The Counter-Strike: Source LAN party scheduled for this Saturday, May 20th has been pushed back to Saturday May 27th due to a scheduling conflict with Wess. Last week he was unable to join the fragfest and it won’t be the same this weekend without him. Hopefully this will give everyone more time to blockout that date and hone their deagle skills.

Game: Counter-Strike: Source
Date: Saturday, May 27th
Time: 9:00 PM EST (-5 GMT)
Server: game.hak5.org (password: hak5)

Hak.5 LAN parties powered by

We hope to see you in game next week!

–Darren

Good news: The forums are back! Bad news: Disabling the forums didn’t lower CPU usage.

I know it’s PHP that’s using to many cycles and I’ve ruled out wordpress and phpbb so the only thing left is *gasp* blogtorrent. I’m tweaking it now but if I don’t see improvement by tomorrow I’ll be forced to disable the BitTorrent tracker. I don’t mind moving the tracker offsite or outsourcing it if that’s what its going to take to keep things running smoothly. Suggestions very much appreciated.

The forums have been disabled for 24 hours as I try to isolate a CPU usage problem. Until then feel free top drop by #hak5 on irc.hak5.org.

Oh yeah, and the episodes and sketches pages have been updated. I think they look much cleaner.

–Darren

The much needed website upgrades are currently taking place. The normal drill applies, if you notice a broken link I would love to hear about it. I’m currently working on making the episodes page and sketches page much cleaner. Feedback on the new template is welcome. It’s a challenge putting this all together as there are 15 unique elements of the website that need to fit somewhere. Some have pointed out that elements such as the links or donations get lost in the mix and that’s something I’m trying to figure out how to deal with.

I hope your week is filled with technolust,
–Darren