IMHO Dune would make a far better MMRPG far more depth (we are talking five thousand years of plot here) and far more to do. Traveling from planet to planet. Some deep political plot lines instead of the typical kill 10000 critters, get a level and some plat. I was an EQ player for a good few months. I had three characters but never got past level 20. My biggest problem was the fact that the ONLY thing you could do to advance in the world was kill stuff. All that succeeded in doing was fighting bigger critters (usually with the same models) for more loot / xp. It seems that a MMRPG should be like a good game of D&D with 1400 players instead of 6. Some of us would be happy to be the barkeep. As long as I can get out once in a while, I don't need to be a hero all the time!
The deciding factor for me to get a Dreamcast was it's ability to output VGA graphics which were FAR superior to the regular NTSC output. Does anyone know if there is such an output for the PS2? How about any word on a Final Fantasy for it? Mike
Ok, so I am reading up on all this DDOS stuff and so far, after days of "attacking this DDOS problem" it seems that they have checked the server logs of the sites. This crap about "we have narrowed it down to UCLA" is such garbage. How hard is it to see which servers are SPRAYING YOUR SITE!!?? You look in the log, read the IP that appears there about A MILLION FRIGGIN TIMES and do a reverse DNS lookup. What a load.
The other thing that really chaps my ass about this whole subject is the fact that I hear Clinton is putting up some emergency internet security board on the subject. So Yahoo goes down for four hours and now the government is spending more money chasing shadows?
File this whole subject under You Gotta Be Kidding Me.
I completly agree. That totally cracked me up when I saw it. Like saying "Do you support a crazed internet tyrant who is bent on owning your soul? Yes No" Just cracked me up. I do agree that an OS that has 64000 bugs before it is even released has some problems. Anyone bet they go opensouce before the next release?
I just picked up a Yeong Yang Cube Server for my new Linux box and I liked it so much I bought another for my 98 box. The case is about one foot by 1.2 foot by 2 foot. It is about as tall as a mini tower and twice as wide. The beauty is that it holds the mobo and all IO cards on one half of the case while all the drives go on the other. It was built as a mini-server case so it has a lot of functions and LEDs for up to six drives and a network connection. Total cost including a 300 watt PS was about $200 from Case Outlet. Not cheap, but you can stack two of these puppies and they come about to the height of a full tower, but wider. With rackmount cases starting at $200 for the case and $x for the rack, not incuding PS, this isn't that cheap. Even mine are expensive.
Enlight makes a mini-tower that can be used in a rack for about $140. It is deeper than a standard mini tower so your drives are seperated from your mobo. Not bad looking, but the Yeong Yang is far cooler.
Ok, I may be oversimplifying, but it seems to me that if one requires a system that is faster than a relational database system, you could wire it so that at some set time, all your flat HTML pages are built from your database and stored in some local file system. This way you even avoid having the overhead of parsing the XML and serving to the client. All of your relations are kept natively in your database, but 99% of your users are getting the fastest possible versions by reading static HTML.
I saw a briefing from the W3C at the last Builder.Com conference and he had some interesting things to say. Specifically he stated that the best uses he could see for XML right now are long term storage and data conversation. Without XQL being anything but vapor right now, searching and parsing it on the fly is a nightmare.
Just seems to me that with an Oracle 8i backend database that burns out static HTML if you need speed would be simpler than trying to incorporate an XML solution unless you needed multiple systems with different architectures to work with the same data. Even in that case you could just parse the database data into XML pages instead of HTML.
Dude, chill. I am running a friggin homepage. I don't want to start up friggin ebay on $10 a month. If downtime were a problem, I would have left Half Price Hosting in a second and gone to a real ISP and spent the cash. I am a believer that you get what you pay for. I don't expect more than $10 a month service.
In the world of full out ecommerce sites, this just isn't reasonable. These sites take in so much info, it isn't just slapping some HTML on your local machine. We are talking about hundreds of transactions a minute. Think about it. How would SlashDot keep a local copy? This isn't the world of homepages with pictures of your cat anymore. Ebay goes down for eight hours and their stock drops thirty points. That is the real world now-a-days.
