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2003-04-29
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Well, tomorrow is my last day in Toronto. Our new apartment is much
larger, and I can't wait to get there. I hope my internet connection
comes back online quickly once I'm there.

Also, today I invented a new recipe:

Beefy Cheese Fries

Cook up one pound of ground beef in a frying pan.
Put a half a bag of fries in the oven to bake at about 450.
Drain the beef and put it on top of the fries when they are ready.
Grate a half-block of marble cheese, and load it on top while the fries
and beef are still hot.
Yummy!

Makes one serving.


2003-04-20
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I wrote an article for LinuxHardware.org about Linux gaming. They
would like me to write more, so hopefully I will get to do some reviews
of some cool hardware.


2003-03-26
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Okay, so some new stuff is going down with me.

Firstly, I got my preliminary marks back from my final semester of
college, and although they aren't so hot, I didn't fail any of my
classes, so I have no rewrites!! w00t. This means that shortly, I
shall have a second college diploma:
  * Computer Network Engineering Technician
  * Computer Network Engineering Technologist
That's a lot of good news.

Next, BioWare finally released a beta of Neverwinter Nights! It
runs pretty well on my Debian system, and I've filed 4 bug reports
so far. On my wife's Mandrake system, it was running fine. This
brings me to the third update:

Mandrake released version 9.1 of their distro. I'm sick of hearing
all the "boycott teh french! boycott teh Manbrake Lunix!!11" crap
on Slashdot and other various places... Mandrake 9.1 is easily
the best distro there is right now. Unless you like multiple-hour
installation processes (in which case, I recommend Debian or
Slackware), give Mandrake a shot. The speed amazed me, and as much
as it is tempting me to install it, I just love apt too much. I
can't ditch Debian, as it is easy to upgrade - the only thing
that Mandrake really lacks. I started to go through the 9.0 -> 9.1
upgrade process, but I hit reset halfway through. It just felt too
much like I was wasting my time.

Now, if Mandrake 9.1 would just co-operate with ravage's installer,
or if it would at least play NWN without crashing, I'd be euphoric.


2003-03-19
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I decided that I hate personal attacks on IRC when I'm trying to discus
something seriously.

<kodgehopper> dolson: captain of the debate team?
<chandler> alright. I said cut it out.
<kodgehopper> okokok
<kodgehopper> no more hitting below the belt :))
<wolfman8k> dude u suck
* kodgehopper takes a bow
* dolson kicks kodgehopper in the face while he's bowing
<dolson> He was gonna suck my dick, so I had to do a preemptive strike
--- ChanServ sets modes [#politics +o chandler]
--- chandler sets modes [#politics +q dolson!*@*]

Now, I have no frickin' clue what that insult was supposed to mean, but
I felt I had to respond. My silencing was worth it. That guy is an ass
and was attacking me personally every 5 seconds.


2003-03-16
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I started making a cool scripted drum machine, but I have a couple
problems with it... Namely, if the sound samples get played too fast,
then they end up ignoring the angle parameters of the channel that
they are to be playing in... So instead of having hihats in the left
channel, they sound centered. This is NOT good.

I'd be grateful for any help with this one.

Source code and test script is here:
http://icculus.org/~dolson/files/ddrummer.tar.gz


2003-03-15
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I hate how the world works. I hate people. I hate how they think. I hate
how they act. I hate the media. I hate how people allow it to influence
their every longing. I hate how they are shaped by what everyone else is
doing. I hate it.

I stumbled upon this website:
http://www.comics2film.com/StoryFrame.php?f_id=2629
Here is the opening paracrap:

"If someone had walked up to you a month ago and said
"Evanescence rules," you probably wouldn't have had the slightest
idea what they were talking about. However, with the upcoming
movie, Daredevil being fresh on everyone's minds, there is no
doubt you are at least vaguely familiar with this small "Goth-pop"
band from Little Rock."

Actually, yes, I would have known full well what they were talking
about, and I would have absolutely agreed. I think it sucks how a band I
have listened to for years - yes, that's right, years - all of a sudden
is now as popular as Avril Lavigne...

Why??? My wife is even more pissed about this. While we wish them success
and all, it's more the people that I hate... When I first heard them, I
loved them immediately. I tried getting my friends into them, but they
just shrugged it off.

