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It’s a shame there have been a large influx of people on Steam trying to phish out other peoples accounts.  I have since come across a few that have entered our group and I will ban or kick each from the group accordingly.

Tips : Don’t click on anything from anyone you don’t know.  This is the surest way to be safe.

I know these are just made to look like legit steam community logon pages and they don’t really do any kind of malware injections but that’s the best way to keep anything from happening.

I recently got a message from “Rain” of our steam group… (Click here for his community page)

Rain: http://steamcommunity_com_viewprofile45123658969.9hz.com/ LOL?!?!
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I have already reported him to the web host and he has been promptly removed from their hosting.  I have also reported him to Valve and Steam accordingly.

If you get a phishing message from anyone in the group, please report them to me via Steam, IRC (#txlans @ gamesurge), or email if you know it.  Of course, flood their database or email with as many fake logins as you can.  This makes it more fun.

Ah, a long standing battle of which is better…although the main battle is between Ventrilo and TeamSpeak, Mumble is a good alternative to either of these.

With the recent release of Teamspeak 3, Ventrilo is having more and more competition to go up against.

There really are no online posts with hard-proof and real data about the bandwidth, cpu usage, memory usage, etc is for each one of these programs it is all linked more to personal preference.

If you have your own server boxes like we do you can run the free ventrilo server which is limited to 8 connections while Teamspeak has a limit I cannot remember what it was.  As far as I can remember, Mumble has no limit.

While some may worry about bandwidth used by these programs there is no real difference between them.  It all depends on what voice codec is used coupled with its bit rate and whether stereo or mono.

Like I said, it boils down to personal preference.  Ventrilo is certainly easier to install and maintain and use rather than Teamspeak but I consider ventrilo to be like apple.  Closed off to innovation and source.

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We love running servers but only when they are popular; of course.

We want a group of dedicated players that would regularly show up in our servers for some good gameplay.

What game would you like to see a server for?

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Special Note : Server regulars will get special privileges.

Demonoid

I know how much everyone loves demonoid, and I know you won’t be able to get in unless you have an invite code!

It’s okay…we have some.

Leave a comment and use your email with the comment (you dont have to post it in the comment, for anti-spam purposes).

I’ll send out what I can.  :)

Google Wave

Hey again guys,

Besides coming out with new content soon to boost our traffic once again, I also have some google wave invites.  25 of them to be exact.

Go ahead and leave a comment with your email, or email me directly (amp AT TXLANS ^dot com).

Tonight while I’m at work I will be working on a linux tutorial on setting up apache.  Something simple to start out with for the newbies.

On a side note, I’m getting the forums running again.  I got rid of PHPBB3; sure it works good but PunBB is a lot faster and I have used it in more places.  It’s WAY more modifiable.

Also, I have more demonoid invites.  Post a comment and be sure to put your correct email in and let me know that you want one.  I will give a few out.