Yeah, that was a big letdown. I frantically clicked on the article, hoping that there was news of a new Serious game, and much to my chagrin, it had nothing to do with that.
As an earlier poster mentioned, having high/lowsec mixes is pretty pointless. Beke is a perfect example. It seperates two big blocks of highsec Genesis, and as a result is heavily camped. Going around Beke results in a 12 jump detour. CCP has expressed in the past that they want to mix up pvp and pve, but this isn't the way to do it. Empire should be a core of highsec, with lowsec on the fringes, and then 0.0 out beyond. I enjoy hoping in a gang and roming around looking for a fight in 0.0, but I don't enjoy being forced to waste an enormous amount of time taking detours around lowsec pockets when trying to make some isk so I can head out to PB and lose some more cruisers. Let the players decide if they want to visit lowsec, don't force it upon them.
And the proposed changes in the devblog from yesterday are absolute crap. Removing the T2 lottery, but letting existing BPO holders keep theirs? That just makes the whole T2 BPO problem far worse. And moving belts to the exploration system will annoy players who have been playing for a while (and not do a damn thing to macroers, which a reason given), and completely fuck new players. When the only thing you have is a Navitas and a pair of Miner Is, how the fuck are you supposed to find a belt to mine? With Scordite/Veld being far more profitable these days, new players need to mine in order to afford a ship that they can go pew pew with. Hiding the belts completely shafts them. Unless CCP is planning on removing the noob ships and replacing them with real frigates with real fittings, new players aren't going to be able to afford anything, and sure as hell won't stick around.
Yep, they were special bar codes that were supposed to be in magazine articles to let you scan them and go to the web site for the article. I wanted one, buy my local Radio Shack was out of em.
And cell phone jammers are popular among thieves, for that very reason. We've moved all our alarm systems to IP (real IP, not VOIP, it's a vpn connection back to ADT), with the backup on POTS. This allows them to constantly poll the alarm system (30 second polls), and if it doesn't respond for 3 polls, and the backup hasn't kicked in, they dispatch the police.
The moral of the story, stay away from a POTS/VOIP hybrid, go to a real IP solution, and use that crappy POTS for the backup.
If I had limited bandwidth, I'd fire up my laptop, and play some Civ4, like I do when I'm on the train. No need for teh Intarweb when that damn Monty needs killing.
If you use links, you can compile it with X and fbcon support, which if you then add in gif, jpeg, png, etc support allows you to view graphics in your console, or X via links. Start up links with the -g option to enable graphics support.
By space, I meant 0.0, as that is what actually matters. Now that Kali is out, they don't control quite as much, but pre-Kali, I'd say 30-40% is correct. I'm up north, and I know that if they came up looking to invade, it'd be one hell of a fight. If they are supported by CCP devs, who knows what would happen. Of course, d2 is all bob alts, so it'd be one strange fight.
Well, the items involved and the isk (in game currency) they represent is worth tens of thousands of US dollars on ebay. The BPO bit is supposed to be a random lottery, spreading wealth out to different people. Instead, this one alliance got a number of them, allowing them to build ships and modules that have no rival. The alliance that has been implicated in all of this just recently finished conquering one of their neighbors, and controls 30-40% of space in the game. This makes all of their actions suspect, and makes it appear that the company running the game (CCP) wants this alliance to finish taking over the entire game.
How often would you have to connect to a router with a serial port. Come on, lets try to be realistic here. All the time. Remeber, we're talking Enterprise here, which at my place is 100k+ employees. We have tens of thousands of routers, and god knows how many switches. When one of them is having a problem, you can't ssh to them, you have to use the local console port. Which is serial.
And to get to Tims, I have to drive from Seattle up to Vancouver, or take the ferry over to Victoria. While I drink more than my share of Tims when in Canuck town, it's not an option down here in the states.
Sucks to be you, because you won't be able to use the corporate version. With the change to licensing in Vista, that corporate version will need to report back to a server at the office at least once every 6 months.
I keep a copy of Helix (decent forensic tools), pnordahl's NT password changer cd, and a current Gentoo live cd. The Gentoo cd gives me a full toolchain and package management if I need to install something else.
Eve-Uni is a fantastic corp, it's good to see some other people recommending them. Although I'm not a part of them, one person I play with on a fairly regular basis is in Eve-Uni, and they seem like good people willing to help out.
Doesn't work well for me. The top third of the map displays, everything under that is cutoff by just blank white space. Nice to see someone is adding traffic info to a map, but kind of hard to use when it doesn't render properly.
I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating.
Force all your traffic through a proxy that requires authentication for the services that supports it (http/https/ftp), and deny everything else. Create specific exceptions if required, but enforce the authenticated http traffic, it'll stop all of these web bugs in documents, email etc.
I've never seen the show, but I saw Serenity for the first time last night. It's an ok movie, but nothing special. Normally they'd make sequels anyway, because that's what Hollywood does, but it doesn't seem like much of a loss that they aren't planning on making one in this case.
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I'm using a Precision 670n here, and it was delivered quickly. Decent box, although the I/O performance sucks.
Yeah, that was a big letdown. I frantically clicked on the article, hoping that there was news of a new Serious game, and much to my chagrin, it had nothing to do with that.
