Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Released

2010-12-07 Thread Violent Crimes
Anyone have a zip of the update they are willing to share -Original Message- From: AJ Collins Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 9:08 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Released At the right hand side on the treasure hunt page.

Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Released

2010-12-07 Thread AJ Collins
At the right hand side on the treasure hunt page. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Josh Bost wrote: > I'm not seeing any info about TF2 hats on the Steam Store's "Great Steam > Treasure Hunt" page... care to elaborate? > > -Dislexsick :) > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Jason Ruymen >wrote:

Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Released

2010-12-07 Thread Josh Bost
Disregard that, just found it... On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Josh Bost wrote: > I'm not seeing any info about TF2 hats on the Steam Store's "Great Steam > Treasure Hunt" page... care to elaborate? > > -Dislexsick :) > > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Jason Ruymen wrote: > >> A required u

Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Released

2010-12-07 Thread Matt Hoffman
http://store.steampowered.com//treasurehunt/ Check the right side of the page. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Josh Bost wrote: > I'm not seeing any info about TF2 hats on the Steam Store's "Great Steam > Treasure Hunt" page... care to elaborate? > > -Dislexsick :) > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12

Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Released

2010-12-07 Thread Josh Bost
I'm not seeing any info about TF2 hats on the Steam Store's "Great Steam Treasure Hunt" page... care to elaborate? -Dislexsick :) On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Jason Ruymen wrote: > A required update for Team Fortress 2 is now available. The specific > changes include: > > - Added the hats f

[hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Released

2010-12-07 Thread Jason Ruymen
A required update for Team Fortress 2 is now available. The specific changes include: - Added the hats for The Great Steam Treasure Hunt. - Fixed a bug that enabled players to weapon switch away from the Iron Curtain during spin down. Jason ___ To

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Jeremy D. Pavleck
That's the thing about it, too. You could ask them to click on the MOTD as well, which would violate Googles ToS and be really noticeable, or have an ingame announcement ask people to please click on the ads in the MOTD - which would work, but would also violate the ToS - though hard to catch unles

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Bence Nagy
This is probably the second most helpful place on the interwebs (with the first one being reddit.) Reading all these replies sure did cheer me up. Thanks for making my day :D On 2010-12-07, msleeper wrote: > Nobody is going to go to your site, you don't have to keep posting it > here. > > And wit

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread DarthNinja
You wont make any money from adsense unless people click on things, which they wont. Views get you shit (I tried it). So unless you find an ad site that gives you $$ for views, meh. > ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list ar

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread msleeper
Nobody is going to go to your site, you don't have to keep posting it here. And without going off on a huge tangent about Google and Adsense, it's not uncommon of them to disable an account if you do things of a questionable practice. Who can know such things except for them? On Tue, 2010-12-07

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Steven Polley
It's not against their ToS, so I don't know why they would... Not to mention we've had ads since the switch to webkit. http://www.wdzclan.com -Original Message- From: "Jeremy D. Pavleck" Sender: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 15:25:18 To: Half-Life dedicated

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Jeremy D. Pavleck
I'd be worried Google would disable the ads anyway, because they don't quite 'get' how they're being served. Still, I should try this. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:08 PM, msleeper wrote: > Actually nvm, somebody else told me it does work. I'm not sure if > Adsense changed or the move away from the IE

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Oh Noes!
Yes, it uses Webkit now. - Oh Noes MAX POWER Gaming: Senior Admin MAX POWER - Voltage: Clan Leader -Original Message- From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Michael Krasnow Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 4:16 PM To: Half-Life

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Krasnow
didn't steam switch from IE to Webkit? On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:08 PM, msleeper wrote: > Actually nvm, somebody else told me it does work. I'm not sure if > Adsense changed or the move away from the IE browser changed or what. > > However, good luck getting anybody to click on them, much less get

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread msleeper
Actually nvm, somebody else told me it does work. I'm not sure if Adsense changed or the move away from the IE browser changed or what. However, good luck getting anybody to click on them, much less getting rich quick with it. Nobody reads the MOTD for the rules, there's no way they're going to cl

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread msleeper
Most ad services don't work with the in-game browser. I know that Adsense doesn't, a few of the other bigger ones don't. On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 20:54 +, Steven Polley wrote: > Ads on motd = profit? :O > http://www.wdzclan.com > > -Original Message- > From: Alec Sanger > Sender: hld

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Steven Polley
Ads on motd = profit? :O http://www.wdzclan.com -Original Message- From: Alec Sanger Sender: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 15:49:51 To: Reply-To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Help. You're in the wrong business

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Dominik Friedrichs
I think playing the lottery would be easier. - Original Message - From: "Muhammad Ali" To: Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 21:44 Subject: Re: [hlds] Help. Thanks a lot to everyone, Actually i was not expecting such healthy replies :p thats why i just write it casually ignoring s

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Alec Sanger
You're in the wrong business if you're looking to make a profit off running game servers. Some of us take donations to keep the servers afloat - these funds come from regulars who play on the servers and want to see them continue to operate. We all do this because we want to give something to t

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Muhammad Ali
Thanks a lot to everyone, Actually i was not expecting such healthy replies :p thats why i just write it casually ignoring spells :) @ Twilite :pAnyways Special thanks to Anon because i would have gone crazy searching google :dConcluded:Buy a good and Expensive Game Server, Then also buy a doma

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Dominik Friedrichs
Actually I am on a tight budget but also use my VPS for private web-, email- etc. server AND one CS:S and TF2 server each, and they usually dont lag even with 20 players each. Certainly you dont get 100% guarrantee, but its simply good enough in most cases. CPU load on my VPS, which seems to dis

