Actually, Adam's previous web server, running over SLIP at 38400, was slashdotted and survived just fine. It'll be interesting to see if the ethernet version will handle the load without crashing:)
I might be wrong, but doesn't Starcraft allow LAN games over TCP/IP? Myth certainly did. But if it's like you say, and setting up a free bnet server is the only reasonable way for you to play the games you bought, the defense lawyers have something to work with.
Unless something's changed in the last couple of years (I haven't been a battle.net user since the Myth days), it's only a way of finding other players. Once the game is off, the clients talk to eachother directly and not through battle.net. Any lag you experience should be between you and the players, and not have anything to do with battle.net itself. That's how I understand it anyway.
We realize that all attempts to combat piracy are futile. We put these schemes in place more to frustrate legitimate users than to stop determined people from copying our software.
But I don't see how it frustrates legitimate users. Battle.net has always been smooth for me; of course no server ever works perfectly, but the free servers does make it too easy for people to pirate the game. Separating authentication might solve the problem, but that's NOT trivial -- you don't want rogue bnet server admins snooping CD keys or anything like that.
From a business perspective (which, as always, has more to do with stuff than we'd like) the free servers are a really bad idea for Bungie. Keeping their customers close allows them to build a community tied to their company. As a business that's much more valuable than something like the fragmented quake/whatever community.
Now, if Battle.net actually sucked I'd be more upset...
As far as I can tell they actually have legitimate reasons to shut them down, Battle.net is part of their copy protection. If you bought the game are there any reasons why you would want to play on other bnet servers than the official one?
But how does this compare to the unofficial Ultima Online shards? I don't think EA has shut them down, though I haven't followed the news in the Ultima world for a long time.
"The cache has been reduced from 256 to 128 KB/sec, which shouldn't be overloaded. The wait times in dedicated programming on a dedicated platform have nothing to do with the PC, where the CPU spends its time fishing for information, in every sense of the word. To better understand this, it's enough to compare it with the Mac, which, because of its more closed architecture, also makes do with less cache."
wtf?
And does it mention anything at all that hasn't been said before?
Lovely placeholders, but wouldn't it make more sense to have actual screenshots of the codec in action? The web page is totally devoid of any useful information.
Trolled. If you compare drives at eg storagereview.com you'll see that both IDE and SCSI use something silly like 0.4% CPU when benchmarked. Here's an example:
IOMeter Tests CPU Util IBM Ultrastar 36Z15 (U160 SCSI) 0.48% IBM Deskstar 60GXP (ATA-100) 0.35%
So what's the deal, is ATA133 a viable alternative to SCSI in low end (1-2 CPU) servers? Does it play nice even at high loads? Will I get decent performance even when all drives are accessed all the time (RAID 0+1 on a busy NFS server)? Does it support hotswapping?
And when is SerialATA due? Those stiff cables aren't any fun at all.
That's exactly what happened with my 20 GB IBM 75GXP. For some reason the drive motor doesn't start up and all you get is a clicking sound. I managed to get it to work by gently knocking on the HD, which gave me an opportunity to back up the data to a fresh drive. It's actually worked fine since, but I just use it for temporary storage.
Studios? Mastering? Why would they be interested in MDs? Any audio technician with half a braincell wouldn't ever use a compressed format during production. MD is an end user format.
As for ATRAC quality, it's true that the early versions sounded kinda crap and that the players were too expensive. But with recent versions (3.5 and derivates) sound quality is good and you can get a decent MD walkman for $175. It's certainly a good replacement for hissy old cassette tapes.
Everyone should know that CygnusED is the One True Editor. All the power you need, newbie friendly UI without sacrificing power for gurus, scripting ability through Arexx, and keyboard shortcuts that actually make sense. Could someone PLEASE port it to UNIX and Windows? Pretty please?
Perfect for PDAs though, you can synch a lot of email and web pages with a MB. And still a lot cheaper than being charged per minute, which is what's keeping me from doing it now.
Yeah, well, what makes you think the script kiddies won't DoS the other networks once EFnet's gone?
