was getting a little tired of all the pink crap on/. I mean, next time cant ya'll pick a color thats slightly more condusive.
I liked 2 or 3 years ago on slashdot, when they still made slashdot look... normal, and act normal. Ya know, like posting news, to obvious fakes, but still posting news. Last year's dupe on dupe sucked, and the pink ponies was stupid. April Fools should be about hoaxes and practicle jokes, and turning the SITE PINK DOESNT COUNT!@!!!@!23113 OMG PONIE RUSH!
Actually AT&T (or SBC or whom ever they are now) I belive has something similar to this offered for their land lines. It was something like, if you called with caller id blocked you could either punch in a magic number - or - anounce your name to the recording system. That system would then ring the home line and play that recorded name back to you - so you could answer it if you wanted to or not.
Extremly unfriendly, but I hear it helped some people.
Indeed. Like most racing games now adays have advertising in them, because thats how it is in real life. I assume other sports games are like this (but I wouldnt know). Planetside with adverts are way out of place, but MxO with adverts makes sense.
As for the nascar MMORPG - its called Auto Assult - just keep driving to the left and you have the NASCAR minigame.
Ya know what I'd like to say "Bullshit, I'm never gonna pay for a game that has advertisements". But the reality is thats not going to make a difference. Just look at TV. Most people pay around 50$ (or more) a month, and there are 15mn+ of commercials per hour.
At least with in game ads they aren't stopping you from playing. You can just walk right past them. And if this helps the companies put out better games cause they can afford to spend more time in devel becaues they are making X more per month per person - well great. (And Frankly, I'd rather see adverts than pay more than 15$ a month per MMOG)
I have a similar situation on my hands. Though I'm not given much of a budget. I either make (aka program) or use open source. I've found a great tool for documentation is a Wiki - especially if other people interact with it (but mainly cause its simple and has history). I use KeePass for passwords - also a great tool. As for asset tracking, I dont have a suggestion on cause I use my companies own product for that.
Why does everyone hate this game so much?
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I have Full Auto - I bought it the first day it came out. Every review I've read is negative. I just dont get it. Yes, full auto is Oblivion, it doesnt have hundreds of hours of single player game. But ya know what, when I get home from work, tired, maybe a little bit frustraited - its A HELL OF A LOT OF FUN TO BLOW STUFF UP.
Thats what this game is made for, its not Project Gotham, its not Oblivion - its a game about blowing stuff up. If you don't like blowing stuff up, fine - but dont call it a bad game.
Over here, in the small software company I work for - we specifically use skype for all intra company communication. We have a number of offsite works and this helps alot.
First I'd recomend using a size formating in your question that better fits your situation like "At least 250GB, probably 500GB, but with some room to grow".
On to solutions. Buy yourself a big case (you can do rackmount or regular "large" ATX cases) and stick a decent computer in there. Add Gigabit NIC. Add an 8 port 3ware SATA Raid controller (configured to RAID5). Add 4 120GB 7200RPM SATA Drives (or what ever you can find cheap, even 200GB drives are relativly cheap these days). Install Linux, share your harddrive using Samba. Done.
You have 4 extra ports to expand your RAID if you need too, or you could get bigger harddrives. I think 3Ware cards can support up to 2TB of HD space - so that gives you some expandability. Plus you have a RAID5 which has fault tollerence built in.
I'd agree - may not with in 1/5 of a second, but relativly quickly. Normally I make my judgement on a site with in a few seconds. To be fair though, with so many websites out there on the internet, why do I have to stay on a site that I dont like at first glance - I can find 20 more that will appeal to me with in 1 google.
Regardless of this - I highly doubt MS is gonna give MMOG players a free or reduced cost Live. They are two completly different systems - and MS is going to be making their money off of Live.
Ok fine - always knew they were screwed up. Lets got ask a reliable source.
"Europe passed well over 600 million people before the turn of the 20th century, but now is entering a period of population decline, for a variety of social factors." - Wikipedia
Or if we want to get technical what about the EU specifically: "The European Union has 25 member states, an area of 3,892,685 km and approximately 460 million EU citizens as of December 2004." - Wikipedia
The answer is simple - PoE (Power Over Ethernet). Just give everything a cat5 connection - they've done it with electric shavers just for kicks. Yes, you have to Cat5 everything - but who cares as in a few years you'll have to connect everything in your house to the internet anyways.
