Old News Archives [2001 - 2002]



Sunday December 29, 2002. 19:09
This is embarrassing. It was one of our own members who sent in the anonymous submissions. Shame on you Sean, you should know better than that. Anyways, here they are, 3 sketch drawings from a while back:
Random Doodle 1
Random Doodle 2
Random Doodle 3

Sunday December 29, 2002. 19:04
Slug Picture. Contest Entry from Angela.

Saturday December 28, 2002. 21:26
Good times, and not so good times. You'll hear about the good times later once I've had time to get some pictures in a some stuff written up, just got in about an hour ago.
As for the bad times. Someone didn't learn from the first mistake. We have yet another entry from an anonymous person. This time it's some sketches. Tell me who you are at Doug and identify the sketches so I can enter you properly into the contest. Did get in a few entries while I was away, and I will hopefully get them up tomorrow night. Very busy next few days as I catch up with everyone while I was gone and 3 days of 9-5 work ahead of me before the new semester starts on the 2nd. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Sunday December 22, 2002. 22:42
Merry Christmas!
This will be my last post before christmas, so I hope your holiday week is fun, and hope to see you for new years.

Sunday December 22, 2002. 16:18
Alright, found out who the entry came from.
We have an entry from Balaton: Replicant
Note the contest has 5 people who have entered, with one more person, there will be 2 prizes! Get your buddies to enter!

Sunday December 22, 2002. 10:31
Got another entry in the contest last night. One small problem. I have no clue who submitted it. To the person who submitted the entry last night, please upload your contact information. I will not post the image so there is some way you can identify that it is yours and so other people can't take credit for your work.

Saturday December 21, 2002. 11:15
Crack Critic Time!
The Big Lebowski

Thursday December 19, 2002. 19:05
Lots of Stuff today! This time it's Poker Night!
Episode 8 [Low Quality Version]

Thursday December 19, 2002. 18:25
We have one last entry from Malev6!
Death Pilot

Thursday December 19, 2002. 16:08
More Contest Entries! From Malev6.
1. Bucket of Blood
2. Saw toilet
3. Skull Helmet
4. The Carbuncles

Tuesday December 17, 2002. 18:59
We have some more entries for the contest. These ones are from Angela!
Say hi to Ruffy and see the many faces of Ruffy!
Keep those entries coming in! Only 13 more days to get your entries in!

Saturday December 14, 2002. 10:26
CMPT 275 Officially Closed. I still have all the files archived on my harddrives if you would like a copy of the assignments, but they are no longer on the site.

Saturday December 7, 2002. 18:56
Crack Critic! Blade II

Saturday December 7, 2002. 18:36
We have some entries from Trae!
Furry Blue Slug and Crazy Happy Man [Illustrator file].

Friday December 6, 2002. 17:35
Alrighty then. Our mighty Trae has made us up some Samples for the contest. Each category I suggested (all 7 of them) now have a sample image which you can check out to help you get some ideas! Check them out in the Contest Section. You still have 24 days to get in those entries! A few have come in already.

Friday December 6, 2002. 12:55
Another entry from Sean for the contest. This one is actually decent :)
Green Lantern Mosaic.

Friday December 6, 2002. 11:32
We have our first Contestant in the contest!
And if the rest of you can't beat these entries, I pity you!
Choas Spiral and Juicer by Sean.

Monday December 2, 2002. 17:50
Contest! Contest!
Submit your pictures. Spread the word! Up to $30 in prizes to be won. Check it out in the Contest section.

Saturday November 23, 2002. 22:53
Wow, this site is a magnet for crappy drawings. Here's a couple from our own lovely Sean! Looks like they should be driving the car drawn this morning by Trae. heh heh. These must have taken a whole 5 minutes to draw. What talent! I sure as hell hope your DJ skills have higher standards than your drawing skills.
Batman and Robin.

Saturday November 23, 2002. 1:12
Yet more photoshop sketches from Trae.
This one is in honour of Matt's new Pink Car, and Microsoft Golf's Infamous line 'Looks like you hit a tree'. The Pink Car.
Note from Trae: I don't know how to draw cars. Leave me alone.

Saturday November 23, 2002. 0:33
Trae is at it again with the Photoshop.
SlugCraft and Attack Slugs

Friday November 22, 2002. 19:32
Gwynt-A-Glaw. Rover/Link camp, weekend of Nov 8-10!

Saturday November 16, 2002. 12:20
Halloween 2002 Pictures from Deb's Setup in Delta!

Wednesday October 23, 2002. 22:03
Spiff!
Trae made this image from scratch in Photoshop!
I'd never be able to make anything like that, even if i used more than photoshop.

Tuesday October 22, 2002. 21:27
Ocean's Eleven!
Crack Critic is back at it!

Monday October 21, 2002. 21:04
Neglection! Neglection is the word of the day! heh.
Yes the site is getting neglected. Might help if I had some stuff to put up. Yeah. You all suck!
Anyways, picked myself up a nice PC II today! Wow, what a piece of crap! Maybe I'll put pictures of it up someday. When it is part of a beowulf cluster beside a 386 and a HC11 unit that will be made from scratch :)
heh. Anyhoo, homework keeping me busy, along with watching movies, so I can free up space on my hard drive to download more movies!
Yaaaaaaaay!

Saturday October 12, 2002. 1:54
DougTheSlug.ca Network Theme is here and almost complete. Finally you can all see what machines I have running in my room and what they do! Each computer is named according to the StarCraft Theme.

Saturday October 12, 2002. 0:07
Lucy the Dog, made in Paint. How lame, copycat! heh heh. Refer to millie the dog which will refer you to the forum for info on this amazing phenomenon for submissions!

Friday October 11, 2002. 23:56
Millie the Dog, made in Paint. [refer to the forum post "trae's random rantings" to find out how this came about.]

Thursday October 10, 2002. 16:36
Princeton! We drove to Princeton on a whim. Check it out.

Thursday October 10, 2002. 16:13
Well, the Queen Visitied Canada, but I never expected someone I know to get this type of chance. My buddy from UBC, Joel, had the honour of meeting with the Queen and presenting her with a UBC sweater. [Picture taken from The Vancouver Sun, October 8. Joel is far left, with sweater in hand]

Monday September 30, 2002. 19:42

Nice artwork by Maurice Bishop picked up by Chris while he was in England this summer. [Click for larger image]

Sunday September 29, 2002. 18:56
Wow, getting a lot done today!
I have rescanned the BBQ Pictures from the event at the end of the summer. After getting some tips from the Photoshop pro Trae, I was able to rework them and get better quality!

Sunday September 29, 2002. 17:12
It's time to induct a new member. Sean (aka The CrickCrackCrockCritic) has provided lots of material and insight for the DougTheSlug.ca site, is a regular visitor and participates actively in the DougTheSlug.ca community.
Check it out in the Members Section.

Sunday September 29, 2002. 11:56
It's about time for some material
It's ShowTime!
Crack Critic once again!

