>PS: Also IMHO, snipers are cheaters by definition, even without using any added cheats. There should be two kind of mods: >one with snipers and other without.
hey have you ever player DOD? the snipers rifles there are a pain in the butt to use, just like in real life. not much of cheating (and not very popular due to poor fraggin). But I still only play as a sniper for its fun as hell.
Snipers in CS and UrT are a shame tough. Makes everybody play like if they were little rabbits jumping around. Totally unrealistic, when the hell would you see someone jumping around and firing an M4 (and hitting...) bleh.
no dude, lets see how long USA will stand wihtout ripping other countries resources. not long, I bet. thats why its not gonna happen, but i would love if that happened. at least *my* country would be free of these ripoffs.
the thing is, when it comes to mp3 sharing, nothing beats the napster protocol. I had tried gnutella, but with gnutella you can just see the file size, not the kbps and audio length, and you end up downloading a bunch of crap. With napster you always see the real deal before you decide to dload it. Gotta love it. Shame there are almost no server in USA these days (wonder why;-).
eeeek, I should have mentioned, the higher CPU usage makes the map drawing slower on the vista... thats the reason I usually turn it off. Also, 3-meter accuracy while moving at 100km/h is pretty useless.
The key point is, why the hell would I pay for new music since it is all a bunch of crap? I'd rather stick to my beloved old zeppelin, purple, iron maiden, hendrix, joplin, who, etc, etc, etc ripped albuns than to pay RIAA for this new shit.
And, of course, if I happen to like some song I hear, there is always the new underground italian napster to get it. I also will never buy a fscking CD again. If I want to support some artist, i'll attend to a concert or something, but it's rare in this place:-P
Actually, most units have a 12-channel parallell receiver, so it can do a pretty job and narrow your position within 9 meters. 4-channel GPS units are things of the past (or used sometimes when size matters more than accuracy).
Also, there are a "new" addition to the GPS system called WAAS (wide-area-augmentation-system) which uses differente sattelites (this ones being geo-stationary) to send differentials information about the GPS's sattellites signals. This way, a civilian WAAS-enabled unit like mine (garmin etrex vista) can have an accuracy of about 3 meters, in theory. I find WAAS pretty dodgy and dont tend to use it much because of higher battery comsumption and higer CPU usage, for a small improvement in the accuracy (I mostly use the GPS in the car, so...)
eh, I don't have any of this in my resumè, and surely have never applied for a typical office job in my life. I'm a fscking coder dammit! (but it says "Systems Engineer", just for fanciness;-)
And about your point, there is no big difference between office 97 and staroffice 5.2, which I have installed in my laptop. Other day I needed to do some shit in a worksheet, and had no idea how to do it. So I called some excel expert (secretary) to help me with the crap (actually it was not that complicated, just some filtering) and she didn't even notice that she was using starcalc and not excel. I haven't used excel since the old windoze 3.1 days, but I think SO is a pretty good rip-off of M$ office. And costs nil too;-)
> Being the smart person that you are you would have installed ext3 or ReiserFS and hitting reset wouldn't have caused > any damage or loss at all.
Man you are so wrong. If you hit reset while you have a reiserfs volume mounted (ext3 as well) you will likely end up losing a handful of files (happened to me some times, stupid reset button, now its unplugged).
The proper thing to bail out of such a situation is to build your kernel with "Magic SysReq" and then hit alt+printscreen+s,u,b to make it sync its buffers before rebooting.
Reiser and ext3 only journals metadata, folks, not data. Don't expect to not lose data by hitting the damn reset button or in a sudden power outage. Use no-breaks and NEVER reset the box if the console hangs or the kernel panics. Magic SysRQ is your best friend.
Sounds cool, but I'll stick to my cheapo zoom 707/2, which has a bunch of effects and electronic drums, cool for practicing.
Even if I would dare to plug guitar/amp to my laptop, the zoom is smaller, and has that ZNR thing which is pretty much necessary for my old cheapo strato guitar.
