More Soldat...

I got even more friends (Bleh and Chaos if you must know) to download and install Soldat. Yesterday. OMG what fun! I played with those 2, Nipz, Smitty (who I will probably explain about some other time, but this dude was quite a find), and Giselle. So a nice 6 people game going on my server. Boy, Giselle really owned all of us. There were bullets flying everywhere, I had a couple nice nife throws, and it was just so much fun hearing Smitty and Chaos react to their death! :D Anyway, I'm downloading the new Kubuntu 5.04 Final which I'm gonna install on the laptop. Which reminds me, I gotta boot into Ubuntu again as there must be a bunch of updates waiting for installation. But after all that I'll be on my Soldat server. Which, if you ever wanna play on it, just head on to the Soldat Server page, press Ctrl-F or something to search for a word, type in "Stealth" and you should see a server called Stealth's Server. Just click and if you have Soldat installed, it should launch it up and join automatically!

:)

I woke up, and there was a laptop on my desk, and I wasn't dreaming! *giggles*

Thank God, seriously man, you guys don't know (or you may!) HOW LONG I've wanted a laptop...and then I find this and get an awesome deal and configuration. W00t W00t!

ANYWAY...just like to let you Youth Groupians that the REEL Ministry Forums has had a nice little makeover, very nice and clean interface I must say. And ya gotta love the icons on top! (I know that usergroups icon is from Linux's KDE UI! :D)

Installing stuff as I type... 

*hallelujah music plays 

Pure beauty... 

It has been delivered...thank God... 

Hello Picasa!

Ok, this is just a little test with Google's Picasa and Hello programs, to add photos to blogs! This image was made in Photoshop, which I made by following a tutorial somewhere...^_^ 

UPS said so...

According to my tracking number, my laptop is to arrive today. Being the civilized man that I am, I will not sit on the mailbox all day waiting for him, but I will calmy sit next to my door and walk back and forth to the window to see if he has come. And if he hasn't come by the end today, I'll just have to raid the UPS headquarters...

Boy...

You're gonna see a bunch of template changing going around, until I can find out how to make my blog look good in Firefox and IE...

I can't seem to post images wider than the width of this column! Oh well, I'll just be posting smaller images or thumbnails more often...

Soldat fun!

Yay, I actually got Julen to download and install the game Soldat. If you've never played it, its a cool 2d game, with soldiers with an arcade scrolling shooter type gameplay.


The graphics aren't super awesome 3d or anything (tho screenshots don't do it any justice either, you gotta play it in fullscreen and it looks a lot cooler), but the gameplay is just fun. Atleast for when ya got nothing to do! :D Anyone who has it should message me so that we can setup a time to play. I can host a server if needed. Also, I made a program for it that allows you to switch mods and stuff. They have a HALO mod for it, WW2 themed mod, and all different types. Really cool!

I've been attacked!

Boy, I got about 13 bites across my left arm, feeling like 3 or so on each leg, and about 6 or more on my neck! They're so itchy too! Boy, I won't be going to a beach again anytime soon. :P

And in other news, I got a cellphone. So on Friday, I'll prob be asking all you youth pplz for your numbers and taking pics of you! :D

Freaking paper cups made of paper...

Woo, I got quite a bit to say, let's see if I can get it all out before I have to leave to my cousin's (Vanessa) 18th birthday party. Yea, I don't believe it either...

Anyway, yesterday at work, well...it was Friday. And every Friday they bring us donuts. So as usual I scarf down a donut, only to realize that the water machine (the one with the red and blue flippy switches) next to me has no cups. Great. So, with the super creative mind mankind was given, I used my imagination to make myself a cup from some paper I grabbed on a desk. Now, I don't know origami or anything, so my first attempt at this was a simple cone. I had to bend the bottom up, because I couldn't tighten the paper enough to close at the tip. Now, if you've ever folded paper into a cone, you'll see the problem I ran into. As I poured the water in, and it stayed in, I brought it up to my lips, only to see that this isn't some even surface. Part of the cone was stickick up like some spear, while the other folded down a bit. Fold a paper into a cone to see what I'm talking about. Either way, I was thirsty so I just chugged it down, and spilled a bit on my shirt.

Later on, after I finished my 15 minute break, I got thirsty again. This time, I made a better cone, bending the bottom tip up higher, and folding the top section nicely into an even cup type shape. This worked great and I had another cup of water.

The problem, with this is...this water hurt. After my first drink, it felt like a paper cut my tongue or something, or atleast a little (if it was a full paper cut, I'd probably scream in agony). So I thuoght that with my second attempt I'd be more careful. No. It must've been the paper or something, but my tongue hurt more, and soem pain shot up through the left side of my neck, and up into my ear. Not right away, but a small sting some minutes later. I feel better today, except my throat is still a little sore, but man, what the heck do they put in paper these days? Freaking chemicals...

Also, last night at youth group was awesome. It was great to see how people got closer to God and stuff, and how the Lord moved his spirit through the youth group so powerfully during the fire tunnel. I thank God for everything he's done for us, and everything he will do. I hope we continue growing like this, and that we can glorify him as much as possible in our daily lives.