I too am using Half Price Hosting and am not too impressed. I needed a cheap host that supported MS Access and Cold Fusion (ok, I suck, leave me be). Anyway, I was getting about 20% to 50% packet loss over a period of three days (Fri, Sat and Sun). I told them, they said they knew, and it didn't get fixed for a week. No email, no announcements, no nothing. Plus, their support isn't that good. I used their crappy online DSN form to set up a new database and had to call back twice to get it done. Now I am shopping for a cheap site ($10 a month) that gives me Mod_Perl, MySQL, Linux and DBI support. Basically I want everything SlashDot needs. Any recommendations?
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*crushes big steel flagon with bionic hand* Groovy!
IMHO Dune would make a far better MMRPG far more depth (we are talking five thousand years of plot here) and far more to do. Traveling from planet to planet. Some deep political plot lines instead of the typical kill 10000 critters, get a level and some plat. I was an EQ player for a good few months. I had three characters but never got past level 20. My biggest problem was the fact that the ONLY thing you could do to advance in the world was kill stuff. All that succeeded in doing was fighting bigger critters (usually with the same models) for more loot / xp. It seems that a MMRPG should be like a good game of D&D with 1400 players instead of 6. Some of us would be happy to be the barkeep. As long as I can get out once in a while, I don't need to be a hero all the time!
The deciding factor for me to get a Dreamcast was it's ability to output VGA graphics which were FAR superior to the regular NTSC output. Does anyone know if there is such an output for the PS2? How about any word on a Final Fantasy for it? Mike
The other thing that really chaps my ass about this whole subject is the fact that I hear Clinton is putting up some emergency internet security board on the subject. So Yahoo goes down for four hours and now the government is spending more money chasing shadows?
File this whole subject under You Gotta Be Kidding Me.
I completly agree. That totally cracked me up when I saw it. Like saying "Do you support a crazed internet tyrant who is bent on owning your soul? Yes No" Just cracked me up. I do agree that an OS that has 64000 bugs before it is even released has some problems. Anyone bet they go opensouce before the next release?
Enlight makes a mini-tower that can be used in a rack for about $140. It is deeper than a standard mini tower so your drives are seperated from your mobo. Not bad looking, but the Yeong Yang is far cooler.
I saw a briefing from the W3C at the last Builder.Com conference and he had some interesting things to say. Specifically he stated that the best uses he could see for XML right now are long term storage and data conversation. Without XQL being anything but vapor right now, searching and parsing it on the fly is a nightmare.
Just seems to me that with an Oracle 8i backend database that burns out static HTML if you need speed would be simpler than trying to incorporate an XML solution unless you needed multiple systems with different architectures to work with the same data. Even in that case you could just parse the database data into XML pages instead of HTML.
Dude, chill. I am running a friggin homepage. I don't want to start up friggin ebay on $10 a month. If downtime were a problem, I would have left Half Price Hosting in a second and gone to a real ISP and spent the cash. I am a believer that you get what you pay for. I don't expect more than $10 a month service.
In the world of full out ecommerce sites, this just isn't reasonable. These sites take in so much info, it isn't just slapping some HTML on your local machine. We are talking about hundreds of transactions a minute. Think about it. How would SlashDot keep a local copy? This isn't the world of homepages with pictures of your cat anymore. Ebay goes down for eight hours and their stock drops thirty points. That is the real world now-a-days.
I too am using Half Price Hosting and am not too impressed. I needed a cheap host that supported MS Access and Cold Fusion (ok, I suck, leave me be). Anyway, I was getting about 20% to 50% packet loss over a period of three days (Fri, Sat and Sun). I told them, they said they knew, and it didn't get fixed for a week. No email, no announcements, no nothing. Plus, their support isn't that good. I used their crappy online DSN form to set up a new database and had to call back twice to get it done. Now I am shopping for a cheap site ($10 a month) that gives me Mod_Perl, MySQL, Linux and DBI support. Basically I want everything SlashDot needs. Any recommendations?