What are some good specs for a minecraft server?
Thanks for the A2A!So I am the head admin and co-owner of my server. The reason behind the “co-owner” is that I am not a great programmer and I know very little about computer specifications. However, I did speak to the other co-owner of my server. He’s a savvy programmer and an overall intelligent person.He actually had a few scenarios with different required specs. In the case of a LAN server with few people, you only need about 3 gb of RAM and about 200 mb of free storage for backups and saves. He suggested an Intel Core 2 Duo, as well as a solid internet connection. This is all you need for a simple LAN server.Larger servers require a bit more juice. Our server only features about 20 constant players, so we do not actually know much about larger servers. I can point you in the right direction for information, fortunately! In addition to extra google research, the Minecraft Wiki page is a solid source of information. You could also choose to rent server space from a provider. There are many choose from so you can find a reasonable price and maybe charge people when they join or take donations for ranks.Feel free to check out my building guide in my blog, and if you are interested in additional help, I encourage you to request more answers from me and I can find relevant information!Here are some rental sites:Apex Minecraft HostingBisect Hosting
Who owns the Internet?
The Internet is not a single thing. The Internet is a collection of many hundreds of thousands of different computer networks and hundreds of millions of computers, all speaking the same “language.”By way of analogy, it's like saying “who owns agriculture?” Nobody. Agriculture is a set of techniques, it is not a single thing. Many hundreds of millions of different people own tools like shovels and tractors and spades. Many people own land and plant seeds. Those people own their gardens and their farms. Nobody owns agriculture.Many hundreds of millions of people own computers. I own two Web servers, one in Portland and one in Vancouver, that are part of the Internet.Many companies own huge server farms. Facebook, Google, you get the idea. Many national governments also own computers and server farms.Many telecommunications companies own the cables and fiber optic lines that are used to connect all these computers to each other.Some of the standards tat these computers use to talk to each other are controlled by companies or individuals; many are not, they are cooperative efforts by collections of people who put them in the public domain.The set of Internet addresses and database of domain names associated with those addresses are owned by an organization called ICANN, which administers them as a service.
Why do businesses use PCs instead of Macs on such a large scale still?
It's a bit like English. English is one of the more difficult languages to learn. Yet, English has long been "the language of money". So people use it because so many others use it to communicate. It's own inefficiencies are overcome by its ubiquity. Generally speaking, you can find someone who speaks English almost anywhere. Macs have a lot of advantages over PCs. But so many businesses use Microsoft products to track and communicate their business information that if you want to be able to communicate easily in terms of tools like Excel and Word then you're on a Wintel platform. To make it even harder to deviate from what everyone else does, it's generally easier to find IT support for a PC platform. You have to be able to speak the language.
Everyone tells me this can't happen but it is, wi fi internet is being used by neighbors?
If you broadcast your SSID and do not set a password, and do not restrict connections by MAC address, this is a standard way of saying, "Anyone is welcome to use my connection." Many people feel that this is a good thing - that everyone should have one router set up this way, and that when they are somewhere else, they are free to use someone else's connection as a quid pro quo. But people who use your open connection are not freeloaders, anymore than someone who comes to your house and sees a sign on the door that says, "back at 1, come and make yourself at home, coffee is in the pot" would be guilty of theft if they came in and poured themselves a cup of coffee. There is no other way to distinguish between a public free wifi like McDonald's sets up and a private one. And it is simple not to broadcast your SSID if you want people to not use your wi-fi even if, for some reason (like you are a ham and are running effective radiated power higher than otherwise legal wi-fi on the channels that overlap with the ham band - but since you are running on your ham ticket you are not allowed to use encryption) you do not want to encrypt your communication. How to keep people from using your connection: 1. Set your SSID to not broadcast. You will have to know your SSID when setting up a new system. Not too hard. Just type it instead of clicking on it. 2. Restrict your router to only connect to certain MAC addresses. You will have to type a very long address into your router for every device you want to connect. This can be many many devices. A hacker can discern a mac on your net and duplicate it. But people who are looking for an open net to use won't be able to connect. 3. Use wifi encryption. There are two kinds, WEP and WPA. WEP is badly broken, many hacks exist for it, Fastest can break your encryption in less than a minute. DO NOT USE WEP UNLESS YOU ARE FORCED TO, AND UNDERSTAND THAT YOU CAN BE EASILY HACKED IF YOU DO! WPA is vastly improved. WPA is not as good as a wire, if you are concerned about the data, you need to use secondary encryption, ssh, vpn, ssl. If you use WPA use a good, long password. With WPA (or WPA2) and an unbroadcast SSID you are reasonably safe. Who is everybody and is all of Oklahoma that stupid or just the other people in the neighborhood you live in (can't help it, have friends in Texas, am morally required to insult Okies :-)
Do Pawn Shop Owners recover files off pawned in External Memory drives, PC Hard Drives, or Camera SD Cards ?
So today I learned that Permanently Deleted Files, are not really Permanently Deleted, and can be very easily recovered. FML. This revelation, scares the life out of me, because my family lost my Camera and External Memory Hard Drive on a trip to Kenya last year. If a person were to pawn in either of these devices to an electronics dealer, general pawn shop, etc Is it standard protocol for owners to sift through recovered files ? Or just wipe hard drive clean immediately for resale ? I am especially worried about the Camera, because existing photos would spur curiosity in people that know you can recover deleted files. Or the external hard drive, if it were to be pawned in, should I be worried that the new owner or reseller would try to recover deleted files ? I am under the impression that un-delete software, isn't widely known ? .
Weird phone calls from "Windows Tech Support"?
So yesterday, some weird guy called and my brother answered (I wasn't home) he told my brother that he was from Windows Tech Support and he needed to speak to the owner of the windows computer because some one had been trying to "hack" my computer. my brother told them i wasnt home and they called me again today at around 7:00-7:30 pm. I answered and they said they needed me to be in front of my computer so they could walk me through showing me the errors and "viruses" that my computer could possibly have. it felt a little weird like i felt something bad about the whole thing so i continued to be on the phone with him. he made me open the run page (windows button+R) and made me look at a couple different pages that showed "errors", warnings... he then made me give me this password that was generated and i did:( after that he transferred me to this other lady that asked for thatpassword againand atthat point it felt way too wrong so i hung up. they literally calledlike 6-7more times. i didnt answer,but then they calledacouple hours later around 10:30 and i told my boyfriend to answer and tell them we didnt own a computer, i searched up and many people havereported it to be a scam but i want to know if they can possibly steal or hack into my computer with the password that i gave them? :(