Monday, October 3, 2005

Quake 4 GOLD -- 10:30 pm CST, Update by The Master

Blue has the press release announcing that Quake 4 has gone gold. The game is due in stores on October 18. I've been waiting for a new shooter for a while, and with Cold War I've now got two on my plate. Sweet.

OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC1 -- 2:02 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I recently downloaded OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC1. This is a release candidate, not an official release. You may remember that some time ago I downloaded a beta version of OOo and saw that it really needed work. I'm pleased to report that RC1 is much faster than the beta. Of course, it fully supports OpenDocument, which I will be moving all my docs to.

The WordPerfect importer works substantially better. It works well with outlines now. The only "problem" I've found is with a calendar I used in WP. The main table for the calendar itself came out fine, but the mini-tables in the upper right and left with the previous and next months didn't convert. Other than that it has dealt with everything I've thrown at it.

Overall, I think that OOo 2.0 has improved enough that I will start transitioning to it from OOo 1.1.5. Check it out if you haven't already. As an aside, after a little bit of testing, OOo 1.1.5's OpenDocument importer seems to work great.

Pondering the Imponderable -- 9:50 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I know that very few, if any, of you will care about this, but I just saw on ESPN.com that the Detroit Tigers fired manager Alan Trammell. I saw the writing on the wall when the team seemed to be tuning him out. He was one of the great heroes of the '84 championship team and a Tigers legend. When he signed on to be the skipper, I was afraid that all it would do is tarnish his legacy. It appears that I was correct. He's taking a fall for a team that has languished in mediocrity (actually, mediocrity would be an improvement) for far too long. I don't know who the heck you'll get in there who will be able to do anything with this train wreck. Sorry, Tram. We'll always have '84.

Sunday, October 2, 2005

NFL Week #4 UPDATE -- 11:35 am CST, Update by The Master

I updated the Week 4 post for Eeyore's picks. This is going to be an interesting week :-)

Bleh -- 12:28 am CST, Update by The Master

I spent a couple hours working on my Athlon-64 based system today (MSI K8T Neo2 system, Athlon 3500, 1gb Ram), and I got to discover a few fun things:

• When installing a new Antec system fan, the Antec label points in the same direction as the air flow.
• Make sure you check all your cable connections BEFORE putting the case back together. Otherwise you'll get to wrench out all those screws TWICE.
• Don't use MSI PC Alerts software to monitor voltages, fans, and temps -- it misreads the entire chipset. Use MSI Core Center. Completely undocumented issue with the software. I had to find this in the extremely difficult to use knowledgebase. MSI impresses me not.

Oh, and UT2K4 causes my system to reboot after exiting the game in XP. Impressive. The consensus seems to be that it's a problem with XP, Athlon 64 processors and the most recent UT2K4 patch release. I just think it's annoying.

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