More info: http://www.air-stream.org.au/aslan



ASLAN is a much smaller LAN than, for example, Valhalla and as AS members have plenty of leeching opportunity all month round these LANs are much more about gaming.

As you can see there's some definite sifnt favourites on the list above, and I'm sure with input from a largish group such as ours I'm sure we could introduce other games that would be of interest .

Who's keen?

As you may be aware I shifted sifnt to a new host a couple of months, but I've noticed for the last couple of weeks that performance has been quite poor so I've run a couple of tests comparing it to it's old host (My home ADSL connection) and another host I've had on standby in the US for a while now, and here's the results of my non-scientific test:

Current Host:



Old Host (Flexo on Internode ADSL):



Standby Host (East-coast USA, great performance shouldn't be expected):



So, apparently my current host is performing on par or *worse* than my ADSL, and the standby host is decent. This certainly wasn't the case when I first signed up 2 months ago, at that time I was able to max out this ADSL connection (~2.3MB/s). My guess is that their service has gotten very popular and they've been oversubscribing like crazy.

I'm considering ways to test the overall performance of sifnt if I were to move it to my US host, but it's a pretty big task. For now I'm going to try to move the sifnt file-hosting there and see how it goes.

Hopefully the current host get's their act together and starts improving performance at some point!

If you're still stuck in the Web 1.0 (i.e. you're not on Facebook), that's ok, but it means you probably haven't heard.

It will be at 2pm at Heritage. Come along!

Hi All,

Klaire is organising a bit of ten-pin bowling to celebrate me getting older. [strike]Most sifnt members[/strike] Tim and Anton should have received an SMS from Kemuel stating that it was to be held tonight, but as no-one has bothered to RSVP except Kemuel (To say he wasn't going to be able to make it..... or can now???) I'm moving it to Sunday night instead.

So the raw:

- ~7:00 Sunday, 30 May, 2010 (Time to be confirmed, I'll update this once I know for sure)
- Ingle Farm Bowland
- All welcome (But please state your intentions in this thread so I know how many to expect )!

See you there!

Sam.

-edit: kemuel edit

Sam and I have been discussing the possibilities of heading out to the marksman firing range in the city for another round of shooting.
So I am posting a thread here to guage interest for booking purposes, and also to ask peoples preferences as to which day would suit them.
At this stage I am thinking either a friday evening, or a saturday afternoon sometime. So let me know what you think and I will get onto arranging a date.

Cheers.

Poll.

It's on tonight folks!



Initial Interests Anyone??

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Where: The home of the {sifnt} LAN; Ridgehaven SA.
When (Let us know which of these dates is best for you):

- Friday 9/4/2010 (Tonight)
[strike]- Saturday 10/4/2010
- Friday 16/4/2010
- Saturday 17/4/2010[/strike]

Vote in the Poll (Select the best two dates for you)!

I think we should try a human-only game free-for-all of original TA, just to see how it stands up to the test of time.

I'm thinking tomorrow night (Thurs)? Who'd be in? Or is another time better?

Since website the upgrade, and then the subsequent server move, a few people here have broken avatars. In a week old.sifnt.net.au (Which was used to make avatars from the old forums keep working) will also be shut down for good, so those avatars will be broken too.

If you see that your avatar is a broken image, feel free to replace or remove it. If you notice that your previously working avatar is no longer showing up, don't be offended, it just means I removed the broken image for you...feel free to put back something hosted on the File Store (The File Store URLs *should* never break (Assuming I own the sifnt.net.au domain)).

To use *any* image uploaded to the File Store as an avatar, simply append "-100.jpg" (As in 100x100 pixels; 100x100 also works. Actually there's lots of little fancy resize and reformat shortcuts I should probably document some day...) to the end of the image name and it'll automagically fit itself to a 100x100 square, for example:



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Nope, I don't support resizing animated gifs just yet...maybe one day

Peace.

I've added a mobile theme to the forum as well as a mod which detects the browser of a visitor. If you use the sifnt Forums with a mobile device you should have already noticed the change.



Enjoy!

Wow, the resolution of the N1 really is insane, isn't it!