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Comment Why not just buy many large SDHC/SDXC cards? (Score 1) 326

by xaustinx on Friday August 10, 2012 @04:54PM (#40951265) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best On-Site Backup Plan?

Why bother with other storage technologies that degrade overtime. You already have access to cheap (but slow... in this application that doesn't really matter) solid state storage that doesn't degrade. If your objective is to simply archive the content, buy as many SDXC cards as you need to archive your content, and when you go on shoots charge them for the cost of an extra sdxc card to archive the content on and throw it into your safe.

What Game Devs Should Learn From EVE 270

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday May 20, 2010 @06:27AM from the watch-out-for-volcanoes dept.

An anonymous reader passes along this excerpt from Gamesradar about EVE Online's Council of Stellar Management (CSM), a group of elected player representatives that serve to facilitate communications between the developers and the community: "On the last day, the devs announced that after the earlier discussions about improving the CSM’s ability to effect change, the CSM was being raised to the status of its own department within CCP. This is revolutionary; in one swift move, the CSM went from what could be considered a glorified focus group to what CCP considers to be a 'stakeholder' in the company, given equal consideration with every other department in requesting development time for a project. That means the CSM — and the entire playerbase it represents — has as much influence on development projects as Marketing, Accounting, Publicity and all the other teams outside of the development team. This is, of course, the stated intention. But has any developer gone to such lengths for its fans?"

Modern Warfare 2 Surpasses $1 Billion Mark; Dedicated Servers What? 258

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @02:18AM from the our-bark-is-worse-than-our-boycott dept.

The Opposable Thumbs blog is running an interesting article contrasting everything Activision did "wrong" in creating and marketing Modern Warfare 2 with the game's unqualified success. Despite price hikes, somewhat shady review practices, exploit frustrations, and the dedicated server fiasco, the game has raked in over a billion dollars in sales. "There was only one way to review Modern Warfare 2: on the Xbox 360, in Santa Barbara, under the watchful eye of Activision. Accepting the paid trip, along with room and board, was the only way you were going to get a review before launch. Joystiq noted that this broke their ethics policy, but they went anyway. Who can say no to a review destined to bring in traffic? Shacknews refused to call their coverage a 'review' because of the ethical issues inherent in the situation, but that stance was unique. The vast majority of news outlets didn't disclose how the review was conducted, or added a disclaimer after the nature of the review was made public. This proved to Activision that if you're big enough, you can dictate the exact terms of any review, and no ethics policy will make news outlets turn you down."

M.U.L.E. Is Back 110

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 08, 2010 @04:04AM from the not-for-the-red-wings dept.

jmp_nyc writes "The developers at Turborilla have remade the 1983 classic game M.U.L.E. The game is free, and has slightly updated graphics, but more or less the same gameplay as the original version. As with the original game, up to four players can play against each other (or fewer than four with AI players taking the other spots). Unlike the original version, the four players can play against each other online. For those of you not familiar with M.U.L.E., it was one of the earliest economic simulation games, revolving around the colonization of the fictitious planet Irata (Atari spelled backwards). I have fond memories of spending what seemed like days at a time playing the game, as it's quite addictive, with the gameplay seeming simpler than it turns out to be. I'm sure I'm not the only Slashdotter who had a nasty M.U.L.E. addiction back in the day and would like a dose of nostalgia every now and then."

Comment Re:Can someone explain this to me? (Score 1) 192

by xaustinx on Thursday January 07, 2010 @04:00PM (#30686692) Attached to: Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus

"unless something dramatic changes in factoring" Something like using ATI and NVIDIA GPU's to accelerate factoring? something dramatic like that? http://eecm.cr.yp.to/pc109-20090901.pdf If you take the latest in CPU/Multi GPU configurations; and build around the idea of operating them for this purpose, i think RSA-1024 could be cracked in a similar amount of time. Far less than 10 or 5 years. Their paper doesn't make any references at all to GPU accelerated factoring, it's not even on their radar. http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/

Comment Re:GetDataBack (Score 1) 399

by xaustinx on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @11:13AM (#28196173) Attached to: What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use?

R-studio as long a the drive spins it will work..., i've even been able to recover data from drives where were perpetually clicking (although not much, and the user didn't want to pay a data recovery service).... its works 99/100 times for me.. it can recover file names, directory names, etc.. unless the data has been overwritten...in which case it will only recover the part of the data which hasn't been overwritten yet... have retrieved deleted files that were several years old... cannot recommend it enough.

Comment Re:I guess RBS stands for... (Score 1) 184

by xaustinx on Wednesday August 27, 2008 @05:02PM (#24770491) Attached to: Computer With UK Bank Customer Data Sold On eBay

about a month ago i purchased a used router(not from ebay) from a cisco reseller...it came with the previous config still loaded on it..complete with passwords (encrypted at level 5...which can be cracked with javascript webforms at this point) and their vpn logins and passwords...not encrypted at all...this, was also for a bank...i reported it to the reseller, but i didn't get a news article written about me...how does that work?

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