A bunch of uncoordinated EC2 nodes hardly counts as a "hosting infrastructure".
EC2 nodes are just that: nodes. They're handy if you want to scale the cluster on-demand, but for a lot of the things people use them, they are more trouble that they're worth.
I'm quite glad Amazon doesn't offer fixed IPs on EC2, as that would encourage even more of these nonsensical setups.
- You have 50 domains. - You're running a multi-layered cluster of web servers on EC2 (why?!) - You're (ab)using a free DNS service
How hard could it possibly be for you to set up ONE conventional dedicated server as the front-end ? You could run your own DNS on there along with Pound/Varnish or whatever perverse setup you think you need. More importantly you shouldn't be using DNS as your node list... just write your own simple scripts to keep track of all your nodes, then you won't have to fight with DNS refresh issues at all, you can update your proxies instantly.
All these Amazon pay-as-you-go services are fascinating, but most people don't have a clue how to use them properly.
Boycotting doesn't do shit because only a tiny percentage of potential users will actually participate in the boycott. People just don't know, don't care, and don't have any goddamned self-control anymore.
At least a class-action suit will get some media attention, and maybe send a message to EA. The game sucks, the DRM sucks, and people are starting to hate EA's guts (it's about time!).
Hit them where it hurts: their public image, and their bottom line.
As far as i know, all Apple laptops use 6-bit TN screens.
The fun thing is Apple fanboys, when challenge, ignore/contest the quality reduction of using a 6-bit panel.
I'm not a Mac fan, and yet I'm kind of irritated by the cheap LCDs. The whole thing with Apple is they market their computers as high-end pretty multimedia workstations, to justify the high prices. If they're going to throw cheap-ass 6-bit panels in there, how can anyone take them seriously ?
There's not much in the way of "perceived value" when dealing with computers. You either have good hardware, or you don't. In an age where the difference between a cheap LCD and a very good one means a 20-25% premium, Apple's being absolutely moronic to go with the cheap stuff. At the OEM level it's maybe $50 more per unit, which is NEGLIGIBLE considering Apple's reputation is built on graphics.
They won't waste R&D resources, they'll just outsource it to the lowest bidder, and your fridge will fail spectacularly while delivering copious apologies in a funny accent.
So you're encouraging these technophiles to create disparate services for each device, rather than having one master control unit ?
I'd much rather surf/telnet into an all-knowing front-end that consolidates and dispatches requests to the individual gadgets, and can script them all as a group.
Supposing I'm a remote-cooking transient like yourself, I don't want to have to log into 5 different services just to shut off the kitchen appliances. In fact, I don't want to log in at all. I'd much rather phone it in, or text it in. Sitting down at someone else's PC or a public terminal, to log into something that can cause my home to burn down... god that's just stupid!
Yeah, but then we'd lose the opportunity to poke fun at those who don't get the sarcasm.
It's like that Family Guy episode:
Oh, you know, Lois, this movie has helped me understand a lot of things. Like that foreign guy at work who helped me understand sarcasm. - Huh, nice day we're having. - Oh, ho-ho! Yes! - What? - He say "Nice day," - but he covered with rain. - So? So, he say this when your brain know is not really nice day. Oh, yeah! Yes. He say the opposite. He's funny. Oh, yeah, I get it. "Nice day." Now you funny, too. Oh...
Hardly a day goes by that I don't telnet into one of the many mail servers I admin. Mail clients aren't exactly useful for troubleshooting, especially when they're being controlled by users.
I also do the same with web servers, which is a bit more work:) Again, it's all about seeing the raw un-idiofied output.
I'm guessing the GP is running separate X instances (no Twinview nor Xinerama), like me. You can't drag windows across screens with that kind of setup. Whichever screen a window was born on, that's where it'll stay. Even if you try to force it with "DISPLAY=:0.1/usr/bin/firefox" Firefox stubbornly opens a second window on the same screen as the first.
Me, I don't care much as I've pretty much dedicated the 2nd screen to VirtualBox (I'm tied to Outlook and Photoshop).
Hate to say it, but that's what I do. Linux is my main OS, and I've got VirtualBox running a stripped-down XP with Office 2007. I'm sure I could trim it down to 128mb RAM if I wanted, which is "a lot" for just email, but RAM is cheap and it's not like Web Dev is a memory-intensive workload.
