Month: December 2008

Eressea Delays

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Eressea reports will probably arrive later in the afternoon for some weeks to come. The turn deadline, however, is still 9:00 CET.

When the server is up and receiving emails, it will update this page which can serve as a crude check to tell you if your report (or that of your allies) has arrived.

To explain: After the recent outage, the Eressea Server is running on my home machine. this machine is not on all the time, especially not during the night from Saturday to Sunday. Since 85% of all turns get sent during this time, it means there is a lot of mail to process when I turn the machine on first thing Sunday morning. And it’s not always that I make it out of bed before 9:00 either, so expect to wait for your reports.

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Today’s Indie game discovery is Rescue: The Beagles. It’s a side-scrolling game with procedural content, the basic idea is very retro, but it’s fun to play.

I wish I had written this. Really. I feel that I need to write more small things, keep the brain active. Anyone want to partner up for some weekend coding?

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Server Outage

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The server that has been hosting my blog, my email and the Eressea server for the past ten years is no longer. It’s not a case of machine failure (those are easy to ix), but a policy change. One that I fully understand.

My options at the moment are to either get my domains hosted someplace else (some kind of root server) or to diversify to different providers. My mail is already mostly taken care of by Google, my blogging can move, and the Eressea server is currently running under my desk with very sporadic uptime.

That latest one is a temporary solution at best. I don’t have a machine that’s permanently on, the DSL line gets clogged on Sundays, and on weekends where I’m away, everything stops.

Running your own blog software means you are either a dinosaur or an A-List blogger. I’m certainly not the latter, so it’s time to move on. What pains me most is that this means breaking all the old URLs until I find a way to redirect enno.homeunix.net in a smart way.