BTW, since we're talking about axes here, just got one very good for heavy-metal/rock, a kramer baretta. pretty cheap and sounds pretty good (it is an one-piece guitar, fretboard and body are the same piece of wood). If you're into rock ya may consider test-driving one of those.
really? please show me where to get it (since I could not find it in ATIs website last time I checked, they simply said to use GATOS, which is useless for gaming)
I have a notebook with a radeon 7500 mobile, I think I could be able to play Urban Terror in it (no, the lappy is pure linux, no windoze partition). I wish it was some geforce*go, but certain things cannot be chosen (it's a compaq). Being able to play at the laptop instead of lugging my huge (and always semi-dismantled) desktop around would be cool.
I concur it must be kinda useless for a desktop/notebook, but it is pretty cool software for a touchscreen environment like Opie. So don't dismiss it so fast, dude.
Yeah, but P3 has some architechtural limitations that prevent it to scale in clock, thats why they did the P4. It sucks, but it can be clocked up to 4GHz because of it insanely long pipelines. But this is the reason that it sucks too, too damn long pipelines are no good.
Not exactly OSS, but some free (as in beer) mods are pretty darn good and outlived the original games they run on top of.
Counter-Strike (half-life, old as hell and still the most played) Day Of Defeat (half-life, very cool gameplay, but seems to push HL engine a bit) Urban Terror (quake 3, runs even on linux and IMO kicks counter-strike's ass into oblivion, and is developed by an independent team)
The more it comes easier to write mods for the new engines the more these mods will proliferate. Some may even be OSS.
Altough it is a bit of a letdown because they say the SD cards don't work under linux (argh just bought a 128MB one for MP3s and maps). What a crap. MMC cards need a jacket on the IPAQ, expensive a/thing, and makes the damn thing fatter. Also, an SD card is cheaper than the jacket+MMC card, and it is pretty slick.
Think i'm gonna hold this linux-on-ipaq adventure until the SD memory cards get some kind of support. Also, the support for the XScale seems pretty crappy at the moment too. Think getting the ARM one was not that bad of a deal at all;-)
Hell, my lame ARM-based ipaq seems already outdated (2 months)...
At least it can run linux (not that I had the guts to try it yet).
Does anyone know if there is a working distro (and GCC) for the XScale IPAQs (3900 and newer)? Never heard about this XScale thing before, so I assume it is a new architechture. PPC seems fair game, since there is already GCC for it.
Altough, it is the market that will decide wether they will be sucessful or not. For example, say you have two choices of hardware to buy, one is the Xbox, with all the DRM crap enabled, and the other is some taiwanese clone, with no DRM or restrictions, and also a lot cheaper. What would you choose? Notice that this is already happening with DVD players, "good-brand" ones come with RPC, but "el-cheapo" taiwanese ones comes with no RPC, or sometimes with some easily-disabled RPC, just pro-forma. And they usually work (and sell) pretty well.
I think as soon the Xbox is popular enough, some clones will start to appear, or, if computing power is enough, MAME will let us play xbox games. It's all a matter of time.
As for this kind of crap becoming a standard for computers (Palladium), just imagine what would you choose as your computing platform: USA/M$ controlled hardware running WindowsPalladium(TM) or some ASUS board running Linux,BSD or whatever else you throw on it? Looks like an easy choice to me, but others may disagree.
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dude, APIC is perfectly supported on linux for a long time. For example, you need APIC to run a MP system.
:-P)
what still quirks is ACPI, a totally different beast. But its getting better and better...
BTW : APIC = advanced programmable interrupt controller
ACPI = advanced control power interface (or something like that
cheers.
actually, the weapon is really called AWM (arctic warfare magnum) rifle.
I really dunno why ppl call it AWP in CS. anynone has a clue?
cheers.
>PS: Also IMHO, snipers are cheaters by definition, even without using any added cheats. There should be two kind of mods:
>one with snipers and other without.
hey have you ever player DOD? the snipers rifles there are a pain in the butt to use, just like in real life. not much
of cheating (and not very popular due to poor fraggin). But I still only play as a sniper for its fun as hell.
