User:Tanaric

Me, Lately
I really don't play Guild Wars anymore; I used to lead an American region guild called Sacred Dragon, but since I live in the wrong timezone over the summer, I handed the leadership over to a friend, and he ran it... well... differently than I did. I quit soon after. As you might have noticed, I've shifted more to a Talk page role, and have contributed very little content in the last month or so.

I have grown rather fond of EverQuest II. If anybody plays, I'm Tanaric d'Terra on Antonia Bayle. I'm currently in the Council of Silver Griffons, a pretty cool, pretty small guild that uses voice chat. If you haven't but are interested, the game's $20 at your local store (in the US), and that includes the first month's fee.

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I'm looking for dedicated hosting with shell access; I need to be able to install Java and update it at my whim, run Java programs that connect with multiple clients, and run Apache 2.0/PHP/mySQL from it. The kicker: I'm willing to give a pretty nice machine (Athlon XP 3000, 240GB, 1GB RAM) to anyone who has the infrastructure to set the thing up and let me SSH into it. The machine would most likely be a security risk, so only those with some knowledge in protecting boxen/isolating a box on the network need apply.

I don't anticipate much traffic, as it would just be a testing server for my game. I'm not willing to pay any money if I donate a machine&mdash;you could use the box for whatever you wished, since my stuff won't be stressing it. However, it must have a stable connection (if not necessarily that fast), and I must be able to have tanatopia.net resolve to the box. Furthermore, beyond http and ssh, I'd need to be able to listen for connections off (at least) ports 1616 and 1617 (port numbers can be changed if they conflict).

If I can't do the shared-box thing, I'm willing to pay, but I'm a broke college student. Links to servers that could satisfy my needs would also be appriciated, and cheap is good.

About
I'm a computer science student at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. Over the summer, I live in Stuttgart, Germany with my parents. Game development is my hobby&mdash;designing game structure and AI are my concentrations. When I'm not writing games or at school/work, I'm usually playing Guild Wars.

On GuildWiki, my articles are written with a strong neutral point of view. I tend to be forceful, but brief. I'll edit anybody's work mercilessly, should it not meet my own standards.

Leave me a message on my discussion page.

Contact Information
Username: Tanaric Real Name: Cory Petosky Email Address / MSN Messenger: cory@tanatopia.net AIM / Skype: Tanaric Yahoo: tana_ricae IRC: I'm on EsperNet and EnterTheGame as Tanaric (occasionally) Blog: http://www.tanatopia.net Guild Wars:
 * Tanaric Dterra &mdash; Warrior/Elementalist (Southern Shiverpeaks)
 * Tanaric Dmasse &mdash; Monk/Mesmer (Gates of Kryta)
 * Tanaric Dmir &mdash; Mesmer/Necro (Ascalon City)

Articles
I am involved with the following articles:
 * pre-Searing guide
 * Massive item listing -- in the slow process of assimilation

Movements

 * The Case Crusade, by which we convince LordBiro to Stop Capitalizing Most Every Word in Article Titles! ;)
 * Grammar and Spelling