Redhand’s capital is at Alhaster, but Zeech must report to the clerics of Iuz at Balmund, which he hates. The alliance saved his realm from destruction, though the old lords and soldiers of the realm chafed at taking orders from half-orcs and worse. The spirit of the Horned Society lives on in Redhand and few relish the rule from Dorakaa. It was a move many of his rivals recognize as necessary, but no less repulsive. In a desperate bid to save his land (and life), Prince Zeech, an effete renegade Shield Lands lord, allied himself with the Old One in 583 CY. The Church of Hextor rose to prominence inside the new monarchy, supported in part by Prince Zeech, himself a dedicated priest of the war god.Īfter years of conflict, the Horned Society was crushed. For this, he has never been forgiven by the Shield Landers. As city after city fell, Prince Zeech and his forces stood neutral by the sidelines. In 579 CY, the Shield Lands were invaded by the Horned Society. Redhand formally broke with the Shield Lands in CY 577, betraying the nation to the Horned Society and becoming one of that nation’s most powerful allies. The Rhenee bargefolk make up a sizeable part of the population, and the port is filled with them. It is also among the most prosperous provinces, continuing to enjoy trade with southern free cities of Dyvers and Greyhawk. It is the only coastal province of the Combination of Free Lords, gathered squarely on the banks of the Nyr Dyv. Once the easternmost province of the Shield Lands, the Principality of Redhand long ago fell to the lure of decadence and evil. Settlements and Locations within the Principality of Redhand: Hobgoblins get along well in the region and are trusted by the human officers to a great extent. Its population is chiefly human, with orcs and goblinoids mixed in. It has three provinces, Alhaster, Morannon and Trallant. ![]() Major towns also include Kellswald, Pomfrey and Trallant. Prince Zeech is its titular ruler, but he has sworn allegiance to Iuz. Redhand is a feudal principality, currently under the sway of Iuz. Religions: Iuz, Hextor, Oldimarra, Heironious, Pholtus Other Settlements: Balmund (ST), Trallant (ST) Ruler: Prince Zeech (LE male human Paladin L8 / Blackguard L8)
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![]() The general’s challenge consists of you playing the character of a general and fighting another. One is the general’s challenge and the other is called online play. There are two gaming modes in this installment. They also have their ways of functioning based on the different posts that they hold in the game. All the characters have their singular traits of personality. The catch here is that these characters are generals. The main improvements here are the sphere of characters.Īlong with the various characters that were initially available in the game in the last game, this expansion pack offers you three more playable characters. The gameplay of this game is pretty much similar to its earlier installment. All of them have something unique about themselves just like the characters of the game do. These missions are valid not only in intensity but also in their plots. The player is then assigned with varieties of missions, which it has to accomplish to play on. The plot of the game consists of the player as a member of the army. Generals zero hour Makes a great combination and balance of brain and Brawn both, thus appealing to a larger base of audience. It requires you to use your brain extensively in the game as well. This game does give you a chance to challenge yourself and your friends as well. Real-time strategy means that you would have to achieve the goals that are set in the missions assigned to you by applying your skills and thinking power. This makes it a good choice for gamers to play when alone as well as when with friends. The game is all of the genre real-time strategy and is available in both single and multiplayer modes. It is published on Windows by EA games and Mac OSX by Aspyr media. The game is published on two different platforms by two different firms. Command and conquer generals zero hours is a game that is developed by EA Los Angeles. What advice do you have for someone that wants to break into the game industry?