Downtime

[BAILOPAN]

(date problems - had to restart this thread)
As the more astute of you may have noticed, the site was down for some time. A long time. I apologize for this as it was partly my own stupidity, but it's back up now and this shouldn't happen again.

First up:
AMX Mod X 0.20 made a lot of progress. We've started giving out beta binaries to the testing team and the changelog is huge. The biggest points: PM has finished the new module API.
Core no longer uses metamod to load modules.
Modules now have a unified interface (which includes nicities for 64bit).
I have redone Engine and MySQL from scratch.
With mahnsawce's permission, have made an official "NS2AMXx" module which contains the NS-only portions of the module (I ported everything else into Engine).
The core now uses the JIT (this is a huge performance boost) and PM is porting the JIT to Linux.

To dispel some rumours:
1. The server is not my home computer.
2. The place it's being hosted is not a colo center with lazy employees.
3. The server is not made of turtles.
4. I'm not looking for another host.
5. The server is not secretly stashed in a high school lab.

What happened, simply: there was a network configuration change, I couldn't find anyone to go reboot/re-DHCP the server. End of story :?

[AssKicR]

Good to have it back =)

[PM]

OWNAGE!! FINALLY !! :D

[INFaMouS]

w()()t!

*goes back the the OT Forums*

[DopeFish]

Are you sure the server is not made of turtles ???

[PM]

of course it is, DopeFish
every turtle represents one bit

[AssKicR]

well his system is build up entirly of tutles....

a Turtle = 1
a Turtle on it's back = 0

By using this simple logic his computer can read the collection of turtles and do what BAILOPAN want it to do

[INFaMouS]

BAILOPAN doesn't have a hard drive, he just has about 200 chinese females in his basement and forces them to memorize numbers.

[AssKicR]

BAILOPAN doesn't have a hard drive, he just has about 200 chinese females in his basement and forces them to memorize numbers.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:


or maybe not :?

[Dygear]

LOL, yea i could see it now.
*Asks BAILOPAN for one of them*
And how much data can they store.

[kavu]

has he named them all? and are you sure they only memorize numbers :P

[Dygear]

Yea he names them like this ... 00100001, 00100010, 00100011 and so on.

[Girthesniper]

mmmm. no.

[FeliX]

Nice to have it back online :o

[FlyingMongoose]

I was going through withdrawals >.<

[Dzyzus]

and then we will see a new release?:)

[[415]StoNeD]

Sorry.. just tryin to be helpful.. :?

Lab.. school or drugs. :twisted:

[BigBaller]

I was going through withdrawals >.<

Hahaha, just a road bump in the community!

XAD wats the status on the CSStats Module?!?!@?#!?@#!?!?!?

Just by talking to Bailopan on IRC I think AMXX next release will be in late June/Early July.

[tron73]

Hi all

It is surely good to hear, that everything is running now! A week of having nothing to read about THE mod was not good.

So go on doing the best, very good job!

:D

[Peli]

I heard it was down because the server is being hosted on the back of a turtle , It had the downtime because the turtle stopped. Someone poked him with a stick and that is why he is moving again. :)

[rootdown]

Its nice too see the site up again. I hope it stays this way :wink:

[QwertyAccess]

i thought the server was made out of frogs http://www.nsarmslab.com/qwerty/smileys/inlove.gif
but atleast the site is back!

[rex]

BAILOPAN must have a big basement, 200 females :D when he wants to upgrade does he build a bigger basement? :lol: :wink:
good to be back online again.

[ann0yanc3]

how do i get a copy of the beta? i've been holding off development until the next release, but i'd like to play with the new version, and perhaps help out.

is the beta test team closed?

thanks.

[Girthesniper]

:roll:

[QwertyAccess]

beta test team is closed and we dont need any new members as far as i know 4 is enough especially since we arent idiot testers :P

[No FuN]

Add langage Deutsch an French in the amx x v0.20?

http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=1433

[Gunny]

huge[/i]. The biggest points: PM has finished the new module API.
Core no longer uses metamod to load modules.
Modules now have a unified interface (which includes nicities for 64bit).
I have redone Engine and MySQL from scratch.
With mahnsawce's permission, have made an official "NS2AMXx" module which contains the NS-only portions of the module (I ported everything else into Engine).
The core now uses the JIT (this is a huge performance boost) and PM is porting the JIT to Linux.


So is there any ideas of when you will release it to everyone?
And will this fix the Linux Crashing and Reliable Overflow problems?

Thanks and Glad your back up!!

[QwertyAccess]

Reliable Overflow problems depend on your server what your running on it can send too much data to clients, and if your clients cant handle that data fast enough they overflow. as for linux crashing i dunno what your talking about. And when it will be released? When its done.

[Peli]

Bail heard you have 200 females , can I have 100? :)

[INFaMouS]

He already declared 100 of them mine because I sold them to him. Tehrefore you may only have 50 of his

[ThantiK]

Thanks for flippin the turtle back over.

[QuakerOates]

damn i missed this site...great to have it back up :)

cant wait for modx .20

[Moon!]

Glad to see everything is back on track, eagerly waiting for the AMX Mod X 0.20 release :lol:

[pendragon]

BAILOPAN doesn't have a hard drive, he just has about 200 chinese females in his basement and forces them to memorize numbers.

LMAO my new qoute!

@Bailopan
THanks for your constant efforts in the progression of this community man.

[m0gely]

Core no longer uses metamod to load modules.
Forgive this question but I have to ask due to a comment I read recently. This doesn't mean that Metamod is no longer required does it? I didn't read it that way, but someone else has (poster on csnation). I would imagine such a change would have been more clear in it's mention. And maybe this isn't what the poster read at all to come to that conclusion but it's the closest thing I could find without wasting my entire morning searching.

[BAILOPAN]

I'll take a chance to explain the difference as XAD explained it to me.

Firstly, AMX Mod X still requires metamod.

With OLO's Module method, AMX used to load modules by attaching them to AMX and then attaching them to Metamod, and then forcing a server restart to reinitialize all the metamod forward calls to the modules. XAD's point was this is both messy and dangerous, and could cause memory leaks.

The solution to this was having AMXx emulate metamod internally, so modules think they are attached to metamod but they are actually attached to AMXx, which is just wrapping MM. You can verify this with the 0.20 listenserver alpha, if you do the "meta info" command on AMXx you can see that it hooks every single Metamod call.

You can also see that with AMX, modules appear both in the AMX modules menu and the Metamod one - in AMXx, they only appear in the amxx modules menu.

This is probably why, back with AMX 0.9.3, that metamod modules had to be placed in the metamod plugins.ini as well, with 0.9.6j the biggest change was his hack to fix that.