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  • Dealing with latency sensitive processes on Linux

    We’ve had an issue with players complaining about micro lags on our DotA  bots over the summer for no apparent reason. After lots of debugging and well timed clues from the players, I pinpointed the problem to non-bot processes spiking the CPU and causing this lag as a consequence. Even a simple thing like logrotate…

  • Analysis of BNETD and Blizzard

    This is a Lawmeme article posted by Ernest Miller in 2002 bringing a detailed look in the Blizzard v Bnetd case. Since the original website no longer exists on the web I decided to post it here for preservation. You can view the original on this archive.org link.   On February 17th, Vivendi sent a…