įor programming positions, your resume shouldn't look like one you would use when applying for a software position outside game development. EQ doesn't hire people very often, and I was just finishing school when I saw they had an open associate programmer position. Aside from playing EQ for many years, I was in the right place at the right time. I was lucky in that my school had us doing C++, so I had a lot of courses that translated well to working on EQ. I went to community college and studied programming. How did you break into the game industry? Some of the other things I enjoyed working on in the past were adding the rainbow colored name on a character's birthday, improving the sorting of Overseer Agents, and adding information to the spell display window. The change to bard song messaging caused a very unusual bug where eating a Chocolate Bar used the same string as the bard song message, so whenever you clicked it, it said you were singing. Sometimes the changes we make break in wildly unpredictable ways. The bard song fix was an odd one that seems like it was never finished in the original game. I've enjoyed making changes to EQ's chat messaging system - splitting up the My Spells chat filter, adding healing messages, removing a lot of duplicated messages, and making bard songs display the name of the caster. Most of the projects I've worked on as part of the code team have been internal facing, things like database work, upgrading software, setting up new servers, modifying internal tools, and patching. What is the favorite project that you’ve worked on for EQ / EQII? As for big projects, I didn't do one until the following year, and it was a login database conversion, so it wasn't visible to players. ![]() This was challenging as a new programmer because it involved creating a new packet that went from the client to the zone, looked up and packed data based on what qualified as knowing a recipe, and sent it back down. This was helpful for the 350 tradeskill achievements that were relatively new at the time. One of the other changes I made early on that really challenged me was the outputfile recipes command, which writes all your character's known tradeskill recipes to a text file. My first player-facing change to the game was adding a chat message when you destroyed an item. What was the first project you worked on for EQ / EQII? The first expansion I worked on was Ring of Scale. I started in August 2017, so about 3 years. How long have you been working on EQ / EQII? I was shocked to be given an interview, and I kept getting passed to the next interview stage, and to my great surprise they hired me. I may not have without some nudging, because I was scrambling to finish final exams. From there, when I saw an open position for an associate programmer on EQ, I asked one of the developers in the CRT about it, and was encouraged to apply. Later on I was invited to EverQuest's CRT (Community Round Table) program as a player. ![]() I played the cleric until the Seeds of Destruction expansion, and switched to my enchanter, followed shortly after with switching to a bard. A few weeks later, I came back and started playing my level 20 cleric alt. I got made fun of for being a bad tank one too many times in a group at level 40, deleted my warrior, and quit the game. I later played a dark elf warrior, but this was before warriors were given better aggro tools in early EQ, and it was really difficult to maintain aggro. I lost my corpse in West Karana at level 9, and sadly deleted her. My first character was a half elf ranger. My brother, my dad and I started playing EQ in 2001. How did you come to work on EverQuest / EverQuest II?īefore I was hired to work on EQ, I was a player. ![]() Meanwhile, Condor cancelled their service to Varadero after only one season due to the expected competition. In December 2014, Lufthansa announced it would base Eurowings' new long-haul operations at Cologne Bonn Airport with flights to Florida, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean to start by the end of 2015. In April 2014, Ryanair announced the opening of their fifth German base at Cologne/Bonn Airport for October 2014. Low-cost carriers Ryanair and Norwegian Air Shuttle began service to Cologne/Bonn in May 2012. This route was discontinued on 4 September 2008 due to a reduction in passenger numbers. Also in 2006, a daily transatlantic flight to New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport by Continental Airlines was established, operating with a Boeing 757-200. In 2006, the Brazilian airline BRA provided a twice a week connection to Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, which was discontinued in April 2007 due to problems with the airline. These airlines were joined by easyJet in late 2003 and Wizz Air in June 2006.Īlso, the Canadian Forces began to use the airport as a staging area to move troops and supplies in support of humanitarian missions and possible anti-terrorism roles. As a result, the number of passengers in 2003 rose by 43% compared to 2002. Consequently, Germanwings and TUIfly started operations from Cologne/Bonn as their hub in the fall of 2002. This enabled the airport to make competitive offers to the airlines. 