There is another game based on the books with equally beautiful components. 'War of the Ring', it is for two players (can be tweaked for four players) and takes the focus of the game is shifted from the fellowship to the political and military actions of the free peoples versus Sauron and his allies. A bit on the pricy side, but the board is the biggest I have ever seen in a game, and there are lots of minis to represent armies and heroes.
I recently bought Ghost Recon (nice military style FPS at squad-level). To play online I needed to upgrade through a few patches. Once patched however, the game wouldn't even start! All it did was asking me to insert my original CD, which already was in the drive.
Thanks to a No-cd-"crack" I can now actually play the game I paid for.
>I can't stand those cubes with the jacks sticking >out the front like some afterthought, either - but >would it really be so hard to stick all those jacks >in a nice even row at the bottom of the case behind >a black rubber or felt gasket?
Why have the jacks along the bottom of the case? You'll only step on them (or put your elbow on them if you keep the box on your desk), breaking them. It would be better to keep the connectors along the top or even in the middle of the case.
Stability isn't really a factor when I chose desktop os anymore from win2k it is "good enough", but it is such a bother to hunt down, download and then install every single app that is needed that I stay on linux where I just dselect or whatever what I need. I rather spend 10 minutes tweaking the config for my uses than 10 minutes googling and searching for apps that do what I need.
I don't bother. I just press "start" on the printer when it wants me to insert US paper. Leaves a little strip unprinted at the bottom of each sheet, but not really a problem.
Most, if not all, the devices you mentioned above use electricity for their operation. If it were not for the malicious producers of electricity we would not have any of the problems with copyright infringements.
I think it is time that the electricity producers of the world take their responisbility and stop aiding the pirates!
The research and exploration of space is mainly driven by the prospect of one day having sex with aliens. I think the research on robots has similar motivations.
I installed sarge from cdrom the day before yesterday, and there are still a few usability issues to sort out. I ran in circles for five minutes trying to partition the HD, imo the old installer is way easier to use (although not as powerful).
And after the reboot the setup got stuck in an infinite loop when the dhcp failed to provide a good default route (small thing really, but still). An option to _not_ use dhcp would be nice or at least a confirmation that it is ok to use one if it is found.
Yupp. Sparcstation 5 (and 4 for that part), are really nice machines. I got one half a year ago and use it as webserver, quiet, stable and it runs Debian, what more could a man ask for?:-)
Minor setback is that they use SCSI-drives with SCA connectors, which are usually used in raid-setups, and carry a matching price.
Once the battery on the MB runs out and starts to leak it is no fun anymore. I have seen lots of 386 and 486 class machines where this has ruined the motherboard.
However if noticed in time the battery can be removed and replaced, extending the life of the machine ( I did this to my 486 that I bought in '95, still going strong.).
I and most of my friends don't really care much for localization of most DVDs. We studied English in school and as long as actors either speak English or have English subtitles we're fine.
At least when films are localized here in Sweden strange things happen, removed features and so on. So we usually make the extra effort to get the original release if it fills the criteria mentioned above.
I agree, a low power portable with a good keyboard and batteries that last a days worth of coding, writing, e-book reading or (Insert your prefered mostly idle activity here).
I don't really care if it is 100Mhz and has a monochrome screen, as long as it is fast enough to play mp3s from the local storage I'm fine. A serial port, USB and ethernet dito would be nice too.
Well, in the specs he said he wanted it to be a workstation AND a storage server. However, he didn't want to run Linux on it because of lack of drivers (Which I presume rules out the BSDs as well.), so he'll probably end up running some form of Windows on it.
So he basically built a windows workstation with lots of disks, guess the other users on the network will learn to hate the poor man who uses it when he reboots after every change in the configuration in the server, depriving them of access to the files.
I would have gone with a dedicated server, hid it in some closet somewhere and left it alone, and bought another workstation for the money saved on the server. (Give or take a few $100.)
Yeah, they were nice.. I still have the disks that came with my IBM AT, they truly sang when in use. Later I upgraded to some seagate 40MB drives, that wouldn't spin up properly, but if you powercycled the machine after the first failure the disks would still be spinning on the second boot and things worked just fine.
Good disks btw, you could hear the disks when new e-mail arrived.
Didn't see any mention of RTCW in the article, but it works great on Linux. You have to buy the Windows version and then download the linux binaries though.
On my system the Linux port is more playable than the Windows dito, as it doesn't crash and freeze randomly.
And for those who dislike the idea of yet more plastic in their wallets, Moneo can be incorporated onto their existing credit cards -- something that has never been tried outside of France. In fact, it's already been automatically added to 25 million credit cards that were up for renewal -- with the owners not always being aware of it, Fersztand said.
The Swedish CASH-card (which is pretty much the same as this French card) can be incorporated into credit/ATM-cards, and has been available in that format for several years.
It isn't any popular anyway. Since people don't like plastic money that can magically dissapear and cost money to spend. Regular money doesnät have this disadvantage.
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There is another game based on the books with equally beautiful components. 'War of the Ring', it is for two players (can be tweaked for four players) and takes the focus of the game is shifted from the fellowship to the political and military actions of the free peoples versus Sauron and his allies. A bit on the pricy side, but the board is the biggest I have ever seen in a game, and there are lots of minis to represent armies and heroes.
A totally different game but still.
