Wow, it's been a while since I've written a front page update; nearly half a month. A lot's been going on recently, so I haven't really had the time or need to write an update. Well, let's see... first things first, an update on the server itself: I don't know what's wrong with it. It keeps crapping out and I don't entirely understand why. I'm going to look into picking up a simple fan this weekend because I'm still fairly certain the issue is in regards to overheating; it worked just fine in the wintertime but with summer rolling around, the thing is just running into overheating problems and I can't risk losing the machine to these repeated crashes.
However, this may all become a moot point, because my company (I work for The Internet™) is going to start offering Xen hosting services. I'll very likely move all of sup/tg/ over to Xen wholesale. I was only going to move a few things or simply provide redundancy for what exists, but if these failures don't stop, I'm just going to push everything onto the hosted services and leave it at that. If I do decide I want to keep certain things local (e.g. thread archival and file uploads), the IRC will be moving to the Xen hosting to ensure it's always up no matter what happens to my box at home.
In addition to providing redundancy for sup/tg/ and the IRC, I'm also going to be able to use Xen to host just about any game server I could possibly ever need. We're going to have a sup/tg/ TF2 and Battlegrounds 2 server at the very least, for starters, and include anything and everything up to old-school BBS games like Tradewar and the MUD, Aliens versus Predator 2, Natural Selection, and so on and so forth. If I can host a server in *nix, I can host it on Xen.
Let's see, let's see, what else... I saw Dark Knight tonight, and it was fucking incredible. Heath Ledger... man, I really truly wish he hadn't died. I don't think I can get enough of him as The Joker. It's... a phenomenal performance. If you haven't seen it yet, see it.
Oh, now I remember: The new version of Dwarf Fortress is now out and with it are a whole slew of new features, mostly world-gen shit, including lengthy legends, war histories, and world generation parameters that let you build your own world to your desires, from a hellish post-apocalyptic nightmare world to an island world to this:
Unless I can somehow manage to build an entire normal-style world that's entirely Haunted, this will suffice. We're going to start a new DF Succession game, starting here:
Yep, that's right: Haunted warm woodlands with - get this - a brook, magma, an underground river, a chasm, adamantine, and no aquifier. It's even got sand for glass and a soil layer for farming! I didn't even really try hard to build this world and I've found such a wonderful starting point! I'll regale you all with some tales of its histories at a later time, perhaps; but tomorrow or Saturday, I shall strike the earth and begin our new fortress.
Well, that's all for now. Some of the sup/tg/ doods want to start making their own front page updates, which will be cool, but right now I'm a bit busy at work and with just keeping the server up and running in general, let alone writing new material. We'll see though.
So, after coming home to find the server had gone down for a third time in twelve hours - and also hearing the horrific grinding noises the power supply made when I turned it back on - I have finally replaced the fucking thing with a new one. I'm extremely glad I'm such a packrat when it comes to... well, everything, but in this case, holding onto a spare power supply from another machine has allowed me - a couple years after initially deciding to keep it - to easily and quickly replace the broken part.
Hopefully these shenanigans with the server falling over at random will be at an end (knock on wood). I can physically feel the difference in the air flow coming out of the new power supply, so it should no longer grind-'n-die.
Wikifag's new /tg/-specific wiki, 1d4chan.org, is up and running. Go and add shit!
Edity: Just to clarify, 1d4chan.org isn't my project, or a sup/tg/ project; it's a /tg/ project.
This Paintchat thing is probably the best thing I've ever hosted.
I wish I had even a fraction of Muju's (left) or Lolcron's (right) talent. Holy shit. We've been saving the awesome images on the Paintchat here if you want to browse them.
I was dealing with some other shit and realized there are some crap threads that deserve deletion:
So I log into the PaintChat to see if it's still running (due to earlier issues) and find the following:
I... I don't even... I'm not even sure what to say. Words fail me. I think I'm honored, or something.
Shortly after discovery of Chink's wonderful gift, of course, some asshole went and started scribbling over people's stuff while they were in the middle of drawing it. This led me to go and create a whole password protection system for the PaintChat. I can turn off the login system whenever I want, though, so at the moment this means it's still publicly available; however, when trolls rear their ugly heads, I will be able to easily keep our drawfags safe from the ravening hordes. It'll probably start along the lines of "if you ask for the single existing username and password in the chat that's good enough" until someone inevitably fucks that up and we go to individual registrations.
sup/tg/ now has a PaintChat! Come in and watch /tg/ drawfags at work. Just please don't draw dongs on things; it would make them sad. ;_; Maybe now I'll finally, gradually work my way up from such hideously childish scribbles like the one following this post.
There's not much else to report. I may be replacing the server soon, but at the same time the server I've got does reasonably well, and its replacement would be either pretty even or possibly inferior in terms of processor and RAM. Still, something that's been built more recently and consumes less power would be nice.
Delicious archived trolling is delicious and deleted.
There are, obviously, a lot more to be removed (including some *new* image threads), but I have some other stuff to do.
Well, it's the beginning of a new month, so it's time to clean the shit out of the archives from the old month. Let's go!
Well shit, actually it does look like the same person keeps adding these shit threads! 82.43.119.218, see me after class.
