Very quick pass through 100% of Quake

Quake, a revolutionary game released back 1996, is awesome even by today’s standards. Maybe the visual effects have moved up a notch or two in the modern games, but the game play, the maps, the balance of the weapons – all these are much harder to figure out and Quake still kicks butt of the most modern games in those aspects.

Today, via Goblin, I came across these awesome video – a guy is going through Quake levels as fast as he possibly can, but at the same time, opening each and every secret place and killing each and every monster. That’s a 100% pass! Most of us, even hardcore gamers who finished the game back in 1996, haven’t seen every corner of every map. Now is the chance.

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It takes only a minute or so per level. The precision and the speed are mesmerizing, sucking into the monitor. The sounds and familiar locations bring back nostalgic memories. I almost want to install Quake on my laptop and give it another go through. Maybe now, in 2011, I have a machine to run it at full speed.

Day in brief – 2011-11-03

Day in brief – 2011-11-02

  • Before, my #GoogleReader shared items went into Buzz and RSS. RSS then went into Twitter. Twitter got aggregate to my blog. Not any more. #
  • New design for #Gmail is nice. It works better for me than whatever I had before. I wish #GoogleReader ppl learned something here. #
  • @pavlatom Try the themes and the Comfortable/Compact/Cozy setting. It's way better than before. Especially conversations. Love it! #
  • @pavlatom I love comfortable. Especially when looking at search results. Easy to visually separate things. :) #
  • If you are using #CakePHP and not using bake shell, you are NOT using CakePHP. Trust me on that one. #
  • New note : Их дом – Россия (иерархия власти) sx_1200x6032u.jpg (1200×6032) http://t.co/9zudEjKr #
  • New note : GelaSkins | What are GelaSkins? http://t.co/vogvCySX #
  • I favorited a @YouTube video http://t.co/0SEr18J9 120 mph (192 km/h) Crash Test #
  • I favorited a @YouTube video http://t.co/XqG7vVSe зомби-бой в рекламе тонального крема.mp4 #
  • I favorited a @YouTube video http://t.co/2EjTg17c David Calvo juggles and solves Rubik's Cubes #
  • @pavlatom Actually, it doesn't matter if you do or don't. I was just stating a fact. :) #
  • @twitterstories are absolutely awesome! You have to check them out. http://t.co/WXD7ZoIG #
  • @acroitoriu No need to rush. They've made a few improvements to the #GoogleReader today. I'm sure more is coming shortly. :) #
  • @acroitoriu You can switch between All Items and Unread Items. And then mark all you scrolled through as read. That's how I have it. :) #
  • Slashdot : KDE 3.5 Fork Trinity Releases First Major Update http://t.co/f5fEaf5L #

GitHub Enterprise announced

GitHub – the place to host and manage your source code – announced the release of GitHub Enterprise. GitHub Enterprise is a self-hosted version of GitHub. What I find the most interesting is the pricing.

GitHub Enterprise is priced at $5,000 per 20 users, per year. It comes with everything you need in one tidy package: code browsing, code review, issue tracking, wikis. No extra software to buy, no extra software to install, no extra software to manage.

The target is not on the disk space (understandable, with your own severs) or private repositories, but on the number of developers. $5,000 per 20 developers per year is $250 per developer per year, or about $20 per developer per month. That’s not too much, especially when compared with the salaries paid to the same developers each month. A fraction of the salary.

So, not only GitHub Enterprise is an excellent option for those companies that cannot use third-party hosting for source code, but it is also a Christmas present for those companies that work on a lot of projects. With private repositories, the price of a regular GitHub organizational subscription can go up pretty fast. With GitHub Enterprise you’d be able to have everything in-house for a tiny fee, compared.

It’ll be interesting to see how well this business will go for GitHub. It sounds viable to me. Convenient and not too expensive. With easy OVF-based installation, that would work on many virtual machines (VMware, VirtualBox, etc), with additional features for enterprise integration (LDAP!), I don’t see why not.