Re: [hlds_linux] newer xeon / i7 cpus: turbo mode enabled or disabled?

2010-09-01 Thread Ben Mendis
If I understand it correctly, Turbo mode allows you to over-clock your active cores when other cores are idle. With Speed Step, your cores would normally operate a lower speed, like 50%, and increase on demand. With Turbo, your cores would normally operate at 100% but if one of them isn't needed i

Re: [hlds_linux] Linux Distribution and Kernel

2010-08-31 Thread Ben Mendis
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Craig H wrote: > In actual response to the original question, Ubuntu is fine, I find it a > lot > easier to use than a lot of other distributions. As for your question about > x86 or x64, if your box can run the 64-bit version there really isn't much > of a reason

Re: [hlds_linux] ip spoofing

2010-08-25 Thread Ben Mendis
An alternative to setting up a whole VPN is to use Single Packet Authentication to protect the port in question. http://cipherdyne.org/fwknop/ Works with iptables to dynamically open the port for a specific IP address only after that IP has authenticated by sending a special cryptographic packet.

Re: [hlds_linux] Idar Lund invited you to Dropbox

2010-08-25 Thread Ben Mendis
It probably wasn't intentional spam. When you sign up for any website these days they always want to mail out invites to your entire address book. On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Anthony Mattson wrote: > You suck, spammer. > > Anthony Mattson > A+ N+ MCP > This message sent from my mobile device

Re: [hlds_linux] STEAM_0:0:1

2010-08-14 Thread Ben Mendis
What we should be doing is pushing our ISPs to support IPv6 so that all devices will have static addresses again. No need for NAT. On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Carl wrote: > You're thinking of NAT. > > Sent from my telnet. > > > > Guy Watkins wrote: > >> If not for dhcp, we would have run o

Re: [hlds_linux] L4D2 updates

2010-07-30 Thread Ben Mendis
can legitimately blame on them. > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Ben Mendis > wrote: > > > What kind of system administrators don't know how to set-up a cron job? > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:40 PM, ics wrote: > > > > > Milt

Re: [hlds_linux] L4D2 updates

2010-07-30 Thread Ben Mendis
What kind of system administrators don't know how to set-up a cron job? On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:40 PM, ics wrote: > Milton here on this list from Valve has previously stated that they run > around 40 instances per machine. Overall there are somewhat 2500-3000 > servers total from Valve to L4D

Re: [hlds_linux] Alien Swarm Linux Server?

2010-07-24 Thread Ben Mendis
Most of us also have compilers, but I'm still unclear on the terms under which the source code was made available to us. On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:53 AM, ics wrote: > Many of us have Linux on our systems and same kind of thoughts. > > -ics > > 24.7.2010 8:04, Logan Rogers-Follis kirjoitti: > >

Re: [hlds_linux] 1/3 of l4d2 servers broken after update 7/21

2010-07-21 Thread Ben Mendis
it was easy to overlook. > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Ben Mendis > wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity, which Linux distro are you running that you can > use > > mixed case in the username? > > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Joshua Smith wrote:

Re: [hlds_linux] 1/3 of l4d2 servers broken after update 7/21

2010-07-21 Thread Ben Mendis
Just out of curiosity, which Linux distro are you running that you can use mixed case in the username? On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Joshua Smith wrote: > Steven, > > By username I mean a linux username for a linux user. > > If I try to run the server as a user with the first letter of the >

Re: [hlds_linux] Alien Swarm is now available

2010-07-20 Thread Ben Mendis
f mani-admin (i think it was them) had > > part of the Sourcecode hosted elsewhere. Valve kindly asked them to > > remove it. Most likely you cannot do that. Then again, this game is free > > of charge so it might be a tad different. E-mail Steam support and ask > them. > >

Re: [hlds_linux] Alien Swarm is now available

2010-07-20 Thread Ben Mendis
e part I'm concerned about. Am I allowed to host the code on a public repository server (eg, github.com)? > > -ics > > 20.7.2010 16:10, Ben Mendis kirjoitti: > > It looks like the source code is included with the SDK. Now the next >> question is, what software license ap

Re: [hlds_linux] Alien Swarm is now available

2010-07-20 Thread Ben Mendis
n I would be in complete agreement > that > > > the > > > community could do that. > > > > > > Not certain they'd really WANT to do that. > > > > > > But they could do that. > > > > > > ~Katrina > > >

Re: [hlds_linux] Alien Swarm is now available

2010-07-19 Thread Ben Mendis
Linux for this game themselves. Perhaps for this reason, the > sourcecode was released along the game. They want to see how much community > people can do. > > -ics > > 20.7.2010 8:00, Richard GrosJean kirjoitti: > > Pretty please. :'-( >> >> On Tue

Re: [hlds_linux] Alien Swarm is now available

2010-07-19 Thread Ben Mendis
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Milton Ngan wrote: > Sorry if I wasn't clear. Alien Swarm is not currently supported on Linux. > I think I speak for a lot of admins when I say that this is a little disappointing. I hope Linux support is added soon. > > -Original Message- > From: hlds_li

Re: [hlds_linux] Alien Swarm is now available

2010-07-19 Thread Ben Mendis
Looks like the file probably has DOS (CRLF) line-endings instead of UNIX (LF) line endings. There are dozens of tools that can do the conversion for you. On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:27 PM, jimbomcb wrote: > Anyone else getting > > "./srcds_run: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Re: [hlds_linux] "./steam -command update" too stupid to install anywhere but "-dir ." ?

2010-07-10 Thread Ben Mendis
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Erik Southworth wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:42 AM, ics wrote: > > > Why don't you specify a path, other than . or ./blabla? Like > > /home/user/server/hl2mp into the -dir option. > > > > -ics > > > > 10.7.2010 13:42, Jesse Molina kirjoitti: > > > > > >>