Actually it is legal in most of nevada - it is illegal in cities. So any area which is not inside "city limits" (which in nevada is kept preety close in, where the majority of the population is) its legal to have a brothell in. Which is why you see the brothells AROUND carson city (state capital) and not IN the capital.
Personally I opt for clustering over fualt-tollerance - but thats my personal choice. It really depends on what the machine(s) will be doing. If you have a database server - fault tollerence (because I have yet to meet a clustering DB solution that didnt suck). But if your building a webserver - cluster.
Also the one thing the article mentions is that clustering is just as expensive as fault-tollerence due to software licesing. Last I checked if its one copy of Debian + Apache + MySQL + Perl or 200 copies - its going to cost me the same price (free). And windows doesnt support clustering yet - in any decent way shape or form - so I dont see the problem here.
I'd have to say it would be rather intresting to see the site stats for these sites. Does traffic spike after news like this comes out for a TiVo?
I personally dont have a tivo (hell, I dont have cable or satalite or anything), but after news like this I'd very very very worried about getting one. I'd build a MythTV - or find someone to build/sell me one (if I wasnt capable) - I'm sure there are plently of people selling pre-build MythTV boxes.
Yes - Its great to see a drive thats not actually half a terrabyte (because 1024/2 = 512 != 500) but getting close to such a mark. My question is - does it really have to be such and uber preforming drive?
In my data server I have one good, fast drive (or some times two in a raid 1) running the OS and all regularly access files. Then I stick the big slow drives in for storing files for long term. Maybe thats just because I dont activly need 500gigs of data - but I'd rather see tests about how well it stands up to stress, heat, and etc - indicators on how long the drive will last.
defenetly a little extreme, but as the other replier stated that water wont stop thermite very quickly. In reality you dont need that much distructive power to distroy a harddrive.
If I had my way, I'd just put a small shapped charge ontop of the harddrive. Small enough to distroy the harddrive (and probably some other stuff in the machine w/ fragmentation) but not big enough to blow up the entire machine. Cases are preety well built now adays, and with some re-enforcement they could take a small shapped explosion (that was not pointed at them). But this is all under the guise that you can get your hands on all this stuff.
What can the real person do to protect themselves is a better question. What quick/distructive meathods are there for the real person.
What devices are you going to be needing? I generally find that when I am going to a place that doesnt have power - dont bring anything that requires it. If you say GPS - bring extra batteries, unless your going for very long time.
Also - please dont say cell phone. If you are far enough to not have power - you problably wont have cell signarl.
I think google if they linked in extra services (search results over IM? Its been done by bot before). Plus cant you connect to aim via jabber on some servers?
I'd like to see what google comes out with as a client, and what "features" they'll offer. Getting an IM notice of newly arrived email would be cool (Yes there is the desktop thinger, but IM's would be cooler)
Its good for the people that knew you. By 2120 (115 years from now) how many people that you knew are still going to be alive? Until we invent some radicle new tech to keep us alive over 100+ years - its not a big deal. My family & friend can watch the video & by the time THEY are dead - so will the LCD.
There is very little done that I know of that requires millisecond accuracy. I'd be willing to testify that the times were syncronized with in +/- 1 second on all the machines in the office.
If you think your machines are synced closer than that... your probably lieing. Remember that the internal clocks run at slightly different rates between hardware vendors. While two nearly identicle machines will slow down at the same rate (which is fine), two machines from different companies will speed up/slow down at different rates. I once had two machines that were only sync'd about once a day. One would gain over a minnutes everday and the other would loose about 5 seconds.
Unless you have every single machine plugged into a GPS/radio time unit - or syncronizing every minute... there is just no way to be sure that every machine in a mixed hardware enviroment is exactly the same time.
Does this really matter? I mean NTP works, which is great, so do I really need to understand the "meta-philosophy" behind NTP? All I know is that I have the two Domain Controllers sync to 6 outside machines (reliable servers), and all the machines internally sync off thoes two.
All the computers in the network are within a second of eachother - and thats good nuff for me.
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was getting a little tired of all the pink crap on /. I mean, next time cant ya'll pick a color thats slightly more condusive.
