Ask Chromus

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 11:43 pm

A tengu is a mythilogical minor kami (Japanese god or spirit) that inhabits forests and mountains. They are often mischevious, but are masters of the martial arts and tactics and occasionally teach humans these skills. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengu

I suppose Crash Man' s name has to do with his train shaped exterior, such that, if he crashes into you, it's going to hurt. The only real way to know what Crash Man's name means is to ask Capcom, and they don't seem to say much about it.

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 5:32 pm

Sure you're not thinking of Charge Man there, Chromus?

Post by **Pez-Man** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:57 pm

CrashMan = Drill kinda guy who threw bombs and jumped.
ChargeMan = Train.

What's up with ninjas and logs? Are there any connections you can find between the two?

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:12 pm

That's actually quite ironic, since the definition of chargeman is "a workman employed to blast with explosives", which would certainly fit a robot master who uses bombs. Capcom sounds like they just like throwing assorted verbs and nouns in front of "man" and seeing what comes out.

As of yet, I can't find a link between ninjas and logs. I'll keep looking, though.

Post by **Pez-Man** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:46 am

Megaman 6, CentaurMan... Megaman 7, every robot master... Megaman 8, ClownMan, GrenadeMan... Megaman X4, Split Mushroom. 'Nuff said.

Post by **beyonder** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:42 pm

Is there a program for FreeBSD that keeps a total of the amount of bandwidth used over a month? The whole thing where the system counter rolls over at a little over 4GB is annoying...

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:55 pm

I found a connection between ninjas and logs. In the video game Naruto, you have the capability to replace your character with a ninja-shaped log instantly upon getting hit, allowing you to strike the enemy from another direction. Apparently, this concept is a standard ninja-based joke. Source: http://www.planetgamecube.com/reviews.c ... ile&id=357

Have you tried the program BMon? Here is the official website: http://trash.net/~reeler/bmon/ It's a graphical program that monitors bandwidth and can easily be installed from the port tree. (check here: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/net.html) If that doesn't work, the BMon homepage has some resources of other programs you can check out to collect data.

Post by **Pez-Man** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 5:14 pm

Well, I've seen connections between ninjas and logs, but I wanted to know what the connection really was. Is there some big ninja story? Is the ninja god a log?

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 7:54 pm

I can't find any reference to it, but it seems that the popular joke is that ninjas are so skilled that, whenever you think you've killed them (or in some cases, even landed a blow), all you've done is deal damage to a log craftily put in the ninja's place, so the ninja can either strike you unexpectedly, or run away (perhaps a very un-ninja thing to do).

Post by **beyonder** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:30 am

BMon only gives snapshots of current usage, but doesn't keep track over time. The packets sent report from BMon comes from the kernel. Which, again, overflows at 4.something GB sent...

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:46 am

Did any of the links from the BMon webpage help? You could write your own program that keeps track of it by implementing a datatype larger than a 32-bit integer.

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:15 am

How would one go about telling a computer that when a computer on the network requests an internet page through it, and it currently has an ADSL and a dialup connection up, that you only want it to get pages through the ADSL connection :?

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:28 pm

The only thing I can think of to fix this situation is to disconnect from the dial-up connection. Usually, this won't cause any problems unless there is specifically a resource you need to get to that can only be accessed through the dial-up line.

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:41 pm

I don't need to get anything through the dialup, they do. And while its up I can't get anything :/ It's very annoying.

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:16 am

I don't understand why anyone would need both a dial-up and DSL connection. Most companies that used to have private dial-up servers to access internal resources have replaced them with VPN connections that employees can use over standard internet connections. Who are you trying to connect to that uses a dial-up connection and a DSL connection, and why do they use both?