the great thing is Gateway has enough clout to pull this off. And the more holes Gateway puts in the wall the more cracks smaller guys can squeese through.
Oh I agree that it will not be a MMO but I have never enjoyed Muds with more than 75 people.
I also played EQ and was disapointed. I have coded, read source and not world, on both Emlen and Diku style Muds and still think that if the scripting is good enough this will be better than EQ and much closer to a mud in my mind.
I have been a Mud fiend for years now and have always wanted to have a "GUI" one. When EQ came out I was disapointed. I have always thought games will be games and the Mud will be the end all to my role playing.
I hope that all changes with this game. I have such high hopes and I know a ton of fellow Mud people who think the same. Everything looks great and the scripting and DM capabilities...WOW.
" What will baby boomers do when it becomes obvious that Botox and Viagra are just the tip of the iceberg for the pharmagenetic sex-appeal industry?"
Well now.. When they can make all of us keyboard jockeys supermodel girlfriends/wives the dream will have become reality. Science is a great thing. oh yeah!
Every one who has a personal computer at work. take them home. I don't know if this will actually work or not. But hey how does the BSA get into your house to check out your personal computers without involving the police. And going to everyones personal house could be a huge pain in the bum.
Why is it that so many people find this amusing? What does it buy the person. I have never quite understood this.
It seems to me that the media has a giant hand in feeding this monster. Someone finds out that this can be done, not very hard, and figures since the media hypes it up soo much it must mean that it will make them elite.
It was the same way when I was growing up and people figured out how to write TSRs and append them to other.exe files. It made them hackers to the media to create a virus. And its not that hard. Do these people realize that it really isnt impressing anyone?
Oh well.. another rambling..
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I wonder if anyone has thought to put some of these features onto their tivo or something. If it would be as easy as a package install of a mp3 player and some other stuff why not use the hardware that was created to do this stuff. Im sure you could even smb to another larger server for stuff and have a web cgi and whatnot.
The more I think about it the more I like it. I wish I had half the knowledge it would take to pull something like that off.
Lots of startups that had great success with their smaller servers are now finding the loads way to high to maintain any reliability. I know of a company that was trying to run a POS server and was processing over a million transactions a day and couldn't keep up, with an outlook of millions more by the next year.
I am sure that there were better software solutions for them to try and all but IBM looked too good for them. Now they are running a tru Unix OS and are sooo pleased with the performance of the IBM main.
One thing you have to give to IBM is their stability. Just cant be beat. I know that a linux clustered could prolly do the same but most dont have the admins to even try to pull that off.
I dont think Unix will ever die. It might turn into a speciality market type thing but will never die.
So does the A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET sync up with anyone? Or is it the case that once it corrupted all the other ROOT-SERVERS.NET will become corrupted if not fixed before the twice daily push?
And as another question how does the A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET get updated at all?
One can only hope that if someone hacks the zone files on the A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET server or any other of the servers that major DNS providers would be notified as to change say A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET to M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. But I think having www.microsoft.com have an authorative answer of goatse.cx. The other good thing about an attack like that is that the root servers dont rebuild there zone files and push that often.
From the article the other day on root DNS servers. Story For the "internet" to be greatly affected multiple root servers must be brought down.
"The DNS is built so that eight or more of the world's 13 master root servers would have to fail before ordinary Internet users started to see slowdowns, according to John Crain, manager of technical operations for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)."
Here at work I pointed a couple of coworkers toward the previous articles on Kazaa. There response you might ask?
As long as I can get good download speed and have a large mp3 base what do I care?
Does this type of thinking occure elsewhere? I thought I worked with some bright people but they seem to think of their machines as black boxes and if they work great.
Why you ask did I not complete that project in the alloted time sched? Well let me tell you.
I sat down and designed a very efficient algoritm to fix the problem in a couple of hours. But after closer inspection I realized that I would be breaking a copywright by coding it up that way. So I went back to the drawing board and came up with a solution that was going to take me a week but that too was a copywright violation.
So I just made a bunch of spagat code and now I don't understand what I have done.
Just pay me!
I wish that my life was more like c++.. then all of my female friends would show me there private..
"In June 2001, the Federal Court of Appeals found Microsoft guilty of illegally abusing its monopoly power with respect to Sun and the Java platform."
Since Java first came out and started being a contender MS has spit at, called names, developed nasty bugs in software, and thumbed it's node at Sun. I hope that Sun gets a large settlement from MS even though I realize this will never happen.
Break up the MS pig I say. OS, Software, Gaming systems, PDA.. How many cookie jars does the fat kid need on his counter-top.
