Alpha Omega (ClanAO) Team Fortress 2 Computer Gaming Clan

Optimus Prime > Jesus

werewolfspider — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:47:58 GMT

Thankless Job

commander gomes — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:37:16 GMT

Seriously, I would like to take the opportunity in thanking all those involved in enabling what we do for fun, the work and effort that goes into it, is amazing. Having started my own server ( not advertising it at all), the work and effort that goes into it, is like having a fourth child, and you guys do it so effortlessly and I would like to truly thank you for the advice and guidance given by LordVader himself, although He could at any point give me more, feel free!. I must say its a thankless job unless you are receiving shed loads of donations, whats the point !, So I say again Thank You, Vader, Enforcers, Moderators for putting the time in, too make my gaming experience bloody brilliant, Commander Gomes. P.S I need a hack for this weeks lottery numbers please pm me with the winning numbers.

It Starts With The Flu

Aldo — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:07:27 GMT

http://www.itstartswiththeflu.com/
What do you guys figure these guize are selling? According to the chans, we has 1 hour to go, let's see what happens.

Kon: Hi

Kon — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:23:01 GMT

Hi
Im Kon
Ive been happy playing in one of ur 2fort elite servers, so i decided to come and check out here :)

a little about myself?.
age 21 with no job, no GF (muhahahah) or dont attend in school yet..(hopefully in January)
:gant-love: hockey...If u know what hockey is, and watch some games, lmk; we could rage stuff about it

I really suck at single player mode games...I really do...I always get lost 5min into the game. I explore like everywhere to look for something that's right in front of me ( ugh)...I could go on and on but meh..

I play
Sc2( if u r good at it, Lmk, we could play some 1v1. ps, dont think im good just kuz i is korean...i suck),
Tf2,
used to play a lot of either L4D, but i got tired of game invites..so i just raged quitted, Borderlands
Sometime BC2..etc..

So, I'll see u guys in 2fort, hopefully in another servers..(I do have a mic, but i dont want to use it...HA)

Lost phone at eletric avenue at a zoo in NY:p

RectalRanger — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:48:28 GMT

So I went to electric zoo when I went on Saturday I immediately lost my phone literally within the first 3 minutes of walking in the concert, and I wasn't even fucked up at all yet, completely sober lol. I had just bought that blackberry bold 4 days before that so I was very angry that I lost it. When I got home the next day I went on my facebook and the person who found my phone went onto my facebook application and wrote on my wall saying he found it and was going to bring it to the police. He ended up bringing it to the lost n' found at ezoo. So I emailed them and told them the story. They got back to me today and said that all items were given to the 25th precinct. So I went there today and the cops were being such dicks but I got my phone back. What a nice person to put a brand new 400 dollar blackberry in the lost n found and post on my facebook about it, what a nice person. What kind of person does that.... someone on rolls lol. I wish I could thank the person but I am not able to trace back who found it.

Yo Yo

Wabbit — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:55:31 GMT

I'm Wabbit, and i just started to Play more often in ya guys servers =] TF2 used to b my favorite game, but now is all about sc2 and bc2 =]

I live in Cali, where our girls are hotter =p

Hope to play with ya all.

I'm literally crying right now!

oh_ate — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:35:47 GMT

I've never laughed this hard at a video ever! This is the best shit ever! The way he compares how stupid the games to other things is GREAT!

Another Competition

Wraith — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:26:22 GMT

I will be gone for a week for another competition. Its the second of a 2 part series to win the all expense paid trip to Singapore to compete over there to represent Team USA. I have a really healthy point lead and I basically just need to not come in last and I win the trip. But Id rather just win by completly dominating this comp. So I will see ya in a week.

Consumerization and Corporate IT Security

Bruce Schneier — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:56:39 GMT

If you're a typical wired American, you've got a bunch of tech tools you like and a bunch more you covet. You have a cell phone that can easily text. You've got a laptop configured just the way you want it. Maybe you have a Kindle for reading, or an iPad. And when the next new thing comes along, some of you will line up on the first day it's available.

So why can't work keep up? Why are you forced to use an unfamiliar, and sometimes outdated, operating system? Why do you need a second laptop, maybe an older and clunkier one? Why do you need a second cell phone with a new interface, or a BlackBerry, when your phone already does e-mail? Or a second BlackBerry tied to corporate e-mail? Why can't you use the cool stuff you already have?

More and more companies are letting you. They're giving you an allowance and allowing you to buy whatever laptop you want, and to connect into the corporate network with whatever device you choose. They're allowing you to use whatever cell phone you have, whatever portable e-mail device you have, whatever you personally need to get your job done. And the security office is freaking.

You can't blame them, really. Security is hard enough when you have control of the hardware, operating system and software. Lose control of any of those things, and the difficulty goes through the roof. How do you ensure that the employee devices are secure, and have up-to-date security patches? How do you control what goes on them? How do you deal with the tech support issues when they fail? How do you even begin to manage this logistical nightmare? Better to dig your heels in and say "no."

