SpawnPoint

Imagine a notebook where you would put names and then those people would just disappear... Well I owe one  ! I put a name, then a steam ID, and most of the time soon after, those players are just removed from the spawnpoint.com network !! Amazing, right ?
Of course I'm just talking about the scratchbook where I write down all the names and SteamID from the players I record.  Not all of them are hacking, but unfortunately most of them are.

Since I began to use a computer, I have always been using a "scratchpad" to write down important things that I should not forget (mostly usernames and passwords for my mail accounts, website login...). Then I became admin and find it very useful to have another one to note the names of the demo I take and which are the best to send to the ACT.
Since I've watched that Anime, I am used to call it my "Death note", as most of the names that are written on it are now banned from the spawnpoint.com network, just like they were "game-dead".

My problem today is that the notebook I'm using at the moment is nearly full... When I began to do so, I would never have  thought I would fill in so many names so rapidly ! This notebook has sth like 100 pages... In an average of 5 names by a page, that makes 500 players recorded (and accordingly to cpnichol's list, out of them about 200 were really cheating).
I got this notebook from my work. It was given by sales representative (don't remember the company, maybe Symantec) and tbh remained unused for 6 months. As I hate waste and found it would be useful to me, I just took it home and began recording cheaters.

Now I don't know what I'm going to do. Buy a new one ? Will it be as "powerful" as the former one ? I will have to put a spawnpoint bumper sticker on it to give it the fabulous SP  anti-cheat powers...yes,  that's my voodoo tip to catch cheaters LOL !

For all those who don't know what Safari is, it is the integrated web browser for Macintosh computers, like I.E is for Windows. And it is now available (in beta version) for Windows users too (works with XP and Vista for sure as I tested it on both). Here is the link to download it : http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

Like any other Apple equipment, Safari is announced on their website as “the world's best browser”. So i decided to test it and see if I agree with this sentence or not.

On the first impressions, it just looks like any other current browser, IE or Firefox : tab browsing, no problem with importing my favorites from Firefox (I didn't test with IE as I don't use it), predictive completion of the address, integrated google toolbar for quick researches on top right, RSS support.
It displays text in a special font, which is just fine when you browse the Apple.com website (must be optimised for it), but looks in my opinion a bit blurred when browsing any other sites.
The browser layout takes the entire screen, so if you chose the option to hide the windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen, you just can't access it anymore. If you want to launch another software or look to a file while browsing, you have to use « alt + tab » which is not very handy.

So far, Safari is not a bad, nor an especially better web browser. Let us see what's really wrong with it.

As a member of the spawnpoint.com gaming community, one of the first website I browsed with Safari is www.spawnpoint.com. Take a look at the screenshot, and see what I blame Safari for.



On the top of the website, there is a navigation bar where you can browse the “forums”, the “files” that are available for free download, “the blogs”, the new “clans” functionality and the “ladders”... Unfortunately, all you can see in the screenshot is “ladders”, because this navigation bar doesn't display correctly with Safari.
I don't know if this has something to do with safari or the coding of this menu, but to summarize, with this web browser I could simply not browse my favorite website !

The so-called “world's best browser” isn't that good at all, and my conclusion is : there is no point at the moment in using Safari for Windows, unless you are a big fan of anything Apple creates. Remember this is just a beta version, maybe this bug will be corrected in the final version of the software.

Dave / Skydavo

First of all, for all of my fans all around the world, I want to reassure them : after this long week of absence, I'm finally back !!! (who said no one ever noticed I wasn't there ???)
I'm currently on holidays (youhou !), by my parents, where I should have got an Internet connection since a week now, but "France Telecom" couldn't manage to make it. To be totally honest, they even manage to completely disconnect my parents' phone line for 2 days... When I tried to call them, someone else was on the phone (??).
Well, now everything is back to normal, and I can live again my addiction to Internet and CSS (really, I should see a doctor about this...).

Now that I had Internet, what was I gonna do ??
First (bad) idea I had, checking my spawnpoint emails... Nice, more than 60 messages unread in  a week !
After half an hour (and almost 25 messages read), I thought about another very good idea : check the servers to see if some friends were playing. So my usual server, Common Grounds :  hum, no one I ever know there !! I don't play on this server for a week, after having played there every day for 2 years or so now, and I can't see anybody I ever played with ! Such a shame.
Than I tried to have a look on the UK assault server, just in case, (God, may someone I know play there, please !) and OMG ! there were three noobs with negatives stats and bad names there ! So I had to join it and stay spectators for 10 minutes to record them and take screenshots, and try to get them behave like good kids... (that's how I learned I am apparently not good at teaching LOL).
After such an incident, what do anyone do ? yeah, I had to report them, so I went back to my mailbox, and decided to finish reading my mails (one more hour), before  reporting them to the abuse team (ten minutes or even more as I had to install a zip software for the screenshots I wanted to attach to the mail).

The only funny thing that happened this evening is when I looked at the "spam" section (not sure how it is called in English, you see what I mean) of Windows Live Mail (as it is the first time I use it), and apparently some messages sent by Tony or Shane are considered spam by Live Mail... That makes me lmao, especially as Shane's mail was sth about "blog, blog, BLOG !!!"
So here I am, making fun of him and trying to get you have some pity for me and my very hard life... No ? No one ??
Next time I can't use Internet for a week, please remind me that it is SO MUCH BETTER !!!! lol