I have been a Servage customer for about 4 years and I have to say that I was generally satisfied with them. You get a bunch of hosting (750 GB space, 7500 GB transfer, 1000 MySQL DB´s, fast support) for a really cheap price.
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Naturally you can´t have everthing for that price. The most important constraints from my point of view are :
slow database performance
FTP problems (I guess caused by the cluster structure)
Webdrive doesn´t work stable and reliable
strange behaviour of the hosting itself from time to time (timeouts, http errors)
The good definitely is :
a lot of webspace for a cheap price
unlimited and directory lockable FTP accounts
very very very fast support ticket system (not always helpful in the 1st step, but mostly in the 2nd)
BUT – things at Servage got worse, starting in the 2nd half of 2009. The strange behaviour of the hosting itself increased, the performance of the db´s got even worse (leading to complete timeouts and not acceptable latency (especially when hosting a wordpress blog)) and the support started delivering lower quality help than before. Additionally they changed their Admin Panel and made it look in a common Web 2.0 style. Good for the look, bad for the features. Some really useful features (like selecting the destination when moving a file / dir) got lost and due to the bad performance the Admin Panel needed a lot of manually reloading. Too often just a blank page was presented.
The 30th of march 2010 (and the following 2!!! weeks) were my darkest days with Servage. I don´t know what happened, but I guess some of their storage clusters crashed and so my account was gone.
Yes, not a single website, the whole account with a dozen websites and many stuff hosted for about 30 users. But – as always – not everything had gone away. Some websites were partially accessible, some files could be backed up via FTP, others not, a connection to some db´s was possible, to others not. So far bad enough but the support didn´t managed it for 3 days to realize (or to admit) that something is terribly wrong with my account.
This was the most funny reply from a Servage supporter :
2010-03-31 15:52
Servage – Julie
Your rating of this reply:
Hello Sebastian,
This is a script error as I can see from http://hyperpac.info/users/steff/_kh_mod/index.php
I request you to install an updated version of the script please.
Thank you! 🙂
Kind Regards
Julie, Support
Servage Hosting
Right now, I can laugh about this but at the time being I nearly crashed my screen. And I received this reply at a time where the account was totally fucked up.
Anyway – Servage needed about 2 weeks to fix this. In the end all the data could be restored but it cemented my decision to leave Servage (which has grown in the last year). Now the site is hosted on a virtual server at German´s hoster 1&1 (1und1) and let´s see how it goes.
My first impression is good :
great performance
unlimited traffic
stable Plesk & Virtuozzo integration
but :
their support is so damn slow (2 – 4 business days) in comparison to Servage (less than 10 minutes in most cases)
only 40 GB webspace
3 times as expensive as Servage (but to be fair – this is a real server, Servage was only shared hosting)
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I used this big relocation to update the blog to a new theme and some smaller changes will follow. After moving like a dozen very different wordpress blogs from on server to another I could aquire a bunch of knowledge about it and I´ll post it soon in another article.
April the 1st 2010 – the OpenTTD team releases version 1.0 of the game.
OpenTTD is an open source clone of the Microprose game “Transport Tycoon Deluxe”, a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.
http://www.openttd.org/en/about
The original game was released in 1995 (see the wikipedia article) and I´ve been playing it now for 15 years. It´s the second oldest game I´m still playing since it´s release (the oldest is Tetris on the original old school Game Boy).
And I really can´t describe what fascinates me on this game. Basically it´s all about building railroad tracks and streets, directing trains and trucks from destination A to destination B. To be fair – plains and ships are also available…OpenTTD changed not much on the original gameplay but did so many improvements. They managed to keep the game not only alive but in a steady development process.
OpenTTD required the original sound, graphics and data files from Transport Tycoon Deluxe. But development has brought things so far that there are open source resources available for free download, making the game TOTALLY FREE.
My advise : check out the game at http://www.openttd.org, download it, install it, play it and become addicted.
