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		<title>Game trends</title>
		<link>http://stewie.biz/2010/02/17/game-trends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>BC2 servers perform very well on the new Xeon CPUs:</p>
<p><a href="http://stewie.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/resources-25869.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-629" title="BC2 PC resources" src="http://stewie.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/resources-25869.jpg" alt="" width="697" height="532" /></a><a href="http://stewie.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/resources-25840.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-630" title="BC2 PC resources" src="http://stewie.biz/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/resources-25840.jpg" alt="" width="697" height="532" /></a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BC2 servers perform very well on the new Xeon CPUs:</p>
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		<title>The Red Cross decided I should donate more</title>
		<link>http://stewie.biz/2010/01/10/the-red-cross-decided-i-should-donate-more/</link>
		<comments>http://stewie.biz/2010/01/10/the-red-cross-decided-i-should-donate-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>A little while ago I received a letter from the Dutch Red Cross notifying me they decided my monthly donation will be raised by 40% and if I did not provide feedback they would automatically draw it from my bank account.&#8230;</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A little while ago I received a letter from the Dutch Red Cross notifying me they decided my monthly donation will be raised by 40% and if I did not provide feedback they would automatically draw it from my bank account. I don&#8217;t understand how a charity can decide so easily to upset their sponsors. Who are they to decide I should donate more money to their charity?</p>
<p>Luckily there are other charities that are not run by crooks who make <a href="http://rodekruis-jaarverslag.ddg305.tamtam.nl/jv/Content_Helpers/Content_Helpers-Jaarverslag/Content_Helpers-Jaarverslag-Downloads/Jaarverslag_2008_(per_hoofdstuk)/Jaarverslag_2008_(per_hoofdstuk)-Financin.pdf" target="_blank">199,000 Euro</a> a year in salary. In 2008 the Dutch Red Cross spend 456,000 Euro on two CEOs, isn&#8217;t that absurd?</p>
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		<title>European cars vs American cars</title>
		<link>http://stewie.biz/2009/01/18/european-cars-vs-american-cars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Well, both cars in this photo are made in Asia, but they are both designed for a different market. People in the States ask me quite often how good European cars are. They heard stories about good mileage and reliability. Mostly&#8230;</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, both cars in this photo are made in Asia, but they are both designed for a different market. People in the States ask me quite often how good European cars are. They heard stories about good mileage and reliability. Mostly true, but hey, some luxuryisn&#8217;t bad either and pricing is outrageous in Europe, especially for cars with a bigger engine or cars with a lot of accessories/optional packages. The Infiniti on this photo was just introduced to the Dutch market this month, going for ~90.000 euros (around $120,000) which is double the price in the States</p>

<a href='http://stewie.biz/2009/01/18/european-cars-vs-american-cars/img_0579/' title='Small car, big car'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://stewie.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/img_0579-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Small car, big car" title="Small car, big car" /></a>
<a href='http://stewie.biz/2009/01/18/european-cars-vs-american-cars/img_0839/' title='It&#039;s cold!'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://stewie.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/img_0839-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Now that&#039;s an icy car" title="It&#039;s cold!" /></a>
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		<title>Pretty old but still fun</title>
		<link>http://stewie.biz/2009/01/16/pretty-old-but-still-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_299" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-299" title="PC or console?" src="http://stewie.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/funny-graphs-video-games-sy.gif" alt="PC or console?" width="500" height="375" /><p class="wp-caption-text">PC or console?</p></div>
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		<title>Left 4 dead is dead and Valve hates you</title>
		<link>http://stewie.biz/2008/11/06/left-4-dead-is-dead-and-valve-hates-you/</link>