Snipers in CS and UrT are a shame tough. Makes everybody play like if they were little rabbits jumping around. Totally
unrealistic, when the hell would you see someone jumping around and firing an M4 (and hitting...) bleh.
cheers
no dude, lets see how long USA will stand wihtout ripping other countries
resources. not long, I bet. thats why its not gonna happen, but i would
love if that happened. at least *my* country would be free of these
ripoffs.
cheers
looks sweet, but...
"shareaza is available for windows"
pretty much leaves me out.
any OSS version around?
cheers
well, most servers on www.napigator.com are from italy / eastern europe.
;-).
check them:
http://www.napigator.com/servers/
the thing is, when it comes to mp3 sharing, nothing beats the napster protocol.
I had tried gnutella, but with gnutella you can just see the file size, not the
kbps and audio length, and you end up downloading a bunch of crap.
With napster you always see the real deal before you decide to dload it. Gotta
love it. Shame there are almost no server in USA these days (wonder why
cheers
eeeek, I should have mentioned, the higher CPU usage makes the map drawing slower on the
vista... thats the reason I usually turn it off. Also, 3-meter accuracy while moving
at 100km/h is pretty useless.
cheers.
Amem, brother
:-P
The key point is, why the hell would I pay for new music since it is all a bunch of crap? I'd rather
stick to my beloved old zeppelin, purple, iron maiden, hendrix, joplin, who, etc, etc, etc ripped
albuns than to pay RIAA for this new shit.
And, of course, if I happen to like some song I hear, there is always the new underground italian napster
to get it. I also will never buy a fscking CD again. If I want to support some artist, i'll attend to a
concert or something, but it's rare in this place
cheers
Actually, most units have a 12-channel parallell receiver, so it can do a pretty job and narrow your
position within 9 meters. 4-channel GPS units are things of the past (or used sometimes when size
matters more than accuracy).
Also, there are a "new" addition to the GPS system called WAAS (wide-area-augmentation-system) which
uses differente sattelites (this ones being geo-stationary) to send differentials information about
the GPS's sattellites signals. This way, a civilian WAAS-enabled unit like mine (garmin etrex vista)
can have an accuracy of about 3 meters, in theory. I find WAAS pretty dodgy and dont tend to use it
much because of higher battery comsumption and higer CPU usage, for a small improvement in the
accuracy (I mostly use the GPS in the car, so...)
cheers.
"The human race also appears to be getting smarter over time."
;-)
surely you jest
cheers.
eh, I don't have any of this in my resumè, and surely have never applied for a typical ;-)
;-)
office job in my life. I'm a fscking coder dammit! (but it says "Systems Engineer", just
for fanciness
And about your point, there is no big difference between office 97 and staroffice 5.2,
which I have installed in my laptop. Other day I needed to do some shit in a worksheet,
and had no idea how to do it. So I called some excel expert (secretary) to help me with
the crap (actually it was not that complicated, just some filtering) and she didn't even
notice that she was using starcalc and not excel. I haven't used excel since the old
windoze 3.1 days, but I think SO is a pretty good rip-off of M$ office. And costs nil too
cheers
holy smoke, dude!
dd -if=/dev/hda3 (the swap) -of=/dev/dsp
sometimes it really sounds like music. intersting thing.
a lot of funky noizes too.
cheers.
I know it is not politically correct, but i tend to agree with you. Some people are just that : stupid.
Unfortunately, if you look closer, they are a vast majority. Hope it changes in the next generations,
but I think is too much to wish...
cheers
> Being the smart person that you are you would have installed ext3 or ReiserFS and hitting reset wouldn't have caused
> any damage or loss at all.
Man you are so wrong. If you hit reset while you have a reiserfs volume mounted (ext3 as well) you will likely end up losing
a handful of files (happened to me some times, stupid reset button, now its unplugged).
The proper thing to bail out of such a situation is to build your kernel with "Magic SysReq" and then hit
alt+printscreen+s,u,b to make it sync its buffers before rebooting.
Reiser and ext3 only journals metadata, folks, not data. Don't expect to not lose data by hitting the
damn reset button or in a sudden power outage. Use no-breaks and NEVER reset the box if the console hangs
or the kernel panics. Magic SysRQ is your best friend.
cheers
Sounds cool, but I'll stick to my cheapo zoom 707/2, which has
a bunch of effects and electronic drums, cool for practicing.
