Monthly Archives: April 2008

Quake 3 hits the iPod touch

Future generations will most likely divide the timeline of history at this point: when Quake 3 achieved motion-sensing, wireless network play on two iPod touches. Just think, less than a year ago we were salivating (or at least mildly enthused) at the prospect of rocking Doom on this thing, and now Quake 3 Arena is [...]

Intel to release its own SSDs later this year

Dadi Perlmutter said that Intel will release its own SSDs onto the market place later this year and claimed that they would deliver on the full promise of solid state disk technology, unlike so many of the drives currently on the market. Perlmutter showed a demonstration on stage with three laptops: two with 65nm Core [...]

Battlefield Heroes to have just two maps

The producer of the upcoming freebie game in the long-running Battlefield franchise, Battlefield Heroes, has revealed that the game will launch with just two maps for players to wage war in. Though the game, which is being developed by DICE, is still being planned as an utterly free-to-play game which will generate profit through micro-transactions [...]

Rick Rolling Minutes

Happy April first Thank you Veronica for the awesome picture.

11 Year-Old Takes Over as School’s Network Admin

Seeing as our high school network hijinks pretty much led to semi-permanent suspension, our barren hearts were actually warmed by the story of 11-year-old Jon Penn, who has been in charge of his elementary school’s 60-machine network since last year. The previous network administrator at the Arkansas school simply up and left, leaving the IT [...]