Maybe you should consider moving off of Windows 9x and get a real OS. Seriously. Linux, *BSD, Windows 2000, heck, even XP Pro will solve a lot of the problems you speak of. If the computer in question is a Mac, go to the earliest version of MacOS you can possibly use. Or install NetBSD or one of the PowerPC Linux distributions.
There is NO excuse for running a DOS-based version of Windows now. DOS alone maybe, but not a DOS-based Windows. It was the DOS based Windows systems that would get so crufty after 6 months of use that it was time to wipe and start over.
What would I run on an iBox? Quick answer: Debian GNU/Linux PPC. That would FLY on a machine like what that guy is proposing.
I also like the idea that this is a pizza box Mac, the first since the last 61xx PowerPC Macs. It's a spiffy form factor. Hell, if Apple cuts off his air supply...er...motherboard supply, I'd buy a chassis and power supply and seek out my own G4 Gigabit motherboard to build into it.
I am really looking forward to seeing if this guy can pull it off. I don't like how cozy he's gotten with Other World Computing, seeing as that the two times I have dealt with them have been two times I've been screwed by them, (this never happens with NewEgg or Directron or Computer Geeks) but whatever...it sounds very, very exciting to me. G4 Pizzabox! Woohoo!
Yeah, right. How hard is this?
1.)Open the console. It's that cute little TV thing on the KDE Kicker.
2.)Type this at the prompt:
[you@yourmachine]$/usr/local/games/ut/ut
That's it! That's all you do! There's no step 3! There's no step 3! (Note: this example is for Unreal Tournament. Command given at the console may vary depending on game installed.)
I personally own five mini-itx systems, and I've purchased about another 20 for my firm. Up until this past month, we didn't have the space to install real rack servers, so I started buying Epia 800 boards and Cubid 2677R cases--they're tiny, low power, and not very noticable, and more than fast enough for a firewall, mail server, web server, what-have-you. And they look a lot sexier lying around the office.
A friend of mine is setting up a web hosting farm completely built around the EPIA platform. My private server should be up and running in less than a month. Me and my friends also play UT on an EPIA server. Those bitty boxen are absolutely awesome for any sort of web/ftp/mail/game/file server or router application. Put a laptop drive in there instead of a 3.5" 7200RPM drive...lowers the cooling/power requirements and makes a quiet system even quieter.
If you want to use it as a serious server, though, my suggestion is to use that PCI slot and put a REAL NIC in there. The VIA-Rhine is kinda crappy and the Linux driver is buggy. I suggest Intel.
...only outlaws will have firewalls. If this bullshit spreads to California, damn straight I will keep my ipfw/nat firewall up!
Time to make this a very uncomfortable time for your state assemblypersons and senators if you live in the affected states. Geek power stopped the Berman Bill, geek power is forcing the feds to revisit the DMCA, geek power is a pretty amazing thing when unleashed.
The one thing that makes the least sense about these bills is that firewalling+nat is one of the tools needed to combat worms and exploits. Everyone is so damn interested in "protecting our Internet infrastructure from exploits, worms and viruses" yet these same clowns are taking away a very important tool that real people can use to make a real difference against these problems.
And what if you are still running Windows NT4, for whatever reason? The workaround Microsoft gives people for the recent RPC vulnerability is to keep the server in the private IP space and firewall off the ports in the 13x range! You can't do that without a NAT!!!
Time to fight this and fight it hard. Whatever you think about whatever other issues are going on around us, this is serious shit.
Xine is both free as in beer and free as in speech and available at http://xinehq.de/. And both Lycoris Linux and Mandrake Linux have GPL.ISO sets that can be downloaded for free and home-burnt that include Xine. There is also a port project to bring Xine to Win32.
No paradox: the version of Xine that comes with Lycoris Linux and Mandrake 9.1 has the DVD Menu plugin which will allow you full access to the Revolution OS DVD. Since there is no CSS encryption, there is no problem.
Which also makes me think that this whole thing about NT4 being to old to fix is a load of crap. If they fix it in 2000/2003 they can fix it in NT4. They just don't WANT to...
Or more ominously, what if the bug is just as unfixable in 2000/XP/2003? And they just don't want to admit it?
I suspect there will be more trouble in the future. This isn't the last you've heard of this problem.
