User:Grenadecx
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Hi, and welcome to my Wikipedia page. People call me gren, and some other small difference from my real nickname, that is, grenadecx. So if you like, call me that as well, but I do prefer to be called grenadecx. I'm born 1989, 12 may. I live in a country called sweden. I like to learn new things, get experience, and much more.
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[edit] My current projects
Hi everyone, I know, you are not interested, but this is my log, and I really want to explain what I'm working on. With this, I mean all my projects.
- TorrentCatch.org - UltraHost Torrents, my very own Torrent site, working on my own tracker for it as well.
- ShazzRO - Shazz Ragnarok Online, my Ragnarok Online server, was created somewhere around 2004-2005, by the author Shazeya, he gave it to me.
- UHT - UltraHost Technology, this is my webhosting project, management and much more.
- SeAG - Shazeya eAthena Guide, this is translation project, translating the guide from English to Swedish.
- Lankiva - Lankiva, this is a swedish lan network, that I and some of my classmates are working on.
[edit] eAthena/Ragnarok Online
I'm known around the eAthena community as grenadecx, but I'm not active there as I was when I joined.
eAthena is a forum community and a server emulator for a game known as RO (Ragnarok Online). From what I know, eAthena stands for English Athena, and was created from jAthena, Japansese Athena. jAthena is the original project, but later on, around the year 2004, perhaps at the end of 2003, some developers took the oppertunity and created their own project, eAthena. Since jAthena was open source' it was easy to take a branch from it and start developing from that point. Since eAthena is open source, it means you can change the source code yourself and compile/recompile. You can even help the current developers easy, by providing your support and bugreports, you can also become a scripter/developer if you are skilled.
When I joined the eAthena community, it was one of my very first internet communities I joined. On the first day, I was over excited, and made some topics for help on setting up the server. I double posted, and made more then one topic. I got warned for those, and learned my misstakes. I started to read guides, and later on help other newbies there, for support and trying to get my warnings removed, which I by the way, successfully got removed.
As almost every new member to eAthena, what they want is to create there own server, and fast. But that's always a misstake, people should think carefully before just creating a server. There's too many RO servers out there, and many of them have less than 50 players. Not really nice, is it? I myself started out with my own server, it was called LongHornRO, don't ask me why that name, I don't know, poor me :( Anyway, later on, it failed, quite hard, actually. I guess I missed knowledge about server hosting and responsibilities to handle it. Later on, I joined another server, to help them out. I did a fair good job, but the server died at the end, the server owner was lazy and didn't do much, and the host left, so more or less, it failed.
Later on, I read more guides, and I still do. Guides is almost the best things after trying something out yourself, believe it or not. If it wasn't for SeAG and when it comes to RO and server hosting, I would really have a lot of problems.
There's many nice people over at eAthena, nice people, newbies, noobs, and probably some who are plain retard. Well, I met many friends over there, but there are really strange people there as well. There are only a few I can say really helped me out a lot, and one of those was Shazeya, but I call him Shazz. Shazeya was a Support Leader in the staff team, when I joined. SeAG is his guide, the best one out there, for sure. It's not official, but I hope someday it will be. He was also the one who gave me my very first warning, 10%, as I said, he was a support leader, and that was his job, I wasn't even his friend that time. Not that it matter. Shazeya got appointed as a Global Moderator, he was worth it for sure, he's one of the most supporting people at the eAthena. He doesn't have a post count on 6k post for no reason. Before I came to knew more about Shazeya, I thought he was a female. Well, Shazeya was known as a female all over the community, but he is male. For one, Shazeya is a name of a female, and not male, and the avatar he uses can really confuse people. At the New Year of 2007, Shazeya left the as a global moderator, on eAthena. Why? There's many reasons, most of it is especially how eAthena is running, and I agree with him. If you like to know more about this, why don't you ask him?