GAH! teh frustration...

I downloaded the Cedega and Point2Play debs, to try and make everything as easy as possible for installing Battlefield under Linux. What crap man...Battlefield gives me some Installshield error in cedega, Point2Play is uglier than I thuoght, and again, I failed to install BF. I'm pretty sure this works fine under regular Wine, but regular Wine will not play 3d stuff...maybe I need to install it with Wine, then use Cedega to run the .exe? I don't know, either way, after reading through some posts at the Transgaming website, it appears people have a lot of problems in BF that are unresolved. They mainly deal with the newest patch (1.61, which you must have to play online) and punkbuster (which most servers have online, so if that doesn't work, you're screwed too). So...I think I'll have to wait for Wine to completely implement these nifty DirectX 9 patches.

Template change and stuff...

Almost done with school, and I'm starving because I forgot to take my 10AM snack! You know, I wake up and eat breakfast at 6:30AM, have Lunch at noon, but I have to have a snack at approximately 10AM or the hunger gets to me! My stomach is so syncronized. :D Maybe I could go fill a bowl of rice from the pot...

Anyway, as you can see, I had a template change. And if you hadn't seen my blog before...then ignore what i just said. :)

Lastly, I tried Cedega last night again without success. So I gave up on the CVS thing and just got a deb package off of eMule. :P We'll see how this works out.

*runs off to finish this Life Management lesson

Just testing out this new imagehost...

Imageshack.us pplz, is free, looks cool, and their logo is an awesome yellow frog! :D Here's my current linux desktop, running KDE.

Dream come true...

I'm getting a laptop. Thank God, omg, I've wanted one since forever. This thing pwnz and is probably more powerful than my desktop :D

1.7 Pentum M
512 DDR2
GeforceGo 6800 *giggles in excitement*
60GB HDD @ 7200 RPM
High resolution (1920x1200) Truelife display! (you know, those laptops with the glossy type screen, which looks super cool!)
wireless stuff
other stuff

YESSSS!!!! OMG0rz! Things to install...linux, battlefield, firefox, thunderbird, and maybe some more games. WEEE!!!1 I can't wait till it gets here! :D

Average day...

Wake up, do school, go to work, come back home and play in Linux. Well, I usually play Battlefield 1942 and practice with some tournament friends, but today I decided to try and get Battlefield to work in Linux. It ain't easy lemme tell you, gotta try some more tonight. You see, for gaming to work in Linux, you pretty much need to use Cedega, a fork of the popular Wine application, which lets you run Windows apps on Linux. Cedega however has many code alterations and stuff, specifically in the DirectX 9 region, which is used in most games nowadays. Anyway, I found a nice script on the Linux-gamers site, and attempted to install it. However, by night's end, I could not figure out why the install didn't work. I found out I also didn't have Wine or CVs, which I got afterwards, tried again, but still to no avail...

I'm also trying to use a simpler method of installing games with Grapevine, a nice free version of Point2Play.

Well, I couldn't wait :P

Yea yea, I said April 6th. too bad, I installed Ubuntu Saturday, and have finally got it all nice and clean, working with a custom kernel (I actually compiled myself! 2.6.10-686 woot) and the freaking Radeon drivers (what hell you gotta go through to install those things and have 3d acceleration working). Also everything updated to latest Hoary Hedgehog packages. Yea, and not on the other hard drive either (well...I did, but I installed it on mine too, so I'm on a Dual boot with it and WinXP) because I broke my Knoppix. I tried upgrading my previously installed 3.4 to 3.7, but it turns out the 3.7 install didn't have the internet working :P So scrapped that and installed Ubuntu. Never thought I'd acutally like a Gnome-based distro, buts its so clean and fast. Even though I did install XFCE which loads even faster. Its amazing, less than 3 seconds to boot my desktop and stuff, of ourse I gotta wait that 1 minute while everything linux loads all the drivers and stuff. I gotta figure out a way to cut down those load times too...

I've also messed with the blog template a bit and added 2 links! Of course more to come Soon :)

Prepping up the stuff!

Ok guys, first distro that will be tested out will be the final Hoary release from the Ubuntu! This will be out April 6th, so I'll be preparing this external harddrive to see if I can use that as the main hdd for Linux. I rather not be opening my case and swapping cables back and forth with the harddrives, if I can just plug in this USB one to boot from it ;)

Oh noes! And the penguin comes...in the night...

Yea, so I think I figured it out. This summer I'll be posting about my adventures in Linux. I will be using this spare 15GB HDD I got here and test the crap out of it. I'll be burnin' a lot of CD's, testing, installing a mess load of distros, and then tell you all this useless info on install time, usability, and stuf! :D

Just a little info on my specs for future references:

2.8Ghz Prescott
768DDR RAM
80 GB HDD (tho a 15GB will be used for Linux testing)
2 CD drivers, top DVD, bottom CD-R/RW
Radeon 9800 Pro
And another computer that my Linux distro should be to see on network!

We'll see how everything goes. I've played with Knoppix quite a bit, even have my comp in dual-boot with it. And I've become quite attached to Debian distros. If another one impresses me, it'll definitely be worth a look!