Thursday September 19, 2002. 14:33
Woohoo!
Our counter broke 3000 hits for the index page! Good job!
(go to the bottom of the news page to see the counter)

Wednesday September 18, 2002. 00:13
Alrighty then, some pictures!
From the BBQ at the End of Summer!

Sunday September 15, 2002. 19:20
Heh, right after talking about neglecting the site, I see someone uploading some material. So here it is!
Crack Critic's Review for Highlander.

Sunday September 15, 2002. 18:36
What a neglected site. Damn school work. Oh well. Nothing has happened on the site for the past couple weeks, which sucks. But I will give you an update. My P4 is being a bastard. I think there is something seriously wrong with my video card. Which means my main gaming machine is down. It works, but that's about the extent of it. Fortunately I still have my guest games machine until I get my P4 happy again. Yeah, I'm a bit busy.

Thursday September 5, 2002. 11:22
Crap, did I ever screw up!
Okay, the forum posts are still intact, but almost all of the accounts are not. I tried making a copy of the forum to work on, and I started to clear it to start from scratch, but turns out it was also pointing to the same database as the regular forum. I'm very glad i checked on this after only deleting a few accounts. Basically, I have recovered what I can, including how many posts a person had made. (by manually counting how the posts in all the threads, I'm glad the db isn't that big) Anyways, I will consider this a way of removing dormant accounts, although next time I remove dormant accounts, I do plan to at least give some notice, heh heh. And for those of you whose accounts were affected, I will be sending you a temporary password, I recommend you change this password ASAP. To the others, everything will be the same. FYI: 2 accounts have been removed for dormancy, 3 accounts had to be recreated.

Thursday September 5, 2002. 10:50
Well then, this update should have been here a long time ago. I have gotten confirmation that the new router (a P2 - 333) has improved ping levels for UT. Of course you still won't get as low as the 15 ping you can get internally, but it is much improved from the old router. Once again, to play UT on the dedicated server, simply point your UT program to battle.dougtheslug.ca. Also, I intend to soon create a new section for online gaming, which will include Stacraft, Warcraft3 and UT sections.

Wednesday September 4, 2002. 8:45
We welcome the new school year with a blast, unfortunately one that didn't kill me. heh heh. I have put together a CMPT 275 section to aid in the production of our term group project. In this section you will be able to find various resources concerning the project and the class. A link in the sidebar will be added for easy access. [Edited News item on Dec 14, CMPT 275 Section Closed]

Friday August 30, 2002. 16:04
Trae's Column, Week 18

Sunday August 25, 2002. 3:44
Alrighty then, I can finally post Trae's Latest column in the news section, see the news article below for an explanation of why it is late.

Sunday August 25, 2002. 3:39
This is just going too far. Telus is having yet more problems. Luckily this isn't really affecting anyone externally, but it has prevented me from doing any updates to the website. Basically, it's some stupid little quirk in Telus subsystems that prevented me from connecting to the webserver locally, and so I was unable to do any site updates. I have bypassed this problem, but the solution isn't as good a setup as it was before. Oh well, nothing I can do.

Sunday August 18, 2002. 4:13
Okay, back up. Took a little longer than expected, but really, nothing ever goes smooth with windows. A few problems with machines not getting new leases and using their old IP's. Don't ask me how or why. Also, aside from forgetting to install a couple things like VNC and the Dynamic Update Client for no-ip, the new router is up and running and all services should be running properly. If you have any problems connecting to any of the services, give me a shout at Doug

Sunday August 18, 2002. 1:51
Well, I believe I have the new router up and ready to go. All services that run behind the router will be down during the switch. (Forum, UT, Chat, Bnet...) Also, there will be some configuring required after I have put the new router into place as there are certain things I cannot do until it is connected to the actual network. Luckily I'm doing this in the middle of the night so hopefully no one will be affected.

Saturday August 17, 2002. 5:42
Trae's Column, Week 16.

Thursday August 15, 2002. 5:21
Well, time for an update.
The new 1.2 Ghz machine is in place. I have successfully set it up as dual boot WinXP and RedHat Linux! Woohoo!
I finally have a Linux Production machine.
Next task is the new router, which will be the machine which was just replaced, a PII-333. This will hopefully deal with some of the Lag issues that we've been encountering with the various games we play.

Saturday August 9, 2002. 17:58
Trae's Colum, Week 15!.

Tuesday August 6, 2002. 7:24
Project Apex!
Find out about this rave from Sean.

Monday August 5, 2002. 18:03
CrackCritic!
Austin Powers 3

Friday August 2, 2002. 21:11
Trae's Column! Week 14.

Sunday July 28, 2002. 9:05
CrickCrockCrackCritic is Here!
DougTheSlug.ca's very own highly acclaimed Critic has been released upon the public.
Read the very first CrackCritic!

Saturday July 27, 2002. 16:49
Trae's Column, Week 13.

Thursday July 25, 2002. 13:07
Due to a power outage at the DNS site, any DougTheSlug.ca domain may be unreachable. The site and all the services hosted for DougTheSlug.ca are still up, since they weren't affected by the power outage, but can only be reached through Doug.no-ip.com (port 5100 for the main site). Sorry for any inconvenience.

Wednesday July 24, 2002. 20:19
I am taking the UT machine down for a bit, I am going to do some work on it, I have been noticing some issues with the ut dedicated server. Unfortunately this will also bring down the bnet. These services should be back up shortly.

Sunday July 21, 2002. 2:35
Skye is now also going to write some articles for the site. This one won't be on a regular schedule though, they will only come whenever Skye has an opinion to boast. See his first installment here.

Saturday July 20,2002. 8:05
Trae's Column Week 12!

Tuesday July 16, 2002. 23:36
Massive Downtime, All Services!
Construction of a nearby road caused a power failure. Out for 4-6 hours.
On thing to note, it took a long time to bring things back up, and while things came up, some weird things went on. A few machines decided to change their IP addys out of the blue! (one took ip addy 192.168.0.242 which is out of the 16-200 scope i set in the router! go figure)
Anyways, everything _should_ be back up. I ask that you please check as many services as possible to make sure they came back up properly, and notify me at Doug if you can't access any of them.

Saturday July 13, 2002. 8:28
Trae's Column, Week 11!

Monday July 8, 2002. 21:01
Beta Testing Period is Over!
The Forum Software Passed with fairly good reviews. I will soon have a direct link to the forum in the sidebar, or you can just click here.
So join in the Forum (you can post without registering), post comments, vote in the poll, win a million dollars! Okay, well, the million dollar part isn't true, but you get the idea.

Monday July 8, 2002. 6:03
Sorry it's late!
Trae's Column, Week 10
Double Digits! It's all grown up now!

Sunday July 7, 2002. 5:20
Unreal Tournament! Oh yeah!
Had a little Lan Party last night. Picture 5 people crammed in my room fragging like there's no tomorrow!
Remember, you too can play Unreal Tournament on DougTheSlug.ca's dedicated UT server. Just point your UT client to Battle.DougTheSlug.ca ('Open Location' option under the Multiplayer menu) and frag away!

