Friday and Saturday night, Loog brought The Wad over and we had a boom Surge beta test. I redid the old Surge pages; therefore, you can find more info about what happened there. That’s http://www.s–l.com/surge.

While we were connected, I got enough time to review the surpringly good C&C Renegade MP Demo. Read about it here.

Also, while we were surging, it became ever so apparent that something was fucked up with Loog’s video card; especially during the “and then it locked” portion of Friday night. Saturday, I had coaxed him into putting the Viper2 in again. Here’s the int thing: he put the GF4 back in today and everything is fine.

And Int.

Last night, I reviewed Operation Flashpoint. I think a lot of people overrate it, but I wouldn’t be so harsh as PCG’s 50%. You realistic FPS fans should definitely give it a try, but you’ll either like it or won’t. 😕

I scanned over Tom’s Hardware Guide for the first time in a while yesterday. First of all, DDR-333 RAM is available now… if the chipset supports it, of course. The Intel i845 chipset now supports DDR RAM… only 266Mhz, though. Still, their article on 19 motherboards using this chipset shows it’s pretty badass. Because Socket478 is the new standard for Intel processors, you can use anything after the Northwood series in these… from 1.6-2.5GHz… and, because of the common BIOS options (backup TwinBIOS, monitoring, and huge voltage adjustment gaps), some of these mobos can even OC to 3GHZ+! A couple of things about the DDR: 4 memory “rows” are supported (a row being one side of a RAM module), and the max BW is over 500MB/s more than Intel’s former RAM, RDRAM. Most of these mobos have 6 PCI slots, 4X AGP, a CNR slot for expansions, 3 USB 2.0 ports, and an int feature that supposedly uses a security card put in a slot, kinda like DirecTV satellite receivers. Abit’s BD7-RAID, Gigabyte’s GA-8IRXP, and Soyo’s Fire Dragon won the compo. Finally, I found that USB 2.0 has a max BW of 480mbps (60MB/s)! That’s 40x faster than normal USB; 80mbps (10MB/s) faster than FireWire; and, according to a baud stat Snake found, 2,083x faster than original parallel ports.

I went and totally updated and converged 5 of our CGI scripts these past few days…

And, I just finished adding 2 entries (that’s a total of 19), and about 5 hotkeys, to the Win98 Tweak Guide.

For some reason, Snake didn’t post about this, but as you can see, he finished the new background set late last night… and all the colors are good w/ it… and he modified one of the S&L logos above. Also, you can now click on a logo, and it’ll instantly load the next one… try it.

Like my revised logo?

Whoa, HTML escape characters are int… here’s a big list of them. So is <CODE>. Don’t forget ", &, <, and >, too.

After school today, me and Gr-Dragon were cruisin the tech stores. We went to CompUSA and then BestBuy, and debated brands and whether or not the prices were highway robbery compared to online shopping (the agreement was that sometimes its just worth the extra few bucks to have the item in your hands immediately.) He was trying to get me to buy Serious Sam when i spotted Global Operations! With a “Sweetz0rz!” i grabbed it up. When i got home, i installed it (of course) and it runs pretty damn well. Great graphics, but the problem is that theyre too good. Its hard to know who to kill when its raining and dark outside, and everyone’s camouflage looks the same. Plus theres no map and no directions. Overall, it seems to me that this is exactly what TeamFortress2 was supposed to be like. I dont know if its a ripoff or what, but it wouldnt surprise me if TF2 got bought out or something and Global Ops is its incarnation. Anyways, im about to dive into MP, so ill report more about the game later…

Oh, yea, and BTW.. whilst i was away at school today, my parents got into my room and “cleaned” it! They threw away all of my precious junk and garbage! My slackers hovel is ruined! 😡

EDIT…
I Forgot about this….

I am an Asteroid. I am a drifter. I go where life leads, which makes me usually a very calm and content sort of person. That or thoroughly apathetic. Usually I keep on doing whatever I’m doing, and it takes something special to make me change my mind. What Video Game Character Are You?

Loog and I kicked the site’s ass back to the age of the fire texture set. Soon, I hope to have a totally new set anyways. There are many minor changes all over the site. Some of the major fixes have been the Column Index, adding a new POTM, Loogie‘s continuing repairs to the archived news, and the CSS files.

I hope you find it int (I know I do) and enjoy the new textures and other boomage. 😉