Monday, March 11, 2002

Mozilla 0.9.9 Released -- 9:47 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Almost to 1.0! Version 0.9.9 of the Mozilla web browser has been released! You can check the full release notes here. Get downloading! 0.9.9 includes a fix for the zlib buffer overflow exploit.

As an aside, Red Hat released updated zlib packages today too.

Perens Takes Swipe at Mundie -- 9:38 am CST, Update by The Master

There's an article titled "Deciphering the open-source war" online on C|Net News by Bruce Parens, taking a look at Craig Mundie's recent comments on Open Source. Excellent article. Go, read.

A.T. Hun comments: That's some great stuff. Clear and understandable. Of course, Mundie and his ilk always leave gaps in logic big enough to drive a truck through. I don't know what to say about M$. Either they are legitimately convinced that their way is the only way and all other ways are unamerican or they are scared. Probably a lot of both.

New Star Wars Trailer Online -- 9:35 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The new Star Wars "Clone Wars" trailer is available for download online. Contrary to what Apple says, QuickTime 5 Pro is not required. Here is the link you need (~31M).

A number of people posted on Slashdot last night saying how much they thought the new trailer sucks. I know everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I think they are idiots. A friend of mine came over to see it last night. All that he, my wife, and I could say was, "Oh man!" It's pretty amazing. Download it for yourself and see.

Sunday, March 10, 2002

relnev's Quake 2 Port r0.9 -- 6:18 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

relnev has released r0.9 of his Quake 2 source port. You can download the file directly here. Here's a list of the changes/fixes:

• X selection support (softx/glx only).
• Mouse Wheel support (softx/glx).
• CD Audio fixes. (W.P. van Paassen)
• Swapped SDL buttons 2/3 to be correct.
• Big Gun+save game crash fixed.
• FreeBSD support. (Hampton Maxwell)
• Mouse buttons 4/5 supported (sdl only). (Angelo Grossini)
• IPv6 support. (Florent Parent)
• Documentation updates.

After this release, relnev will be handing over the maintainership of the port to someone else. Thanks, relnev, for your efforts!

UPDATE! I just got the new port installed on my new system. At 1024x768 using Tweak3D's image quality autoexec.cfg, I got 99 fps. Actually, I got a faster score on my new box with 4x4 Guassian antialiasing and maximum anisotropic filtering than I did on my old box by itself.

VCR Alert! -- 6:01 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Fox will be broadcasting a 2.5 minute trailer of Star Wars: Episode II in between Malcom in the Middle and X-Files tonight. Get those VCRs and Tivos set up! Thanks Slashdot.

Mark Rein Interview -- 5:45 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

HomeLan Fed posted an interview with Epic's Mark Rein, covering the Unreal Engine and the forthcoming games in the Unreal universe. Unreal Tournament 2 will be out around the end of June. Unreal 2 should be out by Christmas (and is having the multiplayer component dropped). Unreal Warfare is too far off to discuss. I'll be very interested in the UT2 test--especially if they have a Linux version. Thanks Blue.

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