---
date: "2000-06-01T13:00:00Z"
title: Two Updates, One Month!
---

It's unbelievable, but true.  I guess I'm trying to be cool like
<a href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/">Tom Gilbert</a> and update my
page more than <a href="http://www.gladstone.uoregon.edu/~timfinch/">
Tim Finch</a> (sorry Tim -- you knew it was coming :P).  I finally
updated the <a href="projects/">Projects</a> page; check it out for
some more recent projects I've been involved in, and some more 
Linux- and UNIX-related scripts and programs.
<br /><br />

I decided to set up
a temporary <a href="http://www.quake3arena.com">Quake 3 Arena Demo</a>
server on my home computer.  Id software does a checksum comparison
on the PK3 file before loading the demo server, so I couldn't modify
any of the bots or levels, but I did hack together some interesting
demo server modifications with some shell-trickery and a quick Perl
script.  Essentially, Quad Damage does _no_ damage (because quad is
for losers), getting armor temporarily doubles gravity or changes the
knock-back on certain weapons, and getting mega-health halves 
gravity (which wreaks havoc when you're playing Q3DM17).  Again, I
don't know how often it'll be active, but here's the info in case
you're interested:<br /><br />

<center>
<table border="0">
<tr><td>Server:</td><td> Pablo's Wacky Fun House</td></tr>
<tr><td>Host:</td><td>pabs.dhs.org</td></tr>
<tr><td>Info:</td><td>Q3D-DM: Q3DM7, Q3DM17</td></tr>
</table></center>
<br /><br />

Let me know if you've got any suggestions or are interested in my
dedicated server scripts (eventually I'll post 'em to the Projects
section, but first I need to clean up and comment the code).
<br /><br />

I think I'm headed to the
<a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com">Linux World Expo</a> in 
San Jose this August.  I don't have a place to stay yet, but travel
and financing seems to be covered.  My first LWE -- exciting!