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The UT-Thievery-Logo-Map-Quick.unr map comes without music. (Well, if you switch off menu music.) I added some music to the files.
Here's the result:

UT-Thievery-Logo-Map-Quick-thAllsilent
This one has the all famous thAllsilent added to it.

UT-Thievery-Logo-Map-Quick-Thieveryloop4
This one has the music thieveryloop4 added to it.

If you don't know how to edit your starting up map, please refer to my tutorial about this.

TSG welcomes a new member: DarkBill. Hopefully we'll be playing some turfwars soon. :)

I found out the other day that I wanted to make a (we)blog for us TSG members to use. It's not much else to say. If you're interested, go to www.shadowguild.net/blog.

A small bugfix in this application by Microwave.
The link remains the same.

Download: Thievery Web Admin (0.13 MB)

Microwave has released a Thievery specific Web Admin. It's still on the beta stage, but it's really looking great - and makes it easier to change the options on the Thievery Server. If you have any suggestions or comments, visit the thread over at ThieveryUT forums.

Download: Thievery Web Admin (0.13 MB) - View screenshot

If you are an Internet user you have most likely encountered the famous smileys or emoticons. These smileys are used worldwide, but how did they come into the world? Were they born or created? In this news article written by me, you will find out when, why and how the smileys came to the internet.

Smileys, Born or created:

The smileys were not born at all but were created about twenty-one years ago by Scott Fahlman. Scott was a member of an online bulletin board, for the Computer Science community at Carnegie Mellon. Back in those days computers couldn't attach pictures at all, so they were forced to use only text. Scott made a joke in a reply, but one user failed to see the joke and was heavily offended. This happened more and more over time and to avoid that in the future they decided that they should have some sort of symbol for sarcasm or a joke. When they discussed the idea, Scott suddenly came up with a smiley as a symbol of sarcasm or humor. When a post was serious they used the : - ( smiley, and when it was meant as sarcasm or as a joke they used : - ) . The idea was so good that almost everyone around Carnegie Mellon began using the smileys. Within a few months various smileys were "born". A person smiling, a person wearing sunglasses, Abraham Lincoln, Santa Claus, the Pope, and so on. The basic smileys that were invented by Scott Fahlman were used a lot in conversations and soon spread out into the world due to the lack of borders within the Internet. The idea was so good that Microsoft and AOL turned the textbased smileys into small pictures. These pictures are sometimes known as graemlins.
It is interesting to note that Scott Fahlman actualy thinks that having pictures instead of text-smileys destroys the element of the smileys. It is not as original as it used to be.

The original post:

The original post where Scott posted the idea for the smileys was erased but some people from Microsoft helped Scott to search the database and they retrieved the original post.

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman : - )
From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>

I propose the following character sequence for joke markers:

: - )

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use

: - (

Today's smileys:

As you might already know, the smileys are a widely used language that everyone understands. The basic smileys have changed a bit though. The nose disappeared in most cases and there are new basic smileys. Both as pictures and text, smileys are popular. You can't play an online game, view a website, or read a casual email without encountering the smileys. But sometimes people just wanted something different then just a smile. They wanted to actualy do something, and so the tags were born too. Instead of:

" I want to eat your dog : D "

they made:

" I want to eat your dog </grin> or *evil* "

This is a different type of smiley ( if you can still call it a smiley ) but isn't that popular yet. Maybe in twenty years this type will also have their own picture set? Who can predict?

I'm working on implementing Movable Type on the website. I'm nearly done, but I still have to update the html code on some of the pages - so expect some errors until that's completed.

Movable Type makes it easier to update, maintain and post news on the website - so expect more updates in the fututre.