Christopher Hammond
07.12.04
Well, that's what this site is here for! To tell you who Chris Hammond is.
My goal is to get back into the top results when you search for Chris Hammond on web search engines. ...
Christopher Hammond
07.13.04
I got the urge to redesign, as I do every few weeks. I've added a new photo gallery, with a little bit better functionality than the last one. I'll try to continually add items to it. So far I'm not so sure I like my organizational structure in the gallery, but it will do until I come up with something better.
What do you think of the new site?
-Chris...
Christopher Hammond
07.14.04
I am going to look into this http://scottonwriting.net/sowBlog/RssFeed.htm for getting RSS Feeds working with .Text...
Christopher Hammond
07.18.04
I was pointed to this temporary fix for .95 from ScottW. Hopefully I'll be able to upgrade my sites to use it, as well as upgrade the cDotText module early this...
Christopher Hammond
07.21.04
It's been a busy week at work! It's only wednesday and I am worn out already :)
I've also been helping a guy named Nick with a few projects his company is working on involving .Text and dotnetnuke. He's made some interesting changes and it looks like the site is getting some good activity. I'll see if I can't post a link to it later if he doesn't...
Christopher Hammond
07.21.04
I emailed the guys who run StlNet.org and asked about starting up a STL dotnetnuke users group.
Hopefully they provide some useful information which I can get started with. I'll probably get started on a web site for the group shortly, gauge some interest and try to get a first meeting setup.
Anyone interested? Post a comment here until I get the site...
Christopher Hammond
07.22.04
Based on various reviews and other blogs I've read I went and purchased my first PS2 game in almost two years. The only thing my PS2 has been used for as of late is to play DVDs in my bedroom.
Last night Russ and I headed out to BB to pick it up. After playing for a few hours all I can say is “damn cool”. I'm hoping to get some more time playing it this weekend and get some more time to sit and play it, after that i'll try to writeup a better review.
One thing so far about Spider-Man 2 The Game it's only single...
Christopher Hammond
07.26.04
Hopefully over the next few weeks I'll be able to get out and get some good photos, or at least attempt to get some good photos, of the Perseids Meteor showers.
Maybe I'll arrange a little s2o gathering one late night out in a dark...
Christopher Hammond
07.26.04
Something happened today and it appears to the database server that runs the www.asp.net site, along with www.dotnetnuke.com weblogs.asp.net forums.asp.net and quite a few other web sites has gone down. Hopefully it'll be back up soon! I think I'm going to try to bring all my blog posts over from weblogs.asp.net over into this blog when it gets back up, so I have control over all the...
Christopher Hammond
07.26.04
I was browsing CNN today and ran across this
http://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/29/1756.aspx
Talk about a horrible screwup, they had the wrong masthead on the page..... ...
Christopher Hammond
07.26.04
It's coming! And it's coming soon!
Community Server :: Forums
http://forums.asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=457242
Grats and THANKS to all the Telligent Systems...
Christopher Hammond
07.30.04
Did you know there's a web site for Vanden High School at VandenHighSchool.com? I set it up a few months ago now, still have quite a bit of work to do on it, but you can join now and start posting in the...
Christopher Hammond
08.01.04
The current count is 24 domain names. I just purchased autocross.biz for $4.95 this evening. In efforts to get the autocross search results up for...
Christopher Hammond
08.02.04
It looks to me like George is starting to show his age a little more.
Which reminds me, I need to get my voter registration information updated so I can vote in...
Christopher Hammond
08.03.04
Check out my gallery of Doom 3 screenshots!
I got a new video card today, new to me at least, a Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra 256mb. Courtesy of my little Nvidia fairy :) Thanks Dude!
It rocks! I also got a copy of Doom 3 today from Best Buy, if you are looking for it, tell them Circuit City has it in their flyer for $45, Best Buy will match the price.
So far the graphics are absolutely amazing. Gameplay to me seems to be typical Doom, which is good or bad, depending on your preference.
It's late, I'll try to do a review later this...
Christopher Hammond
08.04.04
321 Studios has shut down :(
Best of luck to all their former employees!
When I get into political office I will strive to keep injustices such as this from...
Christopher Hammond
08.04.04
In Doom 3 there's an email you get on one of the found PDA's that has a URL to
http://www.martianbuddy.com/
So of course you gotta check that out right? Well, there's not much there, maybe the code will come in handy in Doom 3 though...
