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[Yoink]

Oh, I think you know!
I broke 200 recently I guess, 36 hours worth ago.  Might have been while I was on family hiking trip.
200-day celebration has joined post-trip celebration and become:  Causality-spurning ohgod-my-muscles-and-skin-hurt MLP and Vampire Beerapalooza!

Everybody is welcome at this e-party [what is this, the 90's?]

Though more seriously, when I'm feeling sentimental about this stupid forum, I make lazy edits in paint or gimp.  Like

Haha, nice! Shouldn't it be holding a keg or case of beer, though?

I guess I'll be drinking to Bay12 in a few hours, then. I actually do have half a slab o' beer in the fridge, whice is nice.
Just wish I had internet connected here so I could access the forum on something other than this phone...

[Rolan7]

Defying gravity makes it funnier funier

[Egan_BW]

202 days here. Giv booz. Except not because I'm 19 and live in freedomland.

[Mech#4]

I've got another music question here for people if you want.

This is the introduction theme for a game called "Halloween Harry/ Alien Carnage". From 0:45 to about 1:18 the tune sounds quite familiar but I can't place whether it's based on another song or not. Any ideas?

[Neonivek]

So according to Japanese mythology/folklore

There were apperantly a group of "Mountain people" who are basically "barbarians" who were driven into the mountains by the Japanese once they reached a certain level of sophistication.

The odd part is in spite depicting the Mountain People... like they are monsters (even so far that JRPGs sometimes use them as monsters... in fact one depicts them as zombies)... Heck Naruto features them even giving them bloodline powers before bloodline powers existed.

They feel like they really could be... real... Which begs a LOT of really odd questions. It also wouldn't be the first time something in mythology/folklore was real just explained differently such as Changelings which are children with Downsyndrome (and other ailments) explained as Fairies impersonating their babies... and... often killed... in cruel ways... In fact... that is the way they suggest dealing with them.

So... Were they real at all?

[GiglameshDespair]

Probably not.

[hops]

Given historical Japan's xenophobia it's difficult to tell if there is any specific tribe they drove off.

[Rolan7]

Sorta ironic, since I think the ancient Chinese considered the Japanese to be uncivilized mountain people.

[Tawa]

Might be a sort of (albeit thickly) veiled reference to the Ainu people.

[GiglameshDespair]

It was probably just sasquatches, anyway.

[itisnotlogical]

Suppose I need a program to be running for A Really Long Time on a server, without being interrupted or restarted. It also needs to be accessible to the Internet at large, from a consistent URL or IP address. For simplicity's sake pretend it's a chatroom or something. What exactly is the service that I'm looking for called?

[MagmaMcFry]

A bad idea. You can't just assume that things can just run for long amounts of time without breaking down at some point.

More seriously, you're looking for a web hoster to run the service, and (if you want more than just an IP address) a domain name registrar to purchase and maintain a domain name so you can make the service available on the Internet under that name.

[TheBiggerFish]

A bad idea. You can't just assume that things can just run for long amounts of time without breaking down at some point.

More seriously, you're looking for a web hoster to run the service, and (if you want more than just an IP address) a domain name registrar to purchase and maintain a domain name so you can make the service available on the Internet under that name.

Yeeeeup.

[Telgin]

Is no restarting a hard requirement, or do you just need it to be available as much as reasonably possible?  If it's allowed to restart then most web hosts will do, but you'll have to find one to fit the technology stack you're trying to use.  If it's just web pages then that shouldn't be hard at all, but web pages usually don't care if you lose state or history when the system restarts, so I'm guessing you don't mean something this simple.

If what you're talking about is something like a computationally intensive simulation that needs to run for long periods of times and allow you to check up on its progress through a website, then you're probably not going to find a public service that will readily do what you want.  Your best bet would probably be to get a virtualized instance of Linux or whatever OS you want (pretty sure Amazon offers something like this but I don't know the name of the service), write your software to run with the idea of checkpointing by writing out its state periodically, and have it support restarting from a checkpoint file.

More details on precisely what you're trying to accomplish would help.

[Rolan7]

There's a reason that things like Folding At Home save their state to disk a lot.  Pretty much anything that takes over an hour of computation should be saving to disk periodically, not relying on RAM.