Inoue Katsu

The night club raid in 2008 with foam rounds. The baby fur 'raid' and extremely hasty retreat also in 2008. This is still a textbook case on how to de-ass an area with 15-20 people in 5 seconds. Only a select few will remember those .. but omg were there a lot of hurting cheek bones that night.

*hugs* That really sucks, sorry for your loss.

I re-captured a number of facilities yesterday just by sitting still on a roof till everyone ran off to the next hotspot. Also had a very good run as a medic together with another medic, we infiltrated and took down all but the central shielding in the zaruva(or something) place after it had been taken over by those purple bastards. This allowed other infantry to roll in and re-take the place. Though it almost feels that when this game comes out of beta, that the map will be too small.

I've single handedly ripped a few armoured columns to shreds though.. those ground defensive turrets are rather powerful and so are the AT launchers, just keep running behind something or run to different turrets like an annoying little bugger.. >.> Sure I've seen the occasional transport get shot down but usually only when they fly in when there's already a lot of air activity, when there is hardly no air assets people abandon the AA turrets because they want to go shoot stuff.

Teamwork works best. I've also noticed that the most successful captures have been landing a transport plane on top of a building and setting up a spawn point, having 1 or 2 engineers running around it and repairing it. Every point I was at that was lost was lost in that manner. Attacking tanks can be too easily destroyed by people re-spawning as heavy infantry with launchers, and the tanks take longer to get back there then a ground trooper. Mobility and teamwork are key.

those VS MAX's are friggin tough .. when i'm in a max i get killed in like 2 or 3 seconds .. but i can empty multiple clips into those VS ones and they just keep going .. I guess thats why they got so many of em, every defeat ive seen was caused by getting overrun by those max units.

I play whatever is needed >.> Engineer when theres lots of broken stuff or Im on base defence (had a 4 hour battle over some citadel yesterday) Medic during an assault with a lack of medics .. anything else depending on whats out there.. just not infiltrator because that rifle smells.

What outfit chat ?

Where's everyone meeting up then, every time i hit f11 i end up in some 2 man squad

Now if only people started working together :-)

I want to learn how to fly lol .. but theres no area you can freely rez vehicles to learn how they work

Yea I know.. when i logged in first the TR had like almost half of the map .. then a lot of VS logged on and started working as a team . within an hour they had more then half of the map, pushing the TR and NC down to about a quarter of the map in height. They worked as teams and everyone else just ran around. When me and some other guy took the turrets in some outpost and started taking out aircraft and vehicles suddenly more of our own troops started showing up and it didnt take long to secure the area .. The thing that I found most difficult is actually spotting an enemy, especially once it got dark. Enemy turrets did not really seem hindered.

I killed quite a few people and shot down a number of planes / tanks .. also died a lot at times .. we got overrun by a huge number of those blue people.. I also noticed a severe lack in team play kinda .. everyone just runs around on their own.

Im on there as Inoue .. but then dinner was ready before i could figure most stuff out :P haha thats very possible .. i thought i heard someone jumping while i was going through the settings :)

You can get a beta key if you subscribe to IGN. Beta might go public on the 7th or 9th .. not sure So where is everyone at and what faction ? I'm downloading the beta now :-)

I remember iron man showing up and running straight into there .. I also remember Diablos insulting his commander on the whatever flavour treaty group we had back then .. I still wish I had a recording of our vent when that happened, it was brilliant... this 2 second silence when everyone was re-reading what he actually said and then the whole channel erupting. Too many brilliant moments with Keno too, quite often Aryte would log in and there'd be this huge robot / structure sitting somewhere in the sim that he built while all the US people were sleeping. Then there was Keno's dad .. :]

Trying to get my hands on a key .. but keep running into dead ends or sites that seem to be giving away trojans instead .. pretty sure downloading an EXE in an encrypted Zip is not the way to get a beta key ..

