I came accross this post on GMTristan.com, about crimes related to MMOs. Have a look-see…click HERE. It’s an interesting read.

Do my eyes deceive me? Can this be true? A new D&D edition on the horizon! As a DM which hasn’t yet fully converted to the 3.5 rules, I’m not sure what to think. Then again, who am I kidding, I’m as giddy as a schoolgirl. Any pencil and paper RPG news (not to mention CCG news, look out for future posts) gets me excited, and this is no different.

Just picture this, each hard copy D&D book you purchase will come with an online code which can be redeemed for an electronic copy…nuff said.

Check out the D&D 4th Edition forums here.
Or the official D&D site here.

Anyone interested in trying out this really fun game can go now to MMORPG.com and with your free account, have access to a 3 day free trial of the game. I suggest you do, since you don’t have much to lose.

Check it out here.

Now, if your title has the word “reckon” in it, I reckon that may not be a good thing. Banal jokes aside, this game have the potential of taking over my life if it were to live up to its hype and promises. I have been closely following the development of this game, through its podcasts and devlogs.

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Will 2008 be the year 2007 should have been? Will the new breed of MMOs slated for release in the New Year bring us a fresh new gaming experience? Will they disappoint? Will my spell-check help me write better posts? Let’s take a look, shall we?

I will be taking time to write about some of the games that will be released in the New Year and comment on my impressions, hopes, worries, dismays and general bitching all around. Stay connected and don’t touch that dial. We’ll be back with some insightful rantings.

Go Vote!

http://www.gamespot.com/best-of/?tag=nl.e579

As the year is coming to a close, many things need to get done and done quickly. This of course takes time away from side projects, such as this blog and my new site. In any case, I have discussed many a thing with a few people who want to help and get things rolling. But, at this time, I have decided to take a break so that I can really concentrate on getting things finished up before the new year, especially for work.

My wife is ready to burst at any minute, she’s already dilated. The baby could now come any day now. I would say most of the absolute necessities are done to bring the baby home. I myself am very excited to bring home our latest addition, so until then, I will wait impatiently and try to do the most that I can to make things smooth for her. It’s been a rough and difficult ride, but she’s weathered the whole storm pretty well…more than she gives herself credit for.

The new year will bring forth many new things to the world, especially to my world. A new daughter, a new company, a new project…in many ways, a new lease on life. So I’ll take this opportunity to tell the world that I am looking forward to 2008. This will be the year of changes, new frontiers, great achievements and victories. It’s been a tough year and the end is thankfully near. I’ll be making it worth the wait.

Happy gaming, happy holidays and happy new year!

Thanks — Firedorn

I was FINALLY able to set up a jailed SFTP server. This basically has circumvented one of OpenSSH’s drawbacks as a secure protocol. Normally, a user accessing the server via SFTP can have full read-only access to the entire server. Needless to say, this can be a security risk (a major one at that). What this patch does is restricts a “sftp” user to its home directory and restricts access to SFTP only (i.e. no interactive SSH sessions).

Thanks to Mads Madsen and Minstrel for helping me set up a chroot-ed SFTP server running on Ubuntu 7.10
Check out the Ubuntu guide HERE

Minstrel’s original guide can be found HERE. This might be useful for anyone else running other flavors on *nix.

I have been working on setting up the (hopefully) final home of this blog, along with my MMO Network project. I have a couple of people helping me and we’ll get things rolled out pretty soon.

Unfortunately, since I’ll be providing the hardware and bandwidth, it has taken some time to set the whole thing up. I have pretty much decided on the platform to use, along with the necessary hardware. What remains is getting the server tweaked with all the necessary utilities and services. My somewhat limited experience with Linux has slowed me down, but I have been having a pretty easy time fiddling around with things. Once it’s all decided, clean install, configure and away we go. Until then, my singular audience, you’ll have to be patient.

Thanks and see you soon,

Firedorn

It seems like the gnomes at Blizzard have once again packed together a bunch of features and disguised it as yet another patch. These are probably exciting times for many of Azeroth’s denizens, but alas, I have had my fill, once again, of World of Warcraft. The tedium which is end game has started to wear out my patience. I know for a fact that if I did have more time to give to it, I probably would. But the fact remains that with the amount of time I do have to give to this game, I will get nowhere…and fast.

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