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Azure IaaS networking is dogshit compared to AWS and Google Cloud.
It sounds like it might also be possible that a saved IP address is used as a part of an avatar image URL hash, which has changed for the hash check code, but not the hash generation code which pulls the IP from cache, DB or conf.
We tried to move our clients first from their own geographically distributed data centers to a kind of a standard conceptual application model on those data centers, as well as standard OS versions, which made moving groups of applications out of their data center and into the cloud that much easier. I don’t know how good a ROI we could have discussed with the clients without that step.
I’m lucky in that I started using AWS early for my private stuff. Got all the great anecdotes about how they randomly dropped blocks across _all_ of their SAN-backed filesystems because of the missing checksum bug when it hit, which I’ve always been careful to relate to my customers before THEIR architects make THEIR decision which THEY own, not myself or my employer, to use a particular cloud resource. That way, _when_ the shit hits the fan, I can councel patience with a large vendor like AWS, since their scale provides them with the interesting advantage of being better at learning from their own fuck-ups, than normal hosts.
I’m not getting your business model – are you charging for support services, and passing through the resource billing to a cloud provider with a small cut? Because the investment and risk offset required to set up this kind of a product, even with a pre-existing customer base, in an environment where hardware is changing, software is changing, and you’re competing against giants who might accidentally crunch your product with a poorly worded press release, would be hard to pay off through ever cheaper resource billing.
Pages
https://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-haswell and
https://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex
contain cheap servers WITHOUT ECC, good for your private stuff like a CMS-based website, forum and their databases, buthttps://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-px
is required for any serious stuff, where ECC RAM is a basic necessity.They also have a server hosting auction model for their older hardware: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market
[quote=The Author Guy;3480]I am actually very lucky in that as an S-Corp in IT, all my favorite hobbies are business expenses because I also use them for clients. [/quote]
Just a corp, not the settler, agent or the individual?
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRySQ8rSs9E[/youtube]
Since these days there are various online SaaS map services available, would The Author Guy happen to have some higher-resolution maps of Astlan or the Abyss available to be mounted on a service such as https://story.mapme.com/westeros by the fans?
I’d be interested in your thoughts and observations, especially as to why some canon I’ve overlooked disallows a particular interpretation of a magical phenomenon or device.
Let’s start from the Talarius’ magic mirror. What if it doesn’t so much show what energy beings are, but instead its function is to reveal how the people reflected from it self-identify.
Let’s say it originated as a political device in some court, used to check that each major political group was seated in a certain place.
Since court factions come and go fairly fluidly, the device just randomly picks a colour for each new faction the people reflected from it considers to be their most powerful peer group, or a mix of colours if other people in the picture perceive you differently.
Its batteries have wound down over millenia, and these days, you have to be a fairly powerful mana being to register anything visually on the mirror.
[quote=Cronus;3440]When you read the books, you can get to the conclusion that size is a good indicator of a demons power:[/quote]
Have you considered the possibility that this relationship might be inverse?
That what humans try to express with ostentatious choices of clothing, automobile model or interior decoration style, demons tend to express by puffing themselves up?
If all goes to plan, I’ll have June and July as paid vacation, and would be available as a free beta demon at that time.
30 days of that is legally mandated, 30 days I’ve negotiated for, plus I have 15 days of comp time saved from overtime, which starts running after 7.5 work hours per day.
Plus bank holidays like today: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helatorstai
Did you know that we get an extra half month’s wage (“lomaraha”) when we take the annual vacation time? It’s been collectively negotiated for by the employee unions.
Somehow, in this (clearly) socialist hellhole, our public debt is still 60% of GDP ($29,930 per capita), compared to US’s 107% ($58,604 per capita).
[quote=Tizzy;3412]BTW, the only kind of money I like is ungodly money, like we use here in the Abyss.[/quote]
Would godly money have item links to the All-Seeing Holy Eye Pyramid on the astral plane?You know, to keep track of who’s naughty and who’s nice.
[quote=Tizzy;3414]Of course, maybe I’m just over extrapolating, just because the Demon Prince Moloch issues coins imbued with the souls of the damned within his domain and uses them as spies doesn’t mean others are doing that.[/quote]
With so many gods, demons and other astral beings, someone could well craft an such an elaborate automated system of spreading item links to planes otherwise severed from the localverse, and just forget about it for a few millenia. Who knows how many forgotten or hidden back doors these energy beings have going on, or at least the ones who like to take matters into their own hands and start building things, instead of just going where the consensus highway points them.
Are we going to hear about life after death, and soul extradition treaties, in book 3?
[quote=Tizzy;3418]Interesting note on the back doors. That is exactly what Vaselle has been making lately, this little things with a mana pool, item link, fire lighting spell, geo-lock, and “Rune of Unnoticing” that the shamans can plant at various locations. They’ll put them in a sheltered space, lock them in place, emit a low level (less detectable) Unnoticing and be ready to have the fire spell activated to create a small flame for Tom or the Shamans to create a portal.[/quote]
Crafting!!! *fap* *fap* *fap*
Seriously, though, sounds like Tom’s Army of Darkness is going to resemble
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whvDmNkJhUk[/youtube]
a lot more than Generallissimo Bison’s
[img]http://i.imgur.com/f3SNmvJ.jpg[/img]
or
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV4Ijs_YMRw[/youtube][quote=Tizzy;3420]Boomsticks are great, but a chainsaw hand would be very nice in the Abyss, a lot of people end up with very tough old meat on their plate, a chainsaw would really help cut the meat up. And better yet, the roar of the chainsaw would drown out the curses and screams of the meat as you cut it.[/quote]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieioDh_NrXE[/youtube][quote=The Author Guy;3422]They must have one serious kool-aid budget.[/quote]
http://www.suol.fi/index.php/uskonnonopetus-suomessa/religious-education-in-finland
I’m pretty happy with our mandatory religious education. Everyone gets told pretty early in life by really pretty neutral university-educated teachers, what various other groups of people believe, why, and how it relates to the society.
Back in the day, my religious education teacher let me sleep and read science fiction in the class. She also taught Psychology, where I paid close attention.
If you had gotten started three decades earlier, I’m pretty sure I would have made a presentation of the Gods and Demons of Astlan for that class.
[quote=Tizzy;3393]Do like live in the YouTube Data Center basement or something?[/quote]
The visual makes it easy to relate to others’ model of the world:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXllcQUAA_s[/youtube]
