I've heard many people complain that the windows gui sucks, and that linux wm's that try to replicate its look suck by association.
However, I've never heard a good explanation as to why it sucks?
The same design concept is carried through most of the shell (with IE5 this became IE centric, but its not *that* bad, dont get me wrong, i hate ms too, but i'm not stupid about it)
-the task bar holds a lot of easy to access information (apps running, system tray, start menu)
-the start menu can be nicely customized (even further with the tweak utils).
-You can choose between an iconified desktop, and active desktop(blech) or no desktop at all (with the tweak utils).
-It's responsive in the tactile sense (buttons etc)
I'm sure someone could make a nice list of win9x gui foibles, but you could make a list twice as long for each of the popular window managers. Everyone knows M$ 'borrowed' a lot of its best gui features from the mac, and theres no reason X wm's shouldn't incorporate the same great features.
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This shows a big problem with the concept of open source games. Back in the days of doom, there was dehacked, and I remember playing my friend in a modem game with my hacked exe loaded (i was using the ol superwep7 mod) so I had 10x firespeed and unlimited ammo, it was good for a laugh, and in an hour, we were both using the hack for a new twist on gameplay. But with quake1 opensource now, its barely a challenge to hack up your client to give you extra health points, more damage, etc. One could make it very subtle and go undetected, which is really a shame. Many people still play qw, its a great game (especialy a weekend game of creeper ctf =]) Looks like Carmacks gift to the Q1 community may be what finaly kills it in the end =[
First, the story is from may, so it doesnt even count for xmas in july... Second, what is stronghold and why didnt they use apache? Was stronghold a release name for an old apache version? am I missing something? They used IIS which is standard for NT, isn't apache the standard for linux servers? I'm sure had they used MSFrontPage Personal WebServer for their NT benchmarks, the scores would have been more comparitive. Ah well, standard benchcraft from the king of benchcrafting.
The ~3k avg temp in space would be ideal for overclocking! I wonder if there has been any attempts at quake in space...Call up the Grays and lets have a lan party!! NightHawk
All the fools beleiving they can strike it rich by buying up all the linux*.com domains are wasting their time. All the best sites have names that have no relation to linux or are totaly off the wall (slashdot, freshmeat, etc,etc). You'd be better off with a team of crack monkeys pounding at keyboards if you were trying to get a valuable domainname for a linux site =] Its the content that makes the site, not the name. NightHawk
After linuxone tanks, you can pickup a truckload of stocks dirt cheap for novelty value... I can't wait to tell the women at the bar "yeah, I own 10,000 shares of linux stock, wanna see my 'Rol3x'?"
there was some way he could use some part of the linux kernel for the embeded part translating the input, he could rightfuly put linux into his companies name, IPO, and have his own hawaiin island in no time!
I can't wait for the onslaught of "I have linux7, and I want to do X, I asked my l33t_h4x0r_fr13nd@aol.com how to do it, but he only has linux 6.1, so he didnt know how to do it, can someone help me" =P The security levels sound cool, I like the idea of being able to install a distribution and not spend a great deal of time cleaning up gaping holes in security like one would have to do with most stock installs of many distributions. I can't wait to get it and check out all the new features =] Time to load up my list of favorite mirrors...
I've always believed that "Self mutilation is *NOT* an effective form of rebellion". In the 60's it was growing your hair long, in the 90's it was cutting off limbs and putting holes all over your body. I'm going to start a new trend of leaving my body the way it is naturaly (art in nature, right?)...until million_dollar_man style equipment is available of course... NightHawk
Will this have any impact for mods such as generations? Is artwork, levels, models etc still considerd to be property of the publisher? It would be nice to see some of the oldy and goody quake1 maps ported to q3 without any legal hangups. We're all in search of the perfect game when it comes to that, and I'd love to have at it on e1m7 with all the new tech of q3.
Is that hotmail ran solaris before the MS takeover, at which point MS tried to switch to a NT solution and found that NT wasnt able to deal with the load as well as solaris was, so they stuck with solaris. FreeBSD may have some place at hotmail, but I'm pretty sure solaris has the primary role.
if this is true, then NSI's statement that he was not a customer (and therefor they could do nothing for him) is untrue. Since this chum seems to be into the domain speculation game, I don't feel at all sorry for him, but I really hate that NSI can be so arrogant in these situations.