I recently bought Ghost Recon (nice military style FPS at squad-level). To play online I needed to upgrade through a few patches. Once patched however, the game wouldn't even start! All it did was asking me to insert my original CD, which already was in the drive.
Thanks to a No-cd-"crack" I can now actually play the game I paid for.
>I can't stand those cubes with the jacks sticking
>out the front like some afterthought, either - but
>would it really be so hard to stick all those jacks
>in a nice even row at the bottom of the case behind
>a black rubber or felt gasket?
Why have the jacks along the bottom of the case? You'll only step on them (or put your elbow on them if you keep the box on your desk), breaking them. It would be better to keep the connectors along the top or even in the middle of the case.
Stability isn't really a factor when I chose desktop os anymore from win2k it is "good enough", but it is such a bother to hunt down, download and then install every single app that is needed that I stay on linux where I just dselect or whatever what I need. I rather spend 10 minutes tweaking the config for my uses than 10 minutes googling and searching for apps that do what I need.
I don't bother. I just press "start" on the printer when it wants me to insert US paper. Leaves a little strip unprinted at the bottom of each sheet, but not really a problem.
Most, if not all, the devices you mentioned above use electricity for their operation. If it were not for the malicious producers of electricity we would not have any of the problems with copyright infringements.
I think it is time that the electricity producers of the world take their responisbility and stop aiding the pirates!
The research and exploration of space is mainly driven by the prospect of one day having sex with aliens. I think the research on robots has similar motivations.
I installed sarge from cdrom the day before yesterday, and there are still a few usability issues to sort out. I ran in circles for five minutes trying to partition the HD, imo the old installer is way easier to use (although not as powerful).
And after the reboot the setup got stuck in an infinite loop when the dhcp failed to provide a good default route (small thing really, but still). An option to _not_ use dhcp would be nice or at least a confirmation that it is ok to use one if it is found.
Ferrarii? :-)
So... basically.. some people pay for the privilige of betatesting the release before it becomes available for free?
I guess Mandrake has to be something really extra for that scheme to work out.
http://www.laecherli.ch/Documents/scared.pdf
Yupp. Sparcstation 5 (and 4 for that part), are really nice machines. I got one half a year ago and use it as webserver, quiet, stable and it runs Debian, what more could a man ask for? :-)
Minor setback is that they use SCSI-drives with SCA connectors, which are usually used in raid-setups, and carry a matching price.
Once the battery on the MB runs out and starts to leak it is no fun anymore. I have seen lots of 386 and 486 class machines where this has ruined the motherboard.
However if noticed in time the battery can be removed and replaced, extending the life of the machine ( I did this to my 486 that I bought in '95, still going strong.).
That has happened...
I built myself a 4-joystick adapter for my amiga and then I brought some friends over for beer and retrogaming.
I and most of my friends don't really care much for localization of most DVDs. We studied English in school and as long as actors either speak English or have English subtitles we're fine.
At least when films are localized here in Sweden strange things happen, removed features and so on. So we usually make the extra effort to get the original release if it fills the criteria mentioned above.
My fastest machine is a 750Mhz Athtlon with an old GeForce2. Plays Enemy Territory just fine. So it doesn't really require that a fast computer.
I agree, a low power portable with a good keyboard and batteries that last a days worth of coding, writing, e-book reading or (Insert your prefered mostly idle activity here).
I don't really care if it is 100Mhz and has a monochrome screen, as long as it is fast enough to play mp3s from the local storage I'm fine. A serial port, USB and ethernet dito would be nice too.
Well, in the specs he said he wanted it to be a workstation AND a storage server. However, he didn't want to run Linux on it because of lack of drivers (Which I presume rules out the BSDs as well.), so he'll probably end up running some form of Windows on it.
So he basically built a windows workstation with lots of disks, guess the other users on the network will learn to hate the poor man who uses it when he reboots after every change in the configuration in the server, depriving them of access to the files.
I would have gone with a dedicated server, hid it in some closet somewhere and left it alone, and bought another workstation for the money saved on the server. (Give or take a few $100.)
I have this monochrome HP 700RX x-terminal set up by my bed, the worlds biggest xmms-remote-control. :-)
Couldn't find any year on the terminal itself, but the matching monitor says 1992.
I type this on a clickety IBM-keyboard, assembled in May 1989.
For your own sanitys sake get cygwin, and if you have a decent connection to the Internet get the XFree86 port running or install XWin32.
Looks like a 500GB fileserver to me. :-)
Not very big, propably rather silent, has 100Mbit ethernet, now all we need is someone that hacks it.
Yeah, they were nice.. I still have the disks that came with my IBM AT, they truly sang when in use. Later I upgraded to some seagate 40MB drives, that wouldn't spin up properly, but if you powercycled the machine after the first failure the disks would still be spinning on the second boot and things worked just fine.
Good disks btw, you could hear the disks when new e-mail arrived.
Didn't see any mention of RTCW in the article, but it works great on Linux. You have to buy the Windows version and then download the linux binaries though.
On my system the Linux port is more playable than the Windows dito, as it doesn't crash and freeze randomly.
To your .emacs add: ;; Get ()-matching
(require 'paren)
(show-paren-mode 1)
It's free, now go and spend that money on beer and pizza instead.
The Swedish CASH-card (which is pretty much the same as this French card) can be incorporated into credit/ATM-cards, and has been available in that format for several years.
It isn't any popular anyway. Since people don't like plastic money that can magically dissapear and cost money to spend. Regular money doesnät have this disadvantage.