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Announcements / Re: We have our first cloud-hosted subdomain!

« on: December 07, 2013, 03:29:26 PM »

I just tested it here in NY and each item downloaded at 1.3-1.5mb/s which is almost as fast as steam games download.  So I'd call it a success.


So if I understand correctly, this cloud-host basically takes the contents of your library.tfes.org and caches it.  Then, when someone requests it, that host sends it to them.  And since said host is bigger and more powerful than your VPS, it can send them with greater speed while also allowing your VPS to not have to worry about it.  Like say if someone wrote a script to download the entire library 1,000 times the VPS wouldn't notice a damn thing.

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Technology & Information / Re: How to Subnet, an Example

« on: December 07, 2013, 02:07:44 PM »

I used to know this stuff but its been years.  Thanks for the refresher.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Use CloudFront for serving static content

« on: December 07, 2013, 02:34:48 AM »

emily is probably a guy.

 

I honestly thought you were a spambot when I saw your e-mail.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Use CloudFront for serving static content

« on: December 06, 2013, 03:22:04 PM »

I'm unconvinced of the merit of using this CDN at this point. There would be the benefit of high availability, which means I could use the main website to post status updates if and when my VPS goes down. I think I'll sleep on it.

AWS' CDN uses their slower S3 servers - it's more about offloading requests from your servers, rather than actually using faster servers. So if your VPS isn't under strain, it's probably better to leave it like that. Probably better to just focus on preventing your VPS from going down

I didn't see this coming.

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Technology & Information / Re: Steam on Linux

« on: December 06, 2013, 01:29:41 AM »

Got it working.

I had to grab an RPM, extract the file, and throw that into /usr/lib

And it did give me an error about OpenGL not having direct rendering but steam loaded.

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Technology & Information / Re: Steam on Linux

« on: December 06, 2013, 01:19:52 AM »

I'm also having problems with video drivers, and I use a 4870. I could install steam, but I can't launch it due to missing some libraries or something.

libatiuki.so.1?

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Technology & Information / Re: Laptop needed

« on: December 05, 2013, 10:39:33 PM »

Avoid any of the touch screen crap.

that isn't as helpful as I suspect you intended it to be.

Avoid windows 8 too.  But that's nearly impossible.

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Technology & Information / Re: Laptop needed

« on: December 05, 2013, 10:27:10 PM »

Avoid any of the touch screen crap.

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Technology & Information / Re: Steam on Linux

« on: December 05, 2013, 12:08:38 AM »

Yeah, the non-free drivers are from the repository.  But I'm on a 64-bit system so that might have something to do with it.  Dunno honestly.

I'm gonna continue screwing around with packets trying to get the legacy drivers uninstalled so I can re-install them without the reinstall argument. 

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Announcements / Re: New logo!

« on: December 05, 2013, 12:05:46 AM »

Works on Firefox.

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Technology & Information / Re: Steam on Linux

« on: December 04, 2013, 02:13:56 AM »

libatiuki.so.1 is provided by the non-free AMD video driver. I would recommend using the open-source driver unless you know you need the proprietary one; AMD cards actually have very good open-source driver support. I use it myself with Steam.

Also, upgrading to jessie shouldn't pose a problem for your use case.

Which is odd because I have the non-free driver.

I installed it because the open source drivers are great but only for the 5000 series and up.  I have the 4890 and it sucks.  Or at least it did in Ubuntu.  Does Debian use a different driver?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Man in Vermon creates a rifle using a shovel.

« on: December 04, 2013, 02:09:39 AM »

Crossbows are just as effective

No crossbow holds 30 arrows that can be fired in less than ten seconds.

Allen Quartermain: If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.
Or in this case, one arrow.

, far more silent, and if I want to kill people, I'm gonna use explosives. 

Then why do you even give a shit about silence?

I said "People" not "a person". 
Explosives are for multiple targets.  I mean, guns can't hit all enemies in a half-sphere in the span of milliseconds.

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Technology & Information / Steam on Linux

« on: December 04, 2013, 02:04:36 AM »

So I'm trying this again, but now with Debain (so I don't have to worry about Ubuntu's compatibility issues with ATI legacy drivers).

Unfortunately I'm having an issue that doesn't seem to exist...

I'm missing libatiuki.so.1

My first problem is that I'm not even sure where it should go.
My second problem is that it doesn't appear to be in the debian repositories.

I'm on Wheezy and I'd rather not upgrade to Jessie(which has steam in it's repository) unless it's relatively stable.

Unless someone knows of another option...

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Man in Vermon creates a rifle using a shovel.

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:54:41 AM »

Guns?  Pfft.

Crossbows are just as effective, far more silent, and if I want to kill people, I'm gonna use explosives. 

I'm an Area of Effect kind of guy.

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Announcements / Re: Temporary admin appointment for Lord Dave

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:33:17 AM »

I promise not to abuse this power.
I promise not to click settings I don't need to in order to approve/reject members.
I promise to do these things from a "free" OS.

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Announcements / Re: Temporary admin appointment for Lord Dave

« on: December 04, 2013, 12:30:58 AM »

I am administering.  I'm administering the member approvals.  Nothing else.

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Technology & Information / Re: Adobe pushing McAfee crapware

« on: December 03, 2013, 11:14:58 PM »

It always boggles my mind when people use proprietary bloatware and then act surprised when this kind of thing happens.

We expect bloatware to be bloated with its own crap, not someone else's.

This is why I wish the flash installer was a standard MSI instead of a crappy downloader.  (Well, by default)
Then I'd rip that shit out and laugh when it logs the errors!Aaaahahahahhahahahahahahha!!!!

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Announcements / Re: Comments wanted: Switching domain to tfes.org

« on: December 03, 2013, 09:12:31 PM »

Go for it. 

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Technology & Information / Re: Amazon PrimeAir

« on: December 02, 2013, 02:14:08 AM »

Yeah... I can see the FAA having issues with that.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Paul Walker dies in car crash

« on: December 01, 2013, 09:52:24 PM »

liked those shit movies.

u wot m8. Some of them were terrible and all of them were dumb as shit, but a few were at least enjoyable. No, he wasn't the greatest actor ever, but he was apparently a nice dude to work with.

Also, he wasn't driving.

I know he wasn't, but as a passenger he could have told the guy to slow down.

THEREFORE IT WAS ALL HIS FAULT

Whatevah brah, if I'm in a car with someone going way too fast I'll tell them to slow the fuck down cause I don't want to die in a fiery explosion. At least he died quickly. People always get way too sad over celebrities' deaths. A New York train derailed today killing 4 and injuring 63, that's way more news worthy and upsetting than an attractive, rich man dying in a car wreck.

It's the Beacon line too.  Not only did it injure and kill people BUT they just fixed the damn thing 6 months ago AND the traffic out of NYC just bottlenecked to hell.  Even more so then usual.