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For anyone not in the know, Per Sefland Maximoto is the current evil Governor of Svalbard. Not many know what he did before this. This is his story:

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Some of the changes from ¹ that n0mad and myself have been working on (with helpful reviews from Robag, Matt, MM and Ltmon) will slowly be rolled onto the live site.

So if you’re seeing duplicate copies of things like competition pages, game pages, edits to challenge pages that you can’t tell what’s been changed, ignore for now. We’ll explain how it all works when it’s done. For now, keep creating and updating challenges the same way as usual.

Fuzz.

Some interesting bug fixes in latest version of BC2 supposedly released today.

http://games.on.net/article/8715/BC2_Winter_Fashion_Update_and_Patch_cha...

A few that particularly interest me:

MP – New Server browser

Will believe that one when I see it.

MP – Crash fixes relating to ALT+TAB at different times throughout the game

I gave up alt tabbing a long time ago. Would be really nice if this one worked.

MP – Added support for colour blind players

Not that I’m colour blind, but interesting.

MP – Added minimum number of players needed to start a round (you can play and take objectives but you will get no score until 4 or more players join the server)

That was needed badly….

MP – Added 15 second spawn timer for Conquest/Rush gamemodes at the start of round to prevent high end machines getting the upper hand before other machines load in.

Haven’t really got anything to add on this one…

I’m looking at getting some external hard drive enclosures – some to connect to a media center, some just for backup. Prefer standalone cases with bare drives added.

Anyone got any experience with these / recommendations?

Requirements: Take bare SATA2 drive. Connectivity – ESATA, USB2. 3.5 inch case only. Quiet. Price isn’t an issue, just looking for something that’s reliable. No need for RAID or multiple drives in one enclosure or a NAS box at this stage.

If it’s sold by IJK… even better.

http://ijk.com.au/branch/ijk/index.php?cPath=306_427

Will be adding a 3.5” 1.5TB Seagate hard drive to each of the enclosures.

Thanks in advance.

Continuing on a thread started elsewhere – if we can’t all agree on a paid game to play since QW is ‘dead’, perhaps focusing on some free ones is the way to go (something we’ve also done before, but rarely follow through). I was quite surprised to see what’s available these days, and I’d be surprised if any of us have tried some of them.

• Project Torque
  
  Type: MMORG – yes, RG, not RPG. Massively Multiplayer Online Racing Game.
  Cost: Free
  URL: http://games.on.net/app/2779/Project_Torque
  Could be the racing game n0mad’s been looking for.

• Alliance of Valiant Arms
  Type: FPS
  Cost: Free
  URL: http://games.on.net/app/5608/Alliance_of_Valiant_Arms

• Operation 7
  
  Type: FPS
  Cost: Free
  URL: http://games.on.net/app/4722/Operation_7

• Cross Fire
  Type: FPS
  Cost: Free
  URL: http://games.on.net/app/4280/Cross_Fire