[OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Chris Friesen]

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Personal best is 586

http://www.meph.eu.org/

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Witukind]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:36:59 -0500
Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

> Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
> 
> Personal best is 586
> 
> http://www.meph.eu.org/

Couldn't get further than 542.7...

RE: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Robert White]

Yep, just a tad too easy to nose-plant.  Optimal ballistic loft doesn't net
optimal distance.  Best I could muster was 556.4

Somebody needs to teach that (those) penguins to arch their backs... 8-)

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On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:36:59 -0500
Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

> Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
> 
> Personal best is 586
> 
> http://www.meph.eu.org/

Couldn't get further than 542.7...
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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Witukind]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:20:15 -0800
"Robert White" <rwhite@casabyte.com> wrote:

> Yep, just a tad too easy to nose-plant.  Optimal ballistic loft
> doesn't net optimal distance.  Best I could muster was 556.4
> 
> Somebody needs to teach that (those) penguins to arch their backs...
> 8-)

I reckon those penguins do not scale real well lol

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Ingo Oeser]

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On Friday 23 January 2004 22:20, Robert White wrote:
> Couldn't get further than 542.7...

Managed 593.4 by beginners luck. (we need a highscore somewhere...)

Regards

Ingo Oeser

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Omkhar Arasaratnam]

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 14:36, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
> 
> Personal best is 586
> 
> http://www.meph.eu.org/

First version that killed productivity^H^H^H^ I found was much harder, I
think we topped out at 320.... thanks for the Turbo version :-)
-- 
Omkhar

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Andrei Mikhailovsky]

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Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote:
| On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 14:36, Chris Friesen wrote:
|
|>Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
|>
|>Personal best is 586
|>
|>http://www.meph.eu.org/
|
|
| First version that killed productivity^H^H^H^ I found was much harder, I
| think we topped out at 320.... thanks for the Turbo version :-)

On the first version i got 321.7 )

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Markus Plail]

Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> writes:
> Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
> Personal best is 586

My record is 594.2, my wife's 593.4 ;-)

Mar - should have done more useful things - kus

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Markus Plail wrote:

> My record is 594.2, my wife's 593.4 ;-)
> 
> Mar - should have done more useful things - kus

Doesn't "more useful" imply that what you did do was at least somewhat 
useful? <G>

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Mark Borgerding]

Chris Friesen wrote:

> Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
>
> Personal best is 586
>
> http://www.meph.eu.org/
>

593.4
( after more attempts than I care to admit.)


Anybody wanna reverse engineer the flash and determine what the 
theoretical limit is?

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Jonathan Higdon]

588 here, but the guy next to me at work got 593

what a great diversion, almost everyone was playing.
having about 4 or 5 of the penguins yelling at the same time
is pretty funny when the boss walks in :) Seems the popups can only get
you in the 400's and a line drive with some sliding action is how to get
the really high scores.


On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Chris Friesen wrote:

> Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
>
> Personal best is 586
>
> http://www.meph.eu.org/
>
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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Eduard Bloch]

#include <hallo.h>
* Chris Friesen [Fri, Jan 23 2004, 02:36:59PM]:
> Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
> 
> Personal best is 586

Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a
shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is
wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got
more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

Regards,
Eduard.

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Måns Rullgård]

Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> writes:

> #include <hallo.h>
> * Chris Friesen [Fri, Jan 23 2004, 02:36:59PM]:
>> Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
>> 
>> Personal best is 586
>
> Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a
> shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is
> wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got
> more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1.  Even
this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a
split second.

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Måns Rullgård
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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Rus Foster]

> > Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a
> > shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is
> > wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got
> > more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.
>
> I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1.  Even
> this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a
> split second.

There are a couple of version of this floating around, one of them the
physics have been changed. On the original the max was about 300 ish. On
this one its nearer 550

Rus

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Han Boetes]

Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > Chris Friesen wrote:
> > > Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
> > >
> > > Personal best is 586
> >
> > Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a
> > shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else
> > is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got
> > more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.
>
> I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1. Even
> this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a
> split second.

If you download the flashfile and then open that file in your browser
you'll see a part hidden from the sight by the html-frame. Then you will
also understand the freeze. :)



# Han

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Måns Rullgård]

Han Boetes <han@mijncomputer.nl> writes:

> Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> Eduard Bloch wrote:
>> > Chris Friesen wrote:
>> > > Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
>> > >
>> > > Personal best is 586
>> >
>> > Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a
>> > shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else
>> > is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got
>> > more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.
>>
>> I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1. Even
>> this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a
>> split second.
>
> If you download the flashfile and then open that file in your browser
> you'll see a part hidden from the sight by the html-frame. Then you will
> also understand the freeze. :)

It just scales up to fill the window without showing anything I didn't
see previously.  In my experience, almost all flash toys have the
freezing problem, not just this one.

