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Happy Holidays! -DJ Sith- Dec 20 08:22pm -17 comments- |
Happy Holidays from your friends at the Jedi Academy!
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Website Migration -DJ Sith- Dec 14 12:32am -10 comments- |
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Heads up, jedis! In a few hours I'll be migrating this site to a new host. After the site reaches its new home it may take a few more hours for the new DNS records to apply. I'll comment on this post when I've started and once more when it's all done. Thanks, everyone!
Update: If you can read this then the site is resting comfortably on its new server. Woo new hardware! |
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New servers are up -solitude- Nov 19 01:22pm -8 comments- |
We have been kindly provided with new servers by Kaelis. Everyone go over and thank him. 
I've just finished setting them up, and they should all be working. Details can be found here. If there are any problems, drop me a message. |
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Anyone still out there? -solitude- Nov 15 05:46pm -0 comments- |
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Take a look at this.
It's important. |
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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE -solitude- Nov 12 07:23pm -6 comments- |
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We should have new servers this weekend. Stay tuned. |
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BUT WHERE ARE SERVERS? -solitude- Sep 11 07:38pm -14 comments- |
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You may have noticed that as of yesterday, the game servers went down. This is due to the current hosting expiring.
We will be transitioning to a new host soon, bear with us. |
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We need new forums! -solitude- Jul 31 10:50pm -12 comments- |
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As some of you will have noticed, the forums have had a few problems over the last year. However, it has reached a point where we have accepted that our current forum software is reaching the end of its lifespan. Consequently, we need new forums.
However, the JA site has a number of fairly specialised features. Running a hacked up phpBB/vbulletin/smf (or indeed, any current Open Source/commercial software that I am aware of) is not feasible. We basically need a new site built from the ground up. If you have time to dedicate to this, and are interested in volunteering, email me (solitude AT thejediacademy.net) You will need experience in PHP and MySQL. Knowledge of git/svn/version control would be an asset, but is not essential. This is a great opportunity to collaborate on a small software project, and would make a nice addition to any devs portfolio. This should be a fun experience for all involved, and I know we have the talent here to get it done. |
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Well that sure was fun. What the heck happened? -DJ Sith- Jul 24 05:14am -19 comments- |
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That sure was a fun couple of weeks, wasn't it? Here's the lowdown on what happened. At about 9:41 Central US time on July 12 someone logged into the site admin's account, edited a few users, mainly staff members, hall of fame members, and our newest five students. In addition he changed the names of a few classes, defaced a few articles, and deleted our public forums, making our private staff forums public for roughly 12 hours.
Normally I'd shrug this off and fall back on our nightly backups that have been humming along for about five years. Imagine my surprise when I found that these backups weren't running for about a year and my notification systems didn't tell me. I take pride in myself on being a competent IT admin. I work for a datacenter company that prides itself on excellence. My failure in this is inexcusable, and for all of this you have my most sincerest apologies. Thanks for your patience while we fixed things. We've gone through and painstakingly restored as much data as we could and were able to restore our missing news posts, articles, much of our forum content, and users. Here's the bad part:
It's been a real kick in the teeth, but we'll bounce back from this. I want to thank Setementor and Solitude whose hard work and diligence have been key to getting our data restored. Thanks also to everyone who's expressed their concern and support. It's greatly appreciated. I'm ready to answer any and all questions you have about this, but I'll start out with the big one: Who did this? The short answer is "we're figuring that out". The site defacement came from a compromised proxy server at a managed facility, and it's clear that the one who did this has used compromised dedicated servers in the past while snooping around. We have a giant pile of logs to sift through and a few leads on who the guy is. I'll let y'all know |
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When 900 years you reach, look as good, you will not -Hardwired- Jun 21 07:17pm -21 comments- |
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I've been a part of the Jedi Academy for close to 7 years now. Most of that time I have spent as a ranked member, and the last 3 years I have spent as part of the Academy Council.
It's been a awesome ride and I come across some incredible people over the years. But at some point you have to face facts and let someone else have a go. Effective immediately I am resigning as one of the Jedi Academy Council and reverting to a status of retired. After 7 years of working to further the Academy I feel I deserve a break. I know that I leave the Academy in capable hands and it will not suffer any decline in service. We are lucky to have so many dedicated people working with this community. And we are equally lucky to have such a wonderful community to work with. I will however not vanish completely. I will be around on the boards in a daily capacity. Poke in my opinion where I feel it's warranted. That and poke fun at Virtue as I always have. I would like to thank everyone (new and old members) for making my "time in office" memorable and truly learning experience. You guys are the best. I'll see you around. - HW |
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Force Unleashed 2 -doobie- Jun 18 01:02am -7 comments- |
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I never played Force Unleashed besides the demo, but I will readily admit, this gives me a nerd-on... |
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