TheHawkes
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It happens after COH loses focus for me, but not every time. Fortunately /reloadgfx fixes the problem in my case.
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Don't worry I have asked professor Ogilvy and apparently the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.
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I have taken a couple of breaks from COH in the past due to burnout, but always kept up the subscription. Lately I haven't been playing much and so have cancelled the subscription. When I do play I don't generally do the incarnate stuff so I will not be missing out on much, and anything I want to play I can just buy for a short while.
But even though I am not quitting, and not leaving the game it still seems really weird to have cancelled my subscription after 7 years. Honestly if the game hadn't gone free to play I probably would have kept the subscription going for another few years even if I didn't log in. -
Yeah as soon as the cave was identified as being filled with fungus safety gear was required, and considering they knew it was killer fungus entering without hazmat gear was plain stupid. Unless Olivia was just being genre savy enough to realise that as a main character she is unlikely to get killed off
I felt sorry for the poor kid at the end though, you could see that he realised that he was getting kicked to the curb now that he was no longer relevant to the group. -
I am going to have to wait until I get a character I don't care about up to the right range to do the first ward. The characters I have in range at the moment are fun to me and although I am not a hard core role player, I do have personalities in mind for the characters. All of the new missions not just first ward are written in such a way that they force the writers character idea's onto you and I find that it really stops the game being fun when I am told repeatedly how my character feels or what it is saying.
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What's with the Rubix Cubes? They are appearing deliberately in the background which usually means that the moff is trying to build up clues for the finale.
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Quote:Sorry but I just have to vent slightly before replying to your main points. That guy knows slightly more about cybersecurity than most of the idiot journalists who stand up and prattle on about the topic, but he would have been laughed off the stage at any real security conference. Governments and private firms DO hire hackers and spend a lot of time and money recruiting them, or rather we hire the people who would have become hackers. Just this weekend I was presenting in a major university trying to explain to students that they can make a LOT of money in the security industry providing they don't have a criminal record.Originally Posted by Durakken
I was watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gSwRHScq6M
And I was thinking that it would be an incredibly interesting idea to set up a website with a private server... then say..
"Hack this server, if you can. If you can, Improve the security"
So any and all security is broken through and then improved. It creates a challenge of both getting in and keeping out hackers using the skills and expertise of hackers.
After a while that server would likely become nigh impenatrable and then you take that security and apply it to other servers and such.
Anyway back on topic, The idea of setting up a server and asking people to hack it has been done quite a lot, there are several problems with this though. The largest problem is moron's, basically little johny sitting at home who is convinced that he is the "uber leetest hazor evah" fails to get into the site and so tries to DOS it off the net. Even if he doesn't stop access to the site he and his troll friends end up pushing up the bandwith costs to the point that the project loses too much money to continue.
The other problem is that hacking works by knowing what the security safeguards are and working around them. So with any open source project the bad guys get to see the security as well as the good guys which gives them a helping hand.
Many companies now use honeypots for similar work, basically these are machines that are configured to look like ordinary workstations or servers and placed out for hackers to attack. The people running the honeypots have detection technology set up to monitor exactly what the attackers are doing so that they can figure out defences against these attacks.
The company I work for has several hundred thousand honeypots active at any time, and we have agreements with ISP's and hosting companies all around the world to use "spare" IP's and domains for this task. The information we gather from it is used to help protect our customers, but is also shared with other security firms, even though they are our competitors.
There are a number of groups on the net who do similar things on a not for profit basis and searching for honeynet and honeypot will bring you a large list of sites with guides on how to set up your own honeypots and discussion groups to share your results in. -
To me that article reads as if the writer does not know the difference between a spoiler and a teaser (much like the BBC). A teaser such as "a major character will be shot by a sniper" can build tension and give the viewer or reader something to look forward to and try to predict as the story goes on, where as "Joe hero gets shot and survives" is a spoiler and removes the tension. Unless the author is good enough to have the story not rely totally on one plot point it can ruin the experience.
