We're still recovering from the exhaustive final hours leading up to our party, but everything went quite well. It seems our highest concurrent #Wingnut count was about 77 people, and we had a lot of people come earlier/later because of school and other obligations for a total of over a hundred guests. Don't worry if you couldn't make it, you can stop by our irc channel any time to say hello, and next year we hope to have an even bigger turnout. Because things were a little crazy at the actual event, we need to do some checking up on prizes. Here's what people won.
- Starlancer - Tainen & Jetlag
- Earth & Beyond - robert1
- Autographed Descent & Confed Patch - Stormin & GryphonGuitar
- Blair Action Figure - Twigboy
- Kilrathi Action Figure - mav23
- Action Stations Novel - NewCommanderOnDaBlock
- End Run Novel - Natanya
- Fleet Action Novel - Quarto
- Heart of the Tiger Novel - originalTHP
- WCA Divx & Movie Card - TheFraix & Bob
- Movie Press Kit - Wedge009
- Movie Poster - Delance
- Movie DVD - Mustang
- Movie Soundtrack - Omega280 & TrashCan
- Movie Shirt - Darkpetzi & fms52
- Prophecy Advance - Worf
- Game Boy Advance & Prophecy - Meson, Starkey, ChanceKell & Filler
- Kilrathi Saga - Rylex
Let me know if there's someone I missed. If you have not done so already, the winners above should email me their names and addresses to ChrisReid@wcnews.com. Thanks to BlackLance.org for donating the autographed Descent novels and Confederation patches. The party was a ton of fun, and a bunch of us had a great Wing Commander Zone Subspace game afterwards. We'll be posting pictures of that soon. Don't be shy, drop by #Wingnut any time. Any trivia winners who missed the earlier update should also send me their addresses for their CIC Pens. Here are the top rankings for Game Four again.
- Wedge009
- Death
- Haesslich
- PeteyG
- Viper61
- Phoenix
- Bob
- Black Joker
- cff
- Apollyon
We typically don't report on these sorts of virus and worm outbreaks on the internet, but I've personally encountered a lot more people affected by this one than previous high profile infections. A big handful of our #Wingnut regulars report having to fix this as well. CNN, Slashdot, Yahoo and others are reporting about the incident, but not all are providing links for tools to fix it. The above Slashdot link is a good reference, but basically if you're running Windows NT, XP, 2000 or 2003 you should quite quickly install this patch if you have not done so already. The worm causes an RPC error when you go online and then initiates a 60 second shutdown counter. If you've been infected, check out removal instructions here. Typing shutdown -s or shutdown /a in your Run command box should take care of the shutdown timer long enough for you to download the patch.
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