Wow, what an awesome day.
First you'll be happy to know that I finally got
MDK2- if you didn't read my ordeal trying to find it, read my
October 22, 2000 node. Ends up that this guy I know saw the
BBS post and
IMed me. How cool is that? I didn't have to do anything after all! I asked him to drop it in my upload folder through
Network Neighborhood, but he was using
Windows2000 and couldn't configure it so he could see people on the network. (the reason I suspect is when you install it it asks for a
workgroup and a larger workgroup name, if you enter something in for the larger one, you can't see anyone with 9x computers). He tried sending it to me through
AIM but I still have AIM 2.0 and refuse to get newer ones (I don't need AOL's latest and more privacy invading
spyware). Plus AIM has no new features at all,
ICQ has had it all for years.
I really detest using AIM anyway. You can't believe how frustrating it is playing
Quake3 or
Starcraft and someone
IM's you, switching you out of the game. Even if I'm not playing a game, I'd like to finish what I was doing before having talking to them. It's friggin rude to just popup a new window everytime- ICQ behaves itself and just flashes a message in the
systray. ICQ doesn't have
advertisments either. I can also keep notes in people's info area so I remember who they are. Here at college my
Buddy List is friggin huge. It's a pain trying to remember Name-> Face->
Screen Name-> Relationship. ICQ users also have numbers instead of names, so you don't have people on your list named "h0tiee ch1k 45436346" because you can choose any name you want.
Um, anyway sending it through AIM and
network wouldn't work. So I suggested
DCCing through
IRC, but he didn't have IRC and didn't want to download
mIRC. Wouldn't you know it, he has ICQ and we send it that way. (wow what an exciting ending!)
Well getting MDK2 with no effort was probably
miracle number one for today. Number two would be that my
roommate's sick. He's been sick for the past week. He's constantly having dull, constant throbbing
headaches, extrememly painful
ear trouble, a really digusting "wet"
cough, and a
bloodshot eye. He decided to go to the doctor yesterday, but noone was open and today he had to go to class. So before class he went to the
infirmary here on
campus and found out he's sick with THREE different illnesses! A major
sinus infection,
pinkeye, and this bubble filled with puss+blood is ramming against his ear drum (fun! fun! and
fun!). So what's the
good news? The medicine should clear up the ear thing in two days, pinkeye's treatable and he's not going to go blind (like he was afraid of), and sinus infection is common and treatable too.
Miracle number three: on the way to the
drug store Pete (my roomate) found his
wallet, which he had lost for over month, in Gabe's car! Too friggin cool.
--
Chris is thinking of rewriting his
3d engine, wants me to help. Before it was written using
Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 (
DOS), with
BGI libraries. With BGI we could only do
640x480 and
16 color graphics. I downloaded
DJGPP and
Allegro libraries so we can make it more impressive. DJGPP is a free
C/
C++ compiler- it's basically
GCC/
G++ converted to DOS. I definitly see this project as the source of many a headache and blackhole for any school work in the future.