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Comment At sea has to be cheaper than Iraq!? (Score 2, Interesting) 504

by Banquo on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @01:53PM (#26436179) Attached to: Internet Communications While At Sea?

Not to threadjack, but this is related...

A friend of mine is stationed in Iraq with a similar problem. I went looking to see if there was something here I could buy and ship there so that he would have something more than just enough time and resources to send a couple of mails a day.

The only thing I could find was a compay called TS2 Satellite, they want 4K for their equipment and then about $900/mo for service. I mean I love the guy but I can't shell out that kind of dough (especially as he's there till Dec)

Anyone know of any other solutions?

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Submission + - Suggestions for cheap metrics eye candy software?

Submitted by

Banquo

on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @06:33PM

Banquo writes: "I have a friend who has a small datacenter (SQL/Mail/IIS/File Repository..5 or 10 servers)and he was saying that his boss wants to see some kind of "Visual display of changing metrics" Net/server/sql stats with moving lines and graphs and pretty colors etc.. etc..

Basically they want something to display on a big LCD panel that will give a tiny bit of "Wow" factor to customer visits. Back in my datacenter days I saw a million packages to do this stuff but I was always blessed with an IT budget for metrics/monitoring etc...

Can anyone suggest a free/cheap package that will make pretty moving pictures, moving lines, graphs etc.. from server/net stats?

There's no worry about actually using this for real data tracking or metrics purposes. He has a pretty robust log/alert/metrics setup but command line is a little too dry for marketing purposes. I jokingly suggested he just use a looped flash animation but he actually does want stats that are coming from and reflect his environment.

Anyone know of any cheap or free "Data center stats/metrics "Eye Candy" software out there?"

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Comment TR Communutiy now trying to obtain game rights (Score 1) 244

by Banquo on Saturday November 22, 2008 @01:36PM (#25858591) Attached to: <em>Tabula Rasa</em> To Shut Down

I play Tabula Rasa and when this announcement came out many of us thought the same thing,..
If they're ditching this project (and as it's the best game that no-one knows about) what would it take for the user community to take over the game?

Obviously we *JUST* found out about this and are just brainstorming the concept, but there are some people on board with the idea that are 100% serious, and several have internal connetions to NCSoft.
Last night we set up a discussion board (quick and dirty) to kick things off for brainstorming, updates etc...
Yeah I know you can shoot a million bullets into this idea right now, but any "Constructive" help would be appreciated on the boards.

http://www.changingwind.org/savetr/signup.php

The concept is that it would be run by a group of gamers, so the things that were the ultimate failures of TR in the first place (user community tools, social aspects, gamer support, advertising) might see a vast improvement.

If you have any ties to "gamer media" I ask that you take a chance to follow a story that could be a huge Cinderella story, or a possible nightmare, but should be interesing either way.

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