I think I need a va-k from all of the MS lawsuits and such.
That is alot of pipe for 2 days worth of downloads. 6000 x ~3.5megs per song = ~21000megs of download. I don't think that this was accomplished on a 56k modem.
I believe it is in bad taist to plug your agenda at an event like this.
I think I will go home tonight and "Hire" 3 friends of mine to download a hack of starcraft and play all night.
It seems to me that this is why web rings were started. The other thing that concerns me is what about the result speed. First you have to find a "good" page to start from and then follow its links ( and we all know they can get off topic really fast). Then if that one doesnt link to good pages start from another "good" page. nasty cycle.
I do believe it is a good idea but the person that thinks that all relevant pages link to more relevant pages has been taking more than harmless smoke breaks.
"It's more that SC (and the US in general) has a gentleman like this steering legislative policy on something that didn't even exist when he was celebrating his 60th birthday. I'm not saying older folks can't learn, but in this case, I think it's safe to say that SC is not going to become a technology center (nor will the United States remain one) as long as its legislators insist on kissing up to interests that have less consideration for the proper deployment of technology than they do for the protection of their short-term revenue streams."
-Amen
I know damn well that I do not want to be a senator, or even work in a position remotely like that. But I have to ask are there any people out there with the knowledge nessasay to perform these tasks willing to fill these positions? I know we have people out there who are looking out for their own skin (Money interests) and such. Where are our Tacos and Cowboys of the gov. Maybe I've been living in a box but who do I support?
My father is a nice man. I know lots of nice men but you know what they have no idea what they are talking about in these situations.
With news like this comming out it makes me wonder what these people who say that the WWW is going to die are thinking. With a base as large as that it is near imposible to kill it. Im sure there will be new tech that comes along and makes the WWW better faster and friendlier but die? I don't think so.
Now the problem is with all these people fighting over bandwidth when are chaeper faster pipes be available for us to use? When can I say hey there are 1 mill users hitting my site and there is no lag?
I also wonder what these people are looking at. 90% porn and the other 10% refrence material and such.
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the great thing is Gateway has enough clout to pull this off. And the more holes Gateway puts in the wall the more cracks smaller guys can squeese through.
Oh I agree that it will not be a MMO but I have never enjoyed Muds with more than 75 people.
I also played EQ and was disapointed. I have coded, read source and not world, on both Emlen and Diku style Muds and still think that if the scripting is good enough this will be better than EQ and much closer to a mud in my mind.
I have been a Mud fiend for years now and have always wanted to have a "GUI" one. When EQ came out I was disapointed. I have always thought games will be games and the Mud will be the end all to my role playing.
I hope that all changes with this game. I have such high hopes and I know a ton of fellow Mud people who think the same. Everything looks great and the scripting and DM capabilities...WOW.
I will never sleep again.
" What will baby boomers do when it becomes obvious that Botox and Viagra are just the tip of the iceberg for the pharmagenetic sex-appeal industry?"
Well now.. When they can make all of us keyboard jockeys supermodel girlfriends/wives the dream will have become reality. Science is a great thing. oh yeah!
Every one who has a personal computer at work. take them home. I don't know if this will actually work or not. But hey how does the BSA get into your house to check out your personal computers without involving the police. And going to everyones personal house could be a huge pain in the bum.
Rambling.....
still trying to buy a dialysis machine on ebay..
the dumb bastard is using paypal too!!
hey retard go here Global Dialysis
Why is it that so many people find this amusing? What does it buy the person. I have never quite understood this.
.exe files. It made them hackers to the media to create a virus. And its not that hard. Do these people realize that it really isnt impressing anyone?
It seems to me that the media has a giant hand in feeding this monster. Someone finds out that this can be done, not very hard, and figures since the media hypes it up soo much it must mean that it will make them elite.
It was the same way when I was growing up and people figured out how to write TSRs and append them to other
Oh well.. another rambling..
I wonder if anyone has thought to put some of these features onto their tivo or something. If it would be as easy as a package install of a mp3 player and some other stuff why not use the hardware that was created to do this stuff. Im sure you could even smb to another larger server for stuff and have a web cgi and whatnot.
The more I think about it the more I like it. I wish I had half the knowledge it would take to pull something like that off.
once again just my ramblings.
Lots of startups that had great success with their smaller servers are now finding the loads way to high to maintain any reliability. I know of a company that was trying to run a POS server and was processing over a million transactions a day and couldn't keep up, with an outlook of millions more by the next year.
:)
I am sure that there were better software solutions for them to try and all but IBM looked too good for them. Now they are running a tru Unix OS and are sooo pleased with the performance of the IBM main.
