23 Jul 2000 mishan   » (Journeyer)

Bah...Diablo II has struck again! =( Anyway, I was looking at the Fry's Electronics ad in the newspaper and I spotted a sweet computer! It's pre-built and I'd rather build my own but this one looks really nice. It's an HP, costs $1.3k, and here are the specs I remember: DVD drive, CD burner (4x write, 4x rewrite), 20gb hd, 128mb ram, riva tnt 2, 733Mhz PIII, and, of course, an ethernet card. I forgot the sound card but I am sure it includes a decent one. This looks almost too good to be true! And no CompuServe rebate shit either. I tinkered a bit with my bot today, didn't accomplish very much. The bot +s+i'd a channel and I didn't notice it and for the rest of the day I went playing Diablo II until about 12 hours later I noticed it, lol. Oh well. I began tinkering with my snake game a bit again...for 5 minutes. I discovered quite a few major errors and fixed them but to make it functional, I'll have to put in a few hours of work...I have all the time tomorrow..Also I finally replied to emails deep in my mailbox that I have neglected to reply to...bah...I really need to work on GtkHx files -- that's the main thing lacking...Then I can fine-tune a bunch of stuff and it should be ready for a 1.0 release. I fixed a bug amit reported but I want a cleaner fix that actually reports to the user what the problem was. I hope to use my time wisely tomorrow and not let the fun of Diablo II take it away...

aaronl: bah.

Also, I've neglected to write about what happened at work. They gave me a slow 400Mhz Compaq Presario (POS) to put OpenBSD on but it failed to boot so I installed it on my 700Mhz workstation instead =) OpenBSD is okay, I am using it as my primary OS at work...I still prefer Debian over OpenBSD.

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