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
07.22.04
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
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
07.27.04
How many folks out there stop at a 7-11 in the mornings and get a cup of coffee? I have been 2-3 times a week since starting here at...
Christopher Hammond
07.29.04
It looks like Paypal is having to pay out on a class action lawsuit. Check out the site for more...
Christopher Hammond
07.30.04
If you break gmail you better cross your fingers! Check out this error message.
“Server Error
Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the...
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
08.03.04
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
08.08.04
Wil's off on vacation. I need to get myself a vacation...
Christopher Hammond
08.09.04
Lately I've been thinking about buying an XM Radio receiver. It probably won't happen soon, but what are your thoughts on XM and Satellite...
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...
Christopher Hammond
08.17.04
I'm still working on getting a STL dnn users group up and going. I've been talking with Scott Spradlin over at stlnet.org about doing a presentation at a STLnet meeting, will post more info when I know when that presentation might...
Christopher Hammond
08.19.04
I've been meaning to figure out a good way to get organized on my photos. Right now I have my directory structure broken down by d:\images\year\month\day
which doesn't work too bad, but I think I need an organization system that allows searching by content/topic, instead of just date.
Scoble posted about organizr I may have to try it out...
Christopher Hammond
08.20.04
I was wondering if there were any cool olympian blogs out there the other day, guess now I know the answer.
According to the article Olympic atheletes are barred from posting any diary, personal writing, or blogs until after the games are completed on the 29th. I believe after that they can post those things, but they are barred from posting photos or video that they took themselves....
Imagine the insight you could get from an athlete on the games and everything that you can't see on TV? It's a shame such a restriction is in...