Christopher Hammond
08.05.04
Well, the Martian Buddy post was correct, the code, 0508 does come in useful! There's a supply cabinet that you can open to get the chain gun, without the code from the internet you can't get into the cabinet, at least to my knowledge. There are a few other emails referring to MartianBuddy.com as well, one even complains about the spam from them.
There's also another URL found in the game, www.ua-corp.com which has a little flash animation that runs. I played my guitar for a while tonight, leaving the animation sitting there doesn't do anything :) It just keeps beeping. I thought maybe after a while it would move on to something...
Christopher Hammond
08.05.04
EDIT: This will improve desktop performance, but will make it so you are unable to connect to a multiplayer server!
If you're looking to improve your doom 3 performance, check out this information!
Use the following information at your own risk. I tried this, and it appears to work as noted below. My gameplay has improved quite a bit!
“I tried this and Im now runnig at 1280x1024 compared to 800x600 at the same settings."As all of you who allready have this game recognized the game is very slow even on new Computers.I found out the reason for this and the solution to fix this problem.As you already know after installation the game consits only of the doom3.exe and some .PK4 files. Those PK4 files includes the entire game (sounds, videos, textures etc.) in high compressed form.Normally those files were decompresse during the game. But this exactly is the problem. Even new CPUs are not able to decompress those files while running the game with good peformance and therfore the game runs very **** also on new computers. I don't know if the develpers of ID-Soft was just too stupid to think about this or if they have an agreement with some hardware manufacturing firms.How to get around this problem:It is very simple. Go to your Doom 3 installation directoy and get inside the folder "Base". There are some .PK4 files you have to open each of them with WinRAR 3.3 and extract their entire contents to the Base dir in you Doom 3 installation folder (replace all files if they are any duplicates). Now you have to delete all .PK4 files in the Base folder to prevent the game to use those compressed files agian.Now the game starts and runs mutch faster!!!Have fun playing Doom 3!!! " ...
Christopher Hammond
08.05.04
UNTESTED but listed for your enjoyment.
Bring the console up with [~] and type the following codes in to blow the monsters back to hell:)Note: To enable the console, add +set com_allowConsole 1 to your command-line shortcut for the game. Alternately, you can try using [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [~] to bring up the console. aviDemo = Saves a demo of your playing to an AVI movie filebenchmark = Game Benchmarkdoomhell = Skip all levels to lastfreeze = Freeze all on screengfxinfo = Graphicscard infomationgod = God modenoclip = No Clipnotarget = Invisibility to most enemiescom_drawfps 1 = Show FPSgive all = Full load of weapons and ammogive doom95 = Load the '95 version of Doomgive keys = Acquire all the keys you'll ever needgive weapon_machinegun = Machinegungive weapon_shotgun = Shotgungive weapon_plasmagun = Plasmagungive weapon_bfg = BFGgive weapon_chainsaw = Chainsawgive weapon_rocketlauncher = Rocket Launcherstatus = Your game statusquit = Quit aka ExitBelow is the rest of the codes. At the moment we don't have time to find out what they're all good for. Play around with them yourselves!!...
Christopher Hammond
08.08.04
Colwell and I went to the Cards Mets game yesterday.
I took ~200 pictures
http://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/38.aspx
Check out this one (3 in...
Christopher Hammond
08.08.04
Tomorrow I'm going to work on getting RSS feeds embedded with javascript.
http://www.puuba.com/translator.html
That looks like an excellent script to start...
Christopher Hammond
08.09.04
As most corporate networks are opening up to allowing their employees to use MSN Messenger, my former employer, has gone and blocked it! Shortly after I left they started blocking their staff who had previously been able to access MSN Messenger from within the walls of the office, from accessing MSN.
Well guess what! Now you can use MSN Messenger via the Web! check out
http://webmessenger.msn.com
and chat away!
Update (12-27-06): For those of you who can't get to the web messenger site, I've heard rumors of there being a plugin for your google homepage that allows you to sign into MSN messenger and get around any corporate/school firewalls that are blocking MSN Messenger. I've yet to try it myself, but you may find it...
Christopher Hammond
08.10.04
I've gotten a few things updated on Vanden High School over the past week or so. I think I'm going to try to provide current school year info on the site, to make it more useful as an information source. I'll also be adding blogs to the site before the end of the week. Giving the students and past students of Vanden High School a place to blog on the...
Christopher Hammond
08.11.04
Great article on Open Source Community...