FFR Notes 5/7/07

As most of you know we recently used a business finance company to aquire yet another new Quad Opteron server (much faster than a Rackmount Xeon). This Linux based high end Rackmount Opteron has proven very capable over the past 2 months and I would not hesitate to purchase another Rackmount Opteron or Quad Opteron in the near feature if FFR continues to expand. The server has lowered our server load and made things like the video chat, multiplayer server and radio servers all possible on a single current Quad Opteron high end server. As a side effect, it lowered our operating costs.

Quad Opteron with 12GB of ram. I don't regret the purchase one bit. :). Additionally, we are evaluating the new Rackmount Xeon servers and Intel Quad Xeon Rackmount servers for yet another performance boost. Rackmount servers may allow us to further speed up our page load times and most importantly our statistics.



FFR Notes 4/7/07

Medal of D'oh!
EA once again snuck in another subtle hint at its next The Simpsons game, presumably this time, one to be released along the long-awaited theatrical release of the yellow family. First, many sites jumped on a teaser page with a countdown similar to the recent God of War hype site, with a XXII displayed in aGrand Theft Auto IV -type font. After checking one of the e-mail accounts I don't use so often, I received EA's latest newsletter that displayed the picture at the right - Homer Simpson screaming his lungs out on a Medal of Honor: Airborne battlefield. While it's no question whether or not another The Simpsons game is coming to us via EA, but the recent hype has many gamers asking when and what type of game are we looking at? The same newsletter also reveals those who pre-order Burnout Paradise for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 will be granted immediate in-game access to a Steel Wheel vehicle as well as details about Madden 08, Command & Conquer, Boom Boom Rocket and more.