Wednesday July 3, 2002. 4:48
Poker Night!
Weeeeeee! Episode 7!
[Low Quality Version].

Friday Jan 28, 2002. 18:05
Bad Link Fixed. Sorry about that. There was a bad link in the IRC section to go to the web irc chat. That has been fixed so you can freely chat. Also, you can just click here to join the chat!

Friday Jun 28, 2002. 17:21
Trae's Column, Week 9

Tuesday Jun 25, 2002. 6:53
The IRC is finally here and easily accessible to everyone!
No more need for a 3rd Party client!
With the new web-client software, you connect directly using your internet browser. Click here to find out more about DougTheSlug.ca chat and join the discussions.

Sunday Jun 23, 2002. 16:35
Trae's Column, quite a short article this week, read and find out why.

Friday Jun 21, 2002. 2:32
IRC for everyone! I have found a web interface for the IRC! I just hope it works, I have only tested it locally, but it should work remotely, I think I've got it sorted out. Anyways, click here to go to the login. Simply enter a nickname, everything else is taken care of!
For more information about my IRC server, check out the IRC section.

Wednesday Jun 19, 2002. 14:45
New UT Maps. They took a while to get installed on the Server machine, but they are there. Around the house maps!
Remember, just point your UT program to Battle.DougTheSlug.ca!

Friday Jun 14, 2002. 14:32
Week 7, Trae's Column!

Thursday Jun 13, 2002. 0:16
The conversion to port 5100 is complete. If anyone notices that a link still goes to port 134, feel free to e-mail Doug so I can make the appropriate changes.

Tuesday Jun 11, 2002. 15:38
Forum is up and running! Apply to be a beta tester today!
Click the Beta Tester link in the sidebar! (or here)

Tuesday Jun 11, 2002. 8:21
Well then, I hope none of you used anything more than Web and Mail last night. Due to the power cuts happening last night, I left all but one machine off while I was at work. Power seems to be back, Hydro was fixing a bad line, so all the services should be back up. I will be working on the network when I wake up, as I will be going to sleep now.

Monday Jun 10, 2002. 17:14
Well, I hope Telus has come up for good, although it took a power outage here to bring the net back up. And even then I had some problems getting proper IP addy's. Anyways, appears to be up, and because of this, I was able to test my theory with the Linux box, and it is good to go. By the looks of it, that box has too much interactive stuff to do with the net, and it wasn't functioning properly without it. So the UT server is back up, along with the Forum. Remember if you want to Beta Test the Forum, give Doug an e-mail to be added to the list. That's all for now, don't have much time with these 12 hour shifts.

Sunday Jun 9, 2002. 14:58
Something has happened to the linux machine, and I don't know what's going on. It has become really slow with everything it does. I have a couple theories, unfortunately, I can't test one, and the other can only ever be speculation. The first one, I cannot test because the net is down. (We can all thank Telus for this) The second one, well, I'll give some background and you might come to the same conclusion. Yesterday there was a massive power fluctuation. All the lights dimmed massively, all the fans made weird noises, and I noticed a couple glitches when it happened. Now this is no normal brownout. It was enough to reboot my hubs! Yes, my hubs rebooted. Everything lost connection to everything else for a few seconds while the hub came back up. So my second theory is that this power fluctuation has done something to the hardware in my linux box (hopefully not permanent, that would suck). So when the net comes back up, I will reboot all my machines (that takes a while) and see how the response is on everything. If that doesn't work, I will be re-setting up the linux box. Joy!

Sunday Jun 9, 2002. 12:58
More damn problems from Telus. Does anyone think they're ever going to get this problem fixed? I'm getting pretty pissed off.

Saturday Jun 8, 2002. 14:01
I need 'beta testers'. I am releasing my Linux box onto the DougTheSlug.ca network as a Beta machine, which means I won't be doing any work on it and bringing it down until the beta test period is over.
There are 2 services being brought online with this machine:
A) Unreal Tournament Dedicated server. Just point your Unreal Tournament program to battle.DougTheSlug.ca and you will automatically join the game. Bots will come in for a minimum of 4 Players. They are set to Average Skill and have Auto-Adjust, meaning if you are creaming them, they will improve. Anyone and Everyone with this program are encouraged to try out the server. Also, just remember, if you're looking for other players to play against, stick around for bit to see if someone else joins, otherwise nobody will ever see anyone online if everyone just pops their head in for 2 seconds.
B) Forum and other Web Posting Services for the DougTheSlug.ca Website. The service I am trying to put up is meant to be a replacement for the IRC server. Basically removing the requirement of needing a client to connect. This one (for now), you will need a specific link to connect to it, so send me an e-mail at Doug and I will let you know if you have been approved onto the beta testers list. Chances are if you ask, you will be accepted, but I don't want too many people on at the start.

Saturday Jun 8, 2002. 13:46
Sorry about the delay, Telus was having problems. Anyways...
Trae's Column, week 6
Enjoy!

Monday Jun 3, 2002. 17:32
A lot of things happening behind the scenes. The Unreal Tournament dedicated server is up, but that machine is still being put together. So I can't guarantee that it will be up all the time. When I do the 'official' release of that machine onto the network, I will give more details. Currently, the bnetd move from win32 to Linux is being held back by version problems. Due to a rather large bug in the win32 port of bnetd (called bnetW), I am trying to find the latest version of bnetd for Linux. (my current bnetd supports upto v1.08 of Starcraft, I need 1.09)
Also in the making is the themes section, nearing completion, you will be able to see the computers which make up the DougTheSlug.ca network. Some might be surprised as to what they see.p
And as a last note, Telus' services have resumed normal operation, so hopefully no more downtime.

Friday May 31, 2002. 18:54
Trae's weekly column.
Week 5

Sunday May 26, 2002. 2:20
Well, you can't read this now, because my net has been down for about 2 days solid. A whole pile of BS from Telus. Whatever, they better get my net back soon, I'm already severely pissed off with their service through this 'network upgrade'. Anyways, I have picked a theme for my computer network here, and it is a StarCraft theme. Time is limited though as I try to get my linux box online and getting some services onto it. It will, once setup, hopefully host BattleNet, Unreal Tourney Dedicated server, Webcam host machine, website forum/chat and a MUX/MUSH/MUD style telnet-BattleTech game! Woohoo! Unfortunately, with all the down time with my net, I'm having trouble installing since I need to get all the software (OS and programs off of the net). Hope to have the theme section made and put up, but this section will be a fair amount of work most likely.
That's all for now.

Friday May 24, 2002. 18:36
Exciting Week 4 of Trae's Weekly column!

Wednesday May 22, 2002. 19:01
Geez, I was panicking all day. This morning, this server froze and when rebooted, couldn't locate the hard drives. Not a pretty sight. After some investigation after work though, it turns out there was a piece of metal free floating inside the unit, which was causing some sort of short which in turn caused the hard drives to be unreadable. Luckily, this piece has been put back into place, and the server appears to be running normally.
Phew!

