Evening Reading

January 17, 2006 6:00 PM

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So I'm thinking I'll unplug it all tomorrow night. Perhaps I'll plug it all back in a couple hours later if the mood strikes. Or maybe I'll go have some pizza... The Empire at War demo tomorrow should be good fun. We sure were impressed when we took footage of it at E3. Blow stuff up! Yeah!

- Get that TV out of the bedroom and you'll get in her pooper!
- Computers are getting purty
- Dumb crap rich people buy
- No XP SP3 until next year
- Obesity cure?
- Most loved mascots
- In case you thought cell phone bills made sense

Lastly, I survived Episode III and I've come to tell you that it was not hot. Ho-hum at best. :(

Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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ashkie

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January 17, 2006 6:00 PM

Fix Shackspace please. People are actually paying for the service while you're debating on fixing it or eating pizza.
- [deleted] 1826297255
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:03 PM
  
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- Donnelly
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:04 PM
  
  way to stick it to the man
- rosewood
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:04 PM
  
  I didn't realize how much I used fileshack until I haven't had it :(
- RookieCAF
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:07 PM
  
  I think maybe we should all get free pizza too.
  - nyranger66
    
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    January 17, 2006 6:13 PM
    
    i think we deserve a free month or free pizza!
- synack
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:11 PM
  
  please?
  
  has anyone logged a ticket via well..something official other than mentioning it here?
  - [deleted] 1826297255
    
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    January 17, 2006 6:12 PM
    
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      January 17, 2006 6:15 PM
      
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        January 17, 2006 6:16 PM
        
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        tomservo
        
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        January 17, 2006 6:32 PM
        
        The man's gotta eat... he needs his strength!
  - ashkie
    
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    January 17, 2006 6:13 PM
    
    Yes. Its not a secret issue. They know but its not high priority apparently....
    - synack
      
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      January 17, 2006 6:15 PM
      
      ok cool, just wanted to make sure it wasnt a case of..
      
      "how can we fix if it we dont know about it?" kinda thing with some "oh latest chatty doesnt count" thrown in.
  - mr brown
    
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    January 17, 2006 6:47 PM
    
    haha do you guys have an official ticketing / trouble escalation / something system to use?
    
    i would feel pretty iffy if i didn't...
    - drucifer
      
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      January 17, 2006 6:48 PM
      
      Maarten writes a note on a PopTart wrapper and it's sent via pigeon from Europe to Texas.
- crazywigga
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:14 PM
  
  WE DEMAND PIZZA! FREE MY PEOPLE!
- [deleted] 937970601
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:14 PM
  
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    January 17, 2006 6:15 PM
    
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    - Dante
      
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      January 17, 2006 6:16 PM
      
      That's much better.
      - [deleted] 937970601
        
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        January 17, 2006 6:18 PM
        
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        mikecyb
        
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        January 17, 2006 6:51 PM
        
        yeah I used to be [Cyb] but I only had like 8 posts under that account so I didn't care... so I got Maarten to change my reg date because I'm insecure... and I don't even have mercury any more :(
        
        ps - brackets are a no-go because you get a shackspace e-mail, and you can't have any non-alphanumeric chars (aside from . - _ and I think that's it) in an e-mail address :( \
        
        [deleted] 937970601
        
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        January 17, 2006 7:33 PM
        
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        Conan
        
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        January 17, 2006 7:43 PM
        
        I really don't use the email much, but I use Shackspace constantly. Use what you want.
        
        zakk
        
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        January 17, 2006 8:21 PM
        
        Ohhh, no. with the right type of escaping and quoting, you can have nearly anything in an email address. 'Valid' email addresses are much much scarier than you might initially think. (check RFC 822)
- trOmblyj
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:16 PM
  
  R E V O L U T I O N ! ! !
- Ebu
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:17 PM
  
  I was missing the space, but then Dreamhost did their crazy zillion gig of bandwidth thing and now I don't miss it so much. Sucks that it's down, though. I'm sure I'm missing out on a lot of great nws :(
- hax3d
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:18 PM
  
