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ask them here before it's too late

well i still get monthly 3-5 letters asking for the stunts security codes, even though there is the faq and the forum
its quite annoying sometimes, but sometimes I get geat letters too when I dont mind at at all.
like this one:

To Zac,

After searching the internet for many hours after downloading the AWESOME
game stunts, I finally came across your friggin awesome site!

My problem is:

I am a young female who wishes to play this awesome game, but I cannot get
past the password thingey. I looked on your FAQ section, but I didnt
understand how to crack it (i think it has something to do with the fact
that I was born blonde). I know I have version 1.0 of Stunts.

Please tell me how to get past this (in plain English please!!!).

I remember when i was about 10 years old playing this game and making up my
own tracks and pissing myself laughing with the hilarious crashes!! please,
I'm DYING to play this again!!

Thanks heaps!

Stephania




nice, isn't it?

Well I've  had enough of my hurting hanfds after typing a lot, so I have looked around a bit and bought a quality keyboard.
It wasnt cheap, about 16EUR, but definitely worth the price!
It's a KeyTronic KT800, their base model, oldschool design, no stupid multimedia or power buttons  (i love it),very ergonomic, my fingers slide to the center of the keys automatically, and they need just the ideal force to be pressed.
Not sticky, not too light, just feels great.
I have tested about 10 keyboards by far, and this beats every one of them including microsoft and logitech ones. There was only one better, the pro serie from fujitsu siemens which we use in the school. But it's twice the price of this one, and this was expensive enough.
It not only enhanced my typing speed and reduced the number of my mistakes but I can also play stunts better, have quicker reactions and movements.
I definitely recommend everyone getting a good keyboard, your hands deserve it!

Zak

quick track, lots of fun

As you maybe noticed from the lots of downtime, I was working hard with a friend of mine to install the new server and especially the software on it.
In the past 3 days we managed to achieve a  stable level, so I could migrate to site to the new server.
Some technical and update info for you:

Hardware+SW
Gigabyte GA586DX dual Pentium mainboard ATX form
2 times Intel Pentium 166Mhz processors
2x64+2x8MB Kingston EDO ram
1.6GB + 1GB hard disks (about 1.5GB for the site)
unfortunately bandwith stayed: 12k/sec maybe it'll be 18k/sec soon but I cant get more than that.
-server supplied by eBalazs
SW: UHU-Linux (based on Debian) Server edition 1.0RC3 with SMP multiprocessor kernel
--installation and configuration support by mrmaim
Errors corrected, new things:

-finally you dont need a / at the end of URL's to make them work
-mail system is fully configured, no tons of error messages
-server load is about 1/3 of the one before -->still slow copnnection but very stable
-eggdrop installed, please welcome our new bot: Skid. I'll kick out Helen after one week testing of Skid (he logs and he sits there, and doesnt whine at all, so its fine
-mailman mailing list server configured (only 1 bug left ) this means when I find that bug I can host a mailing list for every team, and so there'll be an option that if you send your replay, it'll be posted to your team mailinglist too.
-you can ask for ssh/ftp access for the server, I can grant about 50MB of webspace for every of you. soon you can get a stunts.mine.nu mail address too

about thats it. I think this new server will supply a stable base for iproving the site in the following months, years
you might experience more downtimes as usual, because I'm not sure some configs are written well. If you experience any problems please tell me.

Zak

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/

Frightening and awesome.

discuss this track here...

Ahoi pipsqueaks of past, present and future!

Tomorrow will be the 3rd year jubilee of ZakStunts online.
I was 19 then, and now I'm 22. Time flies
I'd like to thank to everyone who sent a single replay to the competition, and of course deepest respects to everyone who stay with us for a longer period.
I'd like to add a nice new feature to the site for the jubilee, a ZakStunts history. I'll collect all the dates of important events, like 2001 mar 01 - ZakStunts started, or 2001 mar 31 - Fdzierva won ZCT01, etc etc.
Please collect such important dates you remember, team foundations, team broke-ups, new pipsqueaks joining, wins, new rule, big flamewars, improvements - anything you remember or find in the forum archive.
Then I'll put these in a database, and on the startpage below the news you can see for example: Happened today: "3 years ago ZCT01 was released to the public"

Thank you all, and wish you happy racing here, I'll do my best to provide the best I can.

