Dante's Inferno Password Hunt

www.hellisnigh.com Passwords

Posted by Michichael on Wednesday February 03, 2010 2:57 pm

So the crew at Dante's inferno has decided to have another brilliant advertising idea and got webmasters to put in some cool ASCII art on various websites. These websites included passwords to a promotional website, http://www.hellisnigh.com

Sorry EA, I'm going to hell 'cause I cheat. So is everyone else. Did you honestly expect the internet to play fair? Here's a list of passwords (though I do recommend going to the source'd sites to view the cool artwork). 

Password1: excommunicate (http://www.digg.com)
Password2: scythe (http://www.dailymotion.com)
Password3: grafter (http://www.gamespot.com)
Password4: styx (http://www.ign.com)
Password5: unbaptized (http://www.gamesradar.com)
Password6: alighieri (http://www.wwe.com)

So there you have it folks! Go get your earthly rewards! This allows you to download a zip file titled "earthly_rewards_dantes_inferno.zip" from their website. I'm not sure how big it is - yet - since it's still downloading (34MB at the time of writing). 

After all, why not? Furries are going to hell anyway, right? >:) 

P.S. No I didn't find all of these by myself. I found three of them, 1 3 and 6 by myself. Rest I jacked from digg - thread here.

Update: Site's down! In the middle of my download!

Scratch that! It's done - 131 MB! Wow... And no, not telling you what it is :) 

Merry Christmas!

Posted by Michichael on Saturday December 26, 2009 3:05 pm

First off let me start by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays for whatever holidays you celebrate. Mine was decent, all thing's considered. I'll be going shooting next week at the local range. I think I'm going to pick myself up a Sig Sauer P226. I really enjoy the simplicity of the weapon, its accuracy, and all in all how it feels in my hand. That'll probably be a year or more off though - my room-mate is probably going to end up leaving. He still hasn't found a job and I cannot afford to keep supporting two people. He's way behind on rent and has no prospects for new rent so... yeah. Gotta let him go. I don't know if I'll re-rent out the other room at this point. I may just try to keep things going solid myself - cut back on things, etc. Dunno.

Anyway, got a buncha new clothes for Christmas. I'm amused by the fact that as a kid I hated getting clothing. Now, as an adult, I love getting clothing. Got some silverware too - which is good, since I am always out of clean silverware. Probably going to do dishes today since my room-mate didn't do them. I'm mildly irritated by the fact that he's not only out of work but not helping around the apartment to keep things clean either. So yeah! That's about it for me here. I'll post more when I have something interesting to say. :) 

Windows 7 Screen Flickering/Refreshing? Fix here!

Posted by Michichael on Tuesday August 18, 2009 3:01 pm

So! I decided to install Windows 7 on my work laptop and see how it would perform in a work environment. I'm impressed. It's natively compatible with everything we run except for the VMWare ESXi control panel. Woo! But then I noticed a problem. Often, and even more when doing Firefox or resizing windows, the screen would appear to flicker - applications would disappear from the task bar (but still be open and visible) etc. It was bizarre, but not really a game-ending problem. It got worse and worse so I opted to install the latest drivers from Intel, WMDI 1.1 compatible! You'd think it'd fix it buuuuuuuut no. It doesn't. However, after much dicking around, and finding NO help whatsoever on the internet (Google, you failed me you bastards!) I figured it out. The tips pointing me the right way did come from references to OpenGL, and it took me a while to find the settings in Windows 7, since the "Driver disallows editing of advanced 3d properties". Or some shit like that. Anyway, this doesn't resolve it 100%, there is still some refresh flicker, but it's a huge improvement. Others may find settings that work better.

• Open the Intel Graphics Media for Mobile tray. You should have this installed and running, if it's not, reinstall your graphics drivers from Intel and be sure to enable it (Yeah, it's a hassle and I hate having more than bare minimums installed but it's necessary in this case). Right click and select "Graphics Properties."
• Now, in the Window that popped up, you should see a 3d Settings Button:

•  In the new window that pops up, use the following settings:
  
  • Asynchronous Flip: On
  • Triple Buffering: On
  • Flipping Policy: Flip
  • Depth Buffer Bit Depth: 24 Bit Depth Buffer
  • Force S3TC Texture Compression: On
  • Force FXT1 Texture Compression: Off
  • Driver Memory Footprint: Low
  • Texture Color Depth: 32 bits per Texel
  • Anisotropic Filtering: Off

That's what did it for me. Experiment, comment below if you find better settings!