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And here’s the news.

Posted on October 6, 2002 by Snake

You know it’s time to do some news when people start getting angry about the lack of news. There’s not really anything newsworthy to throw out, though. Most of it is recent developments. For one, both Gandalf and Rachael have their own journal here. And Rachael helped me fix a huge bug in the journal script, today.

Today, I started working on a timeline of the history of S&L. It’s a very long image, separated by clan and host eras. Much of the early S&L isn’t documented, though, as we had no Columns or news back then. It’s very schweet seeing everything layed out graphically, though. I’ll post it somewhere, probably as a Column, on a later date.

We’ll be having a rippage event on Halloween once again this year (codename S4) and then the next day, we Surge …3.0 style 8) . It’s possible that we may actually have 4 people for this event. With even teams, we’ll probably be playing a lot more of the good stuff (TFC and UT). This will be one for the history books…er, timeline.

Well, that’s pretty much it. Be sure to look at our journals, as they get updated more often 😉 .

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New Monitor, SnakeBot, etc.

Posted on September 13, 2002 by Snake

So, I bought this new monitor last week from emscomputing.com, and it arrived Wednesday. Even with standard shipping and the 2 business day delay until it ships, I still got the monitor in under a week. This is quite extraordinary for an online purchase. For more details on the monitor, see my journal.

Speaking of the journal, it is a new feature I have devised. I thought the idea of a public forum for one’s ideas was a nifty idea and especially since I try to keep everyone from posting news just to rant (*cough*que 😛 ). Anyways, since I’m a savy, resourceful web programmer, I had to make my own journal. It’s sort of a mix between DeadJournal and the DemoBoard in style. So, check it out.

Now, about The Snake Bot. I’ve been working on a bot for Quake 3 that plays pretty much like I do on Hardcore difficulty. Of course, you can ramp my bot down on the difficulty, but on Hardcore, you get the full snake experience. I’ve included chat texts, too. Sometimes, though, Q3 will automatically use a synonym for bot chats. So, you’ll get a momma fucker or mommy fucker every now and then. It just doesn’t convey the mother fucker very well. (I think I’ve used enough fucker to block this page on all educational computers. 😉 ) Pick up the bot here. Save it to the baseq3 directory and just select Snake as a bot in Q3.


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New Download System

Posted on July 22, 2002 by Snake

Because the old DL system didn’t even link to any of the files on our server correctly or show all files automatically. I’ve modified the imagefolio script to show downloads (dlfolio), essentially, it just shows all the files in ftp in a pretty GUI. If you want, you can still ftp to the site at ftp.s–l.com. Since the nav still goes to the old DL system, you can find the new one here.

Also, I was looking at some int stuff about Microsoft’s Activation policies and all at this site. It’s an int read and as I’ve always known: “Product activation will have little or no impact on piracy. In fact, it may actually increase piracy.” You’re damn straight it increased piracy. I’d love to have a poll that asks which flavor of XP the visitor is using. The choices would be: Legit, Cracked, or OEM (all refering to Home, Pro, or Corp). My guess would be that legit users would be the smallest percentage, followed by crackers, and leading the pack would be llama OEM users that really don’t have a choice whether to get XP or not. 😀 Of course, we don’t get enough traffic or a broad enough audience to have that kind of poll.

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Site updates

Posted on July 4, 2002 by Snake

I did some modifications to the Imagefolio script earlier. It’s now not so much of a security hazard 😕 (as in, it doesn’t show unnecesary directories) and only shows image files. It always confused me as to why IMAGEfolio showed more than just images, but now it doesn’t…so boom.

Also, I’ve been playing Deus Ex again (seems to have a bit more flavor with XP). Of course, that means also that I’m working on the unfinished but ongoing “How to Deus” Column. You can find it, with the new additions, here.

And if that wasn’t enough, I did two additions to my ghEtTO Hardware Modifications Column. That can be found here.

Loog just came by and delivered his old Seagate 20GB HDD. So, now that I’m off work 😉 , I’ll be swapping the 4GB Maxtor with the Seagate and researching some more Deus.

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Downloads down, FTP up

Posted on July 2, 2002 by Snake

I moved all of our downloads to the new public ftp, so if you need anything, just head to ftp.s–l.com. There’s some nifty shitz in there, like a self-extracting copy of the retail Doom wad. Better get that one now before I delete it. 😛

Besides that, everything appears to be functioning properly.

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If you see this…

Posted on July 1, 2002 by Snake

You’ve reached the new S–L.com! 😮

I’m still fixing issues with paths and permission but everything has been uploaded. Lemme know if you see any problems. 😉

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