Rats, Croydon SysAdmin, The Great Delete, Gaming
Firstly, thank you most sincerely for all the kind comments concerning the dearly departed Vagabond. It is appreciated enormously; we've started looking around for a new companion for Rogue and have a couple of very good leads.
First solid week of sysadmin working in Croydon was exhausting but useful. Managed to narrow down the public transport to journey to 1.5h each way, which means I'm getting a lot of reading done. Building an OpenLDAP server is proving to be interesting. Getting up to speed on Asterisk has also been a challenge; finally understand why it is considered such a revolution in telecommunications. Apart from that it's pretty standard stuff, but a great work environment.
Everyone is now undoubtably aware of the botched actions of Six Apart to delete journals suspected of promoting pedophilia etc., on livejournal. The errors are, to my mind, mainly structural; Six Apart consider livejournal their property, and in a sense it is. But in another sense what they don't understand it is the people here that build the communities; the less they listen to us, the more likely they are to fail. Excellent summary of events by
stewardess, a weak, almost pathetic apology by Six Apart's Barak Berkowitz.
Recently reviewed the classic AD&D module, Steading of the Hill Giant Chief. Unbelievably we're still stuck there mainly because our DM loves combat so much. On alternate Sundays I've been running the Stormbringer campaign pack Rogue Mistress which is proving much more interesting. Have also managed to get through a couple of scenes in HeroQuest Glorantha.
First solid week of sysadmin working in Croydon was exhausting but useful. Managed to narrow down the public transport to journey to 1.5h each way, which means I'm getting a lot of reading done. Building an OpenLDAP server is proving to be interesting. Getting up to speed on Asterisk has also been a challenge; finally understand why it is considered such a revolution in telecommunications. Apart from that it's pretty standard stuff, but a great work environment.
Everyone is now undoubtably aware of the botched actions of Six Apart to delete journals suspected of promoting pedophilia etc., on livejournal. The errors are, to my mind, mainly structural; Six Apart consider livejournal their property, and in a sense it is. But in another sense what they don't understand it is the people here that build the communities; the less they listen to us, the more likely they are to fail. Excellent summary of events by
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Recently reviewed the classic AD&D module, Steading of the Hill Giant Chief. Unbelievably we're still stuck there mainly because our DM loves combat so much. On alternate Sundays I've been running the Stormbringer campaign pack Rogue Mistress which is proving much more interesting. Have also managed to get through a couple of scenes in HeroQuest Glorantha.
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I don't know, I've not really paid that much attention to this whole situation. In this case, I don't know for what reason, but i'm finding it all that hard to care. It's too much of a non-issue to me. I'm sure there are some people with valid reasons to be upset, but hell, at least Six Apart isn't taking 5 years to avoid cleaning up their mistake. *grin*
It must be serious though, there's been all sorts of LJ Witch Hunt 2007 icons lately. *grins*
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If there are such journals and it is claimed that are in breach of the law then Six Apart should contact the authorities on the matter; they shouldn't be attempting to "play cop" in an area in which they have no expertise.
The people who are mostly upset are those in various forms of genre fiction, who were heavily targetted in the hunt.