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Back into the swing of CS…

Ok, so I’m finally all unvirused and ready for gaming again. The game I missed the most was CS, so I re-DLed it & got all my backup files back in. Yesterday, after Bleys and I played on a couple servers he likes but I lag badly on, I searched and found 5 new servers to look through. Today, I had started a table to put on here listing attributes of each server, but I found that most of them sucked. I even got banned from one server just cause my ping was too high! 😮 One server, called “|BSS| Bitch Slap Squad” is good, because I get great ping to it, but noone’s ever on it (which could be an advantage, cause we can use it for clan practices).

But anyway, one server stands high among the rest. The “TFR Hot Cinnamon” server (the Task Force Ranger clan) gives me great ping (and remember, I have a 56k), has stats (Psycho stats, like GD had), has a very nicely designed site (TFRclan.com), and has cool people. The downside, though, is that it has a curse ban. The max players is 24, and there are a total of 33 maps (though 6 of those are custom ones that I can’t seem to be able to DL from their site). The IP is:

oO0º° 207.19.97.111:27016 °º0Oo

Hot cinnamon for x-mas! Int.

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Hot plates of news…

…served with a touch of Christmas joy. Maybe…no, fuck that.

Break out DAP, cause it’s time to download a shitload of stuff again. 😮

First off, the new version of the DivX codec is out, 4.12. It fixes some junk with the P4 and VIA chipsets…so, I reckon I’ll probably get it, being that I have a VIA chipset. Linkage

Just when you thought your Quake version was current, it ain’t! 😕 Mother fuckers at id busted out a new version on Thursday. It doesn’t look like an important patch, unless you play online often. If you can decypher it, here’s what it fixes:

fixed Doppler effect
changed protocol from 66 to 67
fixed simple developer 1 cvar cheat hack
changed a few warnings to developer warnings
rcon commands no longer fragment, sent buffered to the rcon client
fixed connection issues / broken userinfo
only printing R_AddPolyToScene warnings with +set developer 1
various dedicated server issues fixed

I wish they’d permenantly fix my mouse scroll and zoom problems one of these days. Linkage, or the id FTP looks good today and no lines.

That’s all the downloads, I guess. Uhh…I saw a pretty funny cartoon over at [H]ardOCP today whilst browsing their news. Linkage. Also, you should check out the Case MOD article they had. Loog and I were gawking over them cases in networking class on Thursday and then I played the only First-Person shooter I could find for Java, Scared.

Friday, I put in a new Dual Fan 300w PSU. I haven’t experienced any weird shit with the Hard Drives yet, so it must have been a bad unit. 8)

Saturday, I was attacked by women whilst trying to sleep. 😡 Damn you! Here‘s one of them, now!

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i845 reviews, new hardware, XMas

Here’s something int… Snake sent me a URL to Toms Hardware’s article of new chipsets for the P4. They compared Intel’s new and newly-leased i845 & i845D to other chipsets by our boy Via and SiS. All of these chipsets are made for mobos using DDR RAM w/ Intel’s P4 CPU. Up until now, only Intel mobos had the i800 series. Tom’s doesn’t really like the i845D… its RAM speed is beat by SiS’, and it’s kinda slow in OpenGL.

Just now, I went to SharkyExtreme and found a similar article, reviewing just the i845… and they loved it; it scored an 8.5. That’s the int part… but anyway, I learned something from Sharky’s review: AGP2X cards and mobos aren’t supported by the i845 or i850. In fact, if you try to use an AGP vid card in 2X mode (as Snake and I’s are set to currently), the mobo might become very badly damaged. We probably won’t be getting this chipset when we upgrade our mobos/CPUs… Abit’s KR7A-Raid looks very nice (it uses the KT266A chipset included in Tom’s review).

Hmm, what else… I just got a nice Philips 12Xx8Xx36X burner… it’s a bit slow, compared to others like Snake‘s, but I love it… it looks sleek, and using Nero w/ it works like a charm. I also got a GE DVD/CDRW/MP3 player… quite nice, though a bit useless. Too bad S&L Computers couldn’t start up yet… I’m itchin to build somethin 😛 .

It’s Christmas!!!

µhhhhhhhh… oh, and my microwave blew up.