I liked 2 or 3 years ago on slashdot, when they still made slashdot look... normal, and act normal. Ya know, like posting news, to obvious fakes, but still posting news. Last year's dupe on dupe sucked, and the pink ponies was stupid. April Fools should be about hoaxes and practicle jokes, and turning the SITE PINK DOESNT COUNT!@!!!@!23113 OMG PONIE RUSH!
I wish, it would be really cool to see a Starcraft MMO. Now If-Only ghost would come out first.
Actually AT&T (or SBC or whom ever they are now) I belive has something similar to this offered for their land lines. It was something like, if you called with caller id blocked you could either punch in a magic number - or - anounce your name to the recording system. That system would then ring the home line and play that recorded name back to you - so you could answer it if you wanted to or not.
Extremly unfriendly, but I hear it helped some people.
Indeed. Like most racing games now adays have advertising in them, because thats how it is in real life. I assume other sports games are like this (but I wouldnt know). Planetside with adverts are way out of place, but MxO with adverts makes sense.
As for the nascar MMORPG - its called Auto Assult - just keep driving to the left and you have the NASCAR minigame.
Ya know what I'd like to say "Bullshit, I'm never gonna pay for a game that has advertisements". But the reality is thats not going to make a difference. Just look at TV. Most people pay around 50$ (or more) a month, and there are 15mn+ of commercials per hour.
At least with in game ads they aren't stopping you from playing. You can just walk right past them. And if this helps the companies put out better games cause they can afford to spend more time in devel becaues they are making X more per month per person - well great. (And Frankly, I'd rather see adverts than pay more than 15$ a month per MMOG)
I have a similar situation on my hands. Though I'm not given much of a budget. I either make (aka program) or use open source. I've found a great tool for documentation is a Wiki - especially if other people interact with it (but mainly cause its simple and has history). I use KeePass for passwords - also a great tool. As for asset tracking, I dont have a suggestion on cause I use my companies own product for that.
I have Full Auto - I bought it the first day it came out. Every review I've read is negative. I just dont get it. Yes, full auto is Oblivion, it doesnt have hundreds of hours of single player game. But ya know what, when I get home from work, tired, maybe a little bit frustraited - its A HELL OF A LOT OF FUN TO BLOW STUFF UP.
Thats what this game is made for, its not Project Gotham, its not Oblivion - its a game about blowing stuff up. If you don't like blowing stuff up, fine - but dont call it a bad game.
Over here, in the small software company I work for - we specifically use skype for all intra company communication. We have a number of offsite works and this helps alot.
First I'd recomend using a size formating in your question that better fits your situation like "At least 250GB, probably 500GB, but with some room to grow".
On to solutions. Buy yourself a big case (you can do rackmount or regular "large" ATX cases) and stick a decent computer in there. Add Gigabit NIC. Add an 8 port 3ware SATA Raid controller (configured to RAID5). Add 4 120GB 7200RPM SATA Drives (or what ever you can find cheap, even 200GB drives are relativly cheap these days). Install Linux, share your harddrive using Samba. Done.
You have 4 extra ports to expand your RAID if you need too, or you could get bigger harddrives. I think 3Ware cards can support up to 2TB of HD space - so that gives you some expandability. Plus you have a RAID5 which has fault tollerence built in.
I'd agree - may not with in 1/5 of a second, but relativly quickly. Normally I make my judgement on a site with in a few seconds. To be fair though, with so many websites out there on the internet, why do I have to stay on a site that I dont like at first glance - I can find 20 more that will appeal to me with in 1 google.
No - you wont have to pay for Live Gold. If you look at http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/memberships/ it says that Silver can go on MMOG's.
Regardless of this - I highly doubt MS is gonna give MMOG players a free or reduced cost Live. They are two completly different systems - and MS is going to be making their money off of Live.
Ok fine - always knew they were screwed up. Lets got ask a reliable source.
"Europe passed well over 600 million people before the turn of the 20th century, but now is entering a period of population decline, for a variety of social factors." - Wikipedia
Or if we want to get technical what about the EU specifically: "The European Union has 25 member states, an area of 3,892,685 km and approximately 460 million EU citizens as of December 2004." - Wikipedia
Last I checked there were only 6 billion people on earth - so 450 billion people in europe in the last month would be a intrest feat.
(On a related note - why do they have a "mail us if you see something wrong" when it doesnt do anything to email them)
The answer is simple - PoE (Power Over Ethernet). Just give everything a cat5 connection - they've done it with electric shavers just for kicks. Yes, you have to Cat5 everything - but who cares as in a few years you'll have to connect everything in your house to the internet anyways.
