MageUK

As tripsis says, few of our staff have access to this information for just this reason, it's valuble and we do get e-mails and messages from people making offers for data about users, which we never hand over. We are committed to our community and if that means not making some fast money for ourselves by not handing out your data, that's exactly what it means. Our administrators and moderators are selected very carefully, and are re-assessed even as they progress through each rank (Mod -> Global -> Super, for example), and we make sure we can fully trust them. Not to mention, that even if we wanted to, we'd be breaching laws by handing over your data without your consent, never mind the laws being broken by those doing the DDoSing, us handing over the data would effectively be enabling it.

Just so you know I believe we made these changes back in late January, we just didn't think it warranted an announcement. :P

I think I'd rather *know* that to be sniffing your traffic in such a way they'd have to be on your local network, or have your PC infected already to even know you were downloading those MP3s, than believe someone who you have paid/pressured to explain something for you and so has come up with an incorrect solution because it's almost impossible to know the actual root cause of your problem. So much so that even with a forensic analysis of your computer it would probably be possible to find out what they used to get in, but not where you got it from, but think what you like... I'd love to know exactly what his solid evidence for this conclusion is, other than just conjecture because you happened to mention you downloaded something there and he's picked up on you saying that. Also, I hope you know that if you do get some kind of virus, or someone gets physical access to your computer, it's childishly simple to make runescape.com point to any website they want, and you will be completely convinced you're on the real one.

There's hundreds of other places on the internet you could have got it from, you didn't get it from downloading some MP3s from runescape.com. There's flash exploits, java drive-bys, PDF exploits and about a hundred other ways a virus could have got onto your system, but you can be pretty sure it wasn't an MP3.

Um, computer guy is pretty damn sure they got to me when I downloaded music off of Jagex's site. He's wrong.

It could also be nothing to do with the hard drive. It's quite possible for something to get screwed up on the laptop's motherboard which can cause it to literally kill plugged in devices. Wouldn't be the first time I'd seen that happen. The problem is how many HDDs you throw at it before deciding it's the laptop and not the HDDs which are the problem. What Windows is telling you there is that it's detected a SMART error, which is what HDDs use for detection of problems. It would be useful to know what the SMART error is, so grab CrystalDiskInfo, install it (might want to uncheck the installation of "Hotspot Shield"), launch it, and tell us what you see. It should tell you the health status of your hard drive, and flag any attributes which have exceeded their thresholds (which will be what triggered the Windows error).

They deliberately don't because it's designed to stop people issues huge amounts of requests and it's supposed to basically stop that. They use a custom HTTPd, but as I said above, they're very deliberately throttling it for reasons unknown. Before they started throttling it I was able to get a whole GE scrape in about 75 seconds, now it takes about 2 hours.

Wish you'd said something when you noticed the problem instead of waiting 3 days. :P Jagex changed their layout so I had to tweak the script.

You have to keep in mind people with disabilities. In this case, people with vision problems. I've written and helped with a few pieces of software for such people. One of which, which used the computer's narrator (And narrator may even do this on it's own now), reads text from tooltip classed windows or those who have trouble reading both because of a mental of visual disability. Whether or not this is the reason they keep them or not, I don't know. Both versions of the site validate with the service provided by W3C. IIRC including the alt text is a requirement to validate successfully isn't it? No, only on images is alt a requirement. Besides, this was removed quite some time ago. :P

It's an issue with certain system configurations. I run RS just fine on a laptop with great FPS.

Added a "Hide" option to the drop down.

Wouldn't be our bandwidth or servers actually handling the video feeds in any way. :P

YouTube is slowly rolling out live stream support with full 720p available as well so that would be even more perfect I expect. If "even more perfect" is an allowable statement in English.

I agree with Stev here actually, live streams would be nice, I like to watch stuff as it's something I can still do if I'm busy doing something else. Also, if you've never been to an area before it's nice to see someone else and how it's done, also you can learn something from their tactics and what they do. I wonder how many people watched Castle War's live stream on YouTube of him doing the Fight Kiln on the day it came out... I know I did.

One word: Chrome. One of the fastest browsers in existence, and not to mention arguably the most secure as well. However, I have no problem with the latest version of Firefox either, and it's in fact my browser of choice, simply because of all the extensions I use on it. Also I don't know if you're stating the UI upgrades from Windows XP -> Windows 7 were a bad thing, or just IE6 -> 7/8/9? Again, this is subjective, but Windows 7 is arguably the best OS that Microsoft has ever produced.

It was probably recommended because the person(s) writing it was using normal spellbook, and noticed that during the quest you use normal fire/water spells and presumed you wouldn't be able to do this while on an alternate spellbook, but couldn't test as they'd already done it. Not sure that is what happened but it sounds likely to me.

Don't know of any clan chats for it but it's not too hard to find what's known as a "horn team" in any of the BA activity worlds. Granted though, sometimes people who you randomly team with will quit which is annoying. The game itself is not particularly difficult, the usual layout is 2 attackers and 1 of everything else. To charge horn quickly you play up to and including wave 5 and then restart to wave 1. I'm sure there are some videos showing how it works (check Youtube), but Collector and Attacker are probably the easiest roles (Collector is definitely easiest), depending on your combat level. Defender is always known as being the hardest and Healer is somewhere in the middle.

Yeah not only did we have the news post we also had a forum post (which at the time linked to the site homepage which had said news post), as well as a big red banner on all the forum skins for months if you were logged out.

Someone could use your bank pic to try and pretend it's for an account they're selling, you should probably put a watermark over it or something.

It's actually not enabled on the mobile skin right now as we didn't know how it would handle the popups etc. on mobile devices.

Uh, Peter, I'm seeing a problem with that page here on FF 3.5.x-series... The line that should be showing appears to have either not rendered, or is being buried down in the Z-index under the background image. If you could fix that, I think the graph would be great. Right now, I'm having hit-or-miss on finding the data points. :ohnoes: ~D. V. "Where's the line at? I can't see it!" Devnull Sorry, the graph is rendered using Google Charts API and I have no intention of trying to debug that, you should report it to Google for them to fix.

While not linked on the actual website yet, you can see our data here: http://open.tip.it/high-score-stats Note the data hasn't been "refined" yet, so the month graph shows ALL of our data points rather than just one or two for each day. The "Month" graph is quite interesting although it actually only has about 12 days of data since that's when we started logging.

The font size is identical on my Samsung Galaxy S which is a 4" screen and it's perfectly readable. Is it *just* too small or is it completely unreadable? I suspect it just needs a small size increase in the CSS.

Pinch to zoom actually intentionally doesn't work in order to make the site correctly fit the device, otherwise the mobile site doesn't work as well as it should. What device are you using, what's the screen size and resolution? What about in landscape mode? Is it still too small?

I don't track scores based on a specific player, I find the actual lowest score.