Josef “Jeff” Sipek

So, I decided to recompile Quake 3 as provided by Icculus.org. I happened to have an external monitor connected to my laptop, so I had no choice but to try quake with both screens. Here’s the result:

After I finished playing with it, I realized that the secondary monitor was able to go as high up as 1600x1200. This would mean I’d be able to play with 3280x1050 (3.12 aspect ratio) instead of what I have done before - 2960x1024 (2.89 aspect ratio). Or 412960 extra pixels, which is 13.6% increase! :)

Of course the frame rate would suffer even more - it was about 35-40 frames per second at 2960x1024. I suspect that at the amazing 3280x1050 it’ll be about 5-7 frames/second slower. But it’ll still be great :)

P.S. Yes, that’s a 180 degree field of view. It is really nice not to have to jerk with the mouse to see if anyone is to the sides :)

So, I was at ICON the past 3 days. I took a bunch of photos of people and of the place; I went to a bunch of presentations; I did two presentation myself (with some other people); but the most interesting thing was when I went to a Q&A Session with George Takei on Saturday. (Those who don’t know who George Takei is: he’s Sulu from the Original Series of Star Trek.) There was this one guy, who asked him (Takei) if he (the guy) could have his tea cup. I found that an awesome idea. But it was too late.

The next day (Sunday = Today), I went to the second Q&A session, and asked Takei if I could get his tea cup. He said sure. :)

I know I am crazy, but I don’t care. I have an autographed tea cup, and you don’t.

(More photos to follow when I get to it.)

So, few days ago Wikipedia’s Picture of The Day was a photo of Wernher von Braun standing next to 5 F-1 Engines. I still can’t get over how awesome the photo is. Here’s what it looks like:

So, Linux Users’ Group @ Stony Brook is going to host an Install Fest at ICON — a science fiction convention right here in Stony Brook. Some of ICON’s guests include George Takei (Hikaru Sulu), Kevin Sorbo (Hercules), and even bizarre individuals such as Voltaire (author of “The U.S.S. Make-Shit-Up,” etc. in addition to most of the other “music.”)

So, show up, and have some fun!

I came across a link that talks about how someone got Quake3 running on setup with 24 displays - 10240x3072! I wish I had something like that :)

If you google for lisp operating system the first result returned is the one and only: GNU Emacs.

I came across this image, which clearly illustrates the twisted nature of Emacs, and the "kick ass" aspect of Vi/Vim.