		<comments>http://stewie.biz/2008/11/06/left-4-dead-is-dead-and-valve-hates-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Even before the game is released Valve decided to kill the multiplayer part of the game:</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Consolas;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Left 4 Dead will use the new matchmaking system we&#8217;ve been working</span></span></p></blockquote><p>&#8230;</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even before the game is released Valve decided to kill the multiplayer part of the game:</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Consolas;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Left 4 Dead will use the new matchmaking system we&#8217;ve been working on.<br />
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Consolas;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The new matchmaking system replaces the traditional server browser.  By running a public dedicated server your server will be added to a list of servers available for clients to use when playing.  Games are started from a Game Lobby by clients, who are then connected to a dedicated server when they start the game.  When they&#8217;re done, your server is added back to the list of available servers.  Clients will be able to &#8220;Quick Match&#8221;, &#8220;Play Online&#8221;, and &#8220;Play With Friends&#8221; when they want to play a game. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Consolas;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><br />
-Eric Smith (<a href="mailto:erics@valvesoftware.com">erics@valvesoftware.com</a>)<br />
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<p><strong>Valve hates you</strong><br />
They must think you&#8217;re too dumb and stupid to choose your own server. What you end up is a &#8220;smart algorithm&#8221; designed to connect a player to other players and the server. What it also means: you have no control over your online multiplayer experience. Want to play on a regular server with the same crowd every day, the community experience? Unless you add all people to your friends list you&#8217;re out of luck. Also Valve decided you&#8217;re not allowed to think for yourself and they will pick the server for you.</p>
<p>The matchmaking system is used on low-level games on the consoles, where servers are nothing more than players running the game on their console. For the PC this is only used on games that do not have dedicated servers like the Command &amp; Conquer series.</p>
<p>Valve used to support servers pretty good. They are still releasing updates for games like Counter Strike 1.6 and CS: Source. With Left 4 Dead they clearly fail to live up to their standards. There are so many zombie communities for Zombie Mod, Zombie Master, Zombie Run and other zombie Source modifications. The <a href="http://forum.i3d.net/counter-strike-source-zombie-gameservers/">i3D.net community</a> is one of the largest zombie communities out there with 25 servers online and multiple servers in the global top 100. If the community cannot host their own game servers, cannot manage and cannot ingame admin these servers, there is no point of playing this game.</p>
<p>Our servers have a large number of regulars, around 50 admins from 3 continents and a huge fanbase of ex-admins, regular players and fans. I think we&#8217;ll pass this game and won&#8217;t bother supporting it unless Valve decides to support the online communities all over the world by giving them more control over their own community game servers.</p>
<p>- Stewie</p>
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		<title>The States of America</title>
		<link>http://stewie.biz/2008/11/04/the-states-of-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>After tonight they&#8217;ll be united again. Red, blue, swing, lean, dead, Republican, Democrat, elephant, donkey.. I prefer them as the United States.</p>
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		<title>Where will this end?</title>
		<link>http://stewie.biz/2008/10/16/where-will-this-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewie</dc:creator>
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		<title>Pfft</title>
		<link>http://stewie.biz/2008/10/03/pfft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewie</dc:creator>
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		<title>Brein sluit &#8216;minder legale&#8217; websites</title>
		<link>http://stewie.biz/2008/04/25/brein-sluit-indiase-websites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>In een persbericht, <a target="_blank" href="http://life.tweakers.net/nieuws/53152/brein-viert-auteursrechtendag-met-sluiting-indiase-sites.html">overgenomen</a> door de nieuwsite Tweakers.net, geeft Brein aan verantwoordelijk te zijn voor de sluiting van diverse &#8216;minder legale&#8217; websites. De betreffende websites richten zich vooral op het delen van (nieuwe) films.</p>
<p>Tweakers.net bericht hierover:</p>
<blockquote><p>De sites stonden op naam</p></blockquote><p>&#8230;</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In een persbericht, <a target="_blank" href="http://life.tweakers.net/nieuws/53152/brein-viert-auteursrechtendag-met-sluiting-indiase-sites.html">overgenomen</a> door de nieuwsite Tweakers.net, geeft Brein aan verantwoordelijk te zijn voor de sluiting van diverse &#8216;minder legale&#8217; websites. De betreffende websites richten zich vooral op het delen van (nieuwe) films.</p>
