What I saw in EB Games on January 3, 2002...
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Loki Games Closing?
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What I saw in EB Games was an omen that Loki would close its doors. I saw a Linux Quake3 tin, shiny and new with a second seal on it, and the seal read something like "This is the Linux version. It can be converted to be used with Microsoft Windows by upgrading to the Microsoft Windows Point Release 1.30." When I saw that message, I became furious and bought this Linux Quake3 package. It was the third Linux Quake3 tin I had bought for a gift to someone I knew.
The bottom line with gaming is that nobody cares about stability. Stability is irrelevant on Microsoft Operating Systems. Unknown to the user, Microsoft Operating Systems give no privacy and make the user agree to have no privacy by installing Microsoft Operating Systems. It makes no sense at all. What kind of people don't want privacy? What kind of people don't want security? It's like someone walking into a public bathroom and sitting on a toilette seat without whiping off the streaks of shit.
Whatever Microsoft did to prevent Linux from suceeding, they did it effectively. Whatever people invested in Microsoft's company are also the same people that simply don't like Linux. United States is off the gold standard people! Our Civil Rights are being ignored everywhere we go! What kind of world is this place?
Oh, now I remember. These people have a monopoly and these same people have invested in High Schools, Colleges, Universities, the United States/America Governments, and now they control your computer and will shut it down themselves if you dare not update their(not your) software. What do people see in Microsoft? Start Menu. What do people see in Linux? What's Linux? What does it look like? Does it have Office? Can I play solitaire?
Vote libertarian against our own government... In the history books, liberty meant we were all to be self-sufficient from any *other* government, like the British government that tried to rape us 220 years ago. Now, our own government is trying to rape us and it makes us all inspire of the feats of honor and bravery that the signers of the Declaraion of Independence, on July 4, 1776, had endured.
It looks valid: Vote libertarian is what will help us more than anything
It's the funniest, most disgusting pile of pictures and gross sound effects I've ever seen. I liked it. Later, it was banned from being shown, but looks as if they lifted the ban.
From what I know, Viacom owns Nickelodeon and Viacom also owns MTV. MTV has basically been soft porn the entire time and Viacom has been innoculating Nickelodeon with their soft porn as an enterim to the hardcore fanfest and advertizements on MTV. Don't think I'm crazy for thinking music is bad or any of that, but keep in mind that NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, and Spears are voted #1 and #2 on MTV. They are instilling your house's halls to echo that noise and you all better find a reason to ban MTV because soon as Michael Jackson raises out of his oxygen tank, you'll be forced to endure yet more of MTV's #1, spanking new music, and harmful hormonal awards and votes. Head for the hills!
I shall rip off your thumbs and use them for bait.
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I probably won't catch anything of value when using white trash for bait, but maybe other white trash will be attracted. There's no law against poaching for white trash in Kentucky, so I'll press my luck. I know of five ways to trap white trash:
1. leave full trashcans on the curb all week
2. goto the local newspaper stand and idle near the issue of Incestuos Babes
3. goto Walmart, into the dogfood section, and observe the empty shelves where bags of biscuits were once in stock
4. Goto an outhouse and yell "it's ready for consumption"
You can't trust anyone. Would your trust an oil executive to manage an offshore oil-drilling process from causing too much environmental polution? Hell no. The same goes for trusting union workers to build your house correctly. People are people and they'll steal from you as if you were a blind man. Everyone has no reason to trust either the Chinese or the Americans. No matter what laws governments honor, at the head is a dictator. I look to my favorite dictator. His name is ihova. He is king of kings and lord of lords. Anyone who tries to act like him is going to get me and millions of other people angry and we don't want that.
Santa Ana = Mexico. Bristol = TJ. OC = Bean County
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Review: Orange County
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Over here in Westminster, located within Huntington Beach, I see many people here. Many of them are either true Mexicans or Vietnamese Americans. The "True" Mexicans are just that; they come here with loaded mules and unload and sell their shit everywhere. Where ever they travel, the streets develop a dark, sooty tecture, buildings develop streaks of dirt, mildew, and feces, and everything smells as if the circus is in town.
What reminds me that I'm a true American is when the Crossroads of the West Gun Show opens shop yonder at the Anaheim Angel Stadium and I buy my fill of Ammo, buy some interesting cook recipes, look into the new brush removal equipment, and get some nice food. I even bought my metal detector and geiger counter there and am enjoying the many miles of exploration out in the Mojave deserts and the National forest nearby.
