No TW, so I will offer some random links..

20 Great Google Secrets

Paralyzed kids make great finger food!

I SAID, MAKE ME A SANDWICH

New internet speed record set, no word on what kind of porn they were downloading

This isn’t the nurse fantasy I was hoping for…

and of course, Bewbies (NSFW)

Jim Carrey will be making an appearance at my house from 8am to 12pm, to figure out what the hell is wrong with my cable internet. Until then, the server is going to be put offline completely (to stop extern). If you were playing when it went down, let me know (icq#7971550) and I’ll move you to fedspace.

This isn’t dupe monitoring, it’s monitoring of the server itself. I am now regularly checking for connection availability, telnet connectivity, free disk space, CPU usage and TWGS threads. If any one of these falls below threshold, I’ll get a page about it. Hopefully, this will help me avoid lag and downtime in the future. That IS the goal.

After a year and half of flawless operation, the cable company has decided to go offline. I won’t be home to fix it or restart my cable modem until 6pm Pac time. Sorry, what can I say.

Wooooooooo!

If you use a client with SSH capabilities, do not use an in-between proxy and are on a slow connection, let me know (ICQ#7971550). I’ll give you the keys to a speed-boosted connection to the TWGS worth up to 10x the normal data rates.

Hint: ZOC, Terra Term users are SSH capable.

Not a review by Rawhead Rex, but a review of the movie he named himself after.

(for those that don’t remember or know Rawhead Rex, just know he could kick yer ass)

Testing is over! General impressions I get is the server is now fast and stable. On Monday, I’ll reopen the TWGS with two fresh games. The first, Phade, will be one bad mama jama based on Massive, a huge game with a ton of ships. The second game, Octane, will be a very high turn cash fest, designed to give everyone a fighting chance and be resistant to a quick win. Advertisement banners will start with more details in a few hours.

By Friday, I’ll open even more games with some fresh concepts. I’ll do my damnest to break the mold. Seems to me like there is a whole lot of boredom going on out there, and I don’t like it.

Some features of the TWGS that will be available immediately are…

Live Game Logs – This was a feature of the previous server and will be a feature of this one.

Live Backups – I’ll be running backups every 15 minutes of the games, while they are active. This might be not be bulletproof, but it’ll be decent. I have a machine and hard drive dedicated to this task seperate from the TWGS itself.

Live Dupe Checking – Another function my dedicated backup machine will do is check for dupes on the fly. You dupe, I will know within minutes. Simple as that. Again, not foolproof, but there are lots of fools who WILL get caught.

Dupe checking will be replaced in month or so with forced game registration via the website, but for now I don’t think that added hassle would be healthy for the player counts.

Oh yeah, if you’re currently playing Game W, it will continue. BTW, Game W has ZERO RULES, so dupe away.

Website would be down for some time today. It’s up now (duh).

No, I’m not the one selling this.