<p>Tweakers.net bericht hierover:</p>
<blockquote><p>De sites stonden op naam van een Indiaas bedrijf, maar bevonden zich op de servers van een Nederlandse hostingprovider. De hoster gaf Brein de naam van het bedrijf in India, zodat de auteursrechtenwaakhond kon verzoeken de sites offline te halen. Volgens Brein was echter een bezoekje van de Central Crime Branch van de politie van Bangalore nodig om het bedrijf ertoe te bewegen daadwerkelijk de stekker uit enkele sites te trekken. Ondanks dat zijn ook nu volgens de organisatie nog negen van de vierentwintig sites gewoon te vinden op internet. Onbekend is om welke sites het gaat.</p></blockquote>
<p>Onduidelijk is waarom een belangrijk deel van de informatie is weggelaten. Feitelijk is het volgende gebeurd:</p>
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<li>Brein stuurt een verzoek tot sluiting naar de betreffende websites en hun hosting partner, per e-mail</li>
<li>De vermoedelijk buitenlandse eigenaren van de sites en de Indiase hosting partner reageren negatief op het eerste verzoek</li>
<li>Brein neemt contact op met de Nederlandse ISP, de leverancier van het Indiase hosting bedrijf</li>
<li>De Nederlandse ISP neemt contact op met haar klant, vraagt de klant (1) of de klant akkoord gaat en wenst dat de Nederlandse ISP aan Brein de volledige contactgegevens van het Indiase bedrijf geeft en (2) of de Nederlandse ISP kan bemiddelen in deze zaak. De klant gaat op beide punten akkoord en geeft letterlijk aan dat Brein gerust contact mag opnemen</li>
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<p>Het standpunt van het Indiase hostingbedrijf is dat de websites &#8220;legaal&#8221; zijn onder Nederlandse wet en dat er niet wordt voldaan aan het verzoek van Brein. De Nederlandse ISP geeft aan geen oordeel te willen vellen over de websites, echter staat wel open voor het verzoek van Brein, maar geeft wel aan dat het laatste woord bij het Indiase bedrijf ligt, omdat de sites eigendom zijn van (in)directe klanten van dat bedrijf.<br />
Voor alle duidelijkheid: het betreffende Indiase bedrijf is een hosting provider die zich vooral richt op Amerikaanse klanten, de fysieke hosting is ondergebracht bij datacenters in Nederland en de VS. De volledige contactgegevens van het Indiase bedrijf zijn ook op te vragen via de IP database op <a href="http://www.ripe.net/">www.ripe.net</a>, het bedrijf verschuilt zicht niet.</p>
<p>In de ochtend van 24 april bereikt ons het bericht dat een speciale afdeling van de politie uit India, de Central Crime Branch uit Bangelore, een bezoek heeft gebracht aan het Indiase bedrijf. Rondom dit bezoek zijn diverse sites verhuisd en/of tijdelijk offline. Brein geeft per e-mail aan dat diverse sites nog online zijn en zij doorgaan met het uitoefenen van druk op het Indiase bedrijf.</p>
<p>Een van de sites staat in de top300 websites op <a target="_blank" href="http://www.alexa.com">Alexa</a>. Sites van deze omvang hebben zeer veel bezoekers en wisselt regelmatig van hoster naar hoster om uit handen te blijven van de politie. Doordat dit altijd een zeer internationaal karakter heeft, is het moeilijk om de eigenaren op te sporen. Om een voorbeeld te geven: de betreffende site is eigendom van iemand uit Oost-Europa, ondergebracht bij een bedrijf uit Hong-Kong, die klant is van het Indiase bedrijf, welke weer inkoopt bij de Nederlandse ISP.</p>
<p>Opvallend is ook dat gedurende dit proces, onze helpdesk offerte aanvragen kreeg voor hosting van websites met eenzelfde &#8216;minder legaal tintje&#8217;. Anonieme aanvragen, in het Nederlands, met het specifieke verzoek of onze organisatie de legaliteit van de sites kon beoordelen en onder kon brengen. Waar wij normaal gesproken nooit zulke vragen gesteld krijgen, kwamen er nu meerdere verzoeken per dag binnen, vanaf Gmail adressen met invalide e-mail headers. De verzoeken stopten begin deze week toen er schot in de zaak met het Indiase bedrijf kwam. Werd ons bedrijf getest in hoeverre het meewerkt aan hosting van dit soort sites?</p>
<p>Waar ik zelf van sta te kijken, is dat Brein hard ingaat op het Indiase bedrijf en deze schuldig acht aan piraterij. Brein moet echter de bron van het probleem opzoeken in plaats van de hosting bedrijven aan te vallen. De eigenaar van de website, de beheerders van de website, die moeten worden aangepakt om de site offline te halen.  Wat er nu gebeurd lijkt eerder een PR actie: Brein claimt een zege, maar de site eigenaar verhuist gewoon vrolijk verder.</p>
<p>De betreffende site is inmiddels weer online bij een andere Nederlandse ISP. Van een overwinning is dan ook geen sprake.</p>
<p>Update: Brein is vandaag ook uitgenodigd langs te komen voor tekst en uitleg en hierop zijn zij ingegaan. Binnenkort dus een update op deze zaak.</p>
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