TLF Newsflash! Trolls emerging from sewers!

Things are heating up in the TLF world… and once again I’m the target.

This time though, it’s an attack on my character and the content of this website!

I’m curious, what reason would JEEP have for writing his post?  (Hint: Read messages 10827-10830 on the TLF message board)

SIVART is just trying to bait me into joining his trollish behaviour.  I’m surprised he has time to read the message board though, he’s way too busy running those 30+ ships at TLF… it looks like he’s way to busy to even play at ELF anymore (I have access to the ELF history page again)

TELNET!! is a ‘common’ MSS ship, piloted by many.  So I’m willing to bet that NIMROD was actually talking to himself 🙂

Message: 11414  Wed Feb 14 13:24:25 2007  (Public) 
To:      ALL 
From:    KRAZY 
Subject: Valentine's day 

Okay, Nimrod I realise you're attracted to me, but most people send flowers 
to their valentines... trying to get my attention by destroying one of 
my bunkers and a ship may be considered a bit extreme! 

And besides, I'm happily married! :P 

Cheers, 
KRY 

Visit http://kry.is-a-geek.org for the full story :P
Message: 11439  Tue Feb 20 05:59:40 2007  (Public) 
To:      ALL 
From:    JEEP 
Subject: Valentine's day 

when i went there it had me download something and my AV caught it as 
spyware. thats just dirty. take that crap off before you post it to the 
public to see, kry.
Message: 11440  Tue Feb 20 10:04:08 2007  (Public) 
To:      JEEP 
From:    KRAZY 
Subject: Valentine's day 

Lol! 
Your computer is obviously infected with the PEBKAC trojan. 
I suggest you put it back into it's box and send it to someone 
who has a clue. 

Cheers, 
KRY
Message: 11442  Tue Feb 20 20:44:02 2007  (Public) 
To:      JEEP 
From:    SIVART 
Subject: Valentine's day 

I'm surprised you even got there while the site was online. Ignore KRY, 
he has a lot of convienent technical problems to explain why everything 
he does is so very broken. just do what others like I have resorted to 
doing, just don't go there and ignore the rants of the crazy krazy.
Message: 11443  Wed Feb 21 00:02:32 2007  (Public) 
To:      JEEP 
From:    TELNET!! 
Subject: Valentine's day 

Now  Why would anyone be surprisd that  a KRY website does   NOT 
have spyware  on worse on it  I just dont know. 
I guess thats one way to maybe steal passwords (trojan) or at a minimum 
track how many time a  machine logs into  the game For those of you who 
have a static IP address watch out... 
A new low has been  reached  to win the game 
But then again  it  might all be just another Rumor. 
(I'll stay away form the site  just to be safe)
Message: 11446  Wed Feb 21 05:41:28 2007  (Public) 
To:      TELNET!! 
From:    NIMROD 
Subject: Valentine's day 

wel that would explain how he got his hands on the sg1 ships (among so 
many others that seem to do his dirty work). 
Rumors always have some semblance of truth to them. Theres just no such 
thing as coincidence in sst. 
I'm sure he'll produce some more fake logs to prove that something did 
or didn't happen. not much we can do about that. 

Long live MSS! 

Nims

TLF Newsflash! Strike led by fool!

What a surprise… one of my ships on TLF has been attacked and killed!

The real surprise though, is that my ‘nemesis’ (better known as Nimrod) somehow managed to convince twelve other people to assist him in taking out one of my bunkers and it’s occupant!

The really big surprise of the night though, was the dirty looks my wife gave me as I told her that I needed to spend some time playing SST to rebuild the lost ship.  I’d forgotten that it was Valentine’s day 🙁 

So, due to the last statement, I need to put any retaliatory strikes on hold… family comes first, and being on my wife’s better side is second!!! 😉

Oh yeah, here’s the event log I was presented with while logging in (Nimrod will of course claim it’s a complete fabrication, and that he’s an innocent victim).