But sorry for running off into America, Santa Ana truly has nothing to do with America. The most corrupt of law enforcement agencies are in Santa Ana and illegal citizens are everywhere and they don't care about your or my rights. They came here for the money and when war breaks out they will all jump on the back of the nearest pickup truck with Mexico plates. Santa Ana is aching for reform and security audits.
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No. You are wrong on this. It is business as usual when one company purchases another company and corners the market for a particular service. What it all boils down to, in Microsoft's actions, is the lying and cheating that is produced in its methods to compete with and purchase other companies. Microsoft knows it can never compete with Linux and GPL'd software and so it lies to everyone about Linux and creates a sociopathic atmosphere in its customers to think they are supporting an all-American, hardworking company (Microsoft), and that Linux is the evil demon sent by the Communists to take away our freedoms and rape our computers. In reality, it is the opposite with respect to Linux and Microsoft falls under the category of the company with evil intent. Microsoft is doing all this in a business-as-usual manner. All developers of software for Microsoft Operating Systems are to blame. You'll never see Microsoft admit mistake for anything. Microsoft will defend its lies to the verry end. For Microsoft, it is an all or nothing clause.
Why hasn't Adobe ported PhotoDeluxe to Unix? Why hasn't MGI ported VideoWave to Unix? Why hasn't Blizzard ported Diablo2 to Unix? If anyone is to decide when Microsoft stops using such immoral conduct, then it is the many companies that bring Microsoft users to Microsoft Operating Systems. If you see everyone immediatly stop releasing and supporting software on Microsoft Windows then everyone will flock to where it all went: to Linux and Mac OSX in effect. After everyone, and I mean everyone, understands first-hand a competing product of Microsoft, then they will all realize the immoral conduct from Microsoft and you'll soon see a small "500 Acres for Sale" sign in Redmond, Washington. Non-Microsoft software is a hard sell to people and only those individuals that have first-hand knowledge or has been incriminated with, fault to Microsoft, tend to be the first to search for an alternative.
You misread me... I don't like Microsoft and its software.
I am saying that China hasn't invented its free market yet. In reality, not many other nations have adopted an elective republic and yet everyone else, including China, thrives from business that had moved outside USA. Yet, China claims business created in USA. We, the USA and its conspirator, the US, are creating work oversees and we are losing it here. Taxes are too high over here and all our manufacturing is being moved oversees just for our companies to stay afloat. "Manufactured in China" doesn't mean the same as "Designed in China". Americans have to live under a system that puts so many taxes upon us and causes inflation to rise steadilty. China can't pay taxes like the USA and the government controls your lives. In the end, none of us will prosper. China was just now abducted in the WTO and China will soon see how disgusting we Americans have becom when it comes to patents, intellectual knowledge, and work force.
When is say "Fuck China", I mean it in a simple way where I understand why it disapproves of Microsoft and I am aware of the politics it still waves at Americans. I know what China's government is, I know what the USA and US government is, and I know what the European government is. I know people are different than their governments and corruption in governments causes people to think differentily. What it all boils down to is China is not snubbing Microsoft, but has been snubbing the entire US and USA by using its large, uneducated, and generally cheap labor in manufacturing for American companies. Everyone in the world is a slave under Europe, I presume, and yet nobody acknowledges what is REALY happening to the USA. You'll never know how crooked both your and my governments have become until you live under MY government. MY government GAVE us a CONSTITUTION and TOOK IT AWAY FROM us Americans. In YOUR government, you never had one to begin with and will never know what freedom IS. That is why I say "Fuck China". USA has the potential, and China does not because China's government gave its people no freedom. I look at all government as a parasite and China's government is king of the tapeworms while the United States government is simply 1,000 leaches that CAN be removed.
You and I have no reason to trust anyone and yes, Linux is our answer for secure computing. I don't like how the United States government has chosen Microsoft and I know what it is doing to Microsoft to steal and eavesdrop everyone's data.
China's government has chosen Linux and how will China influence the development of Linux?...Europe has already tried to tax and regulate free software. The US Government heavily restrics the import and export of encryption software. Linus Torvalds now lives here in California. What government is around that will NOT touch Linux? NONE. Compare the 2.0 Linux kernel with the 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. See it getting screwed up already?
...Linux isn't a communist's operating system. What slashdot.org isn't showing you is the 10,000 people that switch to a Linux desktop in the United States of America, on a daily basis. It's one thing for the chi_coms to shun Microsoft for being a coporation of the USA and it is another thing for them to blindly choose linux because it is rumored of being a communist OS. I've gotten more flack from Microsoft advocates, and those Microsoft advocates are trying to ruin Linux' market potential by slandering it and calling it a Communist's Operating System.