21st centuryĬoinciding with the start of several low-cost airlines in Germany, Cologne/Bonn opened new capacities. Several new parking lots, a new control tower and a second terminal were built, and in 2004 a new long-distance railway station connecting the airport with InterCityExpress trains was opened. In the mid-1990s the airport started another major expansion program. īy 1990, the airport handled three million passengers per year. Ĭologne Bonn Airport was chosen by United Parcel Service (UPS) in 1986 as the location for their European hub. In 1978, the airport handled more than 2 million passengers for the first time. The airport's passenger and freight facilities have been extended substantially during the 1970s. The new passenger termina, which still exists today as Terminal 1, was inaugurated in 1970. That same year Lufthansa inaugurated the first scheduled intercontinental service from Cologne/Bonn to New York City. A second and third runway was opened in 19 subsequently. The first scheduled international route was London-Cologne/Bonn-Berlin operated by BEA, inaugurated on 1 January 1951. In 1950 the airport was opened for civilian air traffic to serve both Cologne and West Germany's then new capital, Bonn, superseding the former Cologne Butzweilerhof Airport. A 1,866 m runway was built in this period. After World War II the British military took over and expanded the airport (as RAF Wahn). In 1938, the first airfield was built on site for the German Luftwaffe. The airport is jointly owned by the City of Cologne (31.12%), the Federal Republic of Germany (30.94%), the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (30.94%), the City of Bonn (6.06%) and two counties: Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (0.59%) and Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (0.35%). It is also a host of the German and European space agencies DLR and EAC, part of ESA, which train astronauts there for space explorations.Ĭologne Bonn airport is only 49 km (30 mi) south of larger Düsseldorf Airport, the main airport of Rhine-Ruhr, and also competes with Frankfurt Airport, Germany's major international airport, which can be reached from Cologne within 47 minutes by the ICE high-speed train. Cologne Bonn Airport is one of the country's few 24-hour airports and serves as a hub for Eurowings, FedEx Express and UPS Airlines as well as a focus city for several leisure and low-cost airlines. The airport is centrally located in the Cologne Bonn Region 12 km (7.5 mi) southeast of Cologne city centre and 16 km (9.9 mi) northeast of Bonn. The airport is located in the district of Porz and is surrounded by Wahner Heide, a nature reserve. The airport is named after Cologne native Konrad Adenauer, the first post-war Chancellor of West Germany. As of March 2015, Cologne Bonn Airport had services to 115 passenger destinations in 35 countries. By traffic units, which combines cargo and passengers, the airport is in fifth position in Germany. ![]() With approximately 12.4 million passengers passing through it in 2017, it is the seventh-largest passenger airport in Germany and the third-largest in terms of cargo operations. Cologne Bonn Airport ( German: Flughafen Köln/Bonn Konrad Adenauer) ( IATA: CGN, ICAO: EDDK) is the international airport of Germany's fourth-largest city Cologne, and also serves Bonn, the former capital of West Germany. Signal also collects far less data on users than Telegram does. Still, the paper added that “further investigation” is needed “in order to deem this protocol suite definitely secure”. However, the consensus seems to be that the latest version is more secure than MTProto 1.0 (opens in new tab) (PDF).Īccording to an academic research paper (opens in new tab) published in 2020, Telegram’s MTProto 2.0 protocol is fundamentally sound. Many security experts have stated that Telegram’s " homegrown encryption technology (opens in new tab)" has a limited track record compared to Signal's. “I regard myself as a tech entrepreneur,” he told The Financial Times recently, “not as a politician or philosopher.For its encrypted Secret Chats, Telegram uses its own MTProto 2.0 protocol which is open source on the client side. ![]() Durov has pushed against making concerns about Telegram a political issue. Navalny, the anti-corruption activist and Maria Alyokhina, a member of the feminist collective Pussy Riot.ĭespite the posturing, Mr. Woodward said.ĭemonstrations in Russia against the app’s blocking have included prominent opposition figures, including Aleksei A. “The jurisdictions that are blocking it are obviously not the liberal Western democracies that are used to allowing people to talk securely,” Mr. (Some users in those countries have been using virtual private networks, or VPNs, to hide their geographical location and in that way circumvent restrictions.) Some of Telegram’s largest user bases are in Iran and Russia - the very countries that have tried to block the app. The app’s use by terrorists has fueled the debate about the need for surveillance, however. Western governments have been critical of Telegram’s privacy policy, but have nonetheless appeared reluctant to ban Telegram. Woodward said that Telegram “also leaks a lot of metadata - so who’s calling whom, when, for how long, that type of thing - which can be just as useful for intelligence organizations.” (Signal, by contrast, is said to retain barely any information on its users.) The app “has had serious and simple issues in the protocol,” an analysis by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found, adding that “any knowledgeable security expert could penetrate” those weaknesses. “Nobody quite knows how it works, and a lot of the security analysis that has been done of it suggests that it’s not as secure as some people think it is,” Mr. This type of encryption converts messages into a code without the help of a server in the middle, making it nearly impossible to gain access to communication between two users without their consent.