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mru@kth.se

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Marcos D. Marado Torres]

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My record:
1210.8

Trick:
http://www.mironov.net/pingu/pingu3.swf


Mind Booster Noori

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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Han Boetes wrote:

> Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > > Chris Friesen wrote:
> > > > Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
> > > >
> > > > Personal best is 586
> > >
> > > Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a
> > > shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else
> > > is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got
> > > more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.
> >
> > I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1. Even
> > this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a
> > split second.
>
> If you download the flashfile and then open that file in your browser
> you'll see a part hidden from the sight by the html-frame. Then you will
> also understand the freeze. :)
>
>
>
> # Han
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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Marcos D. Marado Torres]

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1213.6, as a matter of fact ;-)
Well, I guess that with this URL you pro's will get really higher hi-scores...

Mind Booster Noori

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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:

>
> My record:
> 1210.8
>
> Trick:
> http://www.mironov.net/pingu/pingu3.swf
>
>
> Mind Booster Noori
>
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>
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Han Boetes wrote:
>
> > Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > > Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > > > Chris Friesen wrote:
> > > > > Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
> > > > >
> > > > > Personal best is 586
> > > >
> > > > Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a
> > > > shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else
> > > > is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got
> > > > more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.
> > >
> > > I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1. Even
> > > this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a
> > > split second.
> >
> > If you download the flashfile and then open that file in your browser
> > you'll see a part hidden from the sight by the html-frame. Then you will
> > also understand the freeze. :)
> >
> >
> >
> > # Han
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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Nuno Alexandre]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:41:19 +0000 (WET) 
Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:

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> 
> 1213.6, as a matter of fact ;-)
> Well, I guess that with this URL you pro's will get really higher
> hi-scores...
> 
> Mind Booster Noori


hi.
thx for the url.

1214.9 here :)
http://ikaro.homepage.dk/pingu.jpg

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Neil Ferguson]

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Nuno Alexandre wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:41:19 +0000 (WET) 
>Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:
>  
>
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>>
>>1213.6, as a matter of fact ;-)
>>Well, I guess that with this URL you pro's will get really higher
>>hi-scores...
>>    
>>
>
>hi.
>thx for the url.
>
>1214.9 here :)
>http://ikaro.homepage.dk/pingu.jpg
>  
>

A student pushing the boundaries, with 1215.8 :-)

http://www.netvis.co.uk/pingu3_swf.png

Cheers,

Neil

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

["Fernando O. Korndörfer"]

Hail!

1216.2, but no screenshot :(

Neil Ferguson wrote:

> Nuno Alexandre wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:41:19 +0000 (WET) Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:
>>  
>>
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>>>
>>> 1213.6, as a matter of fact ;-)
>>> Well, I guess that with this URL you pro's will get really higher
>>> hi-scores...
>>>   
>>
>>
>> hi.
>> thx for the url.
>>
>> 1214.9 here :)
>> http://ikaro.homepage.dk/pingu.jpg
>>  
>>
>
> A student pushing the boundaries, with 1215.8 :-)
>
> http://www.netvis.co.uk/pingu3_swf.png
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[jdow]

From: "Nuno Alexandre" <na@fluxmod.dk>
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:41:19 +0000 (WET) 
> Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:
> > 1213.6, as a matter of fact ;-)
> > Well, I guess that with this URL you pro's will get really higher
> > hi-scores...
> > 
> > Mind Booster Noori
> 
> 
> hi.
> thx for the url.
> 
> 1214.9 here :)
> http://ikaro.homepage.dk/pingu.jpg

Come ON guys! You CAN't let a 60 year old broad best you!
{^_-}

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[David S. Miller]

I invite all people who wished to be unsubscribed from linux-kernel to
to make future postings in this thread.

And I'm totally serious.

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Rob]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 04:41 pm, Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:
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>
> 1213.6, as a matter of fact ;-)
> Well, I guess that with this URL you pro's will get really higher
> hi-scores...
>


and when you miss it's -56.3, hmmm... ~1204 on best

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:

> My record:
> 1210.8
> 
> Trick:
> http://www.mironov.net/pingu/pingu3.swf

I've just replicated this score... the little guy's gotta slide a _long_ 
way to get this far.

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Witukind]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:07:34 +0100
mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) wrote:
> Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > #include <hallo.h>
> > * Chris Friesen [Fri, Jan 23 2004, 02:36:59PM]:
> >> Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
> >> 
> >> Personal best is 586
> >
> > Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a
> > shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else
> > is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got
> > more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.
> 
> I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1.  Even
> this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a
> split second.

I've had 500+ on my K6-2 450 so it doesn't have nothing to do with CPU
speed.

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Jurjen Oskam]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 10:52:09AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:

> Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a
> shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is
> wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got
> more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

So if you don't know them, they don't exist at all?