He claims any kid playing quake is learning the same reflexes and skills as a police officer...how does he figure? in quake, as soon as I see something move, I fire off a rocket at it, with all the lead necisary tohit said target. A cop however, is trained to identify a target, determine if the target is armed, and then must decide the threat level of said target before firing, with little "lead", using his hand gun. How exactly are these two actions identicle? Don't worry, I dont see it either.
If the world leaders are foolish enough to go through with this, in 10 years we are gunna have giant green slime blobs on the comedy channel making fun of the way white people talk. =P
this is similar to the case of the website www.andylives.com which is a marketing site which was disguised as a fan site, with a forum where marketers posted posing as andy kaufman fans. The scam was eventualy figured out by some questioning readers. I found out about this on www.oldmanmurray.com and felt exactly the same was as they did about the whole thing. I think the next step in marketing is marketers will not even know a thing about their product, and will just make up the craziest stuff they can. "This pentium4 can hold 7.64 jigaherts of megabits"
That at the time, the only country that produced titanium in the quantity that was needed was the soviet union, so they setup a front company somewhere to purchase the stuff. So the plane that the soviets could not stop was made from soviet materials.... =]
in that case, I am only willing to pay 22$ a share for VA stock, and I think everyone else should make it clear that they only want to pay 22$ too, that way at market open, we can all score some shares for the lovely price of 22$, and all make a nice profit when the market sees the "linux" part and drives it to some insane amount. =]
Perhaps this is why smarter people often have poor handwriting (doctors for example) and often bad spelling. This could be related to a smarter persons enhanced ability to decode information, which would make following a strict form of handwriting or spelling less useful to them because they will still be able to retrieve the information either way, and its quicker to write sloppy =] I think perhaps if I ever visit my old highschool I will adress this point to my old english teachers.
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I've heard many people complain that the windows gui sucks, and that linux wm's that try to replicate its look suck by association.
However, I've never heard a good explanation as to why it sucks?
The same design concept is carried through most of the shell (with IE5 this became IE centric, but its not *that* bad, dont get me wrong, i hate ms too, but i'm not stupid about it)
-standardized key combos (cntrl-c copy, ctrl-v paste etc)
-one can get around fairly well without a mouse
-the task bar holds a lot of easy to access information (apps running, system tray, start menu)
-the start menu can be nicely customized (even further with the tweak utils).
-You can choose between an iconified desktop, and active desktop(blech) or no desktop at all (with the tweak utils).
-It's responsive in the tactile sense (buttons etc)
I'm sure someone could make a nice list of win9x gui foibles, but you could make a list twice as long for each of the popular window managers. Everyone knows M$ 'borrowed' a lot of its best gui features from the mac, and theres no reason X wm's shouldn't incorporate the same great features.
NightHawk
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This shows a big problem with the concept of open source games. Back in the days of doom, there was dehacked, and I remember playing my friend in a modem game with my hacked exe loaded (i was using the ol superwep7 mod) so I had 10x firespeed and unlimited ammo, it was good for a laugh, and in an hour, we were both using the hack for a new twist on gameplay. But with quake1 opensource now, its barely a challenge to hack up your client to give you extra health points, more damage, etc. One could make it very subtle and go undetected, which is really a shame. Many people still play qw, its a great game (especialy a weekend game of creeper ctf =])
Looks like Carmacks gift to the Q1 community may be what finaly kills it in the end =[
First, the story is from may, so it doesnt even count for xmas in july...
Second, what is stronghold and why didnt they use apache? Was stronghold a release name for an old apache version? am I missing something? They used IIS which is standard for NT, isn't apache the standard for linux servers?
I'm sure had they used MSFrontPage Personal WebServer for their NT benchmarks, the scores would have been more comparitive.
Ah well, standard benchcraft from the king of benchcrafting.
Merry Xmas!
NH
The ~3k avg temp in space would be ideal for overclocking!
I wonder if there has been any attempts at quake in space...Call up the Grays and lets have a lan party!!
