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

Re: [hlds_linux] Linux Distribution and Kernel

2010-08-31 Thread Ben Mendis
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Craig H robolea...@gmail.com 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

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 amatt...@fragdog.comwrote: You suck, spammer. Anthony Mattson A+ N+ MCP This message sent from

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

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 aidsf...@gmail.com wrote: You're thinking of NAT. Sent from my telnet. Guy Watkins wrote: If not for dhcp, we would

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 i...@ics-base.net 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

Re: [hlds_linux] L4D2 updates

2010-07-30 Thread Ben Mendis
on them. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Ben Mendis dragonwis...@gmail.com 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 i...@ics-base.net wrote: Milton here on this list from Valve has previously stated

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 i...@ics-base.net wrote: Many of us have Linux on our systems and same kind of thoughts. -ics 24.7.2010 8:04, Logan Rogers-Follis

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 bgcl...@gmail.com 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

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

2010-07-21 Thread Ben Mendis
to overlook. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Ben Mendis dragonwis...@gmail.com 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 bgcl...@gmail.com wrote: Steven, By username I

Re: [hlds_linux] Alien Swarm is now available

2010-07-20 Thread Ben Mendis
...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ben Mendis Sent: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 3:51 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Alien Swarm is now available I keep reading that but I have yet to see the source code posted anywhere. If you would be so

Re: [hlds_linux] Alien Swarm is now available

2010-07-20 Thread Ben Mendis
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 applies to this source code? On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:19

Re: [hlds_linux] Alien Swarm is now available

2010-07-20 Thread Ben Mendis
different. E-mail Steam support and ask them. -ics 20.7.2010 16:40, Ben Mendis kirjoitti: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:31 AM, icsi...@ics-base.net wrote: It's propably the same as for other Source games. Free to use but selling the things you do is not allowed. I also remember

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 jimbo...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else getting ./srcds_run: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such

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 mil...@valvesoftware.comwrote: 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

Re: [hlds_linux] Alien Swarm is now available

2010-07-19 Thread Ben Mendis
I keep reading that but I have yet to see the source code posted anywhere. If you would be so kind as to point it out to me I would gladly get started on it. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:10 AM, ics i...@ics-base.net wrote: Either Alfred is too busy to do it or they have no plans to release ded

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 erik.southwo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:42 AM, ics i...@ics-base.net 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