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Jeremy D. Pavleck
I don't know if that's 100% true these days. With the advances made in Xen and other systems, and the ability to dedicate cores and network cards to specific virtuals, I could see it working fine. Hell, at the very least it's worth trying it out - that's what I plan on doing in a bit, see if these

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Kevin b er
Don't get "burstable" RAM (burstable = shared) and ask questions about the HD. It really seems like all the file I/O for srcds is single threaded, so if the file I/O stalls too long you'll get lag spikes. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:53 PM, John wrote: > Nomy, that's the conventional wisdom about V

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread John
Nomy, that's the conventional wisdom about VPSes, and the many levels of sharing that you're describing may be true at many VPS providers (any company with "burstable" RAM would be an example of one to avoid for a game server), but it's also possible to dedicate CPU cores and memory to each VPS

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread ]HeLL[ Nomy
There is nothing wrong with virtualisation as long as you use it for web servers etc... Not some busy game servers... because the CPU and the RAM is SHARED. The network connection on the parent machine is also shared across other VPSs. Some GSP advertise that their VPS can handle game servers very

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread superrawr
There's nothing wrong with virtualization, you get what you pay for. My buddy is renting a vps from NFO, and he's running a tf2, gmod and css server. Netgraph doesn't show any choke, and the fps's remain consistent. I honestly do believe it's advanced far enough to actually be useful in this

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread ]HeLL[ Nomy
http://www.gtxgaming.co.uk/dedicated-servers Pretty good price... hosted in good datacentre... Don't get the VPS tho but some people like laggy servers they can get VPS :) On 7 December 2010 17:52, Graham M wrote: > Probably 1and1? > > > On 07/12/2010 17:30, Drogen Viech wrote: > >> A german pr

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Dallas Behling
Artofwarcentral.com offers Virtual servers currently in London, and Chicago. They work great with game servers, and we will be opening up Virginia, and Frankfurt this month. -Original Message- From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Graham M
Probably 1and1? On 07/12/2010 17:30, Drogen Viech wrote: A german provider?! Please tell us which one it is :O (Or me, in a personal e-mail, if you don't want to advertise hosting companies in here). 2010/12/7 Dominik Friedrichs: Just as a note, I'm running a CS:S and TF2 on a VPS from a prof

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Drogen Viech
A german provider?! Please tell us which one it is :O (Or me, in a personal e-mail, if you don't want to advertise hosting companies in here). 2010/12/7 Dominik Friedrichs : > Just as a note, I'm running a CS:S and TF2 on a VPS from a > professional/reputable German provider, I admit there are tim

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Dominik Friedrichs
Just as a note, I'm running a CS:S and TF2 on a VPS from a professional/reputable German provider, I admit there are times with lags but those are very rare. Its a great compromise for 30 Euros a month, as compared to their cheapest dedicated wich is around 80 Euros. But its always a little bit

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Oh Noes!
I'm not certain on the exact details or where I read it, but I remember it was a reputable source and recent; but it was tested and the results indicated that virtualization using the Xen platform (which is what NFO uses) amounted to about an 8% difference in performance when configured correctly a

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Shane Arnold
"This isn't the case when using certain virtualization software and decent hardware, while giving dedicated resources to the servers." And until the day every other VPS provider follows this mindset, VPS's will always be unsuitable for the demand a high-usage game server will put on it. It's a

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Oh Noes!
This isn't the case when using certain virtualization software and decent hardware, while giving dedicated resources to the servers. I didn't believe it was possible to do well with a virtual server either, until I saw it done at nfoservers.com. We have 3 TF2 servers running without problems on a h

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread ]HeLL[ Nomy
Dont get a Virtual Server... all it will do is lag, that's why its cheaper to get one Dont believe people or websites when they say its possible to host game servers virtually... You can host it virtually a laggy server if that's what you want... Get a Dedicated Server with good specs and use

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Oh Noes!
Setting up your server's IP address to appear as your domain can be done through your name servers of your web hosting. However, if you wish to run a server that doesn't use up your own resources, you will need to pay for an additional host through another type of company; called a game server prov

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread [»Twilight«]
07.12.2010 15:42, anon4...@comcast.net wrote: It's very likely that English isn't his first language so no need to demean him Neither mine. I didn't mean his spelling. 07.12.2010 15:42, anon4...@comcast.net wrote: Anyway, to add a little more to the previous response You are my hero now.

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread anon4321
It's very likely that English isn't his first language so no need to demean him. Anyway, to add a little more to the previous response, most web hosting accounts don't allow you to run processes such as a game server. Typically they only give you the ability to use a tool call cron to periodic

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread [�Twilight�]
Try to finish school first 07.12.2010 13:22, Muhammad Ali wrote: I am using Window XP and want to host my own game server on linux, I rented a domain and it is providing me unlimited space, so i want to remotely run HLDS.exe on it so that the ip address of my hlds is the same as my domain and

Re: [hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Karl Labrador
So you want to host an instance of HLDS on your webhosting account? Not possible. On 7 December 2010 12:22, Muhammad Ali wrote: > > I am using Window XP and want to host my own game server on linux, I rented > a domain and it is providing me unlimited space, so i want to remotely run > HLDS.exe

[hlds] Help.

2010-12-07 Thread Muhammad Ali
I am using Window XP and want to host my own game server on linux, I rented a domain and it is providing me unlimited space, so i want to remotely run HLDS.exe on it so that the ip address of my hlds is the same as my domain and my window resources are not used and if i sutdown my window the se