Comment Re:I tried WoW this weekend (Score 1) 545
We pay $60 / 6mo for a ventrilo server. So $10/mo/(#num of people pitching in)
Or would that be $10 / fucking month
We pay $60 / 6mo for a ventrilo server. So $10/mo/(#num of people pitching in)
Or would that be $10 / fucking month
I think people stay in MMOs for the social aspect of it. You made it sound like a bad thing by saying it's a "glorified chat" but really, it's chat where the people have a defined goal or objective. So they can talk about whatever including the game and their objectives in the game. I agree though if the objective is always the same, it can get boring, but that's when talking about different things comes in to play to break the monotony.
I don't play WoW, but I do play other games (TF2, L4D, WAR,
I too backup daily. I use a program called BackupPC: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
For the backup server, I use a D-Link DNS-323: a NAS that's very low power (I believe 7 W idle and ~20 W under load) and provides RAID 1. You have to do a bit of hacking, but I've also put up a howto at this wiki for the DNS-323: http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:backuppc
I backup 3 desktops and 2 laptops daily with this setup and it works very well. There are many other NAS units that would work well in this situation, but I've been very happen with what I have.
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