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  1. Re:I feel old by serviscope_minor · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Linus Torvalds Celebrates 20 Years of Windows 3.11 With Linux 3.11-rc5 Launch

    Grab the microsoft entertainment pack and play some skifree.

    No need!

    http://ski.ihoc.net/

    It's been recompiled for modern Windows and it runs great under wine as well. It also works fine on the largest monitors you're likely to have.

  2. Re:Nice, but... by Scoth · · Score: 1 · on A Kindle Fire Review For Those Who Plan To Void the Warranty

    The author himself calls it an "Abominable Snow Monster", as seen here. I guess that's more a yeti than bear. Possibly NSFW icon on the page? :)

  3. Re:Ski-Free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Great Operating System Games

    You can download it at the The Most Officialest SkiFree Home Page!.

  4. Re:I still have it. by Slisochies · · Score: 2, Informative · on Microsoft Discontinues Windows 3.x

    SkiFree

    http://ski.ihoc.net/

  5. Re:I still have it. by nmb3000 · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Microsoft Discontinues Windows 3.x

    On a funny level, I'm curious what you think is a useful application on windows 3.1 that we magically somehow don't have an equivalent of. What do you have in mind?

    One word (well, two words really, but only one when smashed together like marketing people like to do): SkiFree.

    Sure you can get a 32-bit version that runs under XP and even Vista, but come on! That's nothing like playing it the way it was meant to be played - 16 bits, 100% CPU usage, and Windows 3.1. Everything else is just a poor copy.

  6. Why I still use Windows(tm) by nawcom · · Score: 2, Informative · on The Very Worst Uses of Windows

    While I have joined the chorus of security folks who rail against the Microsoft Monoculture I still cannot believe some of the uses for Windows.

    Why do I still use Windows? Well its so I can get my little 32-bit Ski-Free fix. What is that you say? SkiFree works fine via Wine?

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1

  7. Re:"The franchise is dead, Jim." by Lost+Race · · Score: 2, Informative · on New Animated Star Trek In The Works

    "Get the cheese to sickbay. The doctor should look at it as soon as possible."

    Click on Mister Cheesey.

  8. Yeti chow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on Classic Game Endings Online
    Eaten by the yeti in SkiFree.

    Not a console game, but it is "16-bit".

  9. Yeti chow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on Classic Game Endings Online
    Eaten by the yeti in SkiFree.

    Not a console game, but it is "16-bit".

  10. Already been done by dmccarty · · Score: 0, Redundant · on Learning to Code with a Boardgame
    players must use simple logic similar to that used in programming to get their skier down the mountain.

    Hey, didn't Microsoft already come out with this?

  11. SkiFree! by sonixtwo · · Score: 5, Funny · on Learning to Code with a Boardgame

    Maybe some kid will figure out how to finally get past that damn monster!!

  12. Re:more of the same by Lost+Race · · Score: 1 · on HighDef Content to Require New Monitors
    Why I hate DVD encryption
    Art is a luxury, and I can live without it. I can definitely live without the crap art that some corporate executive thinks is so valuable that it has to be double encrypted and locked in an iron box with only a tiny peep-hole to let the consumer masses pay through the nose catch a glimpse of it.

    I don't give a rat's ass about copying movies. I'd never even bother to go to the trouble of copying a DVD. It's totally worth the $2 to me to rent the disc and watch it once. In the unlikely event I ever want to watch the movie again I'll pay another $2; the extremely rare movie I'd want to watch 10 times in my life, I'll gladly pay $20 for that. But because of the idiotic encryption and corporate-purchased federal laws and typically brain-dead packaged software, I'll never spend a cent on DVDs, either to rent or to buy.

  13. Re:The most important question- by Ark42 · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft to Launch 64-bit Windows on Monday


    Um... SkiFree

  14. IHOC Quake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Good Online FPS Games/Servers For Beginners?

    IHOC runs the best of Quake 1 mods ever released (Orange Mods) and their server admins take cheating seriously. Q1 is still the One Quake that rules them all.

  15. Re:what was the change? by Lost+Race · · Score: 1 · on Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability
    Easy linky patchy here.

    (2.4.22 and up break ACPI for me.)

  16. Re:Article title misleading... by Lost+Race · · Score: 2, Informative · on Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability
    I can't see how this applies to 2.2. In the new 2.4.24 patch to mremap, a new size of zero is explicitly allowed if new_addr==addr. In 2.2 there was no new_addr argument to mremap, so effectively new_addr==addr always. Is there a bug in 2.2's munmap that was fixed sometime in 2.3 or 2.4 but the fix never backported? That seems unlikely. I've examined 2.2.20 and 2.2.25 and they both look OK.

    For those of us who can't upgrade to the latest 2.4 kernels here is the mremap patch by itself. This applies cleanly to 2.4.21 and 2.4.22 (and probably most other 2.4 kernels as well).

  17. Re:Questions by Lost+Race · · Score: 1 · on Savannah Back Online With Extra Security
    Where's the rocketpacks? We were promised rocketpacks...
    Quake.ihoc.net! Rocketpacks for all since 1999.
  18. Re:The Monster3D memories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Video Card History

    Quake 1 with Orange mods is still the bomb. Go to IHOC and check out the servers.

  19. Re:SMP? RCU? by Lost+Race · · Score: 1 · on SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages
    As others have already pointed out, 0.27 is the version of the Linux SMP FAQ, not of the kernel. I know for a fact that Linux SMP predates the SMP FAQ, because I posted the first draft of the SMP FAQ to the Linux SMP mailing list. :) According to the kernel change logs the very first SMP support was added in 1.3.31:
    early SMP support. This is very much "test at your own risk" stuff, and I haven't really verified that it compiles. You'd better contact Alan about this if you're interested. Alan Cox.
    That particular change log seems to be dated 1995-10-04.

    I don't know much about Unix, but I would guess that comercial Unixes had SMP support long before that, since SMP was available in "server" systems long before it was available in commodity PC motherboards, and in those days (1995) it was commodity PC hardware that drove Linux development.

  20. Re:Is Quake Still Played? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Tenebrae Quake

    Er, make that right mods .

  21. Re:Is Quake Still Played? by John+Miles · · Score: 2 · on Tenebrae Quake

    With the right nods, Quake 1 still offers the best deathmatch experience, bar none.

    Give me infinite weapons and a well-tuned grappling hook any day over per-pixel shading. :)