īut Telegram uses its own secure messaging protocol, called MTProto, and the robustness of that system is up for debate. Telegram uses end-to-end encryption, as do WhatsApp and Signal. Durov and others at Telegram insisted that private messages would remain private. (The channels are one of Telegram’s distinctive features, allowing messages to be broadcast to an indefinite number of users.) Mr. But the terrorist group has thwarted those efforts and continues to operate on the platform. ![]() The growing criticism led Telegram to crack down on public channels used by the Islamic State. But Telegram’s increasing popularity prompted scrutiny from countries like France, where investigators found that the app had become a platform for coordinating terrorism. A Military Upgrade: Satellite images and details in a video that aired on Iran’s state media suggest the arrival of advanced Russian jets at an Iranian underground Air Force base.īefore Telegram’s recent problems, institutions like the Kremlin and figures like Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had been among the messaging app’s 200 million users.A Currency Crisis: The decline of Iran’s currency, which was fueled in part by years of Western sanctions, is adding to Iranians’ sense of despair and grievances against the government.Iranians Return to Streets: Protests calling for an end to the Islamic Republic’s rule erupted once again across Iran after hundreds of schoolgirls were hospitalized for symptoms that some fear might have been caused by deliberate poisoning.Hair as Resistance : Defiant resistance to Iran’s hijab law among Iranian women has exploded in the wake of the nationwide uprising triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini last year. ![]() I generally check them in a fixed order, handle the first one I find that needs service, then get out of the interrupt. Multiple devices could have their interrupt conditions set by the time you check them. Note that the device you end up servicing in a shared interrupt routine may not be the one that originally caused the interrupt. The state for that device is now hung because it needs service and probably can't generate new events, but the one event that caused the current condition has already been cleared. Now the condition for the new event has been cleared, but your code doesn't know that. The device interrupts, you handle it, then another event occurs right before you clear the interrupt condition. The main reason for clearing the interrupt condition before servicing the interrupt is to not lose a interrupt. Clearing the interrupt condition should usually be the first thing this code does. Once you have found a device with its interrupt condition set, you go to the code to handle that device. In the case of a shared interrupt routine, you first have to check which device is causing the interrupt. You might do the normal saving of state before anything else, but clearing the interrupt condition should be the next thing you do. In the case of vectored interrupts, this is very early in the interrupt routine because you know the interrupt cause just from being there. Your question isn't limited to FIFOs or any particular interrupt-causing hardware.Ĭlear interrupt conditions as soon as you know you will handle that condition. Please do excuse if my understanding of interrupts is wrong ![]() Where is the best place to reset the interrupt? Problem2 that may occur: Suppose I reset the interrupt at the end of the ISR,if another FIFO gets filled while I'm in the ISR, since I have not yet reset the interrupt, will I re-enter the ISR I have executed the last line of the ISR? Problem1 that may occur: Suppose I reset the interrupt at the beginning of the ISR,if another FIFO gets filled while I'm in the ISR, since I have reset the interrupt, what will happen? Will it automatically re-enter the ISR after I execute the last line of the ISR or will some other problem occur? What I would like to know is whether the Interrupt must be reset at the beginning of the ISR function or the end. Now, everytime a FIFO receives 8 bytes of data a single ISR is called and in the ISR I have to identify which FIFO caused the interrupt. Each FIFO is connected to a common bus and can receive data independently(at any point of time). Im working on a uC that has interrupts configured for various FIFO's present in the uC. |