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Hi, I'm making a game in Ruby (kind of like chess meets a scaled down final fantasy tactics, nothing to fancy) that I want to play with my friends, each having their own game running on their own computer. Unfortunately, I am an absolute idiot with networking. Essentially, I was thinking that one computer would host the game and that the other computers would connect into this one. More specifically, somebody would take their turn, their comp would send data describing their turn to the host, the host would update the game, then send the data out to all the players comps that would be needed to update the board and other such. The problem is, I don't know how to do this part. Thus, would this basic setup work? How would you go about setting it up (really, if somebody could give a good explanation of how to send info of any type between computers in Ruby, I could do the rest.)? And, is there any difference in doing this over the internet -vs- a home network? Thank you for any and all help, I apologize if this is poorly explained, I can give any extra details. Thanks again 209.252.235.206 ( talk) 07:12, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
hi, is there a ram-backed ssd option to be even faster than flash (though much smaller)? I'm thinking like 32-gb "drive", all ram adn when power is pulled it uses an onboard battery to quickly dump to ssd.... thanks... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.234.207.120 ( talk) 12:33, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Here is a similar question from the archives with some answers you may find useful AvrillirvA ( talk) 20:13, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
I did a very dumb thing: I sent by e-mail a list of my assets, including account numbers of financial holdings, my social security number and even my home address. Worse, the message was entitled, "assets." Am I doomed? Will thieves likely intercept the e-mail? What can I do? Thanks, -- Halcatalyst ( talk) 16:28, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
I am looking for a blog post that is marked "about a month ago" in the Date, it begins by __link__ing to his other blog post about replacing his desktop computer recently; then he goes on to say that what he wants to replace his laptop as well, and what he is looking for is one that is "the macbook air but not the macbook air": i.e. being as similar to it as possible in every way but without being it; then he introduces Intel's push toward what Intel calls "ultrabook", noting that Intel would like 40% of laptop's to be "ultrabooks" within a certain amount of time; it also details the author's quest for a notebook "like" the macbook air in all these ways (ssd, metal case for inductive cooling, etc etc) noting that in all these things his requirement is like a macbok air. He does note that he would like an ultrabook that boots in 7 seconds, which Macbook Air can do "in a pinch".
And that's as far as I got. I would really like the article - I probably (but this might be a red herring) got to it via hacker news or slashdot or reddit or something. please help me find it so I can finish reading it. My usual bookmark manager, Google, is not working for some reason. Thank you. 82.234.207.120 ( talk) 17:09, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, i have a Gateway LX6810-01 Desktop. It recently crashed so i had to format the drives and ive installed Win 7 x64 ultimate. (it used to be some version of vista) .... all is working fine except i dont have drivers for my TV tuner card. I looked on the gateway website:
http://support.gateway.com/us/en/product/default.aspx?tab=1&modelId=2308
and they have nothing about my card or what type it is. Im hoping my drivers are here somewhere?:
but theres no way to know what i even have. Any ideas? Thanks.
137.81.118.126 ( talk) 19:31, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Sorry guys, my bad. Windows update did fix it. Thanks for the help!
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Hi, I'm making a game in Ruby (kind of like chess meets a scaled down final fantasy tactics, nothing to fancy) that I want to play with my friends, each having their own game running on their own computer. Unfortunately, I am an absolute idiot with networking. Essentially, I was thinking that one computer would host the game and that the other computers would connect into this one. More specifically, somebody would take their turn, their comp would send data describing their turn to the host, the host would update the game, then send the data out to all the players comps that would be needed to update the board and other such. The problem is, I don't know how to do this part. Thus, would this basic setup work? How would you go about setting it up (really, if somebody could give a good explanation of how to send info of any type between computers in Ruby, I could do the rest.)? And, is there any difference in doing this over the internet -vs- a home network? Thank you for any and all help, I apologize if this is poorly explained, I can give any extra details. Thanks again 209.252.235.206 ( talk) 07:12, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
hi, is there a ram-backed ssd option to be even faster than flash (though much smaller)? I'm thinking like 32-gb "drive", all ram adn when power is pulled it uses an onboard battery to quickly dump to ssd.... thanks... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.234.207.120 ( talk) 12:33, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Here is a similar question from the archives with some answers you may find useful AvrillirvA ( talk) 20:13, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
I did a very dumb thing: I sent by e-mail a list of my assets, including account numbers of financial holdings, my social security number and even my home address. Worse, the message was entitled, "assets." Am I doomed? Will thieves likely intercept the e-mail? What can I do? Thanks, -- Halcatalyst ( talk) 16:28, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
I am looking for a blog post that is marked "about a month ago" in the Date, it begins by __link__ing to his other blog post about replacing his desktop computer recently; then he goes on to say that what he wants to replace his laptop as well, and what he is looking for is one that is "the macbook air but not the macbook air": i.e. being as similar to it as possible in every way but without being it; then he introduces Intel's push toward what Intel calls "ultrabook", noting that Intel would like 40% of laptop's to be "ultrabooks" within a certain amount of time; it also details the author's quest for a notebook "like" the macbook air in all these ways (ssd, metal case for inductive cooling, etc etc) noting that in all these things his requirement is like a macbok air. He does note that he would like an ultrabook that boots in 7 seconds, which Macbook Air can do "in a pinch".
And that's as far as I got. I would really like the article - I probably (but this might be a red herring) got to it via hacker news or slashdot or reddit or something. please help me find it so I can finish reading it. My usual bookmark manager, Google, is not working for some reason. Thank you. 82.234.207.120 ( talk) 17:09, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, i have a Gateway LX6810-01 Desktop. It recently crashed so i had to format the drives and ive installed Win 7 x64 ultimate. (it used to be some version of vista) .... all is working fine except i dont have drivers for my TV tuner card. I looked on the gateway website:
http://support.gateway.com/us/en/product/default.aspx?tab=1&modelId=2308
and they have nothing about my card or what type it is. Im hoping my drivers are here somewhere?:
but theres no way to know what i even have. Any ideas? Thanks.
137.81.118.126 ( talk) 19:31, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Sorry guys, my bad. Windows update did fix it. Thanks for the help!