Greetings Imperials,

Its been a while since I did a full report, so I have a number of different topics to report on today.

IRC BOTS
I've gone through all of dasb0t's scripts, removed those that were unnecessary, and added a couple of others. Links to the IRC channel logs and current channel statistics, and a list of public bot commands, is now located at http://www.ehcomm.net/dasb0t.php.

Additionally, I have set up ehb0t. You may have seen him hanging around channels in the past couple of weeks. ehb0t's exclusive purpose is to manage channels that are not yet registered with Undernet Channel Service, while dasb0t sits on channels that already are registered and have X.

COMMA SyNthetiC PaRadoX is nearing completion of his live bot tracking script which will display the current status and channels of the various COMM-approved IRC bots.

TRIVIA
I'm in need of people to write questions and/or convert existing trivia questions on the Internet into the bot trivia format. If you have good ideas for new categories I am open to suggestions, but mostly I'd rather expand on the questions in the current categories. If you're interested, please contact me via e-mail. Appropriate medals will be awarded for your work. BHG members may earn 7.5K credits per submitted question.

EMPERORSHAMMER.ORG
The emperorshammer.org project is proceeding. I've solicited ideas and concerns from the Command Staff and support staff about the project, and will be using this feedback to decide how to continue. I've spoken with GA Ronin, and we are looking into provisioning a dedicated server with Verio for the new site.

If you do not already have an ELS handle, please register one at http://els.minos.net/ in preparation for the launch of the new site in the coming weeks.

ELS
The ELS client site package version 2.0.0 has been released as of 28 May, 2004. Any site wishing to implement ELS should contact myself, or IO/AD Robert Dura.

I am currently in the process of upgrading the portion of code that sends updates from the primary master server to all the secondaries to ELS 2.0.0 standards. An additional master will be launched on the ehpd.org server when this is complete.

Astatine has approached me about an ASP port for the ELS code... more on this later.

OTHER
I am going to be on leave for most of the month of June. I'll be attending Army Airborne School at Fort Benning, GA, and will have little access to e-mail or time to deal with issues. IO/AD Robert Dura will likely be taking care of message board requests and the like during this time period. I'll announce the specifics of this on the MBs when I know for sure.

I may also be needed for G8 Summit security, in which case I will be leaving on the 1st of June instead of the 9th. I've yet to confirm this for sure.

That's it for this week.

IRC MEETINGS

The Emperor's Hammer conducts an online Internet Relay Chat meeting every Saturday at 1200 hours (12PM) Eastern Time. Command officers from around the fleet issue reports in a moderated format regarding their respective areas of service. General member discussion and trivia follows. For more information, please see http://www.emperorshammer.net/meetings.asp.

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE LINKS

http://www.ehcomm.net/ - Communications Office
http://www.ehnet.org/mb/ - Message Boards
http://www.ehcomm.net/logs/ - IRC Channel Logs
http://www.ehcomm.net/irc.php - Official IRC Channels
http://www.ehcomm.net/dasb0t.php - IRC Bot Information
http://www.ehcomm.net/request.php - COMM Request Forms
http://www.emperorshammer.org/irc.htm - IRC Code of Conduct

http://www.minos.net/ - MinosNIC
http://els.minos.net/ - ELS Management

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