what events? you them managing to finally get Napster effectively shut down? Is it just me, or does anyone else find it ironic that they posted record sales numbers when Napster had its heyday, and now that they've gotten what they so desperately desired the artists are rebelling and music sales are down?
And your assumptions would be wrong . . . (isn't it nice when that happens?) All of the default text widgets have standard right-mouse popups that include cut copy and paste for that "ease of use" the Windows provides, if you like that slow method of pasting text. And it still, of course, supports the wonderously speedy select middle-mouse paste.
Um, not really, if you've got a NAT setup, chances are you're going through a gateway of somekind and I can almost guarantee that your gateway isn't going to change the MAC address on the packets it sends out to match that of the originator.
well, as someone who's listened to a fair number of both soundboard and audience mic recordings, I can say that a lot more goes into sound quality than just the source, I've heard aud. mic. shows with unprecedented quality as well as nearly unlistenable sbd recordings, it depends a lot on the conditions, equipment, etc.
Poke around the SGI's XFS website for a little bit and you'll find links to ISO's of a modified version of RedHat's 7.1 installer, that works with them, so that that install is started from teh XFS disk, and continues with all of the rest of the packages from teh regular RH ones.
After reading this, I couldn't help but reply to the blatant lie about Marijuana killing brain cells simply by saying that in absolutely no study has it been shown to do this. Marijuana itself causes less damage than alcohol (the smoke, however, is another story). Before you post something perhaps you should check your facts, rather than quoting propaganda. If you'd like to do that you can look at the NORML website For a more comprehensive review you can always check out the studies themselve (some of which are listed on teh NORML site)
RPGs today, enjoyable but largely flat
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While I will no doubt purshase and lose many hours playing Diablo II, I find recent RPG offerings very lacking. None of them has the depth, or "feel" of Angband/Moria/Rogue/Nethack and all of them suffer from the horrible bane of a linear story, if I'm going to get into a character, I want to play that character my way, not a do a, then b, then c. What if I want to do c then a then b? or skip a altogether? aside from the obvious increase in enjoyment from a non-linear method, it makes the game more challenging. nothing takes the fun out of a game like encountering a difficult puzzle and being able to wander around until you come to the spot you're supposed to be at, and only that spot "does something" FF7 and up suffer from this worst of all,the closest to a "good" modern RPG I have found was Fallout and Fallout 2, hell you could wipe out an entire town, or most all of them and still finish. It had some wonderful depth of play. Diablo 1 was boring, almost like it was trying for the involvment and game play of Angband with graphics, but failling miserably. Even the MMORPG's are largely lacking in the depth of some of the better MUD's (which I must admit I never really got into either . ..) It's almost like game designers and developers today have gotten entirely lost in the graphics and "story" and forgotten about the most important aspect: Gameplay. Either that or they've started coding for the highest profits, which is most likely, unfortunately the highest profits often coincide with lowest common denominator quality-wise, especially in a game genre which is supposed to require some kind of thought, creating it for the "average person" is simply going to get you that an "average game" sure it may sell well, but it won't have the staying power or appeal of its better crafted, perhaps worse selling, games. The most memorable games, among those of us who acctually played them, are the ones that took the most thought. HHGtG, Adventure, most any of teh Infocom text based games, while lacking in even the simple graphics of the Rogue derivitives were games one could get involved in, and largely more addicted to than any of the recent "flashy graphics and long cinematic sequences make for a good game" genre of RPGs. *sigh* I guess I'll just crawl back into my hole and back to an era where quality RPGs meant something.
Unless I'm mistaken there was something recently about Redhat teaming up with Realsoftware to release RealPlayer 7.0 to linux within the next 3 months or something like that, so the lack of support for RealAudio should cease to be an issue, if it really is one even now.
RedHat does this, and it is played as the sample for testing a soundcard configuration (at least it was when I used the config tool to configure my sound card in 4.2)
Linus' opinion of games for pushing the limits of an OS are well known (and imortalized in fortune, with the quote: I've run DOOM more in the last few days than I have the last few months. I just love debugging;-) (Linus Torvalds))
If I remember correctly this was from the, er, days of yore when running DOOM well was a goal for the Linux kernel, and actually playing DOOM was, well the way of debugging. (It's been a while, and some of the facts are in dubitoubly screwy, but I think that is at least a semi-accurate summary.)
Getting it working with Linux . . . your problems most likely lie in fonts (At least they always have for me, whether I was connecting XFree to an HP-UX box, or an old Tekterm to XFree). The easiest fix is to run a font server and connect to that.
