New hardware

January 16, 2004 General Comments Off
    The MSI motherboard and my FX5200 video card got fried recently, which sucks pretty bad, but fortunately I can get the motherboard replaced for no more than the cost of shipping the old one back. The video card wasn’t on any sort of warranty, so I just had to buy a new one. I was needing to get a new one anyway at some point, because FX5200 is really slow.. I just wasn’t expecting to have to get that upgrade so soon. I sort of figured this one would last me into the NV40 era. So, the new one should arrive today. It’s an FX5900, which will be insanely fast, plus have a few new features over the FX5200 that will be cool to work with. The other cool thing is that BFG, the maker of this video card, has a true lifetime warranty on this board, so if anything happens to it then I can get it fixed or replaced.

Talking to people

    It’s really cool, I’ve been talking to several of my friends from Peabody recently. I talked to Kasia not long ago, and then Yi-Ping the other day, and then Lesley called yesterday. It’s so cool. I’ve been meaning to give Bill a call sometime too, I just haven’t yet.

Kernel update

January 7, 2004 General Comments Off

2.6.1-rc2

    I updated to kernel 2.6.1-rc2 today in order to fix the NVIDIA AGP bug, which it did.v I also got ALSA setup to use my on-board sound for this MSI K8T Neo mobo, but the driver seems to be a little buggy still at this point so I get ‘clicking’ sounds (sort of like very, very slow static).

Max Payne 2

    Cameron has been bugging me to play it (and seemed almost outraged one day when I told him that I had borrowed it from David like a couple weeks ago and still hadn’t installed it), so I finally installed it the other day and started to play it.

    It’s nothing really new or revolutionary in this game. Usually when I say something like “basically more of the same” it is not meant in a good way, but I’d basically have to say that about this game and mean it in a good way. If that makes any sense. I thought the original Max Payne was really fantastic and was one of the best games I had played at that time, and the sequel basically just takes a good thing and improves slightly on it. There was really no reason for them to try to do anything amazingly new in this game, and I’m glad that they basically preserved the gameplay.

Happy New Year!

January 1, 2004 General Comments Off
    Happy New Year, everyone. I hope 2004 is good for everyone.

Gentoo

    I finally got Gentoo installed and running. It’s a lot of trouble, but now that’s it’s running I like it a lot.

NeoEngine 64-bit

    I just commmitted support for NeoEngine to run on Linux in 64-bit mode on AMD64 (Opteron/Athlon64) systems. Woo!