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Actually, it's a lie, to use certain items you must have the "certs" to use them. You get 7 cert points to start out as when your BR1 and you gain 1 point per BR level with the exception of BR6 where you get an implant slot. At BR8 you will have 14 cert points, not alot but nothing to sneeze at either.
So far, there will be no cert restrictions on "fodder" side players. So while you will have less options as paying players, you will still get access to MOSTLY everything they have including the heavy weapons and tanks.
Mininum requirements are 1.7 GHZ and 1GB of RAM with 128MB Video Card (NVidia tends to do better) Without a 1GB of RAM, might as well not even play.
You may need to modify the my.ini to get better performance out of it but otherwise, MySQL seems to work about the same on both Windows and linux. If your moving from a shared environment to dedicated environment, you might still be able to get MSSQL out of your dedicated server provider for a decent price.
Just don't get lazy about the lack of case sensitivy and 4000 connection limit, I wouldn't worry about, if you hit it, you either need to redo your sloppy code and look at upgrading to a beefier DB software.
I had a similar incident where I had hooked up a wireless router in a classroom to spread campus internet to all computers in the area. School has no written policy on wireless and jackking into the wall was allowed. Couple of IT monkeys saw it when they were searching for a virus laden computer. Too bad virus laden computer was detected around 8:30 and disappeared around 10:30 and it was 12:30 before my class started. They charged me Administratively with spreading viruses, unauthorized connection to the lan and hacking campus computers. I ran into many little hilter including one that wanted police to toss my car parked off campus on private property. Uni Police (who hold state police powers) told him to go pound sand, no cause.
University officials allow "free speech" and "free expression" only when it fits in their views of the how the world should be. Protesting violence (aka banning guns) was a good thing. Counter protesting with "Guns save lives" and "shall not be infringed" was disturbing the peace and inciting a riot despite both were peaceful assemblies.
And if your running a legit newsletter organization, you should auto scrub your list when mail server your sending to newsletter gives you "550 Mailbox no longer valid" (or whatever SMTP status and error message is)
Please link to said study that proves this. If it's that stupid study that proves 48x (I think that's the number) to be injured by firearms in the house then not or whatever, it's been debunked, repeatedly. Also, I've seen studies that proves domestic killings via firearms if firearm is left in a quick release safe, or in one condition away from firing (like a shotgun would be required to be pumped before shooting) that most people realize what they are about to do when they hear metal against metal. Besides, if you have a restraining order or domestic violence complaint against you, your not allowed to have the firearms and in VA, your Concealed Handgun Permit would be revoked.
Of course, instead of blaming criminals for their actions, we would blame firearms. See "Denial".
Depends, it's extremely quaketastic. If you liked COD:UO gameplay, you will be disappointed. If you liked COD, you might be ok with it. Things that have changed since COD:UO and COD2. No tanks, No portable emplacements, crappy sounds, SMALL maps, recoil reduced, nade indicator. If you ever wondered what it would be like to play Q3 with WWII weapons, here is your chance. (I know it's not exactly like Q3 gameplay)
My personal recommendation is to pass on this one.
SOE's Planetside was the first one to get ads. However, they don't fit in the game at all. Here you are fighting on a planet in a galaxy far, far away and adds for COKE pop up. Matrix Online is a different story. However, I imagine they will do the same thing for Matrix Online they did for Planetside, tell you that the extra money is going to be spent on the game and instead just pocket it. SOE is a bunch of scum bags. However, Massive implementation of this isn't hard and I wonder if someone with more programming knowledge then me make a duplicate system and using a bit of DNS trickery, serve up their own ads.
I don't blame them for requiring such a large amount. The amount of paperwork on their end was probably enough for a small novel. Also, depending on your state, that would have added to the burden. Any time you try to import, your going to run into the same problems.
What firearms can you get from Australia that you can't pick up cheaper in the US?
Probably most of the red tape you experienced is from ATF on US side.
That is the biggest mess of shit ever. 100 MBPS should be enough for what they want to do. If it isn't, go get some gigabit. What your proposing is a ticking time bomb. All that traffic going through a one box (a linux box no less, next time when your dropping "names" drop a BSD one) is a. a manageablity issue waiting to happen. B. A single point of failure explosion waiting to happen.
Your right, weatherbug doesn't harm your computer nor is spyware, it's those third party apps that you bundle with it that do. It's nice to be able to farm the harm to third party apps and claim zero libility when they royally f*** up a computer.
Wow, it can file server great, that's not really processor intensive. I've run file servers with 50 connections or more off P2/400. HardDisk bottlenecks before anything does.
I would be more apt to blame either MS Access software (Seriously, who the in F*** runs any program of a access backend?) or Steam based software.