Sunday May 19, 2002. 12:59
Remote Control Car Crash Course!
A while back, Trae and I had some fun with her digital still camera. Using 'burst' mode, 3 pictures per second, we made a short little crash course. Through the pile of cars and over the ramp!
Pure fun. heh.

Sunday May 19, 2002. 12:36
Biking Pictures from last weekend in the Delta Watershed. Check them out!

Saturday May 18, 2002. 14:29
Trebuchets!
Using the catapult supplies from last summer, a Joel and I built a trebuchet,
Range was a touch better than the catapult built last summer, and firing was a lot easier, not to mention, a lot less stress on the machine itself. We didn't break any 2x2's using this design.
Launching Picture 1 and Picture 2.

Friday May 17, 2002. 22:02
Trae's Column
Week 3!

Thursday May 16, 2002. 21:31
Quarters? Yes, a rant about Quarters.
Sean Hates Counterfeit Quarters.
As for the racist comments about asians. One comment. Learn to speak english. Christ. Don't come bitching to me though, becuase if you're insulted that you can't speak english, chances are I won't understand what you're bitching about, and I won't give a damn. Canada's national languages are English and French, learn to speak one of them, or better, both.

Wednesday May 15, 2002. 23:03
Poker Night!
Oh yeah! Episode 6!
[Low Quality Version].

Wednesday May 15, 2002. 19:54
Jesus, Telus Again!
Network problems. Customers in the Lower Mainland may have trouble getting an IP address and connecting to the internet. They can shove that goddamned message up their asses. I paid for uninterrupted net and it's been interrupted who knows how many times this month, not to mention all the crap last month.
GRRRRRRR!

Tuesday May 14, 2002. 21:56
Snow!?! Still?
In the first week of May, we had some more freak weather, and got a cover of snow. My trusty marketing and imaging expert happened to grab a DougCam picture of the snow covered area.

Monday May 13, 2002. 19:48
I Hate Windoze!
Windows decided to claim my p4 (again!) and I am currently reinstalling everything. This means all other tasks are on hold until I get it back up, which hopefully will only be a couple days. Put on hold: the latest Poker Night, which has been filmed, just needs to be scanned in and edited, and the pictures from last weekend, haven't gotten them in though, hope they turn out.

Sunday May 12, 2002. 15:29
Cut arms, scraped chest, bloody knees and shins, bumps, bruises and ripped clothing!
Paradise!
Sweet Weekend of Camping and Off-Road Biking in Delta Watershed. Pictures to come soon, just need to finish off the last film and get them in. Wicked runs, jumps and some awesome spills and bails.

Friday May 10, 2002. 17:09
Trae's Column, week 2!
Check it out, and don't miss the joke and tip on the index page for Trae's column. (you'll find it by clicking community in the sidebar, then clicking trae's column which will appear in the sidebar)

Wednesday May 8, 2002. 20:42
Floor Hockey at Scout Hall
The game was rough and tough, with some huge hits and wicked goals. The teams were Ken, Sean, James and Kyle on Team Hallway vs. Fraser, Martin, Joe and David, Team Door. Fraser, with his shield and wrap around technique, spent most of the night showing the opposing team his ass. Scoring was frequent, and Team Door leapt to an early 12-3 lead. It was at this point that the ball was cut in half. Sean went to get a new ball, and proceeded to back his parent's CRV into a metal pole. No damage, whew! Strong play by James and good goaltending by Kyle brought the scores close to 36-34 still in favor of Team Door and the teams took another break. Play was rough but fun. Joe locked Ken in the equipment closest, and Ken hip-checked Martin through a door. David was the all-star for the game, getting about a third of his teams goals and stopping even more when he played net. With the score 46-45 in favor of Team Hallway, Team Hallway blew the game by putting Sean 'the klutz' in net. Final score, Team Door 50, Team Hallway 47.

Friday May 3, 2002. 19:07
Trae's Weekly Column is Here!
Week One.

Thursday May 2, 2002. 11:53
Doug The Slug Pens!
Check them out in the Merchandise section.

Wednesday May 1, 2002. 21:58
Slug Cam is Back!
It's not on the fish this time, just so you know.

Tuesday Apr 30, 2002. 21:00
Annoucement!!!
I have exciting news. Starting this Friday, Trae will be hosting a weekly column for the duration of the summer. Expect to see the first installment this Friday Evening.

Sunday Apr 28, 2002. 12:42
Capture the Flag!
Too bad for all those who missed the event last night held by Kyle.
Had 2 good long games once we got a fairly large group which arrived around 10, along with a few other games with less people beforehand.
Hope to see more people the next time one is held.

Friday Apr 19, 2002. 18:49
Poker Night!
Been a long time since the last Poker Night, good to have it back.
[Low Quality Version].

Friday Apr 19, 2002. 16:45
Doug and the Slugs. No, not me or this site. The Band.
Yes, they exist, but are unrelated to us. They are playing at a local pub, and I thought it was kind of a funny coincidence. Check out where they're playing on the 26th.
I have heard them on the radio, and they aren't too shabby, but I'm not going.

Thursday Apr 18, 2002. 22:38
Those Bastards at Telus. (What's new)
Deciding to drop net again. With their stupid automated message on their tech support line saying net may be down for some customers in the lower mainland, check back at 2300.
%$&*!!!!
grrrrrrr... Unfortunately, you won't be able to read this until the site comes back up, but at least when you read this you'll know why you weren't able to access the site at this time.

Tuesday Apr 16, 2002. 18:57
I am going to be naming all of my computers in the network with a theme. I need your help. I need theme ideas. The theme must have a fair selection and variety of names to give all the computers a name. Help me out and submit theme suggestions to Doug.

Sunday Apr 14, 2002. 13:28
What the hell is going on with the weather?
Getting some freaky stuff here, white stuff to be more specific!
Crazy, it's snowing here up at my place, middle of April!
Messed.

Monday Apr 8, 2002. 12:19
Exams. Yes, Exams are upon me. I have one exam this thursday and one exam next thursday. So chances are you probably won't see much in the early parts of these 2 weeks since I should be studying. Also, hopefully I'll have an announcement from one of our Staff, Trae, later in the week. It is still in the works, so keep posted. Her exams end on thursday, so there will be no work done on it until then.

Monday Apr 8, 2002. 10:14
Okay, lets get you people out of the dark. I have completely neglected the site for almost a week now. Firstly, I have been able to get 2 more machines going in here, that is the main reason I have not done anything on the site. One of these machines is now my Mac Production machine, and I have transferred all website control from my parents machine to this one. So basically I waited until the transfer to the new Production machine was complete until I went back to the site.

Tuesday Apr 2, 2002. 18:42
Happy Birthday Doug!
That feels weird saying that to myself.
So yeah, It's my birthday. Good party on the weekend, thanks to all who showed. Unfortunately no pictures this time around. Oh well. It was fun. And a big thanks to Ken, our hired chef for the event.

