User:AndrewNeo

I was so glad to hear Valve started a Wiki! They're really cool. I hope they get it listed in the Wikimedia project Interwiki database.
I created a Mycroft search plugin for the wiki which can be found here.

Update: November 7, 2005

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Woe is me! I have no motherboard! >.< That means no Half-Life 2, either...

About Me

I'm primarily a programmer, and prefer PHP as my favorite language. I know C++ (and thus attempt and fail horribly [due to my excellent procrastination skills] at making HL1 and Source mods) as well as VB.net and several others. I also know (X)HTML, CSS, and other web-standards. I am also a web-standards-nazi. [1] I've been working with computers since I was 8, and love to use Wikis. Some day my personal site will be one. Some day.

Half-Life 2 is the best game out there, no doubt. I got up at 6am (EST) on November 16th to play HL2 before I had to go to school (I really wanted to get up at 3, especially because I couldn't sleep, but didn't want to get in trouble.) I love playing HL2:DM and I think I'm pretty good at it, and I rule at my own map.

I love UNIX/Linux, and am forced to have a Windows machine to play Half-Life and other games on, so it's my primary machine. I have a server that runs Gentoo, and I also enjoy FreeBSD. Open source all the way.

There is a word for what I do! Whee! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bb/Wikignome.jpg/250px-Wikignome.jpg

And don't forget to spread firefox!

Computer Stats

Processor	AMD Athlon 64 3200+	ref
Motherboard	Giga-Byte GA-K8VT800	ref
RAM	Kingston KVR400/512R 512MB DDR PC3200 x2
Video card	ATI Radeon 9600SE	ref
Hard drive	Western Digital 250GB EIDE	ref
Case	Ultra Dragon Series ATX Case w/ Clear Side	ref
Power supply	PowerUp 400W dual fan	ref
Sound cards	Sound Blaster Live! Value Internal Realtek AC97 chipset	ref ref
Speakers	Front speakers and subwoofer: Not sure Rear speakers: My bedroom stereo (sometimes)
Case fans	Rear blue LED, rear red LED, processor, one side, two front fans
Monitor	Gateway EV700 17" CRT
Input devices	Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Wacom Graphire2 tablet	ref ref
Networking	Internal Realtek 10/100 network card Zonet ZEW1600 PCI Zonet ZEW2501 USB	ref ref ref
Handheld	HP rx3115 Mobile Media Companion	ref
Headset	Logitech Precision Stereo PC Gaming Headset	ref
OS	Windows XP Professional	ref
Internet	SBC Yahoo! DSL Pro (3Mb)	ref
Browser	Firefox	ref

Side case shot

Opinionated

In-game admin plugins

Okay, it's nice to see Valve supporting this, but I still hate admin plugins. You never know when a server has them.. until you start waiting half an hour for fifty wav files to trickle-download that you don't even want to listen to. I suggest two things: One, put a thing in the server list telling you if there is one, as well as in the server details give you more information about it.. or two, not make you download all their files. I haaate it! >.<

Wiki Contributions

Documentation conversions

• Hammer Selection Tool
• Hammer Camera Tool
• Hammer Entity Tool
• Hammer Block Tool
• Hammer Decal Tool
• Hammer Overlay Tool
• Hammer Clipping Tool
• Hammer Vertex Tool
• Hammer Face Edit Disps
• Hammer Smoothing Groups Dialog
• Hammer Using Cordon
• Various images from the docs

New pages

• Template:Wrongtitle - Wrong title template for technical limitations (brought from Wikipedia, modified)
  • Added this template to many pages that use underscores, like weapon_ar2, etc.
• Template:Sandbox - Sandbox header template
• Merge templates and their images (from Wikipedia)
  • Template:Merge
  • Template:Merging
  • Template:Mergefrom
  • Template:Mergeto
  • Template:Mergedisputed
• Various avaliable-language templates as well as an Alternative Languages guide.
• The default AI relationships table
• "Disassembling" the commentary configuration file

Other

• Patrols, minor edits, code fixes
• Lots of cleanups and inter-wiki-linking
• Several images for entities
• "Important" people list
• My own sandbox as well as one in the VDC namespace.
• The concept and original design (teh sm4rt pplz made it work) for the "mod templates" (ex, orig)

Maps

Mapping is fun. I've only released one map so far, it's a fast-paced Half-Life 2: Deathmatch map.

dm_matchbox

Screenshot 1 Screenshot 2 Screenshot 3

Download ZIP or Download RAR

External Links

AndrewNeo.com - My personal site
NeoCodeNetworks.com - My 'business' site
My Wikipedia Userpage