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Entries from May 2007

My time with halo 3?

Sunday, May 13, 2007 · No Comments

So the other night I was reading this post saying to check my bungie.net inbox for a halo 3 multiplayer beta Halo 3invite.  So to make a short story short, I did, and now I’m in the halo 3 beta!

So far I think the coolest thing is the gravity pump.  I miss-understood this when I read about it earlier.  Its a place-able gravity pump, similar to those in halo 2, but you can put it anywhere you want.  Meaning storming bases will never be the same again, and glitch jumping is going to get a whole lot more interesting.

The old new battle riffle is actually really cool.  The new sound is a lot more satisfying.  And the new award system is pretty cool.

The one thing I am missing, and I am surprised that they changed was the logo system when you use it to identify your team mates on the HUD.  Now we have these 3 character alphanumeric codes that don’t mean much because everyone keeps them random.  If anything I think bungie should combine the codes and the logos on the HUD.

Categories: Video Games

My experiance with ubuntu

Wednesday, May 9, 2007 · 2 Comments

So I recently installed ubuntu linux on my laptop, and to be honest, I hate it.  It’s supposed to be linux for humans, but its far from a replacement to popular operating systems.

Maybe it’s just because my laptop is weird, but it seemed that to do anything with my laptop, I had to google the problem, hunt down the solution, and prayed that it worked for me too.  I still never fully fixed my wireless.  And the speakers have just been funky, turning the volume all the way down didn’t mute them.

I plan on switching back to XP this weekend.  I still think ubuntu looks cool, and would probably put it on a spare computer if I had one, but for now my main OS needs to be something that A) I can easily fix and B) is able to run popular applications natively (WOW, iTunes).

Categories: Desktop · Personal