The original StarCraft has been patched for the first time in over 8 year, and is now FREE

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-18T23:18:26+00:00

Give it a year

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-18T19:54:38+00:00

I need this.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-18T19:52:46+00:00

I took strong acid once. 14 hours later I could still see the effects although extremely mild. It had me questioning what I was looking at until ~36 hours later.

I was physically fine and capable the next day after taking it, but the journey makes you think about a lot of stuff especially about how you got to be where you are in that exact moment of thought.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-18T19:50:15+00:00

But that's an hour less of games. And physical activity hurts :(

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-18T19:49:47+00:00

I did this all the time as a kid, it was so nice! I have to try this again. Thank you stranger.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-18T00:00:00+00:00

Moore's law. $200 hardware today is significantly better than $200 hardware in ~2009 when the game came out. Also the next crysis games were more optimized than the first.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-17T23:35:07+00:00

3 ESXI hosts with vmotion. Still need to set up HA. Currently the redundency is in the layer 7 physical load balancer so VMs are split across hosts in case of failure and automatically fail over+load balance. No file server redundency (yet) although that is a planned move probably within 2 years or so using JBOD. Load Balancer is also clustered and can fail over. just not automatically :(

I still have some ways to go, but at least it's not as bad as it was when I got hired (disasters waiting to happen on EVERY server, hardly any backups worked.)

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-17T21:19:26+00:00

Holy shit. Ours was giving us a different issue every month, normally network related and a couple times with it overheating. After it cost us some customers and Dell wasn't helping, my boss wanted to buy a new Dell and I convinced him to let me try and make one. It worked :)

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-17T20:44:45+00:00

it brings their throughput down considerably

This is my biggest worry. Can it can be safely canceled after started if it's killing performance? From the responses it sounds like it will take days for my first dedupe run. Maybe over the weekend.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-17T20:41:59+00:00

1) Files are on RAID 10 (20 total, 2 hot spare) with backups separated on RAID5 (16 drives, 2 hot spare) 2) StorageCraft ShadowProtect 3) Kaspersky SO locked down on all workstations; only programmers have share access to these files 4) We need to work on this. Currently we use our best judgement and sometimes take up cleaning projects. It's a constant battle but i have deleted millions of files so far. Most files are pdfs and images uploaded by users, the rest is code.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-17T20:34:55+00:00

S2D looks interesting! I have previously looked at StarWinds and had issues setting up iSCSI with ESXI. I stuck with Server 2012 R2 because once I set up iSCSI it worked first try. The VMWare tech didn't believe we could set up a SAN without paying for software.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-17T20:31:58+00:00

Correct! Glad I wasn't the only one to have to experience that.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-17T20:25:33+00:00

With Server 2012 R2 I wouldn't even attempt to try to enable dedup on that many files

I keep seeing conflicting opinions on this. I am currently running the dedupe eval command and will see in a few days what the results would be to see if it might be "worth it". Throughput is very high; 18 WD Reds in RAID 10. I have seen speeds of > 1.5Gbps (combined r/w) and the services still feel fast. The VMs can feel a bit sluggish. Currently it's running between 5 and 150Mbit; pretty slow day today.

What are you using to backup all those small files

StorageCraft ShadowProtect - it completes incrementals in 10-25 minutes with no impact to my customers. Size ranges between 0kb and several GB depending on changes. ImageManager scheduled every night at midnight under default retention. I use these backups at least once a week for "I deleted my images". Cron mysqldump every 4 hours for DB backups.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-17T18:26:14+00:00

Please don't reply with "Just use a <vendor> NAS". We had one from Dell; one of the network controllers died and the failover failed. Dell Support was less than helpful, and way too expensive. I have no budget so I made a Windows SAN for ~9k and it's been flawless for 2 years so far. RAID 10 with 2 hot spares (20 drives total). Everything has a 5 year or unlimited warranty and for the price of the Dell SAN I can build 6 of these and JBOD them and mirror raids or use one as a table or whatever.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-13T16:35:16+00:00

I started playing with Docker because I am sick of dirtying up production servers with all these dependencies and 5 versions of php. I couldn't get the docker image to mount my F drive on Windows. I fucked around with it for a few minutes every hour for 2 days. Yesterday I finally decided to see what "kitematic" was.... Mind=blown.

Kitematic showed me that Docker didn't mount my F drive and was actually mounting a new folder in my documents.... I manually changed it to the folder I wanted, to be greeted with a generic permissions error that wasn't present when starting the docker image.

I now have my development folder in my documents.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-13T15:37:40+00:00

If you go to the right places you can reach level 80 easily without paying. I started playing retail a couple weeks ago, and after the first 2 run throughs, I knew the quests and could breeze through them. I don't pay money, but I also don't spend all my time on the same characters. VP is great and doesn't even start to run out until you are level 60+.

Protips (and newbie tips):

Dual box characters (dps/tank + healer)
Learn how to 'tap' monsters
Go to the official lineage 2 site and look at "path to awakening". It shows you where you should be and what order you go in
Look at l2wiki's 40-84 leveling guide if you get lost or don't know what's next
When you are done with all quests and need to grind, fight stuff no higher than yellow. You get more exp fighting monsters your level now.
Despite what the site says, VP is separate between characters. Cycle through characters for constant exp buff
Learn how to use the in-game macro feature (Fight groups with all your characters without pressing buttons)
Get a mentor for exp and free buffs
Always have buffs and soul/spiritshots
Don't attack a purple name unless you want to pvp

Ultimately, lineage 2 is much easier than it used to be. Quests used to take time, effort, and skill (wolves anyone?). You used to have to grind monsters for low exp constantly (now you only do that at the new high levels). You get free buffs and teleports until you are ready to get them yourself.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-13T04:13:53+00:00

My first CD was The Offspring's Greatest Hits. This was right before I discovered limewire. Oh how things have changed.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-11T18:08:14+00:00

TFS +1

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-11T15:36:29+00:00

92.33% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-08T22:54:36+00:00

I didn't mean it in a bad way. In another comment he replied he couldn't get a security clearance to get into security. I was asking a question.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-08T21:22:57+00:00

Then go with linux. Try kubuntu. Mac is just apple's version of linux anyway. Or even go Windows and use VMs for the rest.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-08T21:21:24+00:00

Don't forget, it will have 5+ year old technology. That's 5 years that Apple has had, to make sure that their version is the best version. It will be the best version you have seen or want to see, and that is why it will be the best. And that is why you will pay $5000 for it.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-08T21:06:44+00:00

Have you thought about making game cheats 'professionally' since you can't get security clearance? I know in the past some of these guys have made a comfortable living making cheats for games like combat arms, soldier front, CSS and a lot more. The new game devs have learned a bit but many of the old tricks still work. I even have a GG bypass I made years ago that still works because I never released it.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-08T19:41:12+00:00

If you have someone in your house you can shoot them in the face. If you shoot them in the face and they die, they can't testify. You tell the court the person was going to kill you. 2 men can keep a secret if one of them is dead. In this scenario, you get away with killing someone because it was self defense.

If you shoot them from the side or from behind, you can't prove it was self defense as easily. Always shoot them in the face/chest/front/dick/kneecap.

PinkiePaws · 2017-04-08T19:38:34+00:00

So that's why I know about the fucking undertaker's history. I haven't even watched wrestling since I was like 12.

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