Posted April 09, 2009

Wishbone
Red herring
Registered: Oct 2008
From Denmark

darthcobley
trying to fly
Registered: Oct 2008
From United Kingdom
Posted April 09, 2009
so update 2 will be out in September (i'm just throwing a dart at months lol)

Weclock
The Creeper
Registered: Sep 2008
From United States
Posted April 09, 2009
oh man, couldn't you split update 2 into a couple of different updates.. ?

Petrell
Anonymous User
Registered: Oct 2008
From Finland

Aliasalpha
Once Proud
Registered: Dec 2008
From Australia
Posted April 09, 2009


Reckon I've just seen what did cause it
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/09/2044205&from=rss

Ois
Mr. Eucalypt
Registered: Sep 2008
From Australia
Posted April 09, 2009
I'm partially expecting to see that kind of action classed as 'terrorism' in the near future. The amount of damage, and how far it spreads worldwide can be impressive.

michaelleung
YOU ARE ALL RETARDS
Registered: Sep 2008
From Canada
Posted April 09, 2009

I thought the whole point of the Internet at its inception was to create a redundancy fall-back plan, in case one nuke hit one place, they'd still have everything.

Aliasalpha
Once Proud
Registered: Dec 2008
From Australia
Posted April 09, 2009
Yeah it was but the threat of nuclear devastation has lessned slightly since DARPANET was made, people feel safe putting all their eggs in one basket again. Besides, why pay 20 IT technicians to administer alternate sites in different cities when you can have 1 underpaid guy driving all over the one town whenever the green light on a router turns orange?
Sad to think that it was probably just copper thieves (damn that sounds so D&D doesn't it? Kind of thing you'd get in sigil) that broke the wrong cable
Sad to think that it was probably just copper thieves (damn that sounds so D&D doesn't it? Kind of thing you'd get in sigil) that broke the wrong cable

Wishbone
Red herring
Registered: Oct 2008
From Denmark
Posted April 10, 2009

"Aww, man! Ain't no copper in this stinkin' cable!" :-D
But where are GOG's servers hosted? The company is located in Poland, and as far as I know, their payments go via Cyprus. I'm in Denmark. If I'm routed through San Francisco to get to GOG.com, their servers must be in Alaska or something. I know that the geographical location of routers is not that important, but still...

Aliasalpha
Once Proud
Registered: Dec 2008
From Australia
Posted April 10, 2009
By the look of a whois search, its hosted in montreal or at least iWeb, the hosting provider, is there
Odd information you can get from whois, I now know the location of GOG's Cypress office (even though there's a typo in the city name) including the floor and office number.
Odd information you can get from whois, I now know the location of GOG's Cypress office (even though there's a typo in the city name) including the floor and office number.

Wishbone
Red herring
Registered: Oct 2008
From Denmark

michaelleung
YOU ARE ALL RETARDS
Registered: Sep 2008
From Canada
Posted April 10, 2009

Odd information you can get from whois, I now know the location of GOG's Cypress office (even though there's a typo in the city name) including the floor and office number.
Let's unexpectedly walk in and pretend we own the place.

Aliasalpha
Once Proud
Registered: Dec 2008
From Australia
Posted April 10, 2009
Quite true, surprised I didn't see that myself.
I was briefly overcome with an idea about GOG being such a distributed organisation because its really a shell company for a major international tax evasion scheme hidden under the veneer of a cool game distribution business. I was probably too busy thinking about ways I could cash in on it and didn't proofread
Besides, THEY spelled the city wrong, I can spell the country wrong!
OK I'm in. You're paying for the travel & accomodation though
Post edited April 10, 2009 by Aliasalpha