Category: Gaming

GeekLimit.com

Time for my big announcement….

Geeklimit.com

Together with Dan from Technocrat, I've been working on a new Geek Team Blog. I'll be posting most of my geek and technical stuff over there and Atariboy.wordpress.com will become more of a personal blog concentrating on Photography, my life, blogging and more general things.

We have a nice handful of great bloggers on the Team including Jeff from Teknokool and Jens from Zhooibaal with more coming within the week.

We did have a geek girl but she seems to have disappeared, so if any of you ladies are up to the challenge then drop me an email.

Does this mean the end of Atariboy at wordpress?

NO

I've taken to blogging like a duck to a special duck filled blogging pond, along with fixing computers, blogging is something that I feel I'm really quite good at. Geeklimit.com is a way to expand my blogging and seperate it out into geek stuff and photography and more personal things so that the geeks can just read the geeky stuff if they like.

We have also added a select amount of adsense, none on the front page, just if you go to read some of the more indepth articles, so hopefully I can earn a little money from blogging as well.

So check it out, the theme is the only thing left to do, we are planning a custom theme made especially for GeekLimit.com.

We'd love some feedback, comments and suggestions, there are lots of posts coming over the next week or so, hopefully you'll see us on the digg front page!


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Dual Monitors


It finally arrived at 9am this morning, of course i started setting it up straight away. I loved my Hyundia 19″ CRT, but the new Samsung 930BF makes it look blurry and dull. The picture quality is stunning, vibrant colours and sharp edges, makes me wonder how i ever coped before, no wonder i was getting headaches from my old screen.

Setup was very easy, just plugged in the DVI cable and the power, turned it on and it worked, and in windows its just a case of choosing to extend the windows desktop across onto the second.

For anyone whos wondering, to set a wallpaper to extend across both screens set the position to “Tile”.

This is the first time i’ve properly used two screens in windows, its a refreshing experience. Being able to watch a film or episode of simpsons on one screen whilst blogging or chatting on msn. At the moment i have 2 firefox windows open, one on each screen.

I’ve only tried one game so far, the magnificent Day of Defeat. The graphics look even better, sharper and clearer and the colours look fantastic, and thanks to a response time of 4ms the is no ghosting what so ever.
I’m very happy with it, although it does make me want to buy another one to replace my CRT, but im pretty skint now!

Oh and i got a free game too: Myst V: End of Ages

Gaming Food

Well my screen didnt turn up today, mainly because the people at parcel force are idiots, they couldnt work out where i live from my postcode?! Havnt they heard of google maps?

So that pissed me off and i went out and bought a lod of nice food and drinks and I’m setting myself up for a night of Day of Defeat with mike:

The cans are “Relentless” a caffine energy drink like red bull but come in half litre cans, really good stuff, should keep me alert later, next best thing to jolt cola, and the crisps are 14 packets of walkers cheese and onion, damn tasty, should last about a day :P

The Diddi Donuts are little donut balls with a tiny bit of jam in them, they are already eaten, little bit disappointing tho. And the Dairylea is 16 slices of processed cheese, i’ve got 2 packets because i love it so much.

I swear if i didnt have such a rediculously high matabalism i’d be soooo fat, but as it is i have a body fat index of 6%!!

Let the gaming begin!!

Links to all the pictures here on my flickr

Start of the weekend

I do love being a student… thursday evening and its the start of my weekend. I’m shopping around for a 19″ monitor for about £200, send any deals my way :P and my parents are helping me out with it so i only have to pay half.

Mike finally got a graphics card (ATi 9550), so we have been playing Day of Defeat for hours, with teamspeak too, it definatly adds another level to the game, makes it so much more team based.

I went out to PC world with Jo, Andrew and Mike earlier… its a huge one at the edge of town, i could have spent all day walking around there, so much stuff, although its all at least 10% more expensive than on the interweb.

Thinking i’ve got to get another C# book as well, to help me out with my programming, espeically mouse movements and classes, but the books in PC world were £30, a little bit much, so i’ll have a look online.

I’m also looking into java, Gary my coursemate is thinking of controlling his robot with a PDA, and java would be easy to put on it, and as it is a lot like C#, and he cant program to save his life!, i may help him out a lot, and in return get a rather tasty java book for free, and some very nice things to put on my CV too.

This weekend i’m going to be working hard on my program, with regions, context menus and custom dialogs, but that would only make sense to a programmer! I’m feeling quite confident about it, i should be able to get everything asked of me done by this weekend, so i can start adding extra credit bits next week.

Only got one link today.. A banned advert for mortal combat which i thought was cool, not as good as the banned xbox ones tho.

Oh and technorati updated finally, the rank of this blog is now: 9,969!!













I’m getting myself a 19″ TFT monitor tomorrow and i’m going to do a dual screen display with my 19″ CRT monitor, so i have been looking around for some dual screen wallpapers. All of the above are from Deviantart, one of my fav websites for wallpapers. They are all in full res on my flickr.

Any other links to good wallpaper sites, especially dual screens?

Wednesday Afteroon links

I’ve been very busy with my project this week and not really had much time to blog, but i have some links that i saved:

A funny Falloutboy video – if you hate falloutboy you’ll like this! We’re going down tuuuuu in a luleelurah!!

Funny Trivium video – same kind of piss take as the falloutboy one. SEGA NATION!!

Crazy german kid (right click > save as) – this kid is insane, are there really people who get this worked up over a game?

Penny arcade – Im sure most of you already know about this one, but i only discovered it yesterday, some very funny comics, i like this one especially.

UrlyArt.com – Some very cool web2 art, pictures made from screenshots of websites, i espiecally like the digg.com one.

BlogMad!

And dont forget in a weeks time BlogMad.com goes into public beta, so sign up now and earn some early credits.

Mikes getting a Graphics card in the mail today, so tonight we will be playing DoD for hours on end. If you want to join us add me on xfire: atariby

Sunday Evening

I can stop playing this game at the moment:


Funky Truck 4WD

I went swimming for the first time in 3 years today, and it was great fun. Flumes and slides and a wave machine. And the best showers i have ever used, i am definatly getting a shower room built in my house when i get one :)

Atariboy.co.uk still is not working, but being a sunday i wasnt expecting too much, hopefully by tomorrow the DNS will have updated and i can upload everything.

I’ve been adding a few bits to it, although its still only 2 pages. When i get a bit more free time i’ll fill it out a bit more.

I cooked my own dinner, i mean really cooked rather than just heated tonight, i’m rather proud of myself, although not as proud as when i made my monster sandwich:

Thats 2 half pound burgers, 4 pieces of bacon and 4 slices of cheese!!