+-----------------------------------------------+-------+ | title | score | +-----------------------------------------------+-------+ | Medivh the Keeper of Secrets | -11 | | Star Wars Vs WH | -10 | | Ultralisks | -8 | | Females in WH | -1 | | Gladiatorial Combat | -1 | | Armour | -1 | | Pick my WH40k Army!! | -1 | | Is Tau technology superior to the Imperium's? | -1 | | Plot advancement? In MY 40K? | -1 | | Tau Advice | 0 | | Battleships Forever | 0 | | Imperium, FUCK YEAH! | 0 | | C&C in 40k | 0 | | Codex: Rogue Traders again | 1 | | Why Orks have no chance against Tyranids | 1 | | Puns | 1 | | Warhammer 40,000 MMO | 1 | | Blood Bowl Online | 1 | | Whose worst is best? | 1 | | Loli Army | 1 | | Revised Goo Girl Stats | 2 | | The Great Crusade | 2 | | Imperial Battleships | 3 | | Can Love Bloom? Love Can Bloom | 3 | | Epic Fail to Epic Win | 4 | | Codex: Rogue Traders | 6 | | Monster Girls 2 | 7 | | Monstergirl Template | 8 | | Map Making Tutorial | 9 | | Monster Girls | 10 | | Monster Girls game | 17 | +-----------------------------------------------+-------+ 31 rows in set (0.01 sec)
If you are 82.43.119.218, please stop by the chat. I'd like to have a little talk with you about the quality of the things you've been adding. Clearly, some of them were popular (Monster Girls) and clearly some of them were absolutely not (everything with a score of 2 and less).
Continuing on:
Before: 2.66GB
After: 2.56 GB
No, this is only a partial cleansing at the moment; I've been doing the deletion manually to make sure I don't fuck it up, but at this point I think it's more likely that I'll make a mistake if I don't write myself a short, automated method. TO THE LAB!
Update: Okay, made myself a page. It would have gone a lot faster if I hadn't been an idiot initially, but live and learn.
Another 70MB of crap removed. I'm feeling horrible right now so I'm going to go ahead and stop cleaning right now... fuck, need to lie down or something...
So, uh, the server kinda fell over at 4am and I failed to notice until 2pm. wupslol sorry about that. I'm thinking I need to replace the power supply, since the fan keeps making horrible noises and is likely the culprit for the shutdown (overheating). I'll jump on Newegg tonight and find a replacement.
I stayed home from work today to make up for all the days I've dragged my stupid ass in through sickness the past couple weeks, so I went and added a Random Thread Viewer. It just picks a thread at random, and shows the entry in the archive and lets you vote on it. Nothing special, but it's a good way to kill time and vote on old threads.
Also for the nth time, the archive shows ONLY THE LAST SIXTY (60) DAYS BY DEFAULT. If your old favorite thread seems to be missing, it's not, you idiot, click Show All Threads and it's under there or use Search. Come on guise, it's not that hard to read directions.
... uh. I had something to post and now I don't remember what it was. I guess it wasn't really that important.
Oh! Uh. Wait. I remember now. Okay. See threads like this? Don't archive these. Idiots. Even more to the point:
"Its current score is 0 after 8 votes." That means four people voted against it, and four people voted in favor of it.
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU UPVOTING A THREAD THAT CONTAINS A SINGLE LINK TO A WIKI AND NOTHING ELSE BUT BAWSAGING, YOU ASSHOLES. CHRIST. FFFFF.
In other news, I'm going to add a random thread button or something that will let you read a random thread from the archive and vote on it. This should help get more votes put into older threads (pre-voting) that would otherwise just stay permanently zero. In other other news we've got a UO shard running, though it's not really for public consumption yet; I think the MUD's falling by the wayside but we'll see what happens.
ps. don't archive shit you twats, wait for some real fucking content before you add it, don't add it because you think it will eventually have content, christ
Attention! I will be rebooting the MUD at approximately 11:00pm EDT tonight (Saturday May 10). If you are an immortal and are working on an area, you must use the savearea command (or fully finalize your zone with installarea) or your work will be lost! (After the restart, type loadarea to reload your zone; installed areas are always reloaded automatically.) You should always habitually use savearea just to ensure your work is saved, since a crash could occur at any time without warning and it sucks losing saved work, but this is my official forewarning on an official scheduled restart. Don't forget!
Uh... nevermind. The MUD restarted itself at 6:00am for maintenance or something. I kept receiving these warning messages like "the skies turn dark, the magic around you becomes unstable, thunder and lightning crashes," etc. and didn't know what it meant. Then the MUD restarted itself at 6:00am sharp... and I lost all my work. Don't worry! Anyone that actually used savearea/foldarea is fine, just use loadarea when you come back in. I lost my shit because I'd accidentally been working in the wrong number range... so every time I saved my progress, I was saving the wrong data. So I lost everything, but it was only my shit and it was my own stupid fault, so no worries. (Plus the vast majority of it was writing programs, which I had in my history, so no loss there anyway. Just annoyance.)
I made a little change to the archive to hopefully make it a little less... lagtacular. See, it's kinda pointless and takes forever to load if every single thread item appears at once; so, instead, the archive now just shows the last 60 days of threads. You can View All at any time, of course, but this should hopefully increase load speeds for peoples. Additionally, sorting by score now just shows the 'highest' (over zero) and 'lowest' (under zero), hiding totally neutral or unvoted threads.
We're learning more on how to use the MUD; we've started actually creating new stuff (oh shit Xom riding a 50-foot butter golem D:) and it's going well. I'm going to start plotting out Candyland and actually doing my best to write some interesting areas. We'll see how far we get, but it'll be fun nonetheless!
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