* Under Pressure, Yahoo! Clarifies Terms
After about 1,000,000 nasty emails from Geo-Cities folks, Yahoo! added a line to clarify the 'owning your site' clause:

To quell users' fears, the company added a two-sentence preface to its terms of service. The preface clearly states that "Yahoo does not own Content you submit, unless we specifically tell you otherwise before you submit it."

See what the combined power of like-minded people can accomplish? Think about other issues that could be handled the same, pollution, gangs... To read more: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/zdnet/story.html?s=v/zd/19990701/tc/19990701002

* Gamespy 2.12
Game$py 2.12 is out for registered users. New version now supports:
* Kingpin
* Drakan
* Descent 3 (updated)

http://www.gamespy.com/download

* Q3A Preview/Screenshots
Computer Games Online has yet another Q3A preview, this one showing new screenshots. One in particular shows particles in the Railgun trail... Whoohoo. http://www.cdmag.com/Home/home.html?article=/articles/021/011/quake3_preview.html

* More On Australian Net Censorship
The man behind the bill seems to think this censorship will not hurt the computer/internet industry there. Ladies in gentlemen, this man is an idiot. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2286775,00.html?chkpt=hpqs014

* Sonique 1.05
For all you MP3 lovers (who isn't?) Sonique 1.05 is hot off the press. Sonique does what WinAMP does, but it's far more purty, and boasts the best decoder on the streets. Hit the Sonique site: http://www.sonique.com/

* Hacking Furbys
It seems you can hack a Furby using a PalmPilot, the possibilities are endless. Imaagine a Furby that tells folks to go screw themselves :) http://www.homestead.com/hackfurby/#status

* Tribes Bots Now
Xtreme Tribes has a mod posted now that allows you to play against bots, so much for Tribes Extreme ;) The poop:

Here is BotWar, Opti just finished it up and it rocks! The map is server side only and it uses the AI code already in the game to incorporate bots on each team. Optimizer put 4 bots on each side, they serve as guards for certain areas of the map. Be carefull, these guys have a great aim!

http://www.xtremetribes.net/

* Free Kevin Mitnick (Rine)
I'm sure you've all heard about this Hax0r who the government is screwing for his 'crimes', Mitnick is currently inprisoned PRIOR TO SENTENCING. In relation to the Yahoo! boycott, perhaps some of you could show your support for this dude, they're screwing him. You could be next, think about that cracked proggy(s) you use... You know you have one ;)
http://www.kevinmitnick.com/home.html

* Pokemon Jet To Arrive In US, And Kiddie Seizures.... (Rine)
On July third a large Pokemon jet will be ariving in the US for one day to give out Pokemon stuff to lucky kiddies, and in Japan the Pokemon TV show caused over 6000 kids to have seizures. Apparantly the flickering screen caused kids to have a seizure from a newly discovered kind of epilepsy. Read: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/061999B.html

* AOL= Future?
AOL's user-friendly interface, when made into a desktop environment may spell doom for Micro$haft. I'm skeered. http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3573.html?chkpt=ad1qsfp

* #122 UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE SUCK
Yahoo! bowed out, who's next?

* LINK OF THE DAY
Penis-Enlargement-Now.com Fadz sent me this link, don't ask why he was lloking at it.... ;P
 
 
 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1999

* Is MS A kinder, Gentler Software Giant? (11:15 AM, EST)
For those of you not actively following the DOJ vs M$ case, this article can explain much of what has happaned in one snip. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2286189,00.html?chkpt=hpqs014

* Court Upholds Right to Digital Music (10:45 AM, EST)
So many noble warriors defeating evil tyrants recently, perhaps the judges were influenced by Episode I? Scary to think George Lucas may actually have Jedi powerws ;) This article discusses the defeat of the RIAA, as well as the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 which the RIAA was hoping the courts would misinterpret. http://www.mp3.com/news/283.html

* 25 Things We Already Know About Star Wars: Episode II (10:30 AM, EST)
Some of it it is good, and some is bad.... Meesa Bomback!

According to a comment made by costume designer Trish Beggar during the Star Wars Celebration in Denver, the sole location for Episode II will be the planet Tatooine.

http://www.eonline.com/Hot/Features/Episode2trivia/index.html

* Caldera Wins Round In Suit Against Micro$oft
Whoohoo, David has put a bruise on Goliath..

Benson (the judge), in an 11-page ruling, disagreed (with Micro$oft) and backed Caldera's position that while each practice might not in itself be a violation of U.S. Section 2 antitrust law, together they might form an illegal pattern of behavior.

