FUN FACTS
The current server has 1GB RAM. The new one has 16GB.
The current server is a Pentium 4. The new one is a Xeon E3-1230.
The current server runs Linux. The new one runs Windows Server 2008 R2, and will run Linux in a VM.
The current server was provisioned on January 24, 2003. Since then it has been rebooted 3 times.
The Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory server was still running. 
I shut it off though, hope nobody was playing.
The extra server horsepower will be used for top secret projects (DO NOT ASK WHAT THE TOP SECRET PROJECTS ARE).
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
But any target software wouldn't be anything PHP-based. I don't hate myself enough to sign myself up for supporting something written in PHP. I'd likely go with something .NET based, like YAF.NET.
I missed that game... My fondest PVP memories of all time...
Also, obligatory glad to see your still alive.
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Drysart had this to say about Optimus Prime:
The current forums have a completely homegrown database schema -- the version of UBB I built off of actually stored data in flat text files before I redid the guts of it; so I wouldn't be able to make use of any off-the-shelf conversions. But, on the bright side, it's all already in a SQL database, so the conversion would be relatively easy.But any target software wouldn't be anything PHP-based. I don't hate myself enough to sign myself up for supporting something written in PHP. I'd likely go with something .NET based, like YAF.NET.
Single Sign On and a native chat system are pretty neat. I do not know that this particular forum population would care about the new features but, if it is not that hard, it could be pretty nice. Maybe an opinion poll?
Really, any excuse is good enough to avoid running any *NIX in a Windows VM. Damnati fucked around with this message on 06-08-2012 at 11:00 PM.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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Vin~ came out of the closet to say:
Wonder if this would allow us to change our registered email addresses.
I'll fix that tomorrow. Don't really need to have email verification turned on.
And I'm not asking, I'm guessing: Minecraft UHC server? 
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Karnaj came out of the closet to say:
And I'm not asking, I'm guessing: Minecraft UHC server?
I could put the hardware to work and host a UHC match or two or three before I allocate the resources to other things. 
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Ghost of Forums Past came out of the closet to say:
Who are you using for a host? I've generally found Hetzner's prices/quality to blow away pretty much everyone else, and they've been around for a while.
I got a special deal through a friend at razorservers, but those prices Hetzner has are incredible.
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Drysart had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
The current server was provisioned on January 24, 2003. Since then it has been rebooted 3 times.
Damn.
And best memory of the forums of what was listed was the Britney Spears prank.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
Will the migration fix the login bug?
Not having to log in every time to check my message would be amazing.
On a related note, a bizzaro alternate reality version of the forums is up for a while at forums-rz1.evercrest.com.
32 bit memory addressing schemes supported a maximum of about 4gb of memory addresses.
64 bit schemes support around 16 billion gigs (16 exabytes) of memory addresses.
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Parce Is Gay And Uncircumcised came out of the closet to say:
What do you do for employment Mr Drysart?
I provide the people of this community with propane and propane accessories.
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Maradon! stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
Trufax:32 bit memory addressing schemes supported a maximum of about 4gb of memory addresses.
64 bit schemes support around 16 billion gigs (16 exabytes) of memory addresses.
Not about. Exact. Binary is very exacting in that respect.
Windows internal memory management however is very... sloppy. System RAM, Video RAM, Cache, etc all are tracked as a single memory pool. It takes a chunk off the top to handle managing memory, then has to do more magic from there. Nothing says fun like building a 32bit windows system with 4gb RAM and a 1gb vid card and seeing it claim 2.5gb of RAM in the system....
I will point out though that the 64-bit CPU sitting on your desk right now can only access 256TB of memory, not 16EB, since all existing AMD64 implementations only use 48 bits for memory addressing. And on Windows, a single process is only given 8TB of address space.
But 8TB ought to be enough for anybody!
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Drysart attempted to be funny by writing:
That's not a consequence of Windows' memory management; it's a general consequence of an MMIO architecture on any system starved for address space. Your northbridge chip wasn't designed by Microsoft, after all.I will point out though that the 64-bit CPU sitting on your desk right now can only access 256TB of memory, not 16EB, since all existing AMD64 implementations only use 48 bits for memory addressing. And on Windows, a single process is only given 8TB of address space.
But 8TB ought to be enough for anybody!
Fair enough, but most 32bit unix implementations worked around the loss of memory and can allow most of that 4gb to be addressed by user-space software instead of holding at least 256mb 'hostage' for the overhead of the OS performing memory management. At least .25gb is the smallest I've ever seen Windows 'lose' out of 4gb of RAM
And I thought Microsoft got rid of the 8tb process limitation with Win7/2k8R2.. Granted it only really applies to 2k8R2 since what is a "user" going to do on a desktop that needs 8tb of ram any time soon?
Oh, and the hardware may be able to address that much ram, I doubt that the current implementations of Windows will allow that much.
Also I say "about" because I have also heard 17.2 EB quoted as the maximum address space for a 64 bit scheme.
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So quoth Maradon!:
This is why I specified the addressing scheme and not the hardware.Also I say "about" because I have also heard 17.2 EB quoted as the maximum address space for a 64 bit scheme.
Someone is fucking up their Base2 vs Base10....
Short System (Standard now): 1E6 = Million, 1E9 = Billion. 1000 millions.
Long System (Old shit, Mostly Euro I think?): 1E6 = Million, 1E12 = Billion. A Million Millions. Or a "Double Million", Bi-llion. Trillion would then be a Million Billions, etc, etc.
Yes, we have fucked up words for things. I'm not sure there's enough /facepalm to cover some of this crap.
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nem-x came out of the closet to say:
Will doing searches bring the forum to its knees?
Good news! I've leveraged Apache Lucene so that the new forum's search runs against a separate, specialized search index that won't impact the forum's performance. And it's fast as fuck. I just ran a search for "drysart" on it and got:
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Found 14729 results in 31.43ms.
Hopefully I'll have a preview version up to play with this weekend.
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ACES! Another post by Monica:
I basically didn't understand any of this thread. You people need to learn to speak American.
Bah, you need to learn geek.
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Random Insanity Generator had this to say about Knight Rider:
Bah, you need to learn geek.
'MURICA!
How does one advertise a message board dedicated to a game that came out in '99? 
The forums will be down starting at around 1AM EST this coming Saturday morning, and will be down for an indeterminate amount of time (no shorter than 6 hours, hopefully no longer than 12) whilst the data transfer executes.
Once everything's up on the new server, you shouldn't notice any differences, since I'm not updating the forum software yet -- this step is just to P2V the existing server onto a VM on the new server.
