About RMT (Real Money Trade)
As i play now Aion for a while it quite comes annoying with Bots and Kinahfarmers. Also i was hacked an my account was nearly empty. But NCSoft is aware of that because it was also a problem of Lineage I and II they have founded a group ( called "The Banhammer") that will go after the companies and People who do or supports RMT Services like Powerleveling or Kinahs for real money. Such services destroy the economic system in the game as creates some mistrustment under the players. So i you find a Bot or a Kinahfarmer please report him. Also NCSoft have created a video about it.
Hell It’s About Time – StarCraft 2 Beta Test Inviation
A few minutes earlier i have got my Invitation to the Starcraft 2 Beta Test
So Stay tuned for Updates
Lelouch is Coming back … – Code Geass
Code Geass is a Anime produced by Sunrise in 2006 with 2 seasons ( Code Geass : Lelouch of the Rebellion and Code Geass : Lelouch of the Rebellion R2) and 2 OVAs ( Code Geass : Black Rebellion and Code Geass : Zero Requiem). Now Sunrise has announced that there will be another season of Code Geass with more informations coming 2010.
The base plot is setting in a fictional future where the World is only ruled by 3 major factions: Holy Britanian Empire , Euro Universe and the Chinese Federation. At 2010 a.t.b ( a. t. b. = ascension throne britannia / 1 a. t. b. = 55 BC ) the Holy Brianian Empire invades Japan with their superior technology named the Knightmare Frames. As Japan has nothing against it Japan becomes a colony of the Holy Britanian Empire and has been renamed to "Area 11" and the japanese are now named "Elevens". Shortly before these events happen the britanian prince "Lelouch vi Britannia" hand is younger sister "Nunally vi Britannia" has been exiled to Japan because their Mother (Marianne vi Britania) has been assassinated. As they arrived in japan they were housed by the Kurugi Family, the family of the Prime Minister of Japan "Kurugi Genbou". When the Prime Minister has commited suicide to end the war. Then the ways of Kurugi Suzaku the Son of the Prime Minister and Lelouch and Nunally divides. Nunally and Lelouch flee to the Ashford Academy which give them a new home inside the tokyo settlement which is the residence of the british colonial government in Area 11.
Some years later a incident in the settlement happens where Lelouch has been involved. Terrorists or better said a part of the japanese resistance have stolen a part of british technology which have been said to be an poison gas weapon. The governor of the area want's this weapon back because it is not the thing as it should be. Prince Clovis vi Britannia has ordered a cleaning of the ghetto where the terrorists are. There britannian soldier have fond lelouch inside the terrists van and consists him a part of the terrorists. As lelouch was attacked he founds out that the soldier was Kurugi Suzaku. After that the poison gas weapons open an shows what is really inside. Inside was a girl. Then Kurugi was ordered to assassinate Lelouch. But he declines and was shot by the special task force agent. So it all begins and Lelouch gets his Geass to give an one time order to a person who has eye contact.
He hates Britannia and wants to destroy it and build it up from the ashes so that his sister who cannot see and walk have a safe home. so he becomes Zero to fight against the Holy Brianian Empire and against his father.
And now the Adventure continues...
Pictures of Code Geass:
Trailer of Season 1:
Trailer of Season 2:
Details about Code Geass can be found here :
Wikipedia (english)
Code Geass Wiki (english)
Code Geass Website (japanese)
New Series : Stargate : Universe
Since i am a huge fan of the Stargate franchise i have searched a while after Stargate : Atlantis has been finished after 8 Seasons.
Unfortunately before this season has been aired there were rumors around that there will be another spin off from the Stargate universe.
This series has started a few weeks ago and will be showed on SyFy (US) ; Sky One (UK) and SPACE (Canada). There are rumors now that RTL 2 has been reserved the rights for Germany and will start airng in the 1st quarter of 2010.
Storyline:
A group of scientists, civilians and people of the military that are leadered by Col. Everet Young and Dr. Nicolas Rush were suddenly attacked on a off-world base by a large army of motherships. As there was no option left they must flee through the gate. This base was built up to research the 9th Cevron of the Stargate where it leds. But to establish a wormhole it needs so much power that it only can be established on this planet because of the energy that has been tapped from the planets core. As Dr. Rush is one of the lead scientists of the 9th Cevron Project he has catched the Teenager Eli Wallace on earth while he solved a puzzle that he hasn't solved. So Dr. Rush has headed for the gate in the off world base and has forced to give a try to dial the gate since there was no other way out. A wormhole has been established an the Survivors fleed through it even they doesn't know what is on the other side. and so the yourney begins ...
