I get enough spam as is, I don't think a little bit more will really bother me any more than it does now. Spamassassin/Razor/Pyzor takes care of most of it anyway! =)
I'm on the 3 megabit one. And yea, that is a legit email address... If you emailed me I didn't get it yet though, maybe I forgot to re-set it up when I switched over to a new server box. =)
I switched from Comcast to BellSouth about 6 months ago and haven't looked back. Sure it's a bit slower, but honestly? It actually works. I've had almost zero downtime with it, as opposed to when I was with Comcast and had about 60% packet loss 90% of the time. No joke. It was an 8 year old modem, and Comcast refused to replace it. They couldn't believe the modem could possibly be going bad. They skipped out on all four appointments I made for them to come out, didn't even show up.
I called up BellSouth, got it all set up, and it's been wonderful. They had the package out to me within 4 days after signing up. My modem got a bit funky - the ethernet jack broke when I was moving it. I called them up, they had a new one out the next day. I get very consistent download speeds, it isn't like with Comcast when I'd get slower than 56k dialup speeds at night, if it worked at all... I easily had 2 second or higher ping times to just about everything.
BellSouth's tech support is much much better too, you call up and you can actually get yourself transferred to someone who knows what they're doing. After the initial install I had a few problems - I missed a filter on our DirectTV unit... They actually put me directly on the phone with the line tech who got it resolved in a very short amount of time.
Go for it, you won't regret it. Just my two cents!
Addendum: Once I've finished it up and cleaned it up some more I may very well open source it, if I think people would have a use for it. For now it's just under internal development here.
I'd show you guys the system that we have in place where I work, University of Miami, but that would be somewhat against my employment contract. Basically what I have at the house is a very scaled down version of what we set up at UM. Since it's a University with many departments, the SAs from each have to have their own restricted access to whatever devices they control, and manage those... It has full ACLs, groups, and can control pretty much every network management device.
I've tackled this problem at my house by setting up a captive portal and Radius-based MAC authentication. Basically, the captive portal tells them they aren't registered, then they register with their name and how long they want access for. It'll automatically grant them access, and it will email me right away. If I have no idea who it is, I can log in and disable their access to the Internet and prevent them from getting an IP address from my DHCP server, all from a convenient web interface I wrote. I also have a packet filter in place that disables people if they try to use any form of P2P, unless specifically allowed. This way I can leave the access points totally open, and if someone misbehaves, I simply hit the disable button, and they're completely offline one minute later.
Did you even read his post fully? It was a joke. It's funny. Laugh. Ha ha.
"We normal users don't want to fiddle around with the commandline and stuff like that, we need a point-and-click-interface to compromise the security of our computers!"
Awesome... I know a late reply, but FYI I've set up a pretty cool VMWare box on a dual Xeon 2.4 I had laying around. I love this thing, now I know why all the SAs where I work are going bonkers over it! It's now become my primary home server, with multiple NICs, a m0n0wall VM, a few linux VMs, and a Win2k3 PDC.
I work at University of Miami, if you were curious. I'm in the Network group but we have a few SAs in our building as well and two guys from Security. One of the SAs brought back a poster thursday that I'm sure you've seen...
Kinda off topic, but seeing as you work for VMWare you might have an answer to this? I've dug around on the VMWare website and couldn't seem to find an answer to this... Can the now free VMWare Server create new VMs (I.E. just like GSX) or is it limited only to Virtual Appliances?
I'd think they would just send the message to the actual cell provider who would then send it to all their subscribers. It would make sense for the cell provider to have a list of all the phone numbers on their service.;-)
You get no more replies from me as you are clearly incapable of any intelligent conversation. I don't have time for idiots like yourself, so good luck getting somewhere in life. I bet if you met me in person you wouldn't say shit like that to my face.
My point was that there are musicians out there who have marketable skills. I'm a network engineer at University of Miami. I work in their telecommunications department. I play guitar, keys, and piano, and have for many years. There ARE musicians who have marketable skills. By the way, you're an arrogant asshole. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
You'll see someone's full profile if they're in one of your networks. If they aren't in one of your networks, all you'll see is a picture and their name/school. So, I can only see people at University of Miami, and people who I have on my friend list from other schools. I can't go look you up at OSU and see your profile without you either friending me or sending me a private message/poke first.
Svchost is the program in charge of managing Windows services that run at startup, kind of like the main init scripts in Linux and BSD. Csrss is in charge of the user space - managing user processes, console windows, threading, etc.
