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  1. Long time no see NP what brings you back around these parts?
  2. Yeah, my overall bill for the last 12 years probably would be up there too.
  3. He's being paid for his servers/infrastructure, which cost him both time and money to build and maintain. You may dislike the person, but enough people use his services the NS Admin Team feel it's worth saving from the boneyard, so honestly, he deserves to be compensated. Open Source means you have the right to use the code all you want to build your own version of NS++, or whatever. It does not mean he has no right to be compensated for his time if others find his end product worth something. It's not really that much different than anyone that runs offsite forums like myself. I spend $35-40/month on the server we have here, and I don't expect anyone to contribute. I get other benefits from it that makes it worth my wild (plus I'm just a nice guy...sometimes), so it's a mutually beneficial arrangement. With the numbers using NSWiki, NS++ and other services, his bills are likely higher than mine.... Overall I think this is probably a good event as it takes that infrastructure away from someone no one seems to like or really trust and puts it in someone's hands that is far more trusted by the Community.
  4. Winnipeg

    Proud Dad

    Ask him to send a spare Million this way
  5. Winnipeg

    Proud Dad

    CISO, not a job I would want... I'm already effectively the "IT Security" guy at work....bleck Congrats to your Nephew though.
  6. Apparently not many canucks playing in TWP these days...or anyone for that matter...the forums are pretty quiet...
  7. What more to say other than, Happy Canada Day!
  8. If you look in the upper centre-right of the photo you can see that white line, could be a shooting star, or a plane, or possibly a satellite, although I bet the exposure time for the photo would have seen a much longer line if it was a sat, and if it was a plane, I think it would be intermittent due to the blinking navigation lights.
  9. Even managed a shooting star in the photo! Nice.
  10. Lethbridge had a Chinook Arch overhead last night, so no stars, shooting or otherwise to be seen. bah! I can't remember the last significant event, be it meteor showers, or aggressive auroras that Lethbridge has had clear skies for.
  11. Yeah, looking forward to chance at least...too bad it's not a little earlier, but at least being in Mountain Time it's Midnight to 2am, so I don't have to stay up too late.
  12. I guess that really depends on what's powering it/providing it with energy to continue...but yes, storms do eventually come to an end. Would be kinda sad though...for most of written history Humans have known Jupiter by the Red Spot, but in a generation or two it there might be no red spot for humans to see.
  13. *sigh*...it feels like we're moving backwards going back to the apollo style space craft. Where are my damn space planes (that are far more reusable than the Space Shuttle ever truely was).
  14. I'm pretty sure that theory calls for a proto-planet hitting earth rather than just a big asteroid...the Giant impact hypothesis calls for a planetary body, similar in size of Mars. That said, it's a theory, and apparently unfalsifiable, as it can be expanded to explain away future discoveries, so who knows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_impact_hypothesis
  15. That's now officially my fav photo of Waterton. The panoramic style made me almost not recognize it.
  16. Those are alot harder to get a good view of compared to the northern ones. I've only seen them from photos taken on the ISS. Even made a video of them like 2 years ago. Three Cheers for Public Domain!
  17. Remind me never to eat one of your cookies....ever.
  18. Don't forget that the Endorsement: 70 line is something that gets parsed by a script WestWind. Probably shouldn't change that to something that's alot harder to parse, unless you don't care about that feature in said script...
  19. I think TWP Flag is steeped in tradition, to change it now is to change TWP quite significantly. When Eli first moved the forums to my hosting, we tried a different flag and it was a very unpopular move. As for more forum skins, I'm not fully opposed but never understood why people wanted multiple themes. Personally I'm much happier with a consistent look throughout the website than to have everyone changing it up willy nilly, or even different looks for each forum. Buttons change places, leading to unpredictability.
  20. Generally speaking Java is cross platform so yes, it should be update 51 for pretty much everyone. http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp That said, you're on Linux, so you may not be running Sun/Oracle Java RE, you might have the OpenJRE and I don't know what their current version is. Or you might not have Java installed at all.
  21. Yeah, I can't just outright block the networks those ones are coming from...block Comcast's IP Range and I bet we'd loose alot of potential players. I don't mind blocking China/Russia/Ukraine/etc. but Western IP Ranges I try to be less....ban heavy on as that's our community base.
  22. Java is evil...if you don't need it, uninstall it. It's the bane of my existence at work...hard to keep up to date, and full of security holes. Current Version is Java 7 Update 51, if you are behind either upgrade or uninstall it. If you have Java 6, GET RID OF IT ASAP.
  23. Well, not completely gone, but at least I've gotten the "guests" to under double digit numbers... I'm off to my mother's for Sunday dinner, so if anything pops back up, those of you that know how to contact me...please do so.
  24. Just banned one network from China that represents 4,194,302 IP Addresses...
  25. Bastards won't go away...keep adding more IPs to the list....
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