Many people say that the sixth sense gets better with repeat viewings, and I believe that for them it does. However for me I watched the film the first time and wondered what was up with the glaringly obvious (to me) colour queues and then realised early on what the "twist" was. I spent the rest of the film watching and waiting for some other story element to kick in and make it interesting.
The authors assertion that the human mind treats surprises as a bad thing is bizzare to me. Take for example the TV Show Dr Who, the BBC has a bad habit of showing the climactic scene of each coming episode over and over randomly as an advert for the episode before it is broadcast. This means that when you watch the show some of the suspense is removed which for me spoils the experience. However recently a BIG episode aired that a lot of people where looking forward to, the episode was written by Niel Gaiman and generated a lot of interest from the sort of people who scour the net for the slightest hint as to what is coming.
The advertisements for this episode seemed to follow the standard BBC practice of ruining one of the critical scenes, and strongly hinted that one of the characters was as had been speculated on the internet, a character from the books rather than the TV show. When the episode aired I was sitting waiting with my expectations based off of the trailer and past experience, only to find that the scene shown was not the climactic scene as expected and basically was chosen to fool Dr Who fans into thinking the episode was going in a completely different direction to what it was. -
Quote:"Amy" said in the behind the scenes show that they have to walk past the tennant set to get to the smith set and had been wondering why it was still there. Apparently the two set's are right next to each other. Whereas the older set's are in exhibits and or storage.Originally Posted by Wooden_Replica
my view as well with regards to the first point, I doubt the TARDIS sets from the original run aren't around any more, or if they are, they are either in bad condition or on display somewhere, so they would've needed to rebuild them, and using the earlier set from this series was in order to keep production values down.
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I was looking at youtube video's of Neil Gaiman talking about his upcoming episode released by the BBC, and right in the middle of one completely out of nowhere is a MASSIVE spoiler which is almost certainly from the finale of the episode. And the worst part, it has NOTHING to do with what Neil is talking about in his interview.
Sure its several things I guessed would be in the episode, and hoped to see. But what would have been a "YES!!!!" reveal/moment is now spoiled because I know who she is, I know what happens to them, and I know how he fixes it. -
Quote:http://twitter.com/#!/steven_moffat/...56606479065089
Finally heard my own rant. Grumpy sod. And what a boring, inflection free voice! It's like been told off by the shipping forecast. -
The Kino's could easily have been re-powered using the stargate seeing as they have shown that the guts of it are easily accessed via a handy door in the base.
There is a great TV show on discovery in the UK which may not be shown world wide, called Rough Science. A small group of scientists are dropped in a remote region with only basic tools and are given a new task every three days, they use their knowledge of their specialist areas to overcome the challenges including things like making radio's and lightbulbs and refining gold. Sure it's just a tv show and they openly make a point of giving them help from "the mystery chest" when it would take too much time to manufacture enough of a certain item.
But there are plenty of people in the real world with knowledge of the history of science and the capability of building up from scratch. The thing that really seemed out of place to me in the episode is why the future city looked so much like a "western" city, the timeline shows that the original colonists where long dead by time the city grew up, yet the feel of it was heavily influenced by current day earth. -
Quote:This is the second time i've heard that, the first time was after zoning in with the cutscene already running, but as the person saying it spent the rest of the BAF acting like a troll I thought it was just more of their nonsense. Anyone know if its true?Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy
.... "Don't use the door fly over the wall when we enter or wait for TP and we can aviod the cutscene" By the way since I have never once seen an entire team pay attention to this I have no clue.... Does that actually let you avoid the cutscene or is that wishful thinking? LOL
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I have very little time to play and the trials have been awesome for me, I can log in first thing in the morning for me (late night for most Americans) and get a team quickly. The LFG queue isn't used by most people so generally takes ages. But I have found that heading to RWZ 1 or 2 and broadcasting generally gets an invite fairly quickly. Just remember that most leagues spend the majority of their time IN the trials, and only come to the zone to recruit between missions, so you sometimes have to wait a few minutes for one of the leagues to complete and drop back to the RWZ.
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Sure it's all fun and games until someone gets dumped into an ERP AE mission on virtue
. Not enough rum to help me forget that.....