NightHawk
All the fools beleiving they can strike it rich by buying up all the linux*.com domains are wasting their time. All the best sites have names that have no relation to linux or are totaly off the wall (slashdot, freshmeat, etc ,etc).
You'd be better off with a team of crack monkeys pounding at keyboards if you were trying to get a valuable domainname for a linux site =]
Its the content that makes the site, not the name. NightHawk
After linuxone tanks, you can pickup a truckload of stocks dirt cheap for novelty value...
I can't wait to tell the women at the bar "yeah, I own 10,000 shares of linux stock, wanna see my 'Rol3x'?"
there was some way he could use some part of the linux kernel for the embeded part translating the input, he could rightfuly put linux into his companies name, IPO, and have his own hawaiin island in no time!
I can't wait for the onslaught of "I have linux7, and I want to do X, I asked my l33t_h4x0r_fr13nd@aol.com how to do it, but he only has linux 6.1, so he didnt know how to do it, can someone help me" =P
The security levels sound cool, I like the idea of being able to install a distribution and not spend a great deal of time cleaning up gaping holes in security like one would have to do with most stock installs of many distributions. I can't wait to get it and check out all the new features =]
Time to load up my list of favorite mirrors...
NightHawk
I've always believed that "Self mutilation is *NOT* an effective form of rebellion". In the 60's it was growing your hair long, in the 90's it was cutting off limbs and putting holes all over your body. I'm going to start a new trend of leaving my body the way it is naturaly (art in nature, right?)...until million_dollar_man style equipment is available of course... NightHawk
Will this have any impact for mods such as generations? Is artwork, levels, models etc still considerd to be property of the publisher? It would be nice to see some of the oldy and goody quake1 maps ported to q3 without any legal hangups. We're all in search of the perfect game when it comes to that, and I'd love to have at it on e1m7 with all the new tech of q3.
Is that hotmail ran solaris before the MS takeover, at which point MS tried to switch to a NT solution and found that NT wasnt able to deal with the load as well as solaris was, so they stuck with solaris. FreeBSD may have some place at hotmail, but I'm pretty sure solaris has the primary role.
if this is true, then NSI's statement that he was not a customer (and therefor they could do nothing for him) is untrue. Since this chum seems to be into the domain speculation game, I don't feel at all sorry for him, but I really hate that NSI can be so arrogant in these situations.
He claims any kid playing quake is learning the same reflexes and skills as a police officer...how does he figure? in quake, as soon as I see something move, I fire off a rocket at it, with all the lead necisary tohit said target. A cop however, is trained to identify a target, determine if the target is armed, and then must decide the threat level of said target before firing, with little "lead", using his hand gun. How exactly are these two actions identicle? Don't worry, I dont see it either.
If the world leaders are foolish enough to go through with this, in 10 years we are gunna have giant green slime blobs on the comedy channel making fun of the way white people talk. =P
That page seems to have been taken down, any mirrors available?
I beleive the fitting comment for a story such as this would be "Last Post!"
=]
this is similar to the case of the website www.andylives.com which is a marketing site which was disguised as a fan site, with a forum where marketers posted posing as andy kaufman fans. The scam was eventualy figured out by some questioning readers. I found out about this on www.oldmanmurray.com and felt exactly the same was as they did about the whole thing. I think the next step in marketing is marketers will not even know a thing about their product, and will just make up the craziest stuff they can. "This pentium4 can hold 7.64 jigaherts of megabits"
That at the time, the only country that produced titanium in the quantity that was needed was the soviet union, so they setup a front company somewhere to purchase the stuff. So the plane that the soviets could not stop was made from soviet materials.... =]
in that case, I am only willing to pay 22$ a share for VA stock, and I think everyone else should make it clear that they only want to pay 22$ too, that way at market open, we can all score some shares for the lovely price of 22$, and all make a nice profit when the market sees the "linux" part and drives it to some insane amount. =]
Perhaps this is why smarter people often have poor handwriting (doctors for example) and often bad spelling. This could be related to a smarter persons enhanced ability to decode information, which would make following a strict form of handwriting or spelling less useful to them because they will still be able to retrieve the information either way, and its quicker to write sloppy =] I think perhaps if I ever visit my old highschool I will adress this point to my old english teachers.