i think Scampies news submission CERTAINLY qualifies as news! 

these last two posts are examples of news submissions that were rejected. Whenever a news submission is rejected, they become normal posts in the GA thread. Anyone have a problem with this? 

bleh 

reject me! i am un-newsworthy! 

i released a map beta which nobody cares about becuase it's a box room with 4 quads. 

I put up a website which has no reviews, just a crappy html thing with a 300k logo. 

that worked. 

Excuse me people, is this the department of floral decor? 

the link for 'last 25' doesn't work. it links to http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=1&start=-24 key part of that being the "start=-24" part which is incorrect and seems to refer to post# -24 and not post# (totalposts - 24) like I believe you're trying to accomplish. 

it seems that Opera can't log in correctly, but I can still post as myself. 

would it be possible for the news items to say how many new posts there are in them? 

Scampie: Okay, that explains why you keep posting anonymously :)

As for the "last 25" link, it works for me. Very strange.

necros: Yes, i could do that. 

okay, i guess it was only broken when you're logged out. Works now. 

Due to excessinve spam I've changed my email address (the old one was just becoming unuseable).

So this is the new and current email address to use:
d@planetquake.com

No one loves me and I never get any email anyway so I guess no one cares. But if you ever do need to mail me (to shout abuse, or tell me I'm a loser) that's where to send it. 

When we want to abuse you, we do it here. :) 

omg there is a cube icon.. /me hugs metlslime 

that's just a placeholder until i can come up with one that sucks less. :) 

so how does news posting work here? I just submitted some news but it doenst come up, does it get stored somewhere for approval or cant everyone make news? 

new submissions have a 'pending' status where they wait to be approved or rejected by a moderator. There's more info on the "site" page, but maybe i should repeat that info on the submit news page. 

are there plans for some kind of random title if there isn't one present in the box? 

yeah I figured it was something similar to the way Peej 'n' Frib used to work but thought I'd ask anyway (I didnt read the site page). Sorry, I was just used to posting news at qmap I guess :) 

 

sheesh. sure a lot of tips and stuff you're giving metl. site is improving considerably. 

So after like, five years, I finally decide to get something better than the little steamengine that I currently use...
Anyway, I have come to something along the lines of this: (Hope the lines aren't too long, and anyway it'll all be screwed up because I forgot how to use the q tag)


AMD Athlon XP2600+ 2.083 GHz 333 MHz bus Socket A (Thoroughbred)
Asus A7V8X/LAN/GD Hovedkort Socket A DDR VIAKT400, ATA/133, ATX, USB2.0, 8X AGP
TwinMOS PC3200 DDR-DIMM 512MB CL2.5 Memory 184-P (for DDR-PC400MHz)
Asus V9280 GeForce4 Ti4200-8X 128MB DDR AGP, (V9280/TD) DVI, Tv-Out
Western Digital Caviar 120GB IDE 7200RPM Special Edition 8MB cache WD1200JB
Suntek Miditower TH-656 Silver Case w/300W P4 / AMD
Creative Soundblaster Audigy Player Soundcard PCI with Firewire
Pioneer DVD-player IDE 16x/40x Slot-in (DVD-106S)
LG 19" CRT F900P TCO-99 Flatron screen USB
GlacialTech CPU-fan Socket A/370/FCPGA Igloo Silent Breeze to 1,4GHz/ XP2700+
Logitech Cordless Optical Mouse SE Wireless mouse USB/PS2
Keytronic keyboard KT2001 Ergoforce USB
Logitech Z-540 (Speaker), 4.1, 4 Satelites and Subwoofer


Comments? Anything I should change? Recommendations?
Budget isn't too much of an issue thankfully, since I've been saving up for a long time now... 

czg, perhaps consider ATI Radeon 8500, they're faster than the ti4200's but do have some compatibility problems with older games (ie maybe quake). Worth looking itno though.