On less then a year, from knowing nothing to anything, is what I can easiest describe how much I've learned from Shazeya and by staying on eAthena forum. With that said, I want to thank all people who helped me, special thanks goes to Geget/Izzy and Shazeya.
Who's Geget? Right, let me tell you. He was a International Moderator over the Malaysian section, on eAthena forum. Yes, eAthena stands English Athena, what have Malaysian todo with this? You see, eAthena have many subforums, subforums for other languages. People who are bad at English, or rather want to speak to other people with their own language, visits those subforums. This is for helping out more people that are not good in English and rather want to visit the subforums where they can get more help. Besides, it's not fun reading topics with half ass English, where you need to concentrate on what word is what. Anyway, Geget left his position some months after Shazeya left his. They are both friends, as I am with them, and they know how much eAthena is corrupted. Geget have really helped me out much, and we have tested things togheter.
Around some week/s ago, we got a new administrator on eAthena forum. Well, he isn't exactly new. This is what I know.... Some year ago, eAthena had an administrator under the name Deviant. He was a great administrator, from what I heard, no favoritism, and he got things done, even if it wasn't a good decision to his friend/s, etc. Anyway, he got kicked/left? Not sure about the whole story, but it was because he let everything goes to his head. And as an administrator, that's not good, because you might do things you shouldn't. Anyway, now, it have been some years, he returned as an administrator. How could this happen? Many disliked his return, from the current Staff team as well as many members. This is how it is. Before he returned, Shazeya started a vote topic, trying to vote out our current administrator, and trying to change things around the eAthena board. Mostly for trying to help it, get things done. Devient got appointed, it was Delta's decision. And a good one, if I may say so. I'll explain about Delta later on. Anyway, Deviant returned, but he changed his nickname to Cyxult. His explanation for this was that Deviant was a common nickname, and it didn't feel like he wanted to use it when many others do. Well, we still call him Deviant around the eAthena community, that is one of many things that I think will never change.
Now, who the hell are Delta? He is loved in the eAthena community, and it's not stranged. He is the host, and has ever been, since eAthena was on SourceForge. And that was years ago. He host this forum for free, his services is called Deltaanime, he provides many things, IRC, Webhosting, and much more. He is loved, but there are some who dislike him, I wont go inte detail about that. As a host, he doesn't really have any rights to appoint other administrators, that's up for the community. But still he does. He claims it's because of the eAthena cry-out-burst, or something familiar. The E-drama, that accours on eAthena from time to time, but that's just something regular, normal at eAthena.
To be continue...
[edit] Reference
- eAthena forum - English Athena forum, the community.
- eAthena Wiki - English Athena Wiki, the official guide/wiki.
- SeAG - Shazeya eAthena guide, the unofficial guide.
[edit] Computer Experience
[edit] Windows/Microsoft
Windows 95, any familiar to it? Well, I am. I got my first computer at the end of 2004. Yes, the OS was old already then, since Windows XP and Windows server 2003 was the newest stuffs from Windows. However, my first computer was an
- Intel Pentium 2 - 333 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 10 GB HDD, CR-ROM, Nvidia 2 Graphic Card and a crappy Mainboard (DELL COMPUTER).
As almost every kid in my age then, we all liked to play games, but that was almost next to impossible on my computer. But still, we tried. We tried out games like Counter-Strike, got my first Blue Screen in my life when I did. Was pretty amazing. But everything comes to an end, the amazing got reverted to something like chaos. Anyway, I went to my friend, and he got Windows 98 on CD for me. It was amazing, my very first windows installation. It went well, if we exclude those minor dlls files missing. I started to play Counter-Strike, since my friends did, I wasn't good, and I lagged like hell. Well, my friends didn't complain, I mean, one more kill for them. Anyway, I used Windows 98 under a long period, until I heard about Windows 2000. That was the next best thing ever. I could play Counter-Strike on minimal graphics, and no lag, well, a little, but it went fine. Anyway, I made some savings and bought me a whole new computer, a dell computer as well.
