I'm a miserable I'm sorry I'm so sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry
I... didn't send... any report... last week...

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SQUIRREL'S NICE AND FUNNY WORDS
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"Merry Christmas... MUAHAHAHAHAHA!" **evilevil**
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RHO SQUADRON CHRISTMAS REPORT

-SQUADRON NEWS
Your CMDR has just became senile. :P
No other news... Oh yes, we lost the Release the TIEs comp (but I wonder if this is really new)

-SQUADRON STATUS
The CMDR is now senile.

-FLEET NEWS

Fleet Manual 5.0 pre-1
11:35 - AD Kermee [Kermee@softhome.net]
Fleet Manual: The Fleet Manual v5.0 pre-1 is complete. This version contains all of the material from the 4.0 version with only minor changes, with a different design and a database to store the data. Any and all comments or suggestion are most welcome at sco@emperorshammer.org, however please hold reports of inaccuracies in the ship data other than in the descriptions.

The Fleet Manual v5.0 pre-1 is viewable at http://sco.ehnet.org/fleet-man/. I'm looking at making a downloadable version available shortly.

Saturday · December 23 · 2000

New issue of EH Cosmo released
23:46 - VA Mairin Astoris [mairin@isdchallenge.org]
The long awaited Issue 6 is now available at http://www.darklord.ukshells.co.uk/cosmo/cosmo6/. Big thank yous go out to all those who contributed things and helped out.

Fiction Compendium almost complete
22:04 - SA Kawolski [absurefire@aol.com]
Most of the Fiction Compendium has been complete. However, it is not open for public viewing as of yet. You may see works of fiction listed on some profiles, but it's currently for testing purposes only.

EH: Greeting Card Centre
06:13 - AD Absolutek [io@absolutek.com]
After being on the IO Projects page for well over 6 months, it is finally here. Yes, it's the Emperor's Hammer: Greeting Card Centre. Go check it out, and send some of your EH friends some cards.

I need some holiday themed card graphics ASAP, so email them to io@absolutek.com.

Friday · December 22 · 2000

Combat Ratings
12:56 - SA Kawolski [absurefire@aol.com]
Squadron rosters now have a link to show Combat Ratings for their individual squadron.

Thursday · December 21 · 2000

EH Domain Updated
22:02 - SA Kawolski [absurefire@aol.com]
Grand Admiral Ronin has updated the EH Imperial News Center with the latest fleet news and reports.

Win a signed Copy of X-Wing Trilogy
09:52 - AD Theodore [theodore@tiecorps.org]
Mark Hamill and Lucas Arts are giving away 31 copies of X-Wing Trilogy, the new packaged release of X-Wing, Tie, and XWA. Sign up at: FragCity

The EH should be the recipients of at least one copy shouldn't we?

Wednesday · December 20 · 2000

EH Virus Alert
11:29 - COL Kessler [kessler@dial.pipex.com]
Members of the EH may find themselves receiving emails from other EH personnel entitled "where is my juliet?". If you are the recipient of an email like this and your anti-virus programme doesn't detect a problem, you've been infected with the W32.Navidad virus (also known as W32.Blebla.worm).

W32.Navidad is a mass mailing worm program. The worm replies using MAPI to all Inbox messages that contain a single attachment. This worm is able to distribute itself via any MAPI-compliant email client, including Microsoft Outlook. However, emails that are infected with this worm can be received by any email client. The worm utilizes the existing email subject line and body and attaches itself as NAVIDAD.EXE. Due to the bugs in the code, after being executed, the worm causes your system to be unusable.

This is a new virus, discovered on November 3rd this year, and is highly dangerous to your computer. If infected, you can download a tool from here http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.fix.html to repair the damage.

Monday · December 18 · 2000

AlliED v1.55
01:11 - SA Kawolski [absurefire@aol.com]
A new AlliED has been released for registered users! Here's what Troy Dangerfield has to say about the new version:


This update is mainly thanks to the never ending work of Sheldon, who has discovered the functions of some more of the unknown Statuses and Orders. He discovered that Orders have a third parameter, which I have added along with descriptions for the new orders. Sheldon has got some of the new orders to work sometimes, but not others, so for those of you who like to experiment, there may be more to find out about them. I've added the new default lists to this release.
Also thanks to Cloud for working out which unknown was the flag for turning the Global Unit numbering on/off (i.e. whether a ship in a non-zero Global Unit will have a number after it's name.) I've moved this flag next to the Global Unit setting on the Ship page.

I've also added another couple of options: One is to Number the km lines of the grid which can be toggled from the Map menu, the other is to toggle the Error Checking on/off from the Options menu. I've also added the option there to check that the filename has a valid format.

An XWA Skirmish Editor beta version is also available for free at Troy's website: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/troyd/

Thanks to Colonel Samuel Shadd III for submitting the info.

Battlecry 10 released
00:59 - CPT Werdna Elbee [werdna_elbee@emperorshammer.ca]
This months edition features: -

Interview with SA Compton
Preview Of Star Wars: A Call To Arms MOD
Article on the cancellation of SWE1:Obi-Wan
BIG Competition, including original missions to fly, graphics, fiction and mission design contests, and lots of medals on offer for the winners
Writing Contest still running
IRC Fun
Think Tank Article
Also, there is a very high number of pilot submissions of Fiction and Graphics this month.
Battlecry 10 can be found at a new URL, which is http://www.emperorshammer.ca/battlecry/

Friday · December 15 · 2000

TC Message Center moderators wanted
22:28 - SA Kawolski [absurefire@aol.com]
I'm looking for responsible message board moderators for the main TIE Corps forums, particularly with the Training/Help Forum where some members seem to enjoy breaking the rules and recruit for their squadrons or wing or ship on there. The requirements are simple: Be a TIE Corps member, be able to check the message boards at least once or twice a day, and hold the rank of Commander or higher.

