Author: Ryan

Orange Box

RyanEpisode 2, Half Life 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2

Bought myself the Orange Box (Half Life Portal, Team Fortress 2 and Episode 2) and I must say I had a lot of fun yesterday. Playing Portal was a blast. I don’t want to reveal too much of the “story” but it was really well done, had you thinking around corners the whole time.

After I got done with Portal (haven’t tried any of the special challenges yet) I gave Team Fortress 2 a look. The graphics are simply “lol”, you have the feeling you just landed in a Pixar film. After playing all the classes i must say, if you have 3 or less players on each side, the Scout dominates most other classes. You often run into one-on-one situations where the sheer speed of the Scout gives you the upper hand (and I find the shotgun is a bit too powerful at range). I even managed to take down two “Heavy Weapons Guys” with the Scout. So that kinda makes the Scout my personal favorite, closely followed by the Engineer (which is a wuss without his turret). And yes, planting a turrent in the enemy base on the “2fort” map is still hilarious.

While plaing around with steam, I noticed that it has a webpage that shows the statistics of the user. http://steamcommunity.com/id/rschulze/ Nice.

script kiddies

Ryan

Well it seems SOMEONE reads my blog, since I almost always have more “hack” attachs from noob script kiddies when I’m abroad. I’ll take care of those when I get home. I see lot’s of emails going out to abuse@… 😉

Cairns

Ryan

So I got around to dropping by an internet cafe. I’m in cairns right now and dfinatly won’t be logging into any forums from here (for one the most arn’t on https servers, and for another I don’t have the time to check all the missed postings from the last 2 and a half weeks). I’ll check forums when i get back home.

Weather is great, kinda hot if there is no wind blowing in from the sea. People here grill all the time, the park is full of picknick tables and gas grills free to use. We were out on the riff twice and it was great both times. ayers rock was pretty nice, but extremely dry out there. Sydney was an interresting city, Singapore too, but I’ll write more when I get home.

Ready for take off

Ryan

Just got done packing my suitcase, I’ll be leaving for the airport soon. I might drop some updates into my blog if I find internet access while I’m down under. Otherwise you’ll get a whole bunch of pictures when I’m back 😉

Tonight I’ll be in Singapur, tomorrow Sydney. We will be staying in each place for a few days, then moving on, after Sydney we’ll be off to Ayers Rock -> Alice Springs -> Cairns (Cairns will be a full week)

Sieve

Ryan

Since I’m not going to be reading any email for the next few weeks I finally got around to setting up a sieve script to automagically sort my email serverside into folders. So when I come back home I won’t be overwhelmed by emails from my server about the 15 people trying to break in each day or other crap.

require “fileinto”;
if header :matches “Subject” “\*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*\*” {
fileinto “user.blargh.SPAM”;
}
elsif address :domain :is “from” “blargh.ipxserver.de” {
fileinto “user.blargh.Server”;
}
else {
keep;
}