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    Gamescom 2017

    By Mavy, in Website news, , 3 comments, 5,050 views
    Gamescom 2017 coverage:
    As some of you have probably heard, a few of the FK members are planning to visit gamescom this year. As the world's largest event for computer and video games there will be something to see for everyone. The event hall will cover a whopping 201,000 square metres and that is a lot of ground to cover.

    This got me to think. To optimize our coverage for our community I want to know from you all what you would like to see. I have opened up the comments section for this article, use it to let us know what you want to see covered. Keep the requests clean and friendly and we will do our best to get you the information you want.

    Weekly overview #1

    By Linnet, in Website news, , 0 comments, 3,625 views
    Greetings community!
    Some of you might remember the weekly meeting reports/overviews that the CM-Team did a while ago. Well, this is a try on bringing those back. But better! With more content, more info, more trivia and - I can't believe I'm actually saying that - more memes.
    This is thought to serve as a weekly report, including a link to the meeting report, a short overview of upcoming events and specials in the week ahead and maybe, depending on the material I have, a small best-of of this weeks "mishaps", memes and incidents. So let's start this, shall we?
    Meeting Report: 
    As always, the meeting report has already been uploaded, you can find it here. 
    REPO UPDATE!
    You've read that correctly, we're updating the Repo on MONDAY THE 17TH! Therefore even those of you who get their internet delivered via smoke signals on a particularly windy day will be able to play Arma at the weekend. Please keep in mind that a lot of people will try to update at the same time, aka the download-speed will be literal hell. So don't panic, the community isn't dying, those of you who have been around longer than 2 weeks will already know how this works. 
    Upcoming Events:
    Not much is planned for the upcoming week - yet. On friday @TEG is organizing a TTT-game. So if you have GMod and a free friday afternoon, you might want to give it a go! 

    And the award for the most hilarious Zeus fuckup goes to....
    @Tomo 
    For a really innovative use of fellow players
    https://clips.twitch.tv/OddAcceptableCheddarKappaPride

    So far for this week, if you have any suggestions what you'd like to see in here (e.g. Mission Report of the week/pictures/mission screenshots, whatever really) let me know, send it to me and I'll see what I can use. And no @Woody don't even try. I'll never feature you here. That will be the biggest of all memes. 

    The journey of an administrator

    By Mavy, in Website news, , 0 comments, 3,634 views
    When I started writing this article I had originally intended it to be about the upcoming gamescom. However as always with FK I got side tracked while researching the event and its possible/planned announcements.
    While browsing youtube for some of last years releases and demos my eye fell on a video about memes. Not the “memes” you all know from the likes of Woody, but actual memes. The ones you just have to look at to know what they are about, the ones that don’t require text to explain the meaning. Because no matter how much text you slap on it, a picture of a pile of shit will still be a picture of a pile of shit! [Woody!]
    Hearing some of the tunes in this video reminded me of the days when I first joined an online gaming community. Which in turn got me thinking about how I became a server admin. So now instead of writing a story about gamescom I decided I would tell you the story of how I became the server admin I am today.
    The video that messed with my plans

     
    How it started
    Back in 2004 I was already following a study in server management, but that was mostly focused on windows. My linux experience had not gotten past the experimenting phase. I spent my free hours playing computer games one of which was Counterstrike. It was while I was playing CS that I stumbled upon a group of people who called themselves Coltkillaz. It was one of those groups that had this great atmosphere around them, a group that made you feel welcome from day 1. A group I ended up gaming with for well over 5 years.
    Within this group was a guy named Davros, a tech savvy guy who at some point in 2005/2006 started managing their servers. For whatever reason around the end of 2006 he offered me a dedicated server to play around with, it was a server that he no longer had any use for. It was this server that gave me the linux virus and it was this server that hosted my very first website.
     
     

    Logo of the community that started it all.

     
    The linux bug
    With this new love for linux and the end of my studies nearing I applied for a trainee ship at a large telecom company. At the start of 2007 I was accepted and started my journey in an environment of which 90% consisted of unix systems. I quickly realised how much fun it was to script your daily tasks. To find ways to make your life as an administrator easier. After my trainee ship I was offered a contract and ended up staying with them for 7 years.
    The downside of those 7 years was that I mostly worked with company proprietary tools. A lot of the software we used was made by the company and therefore it was a very specific knowledge. Knowledge that I would not use anymore after leaving the company. My linux knowledge stayed fairly vanilla until mid 2015. After having been with a new company for about a year I got offered a job at a well known unix consultancy agency. That's when I got introduced to the world of tools people use in the linux world. I got a chance to certify myself and train myself. In just over 2 years I went from having some knowledge about linux to being an expert in linux.
     

    An accurate description of how I see linux
    Playing around
    Of course using this knowledge on a daily basis for work is one thing, however it is outside of work that you get to play with new tools and learn new things. And the best way to do that is by having a goal like keeping game servers up and running. That brings me back to Coltkillaz. By the end of 2013 Coltkillaz was winding down, real life had taken over and for the most of us that meant no more time for gaming. The odd game I did play was with friends I met over the years of gaming and attending lan parties (more on that in another story).
    At the start of 2014 I started 71st vanguards with a few friends. The game of choosing at the time was battlefield and for just over a year we had one of the busiest BF3 servers in europe. A website was made and a teamspeak was hosted. All of this was tied together by some tooling I had discovered years before. The 71st servers gave me a playground to test and try new things. Always looking to make things easier on me and others. Sadly this time it was my turn to have real life take over and by 2016 I was hardly playing games or managing servers. The lack of playing with technology left me without a way to relax, and by the end of 2016 the urge to have a playground urged me to send a PM to greybeardralph asking him if he needed help with the server. And we all know what happened next....
     
    Problem? (See woody, thats how you use a meme!)
     

    Donation Drive

    By Sarissa, in Server news, , 0 comments, 3,591 views
    Well guys, it's time again to ask for a little help with the server upkeep.
    As you all are undoubtedly aware; @greybeardralph works pretty much alone to keep all of our games servers, the TS, the website and the repo up and running so you can get some quality enjoyment out of your spare time with the rest of us. 
    Sadly, as much as I'd love it to be untrue, all of these servers require a fee to keep them operational. Both Mavy and Greybeard have worked out server upkeep costs, and we ask for €350 a month to keep everything working for you.
    Now I hate asking for money, it's just not in my nature. But we have over 2000 members on the forum, and routinely have over 150 on the TS. If all 150 of you donated just €2.30 we'd hit our target in no time. If all of you donated €5; we'd be able to pay for the servers for 2 and a half months.
    Now I know that not everyone can afford to donate every month; as most of you are aware I'm kinda strapped for cash right now. But those of you that can spare a little; please, help us keep FK as glorious a clusterfuck as it is.
     
    Thanks for your time,
    Sarissa

    FKBranded - FK Merchandise

    By Sarissa, in Website news, , 0 comments, 3,413 views
    Today sees the official launch of the FKBranded Merchandise store. This is the culmination of our design contest entries; complete with a few other products you are able to order and have delivered at your leisure.
    To check out the FKBranded store, visit this link.
    There is a possibility of ordering a Hoodie with your own chosen text printed on as well, for an increased price. To do this, head to this thread, tell us what you want on the item and Sarissa will make an order once per month.

    Mod Updates

    By NeilZar, in Server news, , 0 comments, 3,199 views
    Some of the mods we use have been updated, so we are upgrading the ones on our server to their newest versions.
    Updated:
    Ares Achilles F-18E/F Super Hornet  Estimated update size: 91MB
    Note: You will still be able to play on the servers if you don't update these two mods to the latest version.

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