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How To Use a Linux Virtual Private Server 303

Posted by samzenpus from the listen-up dept.
Nerval's Lobster writes "Game developer David Bolton writes: 'For my development of Web games, I've hit a point where I need a Virtual Private Server. (For more on this see My Search for Game Hosting Begins.) I initially chose a Windows VPS because I know Windows best. A VPS is just an Internet-connected computer. "Virtual" means it may not be an actual physical computer, but a virtualized host, one of many, each running as if it were a real computer. Recently, though, I've run into a dead end, as it turns out that Couchbase doesn't support PHP on Windows. So I switched to a Linux VPS running Ubuntu server LTS 12-04. Since my main desktop PC runs Windows 7, the options to access the VPS are initially quite limited, and there's no remote desktop with a Linux server. My VPS is specified as 2 GB of ram, 2 CPUs and 80 GB of disk storage. The main problem with a VPS is that you have to self-manage it. It's maybe 90% set up for you, but you need the remaining 10%. You may have to install some software, edit a config file or two and occasionally bounce (stop then restart) daemons (Linux services), after editing their config files.'"

Comment Re:I'd like to blame the editors... (Score 1) 87

by yukk (#40608335) Attached to: Cloned Horses Ok To Compete In Olympics

When do you think cloning ATHELETES will become legal? That's something I wouldn't put past the old USSR/East European Block. Remember the "women" atheletes they sent?"

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What do you mean when will it become legal ? It may not be legal but you can bet that certain countries *cough*China*cough* are already doing that.

For some regimes the only real definition of illegal involves being caught.

Comment Re:Gabe Newell should treat them to lunch... (Score 1) 473

by yukk (#38732436) Attached to: Ubisoft Has Windows-Style Hardware-Based DRM For Games

These guys are walking billboards highlighting the value of Steam vs the crap DRM-ware of Ubi, Origin, MS Games, etc.

I don't know if it's changed, but I heard Valve was working on a reputation based discount system. Maybe not quite what we're discussing here, but who knows, maybe if you say "Steam Rocks - buy games there because of X" and people do, at the next sale you'll see a coupon for lunch :)

Comment Re:And they wonder why people pirate (Score 2) 473

by yukk (#38732318) Attached to: Ubisoft Has Windows-Style Hardware-Based DRM For Games
Well, the difference is that in theory they could have made another sale to the person who entered the secondary market. In practice though, that person is in the secondary market for a reason; usually price. So in order to capture that sale the company would have to drop the price after a short intro period, and likely keep dropping the price to hit the thresholds of those (in, say, Australia) who don't want to pay $99.99 (~$US104) for a game but are willing to pay, maybe $40 for a used copy of a game that costs $50 in the U.S.

The companies can't be bothered doing this though, so they try DRM. Luckily Steam has a lot of sales and I guess that's good enough for the publishers.
Microsoft

Submission + - Upgrading From Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (youtube.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: YouTube user Andrew Tait has uploaded a video entitled Chain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows. Tait starts with MS DOS 5.0 running Windows 1.0 and keeps upgrading the operating system until he reaches Windows 7, taking note of the changes to system settings and application compatibility along the way.
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Laser Tractor Beams (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by yukk
yukk writes: A laser can act as a "tractor beam", drawing small objects back toward the laser's source.
Unlike the optical tweezers version which traps tiny objects in the focus of a laser, using a Bessel beam at a glancing angle should provide a force towards the source of the laser.
Details here.

Comment Re:Chess (Score 2, Interesting) 418

by yukk (#34345630) Attached to: Have I Lost My Gaming Mojo?

I'm in my mid 40's as of about a week ago. I still play games, single and multiplayer, and I still own the kiddies who think they are hot stuff. Getting older doesn't mean you can't have fun.

This could be just how my brain works, but I figure if I'm 40 and I am still able to own kids in fast-paced multiplayer games, then this is actually a BAD thing because it means I've invested way too much time into the game when I should be doing other things with my life. Not to criticize you in any way, it's just a reason why I feel that sucking at such games as one gets older is nothing to be ashamed of at all. Means you've moved onto other, more important things.

No, being able to own those kiddies means his senses, reactions and eye-hand co-ordination are still good at 40. Maybe even great. Let's hope your next surgeon if you need one kicks ass at video games and that the guy behind you on the highway isn't thinking it's too bad his reactions have gone to heck and he can't see well enough to play games any more. Games are just a choice of outlet as someone said. Different things engage different people. That's what makes us individuals.
Technology

Ultra-Thin Alternative To Silicon 83

Posted by Soulskill from the delicious-thin-mint-technology dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There's good news in the search for the next generation of semiconductors. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley have successfully integrated ultra-thin layers of the semiconductor indium arsenide onto a silicon substrate to create a nanoscale transistor with excellent electronic properties (abstract). A member of the III–V family of semiconductors, indium arsenide offers several advantages as an alternative to silicon, including superior electron mobility and velocity, which makes it an outstanding candidate for future high-speed, low-power electronic devices."

Comment Re:Ewwww, imagine "can't skip" technology? (Score 1) 194

by yukk (#34034468) Attached to: Free E-Books, With a Catch — Advertising
While I haven't actually been able to find a free book on this service I have been getting "free ad-sponsored" music from Guvera and all they make you do is visit a sponsored playlist page within their site and the sponsor pays for your unencumbered MP3 music. The mp3s have no ads or DRM.
Apparently this model is working for music so hopefully with books it won't be too much worse.

On the other hand:

"I've discovered the identity of the murderer. His name is....." "...and now a word from our sponsor."

Sounds a lot like watching TV these days.

Submission + - WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange is On Run (indiatimes.com)

Submitted by freakxx
freakxx writes: Times of India reports that WikiLeak's chief Julian Assange is now on run after the release of the Iraq's War Diary on his website. He is reported to be moving from one place to another (Stockholm, Berlin, London), paying money in cash that is mostly borrowed from his friends, changing hair color, and sleeping on sofa or on the floor, mostly due to the possibility of getting arrested or more likely to be extradited to the USA. In his own words: "being determined to be on this path, and not to compromise, I've wound up in an extraordinary situation".

As the documents are ultimately going to be good for us, the public, and he now seems to be in a deep trouble due to revealing the ugliness of the war, do we, as the public, also have some responsibility to help him out during this bad time, and set a good example for other such people in future? If so, what are the ways we can possibly do it, other than donating money on the WikiLeaks website?

Submission + - The New Yorker's porous paywall (floodmagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: If The New Yorker could write Javascript as well as they could stories, there wouldn't have a faulty paywall.

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