The maintenance seems to have succeeded in time, at least we have control over our server again. The servers have been started and everything should be running like normal again. :)

TransIP informed us that the power bar in the server rack our server is located in will be replaced tonight from 23:30 to 0:00 GMT. Due to this the servers will be offline during that time. We will shut down the server around 23:25 to ease the process. If everything goes well our servers will be up again shortly after the maintenance.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

The problem with brenbot restarting whenever a player left has been resolved. It apparently was a conflict between the !rtc plugin and the version of brenbot we were using.

After a reboot our forum database suddenly was not working. We don't really know what caused this to happen, but there was some error in the database login info. We have corrected the problem now though, the forums should be workinng again. :)

The problems we had due to the failing disk have mostly been resolved. Due to another problem with the backup exclusion rules we have lost all folders named "data". Unfortunately the MySQL database and several of our server folders had this common name, resulting in the loss of our forum data and ingame server ranks. We also lost the subversion repository we use for versioning our code, which is very unfortunate as well since we can not go back in our code history now. The faulty backup exclusion rules have been fixed so we should not get the same problems again.

Due to the incomplete backups it took quite some time for us to resolve the problems. Everything should now be running again though. The only thing that needs doing now is improving the forum skin.

If there is anything left that is not functioning correctly, please report.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

First: sorry for the long time no updates.

Second: SERVER CRASH
Ok, as you might have noticed, our website has been down since either 12am this morning or 6 am this morning. This is related to one of the SCSI disks failing. It has probably died.
At this very moment we're working really hard to get our renegade servers backup. We're trying to recover everything, but are unsure if we can get everything restored. We might have a corupted backup, as we seem to have problems with the MYSQL database.

We'll keep you updated.

Stanlyspy has been promoted to the clans second in command!

The news is very late huh? But it's finally here.
Congrats' Stanly you deserve it, make the clan proud.

I'm sure I'll do a good job, il defiantly try my hardest ;)

I'd like to welcome Stewie to BlackIntel as a coder! Perhaps not all of you might know him, he has not been all too active in the forums etc, however I've had a lot of good conversations with him, mostly about coding, in which he showed to be a good and enthousiastic coder. Combine that with the fact that the coders are all so busy with stuff, and it wasn't too hard to decide we would ask him to join BI, which he did not even have to think about... :P

We're getting him familiar with a few things as I type this message, and I'm sure he will be a good addition to the BlackIntel coding team.

So: Welcome, good luck and have fun! :)

On Friday, 14th of september (in 3 days) at 9 o'clock, our IRC server will go down for approximately a half hour due to a harddisk upgrade (a new 200 GB harddisk).

This will only affect our ircd. You connect to an other irc server like ownage.n00bstories.com during this time.
Our main dedi server isn't affected in any way.

We are sorry for the inconveniences :)
Greetings - Cat998