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Myst Online: Uru Live Returns As Free-To-Play 58

Posted by Soulskill from the uru-is-dead-long-live-uru dept.
agrif writes "Shorah b'shemtee! Uru Live has been released for free, as a first step towards opening its source. This game, an MMO released by the makers of Myst and Riven in 2003, has been canceled, zombified, resurrected, canceled again, and is now about to be released as open source to its dedicated fan base. Massively has written a brief newbie guide if you're unfamiliar with the game."

Comment Re:screen (Score 1) 307

by AlexWillisson (#31032082) Attached to: Keep SSH Sessions Active, Or Reconnect?
I use this all the time, it works wonderfully. You can also copy your private keys over multiple computers, so you only need one key for all of your computers. However, you probably want to change keys every couple years. That way you don't have to worry about someone logging into your computers with a 10+ year old key you forgot about.
Software

Apple's Trend Away From Tinkering 965

Posted by Soulskill from the hey-what's-this-do dept.
theodp writes "Having cut his programming teeth on an Apple ][e as a ten-year-old, Mark Pilgrim laments that Apple now seems to be doing everything in their power to stop his kids from finding the sense of wonder he did: 'Apple has declared war on the tinkerers of the world. With every software update, the previous generation of "jailbreaks" stop working, and people have to find new ways to break into their own computers. There won't ever be a MacsBug for the iPad. There won't be a ResEdit, or a Copy ][+ sector editor, or an iPad Peeks & Pokes Chart. And that's a real loss. Maybe not to you, but to somebody who doesn't even know it yet.'"

Comment Re:Install your own 6to4 tunnel today (Score 5, Interesting) 467

by AlexWillisson (#30883512) Attached to: IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated
I use SIXXS, it's been working great.

http://www.sixxs.net/main/ (www is required, the site isn't perfect but it works)

I currently have two tunnels (one to an out of house server & one to my house), a subnet for my house (I've tested it, I can ssh from an external server directly to my in-house computers without any port forwarding). It adds a little latency (since you have to go through some other router before reaching the ipv6 part of the internet), but not too bad.
The Internet

IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated 467

Posted by kdawson from the pure-water dept.
mysidia writes "A total of 16,777,216 IP address numbers were just allocated to the Asian Pacific Network Information Centre IP address registry for assignment to users. Some venerable IP addresses such as 1.1.1.1 and 1.2.3.4 have been officially assigned to the registry itself temporarily, for testing as part of the DEBOGON project. The major address blocks 1.0.0.0/8 and 27.0.0.0/8, are chosen accordance with a decision by ICANN to assign the least-desirable remaining IP address ranges to the largest regional registries first, reserving most more desirable blocks of addresses for the African and Latin American internet users, instead of North America, Europe, or Asia. In other words: of the 256 major networks in IPv4, only 24 network blocks remain unallocated in the global free pool, and many of the remaining networks have been tainted or made less desirable by unofficial users who attempted an end-run around the registration process, and treated 'RESERVED' IP addresses as 'freely available' for their own internal use. This allocation is right on target with projected IPv4 consumption and was predicted by the IPv4 report, which has continuously and reliably estimated global pool IP address exhaustion for late 2011 and regional registry exhaustion by late 2012. So, does your enterprise intranet use any unofficial address ranges for private networks?" Reader dude_nl sends in a summary of the issues with allocating from 1.0.0.0/8 from the BGPmon.net blog. "As Alain Durand mentioned on Nanog: 'Who said the water at the bottom of the barrel of IPv4 addresses will be very pure? We ARE running out and the global pain is increasing.'"
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - Amazon Makes "1984" And "Animal Farm& (nytimes.com) 2

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Oracle Goddess
Oracle Goddess writes: "In a story just dripping with irony, Amazon Kindle owners awoke this morning to discover that "1984" and "Animal Farm" had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for, and thought they owned. Apparently the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic edition, and apparently Amazon, whose business lives and dies by publisher happiness, caved. It electronically deleted all books by this author from people's Kindles and credited their accounts for the price. Amazon Customer service responded to queries by stating that. "We've always been at war with Eastasia.""

Comment Re:Robots vs CGI vs Puppetry (Score 1) 124

by AlexWillisson (#25867691) Attached to: Scientists Add Emotions To Robotic Head
I think the main new part is that this is driven by motors & is made of real materials, when for CGI they can manipulate anything any way they want to. No worrying about piece X breaking, or piece Y not being able to move that way. Also, for puppetry (and similar), you can make something look enough not like a REAL human, to avoid the "uncanny valley" problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley

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