Imagine 2 years back,
- Intel Pentium D 2 cores - 3.0 GHz, 2048 MB RAM, 250 GB HDD, DVD-ROM, Nvidia Geforce 6800 PCI E, and a Mainboard (DELL COMPUTER).
Pretty nice huh? I know, I know. Many people told me how bad Intel Pentium D was, but beyond my friends warnings, it's been the next best computer I ever had. I could play games I never imagine I would ever be able to play, I was still a game fanatic.
[edit] Linux/Unix
Before I continue, I'll tell you some small information about all this, so you have at least some basic understanding about what I'm talking about. Unix: Unix is a computer operating system. More or less, an alternative to Windows. Unix was developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. Unix wasn't designed for graphical interface. More like a command line interface. It's designed to run servers, on a stable level. Linux: Linux is developed from unix. More or less, also known as an Unix-Like operating system. Linux wasn't created for an graphical interface either, but in these days, linux is more amazing then windows is. Check out Beryl, if you like to know what I'm talking about. Linux is open soruce, which means the code is there for free, you can change it to your own needs if you have the knowledge. Most things under Linux is open source, that's how the community survives. Do you know what? If I'm suppose to talk about what this is, it will take ages. Why not just check out some links in the reference.
Another day in school my friend told me about something called Slax. He told me about Unix, or well, his understanding about it, and MAC OS X. He explained what Slax was, and I was pretty 'over-excited' to try it out. Slax is Linux. Anyway, learning about Slax was just the beginning. Can you imagine how big the Linux world really is? No, you can't. Slax is a Live-CD Linux distro. Which means you download the Slax ISO file, choose your favourite burner, in my case it was MagicISO and DVD Decrypter. Burn Image to CD, reboot the computer, boot CD as first option, and voila! Now you are running Slax without any installation. There's ton of things you can do, I encourage you to check it out. As I said, Slax was my first Linux I tried out. After that, I've tried out Slackware(Slax is build from Slackware), SuSE, Fedora, RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu and a lot of more. I have to say, the Linux distribution I liked most was SuSE, also known as OpenSuSE.
As I said before, this was just the beginning. There's so much knowledge to take in. When it comes Linux, people say you can't play windows games, that makes me sad to hear. It's true that you can't play them on the same way you play them in windows, afterall, Linux is a lot different from windows, and in most case used for server hosting. But you know what? You can play windows games under linux, no matter what other people say, this is very possible. I wont go into detail, but here are some program you can use to emulate windows games.
- Wine - Wine Is Not an Emulator.
- Cedega - Developed from Wine, was once in a time called WineX.
- Crossover Office - Also developed from Wine.
Note, I don't say Linux is better then Windows, or the reverse. But I do like Linux more the Windows. Choosing your operating system can sometimes be hard. But I have to saym if you are not an hardcoded gamer, try out Linux, you have nothing to lose. Linux can probably be harder to install then what Wwindos can, however it's worth it. I think I started to use Linux on my fully time somewhere around 2006, before my graphic card broke. Yes, it's sad, but nothing last forever.
So I got a new computer, let me list the spec's.
- AMD Athlone 64 X3 4600+, 2048 MB RAM, 180 GB HDD, Nvidia Geforce 7800 PCI E, and a Geforce Mainboard.
The first thing I did, was to install Linux with Beryl. So freaking awesome. You can't imagine and feel this if you use Windows. That's one thing for sure. But since I don't hate Windows, I installed Windows server 2003 on the computer as well, and use GRUB as a boot loeader. This boot loader boot's up when I start the computer, it gives me choises, which OS I want to start up, Windows or Linux. Quite nice? It is. You should try it, all you need to have if you are gonna try out Linux is around 1-2 GB on your HDD left.
[edit] Reference
- Slax - Visit the homepage of Slax here!
- What is Linux? - Read more about it here.
- What is Unix? - Read more about it here.
- Windows - If you like to read more, I beat you already know.
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