Earth to Senor m4g02...looks like el gobierno no tienes los huevos when facing down the RIAA and the MPAA. This is WORSE than the Sonny Bono Bill. This is more like toda su base es pertenece a nosotros.
Dude! Very cool bitty box! I am a big fan of little computers that do big things. Very soon I will have a co-located VIA EPIA box. Those rock as fileservers/web servers.
The USB issues were causing the computer to lock because we were using an USB mouse during the install. In retrospect I'm glad that this bug was provoked...it meant that we were able to get a better kernel in. I am still having DVD playback issues myself...stuttery playback in MPlayer. We thought it was buffer issues, but it could be IDE driver problems, come to think of it.
What distro are you using? Just curious. I am going to stuff MDK9.1 in as soon as I can. This hacked MDK9 is ok and all but there were lots of compromises made and lots of raggedy edges that needed to be fixed. Maybe the new Mandrake with their version of 2.4.21 might be just the ticket.
You have a very cool domain name and a very cool site. I just hope you aren't running a stock PHPNuke install because there's tons of security issues with it. I know...if it was a tighter piece of software MsGeek.Org would still be up and running. [sigh]
Yep, you had the same bug I did...pre-2.4.20 kernels have an allergy to NForce USB and it caused Linux to lock up tight as a drum. When the problem is the kernel you can safely say that Linux indeed locked up.
The 2.4.20 Linus kernel did the trick for my A7N-266-VM, I now have a really kickin' gaming box...and it doesn't run Windows. MDK9 plus the new kernel plus the nvdriver makes for a potent combo, especially when you have a GeForce Ti4200 in the AGP slot.
Gotta love ASUS...the Toyota of motherboard manufacturers. Well crafted and will last almost forever if you care for it right.
Hayashibara Megumi is actually regarded as THE prestige seiyuu to have on board a voice cast in Japan. She is the equivalent of June Foray or the late Mel Blanc and Daws Butler in America...she's more than a seiyuu, she actually represents the whole craft in Japan.
My favorite Hayashibara performance is Nuku Nuku. She conveys the sense of both a cute and cuddly character and her inner strength. Nuku Nuku is at once a kitten and a tiger. If you don't believe me, buy the DVD and listen to the Japanese track with English subtitles. Second favorite performance would be the otherworldly Ayanami Rei from Shin Seiki Evangelion. Least favorite would be Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop...Megumi-san can't do hard-boiled. Faye has to be both tough and world-weary. It's just not her forte.
The problem with the whole craft of voice acting in America is that radio drama is almost completely dead here. That's the source of people like Blanc, Butler, Foray and Stan Freberg. If, as some have suggested, the lost art of radio drama could be revived using the Internet as a low cost means of distribution, texts from places like Project Gutenberg as a potential source of material, and open source audio software as a means of production, maybe there is hope for the future of radio drama.
Three words: Otaiko no Tetsujin. Gotta love a game which has you banging on big drums with sticks as fat around as a baseball bat. I don't know if it will ever hit these shores but I saw a vid clip of it on Extended Play (gaming show on TechTV) and it looked like a hell of a lot of fun.
Epic Games deserves tons of props for making a Linux client for UT2003 available on the same disk set as the Windows version. Supposedly it installs pretty easily. By comparison, Bioware didn't do much for us at all. This requires a major hack to install. Not worth celebrating.
Oh yeah, Doom III will be coming out Windows/Linux cross-platform. Two words: Carmack rules.
It might be binary-only, a huge no-no for a lot of the more doctrinaire amongst us, but it's really quite good. It exposes all of the capabilities of the GeForce 4 Ti series, which are formidable indeed.
Installing nvdriver is not for the squeamish...I had to have a guru friend play around a little with my computer to do it. The process needs to be made easier. ATI's binary driver is supplied as an RPM...perhaps it will be easier to install.
One of the fundamental laws of the universe is that sooner or later, everything becomes Office Space. Everything that doesn't become Office Space becomes This Is Spinal Tap.
