With Valve Software’s latest Team Fortress 2 update players get to experience the new level called Goldrush. This new level features a new gameplay style called payload. The objective is for the Blue team to push the bomb payload to the capture points. The Red team has the task to preventing the Blue team from [...]
Archive > April 2008
Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend
With the release of the latest Team Fortress 2 update valve is allowing anyone to play for free this weekend. All you need is a steam account and you can pre-load the full game, including the latest update. The free weekend starts on May 2nd and runs through May 4th. You can find out more [...]
Interesting Lecture from School
Recently I had the chance to attend a lecture of my choosing for my political science class. Being someone who likes watching and reading WWII stories I had to attend the WWII lecture. I would like to say the lecture was awesome, I could never imagine myself being a paratrooper fighting in WWII. It was [...]
3G iPhone June 9th, possibly
There have been a lot of rumors going around dealing with the 3G iPhone. The latest one off of yahoo news, speculates that it will be out on June 9th. There has been speculation about around the june 9th timeline. June 9th is the day that Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference starts and they have [...]
WordPress 2.5.1 Released
The WordPress team released a new version of their awesome publishing system. They have packed over 70 fixes into this .1 release, one of which is a security fix. They reccommend that you upgrade immediately, the vulnerability affects open registration (vulnerability is not public at the time of this post).
Upgrading is super simple, I follow [...]
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Released
Today Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron was released. This release is a major upgrade for the entire Ubuntu team. Shortly after it was released I downloaded the iso and installed it inside Virtual Box. It installed pretty quickly and have had no major issues after installing it, I did have to increase the video ram inside [...]
Facebook Now Has Chat
This morning I logged on my Facebook account and found their new chat waiting for me. From what I have read on other websites Facebook mass approved everyone last night who didn’t have chat already. Chat was launched a few weeks ago to some select networks, primairly major college networks.
Something that I think would make [...]
Windows Server 2003 in Virtual Box on a Mac
Yesterday I installed Virtual Box on my mac. After getting all the windows updates installed and the guest os drivers from virtual box it is running very well. I even went far enough to set up IIS w/ PHP 5.2.5 via FastCGI. I was even able to set up Virtual Box to listen for requests [...]
A Few Earth Day Links
I totally forgot that today is Earth day. Here are a few links to sites that have some interesting articles/software.
The first site is google’s Earth Day page. They have links to various google services you can take advantage of on earth day. If you use google desktop they have a gadget for it. http://www.google.com/earthday08/
Another great [...]
A Bit of Java And Then Some Virtual Box
Today I figured it would be great to talk about what I have been up to. I have been pretty busy with school lately and just registered for two summer classes, their in the evening this time. I’ll also be applying to transfer this fall, it should be pretty fun. Learning java is also another [...]
