Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Jun 20, 2001 #2

Holy what the fuck? Mick Rippon has a new site and I didn’t know about it!! I just saw it and was so fucking amazed that I ran to tell you, but it looks badass. Geez…lemme go look at this stuff. You do the same…

http://www.mickrippon.com/home/index.html

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Jun 20, 2001 #3

Wow…and I thought last week was a slow week. I couldn’t find anything tech news worthy to post. Of course, if you’re hard up for news, [H]ardOCP always has more than anyone could possibly read. My report card came the other day and since I actually passed all my classes, my parents got me a digital camera. And, I think they should have saved their money for food and electricity, cause umm…this thing sucks. The only thing good about it is that I can take a picture and have it into Paint Shop Pro 7 in less than 30 seconds. That said, the thing sucks so bad that it doesn’t even have a flash and the resolution is 320×240. Ack! Here’s the best picture I could take with it:

I have to swivel my desk lamp up to provide enough light to see anything. Note that I was getting frustrated with the bastard when I took that picture (explaining the weird expression). Oh well, the camera makes a nice monitor ornament.
I know all you lamers don’t know the significance of my “slapping with a trout”, so here’s a screenshot from MIRC that should show you. Voila!

I did the Serious Sam demo review, but haven’t gotten around to the others cause I need to do some more playtesting. I also plan on making so additions to the downloads section and maybe soon the elderly links section. Adios, las perras!

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Jun 20, 2001 #4

First off, I would like to say I am SICK of all this tech news bullshit, Snake! Nobody gives a rat’s dick most likely. Just give URLs to your favorite tech news sites and let them read the news themselves whenever!

Secondly, I am getting really good at CS. A vet on GameDomain server taught me a lot about knife fights and some other moves, and I’m great at long-range m4 kills now….. Bleys and I play on GD every single day. If only Snake would get on once in a while we’d look good in the stats.

Finally (aside from the fact that I got my learners’ finally, about to get a job), I’m going to paint The Wad!!! Yep, I’m going to Snake’s sometime next week and painting it. I will put up a GHettO post on Snake’s column about it when I’m done. I found a great tutorial on it at [H]ardOCP (again, just the link). It’s a little more involved than I thought. For it to look right, you have to sand the original paint off with an orbital sander; then clean and de-tack that to smooth it out; then apply primer and let that dry; then put 2 or 3 coats of the colored paint (I’ll be using spray paint [which color I use will be a surprise]) on and let that dry. I’m gonna strip the system of the casing, cause Addtronics lets you remove all sides, and bring it over– meanwhile giving me a good chance to install the new 128mb stick of RAM of I bought. That’s it- but a closing note: get out of the house sometimes! It’s better than you think.

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Jun 15, 2001

I just thought that this was so fucking amazing that I had to post it: Quelog actually played Infiltration with me today (Slap! Not that kind of infiltration, fags!) and we pretty much kicked out the shit until some veteran LPBs got on. Of course, this was on {SOB}Houston. For some reason, I like that server and it’s not because of the ping. Anyways, get INF and we’ll OWN you there sometime.


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Jun 15, 2001 #2

Fucking goddamn son of a bitch shittin’ finally, school is out for Loog, Gandalf, and I. This school year was like an anal plague of diarrhea that wouldn’t stop, no matter how much you wiped your ass. Since it’s over with, I’ve been able to get some stuff done that I wanted to. Yesterday, I tested and tweaked with the VT6X4’s BIOS for hours and eventually came up with a stable and speedier solution that I’ll have outlined in an upcoming Guide Column. I say speedier cause I bumped up the Front Side Bus to 140Mhz which yielded 33Mhz more processing speed. Only a slight increase, but damned if I still can’t reach 150Mhz FSB. There’s a bottleneck somewhere in the AGP or RAM bus and I intend on finding it sooner or later.

Anyways, I finished two new Ghetto Articles that can be found here. The first is a follow-up to the intake system and the second is an extremely badass hardware execution. I had a lot of fun with these latest mods/trashing, so I hope you have fun reading them.
I think that’s about it, no time for the news because I’m getting pretty sleepy and all. But, you’ve probably noticed the recent graphics set change. Of course, the last was the sky set and this is the fire set. Kinda reminds me of a volcano or something. Enjoy, but please don’t steal it for your own uses, llamas.

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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.”

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