Thursday Mar 28, 2002. 13:54
Wanna (More) Piece o' Me Boy?
I have been able to successfully run a newer version of Bnetd, which means support for Starcraft v1.09.
Yesssssssssss!
The 4 1.09 Patches will be up in the starcraft section soon. (SC & BW for Mac and PC)

Thursday Mar 28, 2002. 11:52
Wanna Piece o' me Boy?
If you do, check out the tutorial on how to use the Server Manager to play StarCraft on DougTheSlug.ca's BattleNet Server

Thursday Mar 28, 2002. 9:52
I was bored, so I made an image for the horizontal rule between news items.
Let me know what you think.

Wednesday Mar 27, 2002. 15:04
Formal Dinner in Delta
And what happened before and after... heh
Tuesday Mar 26, 2002. 22:45
SlugAmp returns!
SlugAmp finally makes it onto winamp.com as a skin submission!
Check it out at www.winamp.com and use it as your winamp skin.
Friday Mar 22, 2002. 18:05
Update!
Hope to have a new contest up soon. Keep a eye on the sight for the launch of the contest.
Also, I have just gotten my new business cards from staples. (yay) Check them out if you haven't already seen one.
Sunday Mar 17, 2002. 12:42
Rocky Horror Picture Show?
No, It's only Dave.
Plus school happenings on March 8th
Check them out!
Sunday Mar 17, 2002. 12:41
Update. Sorry for not having anything done to the site for the last couple weeks. I've been busy with various things including school. Anyways, hope to get back on track, need to film another Poker Night, but I do have 2 assignments due this Friday, maybe I'll find some time in there somewhere.
Friday Mar 1, 2002. 18:55
We are online with the new server.
Let me know at Peacheyman@hotmail.com of any errors or anything out of the ordinary that you may notice with the new hardware.
Thank you for your patience through this.
Thursday Feb 28, 2002. 11:22
Update.
My Server is not happy right now. A little over a week ago, it's built in video card went, and I have no way of replacing the video card. I have spent the past week trying to get everything off of this computer. But that can be difficult if you cannot see what's happening on the computer. If you don't understand what's going on, take your computer, unplug your monitor. Permanently. Now you know what i'm dealing with. Yeah. So I've got another machine which I'm setting up to take over the serving duties. Unfortunately a Hard Drive swap is impossible since the new hardware has SCSI hard drive interfaces, which will hopefully mean faster serving, since the SCSI HD's will be able to respond and send data at a faster rate. Hope to have it up soon and back to getting material up on the site.
Thursday Feb 21, 2002. 16:41
Crackboy is at it again!
Liberation has given me lovely pictures of his GI Joe war
Monday Feb 18, 2002. 18:04
Mr Lambert at the Curling Championships
Way to go Mr Lambert!
Thursday Feb 14, 2002. 12:34
1000 Hits!
The counter for DougTheSlug.ca reached 1000 on Feb 12th.
Woohoo!
Monday Feb 11, 2002. 21:16
E-mail issue has been resolved. DougTheSlug.ca and Doug.no-ip.com e-mail is back to normal.
Monday Feb 11, 2002. 15:29
Phase 1 of Webpage GUI change is complete. Check out the new sidebar buttons, with expandable menus. Also note the extra categories...
Sunday Feb 10, 2002. 20:01
Yet more crap from Telus.
I have noticed a lot of problems regarding DougTheSlug e-mail. I am trying to narrow down what exactly the problem is, whether it has to do with Telus blocking more ports, or their smtp server blocking non-Telus e-mail addresses, or even if this has to do with the port mapping that got setup last night.
Basically what I've noticed is e-mails dissappearing into the ether. My client claims the e-mail was sent, but the destination does not receive it. So please know this if you have and use a DougTheSlug or no-ip e-mail address
Saturday Feb 9, 2002. 19:32
Those bastards at Telus have decided to block port 80, which means that website access was most likely down, for almost everyone. Luckily, this has been bypassed, but with one small hitch. Doug.no-ip.com will no longer work. If you don't know anything about ports, just stick to DougTheSlug.ca. If you do know about ports, then you can still use doug.no-ip.com:134 as backup.
BTW, site facelift phase 1 is almost complete and almost ready to bring up. Along with this will be some new sections and some material which have been waiting for the facelift.
Friday Feb 8, 2002. 18:00
Doughnuts!
...and we remembered the camera this time
Sunday Feb 3, 2002. 20:53
Sledding on Burnaby Mountain.
Pictures on the night of the 25th
Sunday Feb 3, 2002. 19:31
We have some exciting things coming soon! They are in the works, and should be ready to go very quickly!
Firstly, We are working on a facelift for the site. Expect some new graphics or modifications within a week.
Secondly, once we have the new graphics online, we will be adding a couple sections, including tutorials to get onto the IRC and onto BattleNet for Starcraft!
So keep an eye on the site for these great upgrades!
Heh, a site upgrade. Pimpin' the site up :)
Friday Feb 1, 2002. 16:22
DougTheSlug.ca Mission Statement:
This mission statement has 3 parts:
The first one is a personal goal, the 2nd is a community goal.
1. To learn the about the net, and any related aspects.
2. To provide original material from the people for the people.
3. To have fun.

This is the new Mission Statement. It can be found in the credits section of the site.
Wednesday Jan 30, 2002. 16:38
The View from SFU.

Thanx to Trae for this picture
Thursday Jan 24, 2002. 22:19
I need Your Help!
Since I have no way of testing my services remotely, I would like any of you to report if any of my services are down.
A sample report (template) is here.
Thursday Jan 24, 2002. 15:23
IRC is up and running!
No web client yet, so get mIRC (for PC) or IRCle (for Mac) and connect to IRC.DougTheSlug.ca to chat with the DougTheSlug community
Wednesday Jan 23, 2002. 23:57
Doughnuts!
No. Not Timmy's.
Car doughnuts.
Tonight, Trae and I took my car up to the SFU parking lots and had some fun in the fresh snow. Unfortunately, we didn't have a camera on us, so next time it snows, we'll have some good doughnut pics. Weeeeeee!
Tuesday Jan 22, 2002. 17:23
SlugAmp!
Get the brand new WinAmp Skin!
Listen to your music DougTheSlug style!
Created by our very own Trae
Tuesday Jan 22, 2002. 17:11
New Postcard campaign!
I have decided to begin a campaign to collect postcards sent to 'DougTheSlug.ca'
Right now, I will NOT put my mailing address on the web, I will look into alternatives such as Post Office Boxes and such, but right now, it will have to be limited to the people who know me personally and thus can get the adress from me personally.
Postcards sent in to the DougTheSlug community will be scanned in and put online for everyone to see.
So if you are travelling anywhere, send a postcard in!
Sunday Jan 20, 2002. 16:18
Kyle and Alex go up Golden Ears
Weekend of Jan 12th and 13th
Friday Jan 18, 2002. 18:24
Submissions are needed!!!
There are some of you out there who have told me that you have material, but have not submitted it. Get that stuff in here and I'll get it posted!
Wednesday Jan 16, 2002. 17:54
I have gotten an IRC Server up. There are a few hitches right now, which I plan to have fixed in the very bear future.
1. Clients right now would have to be downloaded and installed to be able to chat. Solution: I am working on getting a java client for the site.
2. The only way to connect right now is by setting the server name to Battle.DougTheSlug.ca. Solution: I have put in a request to have IRC.DougTheSlug.ca be for IRC.