More like, re-release the Dune Encyclopedia. A very cool book that provided plenty of fodder for Traveller campaigns. Brian Herbert says it is not "canon," but his Daddy who created the series said it was in the foreword. No need for a concordance, just a re-release of this book. I could make big bucks on this book if I sold it on...umm...Yahoo Auctions...but I wouldn't. Much more interesting than some of the trash that has sprung up since Frank Herbert went off into the desert to become food for Shai'Hulud.;-)
Very spiffy, very reminiscent of 2K (the first, last, and only good iteration of Windows Explorer ever made) but I would rather run KDE. Or IceWM if I'm running X on a low-memory box. Anyone know its memory requirements, etc? The site is a smoking heap of melted plastic and electronic parts, thanks to our concerted efforts.
Actually, in America, there's a fair minority of folks who fear digital cash, because they believe that it's the penultimate step to the Mark Of The Beast. It is an interesting point that when the UPC was being invented, the scientists involved used the character "6" in the bar code to signal the beginning, middle and end of a UPC. Nothing ominous about that if you understand Geek Humor.
Also, in the '80s, these Fundie paranoiacs believed that the Mark Of The Beast would consist of a tattoed UPC-like symbol. In the "Left Behind" series by Fundie author Tim LaHaye, he postulates that the same kind of chips used to electronically tag dogs and cats would be used for this purpose.
And not many people know that back in the Roman Era, a soldier would be branded with his regimental mark on his right hand and his forehead during induction ceremonies. Think about that when someone babbles about how "The Mark of the Beast is coming, avoid using credit cards, ATMs and other digital monetary transactions!"
Yeah, right, anonymous pig. I take it you are male, no? You would probably feel very differently about this situation if you were female. Or you suddenly got the ability to get pregnant and had to deliver through your urethra.
I think that preventing abortions through better, safer, and more available birth control are a far better thing than preventing abortions through making them illegal. Abortion has existed for almost as long as female hominids had the smarts enough to figure out that certain plants were abortifacients. Make them illegal, and you will be seeing lots of horrifying consequences, of a kind that were a fact of life for women too poor to bribe a doctor to do an illegal abortion on the sly. Back alleys? Knitting needles? Coathangers? Women dying of septic shock and blood loss? Do you really want a return to these kind of consequences?
Yes, I know I'm offtopic. But I had to address this.
Anyone seen the EULA for Direct X 9? Does it have an "all your base are belong to us" clause like Windows Media Player 9 and W2K SP3? I haven't found any info on this anywhere. The copy on MS's site is in a Windows executable package, and I can't open it on this Linux box.
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Maybe you should consider moving off of Windows 9x and get a real OS. Seriously. Linux, *BSD, Windows 2000, heck, even XP Pro will solve a lot of the problems you speak of. If the computer in question is a Mac, go to the earliest version of MacOS you can possibly use. Or install NetBSD or one of the PowerPC Linux distributions.
There is NO excuse for running a DOS-based version of Windows now. DOS alone maybe, but not a DOS-based Windows. It was the DOS based Windows systems that would get so crufty after 6 months of use that it was time to wipe and start over.
What would I run on an iBox? Quick answer: Debian GNU/Linux PPC. That would FLY on a machine like what that guy is proposing.
I also like the idea that this is a pizza box Mac, the first since the last 61xx PowerPC Macs. It's a spiffy form factor. Hell, if Apple cuts off his air supply...er...motherboard supply, I'd buy a chassis and power supply and seek out my own G4 Gigabit motherboard to build into it.
I am really looking forward to seeing if this guy can pull it off. I don't like how cozy he's gotten with Other World Computing, seeing as that the two times I have dealt with them have been two times I've been screwed by them, (this never happens with NewEgg or Directron or Computer Geeks) but whatever...it sounds very, very exciting to me. G4 Pizzabox! Woohoo!
1.)Open the console. It's that cute little TV thing on the KDE Kicker.
2.)Type this at the prompt:
[you@yourmachine]$/usr/local/games/ut/ut
That's it! That's all you do! There's no step 3! There's no step 3! (Note: this example is for Unreal Tournament. Command given at the console may vary depending on game installed.)
Now go back to jacking off to your pr0n site. :P
A friend of mine is setting up a web hosting farm completely built around the EPIA platform. My private server should be up and running in less than a month. Me and my friends also play UT on an EPIA server. Those bitty boxen are absolutely awesome for any sort of web/ftp/mail/game/file server or router application. Put a laptop drive in there instead of a 3.5" 7200RPM drive...lowers the cooling/power requirements and makes a quiet system even quieter.