Let me tell all of you Microsoft Windows people who are saying it...I will catch you and put you in a strangle hold for spreading lies, I will belly-punch you for trying to enslave me, and I will witch-slap you ten times for trying to steal my computer's data.
Trolls of slashdot.org, remnants of Microsoft's advocates that are yet to be destroyed, you have all been warned...
Paul Coe Clark III writes: "I caught Michael Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat, in Washington yesterday and grilled him about the DMCA, the SSSCA, the Sklyarov case and the future of Linux."
That's what I like as a side dish...grilled communist
Microsoft is like a fat, ugly, rancid spider sitting on a web of which is unstable and that it constructed itself. Rather than make its web(Software) more stable, it just keeps fucking everyone and sending out its offspring to spread more bullshit and fuck everyone in the world. In the end, according to Microsoft's.NET of unstable web it had woven itself, their will only be a world of fat, ugly, rancid spiders left over and which outnumber its prey and will cause mass starvation and vacancies everywhere. Microsoft's new competitor of the portable gaming console market wil soon be released by the millions and will starve all its competitors. While everyone starves, microsoft simply overwinters for the time being. The XBox conludes the ownership of the gaming console market due to the efficient mating of a much uglier, but thin spider known as nVidia. nVidia and Microsoft quickly mated and formed its most disgusting offspring to ever compete; aka the XBox. The XBox is a mimicry of the Unix spider, the MIT X Consortium, and to this day, shitologists(consumers) have been unable to comprehend the difference between the XBox and a Unix spider operating within its own web of X protocol: running the X Windows System aka XBox.
My question resumes...When will the MIT X Consortium sue Microsoft over patent infringement for the use of XBox? XBox is a term used on Unix boxes running X (X Windows System aka X aka X11). Many people have been using XBox to label their Unix machines as running X, and for the past 10 years we've been using XBox and Microsoft has violated intellectual property of the MIT X Consortium. mono doesn't infringe on Microsoft's.NET by being named LINUX.NET. Lindows didn't infringe on Microsoft Windows by being called Linux Windows. Microsoft is trying to steal our classification of being the first to use XBox to describe our PC Gaming Desktop.
The arachnologists are smoking dope and the politicians are doing it too!
Let them make their own computer hardware and software. All computer technology is attributed to freedom and a free market which they despise. They can use type-writers for all I care and they can continue eating eachother's pet rat for all I care.
As much as I dislike Microsoft, I think they just dumped on Microsoft because it is based in the United States of America and is a testament of what freedom can allow to be created. Think of it...as much as all those Microsoft Windows machines crash and get corrupted by virii, someone has to be paid to fix all those Microsoft Windows machines. I think Microsoft is just aching to be replaced by Apple, SGI, Sun, BSD, BeOS, OS2, and Linux.
China is just expressing hostility to Micrsoft for political reasons, without any merit, on their age-old conflict with America and its freedom loving-exploiting workforce. China can go fuck itself.
(sorry, I'm so cruel.:) At least my friend from the "Empire" thought it was funny)
Now all they need is to re-invent booster chairs and they'll be safe to drive in a car and see over the dash.
(ouch another mean one. My friend just gave me a noogie for that)
And to imagine that current Japanese anti-smog laws force every Japanese citizen to buy a new car engine after 30,000 miles...maybe with more eyeballs they'll be able to look closer and notice their engines are fine and won't need to be replaced untill a more reasonable 200,000 miles...
(my friend is holding a squirt gun inside my computer and thinks I care
A low-security prison's inmates are treated well.
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Apartments for Techies?
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People who commit a crime like petty theft, petty vandelism, or other stupid little things, are arrested and put in these miniature hotels we call a low-security prison. They all have a bed, a toilette, two rolls of toilette paper a day, 3 meals a day, and a wooden desk and chair with a computer and internet access. But this is eclipsed by the even tougher, brawnier, more violent criminals who commit crimes like rape and murder. Take OJ Simpson for example. Even OJ Simpson had all this in prison WITH a library of books and a phone. LOL! I wonder if I'll get that when they arrest me for slaughtering and cooking my own beef on your front yard for everyone to see. My mouth is watering...
