... my rants & raves

Nov-272005

whiskyship and lazyness

as you can read (or obviously: not read) i'm too lazy these days to update my blog.
i added some new photo galleries but was too tired/busy/lazy to write a few sentences for each event...

but yesterday was a special event i want to mention at least in a short note: the whiskyship in zurich. basically it's an event where 5 ships are tied together in the harbour of zurich and on each ship are a lot of whisky-shops and tasting sessions. mjam :) one of the very rare possibilities to taste real expensive and rare single-malt whisky.


so if you like a good whisky and talking with experts about it: that's definitly the place to go!

Published: Nov-27-05 | 0 Comments | 1 Link to this post
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Nov-72005

xbox 360 vs. ps3 component costs

interesting article at next-gen, comparing the costs of xbox360's hardware components with the (expected) costs of ps3 components.


Published: Nov-07-05 | 0 Comments | 3 Links to this post
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Nov-52005

strange quake 4 demo system

last night i tried to export demos to AVI with quake 4's demo system.... it's a nightmare:
you cannot directly export netdemos (demos you recorded during multiplayer matches), you have to record your netdemo to a renderdemo (best explained as singleplayer/localhost demo) first and than you can export the video to TGA screenshots.
but even there seem to be nasty bugs with the renderdemos: they slow down and speed up from time to time, often it looks like your player is out of sync with the rest of the "world" (like playing with ping >500) and projectiles and explosions are NOT shown.
also the promised audio export is not working correctly (it exports only a 16kb wav file).

i hope raven will fix this in one of the next patches. i would really like to create movies out of quake 4 content.


Published: Nov-05-05 | 0 Comments | 1 Link to this post
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Nov-32005

internet explorer tab in firefox

quaestor just pointed me to this interesting firefox plugin:

IE Tab, an extension from Taiwan, features embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. This extension is derived from the famous extension IE View, but they are quite different. While IE View always open IE-only pages in newly launched windows of Internet Explorer, IE Tab can open them in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox.

you can get it here


Published: Nov-03-05 | 0 Comments | 1 Link to this post
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