Category Archives: Drama

cPanel Servers Rant

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Almost every day I’m fixing something on a cPanel server, no direct correlation towards the folks at cPanel themselves absolute terrific software, it’s the people that set out and say yes, I will buy this and use it for that, I will not read the manual, I will instead pay someone else to worry about it when “that” breaks.

First of all, the question should be asked: what do you hope to gain from this.

Renting a server running cPanel is simply not a “set and forget” type of handler; it does, much like almost anything else in this industry, have its complexities. Unless you are (or have) an experienced systems admin on hand to fine-tune it, stop it. Just stop.

The amount of work you create for people boggles the mind when something breaks, you whine and complain on forums, create support tickets clogging up helpdesks, submit bug requests bothering the authors with already documented issues.

If you don’t know what you’re doing, then stop doing it and learn first. Use a staging environment WELL away from anyone you could hurt and stop annoying the internet.

Criticisms of PBBans and other sites

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I am writing this to complain about the entire system of anticheating. VAC etc all fall into this category. First and foremost, cheating is something that is given. People who cheat, cheat to piss others off. Plain and simple. If you can read memory and write to it, you can hack. There is no system of banning that will stop it. Banning players is a complete waste of time, because for $30, you can have a full undetected hack for about 2 months and another key. Now, sites like PBBans rely on the following:

A large group of clueless users who are more concerned with banning players than stopping cheats. I just looked at some ban lists, and they are screenshots of players with ESP running. I found it funny though because the people in the screenshots were saying ‘fuck you I hope you die’

To continue further. I am not advocating cheating. It’s a given. I used to write them, so I know a good bit about them.. One thing people don’t realize is that game developers don’t want to do anything about it to save money on buying worthless products like PB or the others. You simply need to do tricks like stop sending everyone positions to you that aren’t in your viewangles(), you can do this once per server frame, just before a prediction. This has the added benefit of saving the client tons of overhead as they don’t have to draw things you cannot see. This makes the server CPU have more overhead, but what’s a little more CPU into stopping wallhacks?

The people who run the ban sites criticize cheaters for not having any lives, but who really doesn’t have a life? A guy who buys a cheat or writes one that goes into a server for 30 minutes and all out rages, or a person who spends thousands of hours of time and money to create a site to ban groups of people from a game? What about when that one anticheat site was getting blasted by multi gigabit attacks for weeks on end because they thought it would be funny to humiliate a user? Doing that behaviour to people won’t even stop them because they will be back online in 15 minutes hacking the shit out of the game in revenge?

Shrug.

Windows 7, the rise and fall of GSPs, other crap

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Windows 7 is surprisingly faster than I initially thought. It’s I/O and other operations are really quick, plus it seems like the scheduler in windows has better real time latencies than the former. I’m actually liking it more and more (the version I’m using)

The rise and fall of GSPs can be attributed to the following market conditions, which I will post in some detail. The main problem with the lack of sales is because nobody wants to keep playing the same boring shit over and over. Play dust2, then dust, then aztec, then another, then start over. How boring is it? I find it very boring. Another is lack of good games out (COD series is pretty shitty to me, vCOD was the defacto standard) Another reason is because of the piles of companies who have taken money and ran off, leaving former customers saying “never again will I ever buy a game server. Just not worth it”. The established providers don’t have anything to fear, except games like MMORPGs which I hate with a passion.

There is something else I’d like to touch base on, that is Adam from NextGenServers. I’ve been told that this guy has been talking shit about me/summit to customers in the past, and I’m going to comment on this (it’s been in the making). First and foremost, Adam is mentally retarded. How can you misspell words like “Chief” and “Tier”? How can you operate a company when you lie to yourself about your ELITE LINUX COMPILING SKILLS? Compiling a kernel doesn’t mean it’s custom. A custom kernel is something like some code you added to the networking layer, etc. I know people will disagree with this, but that’s my take on it. Personally, I think the entire staff of nextgen is a bunch of mentally retarded people who escaped from down syndrome clinic. Another fly-by-night company who isn’t anything special. I’ve forgotten more than everyone in that company knows. Bank on that. I’ve been using UNIX based systems since Linux was a hobby and BSD4.3 Tahoe was a bunch of patches (early 90s). I have more skills than they do. Summit has a better infrastructure than they do. Summit has a better network than they do. And, last by not least, I CAN SPELL BETTER THAN THEY CAN.