Even if I would dare to plug guitar/amp to my laptop, the
zoom is smaller, and has that ZNR thing which is pretty much
necessary for my old cheapo strato guitar.
BTW, since we're talking about axes here, just got one very
good for heavy-metal/rock, a kramer baretta. pretty cheap and
sounds pretty good (it is an one-piece guitar, fretboard and
body are the same piece of wood). If you're into rock ya may
consider test-driving one of those.
cheers.
I think the new Enlightenment uses OpenGL for rendering widgets, but I may be talking
out of my ass here.
cheers
really? please show me where to get it (since I could not find it in ATIs website last time I checked, they
simply said to use GATOS, which is useless for gaming)
I have a notebook with a radeon 7500 mobile, I think I could be able to play Urban Terror in it (no,
the lappy is pure linux, no windoze partition). I wish it was some geforce*go, but certain things
cannot be chosen (it's a compaq). Being able to play at the laptop instead of lugging my huge (and
always semi-dismantled) desktop around would be cool.
TIA
I concur it must be kinda useless for a desktop/notebook,
but it is pretty cool software for a touchscreen environment
like Opie. So don't dismiss it so fast, dude.
cheers
Yeah, but P3 has some architechtural limitations that prevent it to scale
in clock, thats why they did the P4. It sucks, but it can be clocked up
to 4GHz because of it insanely long pipelines. But this is the reason that
it sucks too, too damn long pipelines are no good.
cheers
Not exactly OSS, but some free (as in beer) mods are pretty darn good and outlived the original games they run on top of.
Counter-Strike (half-life, old as hell and still the most played)
Day Of Defeat (half-life, very cool gameplay, but seems to push HL engine a bit)
Urban Terror (quake 3, runs even on linux and IMO kicks counter-strike's ass into oblivion, and is developed by an independent team)
The more it comes easier to write mods for the new engines the more these mods will proliferate. Some may even be OSS.
cheers.
yeah, right.
*EVERYONE* reads slashdot...
(...)
cheers
wow thanks for the link.
;-)
Altough it is a bit of a letdown because they say the SD cards don't work under linux (argh just bought a 128MB one for MP3s and maps). What a crap. MMC cards need a jacket on the IPAQ, expensive a/thing, and makes the damn thing fatter. Also, an SD card is cheaper than the jacket+MMC card, and it is pretty slick.
Think i'm gonna hold this linux-on-ipaq adventure until the SD memory cards get some kind of support. Also, the support for the XScale seems pretty crappy at the moment too. Think getting the ARM one was not that bad of a deal at all
cheers
Hell, my lame ARM-based ipaq seems already outdated (2 months)...
At least it can run linux (not that I had the guts to try it yet).
Does anyone know if there is a working distro (and GCC) for the XScale IPAQs (3900 and newer)? Never heard about this XScale thing before, so I assume it is a new architechture. PPC seems fair game, since there is already GCC for it.
cheers
of course it is.
It is only gray/white because it is a "Carbon Copy", not a color copy.
They should really upgrade their copiers.
cheers
You are right, of course.
Altough, it is the market that will decide wether they will be sucessful or not. For example, say you have two choices of hardware to buy, one is the Xbox, with all the DRM crap enabled, and the other is some taiwanese clone, with no DRM or restrictions, and also a lot cheaper. What would you choose? Notice that this is already happening with DVD players, "good-brand" ones come with RPC, but "el-cheapo" taiwanese ones comes with no RPC, or sometimes with some easily-disabled RPC, just pro-forma. And they usually work (and sell) pretty well.
I think as soon the Xbox is popular enough, some clones will start to appear, or, if computing power is enough, MAME will let us play xbox games. It's all a matter of time.
As for this kind of crap becoming a standard for computers (Palladium), just imagine what would you choose as your computing platform: USA/M$ controlled hardware running WindowsPalladium(TM) or some ASUS board running Linux,BSD or whatever else you throw on it? Looks like an easy choice to me, but others may disagree.
cheers