So I grabbed Warhawk today after work and after taking a quick nap to recover from a splitting headache I played for like 2 hours. I must say the game is exactly what most of the reviews have said, it’s a true blue shooter, the team dogfight is awesome, with like 32 players causing total chaos and blowing the crap out of each other. I’m by no means a game reviewer, but I am plenty amused by the whole situation and I usually hate online games.
Archive for August, 2007
Warhawk
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007More Playstation 3 noise
Monday, August 27th, 2007
I have been reading game sites now that I have settled into the Playstation 3 and am anticipating a whole bunch of games coming up.
I’m almost through with Resistance: Fall of Man — it’s pretty fun for a FPS, which I generally don’t like at all. I am constantly amazed by the capability of these new systems.
I am still waiting for a release of the MediaTomb software with transcoding, but mp3s and videos that have been pre-transcoded for the PS3 work perfectly, I just wish you could copy media FROM the PS3 TO the DLNA media server. It would be nice to get these huge videos I’ve downloaded from the Playstation Store off the PS3 onto the network, though the 60GB hard drive is seeming plenty big thus far.
On top of that Blu-Ray looks amazing both on my 20.1″ LCD and on my room mate’s 51″ projection CRT, the DVD upscaling is pretty fantastic, I just got finished watching the movie Children of Men on DVD and it looked really fantastic.
The 1080i TV is nice, but I have my eye on a Samsung 40″ 1080p FullHD LCD (LNT4065F) for when I move out at the end of the year, I’ll have to replace the front speakers in my surround setup at some point, they just don’t have the punch to do this stuff justice anymore (Polk R150’s look neat) .
More Playstation 3 Media fun
Thursday, August 16th, 2007As I’m sure anyone who read my previous comment on the topic can tell, the Playstation 3 is currently fairly esoteric in what it supports as far as media types for video playback. From as far as I can tell, Sony (nor Microsoft for that matter) has not licensed DivX, and while rumors abound that they have been talking to the DivX folks I’m not holding my breath. In that vein I have been looking for DLNA UPnP media servers that do transcoding. The sad reality is that currently no one does (for Linux at least, nor Mac OSX as far as I have found). The only project that seems to come close is MediaTomb, and they have an open SourceForge feature request for transcoding that seems to be expected to be finished soon.
So I installed MediaTomb 0.10.0 on my Slackware 11 server and after installing libmagic from an external package repository, I had it up and serving data.
If you use Windows (which thank God, I don’t) then you have some choices (list, Wiki Article, Wikipedia Article), including a few free ones that do transcoding.
Once Mediatomb makes a release with transcoding support I’ll get it setup and let everyone know how it went.
apollo likes to poop hard drives
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007[mernisse@apollo: ~ (8333)]$cat /etc/motd
I apologize for apollo’s instability of late. The QLogic fibre channel
controller or the disks attached to it was acting up causing the system to
lock up occasionally. I have replaced the disks for the time being and moved
the file systems over. This should improve stability (I hope).
apollo is the server this website ( along with a bunch of other things ) runs on.
edit:
FWIW, removing the 2 dying Fibre channel drives have reduced the power consumption of the server by a bunch ( the drop at Wed night / Thu morning )