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This just in…

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz….uhhhh, this just in: The Return to Castle Wolfenstein demo is out. It’s 114MB…arrr. Pick it up from FilePlanet.

I also forgot to mention that I did an update to the VT6X4 Tweak Guide. More tweaking madness for ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……..

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Boom-tastic!

No, that is not (read not) a bomb threat for all you llamas that are watching our every move, so STFU. LOL, we love messing with you rets, because you’re so technologically impaired that you think everything on this site is a threat to the well-being of others. It’s a crying shame, but on with the boom!

I’m gonna attempt to do this in chronological order and hell, this may be the longest news post ever.

Monday, Loogie and I commenced in some fragalicious JDoom using our traditional modem peer-to-peer connection 8) (who needs TCP/IP when you live a mile from each other???). Anyways, this is now my favorite freakin port for Doom now. Not only is it absolutely beautiful but the multiplayer options are becoming better and better with each additional patch. The most recent eye candy that was added is the MD2 model support. This means that Doom while running in JDoom and with all the newest model packs is almost totally 3D. So, Loog and I played several of the later levels of Doom2 on Monday and then the following day, I had finally finish playing the entire Doom2 wad, proof below. If you just wanna gib some demons in single-player, JDoom is the way to go. Linkage Screenage:

If you can’t tell, I’m in a good mood. And hell, you would be too if you were Snake. As stated in my last post, I got a new burner and a TV card. Most of my time so far has been spent investigating the capabilities of this ATI TV Wonder card and it’s software. If you’ve got any sort of video that you’d like to input into your computer, get one of these cards now!!! They’re dirt cheap for everything you get. Of course, the quality isn’t as good as with a TV but it suits. I’ve been working with it and a VCR hooked to the composite for a couple days now and it’s really amazing. 😮 At 320×240, it can record real-time into Divx 4.11 compression. Well, there’s not a whole lot else to say about that. I was working with the camcorder the other day and made an exclusive Snake video but at 21MB even with Divx, it’s too large to upload :( Here’s some Screenage:

Next, I must pay homage to the Plextor 16/10/40 CD-RW. I burned a CD-RW on Thursday evening and was pretty impressed by the speed, and that was only at 10X (for the llamas, that’s the max rate for rewritable media). I burned 496MB of data in 6:10. I remember when burning an entire audio disc took like 45 minutes. Hell, now it’d only take 9. Once again, this particular drive is dirt cheap now that the 24X’s are out. Check out the TV card and burner at my boys’ site, Comp-u-Plus.

Now, here’s the funny shit. Last night (that would be Friday), both Loog and I’s rigs did some intense fucking up. I was trying to write this news post when it happened. My hard drive made a spin down sound and everything locked but the mouse cursor. I said the usual “what the fuck” and hit the restart button. I come back and holy hell, my screen is at 640x480x4 resolution. I tried the normal response to that kind of thing and reinstalled the Via 4.00 AGP GART and nVidia 21.81 drivers. It had no effect, so I just proceeded to back up everything important to the Slave Hard Drive (which IMHO, everyone needs) and formatted the Master at around 4 this afternoon. By 10, I had enough stuff installed to be officially operational. :) The last thing I installed was PowerStrip (great tool, pick it up).

Loog on the other hand, I dunno what exactly happened to his rig. He reinstalled Win98se (without a format 😡 ) and now about half of his programs don’t work still and the OS crashes every few hours. On top of that, he has about 600 files on his Hard Drive that are infected with the Chernobyl virus. All this because he didn’t just format. Loogie is a ret. Moving on.

Oh, hold up…that’s it. She-it, it’s 5:24….I’m ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……………

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Amazing!!!!!!!

Both Snake and I’s PCs just died… that’s right. I’m barely able to type this. We both have to reinstall Windows (gay Microsoft and its XP tryin to overtake 98), and Snake might have to format. And this is just after Snake got his Plextor burner and TV card and was watchin extensive TV for the first time in years.

SHE-IT.

[Editors Note: Holy crap! I guess the happiness of the holidy season doesnt apply to us. Since im by default, like, in charge.. um.. erm.. get me some chicks! And where’s that sandwich boy??]

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