Sunday, June 18, 2000

Happy Father's Day! -- 12:25 am CST, Update by The Master

Happy Father's Day to all those dadas in the crowd. Nearly all of the Haus Staff are Father's themselves, we won't be around much today, since it's our institutional day to take it easy. Nahhh, never mind. That'll never happen :-)

A.T. Hun comments: I get to go to a conference! Whee!

Bleh -- 12:23 am CST, Update by The Master

Welp, today is my Birthday, AND Father's Day. Wheee :-) So now I'm a mighty 28. Heh-at least I'm not as ancient as A.T.

A.T. Hun comments: Two more years of youthful optimism left. Use them wisely. If you want to talk about old, I could mention J.t.Qbe . . .

J.t.Qbe comments: Yep, here at the home today we have special Father's Day gruel. Hope I can find my teeth. Happy birthday, young whippersnapper!

History today -- 12:22 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1778: American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War.
• 1812: The United States declared war on Britain.
• 1815: British and Prussian troops defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium.
• 1873: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election. (The fine was never paid.)
• 1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, completing a flight from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours.
• 1940: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to behave in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, "This was their finest hour."
• 1948: The U. N. Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.
• 1979: President Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.
• 1983: Astronaut Sally K. Ride became America's first woman in space, blasting off with four colleagues aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
• 1985: VisiCalc, the most popular spreadsheet for the Apple computer, was discontinued by Lotus Development Corp.

Saturday, June 17, 2000

MySQL and PHP -- 8:30 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The O'Reilly Network has an article on the MySQL database and PHP scripting, showing how they are the perfect database and scripting combo for websites. Yes, we at The Haus are a little biased. MySQL and PHP power our news (and, soon, a whole lot more). Find out if these two are right for you. Thanks Linux Today.

History today -- 12:58 pm CST, Update by The Master

Little late today. PERC controller didn't like our new 9gb Ultra-SCSI drives. . .

• 1775: The Battle of Bunker Hill took place near Boston.
• 1856: The Republican Party opened its first convention in Philadelphia.
• 1885: The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
• 1925: 29 countries signed the Geneva Protocol which prohibited the use of poisonous gases in war.
• 1928: Amelia Earhart embarked on a trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland to Wales - the first by a woman.
• 1940: France asked Germany for terms of surrender.
• 1945: American soldiers on Okinawa found the body of the Japanese commander, Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima, who had committed suicide.
• 1946: The first mobile telephone commercial service was inaugurated in St. Louis, with the installation of telephones in two automobiles.
• 1971: The United States signed a treaty with Japan under which it would give up control of the island of Okinawa.
• 1972: Five burglars are arrested inside Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
• 1986: President Reagan announced the retirement of Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger.

Whither UT:RA? -- 11:32 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I was perusing Gamecenter's list of the top 10 Unreal Tournament mods and I got thinking. Where's Rocket Arena? It wasn't on Gamecenter's list. The UT:RA page hasn't been updated in many moons. Granted, GreenMarine is in the process of moving since he joined 3DRealms to work on Duke Forever. Was he the only one working on it? Did these bugs REALLY need two months to fix? I suppose it just shows you that mod making is fraught with danger, even if you have pros on your team.

I also had to comment on Gamecenter's rip on all the Unreal-related sites at the beginning of their article. Good thing Gamecenter was there to pick up the ball for all of us poor schleps who couldn't survive without them.

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