• Due to real life obligations, Major Talek Dei has stepped down as Wing Commander of Wing XVIII. In his place, we welcome back to the position Lieutenant Colonel Fenn Logan. Congratulations!

• Astatine has gone through and fixed up all the code-related issues (I think). However, there may still be some bugs hiding somewhere. If you do run into an error, the information in the previous news posting still applies.

• (As posted by Astatine) About 12 hours ago, the server hosting the TIE Corps site experienced a hardware failure. As things in IT tend to snowball, there was an issue with the backups. Fortunately, the database is hosted on a totally seperate machine and all the files been restored. On the down side, there is an error with the code responsible for talking to the database. This code will give an error similar to this:

  Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
  [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Named Pipes]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.
  /rosters/combatratings.asp, line 83

  In addition, to this, there is another main error message, which is relating to permissions being denied. I am working as fast as I can to fix these errors. If you encounter an error, do not come on IRC or email me with "it doesn't work!". This wastes my time as it could be literally hundreds of possible things making it "not work". Instead, be useful and include the following items:

  • The exact error message you got
  • The URL of the page you were accessing
  • What you were doing prior to the error coming up

  This information allows him to directly target which file could be the problem (and there's thousands on here). Hopefully, he'll have the site up and running in the next few hours.

• In conjunction with the Imperial Technology Commission (ITC) Banner comp, a new comp is being created to make the best design for the new ITC database.

  You may make your site designs in HTML, Java, whichever you know how to do. If it's in asp or php it would be even better!

  Also, if you can put the layout onto a site to be viewed, it would be excellent!

  The winner's design will be used for the ITC database page.

  BEGINNING: 4.1.2002
  ENDING: 4.20.2002

  Awards:
  -1st Place - IS-GR
  -2nd Place - IS-SR
  -3rd Place - IS-BR

  Please send your submissions to Rear Admiral Aylius Khan and High Admiral Keiran Idanian.

• For the newly created Imperial Technology Commission, a division that will serve the EH with downloads of demos and some programs as well as reviews for the EH's members.

  The comp is to design a banner for the website, a normal banner (400x40 pixels). Try to have it reflect technology...

  BEGINNING: 4.1.2002
  ENDING: 5.1.2002

  Awards:
  -1st Place - IS-GR
  -2nd Place - IS-SR
  -3rd Place - IS-BR

  Please send your submissions to Rear Admiral Aylius Khan and High Admiral Keiran Idanian.

• The Combat Operations Office is proud to announce the release of two new weekly Multiplayer competitions for pilots to participate in. The first is the Sovereign Nighthawk Competition, which will take place Fridays from 3:00 PM EST - 6:00 PM EST in #EHCOC. Second, the popular competition Thursday Night Training will be returning in a new form, Saturday Night Training, which will be held on Saturdays from 8:00 PM EST - 11:00 PM EST in #EHCOC. I hope to see everyone there to help make these new competitions a success!

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