If it's on MTV, it's good - if not, they don't wanna hear it. Sad, sad
time we live in.

Interesting words I found from an interview about a year or two ago with
Evanescence's Ben Moody:

"The world is filled with hateful people who parade the name of
Christ like a badge that grants them immunity to destroy anyone
who disagrees with them and they are turning more people away
from the love of Jesus than any other group of people in the
world. The #1 cause of atheism is Christians. We only hope to
offset that as much as we can. God gave human beings amazing
amounts of understanding, but they are still flawed and they
make mistakes. God understands all. He is not flawed. He does
not hate. He knows you better than you know yourself and He
understands how you feel. We hope to express in our music that
Christianity is not a rigid list of rules to follow only out of
fear of an unseen deity who will strike you down at any given
moment if you fail. I am a Christian. I still have fears, I still
have pain, I still have sorrow, I wouldn't be alive if I didn't.
The beautiful thing about My relationship with God is that he
understands all that and He has shown me what life is really for.
There are so many things in this life that are taken for granted
because they are overshadowed by all the hate. We write songs
about things that happen in life. All of our songs are not about
rainbows and sunshine. Sometimes it rains. Who can we help if we
won't even talk about it."

It is now just a matter of time before some of the poseurs out there
discover this and begin whining about how preachy this band is and how
they should change because their music is so good and so on. It happened
to P.O.D., it will happen again. It's all just a matter of time...

I have too much time on my hands to be worrying about things like this.
I really don't know WHY this sort of thing pisses me off so much, but it
does; always has. Music is a very big thing to me, and the way other
people treat it has a big affect on me...


2003-03-08
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It is done.

Yesterday was my final exam for my CNO course. I graduated CNT 6 months
ago. I hope I passed all my classes in CNO, but I won't find out for
a few weeks, I think. This waiting sucks. I doubt I passed Calculus...
I'll have to try to do a rewrite. Wish me luck.

So I got a Star Trek game for Playstation. It's neat. I'm not a big
Star Trek fan, or at least I wasn't until recently... I was one of the
few who actually enjoyed Nemesis.

Rune is one of the greatest games ever. Thanks Michael! I can't believe
it sold fewer than 1000 copies for Linux... Makes you wonder.

I can't wait for MOHAA to be ported. That game looks VERY impressive.


2003-02-20
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I don't get it... I'm at a store, and they asked if I needed anything,
so I said "I am looking for Freespace 2." What is the response I get?
"Oh, we don't have that, that's an old game." I should have asked why
they still carry Descent 2 then, since it's a LOT older than Freespace
2 is... That logic just doesn't hold any water if you ask me.


2003-02-13
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Ok, so we get to CityTV, we set up the IceBox, get pyDDR working.
Then, one of the crew there moves the table back, which hits the power
bar's button, killing the power to the IceBox. We have some crap
Gigabyte GA-7ZX motherboard which is caching data or something, and
so it corrupted the hard drive, rendering our project useless.

No TV for the IceBox. No IceBox for the techno showcase. We had to
run the IceBoxUI, Battle Pong, Glacier, and pyDDR all from my home
computer. What a joy. This, all after no sleep from 8AM Monday. I got
to bed last night, Wednesday, at 8PM. So, all in all, 84 hours I was
going, and I still had enough energy to eat half of a stuffed crust
Supreme Lover's pizza at pizza hut before passing out for 18 hours.


2003-02-12
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I slept one hour the other night, and none tonight. I'm about to go
to watch Breakfast Television at the studio because the IceBox is
going live, on the air! Prolly gonna play pyDDR, they will, since
Battle Pong is pretty boring.

I'll be in the audience, when my bro Erik will be on their stage,
answering the questions and stuff. If you get CityTV, tune in today.
It's on in like, less than 2 hours. I should go get ready.


2003-02-03
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It's my wife's birthday today. I gave her Blazing Dragons for PSone,
how romantic.

Anyhow, my DDR mats aren't in yet, nor is Parasite Eve. I'll just
have to wait longer, I guess.

I *really* gotta add the bullets to Battle Pong, since we present
in less than one week now.

I got cross-tools to work for me now. Yay! I had no clue I could
simply put in the MSVC .lib files for SDL_image, SDL_mixer, and
SDL_ttf.


