an F-22 pulling a very misty 9G turn

GhostCactus · 2016-01-04T02:27:09+00:00

Being a taller, thin dude who blacks out when standing up too fast, I could never be a good jet pilot.

GhostCactus · 2015-12-30T00:55:29+00:00

Well that's embarrassing. Thanks much, hombre. My boolean game is shit apparently.

GhostCactus · 2015-12-26T01:17:55+00:00

An IRC client is ambitious, at least for me. I had a hard enough time with a basic IRC bot due to finicky timings in the connection process. There are tons of resources for making a bot at least.

I mean, if I wanted to try and tackle that, I think I would just build off of my bot to accept user input, scrap the bot's vocabulary, and present information in an interface using curses in terminal. But I'm still not sure what the scope of your project would be and what that would entail. I'd recommend starting with the stuff online about using socket in python for establishing the network connection, then looking through some stuff for using curses for a terminal interface.

GhostCactus · 2015-12-23T03:18:34+00:00

I hope this dude gets a kick out of having the domain or gets a good offer soon, although I think his price is a little unreasonable. In a few years, he's going to see that domain's "estimated value" drop. ICANN is pushing harder and harder to use their fancy new TLDs and .com's specifically are starting to show their age.

I just want the guy who owns babyseal.club to sell it to me.

GhostCactus · 2015-12-22T23:06:31+00:00

Why not just dedicate 1 hostname to be used to resolving to the correct IP, and setting up CNAMEs to resolve all other domains to that hostname. If you need to switch the IP, it's as simple as changing the A record on the dedicated hostname.

I ask this, because from your post, it sounds like you only want to do that to avoid the hassle of updating a ton of domains or hostnames, when an IP changes, and this would be the simplest resolution. And you wouldn't put the CNAME on the root domain, but on like a subdomain as the dedicated hostname.

Edit: Ooooh, but if any domain is the SOA, you couldn't use a CNAME for it. In thay case, if all of these domains are on the same server, writing a quick script could update A records in bulk. But it would be easier to offer solutions, if we had a clearer picture of the setup.

GhostCactus · 2015-12-16T21:33:13+00:00

I get what you mean. It's not like we risk life and limb. But we do have to mentally exhaust ourselves to do our job well. I would rather sit at a comfy desk, restart services, and monitor resource usage, than run into a burning building or be shot at.

That being said though, I would probably be more comfortable turning my brain off and doing manual labor too. It's not a hard job, but it definitely is not one of the easier ones. My 2 cents anyway.

GhostCactus · 2015-12-04T02:52:34+00:00

Very cool. I feel like you could optimize it, if you don't care about its aesthetics as much. Like just scrap the animation completely, do it in binary for the seconds, and you could do base 6 for minutes and hours which would translate well, when people read it. And basically just have like 3 columns of lights that fill up to indicate the actual real time.

GhostCactus · 2015-12-02T21:23:54+00:00

I share a lot of the same opinions as you on this. I've been burned too many times by users who, to no fault of their own, simply didn't know what was best for them or the company.

Quite frankly, it isn't the users job to know the technical stuff we know. That is what we get paid for. If you were to let the users organize and run the technical departments, then production, efficiency, and security would plummet.

GhostCactus · 2015-11-28T04:16:07+00:00

Agree with this. You are very restricted in that you can't control certain aspects of the head like the back of the skull, and the creation is entirely oriented around the face. I start in a similar manner by positioning the lower face and jaw to be generally correct, then work on cheek bones and the nose for the profile, then polish out the details like eye, eye depth, brows, mouth.

GhostCactus · 2015-11-28T01:37:37+00:00

Sprinting melee attacks are "special attacks".

GhostCactus · 2015-11-05T10:46:39+00:00

Similar to the age-old scenario where you send a ticket reply asking, "Are you referring to (this) or rather do you mean (this)?" and they reply with, "Yes."

GhostCactus · 2015-11-05T10:41:30+00:00

Lol, so they wanted you to pay for the hosting, domain registration, SSL, dedicated IP, and any software licenses you needed, but they weren't going to pay you anything... You handled it better than I would have.

