I have 7 Internet-connected personal machines at the house (7 Linux boxes, 1 Wintendo), and one Linux laptop is connected to a 5.1 surround system in the office.
Every machine on the network (with the exception of the Wintendo) can play audio over the network through the 5.1 surround system via Pulseaudio, with no appreciable loss of sound quality.
I can sit on the couch with a wireless-enabled laptop and play music from the headless file storage machine through the 5.1 surround system remotely.
OpenArena, Warzone 2100, Urquan Masters, and Frozen Bubble should top your list of Linux games. Also check out Urban Terror, it is a close analog of CounterStrike.
The Wesnoth game I have never played, but am going to check it out right now
It's a bit like suggesting you can sell parts of your land (real-estate) under the table, without notifying the county records office of the sale..
The problem is... there's a registered owner (or deed holder). And having someone tell you that you can use some IP addresses is useless unless you can get traffic to them.
I lease my business space from a person who has the entire parcel under a 99-year lease from the family estate that actually holds deed on the property.
Went to the dentist recently to have one wisdom tooth and one molar pulled. The wisdom tooth was giving me trouble and the molar had an old filling from a Navy dentist in the early 90's. They gassed me, gave IV anesthesia, and pulled both teeth. I woke up in the waiting room with my wife and went home.
We have Blue Cross 80% coverage and pay our premiums on time, every time. Now the dentist is fighting with the insurance company over trying to collect for the anesthesia.
Apparently the insurance company believes that pulling teeth does not require anesthetic.
Yep, and you can get them cheap, by the pallet even.
Me and a friend picked up 5 P4 boxes from a local defense contractor, minus memory and hard drives, for the price of $0 (we just had to go pick them up).
Put a half gig of memory and a 40 gig hard drive in each of the 2 that were in marketable condition and sold them for $100 apiece locally.
After roughly 4 hours total, between picking the machines up, eBay for some cheap memory and storage, doing a quick install using the COA numbers on the case stickers. and listing them in the Buy/Sell, our numbers were like so:
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I bought the game at $0.01 two hundred times.
Does that count as paying $2.00 ?
It beats a "sneak preview" of Steve Ballmer's chair flying toward your head.
I read that article, and Kim sounds like my kind of dictator.
Kim Jong Il in 2012!!!
Pulseaudio rocks IMO.
I have 7 Internet-connected personal machines at the house (7 Linux boxes, 1 Wintendo), and one Linux laptop is connected to a 5.1 surround system in the office.
Every machine on the network (with the exception of the Wintendo) can play audio over the network through the 5.1 surround system via Pulseaudio, with no appreciable loss of sound quality.
I can sit on the couch with a wireless-enabled laptop and play music from the headless file storage machine through the 5.1 surround system remotely.
We've come a long way, baby.
Yeah, I wouldn't let him date my sister either.
No telling what the sick bastard would do if he had a cardboard tube.
Is that a candy bar in your pocket, or are you just happy see this movie?
We should get rid of all those useless delimiters NOW!
Programming languages are full of them, think of how much more productive programmers could be if they weren't typing all those DAMNED DELIMITERS!!!
DAMNIT!!!
Wesnoth rules.
Me and my wife are playing a game of it right now.
Her 10 minute turns leave plenty of time for news reading :)
I don't mind the idea of people downloading "copyrighted" software for free for personal use, or to give free copies to friends and family.
I also don't mind some asshat getting busted for selling bootlegs. Those people are proof that the gene pool has a filter.
OpenArena, Warzone 2100, Urquan Masters, and Frozen Bubble should top your list of Linux games. Also check out Urban Terror, it is a close analog of CounterStrike.
The Wesnoth game I have never played, but am going to check it out right now
At which point savvy Internet users set up their own spidering search engines such as ADP on an old P4 box and let them run wild.
Speaking of which, does anybody know of a decent open source indexing spider script? ADP is o.k., but has trouble with ham vs spam.
Wow, that's rough.
It's a bit like suggesting you can sell parts of your land (real-estate) under the table, without notifying the county records office of the sale.. The problem is... there's a registered owner (or deed holder). And having someone tell you that you can use some IP addresses is useless unless you can get traffic to them.
I lease my business space from a person who has the entire parcel under a 99-year lease from the family estate that actually holds deed on the property.
Why not sublet IP address space?
They took our jerbs!
If you think I'm joking, watch the kind of legislation the entertainment lobbies put their weight behind.
I would much rather put a weighty foot in their behinds.
Yes.
BAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
It is no longer called a "keyboard".
It is now known as a "skeet catcher".
Get with the times, man.
True dat.
Went to the dentist recently to have one wisdom tooth and one molar pulled. The wisdom tooth was giving me trouble and the molar had an old filling from a Navy dentist in the early 90's. They gassed me, gave IV anesthesia, and pulled both teeth. I woke up in the waiting room with my wife and went home.
We have Blue Cross 80% coverage and pay our premiums on time, every time. Now the dentist is fighting with the insurance company over trying to collect for the anesthesia.
Apparently the insurance company believes that pulling teeth does not require anesthetic.
Or rather, they pretend to believe it.
"... intends to use the HPC system -- called Dash -- to develop new diseases for cures...
There, fixed that for ya.
Most of my behavior with handkerchiefs is decidedly anti-social.
Has anyone else had similar experiences?
What is the delivery vector for getting a cellphone to your 0-year-old kid?
Do you go in through the vagina?
I've seen plenty of obstacles in place to route/control footfall traffic, but none that I can think of to speed up egress. You have examples of those?
Pitbulls. Lots and lots of pitbulls.
Yep, and you can get them cheap, by the pallet even.
Me and a friend picked up 5 P4 boxes from a local defense contractor, minus memory and hard drives, for the price of $0 (we just had to go pick them up).
Put a half gig of memory and a 40 gig hard drive in each of the 2 that were in marketable condition and sold them for $100 apiece locally.
After roughly 4 hours total, between picking the machines up, eBay for some cheap memory and storage, doing a quick install using the COA numbers on the case stickers. and listing them in the Buy/Sell, our numbers were like so:
Total cost to us: ~$45 and 4 hours
Total profit: ~$155
She should have registered the domain with a non-US registrar and made the info private, and hosted it on a non-US web service.
True dat.
Something that I learned by watching preachers, police, and politicians is this:
True evil doesn't advertise.