RE: [TANKS] Re: The Micro Bandwagon

[Doug Conn]

I’m not worried. He’s probably still deciding what kind of wood to build his 
software from. :)

 

 

From: rctankcombat@googlegroups.com [mailto:rctankcombat@googlegroups.com] On 
Behalf Of Joe Sommer
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 5:16 PM
To: rctankcombat@googlegroups.com
Subject: [TANKS] Re: The Micro Bandwagon

 



On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 8:57:16 AM UTC-5, TyngTech wrote:

I'm now a Arduino dude!  As I type this, I'm staring at a little LED that that 
BLINKS AT MY COMMAND!

 
Oh, woe unto us!  Now we will be inundated with shoddy 
electronic devices from Anvilus, Cheap Control Systems 
AND Tyng Tech.

They say that every man has his price.  Apparently it only
took $14.98 to lure Steve to the Dark Side.

Joe



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[TANKS] Re: The Micro Bandwagon

[Joe Sommer]

On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 8:57:16 AM UTC-5, TyngTech wrote:
>
> I'm now a Arduino dude!  As I type this, I'm staring at a little LED that 
> that BLINKS AT MY COMMAND!
>
 
Oh, woe unto us!  Now we will be inundated with shoddy 
electronic devices from Anvilus, Cheap Control Systems 
AND Tyng Tech.

They say that every man has his price.  Apparently it only
took $14.98 to lure Steve to the Dark Side.

Joe


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Re: [TANKS] Calling All Nit-Pickers

['Bill Byrnes' via R/C Tank Combat]

Frank, There may be an omission from the new website.  It says that my tank, 
T080 has not been to any battles and doesn't have any points.  I can clearly 
see in my mind the several battles I've been to, and I remember racking up 
record setting point totals, almost matching your numbers in half the time.  I 
recall "Ring of Death" battles where my pine and pressboard drill powered tank 
tore the crap out of all who dared enter leaving mangled piles of aluminum, 
steel and Cheap Control Systems parts. I gotta go now.  The orderlies are 
coming with my next dose of medicine. Bill
 
  From: Frank Pittelli 
 To: R/C Tank Combat  
 Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 5:25 PM
 Subject: [TANKS] Calling All Nit-Pickers
   
If you're one of those people who are easily irritated by small 
inconsistencies or who just love to find mistakes with other people's 
work, I've got the perfect job for you.

After only 15 years of continuous duty, the server that hosts the R/C 
Tank Combat website is being retired shortly.  But fear not, all of the 
glorious information on the web site has been ported to a new server "in 
the cloud" that will hopefully provide reliable service for another 15 
years.

Most of the textual pages were simply copied to the new site and should 
be relatively error free. However, all of the database-related pages, 
including asset albums, asset history, operator history, battle scores 
and totally worthless statistics had to be re-implemented, which always 
leaves opportunities for mistakes.

So, if you'd like to help ferret out the mistakes, please visit:

    http://test.rctankcombat.com/

give it a good going over, and compare it to the original website at:

    http://www.rctankcombat.com/

If you find anything that looks wrong, please post a reply and I'll take 
a look at it.

Here are the known issues that don't need to be reported:

a) The World-Wide map still needs to be registered with Google for the 
new server, so it is currently not visible.

b) For some unknown reason, the scores for some Maryland battlers were 
somehow increased by 363% during the porting process, but I'm sure I'll 
figure out the problem someday :-)

Let the nit-picking begin.

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Re: [TANKS] Re: Calling All Nit-Pickers

[Frank Pittelli]

Definitely.  We only had one hardware problem with that server in the 15 
year period, so that server didn't require too much effort.  But, at one 
point we had 20+ servers/routers/switches to manage, so plenty of 
holidays and weekends were disrupted by trips up to the co-location 
facility to solve an issue.  Now, the cost of hosting is so cheap that 
I'm more than happy to let folks in Canada (where rctankcombat.com is 
now hosted) deal with hardware issues.


Things have sure come a long way in the 20 years since I opened my first 
web site on the Internet in 1995.  Back then, the server was in my 
house, at the end of a pitiful DSL line, and I could estimate web 
traffic by looking at the LEDs flashing on the modem.  Even better, you 
simply filled out a web form to register your URL with the various 
search engines before Google came along, putting my site at or near the 
top of all "R/C Warship" searches from the very beginning.  When Google 
came along, they eliminated that aspect, but they sucked in all of the 
newsgroup posts, which had thousands of references to my server, so it 
was near the top of the search results as well.  At one point, the R/C 
warship web site was seen by 30,000+ unique visitors a month.


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[TANKS] Re: Calling All Nit-Pickers

[TyngTech]

Yes Frank, thanks for all the web development and hosting.  Definitely been 
a boon to the hobby.  I bet it feels good off loading everything to someone 
else's web servers!  ;-)

Steve

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[TANKS] Re: Calling All Nit-Pickers

[Joe Sommer]

On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 5:25:34 PM UTC-5, Frank Pittelli wrote:
>
> b) For some unknown reason, the scores for some Maryland battlers were 
> somehow increased by 363% during the porting process, but I'm sure I'll 
> figure out the problem someday :-) 
>
> Let the nit-picking begin. 
>

Dear Dr. Pittelli,

Your new site is completely erroneous.  It shows that Hetzer T10
has more points earned than points given.  Please correct this
absurd error at your earliest convenience.

All kidding aside -

Thank you for all the work that you have done on our behalf 
these many years.

Sincerely,
Joe

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