Tuesday, June 20, 2000

Another MOO3 Interview -- 3:05 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's another MOO3 interview with Greg Masters, lead programmer of MOO3, over on The Atrium. Some minor stuff in there, but to be honest, I think Hasbro and Quicksilver are just getting started on the design of Masters of Orion 3, so there really isn't much to say right now.

Q3A Beta Map Review -- 1:09 pm CST, Update by The Master

Last night, Steve put up some snaps of a ton of maps from the Beta build of Q3A that he took but never posted. Today he has a cross-reference of his pictures to snaps of the final Q3A maps. Interesting to look and see how things changed. Thankfully that stone texture has been VIOLENTLY reduced from the beta :-)

Gas Prices SUCK -- 1:07 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's an article over on Yahoo! indicating that "White House Wants Better Explanation for Gas Prices". Now, I know a LOT of our readership is out of the country, and live with insane gas prices (I've read that prices in France get up to $5/gal-WOW). But in the Midwestern US (where The Haus is located) we're paying 40 cents more on the average than the rest of the US for gasoline. I personally think this sucks-especially considering that the supposed "stricter air polution laws" are just as prevalent in California, where gas prices AREN'T insane.

Like I've always said-gross profit is king. The customer does NOT matter. Gotta love it :-/

J.t.Qbe comments: I hear that they're even worse in Wisconsin than they are here in Minnesota--yikes! I too would like a better explanation why gas prices go up $.50/gallon over two weeks, and why they only go up and up. As you said, though, the customer doesn't matter. We're only sheep who produce money which can be harvested at greater and greater rates at the whim of the corporate overlords. Gotta love it.

Eidos up for Bid? -- 1:00 pm CST, Update by The Master

According to Yohoo! News, "Lara Croft Has Potential Suitor", which indicates that Eidos could be up for sale. Wow. I remember back a few when Eidos was all that, and Ion was so happy to be with their strong new publishing partner. Guess the times they are a'changin'.

History today -- 8:29 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1756: A group of British soldiers were imprisoned in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the "Black Hole of Calcutta"; most died.
• 1778: After learning of the British evacuation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Army under General George Washington marched out of its winter quarters at Valley Forge to intercept the British force on its way to New York City.
• 1782: Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States.
• 1837: Queen Victoria ascended the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.
• 1863: West Virginia became the 35th state.
• 1893: A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.
• 1898: During the Spanish-American War, the U.S. cruiser Charleston captured the Spanish-ruled island of Guam.
• 1900: The German ambassador in Peking, Baron von Ketteler, was assassinated by Chinese troops, setting off the Boxer Rebellion, which sought to remove foreign influence in China.
• 1923: Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa was assassinated on his farm.
• 1943: Race riots erupted in Detroit; federal troops were sent in two days later to quell the violence that resulted in more than 30 deaths.
• 1944: The battle of the Philippine Sea ended with Japan losing almost all its remaining trained pilots and at least 4,000 seamen.
• 1947: Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was shot dead at the Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion of his girlfriend, Virginia Hill, apparently at the order of mob associates.
• 1963: The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a "hot line" between the two superpowers.

Monday, June 19, 2000

Running W32 Q3A under Linux -- 7:29 pm CST, Update by The Master

There's a VERY short tutorial for linux users who own the Win32 version of Quake 3 over on q3xtreme.net. It's straightforward from what I can see, so if you want to run that Win32 copy on Linux, you'll be all set.

Windows ME Gold -- 7:26 pm CST, Update by The Master

According to Yahoo!, Microsoft has announced that Windows Millenium Edition has gone gold. So there goes some more cash for upgrades. Gotta keep feeding Bill Gates' need for greed...

Linux for the Uninitiated -- 10:00 am CST, Update by J.t.Qbe

Computer Bits has published this interesting article about the challenges and learning opportunities faced by complete newbies to Linux. If you've never used Linux or Unix but wonder what it'd be like to give Linux a try, this is a must-read. Check it out.

This weekend I finally got SuSE 6.3 installed and stable, after 4 or 5 tries at installing. It's a nice complete distribution, but I don't recommend it for newbies. I don't recommend Red Hat for newbies either, for that matter--Mandrake is a better way to go, I think.

History today -- 8:03 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1623: Blaise Pascal was born.
• 1864: Off the coast of Cherbourg, France, the Confederate raider C.S.S. Alabama lost a ship-to-ship duel with the U.S.S. Kearsarge and sunk to the floor of the Atlantic, ending an illustrious career that saw over sixty Union merchant vessels destroyed by the Confederate raider. Built in secrecy for the Confederacy in Liverpool shipyards, the construction of the Alabama was uncovered by the Union, creating a significant diplomatic crisis between the U.S. government and Britain.
• 1867: Horse racing's Belmont Stakes was run for the first time in New York.
• 1910: Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Washington.
• 1917: During World War I, King George V ordered the British Royal Family to dispense with German titles and surnames. The family took the name "Windsor."
• 1934: The Federal Communications Commission was created.
• 1944: In what would become known as the "Marianas Turkey Shoot," U.S. carrier-based fighters decimate the Japanese Fleet with only a minimum of losses in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
• 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York.
• 1956: Thomas Watson, founder and head of IBM, dies.
• 1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova returned to Earth after spending nearly three days as the first woman in space.
• 1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day Senate filibuster.
• 1995: Chechen rebels and more than 100 human shields rode a convoy of buses back to Chechnya after the end of a hostage drama at a Russian hospital.

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