On another note, DougTheSlug.ca appears to be down, due to the DNS being down at farmboy's place. This may explain why people might not have been able to connect at this time using DougTheSlug.ca. I will take this time to remind people yet again that Doug.no-ip.com may work when Dougtheslug.ca doesn't. And yes, doug.no-ip.com is working right now.
Tuesday Jan 15, 2002. 15:39
I need to make 'I Hate Windows Section'
After installing Easy CD creator on my P4, it did not boot up.
Giving me the blue screen of death, I could not boot up the computer, not even in 'Safe Mode'. Safe Mode my ass, didn't do a damn thing.
Yet again, I am reinstalling everything on my P4.
Tuesday Jan 15, 2002. 13:00
Car Videos Work!
Quick Ramp shot
Going Crazy
Longer Ramp shot
I finally got the mime settings to work, so now they work when you download them.
Monday Jan 14, 2002. 15:57
Battle.DougTheSlug.ca has been setup!
Get on there if you play starcraft, or heck, any blizzard game which uses BattleNet!
Friday Jan 11, 2002. 15:18
StarCraft Section is Up!
Click in the sidebar to find out how to play online with the DougTheSlug community using our own Battle.Net server.
Thursday Jan 10, 2002. 21:06
Port Mapping Works!
I played a couple games of 'craft over BattleNet with Trae. She was remotely connected and I was locally connected, and it all worked!
Still waiting on the DNS. I will be getting a starcraft section up very soon to help you get it.
Thursday Jan 10, 2002. 14:04
Woohoo!
Hardware is all setup and in place. Now to make sure everything on the software side is running smoothly. This will include port mapping for BattleNet. One other thing required for BattleNet is for Farmboy to set his DNS to go to the bnetd server.
Wednesday Jan 9, 2002. 22:38
Damn, I Hate Windows.
Turns out, the only thing preventing the 166 router from working was because it was behind another windows router. Stupid. When connected directly to Telus, it setup just fine.
So anyways, the 166 Router is up and running. Tomorrow, I will work on getting the BattleNet server running. I also have a lot of rewiring and assembling of computers to do now that everything is running properly.
Check back tomorrow for updates on this.
Wednesday Jan 9, 2002. 17:19
Wow, Telus just doesn't stop.
Today I got an e-mail from telus that completely screwed up my mail portion of my server. I have no idea what it was, but it looked wierd in the logs, and I couldn't download my e-mail using POP3 nor read it using web.mail. It caused the serevr to hang when I tried accessing the e-mail.
The only way I could get rid of this derelict message was delete my account and put a new account back for me. GRRRR! Telus Bastards.
Tuesday Jan 8, 2002. 18:26
Poker Night!
Episode 4
[Low Quality Version]
Tuesday Jan 8, 2002. 15:31
The Latest Contest has been closed.
To all those that the 2 remaining pictures stumped, feel free to check out the solutions posted in the contest section.
Sunday Jan 6, 2002. 18:07
When it came time to test my server, to see if it could stay up while I was away, it passed with flying colours. Everything was running smoothly inside that machine.
One small hitch.
Those bastards at Telus dropped the net for all my computers at around 6:30 friday evening.
My server was perfectly fine and those bastrds screwed it all up.
Anyways, after restarting the 3 machines which are connected directly to Telus, everything is back up and running.
Tonight, I am working from 9-3 and am working the same shift for the 2 nights following. School has started up again, so I may not have much time to work on things until Tuesday, a day I don't have any lectures.
See you soon.
Friday Jan 4, 2002. 01:31
Well, my techie is down for the count right now. Being on call at his job has sucked him dry. Unfortunately, he's the one I need to look at my new router. I have it running except for one stupid little detail, which appears to be a Microsoft 'Special Feature'.
Anyways, I am out of town for 3 days. Leaving midday tomorrow and returning sunday evening in time for my shift on the 6th at Vancity.
I will be going to Castlegar for Services for my Grandmother.
This will be a test for the server and Telus. Can my server stay up for 3 days? Can Telus keep a constant net connection for 3 days? Right now, the latter has more probability of happening. Ever since I got rid of the Mac Router, the server hardly crashes and the only reason it ever goes offline is when Telus decides to drop all net requiring the restarting of all computers.

On a happier note, we shall wish Matt good luck with his new co-op job in Nelson. He is suuposedly leaving later this morning for 8 months. I fully expect to hear from him when he gets online in Nelson to let us know how he's doing.