As they arrived on the other side they landed on an ancient Spaceship builded by the Ancients several million years ago. This ship will be later called "Destiny" . The Ships base work was to build stargates thoughout the universe and deploy them on inhabitle planets.
At the moment the show is been broadcasted by Syfy each Friday evening PST at the moment there a 8 episodes out .
| Episode # | Episode # (total) | German Title | Original Title | Airing Date (Germany) | Airing Date (United States) |
| 1+2 | 1+2 | Air, part 1+2 | 02.Okt.09 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Air, part 3 | 09.Okt.09 | ||
| 4 | 4 | Darkness | 16.Okt.09 | ||
| 5 | 5 | Light | 23.Okt.09 | ||
| 6 | 6 | Water | 30.Okt.09 | ||
| 7 | 7 | Earth | 06.Nov.09 | ||
| 8 | 8 | Time |
The Episodes can be viewed on the official site at syfy (US Residents only)
or downloaded as Torrent at eztv.it
Pictures of the Spaceship Destiny:
Trailer at youtube
The start of my new project – Black Knight 2000 – “He rides again”
Today i have started my new project. I will be repairing and restoring a pinball machine i found in the store of the company i work for.
It's an Black Knight 2000 from Williams a very known Pinball Machine Producer from Chicago,IL,USA. It was built in the year 1989 with only approx. 5700 pieces after all. Why i picked this machine was it has a nice soundtrack.
Today i have made some pictures of the machine from the inside and outside to remember some parts where they was before removing them.
Then i have started to remove most of the rubber parts of the Lower Playfield they were not changed for years and so some of them were broken. Besides that i started to remove the plastics from the playfield to clean them and of course to better repair the playfield and give it new shine.
For Details about my project check out my blog and the Black Knight 2000 section
more details about the pin i referrer you to the Internet Pinball Database
Creating your own Mailfilter
As i complained about too much spam i have created a special mailfilter for use with all Domains i have and especial for reselling or getting other servers into the benifits.
All i use is a seperate OpenVZ VPS with SpamAssassin, greylistd and some DNSBLs wrapped in an exim4 MTA
My MX records points to the VE and every Mail is routed there. Since i have a cluster of different Mailservers i have whitlisted each Mailserver so that i haven't any issues with mails hanging too long in the greylisting.
First an incoming connection is greylisted then it's looked up in 3 DNSBLs of the UCE Protect Network ( Level 1 to 3 which means single IPs up to a AS of an ISP with too much spamming IPs) then i filter the tomain through SpamAssassin with the main ruleset and a third party ruleset with 10000 Trained Mails in the Bongofilter.
All attatchments of mails will be scanned by ClamAV for viruses and will be defanged. Then the mail will be forwarded to the according mailserver. Before all it will be checked if the mailbox really exists or if the spammer only wants to hit a catchall address. All Spam which comes in will be learned by Spamassassin and forwarded to SpamCop.
If you want the config files feel free to leave a comment and i will attach them to my blog as downloadable package. if you are interested in getting attached to this managed mailfilter you can also leave a message i will contact you.
Why you shouldn’t shout at your hard disks
See this Video from the Guys at Sun
P.S.: Don't try this at home !
P.P.S.: One Guy at the CeBit 2009 looked around a Booth of a Company who sells JBODs and really shouts at the JBODs very funny since everyone laughed because of this Video
Link to the Original Article : Shouting in the Datacenter @Sun.com
OpenVZ versus Xen or Container-based Virtualisation versus Hypervisor-based Virtualisation
OpenVZ is the Open Source solution based on Parallels Virtozzo Containers (formerly SWSoft Virtozzo) . As the name of the commercial product says it is container based. So it means that you have to build a container on your hostsystem which is also accessible inside the hostsystems filesystem. This makes it easier to copy data between the Containers. Also the virtualisation is done by the kernel. Due the reason that the kernel patches is the same codebase as Virtozzo OpenVZ isn't Part of the mainstream kernel. But the OpenVZ Developers are the most active contributors to the Mainstream kernel (see the Bug about eating some Memory when restarting a VE). Also it doesn't need any hardware virtualisation component like Vanderpool™ now named Intel-V and the Pacifica™ now named AMD-V. So It runs an almost every PC or every platform. Also the Ressources are only passed through there are not so many virtual devices (only NIC and Filesystem are virtualized) and this means that the kernel is almost passed through. There is also a System around named Gumstix Overo which runs OpenVZ on the ARM Microarchitecture (see this Article)
Also an advantage is that you can overload your OpenVZ system. This can be done through the ressources are allocated when needed.
