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This site is no longer maintained.
My current weblog.
Monday, November 04, 2002I'm finally taking the plunge and switching to Movable Type. I'm not going to bother importing this weblog, at least not initially. Too much work for too little benefit. My archives can stay here indefinitely.
My new home page and weblog. Feeds are available in RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0, and RSS 2.0 flavors. I'm not going to set up RSS redirects. I don't like Userland's solution because any aggregator that doesn't understand the format will barf on it. HTTP 301 redirects are better supported, but I don't feel like reconfiguring Apache to allow .htaccess files.
For the couple of people that subscribe to my category feeds, I'll get around to re-creating those eventually. Stay subscribed to the current feeds and wait for an update.
Monday, July 29, 2002CNET: Microsoft throws DVD kit in with Xbox. Buy an X-Box and DVD Kit between now and November 30th, get a $30 rebate.
Are X-Box sales that bad?
Halo Legends
I finally beat Halo! But not on that wimpy Normal level or even Heroic. That's right baby, Legendary. Only took me a month :p I must be getting old. [Justin Rudd]
I tried playing a level on the Legendary setting once, the enemies were swarming and I ran out of ammo before I'd killed half of them...
ZDNet: Linux takes the game to Microsoft
The Xbox Linux Project, drawing on the skills of programmers in the UK, Germany and the United States, released a pre-alpha version of the new BIOS on Sunday. When complete, the BIOS will give programmers control over the Xbox's components and peripherals and allow the rest of the Linux operating system to boot.
[via ActiveWin]
Wednesday, June 05, 2002
Monday, June 03, 2002CNET: Seagate drive targets game consoles
The U Series X drive includes a number of advances such as a quieter motor and a thinner profile that will improve cooling efficiency in devices using the drive.
Target markets include home digital audio components, networked copiers, digital printers, routers and game consoles. The drive will come in a standard 20GB, 3.5-inch-wide configuration, although Seagate will produce a 10GB version for the Xbox.
Thursday, May 30, 2002Trio of Xbox articles from CNET
Xbox struggling with math test
For the software publishing industry, video games are a numbers game. And for now, Microsoft is on the losing end. Game publishers say it's a simple matter of economics.
It's too early for this sort of article, the Xbox is only six months old. At the one-year mark we should be able to predict the loser, and I strongly suspect that it will be Nintendo (the US console market has never supported three consoles for any significant period, someone will cease production of consoles around the two-year mark).
The first add-ons that purportedly allow the console to play illegally copied game software have gone on sale, but analysts say they're unlikely to inspire a wave of copy infringement.
Mod chips have always had a limited audience, mostly they have been used by hard-core RPG'ers wanting to play titles that haven't been released in their home market yet (if ever). More interesting is the potential to run homebrew software, this is an important step for hackers in completely reverse-engineering the system and replacing the system BIOS. In six months someone will probably have produced an ISO that will boot in a stock Xbox and replace the BIOS with a hacker-friendly one.
Microsoft mulls Xbox-PC connection
An online survey conducted recently by a Microsoft partner indicates that the software giant is considering producing a kit that would let people use an Xbox video game console and a TV to access entertainment files stored on their PC.
Not likely to happen until component prices fall sufficiently for Microsoft to break even on a console sold with such a kit. So long as the Xbox is subsidized, Microsoft will be very cautious about creating compelling non-gaming features. This is why the Xbox doesn't have a good interface for playing ripped CDs.