Haha Kitsy isn't scary :P Just scary for those who broke the rules :-) I got chased out of SWG by SOE with their 'NGE' and needed somewhere else to hang out :-) got shot by the AN 30 minutes after my first logging in to SL because I landed on their Tethys airfield with a friend, then another friend was like 'hey you should join this AN2 thing that I'm in' and I've been around since then. I remember we bought our own guns before the VAR, you only got armor if you were in a certain group if I recall correctly.. Whats missing is Fega's mamba / raptor that dominated the sky and ground. That used an e-mail server for authentication and that frustrated people so often I made a web based version, then at some point Steff (only old people know that name :P) was like 'it would be nice if we could see who was on sim' and then Mercury was born pretty much. This was somewhere in 2007, exact date is unknown but I believe it was somewhere in the 2nd half. It was after we moved from Venuma to Macaroth. Being European I spent a lot of time guarding the sim on my own or with the occasional sleep deprived member against griefers and the occasional straggler, also finding Aryte and most of the officer staff scary.. Victory was achieved by keeping the other people out of your sim so spawn camping was a regular practice. SLMC was pretty much a semi organized group of griefers back then when you think about it :-)

waiting on beta still in europe.

Its been a while since I've had anything happen worth mentioning, but after some internal drama and vacation time here's something you'll run into a lot especially if you are the mail system BOFH.. Yes, for e-mail systems you will need to be BOFH, not just 'Administrator'.. People take e-mail for granted and do not realize the difference between an enterprise e-mail system and something ISP's provide. So somebody called me and told me "I'm trying to send this 20MB attachment to somebody else in the building and its not letting me." The first thing I said directly afterwards is 'e-mail is not intended for those kinds of attachments .. who are you trying to send it to and don't you have a shared network folder that you both have access to ..' After explaining to this guy that we have this amazing thing called a 'file server' that 'serves files' to everyone in the building it turned out that he was trying to send a file -from- a folder that was specifically named and purposed for storing files for that whole department, to somebody who was also in that -same- department... Then he goes "But it is so much easier to open it from the e-mail.." This is the point where I go: I told him that: 'if i would allow him to send that 20mb e-mail, the recipient would have an overflowing inbox because of a size limit, has to spent time cleaning said indox, spend time calling ME asking for a bigger inbox, complain about having to do too many inbox cleaning to their manager and the resistance from IT to increase said inbox size and sending limit, then said manager spends at least an hour or 2 lobbying with other managers to see if anyone else complained about the same thing, then spend another hour during a staff meeting raising said issue to top management, then top management having to go to IT asking why we did not increase the maximum file size, then IT(me) having to spend 30 minutes explaining to top management about how e-mail servers have less disk space then a file server that is meant to serve files, how it would lead to file decentralization and multiple versions of the same file floating around the network and how bad that would be when decisions would be made based on the wrong version of a file that somebody said was done, then top management has to raise this again in the next staff meeting to the other managers and then back to the employees. And all that just because you think it is easier to read an e-mail instead of browsing to a folder, do you have any idea how many man hours and money it will cost this company if I let you send that e-mail ?' After a few seconds of stuttering and silence he goes 'I'll just send them a link to the location.' yea you do that .. Just to spread some mail server management experience.. For maintaining e-mail systems there are a few things you need to do: - Build your own system from scratch so you know how it works! If you start somewhere that has a running system that is relatively new and not scheduled for replacement, grab an old server or desktop (or 2 desktops if the production mail server has more then 1 physical server or install vmware on the old server), install the same OS on it (screw licensing) and try to build your own replica of the production environment. This will help loads with troubleshooting because you'll know all the crap e-mails have to pass through to get from A to B. - Read up on what problems others are having. Dig through forums and mailing lists and find out what makes your mail system cry. If said problems are related to a combination of settings, check said settings on your system and find out if there are side effects to changing said settings and raise an issue to possibly change them. - Do the 'don't do this' things on your test system just to see what kind of symptoms they cause and then try to fix it. - Especially if you run an Exchange server, it will DIE horribly if you run out of disk space! Take the biggest allowed attachment, multiply that by the number of users, then that multiply by 10 if you have ~200 users (probably 30 for 500 users) and that is the minimum disk space you need to have available at all times. If it gets to that point you are possibly in deep shit as a single idiot e-mailing a maximum size attachment to the *whole* company and then getting a bunch of people -replying- to said e-mail with the attachment still attached will kill your server and give you lots of overtime hours. Rule # 1 of sysadmining is that overtime caused by planned upgrades or unforeseen events is OK, overtime caused by stupid users or failures that could have easily been prevented is TOTALLY NOT OK! You want to be doing fun things outside of work. There needs to be a trigger for any mail system that when disk space runs low on its storage, it needs to stop all input! Thankfully there are e-mail systems other then exchange that handle attachments more smartly, I use GroupWise that will just store an attachment once and let everyone who its been sent to access that 1 file. But any mail server *will* die possibly beyond repair when it really runs out of space. -Overspec your server BADLY, give it at least raid 6 (2 disk failures) or better, plenty of ram and CPU power. The #1 thing people complain about is slow e-mail and no internet access. Your core applications can be down for 15-30 minutes before somebody will call, if your internet or e-mail is not working it takes 15-30 SECONDS before all your phone lines lite up. Beefy e-mail server will also be able to deal with stupid people generating tons of e-mails (see my first post:P) and not bother other people all that much. -Research anti spam methods, do NOT rely on commercial sales talk when it comes to anti spam. Dig around the internet for terms like 'Bayes / Grey listing / SPF / different RBL lists / every possible plugin that spamassassin can work with' We've been using an opensource scanner called 'MailScanner' for years, fully loaded with multiple RBL's, automatic bayes learning, multiple virus scanners (this is IMPORTANT! never -ever- trust a single AV, use 2 or MORE! We have 3) blocking anything executable virus or not, archive scanning etc and all this is shielded off with a greylisting MTA that blocks about 25000 spam e-mails out of the 27000 that are attempted to be delivered daily. Grey listing is an important tool to keep your scanner load low and your e-mail flowing. Do not do anti spam and virus checks on the e-mail server itself, it needs to worry about handling your e-mail so leave it alone! this leads to: -Never -ever- hook your main corporate mail server up directly to the internet .. your e-mail server is a primary target for all the bad people and a holder of lots of sensitive data! You can even go as far as to firewall it separately and not allow it access to the Internet at all other then traffic to a webmail server and the gateway server(which is where you do your anti spam/virus). -Have backups and possibly archiving that allow single item recovery(with deduplication, especially for Exchange) that your users can access. Your users will throw away important e-mails and ask you to recover them, especially staff members who go on vacation tend to clean our their inbox before they go, then come back afterwards and figure out they deleted too much. And last but not least: -STICK TO YOUR SIZING POLICY AND MAKE SURE IT IS A STRICT ONE! All the mail boxes filled together should not fill up the whole system. Only give people more space if they can come up with valid reasons why they should have a bigger inbox, but when you do make sure you act hesitant tell them it usually does not happen. That way they will appreciate you more yet do not think it is easy to get their inbox size increased and in turn they stop deleting e-mails they do not need anymore.

