Many of you will remembmer the E3 2003 announcement of Half-Life 2… the release date that got missed. Anyway here is the video from that presentation. Even tho we have had the source engine and many additions to it and new episodes of HL2 it is still fun to look at

Download the video @ Half-Life 2 E3 2003 Presentation – High Res

Tags: 2003, Demo, E3, Half-Life: 2, High, Presentation, Res, Valve, video

This is the start of the weekly series that replaces the old daily ones.

Here are my news picks for the week…

Monday, March 31st 2009

Google launches free music download service in China
Disney signs deal with YouTube
Windows 7 .NET Interop Sample Libraries
Skype now officially available on iPhone

Tuesday, April 1st 2009

Latest iPhone 3.0 Beta Allows 11 Pages of Apps (180 Apps)
Correction: Starter wallpaper more secure than I thought
Rob Janoff, Creator of the Apple Logo
News: Apple releases iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 2 with push notifications
32GB High End iPhone and a Low End Version in Works?
What is Europe’s top browser? Stats says it’s now Firefox 3
Windows Marketplace for Mobile preview video teases the app store you want, don’t yet have

Wednesday, April 2nd 2009

Happy Birthday, Gmail, You Cute Lil Five Year Old [Techversary]
Samsung introduces Mondi, first WiMax Mobile Internet Device
Palm opening WebOS SDK up to developers
Adrollo Launches Dynamic Ad Network Platform For The iPhone
Microsoft Office opening for iPhone
Finest Internet Jokes for April Fools’ Day 2009
Latest iPhone developer agreement bans jailbreaks
TUAW Bookshelf: Apple II Reference Manual
Woz exits Dancing with the Stars
Apple Turns 33, No Fooling
Snow Leopard, Juno, and Pro App updates, oh my!
10.5.7 extension hints at upcoming Nehalem-based Xserve
News: Apple moves up in Greenpeace electronics rankings
Best April fools day jokes of 2009
4 Ways to Make Skype on the iPhone Even Better

Thursday, April 3rd 2009

Register.com goes down taking millions of websites, email address and network communications with it.
New Nmap version detects the Conficker worm
New flat-speaker tech could make public places even louder
The Beast unveiled: inside a Google server
Gmail’s search gets suggestive with labs add-on
Streaming iPhone via bluetooth in the car
Digg To Finally Fix Search – See The Screenshot
SlingPlayer for iPhone will only work with new Slingboxes
Windows 7 Sensor and Location .NET Interop Sample Library
Intel turns Moblin over to the Linux Foundation
Android App of the Week: GV Dials Numbers With Your Google Voice/Grand Central Number [Android Apps]
iPhone OS 3.0 beta successfully jailbroken
DiggBar Launches Today!
Windows 7 to support third-party codecs… like all other Windows versions
Free Online Stanford Course on Developing iPhone Apps
Adobe AIR, Flash big hit at Web 2.0 Expo conference
Apple Considers Having Stolen iPhones Call Police [Patents]
New iPod shuffle saw 50 percent sales increase in first week
Firefox beats IE in Europe: A duopoly to come?
Behold the Google Server, ye nations, and weep
Despite Funky HTML Encoding, Boxee Still Plays Hulu Video Just Fine [Boxee]
Canadians weigh in on network management: they don’t like it
Real or Imagined Threats?
Tabletize your laptop via USB for $99
Palm opens up, and goes back in time
ASUS 16-inch F50SV-X1 laptop now available
Video: NVIDIA’s ION-based netbooks and nettops are go for launch
What if IBM doesn’t buy Sun?
Netflix: Two Billion DVDs Served

Friday, April 4th 2009

How Linux killed SGI (and is poised to kill Sun)
Windows on Netbook PCs: A Year in Review
HP TouchSmart tx2z with 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD now $450 off with coupon
Demo your iPhone without cables
MacHeist entices, annoys buyers with new TweetBlast
Google shows off Gmail mobile Web app
Google brewing ‘offline’ web office apps
AT&T tweaks wireless terms of service to forbid video streaming, filesharing, data tethering
How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse [Conficker
VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better
Tutorial released for Apple logo LCD mod
51,324 LEGO blocks + 1 virgin gamer = 1 LEGO DSi
Original founders buy and relaunch FileFront
Isaac Mizrahi designs Windows Mobile 6.5 themes
Sneaky Surfing Actually Increases Productivity
Using Your Tabs
Texas Just Now Bans Vista From Government Computers [Vista]
Apple Ordering 3.2 and 5-Megapixel Camera Sensors for iPhone and Future Product?
Ready or not, IPv6 is coming
Apple Leaks Nehalem Xserve Info
Big shifts in microblog/social networking world
Google makes Gmail search accessible to all comers
Asus Eee Linux-based Skype Videophone
Gmail Marks Five Years In Beta
Windows 7 Taskbar .NET Sample Library – an Overview