I have been doing some testing with Trae on the bnetd server to get all the kinks out before I make it publically accessible. This of course is pending the 166 router going up, and port mapping enabled to allow connections.
There are a lot of unfinished things right now with these services, and will be working as best as possible when I get back to get the following things fixed/up/running:
  1. Poker Night Episode 4
  2. R/C Car videos
  3. Router
  4. Bnetd Server
  5. IRC Server
...plus other smaller items...
Thursday Jan 3, 2002. 01:29
Wow, is my room a mess!
Computer parts all over.
But what is going to happen with all this mess?
It's actually going to do something productive. With the aid of another computer, a P166, of which I was able to locate 128M of EDO ram to put in it, is being setup with Win2000 Server to be a dedicated router!
Behind this dedicated router, I plan to set up the Pro180 for dedicated PC services. What will these services be you might ask?
1. Battle.Net server for multiplayer gaming without the need of blizzards servers
2. IRC Server
3. Unreal Tourney Dedicated Server
The main one will be the bnetd server. For the purpose of playing Blizzard games in TCP/IP without having to worry about serial verification. If you have any ideas for any more services, let me know.
Once I do start getting more services up and running, I will make a section on this site with instructions on how to use the various new services. (ie: need a starcraft hack to edit starcraft to select a non-default battlenet server such as europe or asia)
Tuesday Jan 1, 2002. 16:30
711 Hits for the year 2001!
Woohoo!
And that is only the last quarter of 2001!
May the next year bring more hits and more excitement
Wednesday Dec 26, 2001. 22:45
That Gift has given me it's last bit. Wiped the drive and started from scratch. This time with Win2000 Server. Why the change in OS?
1. WinME was pissing me off
2. Win2000 Server would allow me to use it as a router with DHCP. (yay)
So the P4 is my new router. Not exactly what I wanted, but a much better setup. Hopefully with this, the server won't keep crashing as it is no longer acting as router for all of my computers!
Again, a thanks to Farmboy for helping me with the Win2000 Setup. I had tried everything from Norton to get the virus, but the virus also hit Norton, rendering it almost useless at times. I fought that virus for at least 10 hours, and never completely eradicated it, it always lingered in a file or 2, and sometimes hitting a file count of a few hundred.
Now I'm touching up and will soon be reinstalling everything. Long task.
Wednesday Dec 26, 2001. 14:26
The Gift That Keeps Giving.
Thanks Joe
Unfortunately, Joe's present included the W95.CIH virus.
My P4 is down for the count. Currently working on bringing it back up. I cannot get poker night 4 up until I get this computer back up because its the one with the scanner.
I'll keep you posted!
Tuesday Dec 25, 2001. 12:10
Merry Christmas!
Hope everyone is having a good time with family and friends.
Just a note, the videos may not work due to improper/lack of MIME settings. I will work on that and may even just put them on ftp. More later on this issue.
Sunday Dec 23, 2001. 14:09
Remote Control Choas!
We were bored.
We made Remote Control Car videos using a still digital camera. (Don't ask us how me managed to do that)
Quick Ramp shot
Going Crazy
Longer Ramp shot
Unfotunately, I could only get them into Windoze Media format, so you need Win Media Player to view these. Nothing I can do about that unless someone gets me some better editing software that can make more formats.
Monday Dec 17, 2001. 14:30
Router Update!
I have made some advances with my router, and can now get it working behind my current router for testing. Now I am fighting Telus to get it to work directly with them and not behind my current router. Hopefully this will be solved soon and reliability will go way up!
Thursday Dec 13, 2001. 23:49
Update:
I am now making my own attempts at Linux with the setup of a new router. Farmboy has some people working on the 486 router, but they are very busy and have limited time to work with it. So I am taking my Pro180 and making it a linux box. Wish me luck.
IRC is as good as down, it's up from time to time, but for the most part, it is down. I am running the IRC server on a machine behind the router/server, but that machine isn't always up either.
As for working on these issues:
Priority is always getting any material or info up into the news (of which I haven't recieved any submissions for a while, get some pics/stories/rants/whatevers in and I'll get them up)
Then comes getting the new router up and running. Once I finally get a new working router, there will be some downtime as I will have to do some reconfiguring of registrations with telus to allow for the different setup. Hopefully downtime will be minimal.
Lastly will be the setup of secondary services like the IRC. Since I have dropped ICQ, i have had less contact with people, although that hasn't really affected the runnings of things, which is good. Aside though, I would like to get to this item sooner rather than later.
Wednesday Dec 12, 2001. 21:34
Poker Night!
Episode 3
[Low Quality Version]
Monday Dec 10, 2001. 13:01
Holy Sh*t!
I have just gotten 2 weeks of full time at $17 an hour over the holidays!
I will NOT be available during the days of Dec 29, 30, 31, Jan 1, 5, 6, 7, 8
And if I am, I will be extremely tired, as I will be working overnight shifts on these days.
I am Happy. Lots of Money.
Monday Dec 10, 2001. 12:46
Woohoo!
Exams are done for the semester!
Hope to see and get more material on for you people.
I am currently looking for some DivX software to compress an .avi file into something much smaller.
I have some funny videos that are awaiting compression so I can post them.
Also, tomorrow I plan to shoot Episode 3 of Poker Night.
Thursday Dec 6, 2001. 22:10
Hints for the Current Contest!
Hints!
Check them out and submit new guesses!
Thursday Dec 6, 2001. 21:58
I still hate PC's!
I finally have the P 200 online, but I am still fighting windows 'features'.
Currently still installing and making the final updates. Hope to see you on the IRC soon!
I am also awaiting the completion of my new router, which has apparently hit a speed bump. Skye_the_Farmboy has informed me that the linux geek he has gotten to work on it said to restart it from scratch and that the current setup that was being tried wasn't going to work. Bummer!
Also hope to have a new episode of Poker Night created soon and put up for you.
Tuesday Dec 4, 2001. 14:49
I hate PC's!
Duh
With the combination of exam prep and Windows 'features', my P 200 will be offline for a while. The IRC server is up, but if you are having any problems, I will be unable to help you until I get my P 200 running.
My P 200 is my productivity computer, and without it, I am unable to do basic tasks I have assigned to it like acting as my IRC client, checking my Doug E-mail and so on. I could do these things from my Mac 225 on a temporary basis, but if I actually have any time to do stuff on my network, it will be spent getting my P 200 back online and running.
And no, I'm not cluttering my P4 1.5 with these things for only a temporary basis, I can live without until I get the P 200 back online.
See you when I get my P 200 back online.
Monday Dec 3, 2001. 22:21
Reliability?
The router is becoming more flaky than ever. I request your patience if the server ever is down. Because I run all my services (Routing, Web, Mail, FTP) from one machine, which will now include IRC, the machine is quite overloaded and the router has a tendency to go down on a rather annoying regular basis.
Our Tech Support, Skye_the_Farmboy is working on a new solution for a router. I have done some rewiring here at my place so as soon as the new routing machine is ready, I will be able to plug it in and get the new solution running.
The main advantage of this will be that the server will be on a separate machine from the router and it won't go down every time the router does so, and therefore, the server should be much more reliable.
Monday Dec 3, 2001. 22:10
Update!
I am bringing down the webcam until I find a new subject to point it at. The quality of looking at the aquarium was no good. The webcam Contest was won by Joe, congrats for finding 2 animals in one frame!
