Comment ASUS RT-16N / DD-WRT (Score 5, Informative) 334
I recently put an RT-16N in service in my office running DD-WRT. As the the Internet sez, the stock firmwire is crap, but this thing flies while running DD-WRT.
An Inside Look At Warhammer Online's Server Setup 71
An article at Gamasutra provides some details on the hardware Mythic uses to power Warhammer Online, courtesy of Chief Technical Officer Matt Shaw and Online Technical Director Andrew Mann. Quoting:
"At any given time, approximately 2,000 servers are in operation, supporting the gameplay in WAR. Matt Shaw commented, 'What we call a server to the user, that main server is actually a cluster of a number of machines. Our Server Farm in Virginia, for example,' Mann said, 'has about 60 Dell Blade chassis running Warhammer Online — each hosting up to 16 servers. All in all, we have about 700 servers in operation at this location.' ... 'We use blade architecture heavily for Warhammer Online,' Mann noted. 'Almost every server that we deploy is a blade system. We don't use virtualization; our software is somewhat virtualized itself. We've always had the technology to run our game world across several pieces of hardware. It's application-layer clustering at a process level. Virtualization wouldn't gain us much because we already run very close to peak CPU usage on these systems.' ... The normalized server configuration — in use across all of the Mythic-managed facilities — features dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors running at 3 GHz with 8 GB of RAM."
Comment Re:Firefighting (Score 1) 735
I've been the poor schmo carrying the pager. (Government job: Didn't get paid to carry the pager, but, if I got called in, was paid for a minimum of 2 hours regardless of how long I was there and the time was either OT or part of my 40 hours.) I'm currently a volunteer EMT in my local FD and have many friends who are career firefighters. The lawyer is *SO* off-base with his analogy. Paid FFs are paid for their time in station. They are not paid for the small (depending on location) percentage of time that they are off saving the world. They're paid to train, watch TV, train some more, sleep, train just a bit more, and -- yeah -- respond when the tones go off.
As a volunteer, I carry a pager. If it goes off (EMS-side), I respond if I can. If I can't, someone else has it covered. I put in my 40 for The Man. Then I put in another 10-15/wk because I want to. My brothers who volunteer at my station and are career down the road do the exact same thing. I get paid for when I'm ON-DUTY. They get paid for when they're ON-DUTY. For me, on-duty is sitting at my desk coding. For them, on-duty is either available-in-quarters, available-in-district, training, or on the scene. Their 40 is a bit different than mine. The point, though, is that duty hours are duty hours.
As a volunteer, I carry a pager. If it goes off (EMS-side), I respond if I can. If I can't, someone else has it covered. I put in my 40 for The Man. Then I put in another 10-15/wk because I want to. My brothers who volunteer at my station and are career down the road do the exact same thing. I get paid for when I'm ON-DUTY. They get paid for when they're ON-DUTY. For me, on-duty is sitting at my desk coding. For them, on-duty is either available-in-quarters, available-in-district, training, or on the scene. Their 40 is a bit different than mine. The point, though, is that duty hours are duty hours.
Comment Re:As a matter of accounting.... (Score 5, Insightful) 205
There is a fundamental difference between an ATM and a voting machine, though. In an ATM, you MUST keep track of the user who was standing at the machine doing the transaction. With a voting machine, you MUST NOT keep track of who is standing at the machine at any given time. Doing so could leak information about how that person voted.
And, as has been proven, a company that can do one well can real screw up the other (hint: begins with a 'D' and rhymes with "re-told").
-J
And, as has been proven, a company that can do one well can real screw up the other (hint: begins with a 'D' and rhymes with "re-told").
-J
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