I’m back

Well, after being gone for months from my block, I logged in and noticed I’m still getting views! Woohoo. If I have enough free time, I’ll start updating this blog again

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I haven’t stopped Blogging!

I haven’t stopped Blogging! I’ve just been busy lately. I’ll make another post by Thursday, also, this blog is being moved to http://grubbn.com/blog . I know I said that before and it never happened, but this time I’m actually not-lazy enough to install plugins and I also found out how to import all my old posts, which are there,btw. OK, the new blog is officially finished

I have Ubuntu installed again! :D !

Once again, I have Ubuntu installed.

Before when I was trying to install Ubuntu , I couldn’t find my Gutsy disk and had to stick with Feisty (which worked horridly). But now that I’ve found it, I’m typing this from Fluxbox on Gutsy 🙂 .

I inserted the disk and was in 800×600 land. I figured I would fix it after I got Ubuntu installed. So, I ran the install, and for the first time ever, I have a seperate /home partition.

On the first reboot everything ran fine, I installed from the restricted drivers manager, all was well. Reboot time. I rebooted, and everything was terribly slow. I couldn’t figure out Compiz’s process name for upwards of 20 minutes. In the midst of that, I installed Fluxbox. I spent bunches of time editing  the init  file to go to the correct menu file, only to find out later that the whole time I was linking to the wrong one.

Well,  after  I got back into a working GNOME, I installed all the apps I  need .  Then , I  Made a new Fluxbox menu.  The first thing I noticed was how much easier it was not to nest [submenu] and [end] tags. Must ‘ve come from learning (X)HTML.

So here I am, all happy that my Linux install is working and Fluxbox is up. I’m off to get aliases set up. After spending so much time being unsatisfied with Linux and liking Windows more and more, I forgot how much I loved the customizability of Linux 🙂 . As I said earlier, I’m off to make aliases. It feels like I’m starting Linux all over again! So exciting!

Nexuiz 2.4 Rules!

Well, after finally getting the time to download and install the new Nexuiz (2.4), I played it.

The first thing that I’ve noticed is that the menus got a MAJOR overhaul. It was a pain in the Face in Nexuiz 2.3 to navigate the menus. In Nexuiz 2.3, you had to scroll by grabbing the scroll bar. It may not sound so bad to you, but the scroll bar isn’t very fun, and it seems to only go like an inch at a time. In Nexuiz 2.4, the scroll wheel actually works. The new menus are more aesthetically pleasing than with Nexuiz 2.3.

The new weapon models are awesome. And the machine gun is pretty much a new gun. It loads faster, the model is MUCH better, and it’s not so loud (it makes sounds sort of like a pellet gun, or whatever, I’m not experienced with guns, so I’d have no idea). The rocket launcher looks a lot better too, though no new functions (namely sound as in the machine gun) have been implemented. I’ve only tried 6 guns so far, though. The shotgun and gravity gun have, sadly, not been given new skins. The nex is also on the same boat with the machine gun in that it looks almost like a new gun. No new functions, sadly. And lastly, I tried the “thing that shoots purple stuff” (can’t remember the name). It looks pretty much the same shape, but the outside skin of it looks more…how would I say this…um…textury 😀 .

Gameplay has only improved a little, though. The first thing I noticed when I started playing round 1 (in Silvercity) was fog! Though on my GPU (Nvidia Geforce 6100) the game was a little slow. In Evilspace, the textures looked crisper, and shinier. I noticed that in one spot was what appeared to be electric current. I’ll be trying some maps later, so updates to come.

Making a server has also been improved, but some features have been taken out. I still haven’t found out how to make my server work properly, when trying to play with Niko, neither of us could find either’s server. In this Version of Nexuiz, I found you can actually choose what kind of gameplay (arena, last man standing, capture the flag,etc) you want to play. I couldn’t ever find that setting in Nexuiz 2.3. Though the disappointing part is that the weapon settings and alot of other settings have been removed. But it makes it easier to set up a server with the aforementioned new menus.

To really understand my feelings on the new game, you’ll have to try it out for yourself. Happy Nexuizing, and I’d be interested in playing a round with some of my blog readers 🙂

My blog is being moved back here

After some consideration, I’ve moved my blog back here. For one, you can login with your wordpress accout to comment, 2nd, it’s missing some features from this wordpress. Third, I’ll lose all my old blog posts. So, t’is moved back here :). Expect a new blog post soon

HostGator up

Now that my new website, grubbn.com, is up, you can view this blog at http://grubbn.com/blog . I will not longer be updating this blog , but the new one

It was 10.5 C (51 F) TODAY!!!

Yes! The day has come! It reached over 50 F this year on the leap day of the year. Thank God spring is coming.  The snow is melting. I’ve been so sick of snow I could barf any minute now. But now that it’s melting, I’m happy as an emoticon! I would write longer, but I’m not in a writing mood right now