Monthly Archives: September 2003

Civ 3 Revisited

My desire for Civ 3 is waning. At the harder difficulty settings the computer is allowed to cheat liberally. It can colonize cities at least twice as fast as I can. Through the Middle Ages colonization is critical to success. Although a diplomatic or cultural victory is possible without a massive nation, my personal favourite [...]

Almost free…

Ah, fun day. Good things.
In other news, I managed to own myself when installing my Escalade 5800. I accidently blew away not one, but all of my partitions when adding a journal for ext3 support. I was still using ext2 on the backup server. It wasn’t ext3, but completely luser error. I spent Saturday reinstalling [...]