If you want to use it as a serious server, though, my suggestion is to use that PCI slot and put a REAL NIC in there. The VIA-Rhine is kinda crappy and the Linux driver is buggy. I suggest Intel.
...only outlaws will have firewalls. If this bullshit spreads to California, damn straight I will keep my ipfw/nat firewall up!
Time to make this a very uncomfortable time for your state assemblypersons and senators if you live in the affected states. Geek power stopped the Berman Bill, geek power is forcing the feds to revisit the DMCA, geek power is a pretty amazing thing when unleashed.
The one thing that makes the least sense about these bills is that firewalling+nat is one of the tools needed to combat worms and exploits. Everyone is so damn interested in "protecting our Internet infrastructure from exploits, worms and viruses" yet these same clowns are taking away a very important tool that real people can use to make a real difference against these problems.
And what if you are still running Windows NT4, for whatever reason? The workaround Microsoft gives people for the recent RPC vulnerability is to keep the server in the private IP space and firewall off the ports in the 13x range! You can't do that without a NAT!!!
Time to fight this and fight it hard. Whatever you think about whatever other issues are going on around us, this is serious shit.
Xine is both free as in beer and free as in speech and available at http://xinehq.de/. And both Lycoris Linux and Mandrake Linux have GPL .ISO sets that can be downloaded for free and home-burnt that include Xine. There is also a port project to bring Xine to Win32.
No paradox: the version of Xine that comes with Lycoris Linux and Mandrake 9.1 has the DVD Menu plugin which will allow you full access to the Revolution OS DVD. Since there is no CSS encryption, there is no problem.
Or more ominously, what if the bug is just as unfixable in 2000/XP/2003? And they just don't want to admit it?
I suspect there will be more trouble in the future. This isn't the last you've heard of this problem.
Earth to Senor m4g02...looks like el gobierno no tienes los huevos when facing down the RIAA and the MPAA. This is WORSE than the Sonny Bono Bill. This is more like toda su base es pertenece a nosotros.
Dude! Very cool bitty box! I am a big fan of little computers that do big things. Very soon I will have a co-located VIA EPIA box. Those rock as fileservers/web servers.
The USB issues were causing the computer to lock because we were using an USB mouse during the install. In retrospect I'm glad that this bug was provoked...it meant that we were able to get a better kernel in. I am still having DVD playback issues myself...stuttery playback in MPlayer. We thought it was buffer issues, but it could be IDE driver problems, come to think of it.
What distro are you using? Just curious. I am going to stuff MDK9.1 in as soon as I can. This hacked MDK9 is ok and all but there were lots of compromises made and lots of raggedy edges that needed to be fixed. Maybe the new Mandrake with their version of 2.4.21 might be just the ticket.
You have a very cool domain name and a very cool site. I just hope you aren't running a stock PHPNuke install because there's tons of security issues with it. I know...if it was a tighter piece of software MsGeek.Org would still be up and running. [sigh]
Yep, you had the same bug I did...pre-2.4.20 kernels have an allergy to NForce USB and it caused Linux to lock up tight as a drum. When the problem is the kernel you can safely say that Linux indeed locked up.
The 2.4.20 Linus kernel did the trick for my A7N-266-VM, I now have a really kickin' gaming box...and it doesn't run Windows. MDK9 plus the new kernel plus the nvdriver makes for a potent combo, especially when you have a GeForce Ti4200 in the AGP slot.
Gotta love ASUS...the Toyota of motherboard manufacturers. Well crafted and will last almost forever if you care for it right.
Actually the title is a reference to a place in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and yes, he really did intend the pun.
Hayashibara Megumi is actually regarded as THE prestige seiyuu to have on board a voice cast in Japan. She is the equivalent of June Foray or the late Mel Blanc and Daws Butler in America...she's more than a seiyuu, she actually represents the whole craft in Japan.
My favorite Hayashibara performance is Nuku Nuku. She conveys the sense of both a cute and cuddly character and her inner strength. Nuku Nuku is at once a kitten and a tiger. If you don't believe me, buy the DVD and listen to the Japanese track with English subtitles. Second favorite performance would be the otherworldly Ayanami Rei from Shin Seiki Evangelion. Least favorite would be Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop...Megumi-san can't do hard-boiled. Faye has to be both tough and world-weary. It's just not her forte.
