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Archive for November, 2004

Half-Life 2 Again

Nice to see that Vengeance chose to release a proper ISO of the game.
I’ve played thru the game by now and I found it to be most fulfilling in its single player mode. The use of gravity and puzzles are often dazzling. The gravity gun is a really fun addition to the game also. However […]

Site Problems AGAIN

I don’t know what has been going on here. Supposedly it was a storage issue with the server and how mysql stores data on /tmp. I.e. something that I can’t fix as a user. Don’t know if the admins fixed it or if the system purged the device but everything seems to be working .. […]

Sid Meier’s Pirates!

Shiver me timbers! Pirates! is finally out. The revamped version of the original Pirates! that launched back in 1987.
Test your skills as a sea captain exploring the high seas and exotic ports in a richly detailed 3D world. Overtake the enemy and seize valuable booty. Exchange plank-shattering broadsides in fierce naval battles, and engage in […]

Site Divergence

After considering the development and future of battleangel.org I have come to a decision. Everything related to politics, most social science subjects and matters of intellectual property, i.e. not related to personal issues, will be moved, permanently. Battleangel.org will once again be a personal blog and important issues will receive a more fitting arena. And […]

MediaPC Conclusion

Finally got my replacement mainboard, an Epox 8KMM5i, for the mATX Media PC. About time. Hopefully everything should be set now and all my digital media woes will be over.
Let me just say that so far I’m extremely impressed with the Antec Aria case. Sure, it was expensive for its size, but the build quality […]

Dilbert Wisdom

Always worked for me.

Nuclear Double Standards

As top nuclear powers constructs new tactical weapons, missile shields, mini-nukes, and stand ready to militarize space, one could ask what treaties are still in effect today? Is it morally viable to stop countries like North Korea and Iran, no matter how twisted and autocratic they might be, from acquiring banned weapons when one side […]

Sowing the wind …

(A taste of things to come? Time to WAKE UP and act before we are all overrun! What is happening in Iraq today could be the template for the new American empire.)
Remember last year when US troops had barely entered Bagdad and the last uranium shell had hit the ground before a new copyright amendment […]

Poland refuses EUCD

Thank god for the eastern expansion of the EU. The Polish government had the guts to say no thanks to the draconian legislation even though pressured by such prominent players as Sun, Novell, HP and Microsoft.
It it now more than likely that the EUCD (built upon the WIPO, built upon the DMCA or whatever) will […]

Sense of Humour

.. is when someone posts battlestar.galactica.s01e05.ws.pdtv.xvid to Suprnova but in reality it’s a clip from “Pissende Schulmädchen 4″ that has been copied 25 times and RARed. For those 4000+ people, including myself, who just jumped the download without reflecting over how unusual it is to RAR archive an AVI to a single file and without […]





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