Archive for the 'computer nerd shit' Category

and by stage two I mean Tuesday

(via Something Awful’s Rom Pit) Ironically, I loved this game as a kid and couldn’t remember it’s name until I saw the sword-armed Warewolf. This game, along with Solar Jetman occupied much of my time. Then I stopped playing video games until Doom II and it’s been pretty much downhill from there.

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really, check it out

I only have a peripheral knowledge of this Artemis Fowl thing, but that doesn’t mean anything regarding this. It is simply the coolest optical illusion I have seen in years.

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Also, the death of the flawed, natural human spirit.

Jill Tarter & Will Wright at the Seed Salon: JT: One of the things about games is that you get to build a model without any consequences or constraints. So Spore in one sense is a very good way of looking at evolution. But, if all things are possible with a certain number of DNA [...]

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taxes are only complicated when you start mucking with stuff

The state of Georgia is having a Sales Tax Holiday this weekend, starting today. It seems to be geared towards school necessities, although computer stuff is included. I can see this boosting sales a bit, but not with any sort of long-term effects. But really, it means that I won’t be paying sales tax on [...]

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oh me oh my

One of my 500GB drives was acting wonky and wasn’t working very well, so I removed it from the fstab, and unlisted the partitions in windows. There was a funky HDD light on the front of my PC then, but no worries… until today when it not only didn’t want to work, but it also [...]

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Gah, update time

With any luck I’ll be back online tomorrow sometime. Tonight, I’ll be reverting my system to a WinXP/Debian Dual-boot configuration. FreeBSD 7 is nice, but certain functionality that I require isn’t present.

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