Saturday, December 17, 2005

NFL Week #15 Continued -- 10:26 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Since I'm doing so well so far, a wiser man would just give up. Thankfully, I'm not that man: Seahawks, Colts, Rams, Dolphins, Steelers, Panthers, Jaguars, Cardinals, Bengals, Raiders, Cowboys, Bears, Ravens (what a nasty MNF game).

The Master comments: Eeyore's picks for today are the same. Let the games begin!

UT2K4 Mega Pack -- 10:50 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Epic has released the Mega Pack for Unreal Tournament 2004. It contains all of the Editor's Choice Edition (ECE) content, the 3369 patch, five new assault levels, two new deathmatch levels, and two new CTF levels. Pretty cool stuff. It's always good to see more assault levels. You can download the Windows version from the above link or from the usual mirror sites. The Linux version (which includes an updated 3369-2 patch) is available from icculus.org.

NFL Week #15 Early -- 8:26 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

This weekend Saturday NFL games begin! Huzzah! In that spirit, here are my picks for today: Bucs, Chiefs, Broncos. Three games, three road teams. Yikes. I'm going to be interested to see what happens at Ford Field tomorrow for the Lions game. There are plans for a lot of fan protests. I hope nobody gets stupid.

The Master comments: We're starting off the week with 2 differences: Patriots, Giants, Broncos. I am now off to make a lot of Christmas cookies. Wheee!

Friday, December 16, 2005

Stupid Linux Tricks -- 4:23 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Well, I found out why UT2K4 and the Quake IV demo were so flaky on my system. Somehow or another when I upgraded to Slackware 10.2 either the installer didn't put a line for the swap partition in my fstab (unlikely) or I accidentally erased it (quite likely). So these programs were trying to run with no swap space on the hard drive at all. My 512M of memory got me through most tasks without a problem, but as soon as things got tight, the disk started thrashing and the out of memory killer in the kernel did its job and killed the process dead. Actually, I'm very surprised that things have worked as well as they have. Nothing like a classic case of PEBKAC.

More Darwinia -- 8:59 am CST, Update by The Master

I spent another 3 hours or so on Darwinia last night. This game is a LOT of fun. I played the "Mine" level and I thought I was doing so well until suddenly all my various units got wiped out inside of about 10 seconds. The puzzle was in where my attackers were coming from. Once I figured out that the little robot flowers were spewing more infection all over my map, I was able to mop up in no time.

This is the best $18 I have ever spent on a game. If you like games in the vein of Populus, definitely pick this one up. And prepare to lose a lot of time to it.

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