You've just described every single Ask Slashdot, ever. It's always "How I can do something any way but the right way ?" with a side of "How can I do something that makes absolutely no sense"
There are obvious solutions to the OP's problem, he/she just doesn't want to follow common sense. Slashdot is not the place to ask this question, when there are many excellent forums that specialize in hosting.
It is standard practice, but only with the handful of old-school, respectable game houses that remain.
If anyone's bought any EA piece of shite lately, would they care to check the back of the instruction booklet to see if they still offer replacement media ?
If the store makes it physically impossible for you to bring the product along when you move into a new apartment, something's definitely not right.
When you own something, you own it. There is no license, there is only possession. You do whatever the hell you want with it.
Personally, I'm going to tell all PS3 owners "I told you so". This is Sony we're talking about. There is nothing nice, fair or friendly about Sony. They are a large company that has always been at the forefront of DRM, and overall customer-shafting tactics. They generate profit, which is their sole contractual responsibility. To expect them to side with the customer is pure folly. Sony has far too much influence on the various entertainment industries, and far too much clout to ever care about acting otherwise.
Well there was a bit more to it in Far Cry, as there were differences beyond just color tweaks. For example, Cartoon mode had exaggerated outlines and a subtle cel feel to it, while Paradise had super-bright blooms, more translucent water/leaves and more progressive shadowing. These were pixel shader effects that did much more than simple gamma adjustment.
The same thing could be added to D3, as they almost certainly have some sort of shader-based postprocessing already in place. It would be nice to have different shader programs to choose from, or even offer some relatively simple way for a modders to replace the shader scripts - let them design it to their liking, if they're willing to learn HLSL
more often than not the answer is that they don't have any
There's a big difference between an IT guy and a true geek. I'd say the ratio is 10:1, meaning you'd better work somewhere big and faceless if you have any hope of meeting gamers.
Me, I remember when the first WoW expansion was released. About half the techs called in sick, HR thought there was some bad flu epidemic! Hehe... but that was a shit job, really.
Really the best thing you can probably do is pop in a chat room or some gaming forums. Don't tell them I said this, but some torrent communities are pretty awesome for finding like-minded geeks. There's one in particular that has a (voluntary) Google map where people stick little pegs with their nick, so you can find out who's local to you. At that point, all you need to do is organize a meet & greet on wing night and get your little gamer club going.
How do you figure ? Here's my interpretation of wealth:
If I own three Ferraris, I have those Ferraris in my garage. They are mine. They do not mysteriously vanish if a bunch of Cletuses default on their mortages. In fact, even if all the banks of the world were to spontaneously die, I could still go for a ride in any one of my Ferraris.
The federal reserve act, after many amendments, now allows banks to lend a lot more money than they actually hold. If everyone were to head to the bank and withdraw even one-tenth of their balance in cash, the entire system would panic because they simply don't have that kind of money.
The fact that AIG will likely bounce back to normal "imaginary money" levels does not make any difference. That $85bn is a waste, a band-aid to make sure Joe Random doesn't figure out what's been going on and how it's going to ruin his life the next time around.
I strongly believe this panic is just one of many more to come. The foundation has been quaked, the next one will be more damaging, and so on until the whole empire collapses.
I fail to see why they couldn't add a toggle to activate a desaturating filter. That would shut up the art-school dropouts, and frankly I think it would be interesting to switch between the bright/colorful and dark modes.
Is it that difficult to implement brightness/contrast/gamma ? I'm thinking of Far Cry, which offered different rendering modes, some of them cold and bluish, others hyper-saturated and cartoony. It was a unique feature at the time, so why can't Blizzard just copy that ?
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So then Windows is in Epsilon testing ?
A bunch of uncoordinated EC2 nodes hardly counts as a "hosting infrastructure".
EC2 nodes are just that: nodes. They're handy if you want to scale the cluster on-demand, but for a lot of the things people use them, they are more trouble that they're worth.
I'm quite glad Amazon doesn't offer fixed IPs on EC2, as that would encourage even more of these nonsensical setups.
Let's look at the facts:
- You have 50 domains.
- You're running a multi-layered cluster of web servers on EC2 (why?!)