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Quote:The character I have been concentrating on IS a "purpled out monster" and still spends most of the raids waiting for that hospital door to openOriginally Posted by Pinny
Not everyone is a purpled out monster.
I finally got two suscsessfull BAF's this Sunday though, Typicaly as we got both enemy healths down to 8% I crashed so hard I had to reboot my computer, but the server still counted it as a sucsesfull completion. Which left me at 99% of unlocking the first slot
The next three times I tried to join a LFG BAF I was randomly ported to unrelated mission maps. Including one ERP AE mission, I may never fully get that experience out of my memory
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But I did get to see Justice Corp's base, even If it was only from the outside
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Last night on a BAF trial I received the "COH is trying to crash" style popup box and clicked cancel as the trial was almost complete. The game went into the sound loop and a couple of seconds later my PC locked completely solid. I hard rebooted to try to see if I could get back in time, The trial completed successfully and I logged back in to the reward screen but in Cimeroa.
I tried to join another trial from within Cimeroa and instead zoned into someone's AE mission. I exited the mission and re-joined the queue, before a mission came up I zoned through the midnighter club, into steel, and then atlas and finally the RWZ where the queue finally popped up but instead of joining a trial I ended up on the "grid" outside a supergroup base.
I was unable to exit from the supergroup base so logged completely to desktop and then back in, after two "failed to start group" error's I finally got into a trial. I logged bugs from both missions. -
4 Lambda's (well 3 crashed out early on one) all failed. 2 BAF's both failed. My plan is to spend the weekend getting drunk and failing repeatedly until I get enough threads and xp to slot up the powers.
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Spent most of the time studying DoD cybersecurity guidelines (BOOORING) finaly got time to play the game and joined a MS raid with no healing and spent most of the raid running back to the ship after getting two punches in.
Then I joined a Hami raid that saw so many deaths I thought I was back in the days of the yellow dawn, Finaly joined an awesome PUG and gained three levels in a short time and noticed that I had to get back up for work in three hours
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Quote:Hmm that would make an awesome alternative to the wentworth teleporter inspirations. I wonder if the devs can create a craftable one use pet that also has a recharge, so that you cant just buy another one from the market pet that you have up. Or even a market pet that can only be bought from a real market not a pet.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Actually, what would be really awesome, is if somehow it set up a clickable interface for everyone else. Like the mobile field crafting station.
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Quote:Source Avatea - http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=2932368
City of Heroes requires the following ports to be open TCP: 6994, 2104, and 2106 and now UDP: 7000-7200.
The processing power required would be mainly for maintaining the state table, and caching the processes into and out of active memory as needed. The actual encryption would be a minor factor. Unfortunately SSH tunneling would require every possible port and IP combination to be available at the same time. SSL VPN (which is just web traffic so usualy open on almost every corporate network) would require one port and virtualy no processing power.Quote:Originally Posted by Katie V
Why do you need oodles of processing power? The only CPU-intensive part of the operation is encrypting and decrypting data, and I've got an old Pentium MMX that's more than capable of doing so at CoX data rates.
But honestly if a network has been set to limit the types of accepted traffic then using any method to bypass that is already on questionable legal grounds and will probably result in imediate disciplinary action if ever caught.
Depending on the country you are working in you should take proper legal advice, for example the following laws could be broken by simply trying to play COH in work.
US Title 18
UK Computer missues act of 1990
Canada Criminal code section 342
Germany Penal Code 202
Australia Cybercrime act of 2001
Japan Law 128
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Quote:But do you have oodles of processing power?, SSH tunneling for this is technicaly possible, however that is technicaly possible in the same way that it is technicaly possible for the seven brothers of the lottery commisioner to win the lottery on their birthdays.Originally Posted by Pauljima
I don't know if this is the correct place to ask this question... but my work has basically every port blocked. I was told by a friend that it might be possible to set up a proxy through SSH and just play through proxy using my home desktop as my SSH tunnel. Does anyone know how to set this up? I've got oodles of time at work and big plans for my toons. =)
Any help is appreciated.
