The Blog of Mark (SoftCoder) and Vickie Vejvoda

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It was a very busy day! I had become overly comfortable with my Microsoft Windows environment and thus I spent a fair amount of time today finding equivalent programs / solutions to use in Ubuntu (I am running v 810 Intrepid). Before I discuss how that went I must mention that the majority of my [...]

As I write this post, I sit in the comfort of a lovely new Ubuntu 8.10 environment. This makes the 6th and last computer on the family network to get a dual boot (Windows / Linux) configuration. Oddly enough installing on my computer was difficult. I had numerous system hangs during Ubuntu installation, some during [...]

I have been wanting to explore leaving the Windows Operating System behind after faithfully working with it since I first got my copy of Windows 386 as a young 15 year old boy. More and more over the past year this urge kept coming back, this urge to be free from a society of hoarders [...]

Soon the guys at bf are going to release their new game based on an updated cube2 engine and the sauerbraten game. Quin was nice enough to hear some feedback about paintball features and while I am getting familiar with the code, he was busy adding a built in paintball setting. You really need to [...]

I won’t rehash the reasons why I feel there is a need for a good replacement of this fun game,  just want to mention the progress made towards a replacement. We are using the Cube2 Engine and working closely with the developers that work on sauerbraten and blood frontier. In the past few days “quin” [...]