Hit the Ubermachine to get some killer tunes: http://www.ubermachine.com

* A Working ICQ 2.22 Link (1:40 PM EST)
After many bogus 2.21 downloads (from the ICQ page no less) I have a working copy of 2.22 here now. It's off the Betanews site, right where I got it.... http://www.betanews.com/download.php3?url=ftp://ftp.icq.com/pub/Win95_98_NT/icq99a.exe

* ReGet 1.5 Beta Build 410
And another new version.... http://www.reget.com/beta/

* IconTOY 3.0 Beta 1
This is a cool one, it lets you search and extract ALL icons hidden in exe, dll, scr etc. from entire harddrives to use for whatever you want to use them for (mods.) Also it lets you use icons as wallpaper... http://www.lighttek.com/toy.htm

* Linux Banshee And Savage4 Beta Drivers
Creative has released beta drivers for their Banshee and Savage4 cards for Linux. To snag a copy or to read more hit the Creative Linux page:  http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/

* Mozilla M7 Released
Mozilla, the core browser that Netscape is built on, has released a newer and better version for Linux, Winder$ and Mac. Get more information as well as the downloads here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/m7.html

* Matrox's G400 Contest
You can win some serious prizes.... And you can enter weekly ;)

1ST PRIZE - Matrox Millennium G400 32MB + Hewlett-Packard Kayak XA Workstation + 21''ViewSonic Monitor (MB110) + Rollcage from Psygnosis + Star Wars: Episode I: Racer from LucasArts + Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator + Logitech QuickCan Home USB + Microsoft SideWinder Freestyle Pro

2ND PRIZE - Matrox Millennium G400 32MB + Microsoft SideWinder Freestyle Pro

3RD PRIZE - Matrox Millennium G400 16MB + Logitech MouseMan Wheel

You have to answer some questions to be eligible, which I will be posting the answers to below ;)

#1 - Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping
#2 - 8
#3 - 1600 x 1200
#4 - Millennium G400 MAX, Millennium G400 32 MB, Millennium G400 16 MB
#5-#10 Are all up to you.....

Now hit the Matrox site and enter to win.... If my answers help you win, remember poor little me eh? http://www.matrox.com/g400/contest/jun99/g400_form4.htm

* Xatrix Falls Apart And Wolfenstien Sequel In The Works?
Well I read on Evil Avatar about Xatrix breaking off to form a new (unnamed) company that will be using the Quake 3 engine to do a Wolfenstein sequel. A snip:

Drew basically announced that Xatrix was done; he invited most of the employees to go with him to start a new company (no name yet) to work on id's Return to Castle Wolfenstein, using the Quake 3 engine.

Well that is cool as hell, but the bad news is that this meant Kingpin was rushed out the door, and the last 3 episodes were poorly scripted, so the game will not be as good as it could have been... Goddamn it, I was looking forward to Kingpin.... This might also explain why id shut down the Generations mod....

* Still Sick...
I hear tell of a 3 day virus going sround with these symptoms, but I suspect food poisoning as a possibility.... Sweating one minute and shivering the next.. And this morning.. DIARIA!!! ;)

* #116 "It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt."
Submitted by Wayfarer.

* RINE'S LINK OF THE DAY
I used to watch Doctor Who and The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy on PBS many moons ago, and now Rine dug up the Doctor Who Homepage.
 
 

TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1999

* Gah..... (12:05 PM EST)
Installed Mandrake Linux 6.0 the other day, and then..um... broke it, so I had to reinstall yesterday. Between being quite angry over that and having to help my cousin with her computer I just choose not to update at all, I was too angry...  And last night I started to fell really beat physically and like I have a fever, I went to bed way early but got no sleep, so now I feel like ass. I'm sore, sweating and tired, luckily I don't have *real* work this week, I'm training about 10 new employees. This should be amusing, their first impressions of me will be tired, cranky and annoyed, and my trainer raise depends on how this group turns out... Joy.....

* New ICQ, Seriously....
From all I hear this one *really* is version 2.22, I'm downloading it now to find out.... To get it yourself hit Betanew's download page: http://www.betanews.com/download.php3?url=ftp://ftp.icq.com/pub/Win95_98_NT/icq99a.exe

* MP3 Summit
There's an article on MP3.com about the recent MP3 Summit. It has some informaion for where the MP3 market will be going, especially in light of the open-source movement. Read it here: http://www.mp3.com/news/275.html

* Cyberkiller
There's a new webhosting (25 MB with cgi), irc server, fast ftp and more at Cyberkiller.dhs.org. I might hook up with them for some cgi acess and a backup ftp for this site so beavis can get a break. http://cyberkiller.dhs.org/

* Raven Gets New Website
Yep, they are all spamming it in their .plan files, so go see what all the hype is: http://www.ravensoft.com

* Video Game Violence Article
Scott Miller (President Apogee Software) updated his .plan mentioning this article on Salon.com. It's a good read, not this fanatic stuff you keep reading in the newspapers. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/06/21/game_violence/index.html

* 11TH Commandment Joins World Wide Ring Of UFies
You may or may not have saw it at the bottom of the page, but are joining Team UFies for the RC5 (Bovine) project, I decided to join the UFies ring since I'm a hardcore fan anyways. Don't know what an UFie is? Either follow the link at the bottom to the Ufies Ring main page, or check out the User Friendly and figure it out yourself: http://www.userfriendly.org/static/

* #115 PEOPLE SUCK
Yup. Downstairs there's this black family that like to jam shitty rap and r&b at 8 AM. I guess they think the whole world loves that shit, I sure don't. The cops will soon be visitiing them ;)

* RINE'S LINK OF THE DAY
This one is cool, they've made these tiny robots to inspect nuclear power plants in Japan, they are like tiny ants. Check out
Japanese introduce ant-size robot.