Monthly Archives: February 2003

Here’s a summary of new features. While it looks nice, I don’t think I’ll be upgrading it manually unless RPMs come out, I’m getting lazy! Still this feature alone is very welcome, ” Support for the RandR extension has been partially integrated into the XFree86 server, providing support for resizing the root window at run-time.”
Before you Windows users exclaim that Windows has done that for years be aware that X is a whole lot more than just a GUI!

Russell Beattie once again comes up with the goods. I had downloaded an ebook reader already but ReadM looks so much better. Go over to Russell’s site to get the lowdown on it!
BTW – the ReadM site is down because it’s too busy, you can download the program here though.

Simon Willison played Quasar for the first time! Ah, this brings back memories!
It used to be quite easy to play a decent game of Quasar in Cork City where I live. 2 places in town offered it and for a few years they even maintained their guns and arenas. Not so now. Guns were too expensive to maintain, half the time they didn’t work, and the rest of the time they worked but didn’t fire straight.
I haven’t played a game of Quasar in years! The ducking and running^h^h^h^h walking fast and twisting your body around so your opponent couldn’t hit you. You wouldn’t believe how fast an experienced Quasar player can instinctively twist around so they only present a profile to an attacking opponent! (Limiting the area you can be shot – front, back and gun).
Before I started working fulltime (and sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day) I was a reasonable Quasar player, and saw the look of disbelief on newcomer’s faces when their gun is suddenly telling them they’ve been shot. Of course I was at the receiving end of shots more often than not..
I dread to think how I’d feel after a game of Quasar now, sometimes I could barely stumble out of particularly tough games..

Nice list of movies.

After a brief search of freshmeat.net I found darkstat, a nice, easy to install package. It listens on a port for a browser, and displays nice graphs and other information in a web page. Well worth a look!