Some screenshots from 1.0 (images are very large) :
Seit dem Update auf Version 3.6.2 hat mein Firefox beim Beenden die offenen Fenster und Tabs nicht mehr gespeichert. Startete ich den Browser neu, saß ich jedesmal vor einem leeren Browserfenster, ohne all die wichtigen Tabs um die ich mich noch kümmern wollte. Glaubte ich zu erst an ein Problem im Profil, so hat sich eine einfache Einstellung als die Ursache erwiesen. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, dass ich es selbst umgestellt habe, deswegen gebe ich einfach mal dem Update die Schuld.
Nur wenn bei “Einstellungen -> Allgemein -> Wenn Firefox gestartet wird -> Fenster und Tabs der letzten Sitzung anzeigen” ausgewählt ist, speichert Firefox auch die offenen Tabs / Fenster fürs nächste Mal.
Tja, so einfach kann es sein, man muss es halt nur wissen…
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Since I´ve updated my Firefox to version 3.6.2 it doesn´t save my tabs / windows when I close it. Everytime I restart the browser I only got an empty browser window and all the nice tabs I wanted to take care of were gone. At first I believed that there might be a problem with my Firefox profile, but it was just a simple setting. I can´t remember having changed it so I blame it on the update.
The solution is quite simple. Navigate yourself to “Tools -> Options -> General -> When Firefox starts” and select the following “Show my windows and tabs from last time”.
And yes, the next time you start Firefox all your tabs are there…life can be so easy.
I found some time to add pictures (which my girlfriend carefully selected) from our recent holidays in Aegypt. Just click the picture and see all the rest in the photo gallery. Aegypt was quite nice and it was definetly an adventure to see the Pyramids of Gizeh. And man they are huge…and by huge I mean real huge.
Cairo was a big mess…a really big mess. 21 million people in one city. A big shock for a german tourist…
The nile is soo beautiful but a real undertaking for the stomach. If you pay Aegypt a visit be sure to get on a boat for a trip from Luxor to Assuan. Shouldn´t be hard to find one, I think I saw more cruise ships then camels (and we saw much).
And in my head there´s already an article about the use of the Euro in Aegypt. As soon as I´m motivated enough I´ll write about it. Check back soon !
some short facts from our arrival :
– pictures later
– nice weather
– good food
– an unbelievable tourist mass
– rain !!! when we arrived (to make this clear, we are in the DESERT)
It´s definetly one of the greatest games Atari ever did, but when you try to install it under Windows 7 the installation will fail. The installer will suddenly abort the installation without actually installing the game.
You have to do the following steps to fix this :
1.) Copy the entire content of the Fahrenheit CD into a folder on your hard disk
2.) Download the modified installer (fahrenheit.msi) from here
3.) Replace the original installer with the one from step 2
4.) Install Fahrenheit using setup.exe from the folder on your hard disk
Some people reported that the instructions above won´t work. I did some investigation and found out that all these instructions only work with Fahrenheit Version 1.1. Luckily there is a patch available updating your Fahrenheit Version from 1.0 to 1.1. Unfortunetaly it´s very hard to find out what version of Fahrenheit you actually own. But you can check out the following :
you bought the game before 2008 => then you probably have Version 1.0, download the patch (Fahrenheit_Patch1_1.rar) here
you bought the game after 2008 => then you probably have Version 1.1, you should be able to play straight
you don´t remember when you bought the game and it won´t work anyway => continue reading…
Tom reported the following in the comments for this article :
Thanks for the good instructions. Maybe this helps:
It did not work for me straight away (windows 7). The process hung in the task manager as Rashad said. I had to do two additional steps:
– patch to 1.1 with the offical game patch
– install a patch from gamescopyworld: Fahrenheit v1.1 [EURO] Fixed EXE
(i own the original).
The patch from gamescopyworld is actually a crack and therefore it´s not legal to use it if you don´t own the game (originally). Furthermore you should own a good and up-to-date antivirus software before downloading or trying the crack. Nevertheless the patch makes the game running, so in case you´re unlucky with all the above steps give it a try.
