Max Torps's blog
Well here I am sitting at the screen (again), drinking coffee (again) and wondering what the hell to type (again).
We had a great night in the corp again. It's fantastic to be able to fly around the area with lots of neutrals to shoot again. Resetting the corp standings was such an excellent move in that respect.
We've also had little to no backlash regarding that except from one or two people in IRON who basically misunderstood stuff.
Anyone who knows us knows we only want pew pew and hate BoB passionately. Hello, get that ok? Hate BoB. Thanks.
Maybe this picture confused the heck out of people, I dunno. It is possible.
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We previously had Terms & Conditions that really didn't offer you as a site contributor much in the way of protection nor you as a site user much in the way of information as to what you could do with stuff.
So, we have come up with the idea of making Creative Commons licensing available for your blogs and guides, should you wish to use them.
In a nutshell, "Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." read the rest of this post»
I thought I'd post this video, courtesy of Ten Ton Hammer before it gets lost in the mists of time as it were.
It relates to this discussion here where devs provide input and listen to the discussion.
Personally, I can't wait for this to happen, it will be a great aspect to the game and like everything else in EvE, a choice, you don't have to walk in the stations.
Note the voices in the video where they see the "high definition" (read Trinity) stations and ask if it was pre-rendered. Cool. 
Since writing this article, Virgin appear to have resolved the port 26000 issues but introduced other traffic shaping measures relating to bandwidth that shouldn't affect Eve gameplay as Eve uses relatively little bandwidth. I'm unsure about the Tiscali situation but reports still get posted on various gaming sites about port blocking and other traffic shaping methods. read the rest of this post»
I've been trawling through the server logs daily while bug fixing the site and been fascinated by some of the logs that show up.
It seems that either a string of infected machines are trying to find vulnerabilities with the server this site is housed on or a deliberate attempt is being made at finding these vulnerabilities.
An example log is here:
Type access denied
Date Monday, 28 January, 2008 - 21:15
User Anonymous
Location http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/admin/webadmin/main.php
Referrer
Message admin/webadmin/main.php
Severity warning
Hostname xxx.xxx.xxx.34
This just started a few days ago and I routinely block the ip addresses in question.
The attempts target varying possible database URLs that luckily, are not web facing on this server. read the rest of this post»
This is a test image in blog content.
You can see the larger version by clicking on the picture.
There is also a gallery here - you can post your own screenshots up too!
It's been a few weeks in coming and still needs a little bit of work doing but it is working at last!
Previously, we had a version of a wysiwyg editor people could use on this site that prevented us using certain scripts to display images.
So today, we've reverted to BBCode which many forum warriors are familiar with and to be fair it's all that is really needed.
After all, we're catering to gamers who play EvE, so it's a mature audience in many terms. read the rest of this post»
An excellent and rather quirky guide to the life of piracy by Two Ghosts and Ridley Tree. Well worth a watch!
The dark side is beckoning...
1 Titan
3 Doomsday Device releases
850 pilots (approx)
1 Cataclysmic Solar Event
So there we are, in our uncontrollable ships zooming off in all directions with a 12 minute delay between issuing a command and the ship responding... Expecations are mounting though, this battle is going to be epic!
Shrike is under attack, he's bubbled and he's near a gate. Wrecks fill the screen as the Doomsday Device culls pilots in the hundreds.
Pilots frantically try to re-enter the system, sometimes only to find themselves in a pod, others have even less control of their ships than before.
Hey all.
This one is quite easy so many of you may actually get it. Or at least stand an excellent chance of getting it right. 
So, it's first come first served!
The prize for this competition is 10 million ingame ISK and 100 ISK on this site which allows greater upload space and higher privileges.
Feel free to register on the site and post your answer. Don't forget to mention your ingame name so we can pay you. What is this a picture of?
This link appeared a couple of days ago but only in the last 24 hours on the Eve-O forums.... http://www.usethepiat.com/dec20bobts.mp3
Have a listen to that...
Now then, there are a number of points of view you can take with this...if I've missed any feel free to post.
1: BoB are crying whaaaambulance at lag and are plotting the downfall of CCP...
2: Goons are impersonating BoB crying whaaambulance at lag and plotting the downfall of BoB and CCP.
