I enjoy playing video games. I used to play PC games since early 1990’s. I played anything from real-time strategies like WarCraft, StarCraft, Age of Empires, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, etc; to first-person shooters like Half Life and Quake III.
In the recent years though I have completely moved to consoles. My favorite gaming device is Sony PlayStation 3. Now I play mostly first-person shooters (Kill Zone, Call of Duty series, and the like), driving simulations (Colin McRae’s Dirt), adventure quests (Assassin’s Creed and Uncharted), and sports (NHL09 ice hockey).
I don’t write much about games, but when I do, I publish my posts in this category.
Slow week with lots of small administrative bits here and there. Some mailing lists activities. News reading catching up.
Few problems with home Internet connection. ;(
Preparation for a private LAN party tomorrow. It will be a 4v4 Quake III OSP TDM. Hopefully, we’ll have lots of fun. I am bringing the beer. :)
Quake day! I’ve been reading about QuakeCon 2002 and watching lots of demos (especially from CyberFight.RU). Later in the evening I played few extremely nice 2v2 games. Nice and GGs.
Some work on my school project. Random reading of Perl books and Dijkstra articles. Beer session. Lots of nice Q3 OSP TDM games. Even few demos posted on Gamers.CY.
I’ve played several really good q3 games (osp tdm). Educational side was enriched by reading RPM HOWTO and Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide. I’ve spent the whole weekend playing with DVD ripping. I found dvd::rip to be the easiest to install and most full-featured, including cluster support, resizing, cropping, encoding from the hard disk, etc, from all that I’ve tried (DivXripper and Drip).
Today (or actually yesterday) I was still playing with Red Hat 7.3 installation CDs. Not much to go – now it fits into single 720 MB image which happen to boot and install nicely.
Part of the last weekend was spent on upgrading my home network to Red Hat 7.3, thanks to power failure which brought my home server down again (and yes, UPS is on my wish list :) ). Apparently, everything went nice except for strange mouse disappearence from my workstation and some problems with DVD playing. Changing mice with my girlfriend happened to fix my problem, without creating one for her. DVDs are more complicated though and I am still working on the issue.
Saturday ended up with one of my friends at our place and a first Quake III lan with me using DVD box, laying on the floor and aiming via TV set. :) Almost broke my neck, but had lots of fun… till 6am. :)