The Holes Will Still Remain
So I’ve had an uber-geek day today. My dad’s new computer components were supposed to arrive yesterday, however I was out seeing LotR: RotK so I missed them. So he went and collected them from the depot today and my mum picked them up. So after work (which was thrilling, no really) I set about putting all the components together. Because Intel decided to, you know, put FOIL on their heatsinks, I tore off the foil and whacked the last of my Zalman thermal grease on there which seems to have done the trick. Anyway, long story short, all the components worked which is a miracle unto itself, and my dad (and mum) now have an absolutely blazing PC which absolutely blitzes mine. Hyper-threading, 3200 DDR RAM, the whole yards of nine.
Now, because of that, I get my old computer parts back, which means that I get to have a server again! At this moment, Kamui is happilly purring away after I reinstalled Debian on it. The 2.6.0 kernel was just released which I may be tempted to try out tomorrow sometime, however, I just got samba working (which was remarkably easy) so that’s enough for one night. My ultimate goal is to set Kamui up as a bridge / route between my computers and the internet, basically using Kamui as a firewall. Of course, all that needs to be done is for my knowledge of networks to increase 10 fold and for me to wrestle with Linux and I’m away!
I recently came into possession of Ico for the PS2. Originally, Gameplay said it would take about a month to get in, so I order it thinking it’ll come after christmas, maybe after new year, but no, they e-mailed me the next evening saying they’d dispatched the bugger. So great… But let me tell you, it was worth every penny. It is a truly stunning game, and I realise now what everyone was bantering about. Sometimes I hear critical praise for a game and it’s like: “Yeah well, whatever,” but this truly lives up to “the hype”. The play mechanics, the animation, the graphics, everything is just sublime, and Ico deserved a far greater audience than it got. Yorda is especially cute, it’s like having one of those virtual pets but you have to physically protect her and drag her about the place. Her chasing after birds and running away from shadow-y spiders brings forth an elation in me I didn’t know existed.
I have also had a resurgence in the Silent Hill soundtracks (two and three mainly) which only make me want to play the games again…
I have also started my own Roleplaying board, loosely based around Spycraft, it’s basically a counter-terrorism / ancient cult sort of roleplay. So it’s set in the near future and we get to play with guns ;) I’ve really enjoyed doing it so far, apart from some people who absolutely, flat out refuse to read other posts and then post something perpendicular to what was just said. Still, tis immense fun, and with the start of the first mission, we’ll see how it goes. Pete was recently added to my MSN list and just made me feel so tiny when it comes to knowledge of “real world” military tactics, explaining some of the political and technical ramifications of some of the things I’d described. Just made me feel like I’d just glossed over those parts ;)