If you'd like to apply, please e-mail Sector Admiral Kawolski with your application and PIN #.

Uniform artist needed
20:11 - Keiran Idanian [KeiranIdanian@aol.com]
Grand Admiral Ronin needs a good and enthusiastic artist to create his uniforms for the Skye Rangers (GA Ronin's MechWarrior club). The uniforms components are all ready, but they must be assembled in a form that the Fleet Commander finds to his liking - mainly from the information you will receive. You will be rewarded in the Emperor's Hammer for the work. The object is to do a quick and good job. If you are interested please e-mail Grand Admiral Ronin and his Attaché Admiral Keiran Idanian. Thank you!

First Templar
20:03 - LC Chrusos Ichthys [VitCarp@stardestroyer.org]
Captain Brucmack of the ISD Grey Wolf is the first Pilot to achieve the FCHG rank of Templar. Congrats to him and his extraordinary flying ability.

Thursday · December 14 · 2000

BSF backlog processed
23:07 - SA Kawolski [absurefire@aol.com]
I've finished processing all 350+ backlogged BSFs and I'll continue to do any more incoming ones until Fleet Admiral Striker returns.

Pending BSFs
19:59 - SA Kawolski [absurefire@aol.com]
With the mysterious and sudden disappearance of Fleet Admiral Striker, I will be taking over reviewing the huge amount of backlogged Battle Submission Forms. Audits, however, will still be handled by FA Striker upon his return, so please do not e-mail pilot files to me.

IWATS/TO site problems
07:10 - HA Astatine [jpboyce@indigo.net.au]
Over the last few days, the imperialacademy.org domain has had a few problems. It seems that two of the connectivity providers that link to the domain were fighting over who should serve traffic requests. This resulted in the original problem of not being able to access the site and later turned into the domain name not even resolving for people. The problem was resolved early this morning Australian time and the site now seems accessable to all users. Sorry for any problems this might have caused.

IO Hosting Service
02:21 - AD Absolutek [io@absolutek.com]
As of 3:52am (EST) this morning, all accounts that have requested continued hosting have been transfered to the new server. If you requested a new web hosting account via http://www.absolutek.com, and have not recieved the email with your new username/password details, please email me at io@absolutek.com ASAP. I have transferred all domains with the exception of the following:



squadron.org (problems with NSI)

thebhg.org and corporatedivision.com (awaiting password resets)

ehsenate.org and krath.org (the owners of these domains have been contacted to alter their domains DNS servers)

I hope to have the problems with the above mentioned domains, resolved within a week.
All accounts that have been setup, are accessible through http://www.emperorshammer.ca/username/ where "username" is the name of the site you wish to visit. This makes it possible to still view/work with sites that don't yet have a working DNS. For example, if i wanted to visit the Lambda Squadron website (normally at http://lambda.squadron.org), i would go to http://www.emperorshammer.ca/lambda/.

Since I have had shut down the DNS daemon on my server, pages on my server will only be accessable through http://207.210.171.77/~username, where "username" is the username for your account on my server. For example, the Lambda Squadron website has a username of "lambda", therefore, it is accessable through http://207.210.171.77/~lambda. The purpose of this, is to allow anybody who has not yet grabbed their stuff off my server, to do so.

I haven't gotten all the mysql databases setup yet, so please email me at io@absolutek.com if yours hasn't been setup yet.

The Internet Office website is temporarily available at http://io.emperorshammer.ca

I would again like to ask for people to be patient during this transition to the new hosting service.<

Wednesday · December 13 · 2000

AIM Security Advisory
00:21 - AD Absolutek [io@absolutek.com]
AOL AIM versions prior to 4.3.2229 have several exploits contained in them. They are described in an @Stake.com advisory here: http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2000/a121200-1.txt.

You can find out what version of AIM you are running by opening up your AIM window, clicking the help menu, and selecting "About AOL Instant Messenger...". A small box will pop up, and in it, you can find the exact version of AIM that you are using. You can download the latest version of AOL AIM from: http://www.aol.com/aim/download.html. Of course, you could always just do yourself a favour and delete AIM altogether, and install ICQ & mIRC.

-ACTIVITY REPORT
WHOLE SQUADRON : inactive.

ROSTER

RHO SQUADRON OF WING II : Deep Strike
COMMANDER: LC Delplancq (AWDelplancq@yahoo.com)
NICKNAME: Eternal Legends
BANNER: rho.jpg
MOTTO: Our Lasers Light the Way to Hell
HOMEPAGE: http://rho.squadron.org
MESSAGE BOARD: http://rhosquadmb.tsx.org


FLIGHT I - TIE DEFENDER
Nickname: Emperor's Trout-Slappers
Motto: Taste the wrath of our trout!
1) LC Delplancq (AWDelplancq@yahoo.com)
2) LT Akira Vorsahyer (richpizor@home.com)
3) TBA
4) TBA


FLIGHT II - MISSILE BOAT
Nickname: Colon busters
Motto: Who you gonna call?
1) TBA
2) TBA
3) TBA
4) TBA


FLIGHT III - MISSILE BOAT
Motto: Honour and Intergity, the True Path to Victory and Glory
1) LCM Uriel K'rrden (bvietnguyen@club-internet.fr)
2) TBA
3) TBA
4) TBA




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