| WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1999 |
| HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO... ME (5:30 AM EST) |
| I'm taking a break today to eat Mexican food (today is also Cinco De Mayo [day of the dead] in Mexico) and consume alcohol with some folks. Maybe I'll update later... If I can ;) |
| BOBBY D HUMOR | ||
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******************** A prostitute is: a) A victim of
male dominated society and social
A wife is: a) A victim of
male dominated society and social
It is the day after a one-night stand. Do you: a) Call her.
Foreplay is to sex as: a) Priming is
to painting.
A BLONDE JOKE!
mirror and said,
"Hmmmmm, this person looks familiar."
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| big0nes Response To My Q3A Impressions |
| bigones over at MAHQ
wrote a reply to my thoughts on the Q3A test, so I'll post the his opinions...
Disagree about
the net code. Maybe just the server I was on but over a 250
I agree about
the whack-ass crosshair - it blows. Which is why I made my
I also agree about
the weapon balance. It will once again be a race to the
I disagree about
the camping to a degree. obvously on q3test2 there is no
Jump pads = rockage! They rule - a definite improvment. Talk Bubbles = cool Right now I do
not like the light-speed movement of the players. It makes
Just my 2 cents worth. big0nes
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| LINUX ADVENTURES... |
| Installed new KDE today, and couldn't
get it to start, said a file '/opt/kde/bin/startkde' was missing.. Damn
bastages... Luckily I backed all of mt stuff up into that other OS's partition.
Here's something VERY COOL about Linux and Quake games, linking files. For example, I have my Quake II installed in Winder$ in my e:\quake2, and in there are all those pak files, maps, skins etc. To play in Linux you'd think I'd need to copy all that stuf to my Linux partition, but there's an awesome alternative, linking it. Real simple, it's like making a Winder$ shortcut to the baseq2 in Winder$, and putting it in my Quake II dir in Linux. With this 'shortcut' Linux can access the pak files etc as if they were in the dir for real :) This aves over a gig of space and a lot of differing configs. Werd. |
| NORM QUOTE |
| Woody: Hey, Mr. P. How goes
the search for Mr. Clavin?
Norm: Not as well as the search for Mr. Donut. Found him every couple of blocks. |
| #65 BOOZE IS AN ACCEPTABLE BIRTHDAY GIFT |
| A hint for my pals.... |
| RINE'S LINK OF THE DAY |
| Lifted directly off of Fraggy's bookmark list comes HODOWN CHINATOWN, MONKEY STYLE KUNG FU SCHOOL Shoot, I've been a Monkey Kung Fu master for years... |
| TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1999 |
| Q3A FIXES (6:40 AM EST) |
| John Carmack's .plan file has been
updated.
Owner / Lead Programmer id Software * seeded random
numbers differently on tourney restarts
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| ONE HELL OF AN ITEM | ||
| Chris Johnson (Vertigo)'s .plan
file has been updated.
Artist 3D Realms / Apogee A friend of mine forwarded this to me... ladies and gentlemen, we have finally found the ultimate online auction item... http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=98952048 |
| Q2 FOR LINUX |
| Well I got Q2 running in Linux *finally* but have a problem... the mouse is all whacked. First no mouse at all, then Fraggy told me to kill the gpm, so I killed it, now it's crazy. Acts like the sesitivity is 100, and only looks up, and when it first starts it's just shooting away... Anyone know how to fix this, too tired to read more HOWTOS tonig..err..this morning,. |
| NEW VERSIONS OF KILLER WINBLOW$ UTILITIES |
| From Betanews
Three of the best programs for Winders have new versions out, Winamp (2.20), ICQ (99a Beta v.2.15 Build #1800) and Editpad (3.4.1) You can download them from there respective sites: WINAMP ICQ EDITPAD |
| NORM QUOTE |
| "How about a beer, Norm?"
"That's that amber sudsy stuff, right? I've heard good things about it!" |
| #64 IF ONLY COMPUTERS HAD BREASTS.............. |
| I rarley leave the house as is unless it's to go to work, if this sucker had headlights... I'd never leave. |
| RINE'S LINK OF THE DAY |
| If you've never been to DAVE'S VIDEO GAME CLASSICS, you've been lost for many yearrs. |
| MONDAY, MAY 3, 1999 |
| JOHN CARMACK'S FERRARIS (12:45 PM EST) |
| Rine stumbled across some interesting
stuff while reading about his non-Quake love... cars. Seems this monthes
Car And Driver has an article about a fellow who souped up two of FIVE
of John Carmack's Ferraris. Man, I knew he made loot but......