Sorry, but have you looked at GRIP? Does everything you listed and more. Additionally, read some of teh comments on the quality of Xing's encoder, sure it's fast, but suffers from sound quality. BladeEnc is the highest quality high bit-rate encoder, l3enc (now mp3enc) from Frauenhoffer is the highest quality low bit-rate encoder. With grip, you just put the CD in the drive, click two buttons and walk away. Grip can also use the Xing encoder (actually, any command line encoder) to do its thing if you really want to use Xing, over BladeEnc (for Quality) or Lame (for speed).
Simply put, Lame is the fastest encoder especially with the -f option (which lowers sound quality, but I couldn't detect a difference) Lame also supports variable bitrate encoding (better sound quality, but slower) generally, I think it is the most versitile of the encoders. BladeEnc on the other hand gives the best sound quality at bitrates OVER 128kb/s but equal or lower quality at bitrates equal to or lower than 128kb/s (from teh BladeEnc website). Also, the BladeEnc website, I believe has a link to a site that compares MP3 encoders. Note that Lame requires the ISO-encoder which can be difficult to find, but usually goes by the filename of dist10.tar.gz or dist10.tgz if you decide to go the Lame route.
I found it on rufus and downloaded the source RPM from RH6.0 contrib RPMS. which can be found here: ftp://contrib.redhat.com/contrib/libc6/SRPMS (the Rufus link is incorrect, as the Redhat directory structure has changed slightly.)
If you don't want an RPM . . . use alien to convert it to a.tgz file.
Having just upgraded to XFree 3.3.4, I didn't even have to recompile the glx module for the TNT2, and I saw a deffinate performance increase (along with the absence of a nasty memory leak that seemed to plague the Nvidia release). So what exactly you mean by "play" I don't know, Quake 1, 2, and 3 run just fine . . . and Xracer and 1600x1200 is simply amazing;)
--Akeru
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XFree86 4.0 has anti-aliased fonts (or at least it did the last time I checked.)
NVidia's choice to release the source to the drivers (and from the FAQ, it sounds like they plan to continue to support linux, and well at that) drove me to buy a TNT2, but dammit if I didn't want the G400MAX even then! Gar, had I only waited.
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what events? you them managing to finally get Napster effectively shut down? Is it just me, or does anyone else find it ironic that they posted record sales numbers when Napster had its heyday, and now that they've gotten what they so desperately desired the artists are rebelling and music sales are down?
And your assumptions would be wrong . . . (isn't it nice when that happens?) All of the default text widgets have standard right-mouse popups that include cut copy and paste for that "ease of use" the Windows provides, if you like that slow method of pasting text. And it still, of course, supports the wonderously speedy select middle-mouse paste.
--Shahms
Um, not really, if you've got a NAT setup, chances are you're going through a gateway of somekind and I can almost guarantee that your gateway isn't going to change the MAC address on the packets it sends out to match that of the originator.
well, as someone who's listened to a fair number of both soundboard and audience mic recordings, I can say that a lot more goes into sound quality than just the source, I've heard aud. mic. shows with unprecedented quality as well as nearly unlistenable sbd recordings, it depends a lot on the conditions, equipment, etc.
That's a spelling scholarship, right?
Poke around the SGI's XFS website for a little bit and you'll find links to ISO's of a modified version of RedHat's 7.1 installer, that works with them, so that that install is started from teh XFS disk, and continues with all of the rest of the packages from teh regular RH ones.
