Microsoft.

Torrent

Yeah, well, not exactly …You have to download an executable. That should make anyone, who has ever used a bt-client suspicious. What you get is a Bittorrent DNA Client. That thing install itself into your Control Center without asking and further notice, nor does it leave a link in the start menu. Furthermore it stays active even after canceling the download ,without showing any icon or similiar, communicating with other peers. Not a very nice behaviour…

http

Finally something useful. No complaints here. Downloading it at the moment…

Conclusion:

Someone at CCP got a serious infection with the “If you can’t pay for it, it’s not good”-virus. I hope they learn from their mistakes.