And finally… there’s only 12 names left on my list.  _DANTE_ left their ship parked in sector 1036720 with no defences, well now it’s missing a hull, a cockpit, atmosphere, etc, etc. 😛

RULER OF SOP attacked bunker in 1036720 
DFGH attacked bunker in 1036720 
6649 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 1329800 reputation points) 
BLOODQUEST attacked bunker in 1036720 
1916 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 383200 reputation points) 
CONQUEST attacked bunker in 1036720 
1975 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 395000 reputation points) 
RULER OF SOP attacked bunker in 1036720 
734 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 146800 reputation points) 
BLOODQUEST attacked bunker in 1036720 
149 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 29800 reputation points) 
CONQUEST attacked bunker in 1036720 
140 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 28000 reputation points) 
MIRARI attacked bunker in 1036720 
597 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 119400 reputation points) 
MIRARI attacked bunker in 1036720 
276 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 55200 reputation points) 
DIREBMEM4 attacked bunker in 1036720 
98663 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 19732600 reputation points) 
BLOODQUEST attacked bunker in 1036720 
1336 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 267200 reputation points) 
MIRARI attacked bunker in 1036720 
652 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 130400 reputation points) 
RULER OF SOP attacked bunker in 1036720 
6508 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 1301600 reputation points) 
BLOODQUEST attacked bunker in 1036720 
1020 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 204000 reputation points) 
CONQUEST attacked bunker in 1036720 
1281 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 256200 reputation points) 
BRA STRAP attacked bunker in 1036720 
43635 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 8727000 reputation points) 
_DANTE_ attacked bunker in 1036720 
6871 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 1374200 reputation points) 
BARBAROSA attacked bunker in 1036720 
30938 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 6187600 reputation points) 
_JUNO_ attacked bunker in 1036720 
5827 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 1165400 reputation points) 
_DANTE_ attacked bunker in 1036720 
4791 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 958200 reputation points) 
CORONUS attacked bunker in 1036720 
15102 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 3020400 reputation points) 
JOO attacked bunker in 1036720 
35937 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 7187400 reputation points) 
175871 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 35174200 reputation points) 
NIMROD attacked bunker in 1036720 
61411 fighters were killed at bunker in 1036720 (you earned 12282200 reputation points) 
NIMROD destroyed bunker in 1036720 
NIMROD destroyed your starship.

Things are changing (again)

In case you hadn’t noticed, the theme on here has changed…

I upgraded the blog software earlier today, and it looked like everything was working correctly… themes, plugins, polls, avatars etc.

 I had just finished patting myself on the back for a job well done, and that’s when I noticed a formatting problem…

The results of the last round had decided to double space themselves?  I refreshed the page and the results were good again?

Ahh… minor issue, nothing to worry about, right?

Nope!  The next link I clicked on resulted in an IE error screen (something about loosing data connection)!  Multiple refreshes, same result!  After cursing at the computer loudly, the page suddenly appeared!

Time to check out the log files… locating the cause of the data connection losses is easy, the apache child threads are Seg Faulting (crashing)… but no indication of why?

So it’s time to do some fault finding… I begin the task of disabling various plugins and testing each combination to see if the problem goes away.  Everytime I thought I had finally found the cause, it would reappear!

Time for a break… played with the kids, had some dinner, watched some TV, bathed the kids, put them to bed.

I sit down in front of the computer and it suddenly dawns on me… the theme!

Turn on the default widget enabled theme, and Voila! No more problems!

Reenabled all the other plugins, and I’m still unable to break it again!

So for now, I’m stuck with this blandish theme… I’ll go theme hunting this weekend.

However, if any of my numerous visitors 😛 experience any problems, please leave a comment.

Back to normal!

Ouch… 101 hours of no internet access!

I still haven’t received an acceptable explanation from my ISP, some upgrades occurred on Thursday with their provider and something failed… No backout plan, no spare hardware, no internet for several thousand Victorian users!

And of course, the upgrade was occuring the day before the Australian Day long weekend, so nobody was going to give up their holidays to fix it (strange though, I was on-call over both the Xmax & New Year weekends!)

TLR-20070116-6W

That’s it for another round of TLR.

Congratulations to Bot Collector for taking out first place!
And we have a new team taking the #1 team position… led by the ruthless KC too!

