Friday, October 21, 2005

Hoi, Ik wil beginnen met zeggen dat ik een zeer grote fan van XS4all ben, en al jaren een zeer tevreden klant. Wat mij altijd zo blij maakt klant te zijn van xs4all, is de relaxte en vooruitstrevende houding die Xs4all heeft, en hoe jullie blijven strijden voor zaken zoals privacy op internet, openheid, en vrijheid van meningsuiting online. Het berbaasde me dan ook enorm toen ik het volgende op Teakers las: http://tweakers.net/nieuws/39493 Dit valt me ENORM tegen. Het is het soort bureaucratische pennelikkerij dat ik NIET van Xs4all verwacht. Nederland is niet zo'n groot land, en IEDEREEN is bekend met Xs4all, er is geen mogelijke manier dat een normaal mens in de techniek die bedrijven door elkaar haalt vanwege alleen de naam... De manier waarop Xs4all geageerd jegens die 2 bedrijven is dan ook totaal niet in de geest van wat ik normaal van xs4all ervaar. Het is mierenneukerij van de hoogste orde, en ik dacht dat dat soort praktijken ver beneden jullie lag. Wat een onzin! Goed. Dat was dan mijn 2 eurocenten. Dank voor deze gelegenheid om mijzelf even af te reageren. Een prettige dag verder :)

posted @ 7:59 PM | Feedback (2)

Someone posted this on WoWGuru:

http://www.wowguru.com/forums/showthread.php?p=55141

There are also apparent screenshots of the Bloodelf stuff here:
http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2005/10/world_of_warcra_1.php

So far most people think its a fake.

I am not sure. The level of detail is impressive, especially the individual examples of Blood-Elf skills for instance. 

My main reason for doubting the article is bacause of the sheer amount of Raids that would be added...  So far Blizzard has released Raid content incementally though the content updates/patches.
Thats a good model, it keeps a consistant level of 'freshness', so I find it hard to believe that Blizzard would add so much content at the same time.

And when it comes to the body text of some of that post, I think its suppose to be copy-paste from Blizzard Blizzcon source material itself, bit the english grammar is just plain bad. Not at all the level that Blizzard usually maintains. Of course the poster did not specify that its a copy-paste, he may just be summorizing the text he has. But its inconsistant across the post anyway.

Also.. one cannot but help notice that a lot of the Raid info could be guessed or has been disclosed in some form or another aleady.

Something else that strikes me, is that with 100-man raids, and so many other 40+ raid instances about, there should really be some kinda of attention payed to how Raid groups are formed. At the moment, at least as far as I have seen on EU servers, its still quite rare to get a raid group together and defeat, for instance, Nefarian.

So how do they expect all these people to be able to engange in all these high-level raids that require such massive organisation? Its hard enough currently. By adding so many high-level instances, would would have to shift the culture of an entire server, and how group-forming is organised. I just cant see it work, looking at the current situation.

Anyway.. interesting to speculate about.


posted @ 5:36 PM | Feedback (4)

You may find this usefull!
I am quite new to scripting, so I am sure that I could have done things much better than I did in this script. So I would very much appreciate any feedback, tips and comments!

The next version of this script should allow command line input aswell, so you dont have to supply a list of servernames. Also next version will check with WMI directly, instead of checking the registry.

 

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'Checks the registry of each computer listed in INPUT_FILE_NAME
'for a the hotfix listed in HOTFIX
'It uses the WMI registry provider to do this.
'Besides writing to the screen, it writes the output to
'the file in OUTPUT_FILE_NAME in comma delimted format, producing 2 columns:
'the computer name, and the result of the query
'
'21/10/2005 Robert Kloosterhuis: v1.0
'http://www.geekswithblogsnet/jemimus

 

On Error Resume Next

INPUT_FILE_NAME = "serverlist.txt"
OUTPUT_FILE_NAME = "scan_hotfix_MS05_051.csv"
HOTFIX = "KB902400"

Const FOR_READING = 1
'objFSO.OpenTextFile method uses paramater value 8 to append to file
Const FOR_WRITING = 8
const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002

Set StdOut = WScript.StdOut

'Set up objFSO variable for file reading and writing operations
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

'delete OUTPUT_FILE_NAME if it already exists
Set oldfile = objFSO.GetFile(OUTPUT_FILE_NAME)
oldfile.delete

'Set up the output file
Set objOutputFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(OUTPUT_FILE_NAME, FOR_WRITING, true)


'Read the input file
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(INPUT_FILE_NAME, FOR_READING)
strComputers = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close

'Make an array out of the list it reads from the input file
arrComputers = Split(strComputers, vbCrLf)

'setting up some initial values
DIM result
DIM noresult
result = 0
noresult = 0

'Our main loop. Everything below this is run for every entry in the imput file
For Each strComputer In arrComputers

  'first column in the file we are writing to is the computer name.
  'Every bit of info we want to provide is ended with a comma for delimitation
   objOutputFile.Write
   objOutputFile.Write
   objOutputFile.Write strComputer
   objOutputFile.Write ","
  
  
  Err.Clear
  'Connect to the WMI registry provider
  Set objReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & _
     strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
        'Error Handling If it cant connect to the WMI provider,
        'exit with the Error Description
     If Err.Number <> 0 Then
           Wscript.Echo strComputer & " " & "Error Number " & _
           Err.Number &  ": " & Err.Description
           Err.Clear
           Else
  
          'The Registry path we are going to read from
    strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\HotFix"
    objReg.EnumKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath, arrSubKeys

    
    'Everytime we run though the loop, these values are reset first.
    result = 0
    noresult = 0
    
    'If it comes across the hotfix we are looking for,
    'it changed the value for this loop
    For Each Subkey in arrSubKeys
                   
        IF Subkey = HOTFIX Then
        result = 1
        noresult = 0
       
        Else
        noresult = 1
       
     End IF           
              
    Next          
          
    
     'Now we have a value, lets print some text about it,
     'both to the screen, and to our output file
     IF result = 1 Then
       
       WScript.Echo strComputer & " " & HOTFIX & "installed!!!"
       objOutputFile.Write "Installed"
     Else
       WScript.Echo strComputer & " " & HOTFIX & " not found!"
       objOutputFile.Write "Not Installed"
     End IF

     
        'End with a comma for this column
        objOutputFile.Write ","
        
        'Start a new line  
     objOutputFile.Writeline
       
      
        

end if
Next
objOutputFile.Close

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posted @ 12:00 PM | Feedback (2)