Sunday, June 11, 2000

Q3A Requiem Release -- 9:38 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's a new release of Q3A Requiem over on the ReQ3A page. Included is a whole slew of features from the original QW Requiem mod, including the freezegun, holograms, and the jump boots. Coolness-I'll have to pull this down later :-)

New HL Server DLL released -- 4:29 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's a new Win32 server DLL for Half-Life released over on the Counter-Strike messageboards. This fixes a whole slew of problems created in the 1.1 Half-Life release. If you want to download it, follow the link above and read through the post-it includes the information needed to download the file from Valve.

• Out of Handles crash fixed.
• Delayed death messages when downloading a custom decal fixed.
• Fixedwrong skins being seen in Team Fortress 1.5.
• Fixed players showing as 'Unassigned' in Team Fortress 1.5 Scoreboard.
• Status command will show IP of connected clients to dedicated server.
• Remote logging fixed (LOGADDRESS).
• Fixed fakelag cheat.

History today -- 4:22 pm CST, Update by The Master

• 1770: Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it.
• 1776: The Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.
• 1947: The U.S. government announced the end of household and institutional sugar rationing, to take effect the next day.
• 1963: Buddhist monk Quang Duc burned to death on a Saigon street to protest against the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
• 1970: The last detachment of U.S. forces leaves Weelus Air Base in Libya, ending U.S. presense there.
• 1979: Actor John Wayne died at age 72.

Your Next Operating System -- 4:17 pm CST, Update by J.t.Qbe

If you've been living in a cyber-cave for the last 5 years and don't know what the heck this Linux stuff is about, check out this article about Linux in today's Washington Post. It's a pretty good intro, though it does seem pretty pro-Linux. Not that that's a bad thing.

Linux has come a long way during the 4 years I've been using it. I just got around to installing SuSE 6.3, which I won at a conference in May. The "everything" install put 7 gigs of software on my drive. It installed software for just about any purpose you can imagine. Then I discovered that it had clobbered one of the other partitions on the same drive--a Windows partition which came before it in the partition table, but existed at the end of the disk. Now it's listed as a FAT32 drive, but seems to point to the Linux partition. Go figure THAT one out. Oh well. I only lost a few games. . .

Saturday, June 10, 2000

Pondering the Imponderable -- 8:41 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I'm only home tonight until I'm officially back from vacation on Tuesday or Wednesday. The only reason I'm here is we're too cheap to pay for a hotel while we go from one vacation location to another. Like you care.

Not much news today, so I'm attempting to download the Half-Life 1.1.0.0 patch, which the auto-updater said I didn't need (I currently have 1.0.1.6).

The Eric Idle show was absolutely hilarious last night, even for someone like me who has heard all the songs and skits a million times over. It was a special treat afterwards to get his autograph and say a few words to the man who has brought so much silliness to my life.

Bleh -- 12:40 am CST, Update by The Master

I'm going to be offline a good portion of the weekend, so hopefully A.T. or J.T.Q. will keep everyone in the loop. I'll try to update if anything major comes up, but don't bet on it :-)

History today -- 12:37 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1801: The north African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean.
• 1935: Alcoholics Anonymous was founded.
• 1940: Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy.
• 1942: The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.
• 1946: Italy replaced its abolished monarchy with a republic.
• 1967: The 6 Day War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a U.N.-mediated cease-fire.
• 1977: James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six other inmates; he was recaptured June 13.

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