Second…the computer still likes to freeze up on me. The CPU fan has been making some weird noises every now and again, so my guess is that the fan is kicking off every so often and the CPU is overheating and locking up.

Good news is that we have another CPU with a heat sink and fan on it lying around that needs tested. It was overheating in one of our dual processor servers, so we took it out to test it further. It seems as though the thermal paste wasn’t applied enough between the heat sink and the processor and it was overheating as well.

Had to format a drive on my computer to install a fresh copy of Win2k Advanced Server. Once that’s finished, I have some other things I need to throw on the machine for web development.

Eleq sent me the last backup of the Stardock BBS’s TWGS including all of the games we had run the last 6 months or so that it was online. So I have all of our old games…I’ll pick through those and see what I want to put online to open the server with.

It’s possible the server will be back up tonight, however, I may wait until tomorrow since I’ll be messing around with some development stuff on here tonight still.

If any problems start to occur due to my development processes, then I’ll cut them off so as not to disturb the TWGS.

First of all, I’m still busy as a bee with starting this ISP, all of my time and energy has gone into working on this day in and day out and in some cases, night in and night out. Things are starting to come together and soon I’ll have a little bit of free time to put into some TW-related projects.

Next, the WTC is over, the GoodGuys tore it apart. I was given a list of six players to announce as the winners, however I somehow lost those from my ICQ history and do not have them. Either way, the GoodGuys won, I’ll post a list of the GoodGuys team on the WTC page ASAP. This year’s game was very quick and I know there are a lot of upset folk about the whole thing. However, it’s a no-holds-barred game, and that’s how it turned out this year. Hopefully next year, a little more time and organization will be put into it. I wanna thank Poison and MemphisTW for hosting the game for me this year!

Third, this year’s BOTE is coming up real soon…it will begin on July 17th at FEN. All public servers are eligible to send in a team to represent them in one of the best tournaments of the year. More information coming soon!

Finally, the Home Sector TWGS will be back up this week! I have to format my personal computer to take care of some performance issues and the occasional freezing it likes to pull on me. Once that is done, I’ll throw the TWGS up on it and run it out of our ISP office on a T1 connection. The BBS will be back up sometime later, once I make some room for it on a Linux server and get it all setup.. probably sometime in July.

More than likely, I will simply be taking The Lost Traders Tavern down on or about June 22nd. Once I am settled into my new house in PA, and have a broadband connection established, The Tavern will re-launch, and I will open an all new series of games. This should be sometime in July or August.

I just wanted to be safe and hear back from JP before reopening the game.

The reason it’s 9pm tonight is because I will be gone most of the day and evening and won’t have Internet access to be online whenever the game goes back up. I’d like to be around just in case. 😉