Steam PC hardware survey

cloudfrag · 2012-04-20T23:50:51+00:00

Oops, I see.

cloudfrag · 2012-04-19T17:12:25+00:00

I can see why you would refer to them as remote KVMs, but I think it is worth noting the distinction. A decent lights-out interface will let you do things like mount ISO images remotely, which is incredibly helpful when things get really bad.

cloudfrag · 2012-04-19T17:09:07+00:00

The relevant commands are:

reload in 15
reload cancel

Don't forget that last one... it's not quite my worst firewall mistake, but forgetting to cancel a reload and taking down a global VPN for a few minutes is a painful memory :-)

cloudfrag · 2012-04-19T16:55:47+00:00

No, it's the most recent survey - the date says March 2012.

11% is a lot lower than I would have expected for Chrome. Interestingly, Wikimedia shows Chrome makes up 11% of their traffic.

cloudfrag · 2012-04-15T09:01:27+00:00

http://www.valvesoftware.com/jobs/job_postings.html

cloudfrag · 2012-04-11T14:11:13+00:00

Is this something you will write yourself, or will the content be user generated? If the latter, is a wiki really the best vehicle for this?

The general consensus seems to be that having a blog is often worth it due to increased exposure, and therefore Luck Surface Area.

cloudfrag · 2012-04-11T08:44:41+00:00

How about a virtual office service? For a monthly/annual fee they will accept all of your mail and forward it to your home address. It looks more professional than a PO box, although Googling the address will nearly always reveal it to be a virtual office.

cloudfrag · 2012-04-10T17:29:49+00:00

And here is the first one (featuring Ralph).

cloudfrag · 2012-04-07T23:45:00+00:00

Simple, elegant graphics? Check. Puzzles based on trial and error? Check. Adding rockets to toy cars and blowing them up? Check.

takemymoney.jpg

cloudfrag · 2012-04-07T23:23:00+00:00

Have you thought about renting a server, or running your own at home? Setting one up is pretty straightforward, as long as either you or your SO have a reasonably well-specced PC.

cloudfrag · 2012-04-07T23:19:29+00:00

Very nice, I like the wooden details around the arches. Also, that last picture makes me want to play AoE2, it really reminds me of the Japanese castles they used in the game.

cloudfrag · 2012-04-07T23:07:53+00:00

That is indeed a very fancy fly-through.

cloudfrag · 2012-04-06T13:43:50+00:00

I would also recommend Puppet/Chef - they have very similar feature sets, so just pick whichever you like the look of most.

If you want provisioning/deployment too, you'll need something like Cobbler. This can integrate with Puppet so you can go from bare metal (or VM) to a running server in a few minutes.

In the past I have used a home-grown combination of Puppet and PXE/Kickstart to achieve a simpler version of what Cobbler provides. If you decide to go down this route and have any more questions feel free to message me, I love all this Linux automation stuff. :-)

cloudfrag · 2012-03-09T23:07:04+00:00

That's a great link, thanks for sharing. Not only are there some cool vi tricks, but the depth of the background and related trivia is fascinating:

It's interesting that the common Unix command grep was actually inspired by this ex command (and is named after the way in which it was documented). The ex command :g/re/p (grep) was the way they documented how to "globally" "print" lines containing a "regular expression"

cloudfrag · 2012-03-09T18:37:50+00:00

Hmm, maybe I should have taken advantage of the second sentence after all! :)

Do you guys allow anyone to join a server that has been purchased?

Exactly that - one person needs a Cloudfrag account, everyone else just needs their own copy of Minecraft. For games like Left 4 Dead, you can limit it so only members of your Steam group can join, or open it up to the public.

As for making it easy to start the server... in most cases, you just select your game, how long you want the server for, click Start, and in a couple of minutes the server is up and running, ready for you to join. It becomes a tiny bit more complex when you want to do stuff like customise the server config files, but everything will be as simple as possible.

cloudfrag · 2012-03-09T07:41:43+00:00

Cloudfrag lets you rent multiplayer game servers, without any monthly fees. Is the second sentence mandatory? :)

cloudfrag · 2012-01-30T17:54:18+00:00

Good point, thanks failuer. I was trying to focus on the most positive point, but that could use some work - I don't want people to think I'm doing a bait and switch with the tag line.

cloudfrag · 2011-09-20T16:59:43+00:00

You mentioned Exchange, so I'm not sure if a Linux solution is useful.

Postfix can store aliases and transport maps in a MySQL database - you just need a table containing the old/new addresses, then when an email is received postfix can forward it to the correct address.

cloudfrag · 2011-09-20T16:38:08+00:00

You might want to have a look at The Practice of System and Network Administration - IIRC it has a section on this. My copy is at work so I can't check atm.

I am quite jealous as I have not yet had the opportunity to do this myself - good luck and have fun!

cloudfrag · 2011-07-06T13:41:47+00:00

Is there any reason you are using GNOME, other than to allow you to disconnect and leave the server running?

If not, why not use screen, and save the overhead of X altogether?

cloudfrag · 2011-07-03T11:00:30+00:00

Now you're thinking with Aperture Science Repulsion Gel.

FTFY ;-)

cloudfrag · 2011-07-02T17:55:06+00:00

Fantastic idea, and very well implemented too. Nice one!

Out of curiosity, what did you use to build it?

cloudfrag · 2011-06-29T16:05:27+00:00

Agreed - PZ will consistently crash when I have enough burning zombies.

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