After reading this, I couldn't help but reply to the blatant lie about Marijuana killing brain cells simply by saying that in absolutely no study has it been shown to do this. Marijuana itself causes less damage than alcohol (the smoke, however, is another story). Before you post something perhaps you should check your facts, rather than quoting propaganda. If you'd like to do that you can look at the NORML website For a more comprehensive review you can always check out the studies themselve (some of which are listed on teh NORML site)
While I will no doubt purshase and lose many hours playing Diablo II, I find recent RPG offerings very lacking. None of them has the depth, or "feel" of Angband/Moria/Rogue/Nethack and all of them suffer from the horrible bane of a linear story, if I'm going to get into a character, I want to play that character my way, not a do a, then b, then c. What if I want to do c then a then b? or skip a altogether? aside from the obvious increase in enjoyment from a non-linear method, it makes the game more challenging. nothing takes the fun out of a game like encountering a difficult puzzle and being able to wander around until you come to the spot you're supposed to be at, and only that spot "does something" FF7 and up suffer from this worst of all,the closest to a "good" modern RPG I have found was Fallout and Fallout 2, hell you could wipe out an entire town, or most all of them and still finish. It had some wonderful depth of play. Diablo 1 was boring, almost like it was trying for the involvment and game play of Angband with graphics, but failling miserably. .) It's almost like game designers and developers today have gotten entirely lost in the graphics and "story" and forgotten about the most important aspect: Gameplay. Either that or they've started coding for the highest profits, which is most likely, unfortunately the highest profits often coincide with lowest common denominator quality-wise, especially in a game genre which is supposed to require some kind of thought, creating it for the "average person" is simply going to get you that an "average game" sure it may sell well, but it won't have the staying power or appeal of its better crafted, perhaps worse selling, games. The most memorable games, among those of us who acctually played them, are the ones that took the most thought. HHGtG, Adventure, most any of teh Infocom text based games, while lacking in even the simple graphics of the Rogue derivitives were games one could get involved in, and largely more addicted to than any of the recent "flashy graphics and long cinematic sequences make for a good game" genre of RPGs. *sigh* I guess I'll just crawl back into my hole and back to an era where quality RPGs meant something.
Even the MMORPG's are largely lacking in the depth of some of the better MUD's (which I must admit I never really got into either . .
--Akeru
Unless I'm mistaken there was something recently about Redhat teaming up with Realsoftware to release RealPlayer 7.0 to linux within the next 3 months or something like that, so the lack of support for RealAudio should cease to be an issue, if it really is one even now.
RedHat does this, and it is played as the sample for testing a soundcard configuration (at least it was when I used the config tool to configure my sound card in 4.2)
Linus' opinion of games for pushing the limits of an OS are well known (and imortalized in fortune, with the quote: I've run DOOM more in the last few days than I have the last few ;-)
months. I just love debugging
(Linus Torvalds))
If I remember correctly this was from the, er, days of yore when running DOOM well was a goal for the Linux kernel, and actually playing DOOM was, well the way of debugging. (It's been a while, and some of the facts are in dubitoubly screwy, but I think that is at least a semi-accurate summary.)
--Akeru
Getting it working with Linux . . . your problems most likely lie in fonts (At least they always have for me, whether I was connecting XFree to an HP-UX box, or an old Tekterm to XFree). The easiest fix is to run a font server and connect to that.
--Akeru
Sorry, but have you looked at GRIP? Does everything you listed and more.
Additionally, read some of teh comments on the quality of Xing's encoder, sure it's fast, but suffers from sound quality. BladeEnc is the highest quality high bit-rate encoder, l3enc (now mp3enc) from Frauenhoffer is the highest quality low bit-rate encoder. With grip, you just put the CD in the drive, click two buttons and walk away. Grip can also use the Xing encoder (actually, any command line encoder) to do its thing if you really want to use Xing, over BladeEnc (for Quality) or Lame (for speed).
--Akeru
Simply put, Lame is the fastest encoder especially with the -f option (which lowers sound quality, but I couldn't detect a difference) Lame also supports variable bitrate encoding (better sound quality, but slower) generally, I think it is the most versitile of the encoders. BladeEnc on the other hand gives the best sound quality at bitrates OVER 128kb/s but equal or lower quality at bitrates equal to or lower than 128kb/s (from teh BladeEnc website). Also, the BladeEnc website, I believe has a link to a site that compares MP3 encoders. Note that Lame requires the ISO-encoder which can be difficult to find, but usually goes by the filename of dist10.tar.gz or dist10.tgz if you decide to go the Lame route.
--Akeru
I found it on rufus and downloaded the source RPM from RH6.0 contrib RPMS. which can be found here: ftp://contrib.redhat.com/contrib/libc6 /SRPMS (the Rufus link is incorrect, as the Redhat directory structure has changed slightly.)
.tgz file.
If you don't want an RPM . . . use alien to convert it to a
--Akeru
Having just upgraded to XFree 3.3.4, I didn't even have to recompile the glx module for the TNT2, and I saw a deffinate performance increase (along with the absence of a nasty memory leak that seemed to plague the Nvidia release). So what exactly you mean by "play" I don't know, Quake 1, 2, and 3 run just fine . . . and Xracer and 1600x1200 is simply amazing ;)
--Akeru
XFree86 4.0 has anti-aliased fonts (or at least it did the last time I checked.)
--Akeru
NVidia's choice to release the source to the drivers (and from the FAQ, it sounds like they plan to continue to support linux, and well at that) drove me to buy a TNT2, but dammit if I didn't want the G400MAX even then! Gar, had I only waited.