Update 2 – playing Fahrenheit in fullscreen or window mode :
I had some problems with the ingame resolution (1600×1200) on my new 16:9 TFT so I looked for a possibility to play it in a window mode.
To change from fullscreen to window mode or back do the following steps :
Locate the Fahrenheit.ini file in the installation folder of the game on your hard disk (in my case D:\Games\Fahrenheit)
Open the Fahrenheit.ini file with notepad or a (text)editor of your choice
Change line 3 “Fullscreen=1” to “Fullscreen=0” for window mode
OR change line 3 “Fullscreen=0” to “Fullscreen=1” for fullscreen mode
Save the file and exit your editor
Enjoy playing !
Update 3 – Error when using the Installer from the HDD
Bob reported the following when trying to use the Installer from the HDD.
After copying the files to the HD and replacing the installer with the one linked to in the article, I had to create an ISO from the files and mount it before the installer would finish. Running the installer directly from the HD would cause it to error and rollback the installation after creating the desktop shortcut.
Update : YouTube removed the old video due to some copyright issuses. So I placed a new version below.
This is the 2nd time within 2 weeks that I feel ashamed of being german. The designated EU commissioner Günther Oettinger tries to speak english in a press conference after a first EU hearing.
A guy with an english like him shouldn´t represent something at all…
“We can not allow that everybody does as he pleases…”
Update : I had to disable the plugin because it causes my Safari browser on the iPhone to crash. I´m not quite sure who to blame – the browser or the plugin, but I´ll try to find out soon.
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WordPress and I are never going to be close friends but PageView got us a bit closer. With the help of this little plugin you can easily embedded websites into your post or pages without any pain in the ass. WordPress doesn´t allow direct iframe integration so this might help solve your problem.
You can customize the look & feel of the embedded website by changing the “pageview.css” file within the PageView plugin directory.
I wanted to post this video for a long time. It´s not new, but always fascinates me and it´s totally incredible what he can do with his bicycle. Simply look and enjoy !
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Das ist zu heftig für gebührenfinanziertes Fernsehen. Achtet auf die Übersetzung der Dankesrede von Latoya Jackson.
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Und hier nochmal der Text zum Nachlesen :
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Wie, wie reizend!
Wie reizend …
Wie schön!
Ich muss sagen, es ist wirklich eine Ehre, hier zu sein.
Ich möchte das Reizende akzeptieren … aus Dresden.
Ich weiß nicht, ob, ob Michael das gewusst hat.
Sie wissen …
Er gab uns 39 …
Er gab sein Herz für die Menschen …
Die Leute tanzten bei ihm.
Und, äh, oftmals blieben sie noch bis zum nächsten Tag.
Er freut sich, dass er so viel den Menschen hat geben können.
Und seine Tschäritie!
Von der er so viel gegeben hat.
Äh, er hatte ein großes Herz, und das hat er den Menschen gegeben.
Es zeigt die Güte.
Sein Herz war soo groß!
Er dachte… alles.
… Meine Mutter, mein Bruder.
Auch in anderen verschiedenen Ländern.
Meine Mutter würde, äh, schreien!
Mein, äh, Bruder würde schreien … meine Schwester.
Lass uns dafür etwas tun!
Äh, er würde sagen: …Machen wir eine Spende.
Und wir sollten den Kindern helfen.
Kindern, die Liebe brauchen … und das in einem sehr … in einem jungen Alter, sehr jungen Alter.
… zu spielen, sich mit ihnen sich hinsetzen.
Und er würde sagen: Ihr könnt noch jünger werden!
Ihr könnt jünger bleiben.
Kommt herein, seid mit mir eine Familie. Das würde er sagen.
Ich danke wirklich allen von Ihnen. In seinem Namen.
Sein Lächeln lächeln! Das ist mit uns hier.
Äh, ich danke Ihnen so sehr! Äh, ich … das ist wunderbar!
Dankeschön!
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I got my hands on Hitman – Blood Money for a couple of bucks but when I tried to play it, Windows always says that the “msvcr71.dll” is missing.