"Caldera takes a broad approach to its Section 2 claim, arguing that based on an examination of all the predatory conduct Microsoft engaged in, Microsoft violated antitrust law," Benson wrote.

Yesterday, Microsoft lawyers argued against Caldera's claim that Microsoft acted improperly by denying the maker of DR-DOS access to beta test versions of the Windows 3.1 user interface.

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,38567,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh.ni

* ReGet 1.5 Beta Build 412
And a new version again.. ;) http://www.reget.com/beta/

* Kingpin Glide Woes
Word from Ridah...
I've had a few emails regarding tech support type questions for Kingpin.

Firstly, do not email me if it doesn't work, unless you cannot get a working solution from Interplay tech support. Your Kingpin documentation has the number for you to call should you have any problems. I don't respond to tech support questions individually, however if I get enough of the same problem, I may post solutions here. Make sure to include your CD serial number when emailing, otherwise it will be deleted, for obvious reasons.

Now, that being said, I've had a few problems from people that seem to be getting stuck at a light-brown screen on load-up, using TNT/2 cards. This MAY be due the existance of an old glide2x.dll in your system directory, from and old 3Dfx installation. Since the game will first try to initialize the 3Dfx minidriver, this will crash under the above circumstance.

The solution is to delete this file, ONLY if you do not have a 3dfx brand card in your system.

Another possible solution is to start the game with: kingpin +gl_driver opengl32

The reason we try the minidriver first, is many have installed the Q3 OpenGL ICD for 3dfx cards, which are not compatible with Kingpin.

Linux update:

We are chasing down one major crash, otherwise it's looking good. Hoping to have it out the door by the end of the week. See how we go.

* Ubermachine Playlist: (1:15 AM EST)

Astral Projection	Still On Mars	7075K	[trance]
Bypass Unit	Steps	7784K	[trance]
California Sunshine	Tears in my Eyes	7240K	[trance]
Deedrah	Self Oscillation	6940K	[trance]
Hallucinogen	Jiggle of the Sphinx	6250K	[psy]
Headrillaz	Hot 'n' Bovvud	5701K	[big beat]
MFG	Alien's Land	6437K	[trance]
Northcore	Nord zerg power	4825K	[trance]
Paul van Dyk	Today (Trance Ambient Mix)	5288K	[damn good]
Space Tribe	Waking Dreams	7129K	[goa]

See something you like? http://www.ubermachine.com

* Amazing Huge News Day... (12:40 AM EST)
And this is just now (12:40 AM), I'll be posting more when I wake up in the morning...er.. afternoon.

* John Carmack Interview
Computer Games Online has a lengthy interview with John Carmack about Quake 3 Arena and the like. It's good read fer sure. Read it: http://www.cdmag.com/Home/home.html?article=/articles/021/004/jc_interview.html

* Free Bandwidth???
This ZDNET article explains how bandwidth 'could' be free in the not so distant future, as well as the problems in the way. It's giving me goose-bumps thinking about it :) http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2285547,00.html?chkpt=hpqs014

* AVP Savegame Patch This Week
Word is that it will be released this week, so all you people bashing your monitor in frustration from dying in the last section of a map will be redeemed... I'll let you know as soon as it is released.

* Winblow$ 98 SP1Downloads
M$ has posted the SP1 files for download so you can fix your great OS without ordering the CD from the bastages.

This software update is part of the Windows 98 Service Pack 1. The following updates are included in the Windows 98 Service Pack 1:

• Windows 98 System Update
• Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2
• Windows 98 Year 2000 Update
• Windows 98 Year 2000 Update 2
• Outlook® Express Year 2000 Update

* Synapse, A 3D User Interface
This is a cool idea, a 3D desktop for Linux would be sooo cool, and the best part:

You move around a lot like you move around in Quake.

That hooked my attention real quick ;) Check it out: http://www.oreality.com/
-Submitted by: Ryan "Novus" Harris

* Electronic Paper?
This is whacked, electronic paper that can display many things by receiving a charge to imprint the image/text on it, which can be reused, and is almost as flexible as paper. WOW. This is great, millions of trees can live, and I'll have less crap littering my sloppy pad ;) Read this one for yourself: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990629/00/tech-tech-xerox

* South Park Challenging MPAA
After reading through the MPAA's movie guidelins the creatiors of South Park basically tried to sneak in as much as they could. Read it here: http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/

* #121 "Life's Short, Don't Be A Dick."
Someone I work with has that bumpersticker, I like it.

* RINE'S LINK OF THE DAY
SpaceBastards.com Um....