Recent content by MiketheBassMan

I'm single. I don't date. Unless you're hardcore into Linux. ;)

I cringed when I saw "Duke Nuke 'Em" in the title. A travesty to Duke, imo. You probably aren't excited because you don't have the backstory. If you had grown up playing Duke, Duke2, and Duke3D, you would get it.

I compiled a custom upstream kernel for my netbook to patch out a problem with the touch screen. Compiling the whole Linux kernel on a netbook is serious business. Or at least a serious time sink. Oh! oh! I once used dd to create an exact replica (down to the partition table and MBR) of my...

Either Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis or Kings Quest VI. I can't decide. Oooh, I also loved Quake and Duke Nukem 3D YES.

Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0. I wouldn't dream of using anything else. Unlike typical Logitechs, this mouse has buttons that a separated from the red of the mouse's shell, allowing you to click more precisely and satisfying. It's big, but not enormous; It's exactly the right size for my...

My mind is completely fucking blown by the people who think this is OK. When you purchase hardware, it is never OK for the vendor to render it unusable for any reason that they choose. You are not licensing the console, you are purchasing it. You own it. It's yours. It does not matter what you...

People talking about her "beating" WoW by getting to max level with no kills are sorely mistaken. Leveling is a tiny part of the experience, and the vast majority of the game exists in raids. It is certainly impressive, but entirely trivial because there is no way to proceed from there without...

There's a fundamental problem with just increasing the exponent. Cube implies a special rectangular prism with equal side lengths, which is why from 1 to 2 to 3 dimensions, the logical volume's (area and length in 2 and 1d) exponent increases by one for each dimension. To say that it's...

No he didn't. I love me my Tauren, so Horde all the way!

My gaming PC (an Alienware laptop) uses Windows 7 Ultimate, and my netbook (an Asus t101mt) uses Ubuntu 10.10 with an upstream kernel (2.6.38). I wouldn't have it any other way, Windows is great on the powerful computer and works well with the large screen. GNOME, with its workspace system, is...

That's a lie. WoW is purposefully cartoonish, and therefore more colorful by design than Rift is or would ever be.

Here I Go Again! You can't not sing along when Whitesnake is on the radio. :P

The problem with working backwards like this is that complexity is removed as you advance, creating a steadily simplifying experience. If you're using world of warcraft as an example, it would be very silly to have limited spells in the context of endgame raiding, where the most difficult and...

Permanent ban. Knowingly breaking the rules and ruining the play experience of honest players is extraordinarily selfish. Valve has caught a lot of heat for automatic and permanent bans from their VAC system, but if you ask me that's exactly the kind of system that keeps people in line. Purge...

So because someone on the dev team bundled it and seeded it, it's not piracy? He's taking the finished or near finished product and putting what's effectively a bootleg online, same as your run of the mean crack/warez team. The only difference is that it's probably a lot easier for him to get a...