Also, you didn't mention what OS your using for Windows. I think the problem isn't Windows as much as either it's third party apps or it's administration. I've got IIS servers running great with much more requests and hardware worse then yours.
It is, I found Dreamweaver code when in design mode to be pretty decent. Frontpage is far worse though I would still do almost all my coding by hand in dreamweaver unless your under a time limit or it's something tedious like tables or ordered lists.
Both Windows 2000 SP4 and 2003 Server come with this option as well. SP1 on Windows 2003 even comes with a pretty firewall with GUI and everything. At least take a look at your Windows servers before commenting.
They also spent alot of money to do so that personally I don't think our government should be spending. Also, the cost of wiring the entire country up would cost-prohibitive considering the size of South Korea compared to US.
Spam is also different then most snail mail. Snail mail is delivered once a day and most people don't get 1/10th junk mail that they do spam. If you got the amount of junk mail that you do spam and it was delivered even 4 times a day where the post man opened your door and dropped it on the kitchen counter, most people would pay for a service to filter.
Remember, ISPs are doing spam filtering because customers ask for it. You may not use it but other people will and are.
It adds up when speeds at home are rising and rising. Verizon is rolling out Fiber system in select areas and I imagine part of the reason to run 10MBPS to someone house is not just for internet. I see a day when verizon offers On demand TV, VOIP, and internet packages when you get fiber in the home. It's close for some people then you think.
Training, new techs who understand linux, firing all the MCSA who can't cope with the new OS. Conversion of existing programs or switching to linux compatible ones. All those cost money (well except firing the MCSA monkeys) which might explain the high initial costs.
DragonRealms used to be attached to AOL. I remember playing it when I still had AOL circa 1996. My current girlfriend used to play it as well. (though I didn't know her when she did) There is alot of people addicted to it and for being a text based game, it's pretty damn good though I'm not sure I would pay for it considering games like EQ2 and all exist for a better price and much more graphical.
Colo4dallas.com generally gets good reviews but it's just colocation space ie space to put your hardware. The Planet will do just about anything you want for a price of course.
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Actually, it's a lie, to use certain items you must have the "certs" to use them. You get 7 cert points to start out as when your BR1 and you gain 1 point per BR level with the exception of BR6 where you get an implant slot. At BR8 you will have 14 cert points, not alot but nothing to sneeze at either.
So far, there will be no cert restrictions on "fodder" side players. So while you will have less options as paying players, you will still get access to MOSTLY everything they have including the heavy weapons and tanks.
Mininum requirements are 1.7 GHZ and 1GB of RAM with 128MB Video Card (NVidia tends to do better) Without a 1GB of RAM, might as well not even play.
You may need to modify the my.ini to get better performance out of it but otherwise, MySQL seems to work about the same on both Windows and linux. If your moving from a shared environment to dedicated environment, you might still be able to get MSSQL out of your dedicated server provider for a decent price. Just don't get lazy about the lack of case sensitivy and 4000 connection limit, I wouldn't worry about, if you hit it, you either need to redo your sloppy code and look at upgrading to a beefier DB software.
I had a similar incident where I had hooked up a wireless router in a classroom to spread campus internet to all computers in the area. School has no written policy on wireless and jackking into the wall was allowed. Couple of IT monkeys saw it when they were searching for a virus laden computer. Too bad virus laden computer was detected around 8:30 and disappeared around 10:30 and it was 12:30 before my class started. They charged me Administratively with spreading viruses, unauthorized connection to the lan and hacking campus computers. I ran into many little hilter including one that wanted police to toss my car parked off campus on private property. Uni Police (who hold state police powers) told him to go pound sand, no cause.
University officials allow "free speech" and "free expression" only when it fits in their views of the how the world should be. Protesting violence (aka banning guns) was a good thing. Counter protesting with "Guns save lives" and "shall not be infringed" was disturbing the peace and inciting a riot despite both were peaceful assemblies.
And if your running a legit newsletter organization, you should auto scrub your list when mail server your sending to newsletter gives you "550 Mailbox no longer valid" (or whatever SMTP status and error message is)
Please link to said study that proves this. If it's that stupid study that proves 48x (I think that's the number) to be injured by firearms in the house then not or whatever, it's been debunked, repeatedly. Also, I've seen studies that proves domestic killings via firearms if firearm is left in a quick release safe, or in one condition away from firing (like a shotgun would be required to be pumped before shooting) that most people realize what they are about to do when they hear metal against metal. Besides, if you have a restraining order or domestic violence complaint against you, your not allowed to have the firearms and in VA, your Concealed Handgun Permit would be revoked.