  Seriously, this is getting fucking lame.
- [deleted] 1055228340
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:19 PM
  
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- cpt_gloval
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:23 PM
  
  seriously, what's the holdup?
  - ashkie
    
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    January 17, 2006 6:32 PM
    
    Hey what was that other gallery type software I think you were using other than Gallery2...
    - cpt_gloval
      
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      January 17, 2006 6:38 PM
      
      gallery 1.something? that's what i use.
      - ashkie
        
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        January 17, 2006 6:45 PM
        
        Hrm.. there was some other thumbnail gallery generator software... I forget what it was :( It was like.. started with a C or something...
        
        cpt_gloval
        
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        January 17, 2006 6:46 PM
        
        coppermine?
        
        ashkie
        
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        January 17, 2006 6:49 PM
        
        that could be it!
- Rauol Duke
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:31 PM
  
  That would be nifty.
- Luminair
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:41 PM
  
  try Filefront or Gamecloud
  - ashkie
    
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    January 17, 2006 6:45 PM
    
    They have webspace too?
    - Luminair
      
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      January 17, 2006 6:52 PM
      
      Filefront gives you free unlimited space and bandwidth. $1 a month gets you no lines. http://fastpass.filefront.com/
      
      Filecloud gives you 25mb free and for $5 a month you get 500mb and no lines. I think they use a system similar to Fileshack. https://shop.filecloud.com/
      
      Personally I have a cheap Dreamhost account for hosting files, but if I didn't I'd use Filefront's free service. As to downloading, I find Filefront also has the largest selection and shortest lines.
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      January 17, 2006 6:53 PM
      
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- buzzbat
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:48 PM
  
  i just canceled mercury... i'll sub back up come E3 but for now its not worth it :(
- [deleted] 1139842662
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:49 PM
  
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  - ashkie
    
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    January 17, 2006 6:52 PM
    
    It really throws away any image of a professional business or even a serious website that people pay for when shit like this happens...
- AcesnEights
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:50 PM
  
  Steve Gibson doesn't care about nerdy people.
- pupismyname
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:51 PM
  
  you think fixing servers is easy? i mean, not even counting the language barrier, that shit is complicated.
  - mr brown
    
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    January 17, 2006 6:57 PM
    
    "fix /all /now" from the command line always works for me
- bording
  
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  January 17, 2006 6:52 PM
  
  Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with this. Fixing shackspace, something that we are paying for, should totally be a priority.
  - Steve Gibson
    
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    January 17, 2006 6:59 PM
    
    it is the #1 priority right now that i've spent quite bit of time on and i expect to be spending another couple hours on tonight.
    
    the server moving stuff has nothing to do with it.
    - Dante
      
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      January 17, 2006 7:00 PM
      
      Any idea what broke? It just went tits up one day. I can tell the day/time since my webcam (keke) stopped updating then.
      - Steve Gibson
        
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        January 17, 2006 7:03 PM
        
        yeah almost tracked it down. sander is out of town and it's all his code which kind of sucks.
        
        Luminair
        
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        January 17, 2006 7:04 PM
        
        I think you need to set up a sander RAID array so you have an extra copy when the main one disappears
        
        Luminair
        
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        January 17, 2006 7:05 PM
        
        (RAIS)
        
        Jayx77
        
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        January 17, 2006 8:10 PM
        
        so do we get free pizza?
    - IcomeINpeace
      
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      January 17, 2006 7:01 PM
      
      you better not be eating that pizza in the server room!
      
      http://img30.exs.cx/img30/4306/servergoboom.jpg
    - ashkie
      
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      January 17, 2006 7:23 PM
      
      Thank you for the update.
    - bording
      
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      January 17, 2006 7:33 PM
      
      Thanks for the information that you are working on it. Communication is the biggest key in things like this. Acknowledgement that there is a problem, and that it is actively being worked on goes a long way in keeping people from becoming angry.
- guido anchovy
  
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  January 17, 2006 8:47 PM
  
  Better late than never:
  
  http://mywebpages.comcast.net/smith299/shacknews-comment.html
  
  Flash thing I worked on just before Haiku fixed it all.