Im still around altho more in other forums that this one lately.
Yes my favorite toy was wrecked by a really sloppy little script kiddie. The white-hat hacker site after 5 years drew a concerted effort by black-hats which cracked a hole in the box. WHich wouldnt have been a big deal (usually a "we been here" note then things get patched up) But the kid that slipped in after them couldnt figure out how to use the scripts he downloaded to hide his activities in the logs so he deleted all the directories with logs and configs. Real subtle.
Everything people had on there is still there (except maybe old queued mail Im afraid). The server still limps along so I can forward emails and files if someone needs them. I spent a couple of weeks working thru the stages of grief for my favorite toy. Now due to help from various people it looks like in a month or so I will be back up with a new expensive router/switch and a bigger/better machine. I have registered Dom3minions.com and will be ready to shift to it as soon as we start having some info on maps and file structures that the game might support player creation of.
NO Im not in Dom3 beta but I am having fun with a number of other betas (of course being betas means I cant discuss them due to NDA agreements). Thanks for asking about me though.
OH yeah, searching on "Gandalf Parker" in google or groups.google can be very interesting (and huge). We are lucky that their database only goes back a couple of decades.
Gandalf Parker
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the White-Hat refers to being part of an internet security group where hackers are defined as black-hat, grey-hat, and white-hat. Its purely a coincidence that Im a grey-hat who converted to white.