Rats, Croydon SysAdmin, The Great Delete, Gaming

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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.

Comments

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

oh geeze.
you know.... i do not comment very much here... because i feel underqualified to do so....

but have to say. i am very sorry to hear of your dear beloved's passing on.
ye.... love is love is love *is what i say*

with geniuine commiseraton. xoxoxoxox

[zey.livejournal.com]

The errors are, to my mind, mainly structural; Six Apart consider livejournal their property, and in a sense it is.

Looking at it from the other side, from a legal POV and considering they'd received complaints, they were probably better off erring on the side of caution (and reinstating some journals and communities suspended in error) than appearing to drag their feet.

I dunno, maybe I'm getting old and conservative or something, but, it seems very 'storm in a teacup' to me.

[fwuffydragon.livejournal.com]

I presume you mean Croydon in Oz, not in UK ...

[denied.livejournal.com]

I'm a very liberal person, and very big on freedom of speech and the like, however I was not offended or put off by Six Apart's actions in the least. There was a very valid problem and they set out to correct it. Whilst their actions were very knee-jerkish in nature, they did set out to correct the problem straightaway!

[cluebyfour.livejournal.com]

This is just LJ reaping what it sowed. I heard from other people who've been here longer than me that this isn't the first time it's happened; at one point they attempted to purge skinheads and fascists to comply with German and French laws.

The problem is that by doing so LJ lost any semblance of a "common carrier" and opened themselves up to all sorts of liability, in a country where litigation has become something of a national sport. So they got called out for not enforcing their own TOS, attempted to correct it, botched it badly, attempted to correct it, etc. etc.

Expect more debacles like this in the future.

[amphigori.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry to hear about your wee friend. Your post brought tears to my eyes - a little awkward as I was at work and not supposed to be reading LJ! May your wee friend rest easy. The next bare-tailed friend you find will soon realize they've been lucky to be adopted by you two.

Howdy.

[imajica-lj.livejournal.com]

Sorry about not catching up with you on Sat ... just wanted to say YAY to new job.

Hope to see you soon, yes?

!!!!!!!!!!

[tempusfrangit.livejournal.com]

Was nadyenka. Now this. Please take me with you!!!!@ <D