I've been on EFnet for 8 years now, and it's sad to see a bunch of wankers destroy it.
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Actually, Adam's previous web server, running over SLIP at 38400, was slashdotted and survived just fine. It'll be interesting to see if the ethernet version will handle the load without crashing :)
I might be wrong, but doesn't Starcraft allow LAN games over TCP/IP? Myth certainly did. But if it's like you say, and setting up a free bnet server is the only reasonable way for you to play the games you bought, the defense lawyers have something to work with.
Unless something's changed in the last couple of years (I haven't been a battle.net user since the Myth days), it's only a way of finding other players. Once the game is off, the clients talk to eachother directly and not through battle.net. Any lag you experience should be between you and the players, and not have anything to do with battle.net itself. That's how I understand it anyway.
But I don't see how it frustrates legitimate users. Battle.net has always been smooth for me; of course no server ever works perfectly, but the free servers does make it too easy for people to pirate the game. Separating authentication might solve the problem, but that's NOT trivial -- you don't want rogue bnet server admins snooping CD keys or anything like that.
From a business perspective (which, as always, has more to do with stuff than we'd like) the free servers are a really bad idea for Bungie. Keeping their customers close allows them to build a community tied to their company. As a business that's much more valuable than something like the fragmented quake/whatever community.
Now, if Battle.net actually sucked I'd be more upset...
As far as I can tell they actually have legitimate reasons to shut them down, Battle.net is part of their copy protection. If you bought the game are there any reasons why you would want to play on other bnet servers than the official one?
But how does this compare to the unofficial Ultima Online shards? I don't think EA has shut them down, though I haven't followed the news in the Ultima world for a long time.
wtf?
And does it mention anything at all that hasn't been said before?
Lovely placeholders, but wouldn't it make more sense to have actual screenshots of the codec in action? The web page is totally devoid of any useful information.
Yet another video codec. Does anyone really care?
IOMeter Tests CPU Util
IBM Ultrastar 36Z15 (U160 SCSI) 0.48%
IBM Deskstar 60GXP (ATA-100) 0.35%
So what's the deal, is ATA133 a viable alternative to SCSI in low end (1-2 CPU) servers? Does it play nice even at high loads? Will I get decent performance even when all drives are accessed all the time (RAID 0+1 on a busy NFS server)? Does it support hotswapping?
And when is SerialATA due? Those stiff cables aren't any fun at all.
That's exactly what happened with my 20 GB IBM 75GXP. For some reason the drive motor doesn't start up and all you get is a clicking sound. I managed to get it to work by gently knocking on the HD, which gave me an opportunity to back up the data to a fresh drive. It's actually worked fine since, but I just use it for temporary storage.
Studios? Mastering? Why would they be interested in MDs? Any audio technician with half a braincell wouldn't ever use a compressed format during production. MD is an end user format.
As for ATRAC quality, it's true that the early versions sounded kinda crap and that the players were too expensive. But with recent versions (3.5 and derivates) sound quality is good and you can get a decent MD walkman for $175. It's certainly a good replacement for hissy old cassette tapes.
Everyone should know that CygnusED is the One True Editor. All the power you need, newbie friendly UI without sacrificing power for gurus, scripting ability through Arexx, and keyboard shortcuts that actually make sense. Could someone PLEASE port it to UNIX and Windows? Pretty please?
And you should know better than to take a first post seriously.
Damn, there goes my karma.
Fancy that, they do come up with stuff by themselves sometimes. Who'da thunk?
Heh, I remember when webcrawler was new and cool and Yahoo was hosted on a .edu address. Kinda weird that it's ancient history now...
Perfect for PDAs though, you can synch a lot of email and web pages with a MB. And still a lot cheaper than being charged per minute, which is what's keeping me from doing it now.
So, uh, is that some kind of back projection or are you supposed to peep through the projector rack? Great potential for shadow puppets though.
Ever heard the term "lost case"? So long and thanks for all the mp3s.
Yeah, well, what makes you think the script kiddies won't DoS the other networks once EFnet's gone? I've been on EFnet for 8 years now, and it's sad to see a bunch of wankers destroy it.