(but it beats have wallwarts everywhere)
Actually it is legal in most of nevada - it is illegal in cities. So any area which is not inside "city limits" (which in nevada is kept preety close in, where the majority of the population is) its legal to have a brothell in. Which is why you see the brothells AROUND carson city (state capital) and not IN the capital.
Personally I opt for clustering over fualt-tollerance - but thats my personal choice. It really depends on what the machine(s) will be doing. If you have a database server - fault tollerence (because I have yet to meet a clustering DB solution that didnt suck). But if your building a webserver - cluster.
Also the one thing the article mentions is that clustering is just as expensive as fault-tollerence due to software licesing. Last I checked if its one copy of Debian + Apache + MySQL + Perl or 200 copies - its going to cost me the same price (free). And windows doesnt support clustering yet - in any decent way shape or form - so I dont see the problem here.
I'd have to say it would be rather intresting to see the site stats for these sites. Does traffic spike after news like this comes out for a TiVo?
I personally dont have a tivo (hell, I dont have cable or satalite or anything), but after news like this I'd very very very worried about getting one. I'd build a MythTV - or find someone to build/sell me one (if I wasnt capable) - I'm sure there are plently of people selling pre-build MythTV boxes.
Yes - Its great to see a drive thats not actually half a terrabyte (because 1024/2 = 512 != 500) but getting close to such a mark. My question is - does it really have to be such and uber preforming drive?
In my data server I have one good, fast drive (or some times two in a raid 1) running the OS and all regularly access files. Then I stick the big slow drives in for storing files for long term. Maybe thats just because I dont activly need 500gigs of data - but I'd rather see tests about how well it stands up to stress, heat, and etc - indicators on how long the drive will last.
defenetly a little extreme, but as the other replier stated that water wont stop thermite very quickly. In reality you dont need that much distructive power to distroy a harddrive.
If I had my way, I'd just put a small shapped charge ontop of the harddrive. Small enough to distroy the harddrive (and probably some other stuff in the machine w/ fragmentation) but not big enough to blow up the entire machine. Cases are preety well built now adays, and with some re-enforcement they could take a small shapped explosion (that was not pointed at them). But this is all under the guise that you can get your hands on all this stuff.
What can the real person do to protect themselves is a better question. What quick/distructive meathods are there for the real person.
What devices are you going to be needing? I generally find that when I am going to a place that doesnt have power - dont bring anything that requires it. If you say GPS - bring extra batteries, unless your going for very long time.
Also - please dont say cell phone. If you are far enough to not have power - you problably wont have cell signarl.
Wasnt there mention of google making a Google branded version of firefox in the past? So thats possible.
They could make a google branded open office.
Will they buy oracle? No 'cause its not open source.
I think google if they linked in extra services (search results over IM? Its been done by bot before). Plus cant you connect to aim via jabber on some servers?
I'd like to see what google comes out with as a client, and what "features" they'll offer. Getting an IM notice of newly arrived email would be cool (Yes there is the desktop thinger, but IM's would be cooler)
Its good for the people that knew you. By 2120 (115 years from now) how many people that you knew are still going to be alive? Until we invent some radicle new tech to keep us alive over 100+ years - its not a big deal. My family & friend can watch the video & by the time THEY are dead - so will the LCD.
There is very little done that I know of that requires millisecond accuracy. I'd be willing to testify that the times were syncronized with in +/- 1 second on all the machines in the office.
... there is just no way to be sure that every machine in a mixed hardware enviroment is exactly the same time.
If you think your machines are synced closer than that... your probably lieing. Remember that the internal clocks run at slightly different rates between hardware vendors. While two nearly identicle machines will slow down at the same rate (which is fine), two machines from different companies will speed up/slow down at different rates. I once had two machines that were only sync'd about once a day. One would gain over a minnutes everday and the other would loose about 5 seconds.
Unless you have every single machine plugged into a GPS/radio time unit - or syncronizing every minute
Does this really matter? I mean NTP works, which is great, so do I really need to understand the "meta-philosophy" behind NTP? All I know is that I have the two Domain Controllers sync to 6 outside machines (reliable servers), and all the machines internally sync off thoes two.
All the computers in the network are within a second of eachother - and thats good nuff for me.