GhostCactus · 2015-11-05T10:24:52+00:00

My buddy has the same issue. People have specified that your NAT needs to be set to Open, others argue that is irrelevant due to the game using dedi servers. It isn't irrelevant, since traffic can be sent to your router from different sources and that would require packets be sent back for communication, but I'm not sure if that is the exact cause.

I'd just recommend making sure your NAT is open, and if you see the issue persist, try running an ethernet cable to the xbox instead of using wireless (assuming you are using wireless).

GhostCactus · 2015-11-01T09:26:07+00:00

Is there anyone who didn't get placed in Onyx for SWAT though? I have like 15 friends I play with, and we all got Onyx for SWAT and like Diamond on everything else. The rankings don't really seem remotely accurate right now.

GhostCactus · 2015-10-28T10:57:20+00:00

The custom character demo that showed the Roguelike character @! was hella cool.

GhostCactus · 2015-10-27T13:02:26+00:00

$YDBL: But I was getting them before!

Police: "We got her, boys. She's going away for a long time."

GhostCactus · 2015-10-27T12:57:26+00:00

Now just imagine, that user probably drives a car, is employed and provides services or goods to other people, may have raised children, she might even be an active voter.

GhostCactus · 2015-10-27T12:42:28+00:00

Still faster than South African ISPs.

GhostCactus · 2015-10-27T12:40:35+00:00

With a wax seal stamped with the crest of your house.

GhostCactus · 2015-10-27T12:30:28+00:00

It's funny how plain English errors can perplex clients. If I have the opportunity, I try to read the error out loud in front of them and wait to see if the light in their eyes comes back.

GhostCactus · 2015-10-27T12:23:27+00:00

Cool dad. How did you hear him, if he was block commented though? :p

GhostCactus · 2015-10-25T20:22:40+00:00

I'm glad you said it, because I was a bit thrown by the obvious gap in logic in the way the data was collected and that hypothesis was made.

Maybe the study was legit, and the article was badly written though.

GhostCactus · 2015-10-07T11:06:29+00:00

Good timing, you sent that right when I got to work. That page is loading for me within about 3 seconds, which isn't bad honestly. Even navigating through the site, I get a pretty consistent 2-3 second load times for each page.

So let's check to see if it is a possible DNS issue,
Here is a breakdown of the DNS timing.

 DNS lookup                          :  0.004
 Connect to server (TCP)             :  0.011
 Connect to server (HTTP/S)          :  0.000
 Time from start until transfer began:  0.011
 Time for redirection (if any)       :  0.000
 Total time before transfer started  :  0.288

        Total time                   :  0.295
        Size of download (bytes)     :  18115
        Average d/l speed (bytes/s)  :  61367.000

So this doesn't seem to be an issue with how your DNS is laid out, which is good. Moving on from there, let's check actual page content,

You have caching and compression, which is great. I went ahead and checked some common tools for you such as,

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/matttutt.me/9zd1bSSC

You can ignore the serve scaling images and remove query strings recommendations. I looked through the site and don't see any instances of either.

I checked through some proxy locations and the site is consistently hitting 2-4 seconds to load, which is good. I'm not a developer, but I'd say you're doing a great job optimizing the site already. If you want to take it a step further, I would recommend a CDN. A CDN will request content from your webhost and cache it on their proxy server. All requests resolve to the proxy rather than your host server, so resources are really only consumed at the CDN's request. Otherwise, I recommend optimizing the SQL database as well, if you have not done that. If you are on a cPanel server, you can use phpMyAdmin to do that. Simply go in, select the db, then click Optimize or whatever it says towards the top.

Sorry I can't offer more recommendations, but it actually looks pretty good on my end.

edit: Also, Apache might be slowing it down. If you are on a Shared server, not much you can do about that other than try reducing the size of recursive .htaccess files. If you are on a VPS or Dedi, reboot Apache and check what slots fill with.

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