Hell, you can get Quake2 for MS Winblows for $10 in WalMart! At Fry's Electronics, you can buy the Linux version of Quake2 with both awesome Quake2 mission packs for about $30.00! And next to it is usually the Linux version of Quake1 with its mission pack included. Quake1 isn't a dark feeling for me. I just insert my Alice in Chains greatest hits CDROM, play it low, and listen to Art Bell interview and exorcist that enjoys going into houses and bringing out the dead in a family, at 1:00am. Quake1 providing a "dark feeling" isn't quite accurate... It's like watching the movies Friday the 13th, Puppet Master, or Poltergheist when you was 6 years old! The movie, Exorcist doesn't count because they were for real! Those other movies were the freaks that were meant to scare us! God help us all!
I know my friend AnonymousCowheard and you obviously are abusing our ethics of freedom of speech::freedom of code on a Linux forum. Linux is not communist. Linux is what you make of it and so far it has proven Microsoft a thief and a deceiver. You obviously don't have any bonified spaghetti code to contribute to Linux, so scram to a forum where people help contribute code to Microsoft, or perhaps people like you are the reason Microsoft software ends up flakey.
>Linux is definitely not one big party. It's a >flame-fest gathering for the socially challenged. >Just because I don't like linux, doesn't mean I >like microsoft any better. Iwould much rather >line the pockets of a billionare, than further >the advancement of an operating system, solely >for the political advancement of a communist.
There are over 5 hidden porn shots and messages in Alladin; most of them similar to the messages in Lion King. I watched some of these movies with my younger brother durring his vacation and about 3 of them are visible to the human eye and ear. In the movie, "The Little Mermaid", it showed a Catholic Pope about to mary two people in the end of the movie and the pope had an erection. On the box of "The Little Mermaid" movie, all the towers in the Mermaid world are shaped like penises, with drawn perfectly, etc. Then go back a few years to Disney's rodent world with "Fivel" and "The Rescuers" and you find all kinds of crap, also sneakily hidden.
Bottom line is ever since Walt Disney died, Michael Iesner has turned the outfit into a joke. I've researched Disney's park employment system and have discovered they give employment priority to people with mental retardation, AIDS/HIV, transvestites, and homosexuals. CEO Michael Iesner claims that it gives everyone in the world that Disney is a place of equal opportunity employment and all that BS... Funny to think of it, statistically, 66% of all park employees at DisneyLand, here in Southern California USA are homosexuals.
But, back to the movies and all the happy stuff...
the movie "Roger Rabbit" had, I counted, 2 pornographic images in the movie. Hell, search at yahoo.com for "Disneyland Movie Porn" and you'll find something like this, this, this or even at the extreme measures find the disneyland bloodlines document that comes to conclusions even about Mr. Walt Disney! Something is realy wrong with that company...
would be a great way to finish up the fox episodes. In my local newspaper, about 1 month ago, also with advertisements on Dish and public TV, there was a Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical being formed. At the verry second,I questioned myself on the basis of 1)will they advertise Microsoft X-Box in this musical, and 2)is there a god?
I hope Joss makes an Anti-Buffy musical, lord willing.
I've noticed alot of who play games get "sick." When I'm in Fry's, EB's, or wherever else, I'll always meet the strange lad who got sick while playing Mech Warrior, Quake3, and whatever other 3d-worlds you can throw at them. Each and every time, I ask them if they get sick while playing a side-scrolling game like an actual Pinball machine and they'll sey, "Ya I get sick of pinball real quick, especially when it costs four quarters for three balls."
Me, on the other hand, has only been sea-sick one time and it was way back in my childhood... I was about 5 years old and was fishing with my dad about 15 miles out in the ocean; just south of the Catalina Island Channel. I blew chunks simply because I was angry at my dad, didn't want to fish, and was pouting in the cabin. So, I got sick because I didn't focus on fishing and mainly because I went into the cabin.
Now let me tell you about the ocean and a boat's cabin to keep from getting sea-sick... STAY OUT OF THE CABIN! STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM IT AS POSSIBLE! AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHEN A SWELL MOVES UNDER YOU, AND THE BOAT BEGINS ROLLING OVER IT, YELL "YEEEHAWWWWW", AND YOU WILL NOT GET SEASICK. I think it has to do with not LOOKING at one object at any one time. A person who doesn't get sea-sick and has a great time will be a little dizzy when you get back on shore. That would be a good study... compare the amount of dizzyness of a person who doesn't get seasick, to a person who always gets sea-sick. It takes a good 30 minutes for your ears to adjust on land because they no longer have to compensate for the swells rolling and and shifting the boat.
...That was the only time I ever got sea-sick and no videogame or Japanese cartoon's flashing lights ever made me sick. I can play those $5-a-pop flight simulators all day, but I started boycotting Disneyland ever since I discovered they hide porn and evil-inspired messages in their Animated movies they make for children.
