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Questions regarding server-side game programming?

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A reader on our forum asks about some issues involving server-side vs. client-side multiplayer game programming.

DC Member Tinjaw replies with a lengthy and insightfull 3-part essay.

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Virtual PC 2007 released - freeware

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Microsoft released Virtual PC 2007.  Probably the most important change is that it supports Vista as a host and a guest OS.  It also has improved support for multi-monitor systems (but the virtual machines still support only a single monitor).

It's free:  http://www.microsoft...rtualpc/default.mspx

In my view, everyone should have this installed, unless you happen to own VMWare. See my review of virtual machine tools to see why it's so useful.  Don't be distracted by my love of VMWare - VirtualPC is an excellent product and given that it is free, it's a wonderful addition to everyone's toolset, especially if you do a lot of software testing.
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In2TV: Fast, Free, Legal downloads of movies and TV episodes

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I decided to give AOL's In2TV service another try, now that I have a broadband connection that can fully take advantage of it.

They have quite a collection of older TV shows and some movies available, and as far as I know you don't need an AOL account to take advantage of it. (even if you do, you can get a free AIM account)

All the downloads are high DVD quality... free...and legal. (DRM protected though)

http://in2tv.com

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Google Releases Paper on Disk Reliability - Hard Drive Crashes are Unpredictable

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Despite this high correlation, we conclude that models based on SMART parameters alone are unlikely to be useful for predicting individual drive failures. Surprisingly, we found that temperature and activity levels were much less correlated with drive failures than previously reported...

http://hardware.slas.../02/18/0420247.shtml

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Resolving the Micropayment Problem

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The authors discuss how encryption can be used instead of charging fees.

Transaction fees for micropayments threaten the booming online and mobile economy. Changing how the e-commerce industry imposes online transaction fees can provide a quick fix to the micropayment problem—which occurs when processing fees on such widely purchased small items as iTunes and parking exceed the merchant's margins. However, that simple business approach will provide only a stopgap measure at best because it fails to address the fact that each transaction carries fixed costs.
Implementing applied-cryptography approaches is decidedly more difficult, but it provides a far superior long-term solution. The approaches range from aggregating payments and using tamper-resistant devices to delegating policy decisions and letting users generate payment tokens...

http://www.computer.....xml&xsl=article.xsl


Nice long thoughtfull essay..
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Fifteen Commandments of Programming

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The fifteen Commandments of Good Programming.
The following are the fifteen commandments of good programming. They are an imperative to having a smooth time after initial deployment of your program at the customer’s site. Follow these steps and you will have much lesser work maintaining the software that you have made.

http://2stepsback.wo...-of-good-programming

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