I use it as well. Teamspeak is very handy for chating and gaming, and I also find it easy to set up. For a firewall you need to open port 8767 UDP on the client end, and that shouldn't be too hard.
On my linksys Wap11 go to the admin url http://192.168.1.1/ login with the passowrd (defaults to admin, or nothing I think..) then Advanced > forwarding > enter [name] Port (twice) check UDP, give the last octet of the IP address, then check enable. Confirm with "Apply" and its good to go.
I have to guess most home 'firewalls' will be similar to this. On top of that they have a very easy to use and administrate linux server as well! Best of luck to you.
Things are a little complicated with steam, so give them time for things like full support and Natural-Selection 3.0. But the older, and likely current versions of Sven co-op can be made to work under the current steam architecture (google is your friend) we're just waiting for convinent cant-say-it-because-its-panted one click access. Give them time, I feel they are doing good things.
If you aren't smart enough to automate the replies intelegently (based on wether the worm type spoofs emails for example) then don't send anything. Simple as that. Use it right, or don't use it at all.
"How Are The Scripts Updated? Each time a new PC game is launched or about to be launched, your DISCover® enabled console will use an Internet or phone connection to pull down the new script/s. It's a bit like the TiVo® model."
I wonder, however, if they are going to completely require it? will this be enforced in hardware as well?
You completely ignored the initial development cost which can be said to be paid for by selling the boxed copy.
Not nececarily. I know it takes money to develop, but the person who buys, plays thier month, and quits is also getting stiffed. They can't DO anything with that box without the fee. Its a pretty high bar to entry. IMHO, it would be smarter to roll the initial cost, and the cost of any expansions into the monthly cost. I'd pay $15 a mo or something w/o box cost. Thats $15 first month (no longer free) + $3*11 = $48 in the first year. Almost perfect.
The telco's for example know better than to pull a stunt like this. I know of few if any DSL providers that stick you with the full modemn cost (somewhere ~$250), and most have constant 'special promotions' that include a 'free' modemn. The cost of this comes back to them in the monthly fees.
I think that paying $50 for a box, that lasts only 1 month before becoming fairly useless on its own is a bit of a ripoff. They need a better buisness model.
I have been following planetside, which launched recently at $12.95/mo + $50 box. This seems awfully expensive. Can they not afford to roll the game costs into the monthly fee? Compared to entertaiment vs most games this price is awful.
So my question is, can they afford to do this any other way? Where does the money go (in what ammounts)? I know the obvious stuff they tell you (bandwidth, servers, admins, patches) but does that suck up the entire ammount? I would think they would make more by giving the game away or at least for much less than they do.
Where does the money go?
How are they dealing with the scaling of MMOG games? I wasn't aware that the UWE engine was particularly good at very large environments, but perhaps they are overhauling it, or have built in some untaped functionality. They are using it for Tribes: Vengance after all, a traditionally 'huge outdoor' environment game series. Looks quite promising..
I don't know about anyone else, but my download install keep dying at 76% installed due to a corupted file. I'll take another shot at it, I hope it was a fluke.
Sorry, but its true. I watch less than 2 hours of TV a month, and don't miss it for a second. Sometimes I'll watch movies with friends or similar, but after the internet who needs a passive entertainment format with spoon fed concepts and ideals? Then again, I'm an avid slashdot reader.. Probably microsofts fault anyway.. Ok, I'll stop now.
Please, please, please detail. You can't just dangle something so interesting...
Well manily becuse I couldn't think of a good example at the time. I actually saw these before on a slashdot thread which I am unable to locate. But searching for things like "pub pwl" or "directory of" passwd. Things that are obviously insecure. While no one knows about them they are sometimes left open. And the user with his google toolbar will sometimes go there. And then it gets on google. OOPS. There are some better searches out there. Get creative. The point is, if you know what you are doing google is great for finding unsecure systems and private information.
This tracking is actually how a lot of important information leaks out. Security through obscurity has always been a poor mans system, and this busts it wide open. I wont post them here but there are several interesting searches you can do that give personal results for things that REALLY have NO place on a publicly accessable page.
On a more positive note, google already uses distributed computing though thier googlebar http://toolbar.google.com/dc/offerdc.html
However they donate the cycles to various worthy causes like folding at home (currently thier only benificiary), but it is concevable that if they came up with some secure and usefull search related thing to do with the cycles they could put it to use almost instantaniously. I think that there aren't segnificant benifits (plenty of discussion elsewhere here) for them to want to use it however.
The do-not-call lists work well because overseas calls are prohibitvely expensive for telemarketers. Not so for spammers. This will require some over seas assistance. But perhaps the fees will outweigh the payoffs, and it will all work out in the end? I can only hope. It should cut down on domestic spam however. Now to get it implemeted in my state (Oregon).
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I use it as well. Teamspeak is very handy for chating and gaming, and I also find it easy to set up. For a firewall you need to open port 8767 UDP on the client end, and that shouldn't be too hard.
On my linksys Wap11 go to the admin url http://192.168.1.1/ login with the passowrd (defaults to admin, or nothing I think..) then Advanced > forwarding > enter [name] Port (twice) check UDP, give the last octet of the IP address, then check enable. Confirm with "Apply" and its good to go.
I have to guess most home 'firewalls' will be similar to this. On top of that they have a very easy to use and administrate linux server as well! Best of luck to you.
- Kelerain
Things are a little complicated with steam, so give them time for things like full support and Natural-Selection 3.0. But the older, and likely current versions of Sven co-op can be made to work under the current steam architecture (google is your friend) we're just waiting for convinent cant-say-it-because-its-panted one click access. Give them time, I feel they are doing good things.
Wow! Your phone book tells you where the person you are calling is, even when they are out of the house??
I gotta get me one of them!
From looking at the source it's not actually a patch so much as a 'wedge'. WedgieWare anyone?
If you aren't smart enough to automate the replies intelegently (based on wether the worm type spoofs emails for example) then don't send anything. Simple as that. Use it right, or don't use it at all.
They plan on selling subscriptions.
"How Are The Scripts Updated?
Each time a new PC game is launched or about to be launched, your DISCover® enabled console will use an Internet or phone connection to pull down the new script/s. It's a bit like the TiVo® model."
I wonder, however, if they are going to completely require it? will this be enforced in hardware as well?
Difficult to read, but easy to compress.
I would like to request at this point, for the good of the community, that no one post any jokes on this thread.
Did anyone else read the title and think, OH MY LORD! DRM has gone TOO DAMN FAR this time!
You completely ignored the initial development cost which can be said to be paid for by selling the boxed copy.
Not nececarily. I know it takes money to develop, but the person who buys, plays thier month, and quits is also getting stiffed. They can't DO anything with that box without the fee. Its a pretty high bar to entry. IMHO, it would be smarter to roll the initial cost, and the cost of any expansions into the monthly cost. I'd pay $15 a mo or something w/o box cost. Thats $15 first month (no longer free) + $3*11 = $48 in the first year. Almost perfect.
The telco's for example know better than to pull a stunt like this. I know of few if any DSL providers that stick you with the full modemn cost (somewhere ~$250), and most have constant 'special promotions' that include a 'free' modemn. The cost of this comes back to them in the monthly fees.
I think that paying $50 for a box, that lasts only 1 month before becoming fairly useless on its own is a bit of a ripoff. They need a better buisness model.
I have been following planetside, which launched recently at $12.95/mo + $50 box. This seems awfully expensive. Can they not afford to roll the game costs into the monthly fee? Compared to entertaiment vs most games this price is awful. So my question is, can they afford to do this any other way? Where does the money go (in what ammounts)? I know the obvious stuff they tell you (bandwidth, servers, admins, patches) but does that suck up the entire ammount? I would think they would make more by giving the game away or at least for much less than they do. Where does the money go?
well since 1/2*2 = 1 "Life" But that was already taken. Hopefully this game will be more interesting.. ;)
How are they dealing with the scaling of MMOG games? I wasn't aware that the UWE engine was particularly good at very large environments, but perhaps they are overhauling it, or have built in some untaped functionality. They are using it for Tribes: Vengance after all, a traditionally 'huge outdoor' environment game series. Looks quite promising..
Public executions always sounded effective to me.
What do you mean, not expecting them?
I don't know about anyone else, but my download install keep dying at 76% installed due to a corupted file. I'll take another shot at it, I hope it was a fluke.
So does he have a patent yet? I want my daily dose of bitching damnit!
My question for is "What's worked best for you?"
Not watching television.
Sorry, but its true. I watch less than 2 hours of TV a month, and don't miss it for a second. Sometimes I'll watch movies with friends or similar, but after the internet who needs a passive entertainment format with spoon fed concepts and ideals? Then again, I'm an avid slashdot reader.. Probably microsofts fault anyway.. Ok, I'll stop now.
Please, please, please detail. You can't just dangle something so interesting...
Well manily becuse I couldn't think of a good example at the time. I actually saw these before on a slashdot thread which I am unable to locate. But searching for things like "pub pwl" or "directory of" passwd. Things that are obviously insecure. While no one knows about them they are sometimes left open. And the user with his google toolbar will sometimes go there. And then it gets on google. OOPS. There are some better searches out there. Get creative. The point is, if you know what you are doing google is great for finding unsecure systems and private information.
This tracking is actually how a lot of important information leaks out. Security through obscurity has always been a poor mans system, and this busts it wide open. I wont post them here but there are several interesting searches you can do that give personal results for things that REALLY have NO place on a publicly accessable page. On a more positive note, google already uses distributed computing though thier googlebar http://toolbar.google.com/dc/offerdc.html However they donate the cycles to various worthy causes like folding at home (currently thier only benificiary), but it is concevable that if they came up with some secure and usefull search related thing to do with the cycles they could put it to use almost instantaniously. I think that there aren't segnificant benifits (plenty of discussion elsewhere here) for them to want to use it however.
Or he could just hack in an insulin injector into the soda machine!
;)
yes I know..
Some people have said that whitespace is downloadable and you can actually program in it... I wouldn't be surprised.
I would have called it RTFB.
*sorry*
First thought: What do oysters have to do with internet?
Second thought: OOPS! SELfish...
Third thought: ??????
Fourth thought: Profit!
The do-not-call lists work well because overseas calls are prohibitvely expensive for telemarketers. Not so for spammers. This will require some over seas assistance. But perhaps the fees will outweigh the payoffs, and it will all work out in the end? I can only hope. It should cut down on domestic spam however. Now to get it implemeted in my state (Oregon).