I can see where your hypothesis is leading. It is a verry good one at that and let's bump heads together a little... Look at the past of USA; many families consisted of simple, but physically strenuous work. Farmers, metal working, carpenters, fishermen, and housebuilding topped the charts. Many people worked from night to night; no different than today. However, there is a big difference back then and now. For example, we are aware and can develop different forms of radiation. Long-range communication, high-tech urban development tools, genetic engineering of foods, excessive use of un-natural medications, and higher useage of automobiles have all risen as daily occurences. Look at all this technology we utilize and much of it is developed on theory. Electricicicians and ASIC engineers work on theories they have been taught based on a cause and effect series of studies in their education. Nobody knows what new-age technology's limits realy are.
So, let's compare ourselves with the rest of the world and then let's compare ourselves with the beloved Amish people who have outlawed electricity, cars, and any technology that doesn't utilize the motor skills provided by horses, goats, squirrels, and black powder. Some people I know honestly claim it is a side-effect of the industrial revolution. Alot of new, incompletely studied, but revolutionary technology dominates the USA and the rest of the world in mass production, etc. Even 3rd world countries that hire people for factory working are being affected somewhat. Silicon Valley is in the middle of it all.
The Amish people live everywhere throughout the midwest and central United States. All of them build barns in all times of the day and night and they get home and enjoy a dinner of steak, eggs, milk, and you name it. Autism is the result of something we can't see in the midst of the technology we created. The only way to prevent autism is to live like the Amish people: hard-working, eat wholesome food, work sun-up to sun-down, enjoy the company of your verry plain wife and kids, help eachother out of kindness, shun electricity and automobiles, keep yourself well-dressed in black clothing, don't shave ever again, and read the Bible and pray.
Sounds like 1,000 years ago doesn't it? And 1,000 years ago most people died early because of disease, war, or starvation. What is different from today and way back when? Possibly our bodies were never meant to realize their full lifetime, were are choosing wives and husbands from different races of people, our food's genetics is being altered. I think there is a thin line between progress and regression and most of the technology created today is not progress. It is affecting us all somehow. Some way that we will not be able to see unless, lord-willing, we continue our current work causing these genetic problems and see-through to its treatment and removal; that may take another 1,000 years, so why waste that time? We'll propabley develop bigger tomatoes somewhere along the way and that might be the only positive progress. Let's just try to live simple lives and stay away from electricity as much as possible, like the Amish people do.
Incorporate some bonified Free Software that can syncronize with this database of the internet and you have just another program with a purpose. A good puprose! Have a plan for developers of every software package in existance to submit their helping text to this database. This way, you don't have to visit a program's author and download a compressed archive, extract files, read the INSTALL and README instructions, and run the three or four de-facto commands to build and install.
That was my bone with Linux, see... To get a program, I search freshmeat.net, search Linuxgames.com, and happypengiun.org for something of use and I find something that is a pain to install. Why not make a database that project authors can submit their documentation, provide some easy-to-use URL's, and a GUI for installing the program or at the verry least an intelligent Makefile that uses some calls to gtk-shell, TCL-TK, Perl, or Python; or anything you can think of that won't segfault or crash in its own installation scripts. We need that, and better for all authors to have the help menu on their program to point to this helper database.
Now, now... You trolls are all going to tell me that is the purpose of freshmeat.net and sourceforge.net. Well, those two websites are environments suited for web-browsers and they are both tailored mainly to developers and enthusiasts. Slashdot is such a place where we cann all discuss software, events, and all kinds of stuff. In fact, many Linux programs are first planned from a good idea from a slashdot reader; we are a good development forum I might add. Back to the software I'm talking about, let's think of our grandparents and cousins that don't understand what "compile" and "symbolic link" means. They should be using a help database system that lets them search for a peice of software based on search criteria and the database says simply what a peice of software does and provides a 1-click button for testing your system for compatibility, compilation, installation, setup, and more supporting text on howto use a software package; like flipping through the pages of an encylopedia, not like using xpdf, man, emacs, vi, and all the popular legacy software I forgot to mention.
Microsoft has a help database in their operating system. It isn't used much, but we should improve on that idea with it being built upon a gui, searchable, etc.
Their submarines are simply known for their size and noisiness. Their Typhoon class submarines are just that: big and noisy. I have read quite a few documentaries on the Typhoon class and it appears more as an insult to the art of war. Inside each Typhoon is a swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, entertatinment room, and more for the crew's enjoyment and leisure. Although they are all nulear-powered, for their size and noise it is justified because they would need a large source of energy to bring all that shit with them.
