Who's got a tenth birthday coming up?

Taphouse does! That's who.

Local ISP issues Grinch up Taphouse for the holidays

It would seem the happy elves at my ISP have decided to start some kind of upgrade work.  Probably girding their loins for all those X-Box One's connecting on X-mas day.  Instead they should be covering their asses in anticipation of X-Day!  Anyhow, we're gonna be on the NetSplit coaster for a while.  The management apologizes for any inconvenience, and offers you a 10% off IRC services coupon, redeemable anytime:

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|     Receive 10% off the purchase price of any and all        |
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Zeppo booted off twitter...temporarily

On June 11 twitter retired v1 of it's API. You can read all about it HERE. Unfortunately, this has kicked Zeppo to the curb as he was still using v1 via XML. XML is no longer in use on twitter. (RSS and ATOM are dead now as well) JSON is the only applicable format you can use, and every app MUST use SSL (https) THERFORE until the whole script gets rewritten to use the new 1.1 API he will be off twitter. He is still on IRC for your amusement, but I dont expect him to be back on teh twitters before XDAY.

tl;dr: Twitter sux, but Zeppo will return soon

Zeppo LIVES!

He is back from the gave and his upgrades are complete...w00t

Zeppo Update

He is alive and well, just not on twitter. His old box could not be salvaged, the CPU (amd64 socket 754) is dead and even though I have two motherboards for it, (one unopened and unused) there isnt a point since the CPU is gone. The ram is fried too, but it has a lifetime warranty- just no need to replace it if I cant run it anywhere. I have been looking for a 754 chip, but haven't found one worth bothering with. (lots of used "oh this chip runs great" deals, that I dont trust)

I think since I have a brand new power supply (BOY DID THAT OLD ONE DO A NUMBER ON POOR ZEPPO) and a nice case, I will just get a combo deal like this:

NEWEGG LINK 

Just waiting to get the $$$ together... Anyway he is running fine on a linux virtual machine on my windows8 box, but for some reason the twitter script crashes the whole thing. So until I get a new brainspace for him to live in, you will only be able to interact with him "in person" in IRC. Also someone mentioned donating and old box, but we'll see what happens there.

I dont use this much for updates do I?

This might change at sometime in the future, but not today.

A Happy Family Again!

Catastrophic Failure cannot defeat us. Taphouse is BACK!

Oh Internet!

Now that the Internet gods have had their way with us, we are back online and ready to continue processing all of your plain text. More news as it becomes less available.

Taphouse Back at FULL POWER

Well we seem to have survived the worst of what Irene had to offer and all servers and services have returned from powerless hell. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Taphouse Outages

It is almost inevitable that the Taphouse Virginia servers (Frop and Hotep) will experience a power outage today that may last for several days. I have re-adjusted the round robin connection (irc.taphouse.org) to connect ONLY to the German (Bort) and Oregon (Sockem) servers until further notice. If you connect directly to either Frop or Hotep you should change over to the round robin to connect. Frop and Hotep are currently still online and can be used until they disconnect. The Taphouse website will also be offline during the power outage and a few services bots (and Zeppo) will be offline as well. Sorry for the inconvenience and we will see you when we return.

No, we're not all going to disappear just because Portal 2 came out

Its true, we're a bunch of gamer geeks, but we still have a social life, even if it spends a little too much time online. Anyhow, just popping in to remind you we have a blog, and there are no major server issues you need worry about. Call us after the cake.

Holy Crap I almost forgot we had a blog

Perhaps I should update this more often, but I dunno things are going pretty well why ruin it?

New Forums

Updated the forum software and themes. (link in the topic)

Game Review: Machinarium

This is the newest game from the Czech indie
game designers who did the samorost web game
a few years back.
-its still free to play HERE!
I remember in IRC we were obsessed with that game
for awhile.
Anyway I never just play games I am very interested
in what goes into them, looking behind the curtain if you
will, anyway here is THE TRAILER
You can also play the free web demo here: HERE!

This game is absolutely gorgeous and the interface
is as interesting as samorost was. The game costs
20 dollars and for that you get a windows, linux and mac
version, as well as the soundtrack on mp3 (the soundtracks
to their games are almost worth just having on their own)
I cant recommend this enough, there is really nothing else
like it. I have spent about 3 hours so far playing without
ANY of the *usual* game letdowns (clicking fatigue, etc)

I am all for supporting indie game writers and I understand
that spending 20 dollars might be outside what you might
consider spending on things like this, but seriously consider
MAKING AN EXCEPTION THIS TIME. You will not regret it.

I mean how can you say 'no' to THESE GUYS

Don't Panic.

Nothing to see here, folks... move along.

Someone has a secret.

Sometimes when people get banned,
they do smart things
like come back and pretend to be somebody different.
Wouldnt that be stupid? yes it would, it would be
revstupid...(hi arny! See, I KNEW you could shut up
about the stupid giraffe furry shit)

The Tubes are Clogged.

Sorry about all the netsplits lately, it would appear that the
internet tubes are clogged with delicious creme filling.
NO I DIDN'T DO IT!!

Taphouse Rising

Had a little trouble with our DNS yesterday - which meant that no one
could connect. It's all fixed now. The trouble yesterday highlighted
the folly of using DNS servers in several cities all subject to
hurricanes....oh well. Now I am in the process of getting a whole
bunch of new DNS servers all over the place. What this means to
you is that what happened last night, WONT happen again.

New Taphouse Server!

Welcome to sockem.taphouse.org run by Scalpod, the latest IRC server to join the Taphouse Cabal network. Located in Portland, this server is open for business and should give our west coast subgenii a server closer to their neck of the woods.

Hotep regains balance in the Kernel

All done now - if you blinked, you missed it. Stay tuned for more exciting server rebooting news, from your Action Taphouse News team!