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Archive for March, 2003

Anthem to the DeLorean

What is a DeLorean anyway? Well, it’s easy to answer that question if you’ve seen Back to the Future (and I think that most people have unless they have been living in the remote parts of Afghanistan for their entire lives).
Put simply it is the result of a sole visionary, John Z. DeLorean, who broke […]

More on Iraq .. and related stuff

I was going to drop the subject but since there is no end in sight, I can just as well get used to it. Having followed the efforts by media to report the situation in Iraq, I sense a sharp change in policy. The once so trusty TV channels and newspapers in the UK and […]

New firmware for DI-604 (EUROPE)

I wasn’t sure about this since it only appeared on the Taiwanese site but it installed fine and I’m still online so I guess it’s Ok. I have to say that D-Link screwed up big time when they started making routers that aren’t “universal” in the sense that one driver/firmware covers all regions of the […]

Tribes 3?

I just noticed that Bluesnews and TribalWar have started speculating about the possibility of a Tribes 3 game. Apparently, the Sierra PR Manager had claimed that “.. we will be announcing the next Tribes game on April 24th ..”.
Very cool indeed. I have always loved the Starsiege games but never been able to play them […]

Stuff

Broadband router (DI-604) is up and running. Server is not. What did you expect? I’ll take care of this when I find or construct a suitable case. Or not. Sometimes I wonder why I even began fiddling with this. Hmmm …
I’ll probably activate DMZ and let ZoneAlarm do all the work. I just can’t […]

War manuals

Link of the day:
Iraq Country Handbook
“Dissemination and use of this publication is restricted to official military and government personnel from the United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, NATO member countries, and other countries as required and designated for support of coalition operations”.

About Talking Distance:
“Americans prefer to maintain space between themselves and others, generally […]

Stupidity rules …

Stupid link of the day:
Happy tunes help radio listeners to stay upbeat
“Songs that could remind listeners of war are being banned by radio stations ..”.

Stupid but very truthful cartoon of the day:

Most people still don’t get it though. They use ad hoc tactics to justify war, up to a point where no one knows where […]

PC Game releases

Ahh, finally, a few new games that can make time fly.
Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb (2CD)
Vietcong (2CD)
Devastation
There are more releases this week of course, but I felt that the rest of them are more or less insignificant. And even the above games seem to lack any real magic. Where are EVE Online and Planetside […]

SETI@home re-observations completed

No ET so far from the real time analysis. The final results will however require that the data be devided into work units and sent out to networked nodes. At any rate, the SETI team will continue to gather promising signals and be back for another re-observation in about two years.
To date, more than 4 […]

Software Update

There are other things happening than just armed combat thankfully. Not much to be honest but enough to warrant at least one post.
DirectX 9.0a End-User Runtime
- No idea what it fixes. And only available via webupdate at the moment. Edit: Ooops. The whole thing was taken offline. Will be back soon (stupid me for […]





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