Tech Talk / Nerd Musings / Geek Daydreams
Specs/Stats: Custom built laminated pine wood case Antec 300w PSU ASUS A7v266 Motherboard AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor Zalman CNPS6000-Cu Heatsink (with 92mm fan) 256MB Generic PC2100 DDR RAM Creative SoundBlaster PCI 16 sound card Adaptec AHA2940U2 SCSI Controller Intel…
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With the release of Steam from Valve software, a 9gb drive just wasn’t enough for OS files, plus a gangload of game files for Quake ][, Quake ]I[, the various Half-Lives, Unreal Tournament 2003, Medal of Honor – Allied Assault…
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I only hosted one Thursday frag this month, and the showings suffer for it, but stuff in real life has sort of taken precedence over gaming, ya know? Player Devs Des Grunts Frags Frags Frags Maps Name Score Killed Killed…
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I’ve been running out of room on Earthquake, so I decided to plop in a 60gb ATA hard drive to act as storage. The SCSI drives will now be for production stuff, and the ATA drive will hold my games,…
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I’ve been fragging on the ztn2dm for far too long, so I decided to change things up on Plague with a new map list. Pick it up here. The list of maps is: bsol.bsp card2dm1.bsp dld.bsp fragtwn8.bsp grdm1.bsp grngaunt.bsp ikdm9.bsp…
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So I was doing just fine last night, in a grove and holding my own when an earthquake hits, screwing with my game. I had to leave after only a few maps due to circumstances beyond my control. Peeps played…
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Tonight’s Fragfest went almost two hours, with more peeps showing up then last week. A Snowball effect perhaps? Here are the results: Player Name Score Devs Killed Des Killed Grunts Killed Frags as Dev Frags with Des Frags as Grunt…
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Tonight’s scheduled fest is done and I got pwned! We played for eight maps, or about two hours. Thanks to Section8, Ent, Mike Hawk and Lupin-The-3RD for showing up and making the first scheduled game a good one. Man, I’d…
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Plague has moved to the datacenter to host Rainwalk.net so I bought a new Supermicro SC822i 2U case for it. I took a few pictures while I was setting it up: The box it came in. Big. Brown. Expensive….
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Plague has been converted and reborn as a dedicated server for Rainwalk.net and is now located in a rack graciously donated to the cause by At-Link in their facilities at 365 Main. It isn’t a modded box per se, but…
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