Here is the updated version of my previous authenticating/forwarding Squid 3 config. It adds some things and fixes some things. In particular, the peer exclusion rules from the previous config were not working - this one should correctly not use the parent proxies when querying “local addresses”. As before, the configuration file contains two proxy servers for load balancing; it can be extended easily to include more. Read more…
Last time I wrote about trying to find casual games for medium/large-group social events. We can split multiplayer video gaming into a couple of vaguely-defined categories; I’m going to use the term “casual” or “social gaming” to refer to medium-scale social gatherings that involve video gaming; hardcore gaming, of course, is all about the game; and we might perhaps call the last group “LAN party gaming” to indicate a middle ground between casual gaming and super-intense gaming.

It is for the first category, social gaming, that I suggest a game today: Heroes of Might and Magic III. Read more…