Pseudo World

As a public service announcement to anyone who still checks LJ that plays the server, the server is not actually down. goldp's isp no longer gives away free static url type thingies so what we've been connecting to won't work, but we can still connect directly via the ip. If you need the ip, which admittedly may change from time to time since it's technically dynamic (but he's usually connected all the time anyway so it'll probably be pseudo-static), send me a msg here on LJ and I'll try to get back to you with it.

Alternately you can ask him directly on irc. We still sit in the old #ow channel on esper.net, although we're not always at the keyboard! We're not ignoring you if you don't get a reply! ;)

If I have a way to contact you other than LJ I'll probably end up sending you the ip that way.

If anyone from back in the day has minecraft but hasn't had access to the server, feel free to request it.

Linux Stuff

I've talked about making the switch to Linux off and on for years now.

At present I'm mostly there. I installed Ubuntu on my old comp and have it set up next to the Windows box. Many things work fine on it, although I did notice that minecraft still does weird crashes on the old comp regardless of OS. I suspect it's the driver issue after all... As such I haven't minecrafted much this week since I've had the Linux box running the entire time. Trying to get use to it and all that. There's some things I like, some things I don't. I may yet attempt other distributions to see if they're suitable for me.

To run the Windows box, I just have to swap a few cords, but there's only a few things I can't use on linux right now (Games aside from Steam - although I have Steam itself on Linux) so the needs to switch over to the other computer which has noisier fans is likely to be limited to minecrafting and games. Although only a small number of my steam games would work on that one as well. >_>

technically if I want to turn the linux comp back into a windows comp all I have to do is swap out the harddrive. I still have the harddrive XP is installed on tucked away. ^^ Doing this I might swap out the other comp's XP drive for a fresh one and go about playing with new installs. It'll just depend on what kind of harddrive that comp takes. If it needs sata drives, no problem - they're easy to get. If it takes IDE... well, that would be a bit harder to locate these days it seems. ^^ Although I do technically have a useable IDE drive - I'd just have to finish backing it's contents up elsewhere before formatting it for an OS.