2003-01-30
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I don't get it. Why do people message me on MSN and demand that I
tell them how to do their college projects?

Anyway, I'm in love with OpenBox. And Debian of course. I got all
sorts of cool stuff going on now. I love it.

More good news: My wife seems interested in getting her hair done
like Xev from Lexx. Stupid show, yes, but awesome hair.

I love my wife. I really really do. She is the best. Also, she let
me order two DDR mats and the USB adapter. Booyeah!

I was quite surprised to find a patch in my inbox from none other
than icculus himself... A patch for my game, Battle Pong... Yes,
the pong game that still sucks because it's pong. Anyhow, I looked
at the patch, and I can't say I understand it 100%... I don't see
how, at this rate, I'll be writing Unreal 3.


2003-01-24
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BYE BYE FRENCH DISTRO.

O' course, the transition coulda been made much smoother if those leet
sysadmins would have patched their MS SQL servers so that I could do
some updates.

I started downloading a 17KB file last night, and when I got up this
morning, it was still at 83%...

Stupid... Time to go do some ap-getting.


2003-01-23
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I got Debian going overtop of my FreeBSD partition, and I love it
so far. I'm ditching Mandrake most likely tomorrow. I feel sorta
bad about it, but I'll keep it around on my wife's PC. I'm not gonna
force her to change distros, and it'll allow me to ensure that my
tutorials work on both distros before I deploy them

I also got my Palm IIIxe working in Debian just fine, so that was
one of my major worries - then again, Slackware works just fine with
it, so uh... Debian shouldn't have had any problems. :)

I added a cool thing to my i.o webpage - the entire chat log from
the first day that I joined #icculus.org on IRC. Interesting
reading, really.


2003-01-19
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Well, everything is working in FreeBSD just fine. Last I checked,
Slashdot still hadn't posted about it, but they did post a news
item that was posted elsewhere on the Net the day before... I guess
they are slipping. :)

I can't make BSD see my Linux ext3 partitions, as their mount command
doesn't work the same as Linux... or their kernel isn't set up for it.

And I need to be able to mount them, since I only have 600MB free, which
means that the testing I could do for LGP is *very* limited.

Also, the font rendering either sucks monkey nuts or it's the video
driver.

o/~ I WANT MY, I WANT MY, I WANT MY DE BI AN o/~

msphil is sending me some Debian CDs, but they aren't in yet... I
hate the postal service.

Anyhow, it's 2AM and I need sleep.


2003-01-18
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I got that Palm IIIxe. The calibration tool doesn't really work, but
I can live with that. I didn't pay anything for this, but rather traded
some older hardware that I would probably never use again for it.

I got it to connect to my network, and I got it to get on the Net,
although not with name-resolution, so I have to use IP addresses. Thanks
to Chunky's writing. :) It's kinda neat, but not very practical for
something like IRC (although I tried using epic4 over SSH).

A keyboard would make this thing a joy to write notes in while I'm
not at home, and when I am, JPilot rocks me. I still prefer the
pilot-xfer -i packagename for installing stuff to it though.

It appears that FreeBSD 5.0 is out... No announcement on /. or
the front page at freebsd.org, but I see it on the FTP site...
Downloading now.

My estimated release date for Neverwinter Nights beta is: February 5th.


2003-01-16 (later that day)
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Well, looks like I'm getting a Palm IIIxe tomorrow. w00t! I'll put
Chunky's writings to good use. :)

Treke mentioned a possibility of finding me a keyboard, so that would
be awesome.

I added a place for some images that I make that don't make it to
TimeDoctor.org.


2003-01-16
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An extra special thanks to vogon. This guy wastes more time on helping
me than any teacher I've ever had throughout all my schooling.

I can only hope that some day, some how, I can make it up to him, and
on top of that, help someone else with C++ stuff. Maybe a C++ in
Basic English book or something someday. I shall see.

Reminder - don't bug people about ports. It is impossible to know how
much pressure it is for them, and if they are having a bad day, then
it's best to just STFU about it, instead of pestering and pushing.


2003-01-15
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Okay, I decided that I came up with some cool ideas for games to make:

1 - Kid Icculus, the Kid Icarus ripoff^Wclone
2 - Foosball 3D, the... 3D... foosball game...

Anyhow, I'll work on them after my next big project...

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