Jun 9, 2001

She-it…it’s Friday and there’s absolutely no one online. I’m serious…not a person. Loog went to play dod, which is what I’m imagining Que is doing, too…Gandalf ran away an hour ago and I’m pretty sure Dragon is dead. Of course, the ladies flocked to me, but that’s not the point, it’s NEWS TIME!!!

Not much happened this week that’s news worthy, but Snake will as always cook up a hot plate of tech dookie for your nerd pleasure:

• Finally, Tweak3D has some good articles up. I thought the guide on How to Build a Server was pretty good, albeit a bit boastful (half of the friggin thing is about all the fancy parts they bought for their server). I did find the 11th page on RAID interesting, tough.
• Another beautiful Ghetto Burning at Icrontic. This time they wasted a Game Boy, old modem, Super Orb, Intel 10/100 NIC, and Matrox M3D. There’s nothing more interesting than seeing what a melted Game Boy looks like.
• Let’s face it, us bitches at S&L love Vantec HSFs. Loog and I have a D5030 on our Pentium3s and Que has a 6040 on his T-Bird. When I read about the new all copper socket 6035D, I was excited to know that Vantec is still producing excellent units that even come close to matching the ThermoEngine’s score. There are several reviews around, but [H]ardOCP always does it best.
• And finally, has anyone seen this shit happening with DirectX 8.1b? Apparently, some sites got a hold of a leaked beta release. Of course, Microsoft got pissed at them all and asked to remove it or else. There are a few examples here, here, and here. I read that it fixes about 320 bugs and should increase performance for most people and obviously better compatibility. An official release from Microsoft will be out within the month (or that’s Snake’s guess).

I’m pretty content now that I got the Serious Sam demo running on my Viper2. There’s artifacts everywhere, but at least I didn’t get texture drop-outs like Loog’s Voodoo3. Nice demo…I’ll have it reviewed by Friday next week. As well as some other demos: Alice, Diablo 2, Real War, and Operation Flashpoint. Loog, if you want, you can review Alice.

Absolute last thing…I’m pretty much done with my internet project for school. Naturally, I hosted the site here…it’s kinda like a superlarge Column, so that’s where I put it. It’s a “WebQuest” on the Gladiators and Arenas of Ancient Rome. Hey, you might learn something! Check it out.

Extreme absolute last thing…check some more of my Infiltration character models. The first is the magnificent, all-mighty, badass Snake! and the second is a somewhat male-ish Tyler (hey, there aren’t any female player models!). Except for the missing glasses, my model is very accurate; and Ty’s eyes umm…come kinda close. She frags with a vengeance, though! I had a better shot of Que’s model, but can’t find the sucker. Oh well, this is Snake saying: “Shitdis, Bitches! I’m playin’ dod with Quedog!”

3:30am – “Wow! Day of Defeat sucks some extreme ass! I’m going to play Infiltration on {SOB}Houston Server.”