The problem with the whole craft of voice acting in America is that radio drama is almost completely dead here. That's the source of people like Blanc, Butler, Foray and Stan Freberg. If, as some have suggested, the lost art of radio drama could be revived using the Internet as a low cost means of distribution, texts from places like Project Gutenberg as a potential source of material, and open source audio software as a means of production, maybe there is hope for the future of radio drama.
Three words: Otaiko no Tetsujin. Gotta love a game which has you banging on big drums with sticks as fat around as a baseball bat. I don't know if it will ever hit these shores but I saw a vid clip of it on Extended Play (gaming show on TechTV) and it looked like a hell of a lot of fun.
Epic Games deserves tons of props for making a Linux client for UT2003 available on the same disk set as the Windows version. Supposedly it installs pretty easily. By comparison, Bioware didn't do much for us at all. This requires a major hack to install. Not worth celebrating.
Oh yeah, Doom III will be coming out Windows/Linux cross-platform. Two words: Carmack rules.
It might be binary-only, a huge no-no for a lot of the more doctrinaire amongst us, but it's really quite good. It exposes all of the capabilities of the GeForce 4 Ti series, which are formidable indeed.
Installing nvdriver is not for the squeamish...I had to have a guru friend play around a little with my computer to do it. The process needs to be made easier. ATI's binary driver is supplied as an RPM...perhaps it will be easier to install.
That's what inquiring minds want to know today!
One of the fundamental laws of the universe is that sooner or later, everything becomes Office Space. Everything that doesn't become Office Space becomes This Is Spinal Tap.
- Quake III Arena
- Unreal Tournament
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Unreal Tournament 2003
- Doom III
What part of "Yes, there are blockbuster games available for Linux" do you not understand? All of these are Linux-native. No WineX needed.Anonymous creep: it runs fine on my 466MHz Celeron with 256MB of RAM.
More like, re-release the Dune Encyclopedia. A very cool book that provided plenty of fodder for Traveller campaigns. Brian Herbert says it is not "canon," but his Daddy who created the series said it was in the foreword. No need for a concordance, just a re-release of this book. I could make big bucks on this book if I sold it on...umm...Yahoo Auctions...but I wouldn't. Much more interesting than some of the trash that has sprung up since Frank Herbert went off into the desert to become food for Shai'Hulud. ;-)
Very spiffy, very reminiscent of 2K (the first, last, and only good iteration of Windows Explorer ever made) but I would rather run KDE. Or IceWM if I'm running X on a low-memory box. Anyone know its memory requirements, etc? The site is a smoking heap of melted plastic and electronic parts, thanks to our concerted efforts.
Actually, in America, there's a fair minority of folks who fear digital cash, because they believe that it's the penultimate step to the Mark Of The Beast. It is an interesting point that when the UPC was being invented, the scientists involved used the character "6" in the bar code to signal the beginning, middle and end of a UPC. Nothing ominous about that if you understand Geek Humor.
Also, in the '80s, these Fundie paranoiacs believed that the Mark Of The Beast would consist of a tattoed UPC-like symbol. In the "Left Behind" series by Fundie author Tim LaHaye, he postulates that the same kind of chips used to electronically tag dogs and cats would be used for this purpose.
And not many people know that back in the Roman Era, a soldier would be branded with his regimental mark on his right hand and his forehead during induction ceremonies. Think about that when someone babbles about how "The Mark of the Beast is coming, avoid using credit cards, ATMs and other digital monetary transactions!"
I think that preventing abortions through better, safer, and more available birth control are a far better thing than preventing abortions through making them illegal. Abortion has existed for almost as long as female hominids had the smarts enough to figure out that certain plants were abortifacients. Make them illegal, and you will be seeing lots of horrifying consequences, of a kind that were a fact of life for women too poor to bribe a doctor to do an illegal abortion on the sly. Back alleys? Knitting needles? Coathangers? Women dying of septic shock and blood loss? Do you really want a return to these kind of consequences?
Yes, I know I'm offtopic. But I had to address this.
Anyone seen the EULA for Direct X 9? Does it have an "all your base are belong to us" clause like Windows Media Player 9 and W2K SP3? I haven't found any info on this anywhere. The copy on MS's site is in a Windows executable package, and I can't open it on this Linux box.