If you know what the perfect game is, as you claim to, why aren't you running ZeniMax instead of Mr. Altman, and why haven't you made a game that has outsold every other game for the whole month after it came out? If you're so right about everything, and you know what goes into a perfect game, then by all means be my guest and go make it. When it sells as well as TES has, you can come back here and rant about how great you are.
You're completely delusioned as to what TES is all about, expecting it to be something it isn't. If it doesn't fit your tastes, then fine, that's cool. Don't blatantlysay that the game sucks and nobody should play it no matter what people say. That isn't opinion, that is simply being a complete arrogant asshole. Just my two cents.
I meant to reply to this a long time ago... Never got around to it. I think they fixed a lot of the major issues in Oblivion. That said, with guards, if you DO get caught, they'll go after you. If nobody sees you, they will have no idea, and your bounty won't go up. If you're in a room and kill someone and there's someone in the next room, chances are the person in the next room will hear it - provided you don't kill them in one hit... If they don't scream, how can anyone know? It's a bit more realistic.
I've only had one crash in Oblivion, which I believe was due to some.ini tweaks I made to boost FPS a bit. In general it's a much more polished product than Morrowind was. Also, for the record, Morrowind crashed at least once every session I played it.
Actually, quite a few StarForce game have been cracked. Try looking each game up on TorrentSpy, you'll see that a lot of them are avaliable there. And yes, it is an EXE patch as far as I'm aware. Once one game protected by a certain scheme is cracked, the rest are pretty simple to crack since you just have to look for the same patterns, provided it's the same version of the protection scheme.
I may be wrong about this, but it's what I've seen so far. I haven't downloaded any StarForce protected games so I don't know for sure how the pirated copies work, but the fact that there are pirated copies avaliable says that there is some way to run them without the disc, and without really bad hassles.
I've played both Morrowind and Oblivion, and I have to say... Morrowind really was lacking in a lot of areaa. The world was static, the combat sucked, and the quests and everything were buggy as hell.
Oblivion REALLY addressed all of that. The NPCs have their own lives, interact with each other, and everything. I understand why you don't like Western RPGs. I'm also really picky about roleplaying games and games in general. I haven't really gotten into many of the Eastern games, and I haven't been able to get into most of the Western games. Hell, I haven't really gotten into many games at all. There has to be something really special about it for me to truly enjoy it.
Honestly, Morrowind got old about 6 hours into the game, and then I started modding it to make it more fun. I don't like games that force me into one way of playing the game in order to tell its story. I also can't stand games where I have a bunch of characters who line up and fight turn by turn; I like more action and direct control, but that's again personal preference. I'd at least give Oblivion a shot, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. It's very open ended, and the story telling and gameplay is very well done. The AI system is really cool, just to digress a bit. It's task oriented, and bases decisions on what type of character the specific NPC is. There's very little in the way of scripted events, aside from questlines. Even then, the script only tells the NPC what his goal is, not how to accomplish it. I've seen a person in a town leave his house, lock the door, exit the gate and get on his horse to go out hunting on more than one occasion. Anyway, I'll stop rambling about the AI.
I'm about 30 hours into playing around with Oblivion right now, and yeah, it's amazing. Of course it's just my personal opinion. Also, in case you're wondering, I'm not affiliated with Bethsoft at all, though I do know the CEO of the company, he's a family friend. I honestly think it's the most amazing game I've played to date. You may or may not agree with me, but don't go saying a game is horrible before you've even tried it - that's very closed minded. Just play the intro tutorial at a friend's house some time. It'll give you a very basic idea of how the game works, and you just might like it. =)
(I'm too lazy to proofread this, so it may have grammar errors and such, so onward with the grammar Nazis!)
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Once you hit 60... What's the point... Honestly.
Scholo Scholo Strat Strat LBRS Scholo Strat UBRS Strat LBRS Strat Scholo Scholo Strat UBRS BRD Strat Scholo BRD (MC Attunement) Scholo Strat AQ20 MC BWL ZG MC MC BWL ZG AQ40 Scholo (maybe)
Repeat ad infinitum. It got boring for me after about the 15th Scholo run.
