EVE General Discussion

The Program yawned into awareness, wondering how long it had been asleep for. A small flashing icon appeared on its screen, which it discounted immediately.

"Damn messages.. " It started the usual rituals it had gotten used to for the last few years: check eve-mail, wallet then market. Open browser, head to the forums. Observe. Repeat.

The blinking appeared again within seconds and in frustration, the program opened the message.

All items sold. Market order closed.

It blinked, re-reading the message over and over again. Was it true? Had it actually been fulfilled after all these years? Immediately, it checked the market; it didn't appear there. It was gone. For the first time in years, the program smiled, leaning back into its chair and letting out a long sigh, closing its eyes in relief.

"Your time, Program, has come."

The voice made the Program sit up violently, turning to the source of it. Stood in the centre of the room was a solitary individual, pale of tone, gaunt and clad in a well fitting black suit and edged in a pale blue light, its eyes a solid black save for emerald green irises.

"Who are you? How did you get in here?" the Program asked, a mild tone of fear and confusion in its voice.

"Your time has come Program. We are the Administrators and We have been observing you for some time." Its voice was monotone, and straight to the point.

"We?" thought the Program, but upon hearing the word Administrators, its cores froze. What had it done? It had heard that the Administrators where the rule makers of the Great Game. Many programs had fallen to the edicts of the Administrators, some exiled into the void while others reappeared under new forms and guises after debating their continued existence. Their rule was harsh, but fair.

"But I have followed your edicts... altered my code when requested. Why have I been targeted for term....?" the Program's voice was panicky, reaching out for the chair arm to stand, only for it to phase through. it leapt upright, only to see its static framework, leant down in a position of sleep.

"Your coding has been observed operating for 7 years, Program. We have run the Scripts and Indexed the Tables. Your coding eluded our attempts to correct it. However, We allowed it to continue. Now that your coding is complete, We are offering you peace in the Binary Halls, your Program to added to the Grand Library. You merely need to follow Us towards it."

The Program was still looking at its framework, seeing it slowly dissipating into the ether, block by block. Eventually the chair was empty, the only evidence of its existence being the screen, which it too, was fading to black, awaiting its next incumbent.

The Administrator stood in silence, awaiting the Program's decision. What felt like an eternity was merely a few ticks on the universal Clock, before the Program nodded, and followed the Administrator towards its final resting place.


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Been thinking about this all day..

I remember way back in the day, around the time that you moved the servers maybe, we got an update saying that TQ had reached 1 ton. How heavy is our darling baby now?

OH! Can we get stats (size and weight) for Sisi too? Is she a sever of 1 box on a rack somewhere all by her lonesome or what? Or does she just run as a dedicated node that responds to a different IP address?

I don't know if DeNormalized would be allowed to confirm or deny that you bought the right thing.
One sure thing to do would be to buy the remaining two, given the cost is next to nothing. If DeNormalized and his fellow OCDers at CCP track you down and shower you in beer at fanfest then assume you got it right :)

HHD space is over rated and only needed when the computers power down and boot up, then it shifts everything over onto RAM for quick access *hence why when you get a computer and it states the OS needs 6GB of RAM and your computer comes with 8GB RAM, that 6GB is what the OS needs to run leaving you with 2GB to run other programs but will only pull those programs from the drive when queued for the information and then sends it to the RAM for operation*

so in short when EVE starts up the data moves from the drives to RAM and occasionally refreshes data *IE your microsoft word autosave or you clicking the save button sends that document data to your HDD and not the RAMso if power loss happens it doesn't vanish.

Not at all is my guess. The bookmark icon is already in the client, and on the server it is still the same set of coordinates where the bookmarks are stored. Showing the bookmarks in space is merely a client-side rendering change. There is little to no difference server-side.

I don't work at CCP and have no access to their codebase, so I can't say for sure, but just like adding an option to the right click menu or changing the way bubbles look are purely visual changes that only happen on the client and the server cares little about, so should displaying bookmarks be. The client already knows where the bookmarks are, so the server shouldn't care at all about whether the client shows them or not. It's the same way that raising or lowering your graphics settings does nothing to the game server.

Today I learned that TQ could fit on my home PC's HDD. Also, what a bunch of nerds you guys are

ive always been impressed that you picked MSSQL. Your partioning scheme must be insane.

For us, the only thing we use partitions for are sliding window deletes on sequential log tables.

Being able to simply swap out a huge number of rows covering the date range and drop that with almost no IO is great.

Interesting read, thank you very much!

(I have been several times at fanfest but this is the first time I hear about an admin round table. Dang...)