Behold the Nokia 6310i! THIS is the most amazing phone ever! You'll have perfect reception where smart phone users are standing in weird postures to get a signal. - 9 days of stand by time still after 12 years of use. - Infra red, blue tooth connectivity, gprs modem. - Boots in 4 or 5 seconds top. - No fancy shit that can break like camera's, touch screens etc etc. I frequently use this phone still to make fun of other people in poor reception areas. For work and as a gadget toy I have a HTC Sensation, works great as a wi-fi router or sniffer. Running an ice cream sandwich custom rom (android revolution) Apple just does not feel right for me .. too closed, too driven to take your money. Tablets are useless unless you're in to home automation or are getting things like newspapers and/or books in a digital format. They are only around because they can't make touch screen phones any bigger (Sensation is already too big to be a good phone) to make things more pleasantly readable. They cost more then a laptop which in turn can do a *lot* more then a tablet. The whole 'saves paper' thing is bull shit as paper trees can be regrown more easily then all the raw materials needed for a tablet, paper is also not made by 8 year olds. Windows 8 shall not be named further or I will make Mercury hate you. It needs to stay on tablets and tablets only or baby Jesus will cry. MS already acquired a touch screen manufacturer .. (if you didn't see that coming ..)

If they allow PC FPS players on the same game as PS3 players, the PS3 players are going to get buttfrustrated rather badly.

otter's cant(shouldn't!) stay away too long!

You're all figments of my imagination .. Either that or Mercury has already taken over and we live in some kind of computer simulation while our bodies are being used as living batteries.