Here's the pics courtesy of Rine.... (You can see John on the left in the first pic.) BTW, Car And Driver shows the base prices of four of these cars... It is over $1,000,000 dollors...... Sigh........... |
| LINUX Q3A LINKS |
| Here's the url's that can help
you get Q3A running in Linux.
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS.html http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/xf3D/howto/3Dfx-HOWTO.html http://glide.mirrors.sonic.net/3DfxFAQ.html http://www.mesa3d.org/ QStat Download http://www.lstud.ii.uib.no/~s830/quake/q3ping/readme.text |
| NEW KDE |
| New KDE (1.1.1) for Linux. You can get it on the KDE ftp HERE. And here's the url to the README to see which files you need. |
| NORM QUOTE |
| Woody: What's happening, Mr. Peterson?
Norm: The question is, Woody, why is it happening to me? |
| #63 CHASE THEM... BUT DON'T CATCH THEM |
| The thrill of the chase is good, when you catch them it's all over.... They gain 100 lbs, start farting in front of you, and become bitches... |
| RINE'S LINK OF THE DAY |
| More twisted humor at CAMP CHAOS, |
| SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1999 |
| LINUX (4:00 AM EST) |
| Reinstalling Mandrake 5.3 after frigging up my poor bash with a newer bash rpm... Sigh, no biggy, actually it's cool cause I can configure my LAN card and maybe reinstall the Voodoo^2 for Linux Q3A till my RH 6.0 gets here... Sooo... it's ok. :) |
| FADZ RIPPOFF SITE |
| Not sure if you noticed it, but the small child who had blatantly swiped 75% or more of Fadz's site layout, content, and everything else shut down his site. At least he was big enough to end the blasphemy. Kid, here's a couple points of advice, using 5 frames is cool, and having whacked content is cool, but when it so closely resembles another site (in all aspects) is is clearly a ripoff. You claim it was only the 5 frames bit, but when I was sent your url with no mention of Fadz, the first thing I thought was... "oh my God, this kid ripped off Fadz." Later I saw the bit on Fadz about your site. When a reader with no predjudice at all hits a new site and immediatly thinks it is a ripoff, it's pretty certain there's some reason for it.. besides the amount of frames. Second point, impersonation is the best form of flattery, but on the net it's a ripoff, change the sites layout, but continue similar content, and who knows, Fadz might even host you himself.. :) Here's the kids url: http://poop.simplenet.com/ |
| UNREAL PATCH |
| The fabled Unreal patch has finally
been released if anyone cares.... If for some reason you do care, here's
a link to the file and mirrors on Blue's: http://bluesnews.com/files/unreal/patches/UnrealPatch224v.shtml
Personally, I think it's Unreal how bad that game sucked. It was purty yes, and the AI might have been killer thanks to Steve (Reaperbot) Polge, but the weapons and netplay were SUCK. Don't matter how good the AI is if you have crap guns to use, or can't play online... Maybe you can play online now... but those pee-shooters ain't worth usin... |
| LINUX SB LIVE! DRIVERS |
| Well, Creative got off their asses and finally made some sort of drivers for there mighty SB LIVE! for Linux. This is cool, maybe I'll buy one now... This also shows that the industry is starting to take more notice to Linux, and we can expect more hardware in the future to be Linux ready... Can you say Q3A? |
| GAME EXPLORER |
| If you're like me, you really don't want to give anymore money to Micro$haft or Game$py. The OS solution is easy... Linux, but what about the Game$py domination and greed? A solution: Game Explorer. It's a Game$py-like utility, with some killer features. Hit their site for more details. http://explorer.barrysworld.com/ |
| NORM QUOTE |
| Woody: How would a beer feel, Mr.
Peterson?
Norm: Pretty nervous if I was in the room. |
| #62 NEVER PISS OFF THE PERSON WHO HANDLES YOUR FOOD..... |
| For all you rude peple out there.... Consider that when eating out.... |
| RINE'S LINK OF THE DAY |
| This one is very cool. It's a proggy that can totally speed up your browsing by making pages not load certain stuff, and more.. LIGHTSPEED SURFER |