______Player_Name_______ ____Title+Level____Gang  Rank Pack __Score__ _Region_ 
THE BOT COLLECTOR        +Czar+             [TF3]   1  CGa   82415554     Luna 
KRANKY                   +Czar+             [---]   2  JFp   81736337  Umbriel 
UBERTRADER               +Czar+             [---]   3  JFp   81150346  Titania 
KRAFTY                   +Czar+             [---]   4  JFp   77074432  Umbriel 
GESTALT                  +BARSHIPMASTER+    [BAR]   5  HLi   46963494  320001s 
DUKS DINGY               Commodore+6        [RFI]   6  HCr   46247159  256001s 
AYRADYSS                 +Czar+             [AOA]   7  JPr   40439985   Charon 
FISHHUNTER               Predator+4         [SG1]   8  HCr   37763693   64001s 
FROSTI                   +Overlord+         [---]   9  HCr   37257069  336001s 
NOTREDAME                Ruffian+4          [SG1]  10  JPr   36176323   Oberon

And here’s the Team rankings from this round

______________Gang_Name________________  Abbrev.  Rank   Score (1000s) 
Stargate SG-1                             [SG1]      1        191024 
Angels of Amber                           [AOA]      2        144111 
Resort Farmers Inc.                       [RFI]      3        118160 
The Fabulous Fig Fighters                 [TF3]      4         82415 
The Publicans Union                       [BAR]      5         46963

For the full listings click here

New poll: Which games are you active in?

Due to the popularity of the last poll, it’s time to start a new one!

Is there still any life in the SST/TLR community?

  • The number of new players in TLR seems to have dropped off quite a bit, and a lot of regular players have started to disappear.
  • I’ve lost access to the ELF history page again, so I’ve got no visibility into what’s happening over there. The message boards have been quiet lately.
  • As for TLF… there’s a lot of activity going on over there… ship hijacking, returning conquerors (sorry vets), delusional captains, kamikaze ships… the list goes on (and on)!

As another player pointed out, polls can be totally pointless… and exploited!
If you can vote more than once, DO IT!
If you can get an ex-player to vote, DO IT! (And get them to start playing again as well!)

Which games do you actively play in?
View Results

Is this thing on?

Well I’ve done it!

I’ve rebuilt my main linux box… it’s now a XEN server, and the webserver is now running in it’s own virtual domain. This will prevent me from breaking things when I perform updates (in theory anyway!).

For the last 26 days this site has been running from a virtual machine on my Windows 2003 server. I’ve had all sorts of problems during this time, slow responses, time drift issues, etc.

Version watch

The last article about the different tarballs got me thinking about which versions are running on the known game servers.

Game Version
TLR TLR 0.6.2
TLF SST 2.1.0t
ELF SST 2.1.0t

Now all we need is a list of what bugs/features exist in each version…

Finding SST/TLR tarballs

I’m hoping to find some time this festive season to rewrite parts of my client… turns out I’m not as clever as I thought I was, and the multiple thread approach I used actually causes my client to crash on a dual-core processor! 🙁

So I’m creating a virtual linux box to throw onto my laptop, and I’ve come to the point where I need to find the SST/TLR installer.

Finding SST isn’t a problem, librenix.com has a link to the tarball. However I’ve been unable to find an article there that has a link to the TLR tarball? Good thing I remember that Bestark emailed me the location earlier this year! (Thanks B!)

SST V1.8.5 7th December 2002
SST V2.1.0t 20th December 2005
TLR V0.5.9 26th February 2005

TLR Installer
[drain file 3 show]Version History[drain file 3 versions 10]
TLR Patches
[drain file 2 show]Version History[drain file 2 versions 10]


** Update 24-Dec-06 – I’ve been sent the binaries for TLR 0.6.0 & 0.6.1, with a note that Ray has approved their release! You’ll need to install TLR 0.5.9 and then replace the starocon & starinit files from the newer version.
** Update 14-Jan-07 – More bug fixes
** Update 5-Jan-08 – Fixed the download links… older versions hosted on this site are only available to registered users.
** Update 25-Mar-2008 – Bestark has combined the 0.6.2 binaries into a complete installation tarball.
** Update 14-Apr-2008 – Changed download plugin. This one adds version capabilities.

New site features

Bored… bored… bored…

Let’s try adding some new features!!!!

New feature… avatars! Currently there’s only a choice of avatars that came with the plugin… looks like they’re randomly assigned to begin with, and frequent commenters get to select their own! The avatar plugin is designed to work with comments, but can be added to a post like this :-

Updated feature… polls!
I’ve found a different polling plugin, that allows polls to be added within a post… the old polls aren’t compatible, so all of those hard earnt results are gone 😛

Rate my site
View Results

Other features… just a couple to help me manage backups, timezones, etc…

Cheers!

Login