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So, I'm trying to figuring out how to actually play the game. I create my warlord, but I can't seem to find the link that actually goes to the game. Navigating to http://www.redwallwarlords.com/reg/rwl.php directly, but the referrer check prevents me from doing that. And I can't seem to find any link that's supposed to send me into the game itself. Not sure what I'm missing here.

As you all may already know know, the Mayan calendar runs out around this time in 2012. That's only two years away! Now, this could mean that way-back-when some Mayan calendar maker just got bored and said "heck, it's more than 500 years away! I can do it later.." or it could mean the end of all life as we know it. Now, it could be completely harmless, but isn't it best to be prepared just in case?

Call Hardened Structures today to get a quote on your very own 2012 Shelter. Since, no one acctually knows how the world is supposed to end in 2012, Hardened Structure's shelters are prepared to withstand a bit of everything. From atomic war to civil unrest and even Sarah Palin, you will be ready with either an underground or above-ground shelter from Hardened Structures, a world-wide leader in pandering to nutjobs and ripping off the Army Corps of Engineer's logo.

So, recently, I've been contacted by some RWL staff inquiring if I can work on a certain project of theirs. Alas, I'm not at liberty to disclose the project to you folks yet. You see, we're kindof doing this like the former soviet union. If it fails, we will deny all knowledge of it happening.  If it succeeds, you get cool stuff to play with.

I just thought I'd let you all know...


In other news, the location of this location is classified, and this may or may not be spam.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9585

Software Engineering lecture to be specific.

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It's LOL spelled backwards.

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Remember this?
http://www.redwallwarlords.com/forums/index.php?topic=9469.0

There's a whole class of subtle bugs in this game caused by race conditions. That is one of them. Imagen what happens if two warlords (We'll call them The Daughters of Delor and Peace Alliance) attack a third warlord (We'll call him 'Northland Raiders' :)) at the exact same time.  Suppose Northland Raiders has around 10,000 land at the start. Both of the attacks read the warlord info from the database. Then, both attacks run their calculations as if there is 10,000 land. Now, lets suppose that both the Daughters of Delor and Peace Alliance break Northland Raiders. Suppose that they both get 400 Acers in the attack. When the attack code goes to write back to the database, both the instance caused by Daughters of Delor's attack and Peace Alliance's attack will tell the database that Northland Raiders has 9,600 acers of land, and that they have gained 400 acers of land. So, Northland Raider's land will be set to 9,600 Acers, twice, when the real result would have been 9,200 Acers.

The solution to this is something called MySQL transactions. This tells the database to lock one row, so that any pending operations on it must wait for the row to be unlocked. So, in that case, the functions for Peace Alliance's attack wouldn't be called until after Daughters of Delor's attack.

A decant, but not particularly great article on the subject.
http://onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2003/12/18/transaction_pitfalls.html

n/t

Okay... There are just Soooo many topics to read. And they are ALL SPAM... Of course, that's to be expected... But... Yeah.

Maybe I'm just too buzy with finalz to be spamming right now... Meh... It just seems the volume has gone way up.

What a language? You can redefine the type of a class... Um... Yeah, sortof. What I mean is,  you can have a class return a string. Not a method within the class, but the class itself. FUN!

So, this guy in Finland come up with yet another nerd quiz.... http://folk.ntnu.no/vidarhol/quiz/nerd.jsp

So, how well will you folks go? I wonder...

Giving you the rank: Ultranerd. Other nerds tremble in fear!

You scored better than 98% of the people who took this test.

Finally a poll where you not only get to choose the answer, but the question as well.

So, I had the idea for this poll after searching YouTube for 'Viola'. And, no, I cannot name a famous violist.

I knew those varments were up to something!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95c8GXU8_7g&feature=subscription

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Quick, can someone write me a packet sniffer? Like, within the next 8 minutes would be great.