Xen on the other side is an paralized virtualisation system. It has also something called Domains which is nearly the same as the Containers. But it makes use of the virtualisation enhanchments that are built in the CPUs that are selled nowdays. In every Domain you have a complete PC virtualizied which has the oppurtunity to Install all Operating Systems that are around for the x86 Architecture. This is possible because each Domain can has it's own kernel. But because every Device is fully virtualized you need also virtual switches etc. So the Building of an virtual network is more work on Xen than on OpenVZ.
After all i use OpenVZ because i can make a new Container in no time.
The guys at Hewlett Packard have done an Performance Study on this Topic
Their Results are found here
How about a nice game of chess?
No this isn't an article about chess games. It is about the sequel of a very good old movie in the 1980's (1983) named "War Games". Like in the original movie it's about the modern hacker society.
At the beginning the main character "Will Farmer" likes to play MMORPGs with his best friend in this case Stargate Worlds (which i like very much too). As they drive to school his neighbour comes to him since he has some problems with his computer. As he helped setting it up he also looks up what the problem is and found out that the brother of his neighbor do some money-laundering through his bank account. As Will found out that there are so much money the spent some money in a new Online Gambling Game named Ripley. At this Game you bet against the computer that you cannot win this game. As Will Chooses "The Dead Code" he must kill 100 000 People in 10 Minutes. He has several weaponry of bio and chemical based weapons. So he plays and wins the game.
But he don't know that Ripley is a Super Computer System of the US Government searching for terrorists around the world using the Gamling game to research data from the potential terrorist using his PC. As the Supercomputer R.I.P.L.E.Y. collects data from Will he classifies him as potential terrorist and infest his PC with an Trojan Virus controlling his Webcam , Electricity etc. So she found out that his mother works in the pharmaceutical industry and collects laboratory samples of her invention. So RIPLEY added her to her terrorist matrix and rated them as bio-terrorists and launches the first level for decontamination of Philadelphia. So the hunt begins ...
In this very exciting hunt for Will and his Girlfriend through Phillie and then through Montreal and Canada they met Stephen Falken the System Designer of RIPLEY and her previous Version Joshua ( you should know from the original movie). After that they want to defeat RIPLEY through Joshua which was rescued by Doctor Falken in a hydroelectric power plant. from that he reactivates Joshua and wants to play with RIPLEY to shut the system down. But unfortnately RIPLEY detects them and drops a bomb at the power plant. But Dr. Falken has rescued Joshua to RIPLEYs memory and back at Washington D.C. Will helps Joshua to play against RIPLEY and defeats it.
I have enjoyed this movie very much since i liked the first part in 1983.Since the Story isn't so deeply at the beginning and some kind of needing long to evolve i was bored at some point, but as Dr. Faklen showed up the story gains more action But sadly there is only a DVD version out here in Germany and was not brought to cinema.
The Trailer on youtube:
link to imdb entry WarGames : The Dead Code
Link To Amazon
My New Car
It's now nearly a month since i have crashed my car with a tree. But now i have a new car.
As i love Mitsubishi i have bought it again. It's a Mitsubishi Lancer 1.8 Sport Sedan Intense.
It has a 1.8 Liter Engine with 143 HP and 18" Wheels. And it's Dark Blue.
I have bought it as EU Import from the Netherlands through "Rahmen Automobile". I was very impressed with the speed and communication with them and i can recommend them without any doubts. EU Import Cars are much cheaper than buying cars in Germany. I have saved nearly 10 000 € through buying an EU Import and have no disadvantages since Mitsubishi grants an EU Guarantee and everything at the on board computer is multilanguage.
Link to Rahmen Automobile
Some Pics of my New Car:
