What's happened on Fibs?

[PortWine]

Can biggles and burper repeat what they just said because I am confused?

I also think that everyone should keep whining about Patti because that is the only way to show gratitude!  I never see her online so she must have a life and maintains FIBS out of the goodness of her heart.

There is a great quote from the movie "A Few Good Men" that fits:

Col. Nathan R. Jessup: You see Danny, I can deal with the bullets, and the bombs, and the blood. I don't want money, and I don't want medals. What I do want is for you to stand there in that faggoty white uniform and with your Harvard mouth extend me some f*&%ing courtesy. You gotta ask me nicely.

And by all means, please continue to whine!

[burper]

And plenty has been achieved here - this is all quite exciting  

Right diane, the most popular fibster is waiting for an improvement that he personally can make use of.

[juggler]

Hi,

I only hear today that Patti temporarily banned all Italians... that's funny. I didn't even know that it is possible (what defines "Italian" in cyberspace? Yes, yes... *.it . But that's neither sufficient nor complete.)  

Would anybody bother to detail what happened? Apparently, some have talked to her. Why was such an extreme measure taken? Should we be happy that she's not the president because otherwise she would have bombed the country ;-) ? Didn't she learn from the T-online disaster? Does our Donna Quichotte still think that she can win her lone crusade against PC zombies? This all doesn't make sense to me.

Regards, Peter

[PortWine]

Another constructive comment.  Juggler, do you volunteer for any anything, and if so, do people make snide remarks about how you perform your function in return for your alturistic actions?

I really don;t know Patti at all, but I think all anybody is entitled to is a refund of the money they have paid to play in FIBS.   :imwithstupid:  

[webrunner]

Actually Juggler, you can request a location of an IP address, on f.i. Ripe website.

[MND]

I dont understand, Why the managger have banned all here in italy instead of  just banned the offender?

Probably because the offender has been switching IPs a lot, and she has become fed up with the goose chase. But it's just speculation. You have to email her to find out. The truth is out there.

You dont have to switch ip-number by ourself. You may get a new ip-number every time you connect, have the same ip-number every time you connect, or the ip numbers may switch among the users, the internet provider have.
Thats up to the internet provider.
MND

[burper]

just thought i would point out, that if you are ever blocked, there is always parlorplay.
perhaps some kind souls with decent servers out there could set up  some telnet proxies

[diane]

Hey - then maybe if webrunner sets up that thing i didnt understand regarding port something or other - this could be a way round  

port 4321 that was it !!  Would it help??  

[klic]

Last time, when Patti blocked t-online users for alleged virus contamination, they obviously blocked the accounts, not the ip range, as I was blocked even while connecting via parlorplay.

[burper]

So by using parlorplay, do we train our boss to block accounts only, not whole ISPs?

[socksey]

from burper:

I don't know why everyone thinks I'm being sarcastic all the time... /QUOTE]

Because YOU ARE!  YOU KNOW YOU ARE!  Stop trying to deny it!   Hey, I was raised by the KING OF SARCASM, so, you can trust me.  I know my sarcasm!  

socksey




A report says high school students aren't very good with American history. It's pretty shameful. On a recent test, a majority of seniors thought Lincoln's Gettysburg address was ALincoln@gettysburg.com..."

[burper]

okay then. tell me this. am I any good at it?

[socksey]

Why, yes, I believe you are!  

socksey




"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been
times like these." - Paul Harvey

[juggler]

[...] to create another, new FIBS, run by the community... The only thing is, traffic has to be payed for. I don't know the monthly traffic FIBS has, so I don't know how expensive this might be

[...]

Now for traffic. Again, this doesn't tell you everything you need to know, but on fibs, there is a stat command:

> stat
The server is running since Wed May 12 03:18:00 UTC.
-763101010 bytes sent.
324476524 bytes received.
-763518953 bytes sent immediately, 417943 delayed, 544 discarded
1408575412 bytes would block
704287706 bytes failed. 6633096 selects failed
[...]

Hi burper,

the days when you could count traffic in 32 bit values are over ;-)... the negative numbers indicate an overflow, so the traffic can be anything.

The root server that I am currently renting ( http://www.schneiderp.de ) would certainly suffice to run fibs on it, 39 Euro/month, 100 MBit connection to a well connected (as I believe) provider,  and 250 *G*B traffic. I don't think FIBS comes over this high water mark. I had one power failure in many months there, uptimes were hundreds of days. The advertisement is here: http://www.hetzner.de/entry.html.

This offer is good, but I believe that you can find similar ones also in America. The physical location is only interesting with respect to ping times; it is unclear to me which continent would be optimal.

It would probably be nice to have a dedicated machine for FIBS that doesn't run much more than FIBS, for two reasons: 1. Less vulnerability -- since the server is exposed to a not always benign community, one must expect more attacks than with a "Here is my homepage" server; and 2. Constant good response times which may not always be the case if other projects are running on the same machine.

To sum up, it's neither a technical nor a financial problem.

Regards,
Peter aka the juggler

[aram]

Here is a fast translation of the mail sent in Italian by affirmed.

Aram

---
Dear Claudio_first,
here I will tell what really happened.

I had two nicknames deleted, they had arrived in a very short time to 2000 and 1900 rating.
Then I asked Patti why and she answered that she saw some suspect resigns.
That's probably true, someone was in a hurry and resigned and I accepted: she told me that resigns are not to be accepted.
That evening we talked for about three hours.

Later I created a nick, "affirmed", note that italians already could not play each other so I mathematically could not have any help from anyone. Sure, you could tell me I may have friends all over the world that give me points as a present, but this is just sophism. I got to 1850 with 150 exp and two saved games, the last one was vs Piuma (*AK note: I know personally Piuma*) and I won 7-0 and after that nothing, darkness, deleted again. Then I got upset and I wrote her in the private chat a series of bad words and in the end I told her: "shoot to yourself, idiot".
Maybe I exaggerated -surely- and I publicly apologize, I am sad for those who at the moment cannot play.
I wanted to tell how things went even because I heard that I threatened her by email, this is what she is saying.
I never threatened anyone, even less I threatened her for such a stupid thing where right is 100% on my side.

I conclude saying that she is good with bad words as well, even though it is still nothing compared to what we can read daily into the public chat.

I hope for you all that she soon will re-open the site and reassure her telling her that I could never enter again in such a discriminating game.

I greet you and I am really sorry for the event.

PS: unfortunately here if one plays well he doesn't get rewarded but banned. Ciao!

[Chris]

Now for traffic. Again, this doesn't tell you everything you need to know, but on fibs, there is a stat command:

> stat
The server is running since Wed May 12 03:18:00 UTC.
-763101010 bytes sent.
324476524 bytes received.
-763518953 bytes sent immediately, 417943 delayed, 544 discarded
1408575412 bytes would block
704287706 bytes failed. 6633096 selects failed
[...]

Funny command. The difference after 5 hours and 23 minutes was 111 MB sent and 2.2 MB received. Would mean about 15 GB per month.

This offer is good, but I believe that you can find similar ones also in America. The physical location is only interesting with respect to ping times; it is unclear to me which continent would be optimal.

[...]

To sum up, it's neither a technical nor a financial problem.

No, just one about manpower  
Since we are playing backgammon and not counterstrike, ping is a minor problem.
(So no big problem with fibs in California and bots in the Netherlands for example)
But if you are interested in the geographical distribution, http://fibsleagammon.free.fr/stats.htm and especially http://fibsleagammon.free.fr/fcountry.php will give you some hints. About 60% from Europe, 30% from North America and 10% from the rest of the world.