News items from Mar 2002


Email downtime

The email system on Molotov will be going down for upgrades at 10pm on Sunday, 7th April. This only affects you if you have a Molotov account and use it for email. No email should be lost, and all other services will continue without interruption. We expect email to be back up and running by 11pm. If you have any concerns about this, please email me.

details

Fun, Games and Security

Our open source project, Lightbikes 3D is progressing very nicely at the moment, and while it may be hard for coders to join the team at this stage, we would welcome anyone interested in developing levels, playtesting, etc. – just ask on #lb3d on our IRC server.

As you may well be aware, security is a big concern for any publicly visible server, such as Molotov, and our new technical “dude”, Phil Stoneman, has been keeping Molotov up to date with all the latest security relases for Linux. However, we would still like to remind people that if you do find out about a possible security problem, we would welcome your help in informing us of it, so as to keep our server and your server as secure as possible. Remember, if you have a Molotov account, this concerns you directly.

details

Downtime

Molotov is going down from 10pm Sunday, 3rd March, for routine maintenance. We expect Molotov to be up and running again well before 11pm, but this depends on any difficulties we may encounter. Services affected: all those on Molotov, including the website, IRC and games servers. The exec e-mail address will continue to function as normal.

details