As an earlier poster mentioned, having high/lowsec mixes is pretty pointless. Beke is a perfect example. It seperates two big blocks of highsec Genesis, and as a result is heavily camped. Going around Beke results in a 12 jump detour. CCP has expressed in the past that they want to mix up pvp and pve, but this isn't the way to do it. Empire should be a core of highsec, with lowsec on the fringes, and then 0.0 out beyond. I enjoy hoping in a gang and roming around looking for a fight in 0.0, but I don't enjoy being forced to waste an enormous amount of time taking detours around lowsec pockets when trying to make some isk so I can head out to PB and lose some more cruisers. Let the players decide if they want to visit lowsec, don't force it upon them.
And the proposed changes in the devblog from yesterday are absolute crap. Removing the T2 lottery, but letting existing BPO holders keep theirs? That just makes the whole T2 BPO problem far worse. And moving belts to the exploration system will annoy players who have been playing for a while (and not do a damn thing to macroers, which a reason given), and completely fuck new players. When the only thing you have is a Navitas and a pair of Miner Is, how the fuck are you supposed to find a belt to mine? With Scordite/Veld being far more profitable these days, new players need to mine in order to afford a ship that they can go pew pew with. Hiding the belts completely shafts them. Unless CCP is planning on removing the noob ships and replacing them with real frigates with real fittings, new players aren't going to be able to afford anything, and sure as hell won't stick around.
Yep, they were special bar codes that were supposed to be in magazine articles to let you scan them and go to the web site for the article. I wanted one, buy my local Radio Shack was out of em.
And cell phone jammers are popular among thieves, for that very reason. We've moved all our alarm systems to IP (real IP, not VOIP, it's a vpn connection back to ADT), with the backup on POTS. This allows them to constantly poll the alarm system (30 second polls), and if it doesn't respond for 3 polls, and the backup hasn't kicked in, they dispatch the police.
The moral of the story, stay away from a POTS/VOIP hybrid, go to a real IP solution, and use that crappy POTS for the backup.
If I had limited bandwidth, I'd fire up my laptop, and play some Civ4, like I do when I'm on the train. No need for teh Intarweb when that damn Monty needs killing.
While not a MMO in the usual sense, try playing nethack on devnull.net (if they ever come back online).
If you use links, you can compile it with X and fbcon support, which if you then add in gif, jpeg, png, etc support allows you to view graphics in your console, or X via links. Start up links with the -g option to enable graphics support.
By space, I meant 0.0, as that is what actually matters. Now that Kali is out, they don't control quite as much, but pre-Kali, I'd say 30-40% is correct. I'm up north, and I know that if they came up looking to invade, it'd be one hell of a fight. If they are supported by CCP devs, who knows what would happen. Of course, d2 is all bob alts, so it'd be one strange fight.
Well, the items involved and the isk (in game currency) they represent is worth tens of thousands of US dollars on ebay. The BPO bit is supposed to be a random lottery, spreading wealth out to different people. Instead, this one alliance got a number of them, allowing them to build ships and modules that have no rival. The alliance that has been implicated in all of this just recently finished conquering one of their neighbors, and controls 30-40% of space in the game. This makes all of their actions suspect, and makes it appear that the company running the game (CCP) wants this alliance to finish taking over the entire game.
Sounds like they did what a lot of people thought might happen, and didn't really do anything.
Sure, you can ask, but you'll never get them to tell you what it really cost, or what they did to prevent that from happening in the future.
Decent supported resolutions up to 1600x1200, and I think it came out in 94 or so.
And to get to Tims, I have to drive from Seattle up to Vancouver, or take the ferry over to Victoria. While I drink more than my share of Tims when in Canuck town, it's not an option down here in the states.
xmouse mode is easy to enable. TweakUI will let you do it, or you can flip the bit yourself: HCU\Control Panel\Mouse\ActiveWindowTracking
Why didn't this make the front page? It's certainly a far more interesting thing for nerds than an article about bloggers.
Sucks to be you, because you won't be able to use the corporate version. With the change to licensing in Vista, that corporate version will need to report back to a server at the office at least once every 6 months.
I keep a copy of Helix (decent forensic tools), pnordahl's NT password changer cd, and a current Gentoo live cd. The Gentoo cd gives me a full toolchain and package management if I need to install something else.
Eve-Uni is a fantastic corp, it's good to see some other people recommending them. Although I'm not a part of them, one person I play with on a fairly regular basis is in Eve-Uni, and they seem like good people willing to help out.
I prefer the sucubus.
Doesn't work well for me. The top third of the map displays, everything under that is cutoff by just blank white space. Nice to see someone is adding traffic info to a map, but kind of hard to use when it doesn't render properly.
I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating.
Force all your traffic through a proxy that requires authentication for the services that supports it (http/https/ftp), and deny everything else. Create specific exceptions if required, but enforce the authenticated http traffic, it'll stop all of these web bugs in documents, email etc.
Actually yes. It's a hell of lot easier now. It used to be a set of patches you applied to the Mozilla source tree.
I've never seen the show, but I saw Serenity for the first time last night. It's an ok movie, but nothing special. Normally they'd make sequels anyway, because that's what Hollywood does, but it doesn't seem like much of a loss that they aren't planning on making one in this case.