One thing you have to give to IBM is their stability. Just cant be beat. I know that a linux clustered could prolly do the same but most dont have the admins to even try to pull that off.
I dont think Unix will ever die. It might turn into a speciality market type thing but will never die.
Just my rambling
I see.
So does the A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET sync up with anyone? Or is it the case that once it corrupted all the other ROOT-SERVERS.NET will become corrupted if not fixed before the twice daily push?
And as another question how does the A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET get updated at all?
DJ
I totaly agree with this assesment.
One can only hope that if someone hacks the zone files on the A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET server or any other of the servers that major DNS providers would be notified as to change say A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET to M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. But I think having www.microsoft.com have an authorative answer of goatse.cx. The other good thing about an attack like that is that the root servers dont rebuild there zone files and push that often.
From the article the other day on root DNS servers.
Story
For the "internet" to be greatly affected multiple root servers must be brought down.
"The DNS is built so that eight or more of the world's 13 master root servers would have to fail before ordinary Internet users started to see slowdowns, according to John Crain, manager of technical operations for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)."
Here at work I pointed a couple of coworkers toward the previous articles on Kazaa. There response you might ask?
As long as I can get good download speed and have a large mp3 base what do I care?
Does this type of thinking occure elsewhere? I thought I worked with some bright people but they seem to think of their machines as black boxes and if they work great.
sigh.
"We've patented that way to think, sorry."
Why you ask did I not complete that project in the alloted time sched? Well let me tell you.
I sat down and designed a very efficient algoritm to fix the problem in a couple of hours. But after closer inspection I realized that I would be breaking a copywright by coding it up that way. So I went back to the drawing board and came up with a solution that was going to take me a week but that too was a copywright violation.
So I just made a bunch of spagat code and now I don't understand what I have done.
Just pay me!
I wish that my life was more like c++.. then all of my female friends would show me there private..
"In June 2001, the Federal Court of Appeals found Microsoft guilty of illegally abusing its monopoly power with respect to Sun and the Java platform."
Since Java first came out and started being a contender MS has spit at, called names, developed nasty bugs in software, and thumbed it's node at Sun. I hope that Sun gets a large settlement from MS even though I realize this will never happen.
Break up the MS pig I say. OS, Software, Gaming systems, PDA.. How many cookie jars does the fat kid need on his counter-top.
I think I need a va-k from all of the MS lawsuits and such.
I'm a karma whore ... mod me up!
I'm a karma whore ... mod me up!
I'm a karma whore ... mod me up!
I'm a karma whore ... mod me up!f
I'm a karma whore .. mod me up!
That is alot of pipe for 2 days worth of downloads. 6000 x ~3.5megs per song = ~21000megs of download. I don't think that this was accomplished on a 56k modem.
I believe it is in bad taist to plug your agenda at an event like this.
I think I will go home tonight and "Hire" 3 friends of mine to download a hack of starcraft and play all night.
the underpants gnomes got my boxers ...
It seems to me that this is why web rings were started. The other thing that concerns me is what about the result speed. First you have to find a "good" page to start from and then follow its links ( and we all know they can get off topic really fast). Then if that one doesnt link to good pages start from another "good" page. nasty cycle.
I do believe it is a good idea but the person that thinks that all relevant pages link to more relevant pages has been taking more than harmless smoke breaks.
"It's more that SC (and the US in general) has a gentleman like this steering legislative policy on something that didn't even exist when he was celebrating his 60th birthday. I'm not saying older folks can't learn, but in this case, I think it's safe to say that SC is not going to become a technology center (nor will the United States remain one) as long as its legislators insist on kissing up to interests that have less consideration for the proper deployment of technology than they do for the protection of their short-term revenue streams."
-Amen
I know damn well that I do not want to be a senator, or even work in a position remotely like that. But I have to ask are there any people out there with the knowledge nessasay to perform these tasks willing to fill these positions? I know we have people out there who are looking out for their own skin (Money interests) and such. Where are our Tacos and Cowboys of the gov. Maybe I've been living in a box but who do I support?
My father is a nice man. I know lots of nice men but you know what they have no idea what they are talking about in these situations.
oh well
With news like this comming out it makes me wonder what these people who say that the WWW is going to die are thinking. With a base as large as that it is near imposible to kill it. Im sure there will be new tech that comes along and makes the WWW better faster and friendlier but die? I don't think so.
Now the problem is with all these people fighting over bandwidth when are chaeper faster pipes be available for us to use? When can I say hey there are 1 mill users hitting my site and there is no lag?
I also wonder what these people are looking at. 90% porn and the other 10% refrence material and such.