- You're (ab)using a free DNS service
How hard could it possibly be for you to set up ONE conventional dedicated server as the front-end ? You could run your own DNS on there along with Pound/Varnish or whatever perverse setup you think you need. More importantly you shouldn't be using DNS as your node list... just write your own simple scripts to keep track of all your nodes, then you won't have to fight with DNS refresh issues at all, you can update your proxies instantly.
All these Amazon pay-as-you-go services are fascinating, but most people don't have a clue how to use them properly.
Boycotting doesn't do shit because only a tiny percentage of potential users will actually participate in the boycott. People just don't know, don't care, and don't have any goddamned self-control anymore.
At least a class-action suit will get some media attention, and maybe send a message to EA. The game sucks, the DRM sucks, and people are starting to hate EA's guts (it's about time!).
Hit them where it hurts: their public image, and their bottom line.
As far as i know, all Apple laptops use 6-bit TN screens.
The fun thing is Apple fanboys, when challenge, ignore/contest the quality reduction of using a 6-bit panel.
I'm not a Mac fan, and yet I'm kind of irritated by the cheap LCDs. The whole thing with Apple is they market their computers as high-end pretty multimedia workstations, to justify the high prices. If they're going to throw cheap-ass 6-bit panels in there, how can anyone take them seriously ?
There's not much in the way of "perceived value" when dealing with computers. You either have good hardware, or you don't. In an age where the difference between a cheap LCD and a very good one means a 20-25% premium, Apple's being absolutely moronic to go with the cheap stuff. At the OEM level it's maybe $50 more per unit, which is NEGLIGIBLE considering Apple's reputation is built on graphics.
Idiots, amazingly smug idiots.
They won't waste R&D resources, they'll just outsource it to the lowest bidder, and your fridge will fail spectacularly while delivering copious apologies in a funny accent.
Crockpot ? More like crackpot!
So you're encouraging these technophiles to create disparate services for each device, rather than having one master control unit ?
I'd much rather surf/telnet into an all-knowing front-end that consolidates and dispatches requests to the individual gadgets, and can script them all as a group.
Supposing I'm a remote-cooking transient like yourself, I don't want to have to log into 5 different services just to shut off the kitchen appliances. In fact, I don't want to log in at all. I'd much rather phone it in, or text it in. Sitting down at someone else's PC or a public terminal, to log into something that can cause my home to burn down... god that's just stupid!
So have you ever been stuck in such a pickle ?
There's always proxies! Or you could figure out why you've got so many redundant services in the first place, and trim the fat.
Have they considered the possibility that some of the students deliberately clicked "Yes" to mess with the study ?
If it were a "normal" spam popup, instead of one that says "You're a fucking toothless moron", I think I would trust the results more.
Yep same here. Thunderbird occasionally goes helen-keller on me. It almost seems like the IMAP fetching thread gets stuck and never recovers.
Ah well, if Mozilla apps didn't have bugs... um, <insert witty comment>
Yeah, but then we'd lose the opportunity to poke fun at those who don't get the sarcasm.
It's like that Family Guy episode:
Oh, you know, Lois, this movie has helped me understand a lot of things.
Like that foreign guy at work who helped me understand sarcasm.
- Huh, nice day we're having. - Oh, ho-ho! Yes!
- What? - He say "Nice day,"
- but he covered with rain. - So?
So, he say this when your brain know is not really nice day.
Oh, yeah!
Yes. He say the opposite. He's funny.
Oh, yeah, I get it. "Nice day."
Now you funny, too. Oh...
Hardly a day goes by that I don't telnet into one of the many mail servers I admin. Mail clients aren't exactly useful for troubleshooting, especially when they're being controlled by users.
I also do the same with web servers, which is a bit more work :) Again, it's all about seeing the raw un-idiofied output.
Yes and no.
I'm guessing the GP is running separate X instances (no Twinview nor Xinerama), like me. You can't drag windows across screens with that kind of setup. Whichever screen a window was born on, that's where it'll stay. Even if you try to force it with "DISPLAY=:0.1 /usr/bin/firefox" Firefox stubbornly opens a second window on the same screen as the first.
Me, I don't care much as I've pretty much dedicated the 2nd screen to VirtualBox (I'm tied to Outlook and Photoshop).
I'll second this.
Alternately you can use NLite (www.nliteos.com) to take your existing XP CD and strip it down.
