Well all good things come to an end and PAX was certainly one of them. We spent our last days trolling around and taking more pics with booth babes. Sunday is usually when they give out more swag so we tried our best to collect as much of it as we could. Oh and I also got to meet and greet Gabe and Tycho the creators of Penny Arcade! I got them to sign the book I purchased. Here are the last set of pics:
On Saturday, Andy, Trav and I were free to wander around aimlessly as we did not really no where to start because there were so many booths. I took this opportunity to take pictures with the booth babes. I have posted pics for your viewing pleasure.
In order to promote the new Dead Rising 2, Capcom rented out some building space and set up a fake hardware store called Green’s Hardware (they even has a snazzy fake flyer!) They put various fake weapons out on display pretending they were for sale. Pizza and pop was provided as well as a free Green’s Hardware t-shirt. They also had contests and set up stations where you could play the demo. A lot of the merchandise was fake weaponry and I have posted some pics for your viewing pleasure.
Source: http://www.capcom-unity.com/jgonzo/blog/2010/08/30/this_friday_only:_shop_at_greenes_hardware_@_pax?pg=7
From September 3 to September 5 I had a total blast! I attended PAX 2010 in Seattle with my good friends Andy and Travis. 3 days of video games, computer gear, Magic cards, you name it! It was super fun. I saw some awesome demos for a ton of video games as well as played exclusive demos just for PAX. We played the Dead Rising 2 demo and got a free bobble head of the main character. We spent most of the day solving some crazy puzzles from Wizards of the Coast so that we could attend their exclusive event on Saturday night. I think I will definitely attend next year. I have posted some pics of the craziness from Friday. We managed to have time to catch a mariners game, which explains the images from Safeco field.
Motorola revealed their new phone today the DROID. It is the first smart phone to run on Android 2.0. The phone was revealed today and has the following features:
The phone only weights 6 ounces and it looks sexy! It also is the first smart phone to offer Google’s turn by turn application using their maps. Definitely an Android powered phone I would want in my hands!
Source: Motorola DROID first hands-on! (update: video, impressions, more pics)
I’m at the Windows 7 launch at Microsofts office in Vancouver. They almost didn’t let me in because I didn’t have photo id. Looks pretty sweet so far.
Halo is an awesome series that I’ve enjoyed playing since the original XBox. It’s the first FPS I have truly enjoyed for a console. Final Fantasy is also an awesome series that I have enjoyed playing for a very long time. What if you mashed the two together? You would get this video:
One word: Awesome.
Source: Kotaku
I found this Trailer on Kanye’s blog. The fact that Christian Bale is in it makes it good already IMO. Also, I think Common is in it. You can briefly see him near the beginning of the trailer. That also gives this movie another A+. That and the fact that I am a huge Terminator fan. OK, I’m biased, so what? Check out the Trailer! Another movie I definitely want to see!
Yep, you read that right folks. The trailer for “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” is officially out. This 2 minute and 22 second glimpse of awesomeness will leave you wanting more. I have been a huge fan of comics ever since I was first introduced to X-Men when I was 8 years old. Marvel comics, in my opinion, always had the best super heroes. Being a huge fan of X-Men, this trailer looks like it has Wolverine’s origin down pat. Looks like it’s going to be an awesome movie. A definite must see for me.
What do you guys think? Looks good? Bad? Leave a comment.
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE HD
As you may have read earlier, I mentioned that I was excited to get Fedora 10 up and running on my Lenovo T400 laptop. This has proved a lot more difficult than I previously imagined. I actually discovered more problems and inconveniences that I didn’t intend on dealing with. I am going to put a list of these frustrations and how I solved them (most of them anyways).
For those of you who have Googled Fedora 10 installs for T400 laptops, you may have stumbled across this blog. I’ve decided to document my progress so as to help others out and save them the trouble that I have gone through (I’m assuming you all know how to install a Linux distro).
Problem #1: Fedora 10 Boots Into Command Line Interface (CLI)
This was the very first problem that I encountered when first installing Fedora 10. After completing the install, I noticed GRUB would show up normally and display my options (Fedora 10 and Windows Vista). After selecting Fedora 10 it would also boot normally. When booting was complete, I was surprised to be presented with a CLI. Frustrating indeed. The reason this happened was because my T400 laptop has two video cards, a discrete video card (ATI Mobility Radeon 3400) and an onboard video card. When attempting to startx Xorg gets confused and does not know which video card to use. I checked the following file /var/log/Xorg.0.log I noticed that Xorg would detect both cards and would specify that it did not know which card to use. I would copy paste the log entry but I can no longer find it (sorry).
In order to resolve this issue, I had to restart my laptop and go into the BIOS settings. Under the BIOS configurations for the video card, you must select one video card to be the default. I selected my Discrete video card as the default. There is another option for “Switchable Graphics”. You must disable this feature. You might think that you can enable the “Auto” option, which allows switchable graphics if the chosen OS can handle it. However, Fedora 10 does not have this feature and switchable graphics are enabled by default when selecting Fedora on GRUB. Just keep it disabled. The GUI now pops up for me when loading up Fedora 10. If anybody has a better solution please post it in the comments.
Problem #2: Plymouth Loading Screen Does Not Appear
This problem wasn’t such a big deal as the first, but still annoying. Fedora 10 featured a graphical loading screen called Plymouth. Basically it’s just a nice fancy loading screen with graphics. I noticed that instead of a nice fancy loading screen I got some crap CLI loading bar. Really crap. I am actually still trying to get this working. I found a good website which addresses this issue here. I tried this and it did not resolve my issue. I have a feeling it could be the fact that Fedora 10 does not have the proper drivers installed for my video card. I found a useful tutorial addressing this problem here. Hopefully this resolves the issue. I’ll post updates if this resolves the problem.
Problem #3: Desktop Effects Do Not Work
Still trying to solve this issue. See above problem for possible solutions. Any and all ideas please post in the comments. Again, this is no biggie, but it just sucks when you can’t do something you know you can.
After writing this blog, I noticed the majority of my issues are video card related. I believe this is because my laptop is fairly brand new, so is the video card. Therefore, the proper software may not yet be written for it to function properly on any Linux distro. Hopefully, the solutions I am trying resolve these issues.
Some extra information on the specs of my laptop that I worked with (in case you were wondering):