I get enough spam as is, I don't think a little bit more will really bother me any more than it does now. Spamassassin/Razor/Pyzor takes care of most of it anyway! =)
I'm on the 3 megabit one. And yea, that is a legit email address... If you emailed me I didn't get it yet though, maybe I forgot to re-set it up when I switched over to a new server box. =)
I switched from Comcast to BellSouth about 6 months ago and haven't looked back. Sure it's a bit slower, but honestly? It actually works. I've had almost zero downtime with it, as opposed to when I was with Comcast and had about 60% packet loss 90% of the time. No joke. It was an 8 year old modem, and Comcast refused to replace it. They couldn't believe the modem could possibly be going bad. They skipped out on all four appointments I made for them to come out, didn't even show up.
I called up BellSouth, got it all set up, and it's been wonderful. They had the package out to me within 4 days after signing up. My modem got a bit funky - the ethernet jack broke when I was moving it. I called them up, they had a new one out the next day. I get very consistent download speeds, it isn't like with Comcast when I'd get slower than 56k dialup speeds at night, if it worked at all... I easily had 2 second or higher ping times to just about everything.
BellSouth's tech support is much much better too, you call up and you can actually get yourself transferred to someone who knows what they're doing. After the initial install I had a few problems - I missed a filter on our DirectTV unit... They actually put me directly on the phone with the line tech who got it resolved in a very short amount of time.
Go for it, you won't regret it. Just my two cents!
That sounds like a poor man's implementation of VMWare ACE which does *exactly* what the guy wants...
Addendum: Once I've finished it up and cleaned it up some more I may very well open source it, if I think people would have a use for it. For now it's just under internal development here.
I'd show you guys the system that we have in place where I work, University of Miami, but that would be somewhat against my employment contract. Basically what I have at the house is a very scaled down version of what we set up at UM. Since it's a University with many departments, the SAs from each have to have their own restricted access to whatever devices they control, and manage those... It has full ACLs, groups, and can control pretty much every network management device.
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Picture 2 Just a few pictures of it. =)
I've tackled this problem at my house by setting up a captive portal and Radius-based MAC authentication. Basically, the captive portal tells them they aren't registered, then they register with their name and how long they want access for. It'll automatically grant them access, and it will email me right away. If I have no idea who it is, I can log in and disable their access to the Internet and prevent them from getting an IP address from my DHCP server, all from a convenient web interface I wrote. I also have a packet filter in place that disables people if they try to use any form of P2P, unless specifically allowed. This way I can leave the access points totally open, and if someone misbehaves, I simply hit the disable button, and they're completely offline one minute later.
Did you even read his post fully? It was a joke. It's funny. Laugh. Ha ha.
"We normal users don't want to fiddle around with the commandline and stuff like that, we need a point-and-click-interface to compromise the security of our computers!"
Awesome... I know a late reply, but FYI I've set up a pretty cool VMWare box on a dual Xeon 2.4 I had laying around. I love this thing, now I know why all the SAs where I work are going bonkers over it! It's now become my primary home server, with multiple NICs, a m0n0wall VM, a few linux VMs, and a Win2k3 PDC.
I work at University of Miami, if you were curious. I'm in the Network group but we have a few SAs in our building as well and two guys from Security. One of the SAs brought back a poster thursday that I'm sure you've seen...
ATTENTION SERVERS!
[picture of a server rack]
SLACKERS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!
Kinda off topic, but seeing as you work for VMWare you might have an answer to this? I've dug around on the VMWare website and couldn't seem to find an answer to this... Can the now free VMWare Server create new VMs (I.E. just like GSX) or is it limited only to Virtual Appliances?
I'd think they would just send the message to the actual cell provider who would then send it to all their subscribers. It would make sense for the cell provider to have a list of all the phone numbers on their service. ;-)
Dream Theater rocks my socks. That is all. =P
He had a heart attack because his arteries were embezzeling mass amounts of blood from his capillaries!
*badum ching*
Do you make keys? No. I record music. There's a difference.
For you: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 - The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
You get no more replies from me as you are clearly incapable of any intelligent conversation. I don't have time for idiots like yourself, so good luck getting somewhere in life. I bet if you met me in person you wouldn't say shit like that to my face.
My point was that there are musicians out there who have marketable skills. I'm a network engineer at University of Miami. I work in their telecommunications department. I play guitar, keys, and piano, and have for many years. There ARE musicians who have marketable skills. By the way, you're an arrogant asshole. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Gah. Slashdot ate my markup. I meant to say "But they get up set when you say [insert racial slur here] have no marketable skills."
