Spudinski

Yea, been busy for a while. Thanks.

Vurtialbox remains the best for most of my needs. I only every need to run two OS's concurrently. I mean this in no offense possible, but there are a few things I would like to mention. The main reason for setting up a VE/VPS is for isolation against OS's, or for complete isolation of hardware and the kernel. It means you are able to run two kernels at the same time, and modify at least one independently of the other. Also, in your scenario, a VPS was overkill, any multi-user capable kernel would have done the job perfectly. Apache is designed for this, and makes great use of it when dealing with data from multiple users. And then, you said you needed isolation from the host? Most *nix kernels are so fast because of a thing called modules, which can be linked into the kernel and then unlinked again. Even though a program can't tell the kernel to do this directly, the kernel does it by itself when it sees it's required by a program, and only if the kernel authorizes it. And allowing a shared kernel among x amount of VEs, would put more stress on the kernel than it would have had if everyone was on one host.

Sorry for that then, I must have referred you to the wrong topic. Unfortunately though, I can't seem to find old posts about ravan. I know there was an announcement about it a few months back(last year), it must probably have been pruned. If a_bertrand or another staff member can retrieve it for you, it should give you some insight. There was also someone else who asked pretty much the same as you, but I also can't find it. The thread was a conversation going in circles, so I doubt you would actually be contempt with it. The thing I do remember of that topic, is that MCCodes would offer discounted prices to buy their engine for "certain" people whom had been scammed by ravan.

Morally, it would be wrong to just "get" a copy of the sources and say you paid. But... I don't think you should be all that concerned about doing business with MCCodes. As you already know, most problems you can have is only technological related, and many people here are willing to help with that. Legally speaking, there would be no conflict with anyone if you purchase either from Ravan or MCCodes. But purchasing from ravan, as said by Alian, means that there wouldn't be support or upgrades. People here will also be less likely to help, as there is no way to confirm if someone has been scammed by ravan, or if they just leeched a torrent. The choice is really yours. And onto making a thread to help scammed people: There are plenty, there is one particular thread you might want to read called "MCCodes Copyright Information", it's floating somewhere in the announcements.

Just to clarify, that was mostly due to the work of faithful members of this forum. Officially ravan.info has never been suspended though domain registrar did release the domain name.

You raise very valid points there, SacreBleu, but unfortunately, and depending on who you ask, the answer is shocking. Since I am in no way affiliated with MCCodes, or currently hold an active license, I'll give my say. Please note that people, sources and others is confidential. MCCodes in my opinion just doesn't care. There are supposedly two people publicly running MCCodes at the current point in time, there may be others involved, and from previous events I certainly believe that there is. The main story goes that two people, aliases ColdBlooded and Dabomstew created MonoCountry(abbreviated MC), a game much similar to TornCity in many ways. I don't quite know how it ended up becoming MCCodes, but every release of MCCodes is a past release of the game MonoCountry. There's much evidence in the sources to suggest that it is a patch-together set of scripts, rather than a modal and an extendable game engine. Coldblooded, has been known to say that he is the "financial" aspect of MCCodes, but it seems to me he is a lot more than that, I think he is the only one running MCCodes at this point. He has also been known to be after only that: capital. The prices for MCCodes is very expensive for what it's actually worth, and please know that I've been using/studying the technologies they use in their engine since '05. The thing to remember about some countries and businesses though, is that in some countries copyright isn't automatically assigned to new works, but has to be applied for. I don't know about New Zealand(MCCodes supposed land of registration), what their laws are. Another thing is also that a lawsuit is very costly, especially for these types of issues. It has to be examined, proven, and then proven again - this takes a lot of time and a lot of money. Sources has told me that MCCodes isn't a registered business, but they are acting as one. Certain laws prohibits more than one person trading goods without a business license. So to come to a conclusion after the above being said, in my opinion, they just don't care because it will be a large investment for them to actually go through with the lawsuit. I do think the idea of MCCodes is great, but the business model, not so much. Let me know if you want to know anything else, but I think what I said previously should clear up some of the confusion you may have.

Muhahaha... Yes, I could do with being on "The List". (tongue emoticon: , since MWG doesn't have one).

Ah, ok. Well, I'd suggest you turn it off because it could cause the layout to mess up in some places. To do that just find the file called "config.php", add this at the bottom:   error_reporting(E_ERROR); That's just before the "?>". Glad I could help.

