Updates:

2008-06-20

Custom Radio buttons

As part of animenage I've played around with some custom form elements, this is what I finished with.

A huge thankyou to this article, Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, Select Lists, Custom HTML Form Elements by Ryan Fait.

I may put together a project page for it, but in the meantime, feel free to look at the source.

2008-06-08

Been banned

Here is a conversation with one of the helpful admins at Internode:

Still having no luck trying to join the servers.

If its any help, I think I was banned getting on almost 2 months ago, and it was for something petty. IIRC, I was taking the piss over something someone said, somehow they managed to mistype "No worries" and it came out "No wuckers". I was banned with no warnings from an admin, and probably only 2 minutes after I started doing it. At the same time, a friend was doing the same, and he got banned as well. I can check with him if his key is still banned (I think he has bought another). I was waiting a month before I did anything, believing that if the person who said it was an admin, they'd be kinda annoyed. A 1 month ban would be harsh enough, but obviously it isn't , and I'm completely banned.

I'd really like you to look more into this for me, largely because I barely play any other servers, apart from Internode. As well, my mates have stopped playing on any Internode servers, due to 2 of us being banned, and we can't join them if they're playing.

Thanks for your time

ctrl_freak

Hi ctrl_freak

Your guid has been banned from all Internode COD4 servers for being racist,Internode Games Network has a zero tolerance policy in regards to racism and as such this ban was permanent. But as a result of your appeal, I requested a complete review of your ban. The overall result has turned out in your favour. Please be advised That if you do anything close to it again the ban will be permanent.

Your GUID has been unbanned and you are free to play on our servers.I suggest you read the rules thoroughly in the following links to avoid being banned in the future. here and the CoD4 specific rules here.

Regards,

CoD Admin Team

Fortunately I'm not racist. I would never have said anything racist.

The real reason I was banned was for laughing at what I thought was a typo, (but actually turns out its not) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=no+wuckers

Not to be unthankful, but maybe you should talk to whoever banned me and get them to classify their bans better, I would have chosen "- Excessive swearing or verbal abuse", although unintended, as the reason for the ban.

I can only assume that for the admin to justify the instant ban, he would have had to classify it under one of the following:
- Cheating
- Racism
- Admin impersonation
- Linking or making specific references to cheat/pornographic/shock or innapropriate websites via in game text or player name.

Never was I warned, which I would have quickly and willingly adhered to if I knew my actions were in breach of the rules.

Thanks for your time, effort and patience in dealing with this matter,

Hope I won't ever have to talk to you again Wink

ctrl_freak

2008-01-25

Our connection is still currently on PPPoA VC-MUX, which means the connection isn't the best at some times. I've tried swapping it back to PPPoE, but it still wasn't working. I'll need to ring the ISP soon. I've also softlinked the forum theme to the main site theme and editied the template files. It's still being worked on, but its getting close to matching. This will make updating the whole site easier in the future. (btw, I edited the forum files over SSH with vim, don't do it -- trust me.)

2008-01-20

I've renamed the server from sgate to cronus, I thought Greek Mythology would be cool, and the cronus story sort of mirrors the life of the laptop which the server is running on.

2008-01-19
01:32am

I've managed to convert a design idea I had, from a PNG in Fireworks, to a working HTML/PHP and CSS page in a few ungodly hours, so here you have it -- a new design.

2008-01-19

It seems Telstra has been messing with the exchange, or our modem died, or both. Either way, the server was down for a day, but now with a brand new (stable) modem, website uptime should be much higher...