But security is on the losing end of this argument, and the sooner it realizes that, the better.

The meta-trend here is consumerization: cool technologies show up for the consumer market before they're available to the business market. Every corporation is under pressure from its employees to allow them to use these new technologies at work, and that pressure is only getting stronger. Younger employees simply aren't going to stand for using last year's stuff, and they're not going to carry around a second laptop. They're either going to figure out ways around the corporate security rules, or they're going to take another job with a more trendy company. Either way, senior management is going to tell security to get out of the way. It might even be the CEO, who wants to get to the company's databases from his brand new iPad, driving the change. Either way, it's going to be harder and harder to say no.

At the same time, cloud computing makes this easier. More and more, employee computing devices are nothing more than dumb terminals with a browser interface. When corporate e-mail is all webmail, corporate documents are all on GoogleDocs, and when all the specialized applications have a web interface, it's easier to allow employees to use any up-to-date browser. It's what companies are already doing with their partners, suppliers, and customers.

Also on the plus side, technology companies have woken up to this trend and -- from Microsoft and Cisco on down to the startups -- are trying to offer security solutions. Like everything else, it's a mixed bag: some of them will work and some of them won't, most of them will need careful configuration to work well, and few of them will get it right. The result is that we'll muddle through, as usual.

Security is always a tradeoff, and security decisions are often made for non-security reasons. In this case, the right decision is to sacrifice security for convenience and flexibility. Corporations want their employees to be able to work from anywhere, and they're going to have loosened control over the tools they allow in order to get it.

This essay first appeared as the second half of a point/counterpoint with Marcus Ranum in Information Security Magazine. You can read Marcus's half here.

More...

I have seen the end. None were spared...

cbale2000 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:05:04 GMT

... not even the children.

So this is the kind of shit that happens to me sometimes in games. It generally results from massive lag or some other bug, but it's always quite entertaining to watch regardless.

You can see the slideshow with all 54 of the screenshots I took of this particular instance here:
http://img39.imageshack.us/slideshow...2fort0054v.jpg

So anyone else have any bugs, glitches or other seriously fucked-up things they've seen, like this or otherwise? Feel free to post them! :-D

Hola LED

Polski — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:38:59 GMT

I think the whole video is great, but the "top" comment is hilarious! :D

For Paradise

werewolfspider — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:48:24 GMT

I'm not quite sure why, but I thought of Paradise while watching this.

What I've been up to

InnerSpike — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:34:08 GMT

So for the past 2 weeks I've put my time into Starcraft 2 for one reason... To complete the entire campaign on brutal.
No easy task obviously. I was having trouble just getting the achievements on hard. So I knew it was going to take a while. Thankfully my roomate actually plays SC2 too and is pretty damn good at it (ranked 12th in diamond in 1v1 and 4th in 2v2). So he said he'd help me with it and give me advice when possible.
There were a few missions that got me stuck (like the one where you steal the odin), but it was the last mission, All In, that took me a good 2 days to finally do. I tried it without the nidas worm and also without the air. When all was said and done, it took me 9 tries total to beat the last mission on Brutal and finally finish the campaign.
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So yeah... Thank God lol

InnerSpike

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Downtime

Tyrant Joe — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:09:56 GMT

So I moved up to my college apartment last week, and the first thing I did when I got my PC hooked up was swap out the PSU with my roommate's to see if it was bad. Turns out I got the same problem with his PSU, so I'm sure now that it's the motherboard. However, when I put his PSU back in his PC, something happened with his video card and it broke. It still works in safe mode albeit with some major issues, so I gave him my video card and have been using his broken one. This is enough to get internet and such, but I won't be able to play games until he gets a replacement card and I can get mine back.

sowwy guise

Conducting an experiment on myself.

Blue — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:15:51 GMT

My absence from the forums has been rough. My absence from TF2 has been difficult, but today while taking a shower i thought of something... is this kind of what an addict goes through during withdrawal? It feels pretty shitty, but when i thought about it, i was still playing starcraft2 and still using the internet daily...

The other night I was reading about some researchers who were locking themselves in cabins in the mountains (miles away from a power line) for a week to see if their brain chemistry would change, since all of them sit in front of a computer all day and have been since the 90's (older then a good portion of the people reading this). There was some anecdotal observations by the researchers that they felt more focused and at ease without the machines. Like time was slowing down and smoothing out. They were less rushed and less stressed, and were generally happier.

I think part of me needs to know what that feels like. If any part of me can even feel it. So as such, starting today i'm taking the power cables out of my Computers, TVs, ipod/ipads and cell phones and locking them away with someone i trust for a week. Just to see what happens to me.

That's a full week at home, but no technology. Sure we go on trips and vacations without our beloved machines, but do we ever spend a week or two without them while sitting in front of them, powered off? Do you think you could do it? The most entertaining thing you could do is hang out with a friend or read a book. If your friends are busy and you hate to read to stare at a wall until you pass out.

Could you do it? Can I even do it? I wonder... I'll report back on my results next weekend.