An open letter to baseball video games

Dear EA Sports, 989sports, 2kSports, et al:

I love baseball video games, from basesloaded to mlb 2k5, but today's games have so many gimmicks that it is nearly impossible to just play the games. The gimmicks that make the games unplayable are almost always batting gimmicks; I'm sure that they are there to make the experience more "real", but if I was able to hit a Roger Clemens fastball I wouldn't need to buy your games because I would be playing baseball professionally. The one thing I feel your games need is a batting practice mode; not only could this make it easier to learn the batting gimmicks that are inevitable, but it could also make the game more fun. There could be different scenarios in this mythical bp mode in which you have to accomplish a certain goal, i.e. hit 10 curve balls in a row or hit the bull over the right field bleachers and win a steak. In the end a batting practice mode would allow the player/customer to learn whatever crazy gimmicks yall have added into your latest games, and therefore make the replay value higher because no one likes striking out.

Thank You

Crawdads rule!

If there were a race war between crawdads and shrimp, the shrimp would totally get their butts' kicked. I once stabbed a waiter with my fork when my etouffee had a shrimp in it. Crawdads should be in the crustacean hall of fame for being the most versatile ingredient in all of crustaceandom. When I die I want to be boiled and then have my brain matter sucked out of my head and eaten just like a crawdad.

TimeWarner-Waco sucks

TimeWarner-Waco sucks because they are biased towards the Rangers and rarely show the Astros. They're always screwing me over and not showing any good Houston teams and instead showing those crappy Dallas teams. They once showed an infomercial instead of a Texans game. I can't count high enough to express how many times they showed those bums in Arlington losing instead of showing the Astros winning. My only solace is that one day I will be President and I will use my executive powers to force TimeWarner to show the Astros' games on every channel and in every city, especially Dallas.

World of Warcraft Linux Petition

While cruising the World of Warcraft forums, I came across this Petition for a native Linux client. I have recently been playing World of Warcraft using Cedega; and it works fairly well. A native Linux client, however, would be the cat's pajamas.

CMI9739A

this is really here for my own purposes.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9138147

mute

IEC958 Capture Monitor
IEC958 Capture Switch
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Biostar iDEQ 200V and Fedora Core 1

I recently purchased a Biostar iDEQ 200V from newegg, and i love it. I bought it for the express purpose of having a small-form-factor linux box; and I chose fedora core 1, mainly because I have been using red hat related products since red hat 5.2 (my fisrt distro was caldera 1.3, oh how times have changed). Set up was pain free, as most distros are nowa days. I didn't try to use the onboard video card although Via does provide drivers for the km400 chipset. Instead I used my newly freed up radeon 7500 (thank you 9800 pro) as the video card. One note about drivers the sound card was detected as a Via 8233, but Biostar says that it is a C-Media 9739/A. Either way it worked just fine the way Fedora autodetected it. The network card also worked right out of the box and was autodetected as a Via Rhine-II card. The only problem I have had is getting 3d hardware acceleration to work, and since I am planning on taking this rig to Quakecon this year I'm gonna need hardware aceleration. My roomate found this helpful how-to for upgrading Fedora Core 1 to 2.6.x on Linux Electrons; I don't know if your in to that or not.

Update 4/3/05:
http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/
http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/

mac haters

I just realized something. people always talk about how blindly loyal mac fans are, but they never mention how unreasonable mac haters are. for example, while i am a mac fan, i admit that the hardware is overpriced. there is not much you can say bad about os x (although it is in no way perfect), and when i start speaking about how much better os x is than windoze all they can say is "os 9 sucked." yes it did now get up off your ass and come into 2003.

p.s. i have also noticed that said mac haters are almost always use windows and think that linux is something you put in the bed of your truck.

how in the jebus???

I have a pismo powerbook with airport and Yellowdog 3.0 and i was wondering if anyone knows how to use it with an 802.1x system.

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genmay search

http://zeos386sx.googlepages.com/genmay.html

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