You would need to run udp to tcp converters for each udp port, and an SSH tunnel compatible client (i.e. Putty) for each port so 205 per COH IP address. Now NCSoft owns at least 1 class c that is used by COH so that is over 52k ssh tunnels and 51k udp to tcp converters in adition to COH. Finaly you would need to alter the city of heroes configuration to point it back at your loopback interface.
There are MMO's designed to be played through SSH tunnels (which I think the new forums rules prevent me from even mentioning ) but COH isn't one of them. You MIGHT be able to play through an ssl vpn if you can find someone to set one up for you, But honestly I have seen experienced network technicians have dificulty getting ssl vpn's working.
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Durakken you mentioned not being able to find scales that work for you, well I use Salter digital scales, they work up to about 450 lbs which is fortunate for me as I am about 440 at the moment (All weights are translated by Google so may be somewhat off).
To all the people saying that you will never lose any weight by walking short distances, and that you will never lose weight by eating one meal a day, I hate to disappoint you but reality doesnt match up with your assumptions.
25 years ago I was a figure skater, three days a week I would walk approximately 10 miles per day as well as doing the training (I had almost qualified for trials for the British youth Olympic team) and another two days a week I would walk about 4 miles and swim another 5-10. Then I was in an accident on a bus and my lower spine got mangled.
Three years ago I was sent for a full medical as part of a job that I was applying for, the doctor took my weight (nearly 700lbs) and then my blood pressure, he then calmly walked out of the room and in a quiet but scared voice asked the nurse to call an ambulance.
I have had no medical intervention, and no help from any weight loss professionals, I eat one meal a day, and can walk just slightly over two miles before the searing agony in my lower back causes me to sit and weep for a while, and my weight this morning was 184kg (405 lbs).
To quote the motto of a local superstore "every little helps" sure it would be great to instantly switch over to the "ideal" diet, and take up a long distance running exercise plan, but for some people that just is never going to happen. As with anything worthwhile you will have to work at it, but most diet and exercise plans are written for people who are overweight by choice not by circumstance.
Your back problem sounds different from mine so I am not sure if the same will apply to you, but over the past couple of years I have slowly been able to work up from being in pain (and out of breath) after 2-3 minutes of walking, to being able to walk for nearly an hour before the pain really kicks in. To most of the people reading this thread that will sound really un impressive, but to me its an amazing change. -
Hmm I am a UK resident, but I play on the US servers, I wonder if I can still enter.
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I work in the security industry, and thus have needed a smartphone for quite a while as I need to be able to access data wherever I am. I have had windows smartphones, nokia's and most recently blackberry's and I have hated them all. My personal mobile has been an early motorola slvr that I got a couple of days before they where supposed to come out as the sales person was new and sold me one anyway.
Unfortunatly my slvr finaly disolved due to age and i needed a new phone, due to the amount of buisness that my company does with the o2 network there are a number of deals that we can get on personal phones, it turns out that the best value was to get a phone in the £100-£125 range so I bought a dell streak with the minimum contract available.
I got the dell two months ago and already the only electronic devices in my house not controlled by it are the lights and microwave, and I have plans for both of them
The number of uses I find for it constantly amazes me, for example If I am working on one of the racked servers in my house (yes I am a nerd) I don't have to plug in a keyboard and screen any more, I can just pull my phone out of my pocket and remote in with a couple of screen presses. If I want to watch a movie anywhere in my house I can use the phone to control the nearest tv and media box to play it, heck if I am in the only room in my house without a computer and I realy want to watch the film I can stream it to the phone.
I geocache, the phone lets me plan my trip, acts as a better turn by turn navigator than my ancient tomtom, and actualy helps me zero in on caches better than some of the comercial gps units on the market.
It seems crazy to me that I used to have a mobile phone, laptop, GPS, and multiple remote controls that I would be constantly carying around or hunting for, when I can fit all of it in one pocket sized device, but only two months ago it seemed perfectly normal, and the only reason I even carried a phone with me was in case my elderly father needed to contact me in a hurry.
So shop around, find the phone that works for you and has the features you want, if you get the wrong phone you will probably see it as a waste of money and space but the right phone could be the best toy you buy yourself all year