When I bring it back up, I will post in the news and put the icon back in the sidebar.
Monday Dec 3, 2001. 14:15
Update!
I am ridding myself of a devil under the disguise of 'ICQ'. After deciding to do a overhaul on C drive in my P 200, I have decided to not reinstall ICQ. Personally, this is almost a triumph for me. I've been wanting to get rid of the horrible, unstable, unreliable program for quite a while now.
As a [better] replacement to ICQ, I will be reinstating my IRC server. Connection to an IRC server is simple. If you do not know where to get a client (mIRC or IRCle) just e-mail me and I will help you get on.
Simply connect to DougTheSlug.ca in your client with desired nickname. (Default Port 6667)
Main chat channel is #heck, but feel free to open your own chatroom if you feel like it.
Wednesday Nov 28, 2001. 21:57
Poker Night!
Episode 2
[Low Quality Version]
Thursday Nov 22, 2001. 14:26
Frat Life
Submission from Sean
Wednesday Nov 21, 2001. 18:02
Poker Night!
Episode 1
[Low Quality Version]
Monday Nov 19, 2001. 22:54
Hockey Night In Canada!
Cancucks vs Blues!
Joe, Matt, Allison and Doug at the Game
Monday Nov 19, 2001. 14:26
We have a Winner!
The Webcam Contest has been Won!
Congrats to Joe for finding 2 animals in one frame!
Wednesday Nov 14, 2001. 16:13
November 9 Nighttime Road Trip.
Great fun in what could be considered as a long way to go for some beautiful stargazing.
Wednesday Nov 14, 2001. 14:09
New Contest!
There are currently 2 Contests running.
Find out More.
Sunday Nov 11, 2001. 15:10
T O O L
GM Place, Nov 7th
Tuesday Nov 6, 2001. 12:59
Contests are here!
Win a DougTheSlug.ca MousePad!
Check it out Here.
Tuesday Nov 6, 2001. 12:13
Joe is STILL pissed.
Joe's [Revised] Rant
Sunday Nov 4, 2001. 18:07
DougTheSlug.ca Merchandise!!
Get it Here!!
Sunday Nov 4, 2001. 17:34
Pictures in and posted from this years' Halloween gathering.
Unfortunately, not very many turned out, but this is a sampling of the evening.
Sunday Oct 28, 2001. 15:57
Man, what kind of Loser guy bakes a cake?!?
Just a picture from the archives of my pics :)
Sunday Oct 28, 2001. 14:55
Web Cam Section reworked. Now the webcam opens in a new window, so you can continue browsing while watching the webcam. You also have the option of a 15 second or 60 second refresh rate now.
Thursday Oct 25, 2001. 18:52
I have another toy!
A WebCam!
I am trying to get it to work on my fish tank, but I am having problems with reflections with glass and water. Right now it's aimed at wherever it was last placed. Hopefully soon, it will be somewhere at least mildly entertaining :)
Check it out Here!
Wednesday Oct 24, 2001. 17:27
It appears as if we've been able to fix DougTheSlug.ca!
Now we wait for the test to see if it will 'survive' an IP change, and whether it will do it quickly
Remember, if DougTheSlug.ca is down, Doug.no-ip.Com may work.
Tuesday Oct 23, 2001. 9:35
Use Doug.no-ip.Com instead of DougTheSlug.ca
DougTheSlug.ca will unfortunately be down until further notice.
Just another friendly reminder that if at any time DougTheSlug.ca is down (ie: during this time period) Doug.no-ip.Com may be working.
Those Bastards at Telus have found a way to block my hostname, so until I find a new place to host my DNS, DougTheSlug.ca will be screwed, while Doug.no-ip.Com remains untouched.
Sunday Oct 21, 2001. 14:25
Why is DougTheSlug.ca down when the website is actually up?
A: DougTheSlug.ca isn't 100% reliable.
If DougTheSlug.ca does not work, you can still try to use Doug.no-ip.Com
If you want, here's the Technical Mumbo Jumbo on why DougTheSlug.ca isn't 100% reliable.
I will hopefully soon have a solution for this and make DougTheSlug.ca more reliable
Tuesday Oct 16, 2001. 16:41
DougTheSlug.ca is UP and running!
Again, I will continue to use Doug.no-ip.com as a backup
Sunday Oct 14, 2001. 17:07
www.DougTheSlug.ca
Last night I purchased this domain!!!!
This site will soon be available from that domain name
I will put an item in the news when www.DougTheSlug.ca is useable as I have to set it up
I will continue to allow Doug.no-ip.Com to access this page, but all references on this site will be changed to www.DougTheSlug.ca when I get the DN server up and running
Sunday Oct 14, 2001. 16:56
Sites and Old News Sections Added
Also, Sidebar revamped with Spiffy Rollovers!
Monday Oct 8, 2001. 20:04
Joe is Pissed.
Pissed at Maxtor.
Joes Rant.
Monday Oct 8, 2001. 19:28
Html Uploading now available.
If you have a file to upload, you now have 3 options to upload:
1. E-mail
2. FTP
3. HTML Upload
To submit, go to the Submissions page.
Monday Oct 8, 2001. 1:19
New Logo and Mini Logo Uploaded.
Old one was looking crappy.
Still waiting submissions for Logo and Motto
Sunday Oct 7, 2001. 15:29
Hot Tub Pictures Reloaded
Bigger and Better!
Tuesday Oct 2, 2001. 17:15
Flying Monitors!
Yes, you heard right! Monitors have flown!
It is a damn high Bridge. You can barely make out Matt in the bottom of the picture.
Here is a Close Up of what remains of the monitor. It has been a week or 2 since it's inaugural flight, so someone has obviously done a little cleanup.
For perspective, here is a Zoom Out from above on the bridge.
It is a shame we weren't able to get pictures of the monitor earlier before someone cleaned some of it up. It landed screen down, made a huge blasting noise and left casing all over.
Tuesday Oct 2, 2001. 14:52
Photo Albums Section added. All Pictures assembled in 'Photo Album' format will be posted here in archive format. If there is no 'Photo Album' formatting for an article, you will need to search for that particular article in the old news to find corresponding photos and images.
Tuesday Oct 2, 2001. 14:20
Hot Tub!
Last Tuesday Matt had a Hot Tub Party. Had a few people over and had some fun. Pics from this can be viewed in this Photo Album. Also, had some fun with the Camera and took a 10 second exposure to get this. All in all, a good mellow night. We should do this more often (hint hint matt...)
Tuesday Sept 25, 2001. 13:22
Submissions page updated
Vote on a Motto
or submit your own
Friday Sept 21, 2001. 12:30
Eye Candy!
MMmmmmm... Candy...
Yes, the eye candy is here, check them out!
Wednesday Sept 19, 2001. 17:28
The Catapult!
The Catapult! In the spring/summer, we decided to make a Catapult. The initial supplies cost about $30 at the local Revy Hardware store. We lashed them together in a couple hours and came out with this. That is Ken standing beside the Catapult in both pictures.
Notice in the 2nd picture that one of the pieces is broken near the top. Some of the supplies we used weren't strong enough and we ended up busting a lot of wood over the course of the few times that we constructed it. After all said and done, we prabably spent a total of 50-60 dollars on supplies!
Results ranged from 30 feet to 100 feet depending on what we launched. Paintballs went the farthest, while things like pop cans went much less.
The project was abandoned when I got all cut up by a glass bottle when it misfired as I was loading it. A lot of blood dripping everywhere and a lot of band-aids. We still have the supplies if we feel like renewing the project, but no glass bottles.
Wednesday Sept 19, 2001. 12:18
Submissions section added
This section can also be used for comments and/or suggestions
Tuesday Sept 18, 2001. 15:06
'Battletech Online' Section Added
Kickass Game
Sweet to have it online!
Games playing online since Spring 2001!
Tuesday Sept 18, 2001. 13:43
Added Members section.
Ooooooooo!
Tuesday Sept 18, 2001. 13:24
We need a Logo!
Scour your HD! Hone those Photoshop Skills!
Submit to Doug@doug.no-ip.com
Or upload to FTP:
Server:Port = doug.no-ip.com:21
Login:Password = upload:here

Main Logo can be any size, but of course, if it's 6 pages in size, chances are it won't get picked. The mini version for the sidebar can be as high as it wants, but cannot be more than 140 pixels wide. Again, same thing as with the main one, keep size reasonable.

Plus, new ideas for a motto would be appreciated, maybe even incorporate it into the logo. The current motto was the result of 3 seconds of brainstorming on my part.
Tuesday Sept 18, 2001. 13:01
Today we see the dawn of a new Era. Well, not really, but this is the first day of the Brand Spanking New Doug.Slug.Com!
Exciting isn't it!
Okay, so you don't share my optimism.
Fine, shun me!

Check back here for more exciting news to come.
If there's no new exciting news, hopefully i'll at least post a Comic, like this Picture.