The Haus

Wednesday, April 19, 2000

Change to the UT Server -- 10:34 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Well, kids, I made another slight change to our Unreal Tournament server. In an email conversation with someone who used to play on our server all the time when we were running 402B, I discovered that the 413 patch changes the way that the server handles some things.

With 402B, you could connect even if you didn't have the skins or mutators that were on the server if those skins or mutators were not in use. It seems now with 413, clients need those files to be able to connect regardless of whether the server is using them or not. Thus, I enabled auto-downloading today with a maximum download size of 100K. That means that people will be able to download the skins and mutators, but not the maps. For more information on setting up your UT client to play on our server, check out our Unreal Tournament Setup page.

I was wondering why J and I were the only ones to play on the server since I patched it . . .

UPDATE! I just received email saying that the server is working fine again. Whew! Thanks to Vigilante for helping me track this problem down. Time to start that UT Server Admin doc I've been talking about.

In a related story, Blue is reporting that the UZ Compression Admin page has hundreds of maps, etc. for Unreal Tournament so server admins can set download redirection to their site instead of eating up their own bandwidth. It looks like a pretty cool service. I'm going to look into it.

News for 04/19/2000

Recent Headlines

January 5, 2015: It Returns!
August 10, 2007: SCO SUCKS IT DOWN!
July 5, 2007: Slackware 12.0 Released
May 20, 2007: PhpBB 3.0 RC 1 Released
February 2, 2007: DOOM3 1.31 Patch

January 27, 2007: Join the World Community Grid
January 17, 2007: Flash Player 9 for Linux
December 30, 2006: Darkness over Daggerford 1.2
December 19, 2006: Pocket Tunes 4.0 Released
December 9, 2006: WRT54G 1.01.1 Firmware OK with Linux/Mac

All original information on this website is copyright © TheHaus.Net, 1999-2005. The use of original images, text, and/or code from this website without expressed written consent is prohibited. The authors of this site cannot be held responsible for any damage, real or imagined, which comes from the use of information presented on this site. All trademarks used are the properties of their respective owners. This site is not to be used as a floatation device (but if you try, I want a video tape of it).