Saturday, April 5th 2009

The 7 Time Saving Firefox Add-Ons To Make Your Lives Easier
Next up for Microsoft’s ‘real life’ Windows star: 7-Eleven ads
Microsoft’s second Laptop Hunters commercial: Giampaulo buys an HP HDX
FCC Pressed to Investigate Apple, AT&T Regarding Skype Over 3G [Net Neutrality]
Week in Apple: Chrome, iPhone jailbreaks, security, and more!
Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks
XP is still so popular that MS decided to make it much harder to steal.
Week in review: was-Conficker-a-bust? edition
Tweet Quality
Rumor: Xserve refresh coming up soon
Week in Microsoft: builds 7068, 7070 will run on inexpensive laptops
Buying advice: Network-attached storage
Ubuntu 9.04 Beta – Expectations Too High?

Sunday, April 6th 2009

Google Car Pulled Over by the Cops – Now in Street View
Data Centers get ‘black box’ flight data recorder
Web Slices a rip off of OS X feature?
Report: Sun rejects IBM offer, IBM withdraws bid
Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support
Sony: PS2 is the gateway drug to the PS3
25 Rare Wordpress Templates 2009
Wii MotionPlus Given July 10 Release Date By Obscure Amsterdam Retailer [Unconfirmed]
Leaked Dell Internal Product Roadmap Reveals Mini 11 Netbook [Dell]
Sneak peek at Windows Mobile 6.5 themes
Archos 2,4 flash players appear
iPhone 4G IV could support 802.11n

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Here are the links for: Thursday, February 5th 2009…

How to Back Up Your Tweets from Twitter
Mac Flickr client flickery being re-released after API snafu
Google Chrome for Mac OS X
Time Warner Cable To Expand Its Bandwidth Caps To Additional Cities [Broadband]
Gmail Adds Support For Multi-Pane Viewing
Fujitsu LifeBooks Get AT&T 3G Today, EVDO Soon [Laptops]
High-slider integrity planned for Windows 7 UAC
Google releases Books browser for iPhone
Ballmer to businesses: deploy WinXP now and face concerns from employees
Lenovo announces loss, CEO resigns
Norway drops complaint over Apple’s FairPlay DRM
Cardboard PC takes quixotic stand against PC cases
Eee PC 701 prototype UMPC mod spotted, photographed, lusted after
Mac documentary to show at User Groups
Apple’s Snow Leopard to include location, multi-touch tools
Broadcom Enables Cheaper Android Phones
Seagate continues to communicate bad news
Walter Bender — Taking Sugar Beyond the XO Laptop
Woz joins server storage firm Fusion-io as chief scientist
Intel Follows the Crowd With Integrated Chips
Google Latitude lets you publish your real-time location
List of Windows 7 (beta build 7000) auto-elevated binaries
Comcast Cable Guys Save Elderly Woman From Burning Home [Cable Guy]

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Hard drive failure is a common thing is these modern years due to: outsourcing,  high density storage, and many other reasons. Some people make a big deal out of the failures… sure it can be expensive if you must recover you data but its not the end of the world.  The biggest issue is that the fan boys of certain brands will attack another brand when it has failures typically evolving into a fight between brands.

Take for example the newer Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drive failure… Some people are using that as a excuse to bash them and promote other brands.  Tho there is a forum thread started on a forum that is collecting info on working/dead drives from that series…. I feel that is a better way to handle it.

Basically expect more drive failures in the years to come due to larger and larger drives.

Links included in this post:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing
Seagate 7200.11 fail & fine dataset, Upload your 7200.11 drive history data over here

Tags: density, Failure, fanboy, Hard Drive, High, Segate

In my previous post i covered Duke Nukem in general… this post will feature
Duke Nukem 3D High Resolution Pack.

What is the High Resolution Pack (Quoted from: http://hrp.duke4.net/about.php)

Remember “Duke Nukem 3D”, the great first-person shooter 3D Realms released back in 1996? Its cool protagonist, ingame atmosphere, original weaponry and many other features make it worth playing even today.

For all Duke fans who want to play the game again in a modern Windows environment with 3D accelerated graphics, the Duke3D community has created the High Resolution Pack (HRP). Utilizing the amazing skills of various texturing and modelling artists, the project´s goal is to replace all textures and sprites with high-res versions, optimizing it for latest OpenGL ports.

Here are some screenshots:

Duke Nukem 3D High Resolution Pack in 8bit Classic mode	Duke Nukem 3D High Resolution Pack in 32bit Polymost mode.

I have been using the High Resolution Pack ever since it started as a afew people wanting to make Duke Nukem 3d look better. The pack has gotten considerably better over the many versions. It’s kinda cool to play the same game that i have played iver 9 years… it never gets old .

I fully recommend High Resolution Pack to any old school Duke Nukem 3d player

Check out the High Resolution Pack @ http://hrp.duke4.net

Tags: download, Duke Nukem, Free, High, HRP, Pack, Resolution