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Like Netscape? (possibly the biggest memory-sieve I've ever experienced)

Get lost, troll.

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Also, I recently bought Civ:CTP, and there's a patch on Loki's web site that includes a PPC binary.

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So, does anyone know if XFS is better at resisting fragmentation than ext2?

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It's only a matter of time before Linux does to Windows what the PC did to the Mac. The Mac, in the late 80s/early 90s was a quite obviously superior piece of hardware to your run-of-the-mill PC. But it cost a lot more. The mass market went for the cheaper alternative, because the case for the Mac was not sufficiently compelling to make up for the higher cost.

The same thing is about to happen to Windows.

As soon as hardware vendors think they can get away with it (read: as soon as Linux will allow people to deal with Word documents and play some games), they will bundle Linux instead of Windows, to try to get that extra edge on the competition. It will save them $40-80 per unit, a not-inconsiderable sum in the razor-thin-margin PC market.

Think about the following trends:

• KDE moving to version 2.0 and including an office suite
• The beginnings of mainstream gaming support
• Corel's end-user Linux distribution
• Very-low-end clone vendors beginning to ship Linux as their default OS

The preloads are coming; it's just a matter of time.

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Who said it was? Jesse Berst? You're supposed to ignore him, anyhow. People love to rant and rave about things the "Linux community" is supposedly doing. 9 times out of 10, though, the "Linux community" is doing no such thing.

Linus has said he is interested in improving Linux's scalablity; he certainly hasn't said that Linux can be used on massive machines now. He also has said repeatedly that his core interest is the desktop.

Linux will be eventually scale up pretty far, but, yes, for the time being, Solaris is the way to go for relatively high-end stuff.

Of course, the Sun machines I work with run what would be more accrately described as GNU/Solaris... :-)

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I think you and I are not the only ones who have become frustrated by the shortcomings of MMRPGs. MMRPGs are far from ideal because:

1. Anonymity encourages (or at least does not discourage) disruptive behavior. I'm part of a pen-and-paper AD&D group. If someone were disruptive to the group, we'd ask them to leave. There is no such incentive when people pay you to be on their server. Even putting aside the PKing (which is a real problem, especially on UO), UO and EQ seem to be largely devoid of role-playing, and are more like irc with pictures.
2. Server lag seems to be an inevitable part of MMRPG-ing. I have friends who took a liking to Everquest. They felt that the massive scale of EQ would prevent the kind of lag seen in Ultima Online. Still, they play sometimes at 2 AM to avoid server lag.
3. Campaigns/plots do not really exist in MMRPGs, because there is not a DM available to run such a campaign. When you pay to spend 4 hours/day fishing, I'd say there's a plot problem.
4. Monthly fees, even if they're low, is still a drag.

This will allow me to play AD&D with gaming friends who have moved away. For this reason alone, I am anxiously awaiting this game. I hope they announce a ship date soon.

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Unfortunately for IBM, what they didn't know was that Microsoft was working *heavily* on Windows in the meantime, and was using OS/2 as a decoy, to throw everyone off, so that they could use their preload power to dominate the OS *and* applications markets.

Some more OS/2 info (subject to the limitations of my memory): OS/2 1.0 was CLI-only, and was released in 1987. OS/2 1.x, released in 1989(?), introduced the Presentation Manager GUI, which was similar to the Windows 3.x interface. Early versions of OS/2 had a 16-bit architecture, and were released in two versions: one specifically for PS/2-based machines, and one for standard PC-compatibles.

OS/2 2.0, introduced in 1992, was partially 32-bit, and was the first IBM-only release of OS/2. It introduced the Workplace Shell, the object-oriented GUI you often hear old OS/2 users (like me) rave about. It also introduced the Win-OS/2 subsystem, which allowed the use of 16-bit Windows programs under OS/2.

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I've been waiting for a game like this for a long, long time. Particularly one that lets you run your own server and DM your own campaign.

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Oh, knock off the trolling. Republicans have practically nothing in common with Libertarians, as their philosophy is completely different. As for the handful of Libertarians who have run as Republicans, well, there are about as many who have run as Democrats.

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By repeatedly voting for Republicans and Democrats, the American people have advocated this kind of war on the Constitution. And everyone here that has continued to vote for members of these two parties is a co-conspirator.

The *only* way you're going to stop this rush towards fascism is to stop voting for these fools, and to start voting Libertarian, and to get your friends to do the same. Even if you don't support every Libertarian position, you will at least begin to counter-balance the always-pro-regulation fascists who infest our governments.

As one prominent Libertarian likes to say:

If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.

Insanity is defined as expecting different results from the same actions. Currently, the voting public is displaying insanity.

Stop it now. Start the change.

Thank you for this opportunity to advocate. Now back to your regular /. discussion

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