For a first design, I find it very good. If I may give you a few pointer though; - The colours doesn't blend in with each other, such as a real galaxy(nebula) would do. - The colours you have chosen, are not brilliant in their own, try "Image->Adjustments->Auto (contrast/levels/color)" - The splitting light is too bright in my opinion, and it's not very realistic. Here's a a site you can look at to see what I mean: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/

Hi there, PHP 5.3 and up, which you are using, have error reporting on by default. You can read more about that at php.net. It's really nothing to worry about for you, it's just a few things in the code that isn't strictly on standards. You can turn it off, but there are several ways of doing so. So let me ask you rather, are you on/with a host, or are you running a test version on you own PC? Because if you are on/with a host, you can ask their support team just to lower the "error_reporting" value.

It's so good to go unnoticed. :P

I would have to agree, there is certainly a big margin between the "pros" and "noobs". I suggest that there is something easy, like hangman, for novices, and for the more experienced, maybe something such as creating a virtual world in 3D with PHP GD, or any other similar. The virtual world will have to be movable, rotational, coloured, and in a resolution of at least 1024x786. I do believe this will be possible with a twist of Gtk thrown into the mix. Many developers has done something like this in Javascript, just to prove the concept that with minimal additions(or like PHP's extentions), it is possible to obtain the most difficult of tasks. Just my two cents.

It's like my farther always told me when I climb that tree in the backyard. If you can get up by yourself, you can get down by yourself too. Same applies to you. There is no shortcut, go google it or something...

Has a very nice game, and enjoying it. :D Profile picture scared the crap out of some people.

do - Don, Donald, Donald duck.

you - as in you really need to do that.

Rules You first say something good about the person above you, and then bad(no flaming). Examples You smell like a flower. You think flowers are dead rats baked in the sun for three weeks, being eaten by worms. You have a nice profile picture. You can't spell. You are nice. You are not nice. You are Spudinski. You are a total d*** p*** a** face who **** their m****'s c***. # - Accepted # - Not accepted Enjoy :)

We'd age backward as well, and you'd MCCodes owners would die before me. What if, in 50 years, we figure out Einstein and Newton were just a bunch of retards which formulas were wrong?

Day - the day sniko stops quoting from the dictionary and makes up his own.

Stripped - what I'd like to see about Megan Fox.

I'll also make a free version of this, with minimal features thus not interfering with the OP's business income. Let me know if you have a problem with this OP, if so please state a definite reason.

America, China and Australia would fall off. Go Europe and Africa. What if I held 51% stocks in MCCodes? (roflmao)

The ideal rate depends on the price of subscriptions, partied with the length of the players lifetime(on the game). With 10USD subscriptions which lasts a month, 5USD would amount in a 55% loss at the end of the day. (based on x = n((2.5/100)(12 . 10))) An ideal rate would be between 0 and 3USD*pushing it) per registration.

I'd slap her in her silly face, and refer her back to Jacob Zuma. What if Djkanna actually finished DeveRz? :O

If you go into it deeply enough, then yes, it is a framework as it does require a browser. Whereas Flash, Java and Silverlight can be run without a browser. But the whole idea of web development is to create something that will work on 99% of browsers, so creating something that will run on all platforms and at the same speed and stability on them all, and offer support for mobile devices(Apple, Android, Win7, Sambian, BlackBerry) would be the best method. That's just my opinion. You can't just download Flash 8(9/10/ or w/e) or Silverlight to a mobile phone, it has to come per-bundled like Java SE. Take for instance my Nokia X3-00, Sambian S40 6th 2010 production. It's bundled with Flash Lite 3.0, Java SE and the browser offers some Ajax support(not always stable though). It does support some HTML5 and CSS3. Youtube and similar flash/html5 sites works fine but has to be streamed for flawless playback of flash content, but flash files over about a megabyte doesn't load due to insufficient memory(I think it has less than 64mb). I do know BlackBerry and Android has full Flash 9 capabilities, and iPhone, even though claimed to have, does not. This conversation can go even philosophical, but the main point of web development(putting aside independent OSs) is compatibility on large scales. So in theory, using a "plugin-less" development platform would be the best choice when it comes to web development. Edit: Djk, have you seen what really can be done with Javascript?