The Black Road 2.0.0 Spoilers

May 21st, 2009

Someone recently asked for help with a riddle that is in this Warcraft III map, so I took the effort to extract it, so I might as well put it somewhere that can be reached by Google.

Enjoy!

"Defenders of Greece, to The Black Road!"
"Demons! Lots of Demons. Here they come down the road."
"Demon attack is imminent!  Return to Athens at once."
"Scouts report demons approaching Athens on The Black Road!"
"Quick! The gates of Hades are opening near The Black Road!"
"I charm birds, fishes and wild beasts, coax the trees and rocks into dance.  Which one are you?"
"Leave me be. I'm one of the handful of Greek heroes to visit the Underworld and return."
"I only sing about dead heros now.  Guess it's about time to sing your song."
"Click me again, and I'll restring your face."
"Even in the darkest parts of underworld my song and lyre did not lose their power."
"The Orphic way of life: vegetarianism and abstention from sex, and refrain from eating eggs and beans."
"Now I know why Serius said you were an assclown."
"Alive without breath, as cold as death. Never thirsty, always drinking, Clad in mail, never clinking."
"fish"
"An army I am countless upon the battlefield, even over hills and valleys. My soldiers have uncountable blades at their disposal, yet not a single shield to count."
"grass"
"I have no voice, yet I speak to you. I tell of anything you'd ever want to hear. I have leaves, but I am not a tree. I have a spine and hinges, but I am not a man or a door."
"book"
"What has roots as nobody sees, and is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet never grows?"
"mountain"
"When I am young I am tall, When I am old I am short. While I have the light of life, The breath of god is my foe."
"candle"
"What can run but never walk, Has a mouth but never talks? Has a bed but never sleeps, Has a head but never weeps?"
"river"
"What is greater than Zeus, more evil than Hades. The poor have it. The rich don’t. If you eat it you will die."
"nothing"
"My first is in water and also in tea. My second is in fish but not in the sea. My third is in mountains but not underground. My last is in strike but never in pound. My whole crushes mountains, rivers, even civilizations. And all that live, fear my arrival."
"time"
"The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. The beginning of every end, and the end of every place."
"e"
"What is the animal that has one voice, and goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and upon three legs in the evening?"
"human"
"Carrying a scythe, I arrive when I should, always behind but never late.  I hold in my hand what never stops moving."
"fathertime"
"Feed me and I live, give me drink and I die. A little air and I grow, too much and I go away."
"fire"
"I raise my weapon up to the sky; I let my armies fall and fly; I let my weapon strike the ground; and let loose a terrible battle cry."
"storm"

Tier 1 Providers

May 20th, 2009

Well it’s a buzzword that you hear quite often in the hosting industry, and hopefully this IRC log will tell you what it means. It seems that usually when I explain things in well thought out and structured paragraphs, people don’t understand it, so this time I’m trying something different.

<&Nyaa> 25 Mbps Dedicated, Tier 1, Unmetered
<&Nyaa> $199/ Mo
<siaoidiot|Alice> wow
<siaoidiot|Alice> great
<Stove> Explain Tier 1, does it have to do with one of them reserved ip ranges?
<&Nyaa> No, Google it.
<&Nyaa> It’s an ISP thing.
<Stove> A Tier 1 Network is an IP network (typically but not necessarily an Internet Service Provider) which connects to the entire Internet solely via Settlement Free Interconnection, also known as settlement free peering.
<siaoidiot|Alice> wow thats jargon
<cryptw> but being connected to a tier 1 provider
<cryptw> doesn’t necessarily mean you get a better service or anything
<jooozek> shit tier
<siaoidiot|Alice> Whats settlement free interconnection
<Stove> An agreement between two networks to accept each other’s data packets and forward them. The Internet is a combination of public and private peering. See IXP.
<cryptw> “settlement free interconnection”
<Uriel> a peering agreement, you don’t need to buy transit
<cryptw> basically means
<cryptw> two providers
<cryptw> that agree to transmit data
<cryptw> for free
<cryptw> or for a fixed price, irrespective of volume
<siaoidiot|Alice> wow but it can be abused?
<cryptw> siaoidiot|Alice: let’s assume that you and i are ISPs
<siaoidiot|Alice> ok
<cryptw> and i’ve got a large chunk of the internet routed through me
<Uriel> google for “cogent sprint”
<siaoidiot|Alice> iuh huh
<Stove> siaoidiot|Alice would go bankrupt INSTANTLY
<cryptw> and some of your customers will definitely want to be able to reach me
<cryptw> Stove: good point
<siaoidiot|Alice> lol
<cryptw> siaoidiot|Alice: so you will walk up to me
<cryptw> siaoidiot|Alice: and say hey i want to be able to reach your customers
<cryptw> and
<siaoidiot|Alice> and we make an agreement?
<cryptw> yes
<cryptw> and you see
<cryptw> if you’re some shit tiny provider
<cryptw> with only some tiny section of the internet behind you
<cryptw> then i could say
<cryptw> ok, you want to reach my customers?
<cryptw> $100/Mbps
<siaoidiot|Alice> ok i see
<cryptw> whereas
<cryptw> if you had a sizable chunk of the internet behind you
<cryptw> i would think
<siaoidiot|Alice> uh huh
<cryptw> “hey, my customers want to reach his customers as well”
<cryptw> and say
<cryptw> why don’t we exchange data for free?!
<cryptw> and you would say ok
<siaoidiot|Alice> of course
<cryptw> and that’s the
<cryptw> umm
<siaoidiot|Alice> free
<cryptw> what is it
<cryptw> “settlement free interconnection”

RAM Upgrade

March 27th, 2009

If anyone actually bothered to notice, the web server was down for like 1 minute to get a RAM upgrade.
My blog and website should be a lot faster now. =D

“Russian Mob”

March 27th, 2009

This is an in-joke for anyone that watched Stephen Conroy appear on Q&A 2 days ago.

Oh noes! They're downloading my interwebs!

Oh noes! They're downloading my interwebs!

SRSFROG

March 22nd, 2009

I saw this on a friend’s iPod, so I asked him to send it to me.
Now I’m going to send it to IceFrog.SRSFROG

Computers in RideBack

March 15th, 2009

As with any other Anime, throw a ton of misspelt technical looking words together and you have a computer!

Note the 696 GB drive.

Crappy paradody of a PC BIOS

Crappy paradody of a PC BIOS

Google in Anime

February 25th, 2009

Friend asked for this.

Parody of Google in Minami-ke: Okawara

Parody of Google in Minami-ke: Okawara

Anime is Educational

February 25th, 2009

Suck at trig? Let this screen cap help you!

Trigonometry in Akikan Episode 07

Trigonometry in Akikan Episode 07

More programming on Index

February 24th, 2009

Hey look, MISAKA’s brain is written in a shitface combination of 98% trash, 1% HTML and 1% XML (indicative values).

Related: who wants to register rafgnzngzzinzcvbzbdexzbfzcb.net?

MISAKA's Brain Code

More Computers in Anime

February 23rd, 2009

Datacentre in To Aru Majutsu no Index

Java in Internet Explorer in Kurokami