Hate to say it, but that's what I do. Linux is my main OS, and I've got VirtualBox running a stripped-down XP with Office 2007. I'm sure I could trim it down to 128mb RAM if I wanted, which is "a lot" for just email, but RAM is cheap and it's not like Web Dev is a memory-intensive workload.
You've just described every single Ask Slashdot, ever. It's always "How I can do something any way but the right way ?" with a side of "How can I do something that makes absolutely no sense"
There are obvious solutions to the OP's problem, he/she just doesn't want to follow common sense. Slashdot is not the place to ask this question, when there are many excellent forums that specialize in hosting.
In 2008, failing to Google should be a felony.
It is standard practice, but only with the handful of old-school, respectable game houses that remain.
If anyone's bought any EA piece of shite lately, would they care to check the back of the instruction booklet to see if they still offer replacement media ?
If you throw it away, fine.
If the store makes it physically impossible for you to bring the product along when you move into a new apartment, something's definitely not right.
When you own something, you own it. There is no license, there is only possession. You do whatever the hell you want with it.
Personally, I'm going to tell all PS3 owners "I told you so". This is Sony we're talking about. There is nothing nice, fair or friendly about Sony. They are a large company that has always been at the forefront of DRM, and overall customer-shafting tactics. They generate profit, which is their sole contractual responsibility. To expect them to side with the customer is pure folly. Sony has far too much influence on the various entertainment industries, and far too much clout to ever care about acting otherwise.
Well there was a bit more to it in Far Cry, as there were differences beyond just color tweaks. For example, Cartoon mode had exaggerated outlines and a subtle cel feel to it, while Paradise had super-bright blooms, more translucent water/leaves and more progressive shadowing. These were pixel shader effects that did much more than simple gamma adjustment.
The same thing could be added to D3, as they almost certainly have some sort of shader-based postprocessing already in place. It would be nice to have different shader programs to choose from, or even offer some relatively simple way for a modders to replace the shader scripts - let them design it to their liking, if they're willing to learn HLSL
Yep that's the feeling I get as well. If Comcast wanted to play nice, they'd simply throttle after the cap was reached.
Frankly, if some kiddie was chugging 250gb of furry pr0n each month, I'd limit that user to 128kbit.
more often than not the answer is that they don't have any
There's a big difference between an IT guy and a true geek. I'd say the ratio is 10:1, meaning you'd better work somewhere big and faceless if you have any hope of meeting gamers.
Me, I remember when the first WoW expansion was released. About half the techs called in sick, HR thought there was some bad flu epidemic! Hehe... but that was a shit job, really.
Really the best thing you can probably do is pop in a chat room or some gaming forums. Don't tell them I said this, but some torrent communities are pretty awesome for finding like-minded geeks. There's one in particular that has a (voluntary) Google map where people stick little pegs with their nick, so you can find out who's local to you. At that point, all you need to do is organize a meet & greet on wing night and get your little gamer club going.
AIG is good for the money
How do you figure ? Here's my interpretation of wealth:
If I own three Ferraris, I have those Ferraris in my garage. They are mine. They do not mysteriously vanish if a bunch of Cletuses default on their mortages. In fact, even if all the banks of the world were to spontaneously die, I could still go for a ride in any one of my Ferraris.
The federal reserve act, after many amendments, now allows banks to lend a lot more money than they actually hold. If everyone were to head to the bank and withdraw even one-tenth of their balance in cash, the entire system would panic because they simply don't have that kind of money.
The fact that AIG will likely bounce back to normal "imaginary money" levels does not make any difference. That $85bn is a waste, a band-aid to make sure Joe Random doesn't figure out what's been going on and how it's going to ruin his life the next time around.
I strongly believe this panic is just one of many more to come. The foundation has been quaked, the next one will be more damaging, and so on until the whole empire collapses.
I'd rather see him work in a bank, than have him screw up my Big Mac.
You foolishly underestimate the power of emacs, young grasshopper.
I fail to see why they couldn't add a toggle to activate a desaturating filter. That would shut up the art-school dropouts, and frankly I think it would be interesting to switch between the bright/colorful and dark modes.
Is it that difficult to implement brightness/contrast/gamma ? I'm thinking of Far Cry, which offered different rendering modes, some of them cold and bluish, others hyper-saturated and cartoony. It was a unique feature at the time, so why can't Blizzard just copy that ?