Thursday, June 22, 2000

Bleh -- 8:29 am CST, Update by The Master

Okay, I have a question for the drivers in the crowd (I don't drive-so I guess I wouldn't know). Why in the **** can't people get out of the way of emergency vehicles on the friggin highway? My wife was driving me to work today, and here's this cop on the other side with lights on desperately trying to get down the highway and here's a line of 6 or 7 idiots driving in the left-hand lane RIGHT NEXT to cars in the right, so the cop can't pass. And NOBODY got out of his way.

My solution? A REALLY large weapon system in the emergency vehicle. Someone gets in the way, someone gets vaporized. Grrrr...

History today -- 8:13 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.
• 1868: Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.
• 1870: Congress created the Department of Justice.
• 1911: Britain's King George V was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
• 1934: Ferdinand Porsche contracted with the Automobile Manufacturers Association of Germany (RDA) to build three prototype "people’s cars" over a ten-month period. The contract was a direct result of Hitler’s personal request to Porsche, and the result was the Volkswagen.
• 1941: Operation Barbarossa--the German invasion of the U.S.S.R.--began with scores of German divisions storming across the Soviet Union’s 1,800-mile-long border.
• 1944: President Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill of Rights.
• 1945: The battle for Okinawa officially ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 81-day campaign.
• 1969: Singer-actress Judy Garland died in London at age 47.
• 1970, President Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.

Wednesday, June 21, 2000

Shogo/SiN Release Dates -- 8:01 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

While I was gone at conference, Linux Games announced that the distributor for Hyperion's ports of Shogo: Mobile Armor Division and SiN to Linux, Titan Computer has announced release dates for these two titles. Here's the news:

The distributors of the new Linux titles being ported by Hyperion Software have announced that the expected release dates for Shogo: Mobile Armor Division and Sin will be august and september respectively. Tux Games has announced availability of pre-order facilities for both Sin and Shogo.

Methinks that I may need to get in touch with Hyperion's Thomas Frieden (check out my interview with him on the The Haus of Shogo) to see if I can get my mitts on a review copy!

FWIW, the preorder page for Shogo is here and the preorder page for SiN is here. Both games will be going for a very reasonable $27. No affiliation, yadda, yadda.

Mozilla M16 Under Linux -- 7:50 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I downloaded and installed Mozilla M16 for Linux today. All I can say is WOW! It displays pages faster and more accurately the Netscape 4.73. The pages look like they should, instead of the mess that Linux browsers can sometime make of them. If you run Linux you owe it to yourself to download Mozilla M16!

One caveat, I downloaded the i386 installer first, but the installer didn't want to work on my system. So I just downloaded the i386 tarball and everything's good.

SiN Soon for Linux -- 7:46 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Linux Games is reporting that Hyperion software has updated their progress report on their port of SiN to Linux. The game should be going into beta very soon. More gaming goodness for Penguinistas!

Win32 Q3A Under Linux, Revisited -- 10:55 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I followed the instructions for getting the Win32 version of Quake III Arena working under Linux (story). Actually I feel pretty stupid now. I should have known that the Linux executable would be included with the Linux 1.17 patch since it is included with the Win32 patch. At any rate, it works great! With the .93 NVIDIA XFree 4.0 drivers, my framerate is exactly the same under Linux as it is under Windows 98. The "jittery mouse" problem I experienced with the demo is not there with the full 1.17 version.

Now I just have to figure out which of the mods I have use QVMs and try them under Linux! I'm one step closer to being M$-free!

History today -- 8:16 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1788: New Hampshire became the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the new Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land.
• 1813: At Vitoria, Spain a massive allied British, Portuguese, and Spanish force under British General Arthur Wellesley defeated the French under Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean Jourdan, effectively ending the Peninsula War.
• 1916: The controversial U.S. military expedition against Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa brought the U.S. and Mexico closer to war when Mexican government troops attacked U.S. Brigadier General John J. Pershing's force at Carrizal, Mexico.
• 1942: General Erwin Rommel turns his assault on the British-Allied garrison at Tobruk, Libya, into victory, as his panzer division occupies the North African port.
• 1948: A tiny experimental computer, lacking a keyboard or printer, successfully tested a memory system developed at Manchester University in England. The system, based on a cathode-ray tube, could store programs, whereas previous electronic computers had to be rewired to execute each new type of problem.
• 1963: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI.
• 1985: Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.

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