Of course, instead of blaming criminals for their actions, we would blame firearms. See "Denial".
Depends, it's extremely quaketastic. If you liked COD:UO gameplay, you will be disappointed. If you liked COD, you might be ok with it. Things that have changed since COD:UO and COD2. No tanks, No portable emplacements, crappy sounds, SMALL maps, recoil reduced, nade indicator. If you ever wondered what it would be like to play Q3 with WWII weapons, here is your chance. (I know it's not exactly like Q3 gameplay)
My personal recommendation is to pass on this one.
No but they will spread the lie that this money will be put for the development of the game to make people swallow the pill.
SOE's Planetside was the first one to get ads. However, they don't fit in the game at all. Here you are fighting on a planet in a galaxy far, far away and adds for COKE pop up. Matrix Online is a different story. However, I imagine they will do the same thing for Matrix Online they did for Planetside, tell you that the extra money is going to be spent on the game and instead just pocket it. SOE is a bunch of scum bags. However, Massive implementation of this isn't hard and I wonder if someone with more programming knowledge then me make a duplicate system and using a bit of DNS trickery, serve up their own ads.
I don't blame them for requiring such a large amount. The amount of paperwork on their end was probably enough for a small novel. Also, depending on your state, that would have added to the burden. Any time you try to import, your going to run into the same problems.
What firearms can you get from Australia that you can't pick up cheaper in the US? Probably most of the red tape you experienced is from ATF on US side.
That is the biggest mess of shit ever. 100 MBPS should be enough for what they want to do. If it isn't, go get some gigabit. What your proposing is a ticking time bomb. All that traffic going through a one box (a linux box no less, next time when your dropping "names" drop a BSD one) is a. a manageablity issue waiting to happen. B. A single point of failure explosion waiting to happen.
Your right, weatherbug doesn't harm your computer nor is spyware, it's those third party apps that you bundle with it that do. It's nice to be able to farm the harm to third party apps and claim zero libility when they royally f*** up a computer.
Wow, it can file server great, that's not really processor intensive. I've run file servers with 50 connections or more off P2/400. HardDisk bottlenecks before anything does. I would be more apt to blame either MS Access software (Seriously, who the in F*** runs any program of a access backend?) or Steam based software. Also, you didn't mention what OS your using for Windows. I think the problem isn't Windows as much as either it's third party apps or it's administration. I've got IIS servers running great with much more requests and hardware worse then yours.
And they will let you use SIP so if you want to set up an Asterisk box to control the house phones, you can.
Why does WIndows reboot? Have you thought about checking the Event Viewer to see why?
Linux isn't supported so what do you expect?
It is, I found Dreamweaver code when in design mode to be pretty decent. Frontpage is far worse though I would still do almost all my coding by hand in dreamweaver unless your under a time limit or it's something tedious like tables or ordered lists.
Both Windows 2000 SP4 and 2003 Server come with this option as well. SP1 on Windows 2003 even comes with a pretty firewall with GUI and everything. At least take a look at your Windows servers before commenting.
Properly patched and firewalled Windows box is at no higher risk then a Linux box.
They also spent alot of money to do so that personally I don't think our government should be spending. Also, the cost of wiring the entire country up would cost-prohibitive considering the size of South Korea compared to US.
Spam is also different then most snail mail. Snail mail is delivered once a day and most people don't get 1/10th junk mail that they do spam. If you got the amount of junk mail that you do spam and it was delivered even 4 times a day where the post man opened your door and dropped it on the kitchen counter, most people would pay for a service to filter.
Remember, ISPs are doing spam filtering because customers ask for it. You may not use it but other people will and are.
Same way it works when telling a browser to connect to a different port. $ipaddress/$hostname:$port in RDC client on Windows.
It adds up when speeds at home are rising and rising. Verizon is rolling out Fiber system in select areas and I imagine part of the reason to run 10MBPS to someone house is not just for internet. I see a day when verizon offers On demand TV, VOIP, and internet packages when you get fiber in the home. It's close for some people then you think.
Training, new techs who understand linux, firing all the MCSA who can't cope with the new OS. Conversion of existing programs or switching to linux compatible ones. All those cost money (well except firing the MCSA monkeys) which might explain the high initial costs.
DragonRealms used to be attached to AOL. I remember playing it when I still had AOL circa 1996. My current girlfriend used to play it as well. (though I didn't know her when she did) There is alot of people addicted to it and for being a text based game, it's pretty damn good though I'm not sure I would pay for it considering games like EQ2 and all exist for a better price and much more graphical.
Colo4dallas.com generally gets good reviews but it's just colocation space ie space to put your hardware. The Planet will do just about anything you want for a price of course.