For the record: Thinkpad T41, Slackware 9.1, kernel 2.6.1, score: 586.

(And as a side note: are there other Thinkpad owners with problems powering
off their machines, unless you boot with "nolapic"? See
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1901)

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明]

In article <20040124095208.GA20489@zombie.inka.de> (at Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:52:09 +0100), Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> says:

> #include <hallo.h>
> * Chris Friesen [Fri, Jan 23 2004, 02:36:59PM]:
> > Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
> > 
> > Personal best is 586
> 
> Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a
> shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is
> wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got
> more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

I got 578.7 on Linux box (of course).

--yoshfuji

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Lionel Bouton]

588.6 here.
Nearest without missing the penguin : ~236. Let's start the lazy yeti 
contest !

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 10:52:09AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a
> shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is
> wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got
> more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

 Shockwave flash plugin is a lot slower on Linux than on MS Windows.
It also doesn't support transparency on Linux. But that's not
a kernel thing ;-)
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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Mark Borgerding]

Eduard Bloch wrote:

>#include <hallo.h>
>* Chris Friesen [Fri, Jan 23 2004, 02:36:59PM]:
>  
>
>>Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
>>
>>Personal best is 586
>>    
>>
>
>Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a
>shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is
>wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got
>more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.
>  
>

Sounds like 3/4 of the programmers I've ever worked with --  if they 
can't figure out how to do it, then it can't be done and anyone who says 
otherwise must be lying or cheating.


Still, it does seem like the game is much less predictable on some 
systems.  I have a linux laptop that plays it quite nicely (thus the 
593.4 I reported earlier).  I tried it on my desktop at home, and it was 
very jerky.

The two systems are pretty comparable.

For anyone who cares: here's the main differences with laptop (good) on 
the left and the desktop (bad) on the right:

Mozilla: 1.5 on both, build dates 20031107 vs 20031007
Flash Version:    6.0.79.0   vs   6.0.69.0
CPU:   Pent M 1700   vs Athlon XP 2100+
Video: ATI Radeon M9 vs Matrox G400      <=== I think this is the problem
Kernel: 2.4.21 (debian) vs 2.6.1

I am going to reboot to check against the 2.4 kernel. Who knows? Maybe 
there will be a pingu bug report against the 2.6 kernel series.

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin" 2.4 vs 2.6

[Mark Borgerding]

Mark Borgerding wrote:

> Eduard Bloch wrote:
>
>> #include <hallo.h>
>> * Chris Friesen [Fri, Jan 23 2004, 02:36:59PM]:
>>  
>>
>>> Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
>>>
>>> Personal best is 586
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a
>> shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is
>> wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got
>> more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.
>>  
>>
>
> Sounds like 3/4 of the programmers I've ever worked with --  if they 
> can't figure out how to do it, then it can't be done and anyone who 
> says otherwise must be lying or cheating.
>
>
> Still, it does seem like the game is much less predictable on some 
> systems.  I have a linux laptop that plays it quite nicely (thus the 
> 593.4 I reported earlier).  I tried it on my desktop at home, and it 
> was very jerky.
>
> The two systems are pretty comparable.
>
> For anyone who cares: here's the main differences with laptop (good) 
> on the left and the desktop (bad) on the right:
>
> Mozilla: 1.5 on both, build dates 20031107 vs 20031007
> Flash Version:    6.0.79.0   vs   6.0.69.0
> CPU:   Pent M 1700   vs Athlon XP 2100+
> Video: ATI Radeon M9 vs Matrox G400      <=== I think this is the problem
> Kernel: 2.4.21 (debian) vs 2.6.1
>
> I am going to reboot to check against the 2.4 kernel. Who knows? Maybe 
> there will be a pingu bug report against the 2.6 kernel series.


... doesn't seem the same.

It appears that 2.4.22 may be better suited to penguin abuse than 2.6.1.

I rebooted my desktop to 2.4.22.  Within a minute,  I tied my record 
from the laptop.
( http://www.borgerding.net/pingu_proof.png )

Still, the results are far from scientific or conclusive.  I need some 
objective smackage.
Maybe I will try a blind study with my nieces tonight.  I'll reboot the 
machine into either 2.4.22 or 2.6.1 and record their scores.

Coming soon to a techie-site near you, "Pingumark 2004".

- Mark Borgerding

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Voicu Liviu]

Chris Friesen wrote:

| Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
|
| Personal best is 586
|
| http://www.meph.eu.org/
|
1224.1

http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~pacman/images/kick_penguin.png

Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin"

[Voicu Liviu]

Chris Friesen wrote:

> Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
>
> Personal best is 586
>
> http://www.meph.eu.org/
>
1224.1
http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~pacman/images/kick_penguin.png