Minecraft (online Lego essentially)

RimBlock said:
Thanks, I will take a look. I much prefer the REHL derivatives but I have been known to 'dabble' in Ubuntu waters ;).
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Yeah..I was a rhel/fedora user until a couple of years ago. I find ubuntu better for gaming servers but often not so much for work-related stuff :p

RimBlock said:
I was running MC on WHS 2011 but wanted to move it to Linux to make it much easier for scripting (I work on Solaris day in and out). Linux wouldn't run on my hardware so went ESXi in the end on recommendations from people here. As long as the hardware you are running on is supported then it seems pretty good. I have also played with OpenVM, Xen and Proxmox in the past. I was looking at an OVH server, probably the EG-SSD but that would depend on if the community could support it if I choose to that route. Out of interest, what is the uptime like in your experience ?. Luckily I held on to my UK credit card when I moved out here which is registered to my folks address back in London ;). I originally was looking at just renting out VPS's but didn't get a chance to progress it.
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I've actually had zero downtime across three dedis running over a period of about 2-3 years (though never more than two dedis running at once). For the price they are an excellent company and their support is reasonable enough as long as you don't mind waiting 15-30 minutes for a reply to an email.

I'm not sure if you're referring to another community in regards to supporting it but to give you a rough idea, the voluntary donations I receive for the Minecraft server pay roughly half of the monthly costs on average.

RimBlock said:
Prices over here are also very expensive but Citibank have a local mailbox system which gets preferred DHL shipping so it works out fairly good sometimes to chip from one of the big US on-line retailers. I am currently having a look at SAS raid controllers in the Servers and Enterprise forum (Virtulization thread).
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Shiny. I've not really ran much that had those kind of performance requirements - most server architecture I've set up has been based around eLearning apps and video encoding/streaming.

RimBlock said:
So they keep telling me, usually just before asking for a new toy ;) :D.

RB
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Yeah, that sounds familiar :p
 
FrenchTart said:
I've actually had zero downtime across three dedis running over a period of about 2-3 years (though never more than two dedis running at once). For the price they are an excellent company and their support is reasonable enough as long as you don't mind waiting 15-30 minutes for a reply to an email.
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Nice. I know the kimsufi has a slower support response which was one reason for looking at the OVH machines but there is no support over the weekend unless something has changed and one thing that put me of reselling VPS with them was the fact that they could, and sometimes did, lock the whole machine because one VPS user was doing something they didn't like (torrent sharing usually). To loose access to all VPS's without warning is really just unacceptable. THey tried to reassure it wouldnot happen but then you would get reports that it had again :(. Bit dodgy if that happened and you were running a business through them.

FrenchTart said:
I'm not sure if you're referring to another community in regards to supporting it but to give you a rough idea, the voluntary donations I receive for the Minecraft server pay roughly half of the monthly costs on average.
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Thanks, good info. Was with regards to any community that may or may not spring up. Not looking to hunt or poach :). Gotta bit of work to do yet as well so we will see.

FrenchTart said:
Shiny. I've not really ran much that had those kind of performance requirements - most server architecture I've set up has been based around eLearning apps and video encoding/streaming.
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Mine is just a WHS NAS (with DHCP) and some linux VMs. Easy to get carried away. Was looking at a 800USD raid card today and had to keep telling myself I didn't need raid on a card, only a HBA..... must.. resist..... ;). Even looked at Revo drive but thankfully I don't think it is supported in ESXi....

RB
 
oxygene said:
Not to worry, we have some americans on it atm. They tend to be around when we're not and havent complained about lag lol.
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Thanks for the tour Oxygene. Nice place. The kids loved the mine cart ride and were all "Wow, whats that, whats that, look over there, oh my god....." :).

Lots of work has gone in to the place. Was a bit surprised the mine cart ride seemed quite jerky but maybe that was my machine downloading the regions as I went through them for the first time.

Great job.

RB
 
Yeah after the first time its usually a lot more gentle :) We should be finishing off the rails soon. Before we redesigned spawn we expanded the map about 1000 tiles in each direction, and havent gotten round to continuing the train lines to the new borders yet!
 
Tiny Clanger said:
Fingers crossed - I will bide my time and follow this thread with interest in the meantime :)
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On the other hand....I might just buy it (well, I did earlier in the week :D)

Loving it so far - although I still haven't found any iron yet and so doing my best with stone tools (appropriate since I'm living in a cave in the side of a cliff!). Got lots of wood and stone and I have been somewhat cruel to the local wildlife - although I don't think the pigs appreciated the irony of being clubbed to death with a pork chop.

Overall - it's got that wonderful "I have no real idea what I'm doing but I'm enjoying it anyway" feel... Just wish there was an option to change the resolution. I've downloaded some texture packs which look great - can't wait to find some iron and make some decent tools/weapons/etc...
 
I'm still happy with my 256 Minecraft Enhanced pack. Havent found any other yet that keeps the same feeling of the game while upping the graphics so well.
 
molinari said:
That's exactly what I'm looking for. Do you have a download link, I can't find one??
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Sure thing. I had some chaps asking about it on my youtube vids so I had to upload it somewhere new. For some reason their webpage has died!

First you need to patch your client with this

Heres the actual texture pack
 
I always think of Minecraft when I see these at work, dotted around all over the place...



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They are sort of green already, picture doesn't show it best - blame the rubbish camera on the San Francisco :(

I nearly mentioned the likeness to my work colleagues, but I'm pretty certain that they don't know what Minecraft is and revealing that I do might be showing a little more geekery than I'd be comfortable with :o
 
Slowly getting to grips with the game (felt chuffed to bits with myself having made the most basic of traps for a skeleton generator the other night) and still loving it.

Do any of you guys play in 3D at all? I had a quick look at the 3D option (thanks to the modern miracle of Quality Street cellophane!) and it looks quite fun - although I did look like an idiot with sweet wrappers stuck to my glasses :D
 
Hi all,

I've been playing a lot of SP Around 3-4hrs a night!

I've looked at various piston ideas (doors,traps,bridge etc) anyone know of any tuts on farms using pistons or any other tuts i can copy just to do something :D

Mp4
 
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