Compared to the US Navy's Trident class submarine, the Russian Typhoon class is a bad joke taken to extreme measures. The Trident call submarine is more than two times smaller, holds the same ammount of crew members with one crew sleeping and one crew in operation, the Trident class submarine is nuclear powered with silent operation. I visit San Diego and go fishing quite often through the harbor. The US Navy has dry docks for the Trident submarines right there and you can see them docked! They have each and every Trident class submarine's rudder and propeller hidden with a large tarp because its silent operation is in the design of its propulsion system entirely.
I read in another documentary about how a submarine's crew can distinguish between civilian, cargo, and naval wartime vessels all underwater. Companies that build marine grade engines are ordered to build the propeller a certain way so it is distinguishable. Makes you wonder about the FBI and Magic Lantern virus. They are tracking everyone everywhere!
All these other countries think they can jump on the band-wagon and claim Linux for their Personal and Public Security and act as though they are pioneers against Microsoft. Fat chance. These other countries think as though they are boycotting a part of USA that represents capitalism, ala Microsoft, and in fact they are inducting capitalism into their markets; pooch-screwing themselves in the ass. Unix and all things associated with it is relative to good ol' USA. Linus Torvalds didn't move to Russia or China to release his software; Russia and China are strictly communist and wouldn't allow him to do what he does best. Mr. Torvalds moved to USA because it is the last bastion of 100% freedom. Freedom ringing so loud that the government has grasped its own freedom to violate other people's freedom, allow Microsoft to produce dirty software, and the FBI is allowed to bypass the Constitution by confiscating everyone's guns; removing any chances of upholding freedom. What made Linus Torvalds move to USA and not China or Russisa? He knew the USA, no matter what state of its union, has potential for reform from any kind of corruption. He knew that in USA, all of its government is being watched tentatively by the eyes of freedom fighters that uphold the real checks and balance system. In the United States of America, you can uphold your freedom while China and Russia prance on our coat tails by claiming Linux as their own when they realy mean to corrupt it. What a bunch of clowns they are; we, the United States of America, is freedom and they are not.
What's next? Convict Linux? Red Storm Linux? RedHat Linux? What is up with all these shitty naming conventions for Linux distributors? I suggest we hoist a 100% GPL'ed Linux optimized for different uses while supporting the same uses all by itself, unlike other distributors, and call it either "FreeLinux", "NetLinux", or "openLinux". BSD has a good.plan on their distributions. Can anyone agree more?
CmdrTaco, why not feed a country?
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for $269, you can buy two African slaves their freedom, give them two new changes of cloths, and sponsor their food cost for 2 months each.
Stop covering these MP3 players and help these people by writing their story about how the Arabs have been enslaving them.
Nothing makes better music than a free person's self-expression of happiness. God loves us all making our music daily and not recording it once and sitting on our duffs doing nothing.
Help free the slaves! Visit Reverend Rod Parsley's website at www.breathrough.net to help buy these slaves back their family and their freedom! Visit Hal Lindsey's website at www.hallindsey.com and read why the United Nations is the platform for the Anti Christ and how they are an organization that does nothing to help people. Act now and act quickly!
I am still using this real nice Dual Pentium Pro 200MHz box with 512MB of RAM, a Voodoo3 3000, and I am thinking of paying $50 each for two Pentium Pro/II 333MHz Overdrive processors. This week I upgraded to a bigger IBM UltraWide SCSI harddrive and my system is fast, stable, and renders openGL verry smoothly with these simple 200MHz CPUs.
These Pentium Pro systems are real nice. Above all, they are stable with the latest 2.4.16 linux kernel and XFree86-4.1. Many people are complaining about this article not showing some cheaper hardware for 3D modelling well I have a suggestion... goto ebay. You can either purchase a complete Dell Optiplex Pentium Pro or Pentium II complete computer system or buy the parts separately at your discretion and build your own. I recommend buying the Dell Optiplex because it is complete nd you can buy one for a measley $100!!! Yes, you can buy them that cheap on eBay right now! Or, expect to build your own with the nicer parts and some nice SCSI drives as i listed the following with the cost of tax and shipping charges included:
$40 - Micronics W6li or Intel PR440FX; Dual CPU motherboard
$90 - two Pentium Pro Overdrive CPUs for 300MHz x 2 performance
$70 - 256MB Compaq EDO ECC DIMM
$80 - Adaptec or Mylex SCSI Ultra/Ultra Wide RAID controller
$50 - Two 4,500 MegaByte Seagate SCSI-2 Wide Harddrives
$100 - HP or Yamaha SCSI-2 Ultra CD RW Drive
$100 - SCSI-2 Ultra DVD Drive
$20 - Creative Labs SB128 or Ensoniq equivalent soundcard
$70 - 3Dfx Voodoo2 and Matrox G400 or Voodoo2 and ATI All in Wonder or a simple Voodoo3; depending on your neads / compatibility.
