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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
Apart from doing some work today, I haven't done a lot. However, I decided it would be a good idea to play vice city. From scratch again. Hohum...
And then Peter pointed me at multiplayer vice city. I had seen the one for the original GTA, but never got round to trying it. However, this looked easy enough to set up, so I put a server on my linux machine and set it going.
Wow.
This is one sweet mod. We played for 2 and a half hours. There's no mission or scripting or even AI peds or ...
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I have been up for an hour... an hour without internet!
I noticed last night that the PSU fan in my router had failed, so I thought it might be an idea to turn it off. Just before I did, I noticed that it had reached 57 days and 6 minutes of uptime, which is (thanks to pipex) a record for here. There was that machine at tonbschl which made 197 days (iirc) uptime, before someone tried to log in at the console as if it was a windows machine... ie, he hit ctrl+alt+delete. I wasn't too ...
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UserFriendly makes it's point pretty badly. Perl geeks do it well.
Glorious.
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This morning I woke up uncharacteristically early (10am), and decided it would be a good idea to continue tidying my room, and found the power dvd 4 cd that came with a £25 DVD drive, so I thought I'd upgrade from the old version. And of course I had to test it out. But with so much to do, I thought it would be a good idea if I didn't watch a whole film, just enough to see it work. So I chose Air Force One, but I forgot it started with a gun fight. Oops.
Mehh, Saturdays ...
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I just completed super mario land again. Without losing a life, and with 50 lives left at the end. It was alarmingly simple.
How did I ever find it difficult?
See, I told you quake 2 skills were transferable...
And Andrew sent me to this
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