Zak

[10000]

10000!

People, we achieved 10000 posts in two years (posts from the old board re counted too)
I'd like to thank you all, I'm happy to take part in such a great community and friends.
I'd like to see the 100000th post too, and of course all of you on the World Meeting!

Long live Stunts! It only depends on us...

Zak

ps:
some stats for you, because you cant see these:

Messages: 10000 Messages/day: 20.26
Topics 991 Topics/day: 2.01
Users: 64  Users/day: 0.13
New forum started: 24 Okt 2002
Forum database size: 8.28MB

Coming this evening to a Stunts Championship near you...

well the mainstream is today ringtones and operator logos, so here you are
I have a Siemens S35i, now with the following logo:


I'm working on converting this greyscale pic into 1bit black/white:


and I have just converted a ringtone from this excellent stunts remix I found today:
http://stunts.mine.nu/zakstunts/pics/misc/stunts.xm

I'll also change the greeting animation to a Countach crossing the screen.
Data-cable rules

great car, great track

I arrived home at 3am yesterday, and at 9am the postman woke me up with the doorbell.
But I wasnt angry.
Why?
Because he finally brought me my KVM (Keyboard-Video-Mouse) switch!
And during the daytime I managed to get a Pentium 100 config from one of my friends for free.
I'm just installing the system on it.
What does this mean?
No more pain with rebooting or windows XP slow emulation!
I press a button on my switch, and my keyboard+monitor change to the Stunts-Machine with windows98.
So I can finally race whenever I want without any pain
This means:
Beware my times

Zak

Portal visitor stats for the past week:
609 visits   --> 711
368 clicks on competitions+forum: --> 411
zakstunts: 155 --> 161
wrcstunts:  55  --> 50
forum:       51  --> 71
unskilled:   49  -->  56
kalpens:     23  --> 32
imsa cup:   19   --> 20
stuntslol:    16  --> 19

there you go

first track of the season, comments and stuff...

Done until now:

new menu system
old stuff archive reorganized
basics of 2004 database system
new user database with registration + password
live scoreboard update by pipsqueaks
leading time calculation on-the-fly
launched stunts portal
re-uploaded games accessible from the portal (+visitors)
complete rule system on paper

Still to do:

interactive section: pipsqueaks edit their profile
interactive section: pipsqueaks post news onto main site
interactive section: pipsqueaks comment the track
seasonal ranking count (just need to modify 2003's)
newbie motivation system related codes
detailed comp. rules available on the site
writing information/troubleshooting sections
what pops into my mind

as you may know my exams are really close, so I SHOULD learn instead of coding. Thats why I finished the site in the past 3 days so much that every important work needed to start the contest in january is finished. I'll have some time in the end of january, and I plan to finish the not so important stuff then.
Still every ideas is welcome. I want to make the site much more interactive and comp. manager - independent, so I can focus my time on writing articles and statistics, and general site development. Article authors, statistic makers wanted!

To everyone!

well he got a 1 year contract from Minardi, but this costs 225Ft (almost 1EUR) to each Hungarian tax-payer next year. I dont know thats is it worth or not...

from the 6th of december when the stunts.bsd.st address stopped working, I forgot to change the links at aplaces and tuol for one week, the two main link forwarders to the site.
So only those could access the site who knew he other address - permanent pipsqueaks.
So it was quite useful, now I see that daily only 20-25 visits are from the regulars, any visit above this (except at new track and results come out) are visitors from other links.
So its quite a lot!