Of course, people don't get upset about this broad and absurd generalization, but they get upset when you say have no marketable skills.
I'm a musician, and also an IT professional. This debunks your general claim.
You'll see someone's full profile if they're in one of your networks. If they aren't in one of your networks, all you'll see is a picture and their name/school. So, I can only see people at University of Miami, and people who I have on my friend list from other schools. I can't go look you up at OSU and see your profile without you either friending me or sending me a private message/poke first.
Svchost is the program in charge of managing Windows services that run at startup, kind of like the main init scripts in Linux and BSD. Csrss is in charge of the user space - managing user processes, console windows, threading, etc.
svchost.exe
csrss.exe
If you know what the perfect game is, as you claim to, why aren't you running ZeniMax instead of Mr. Altman, and why haven't you made a game that has outsold every other game for the whole month after it came out? If you're so right about everything, and you know what goes into a perfect game, then by all means be my guest and go make it. When it sells as well as TES has, you can come back here and rant about how great you are.
You're completely delusioned as to what TES is all about, expecting it to be something it isn't. If it doesn't fit your tastes, then fine, that's cool. Don't blatantlysay that the game sucks and nobody should play it no matter what people say. That isn't opinion, that is simply being a complete arrogant asshole. Just my two cents.
I meant to reply to this a long time ago... Never got around to it. I think they fixed a lot of the major issues in Oblivion. That said, with guards, if you DO get caught, they'll go after you. If nobody sees you, they will have no idea, and your bounty won't go up. If you're in a room and kill someone and there's someone in the next room, chances are the person in the next room will hear it - provided you don't kill them in one hit... If they don't scream, how can anyone know? It's a bit more realistic.
.ini tweaks I made to boost FPS a bit. In general it's a much more polished product than Morrowind was. Also, for the record, Morrowind crashed at least once every session I played it.
I've only had one crash in Oblivion, which I believe was due to some
Actually, quite a few StarForce game have been cracked. Try looking each game up on TorrentSpy, you'll see that a lot of them are avaliable there. And yes, it is an EXE patch as far as I'm aware. Once one game protected by a certain scheme is cracked, the rest are pretty simple to crack since you just have to look for the same patterns, provided it's the same version of the protection scheme.
I may be wrong about this, but it's what I've seen so far. I haven't downloaded any StarForce protected games so I don't know for sure how the pirated copies work, but the fact that there are pirated copies avaliable says that there is some way to run them without the disc, and without really bad hassles.
I've played both Morrowind and Oblivion, and I have to say... Morrowind really was lacking in a lot of areaa. The world was static, the combat sucked, and the quests and everything were buggy as hell.
Oblivion REALLY addressed all of that. The NPCs have their own lives, interact with each other, and everything. I understand why you don't like Western RPGs. I'm also really picky about roleplaying games and games in general. I haven't really gotten into many of the Eastern games, and I haven't been able to get into most of the Western games. Hell, I haven't really gotten into many games at all. There has to be something really special about it for me to truly enjoy it.
Honestly, Morrowind got old about 6 hours into the game, and then I started modding it to make it more fun. I don't like games that force me into one way of playing the game in order to tell its story. I also can't stand games where I have a bunch of characters who line up and fight turn by turn; I like more action and direct control, but that's again personal preference. I'd at least give Oblivion a shot, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. It's very open ended, and the story telling and gameplay is very well done. The AI system is really cool, just to digress a bit. It's task oriented, and bases decisions on what type of character the specific NPC is. There's very little in the way of scripted events, aside from questlines. Even then, the script only tells the NPC what his goal is, not how to accomplish it. I've seen a person in a town leave his house, lock the door, exit the gate and get on his horse to go out hunting on more than one occasion. Anyway, I'll stop rambling about the AI.
I'm about 30 hours into playing around with Oblivion right now, and yeah, it's amazing. Of course it's just my personal opinion. Also, in case you're wondering, I'm not affiliated with Bethsoft at all, though I do know the CEO of the company, he's a family friend. I honestly think it's the most amazing game I've played to date. You may or may not agree with me, but don't go saying a game is horrible before you've even tried it - that's very closed minded. Just play the intro tutorial at a friend's house some time. It'll give you a very basic idea of how the game works, and you just might like it. =)
(I'm too lazy to proofread this, so it may have grammar errors and such, so onward with the grammar Nazis!)
Read the press release; it actually is 20 megabytes per second, not 20 megabits per second.