$50 - Antec 5 bay/3 bay ATX Tower and 250 watt Powersupply
$30 - Two Antec Harddrive Fans and two internal fans for circulation.
$100 - 17 inch SVGA Monitor
TOTAL: about $700 at most for a system like this... and if you want to use today's RAM, CPUs, videocards, SCSI drives, and soundcards, then imagine doubling this cost.
You can't go wrong with the Dell Optiplex systems you can get on eBay. They are nice and just need more RAM and maybe use a better videocard. $100 wow!
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The bottom line with gaming is that nobody cares about stability. Stability is irrelevant on Microsoft Operating Systems. Unknown to the user, Microsoft Operating Systems give no privacy and make the user agree to have no privacy by installing Microsoft Operating Systems. It makes no sense at all. What kind of people don't want privacy? What kind of people don't want security? It's like someone walking into a public bathroom and sitting on a toilette seat without whiping off the streaks of shit.
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Whatever Microsoft did to prevent Linux from suceeding, they did it effectively. Whatever people invested in Microsoft's company are also the same people that simply don't like Linux. United States is off the gold standard people! Our Civil Rights are being ignored everywhere we go! What kind of world is this place?
Oh, now I remember. These people have a monopoly and these same people have invested in High Schools, Colleges, Universities, the United States/America Governments, and now they control your computer and will shut it down themselves if you dare not update their(not your) software. What do people see in Microsoft? Start Menu. What do people see in Linux? What's Linux? What does it look like? Does it have Office? Can I play solitaire?
GOD...PLEASE...HELP...ME...FIGHT...THE...EVIL..
Vote libertarian against our own government... In the history books, liberty meant we were all to be self-sufficient from any *other* government, like the British government that tried to rape us 220 years ago. Now, our own government is trying to rape us and it makes us all inspire of the feats of honor and bravery that the signers of the Declaraion of Independence, on July 4, 1776, had endured.
It looks valid: Vote libertarian is what will help us more than anything
It's the funniest, most disgusting pile of pictures and gross sound effects I've ever seen. I liked it. Later, it was banned from being shown, but looks as if they lifted the ban.
From what I know, Viacom owns Nickelodeon and Viacom also owns MTV. MTV has basically been soft porn the entire time and Viacom has been innoculating Nickelodeon with their soft porn as an enterim to the hardcore fanfest and advertizements on MTV. Don't think I'm crazy for thinking music is bad or any of that, but keep in mind that NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, and Spears are voted #1 and #2 on MTV. They are instilling your house's halls to echo that noise and you all better find a reason to ban MTV because soon as Michael Jackson raises out of his oxygen tank, you'll be forced to endure yet more of MTV's #1, spanking new music, and harmful hormonal awards and votes. Head for the hills!
1. leave full trashcans on the curb all week
2. goto the local newspaper stand and idle near the issue of Incestuos Babes
3. goto Walmart, into the dogfood section, and observe the empty shelves where bags of biscuits were once in stock
4. Goto an outhouse and yell "it's ready for consumption"
5. post stories on slashdot.org
You can't trust anyone. Would your trust an oil executive to manage an offshore oil-drilling process from causing too much environmental polution? Hell no. The same goes for trusting union workers to build your house correctly. People are people and they'll steal from you as if you were a blind man. Everyone has no reason to trust either the Chinese or the Americans. No matter what laws governments honor, at the head is a dictator. I look to my favorite dictator. His name is ihova. He is king of kings and lord of lords. Anyone who tries to act like him is going to get me and millions of other people angry and we don't want that.
What reminds me that I'm a true American is when the Crossroads of the West Gun Show opens shop yonder at the Anaheim Angel Stadium and I buy my fill of Ammo, buy some interesting cook recipes, look into the new brush removal equipment, and get some nice food. I even bought my metal detector and geiger counter there and am enjoying the many miles of exploration out in the Mojave deserts and the National forest nearby.
But sorry for running off into America, Santa Ana truly has nothing to do with America. The most corrupt of law enforcement agencies are in Santa Ana and illegal citizens are everywhere and they don't care about your or my rights. They came here for the money and when war breaks out they will all jump on the back of the nearest pickup truck with Mexico plates. Santa Ana is aching for reform and security audits.
Why hasn't Adobe ported PhotoDeluxe to Unix? Why hasn't MGI ported VideoWave to Unix? Why hasn't Blizzard ported Diablo2 to Unix? If anyone is to decide when Microsoft stops using such immoral conduct, then it is the many companies that bring Microsoft users to Microsoft Operating Systems. If you see everyone immediatly stop releasing and supporting software on Microsoft Windows then everyone will flock to where it all went: to Linux and Mac OSX in effect. After everyone, and I mean everyone, understands first-hand a competing product of Microsoft, then they will all realize the immoral conduct from Microsoft and you'll soon see a small "500 Acres for Sale" sign in Redmond, Washington. Non-Microsoft software is a hard sell to people and only those individuals that have first-hand knowledge or has been incriminated with, fault to Microsoft, tend to be the first to search for an alternative.
You misread me... I don't like Microsoft and its software.
I am saying that China hasn't invented its free market yet. In reality, not many other nations have adopted an elective republic and yet everyone else, including China, thrives from business that had moved outside USA. Yet, China claims business created in USA. We, the USA and its conspirator, the US, are creating work oversees and we are losing it here. Taxes are too high over here and all our manufacturing is being moved oversees just for our companies to stay afloat. "Manufactured in China" doesn't mean the same as "Designed in China". Americans have to live under a system that puts so many taxes upon us and causes inflation to rise steadilty. China can't pay taxes like the USA and the government controls your lives. In the end, none of us will prosper. China was just now abducted in the WTO and China will soon see how disgusting we Americans have becom when it comes to patents, intellectual knowledge, and work force.
When is say "Fuck China", I mean it in a simple way where I understand why it disapproves of Microsoft and I am aware of the politics it still waves at Americans. I know what China's government is, I know what the USA and US government is, and I know what the European government is. I know people are different than their governments and corruption in governments causes people to think differentily. What it all boils down to is China is not snubbing Microsoft, but has been snubbing the entire US and USA by using its large, uneducated, and generally cheap labor in manufacturing for American companies. Everyone in the world is a slave under Europe, I presume, and yet nobody acknowledges what is REALY happening to the USA. You'll never know how crooked both your and my governments have become until you live under MY government. MY government GAVE us a CONSTITUTION and TOOK IT AWAY FROM us Americans. In YOUR government, you never had one to begin with and will never know what freedom IS. That is why I say "Fuck China". USA has the potential, and China does not because China's government gave its people no freedom. I look at all government as a parasite and China's government is king of the tapeworms while the United States government is simply 1,000 leaches that CAN be removed.
You and I have no reason to trust anyone and yes, Linux is our answer for secure computing. I don't like how the United States government has chosen Microsoft and I know what it is doing to Microsoft to steal and eavesdrop everyone's data.
China's government has chosen Linux and how will China influence the development of Linux? ...Europe has already tried to tax and regulate free software. The US Government heavily restrics the import and export of encryption software. Linus Torvalds now lives here in California. What government is around that will NOT touch Linux? NONE. Compare the 2.0 Linux kernel with the 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. See it getting screwed up already?
...Linux isn't a communist's operating system. What slashdot.org isn't showing you is the 10,000 people that switch to a Linux desktop in the United States of America, on a daily basis. It's one thing for the chi_coms to shun Microsoft for being a coporation of the USA and it is another thing for them to blindly choose linux because it is rumored of being a communist OS. I've gotten more flack from Microsoft advocates, and those Microsoft advocates are trying to ruin Linux' market potential by slandering it and calling it a Communist's Operating System.
Let me tell all of you Microsoft Windows people who are saying it...I will catch you and put you in a strangle hold for spreading lies, I will belly-punch you for trying to enslave me, and I will witch-slap you ten times for trying to steal my computer's data.
Trolls of slashdot.org, remnants of Microsoft's advocates that are yet to be destroyed, you have all been warned...
Paul Coe Clark III writes: "I caught Michael
Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat, in Washington yesterday
and grilled him about the DMCA, the
SSSCA, the Sklyarov case and the future of
Linux."
That's what I like as a side dish...grilled communist
Microsoft is like a fat, ugly, rancid spider sitting on a web of which is unstable and that it constructed itself. Rather than make its web(Software) more stable, it just keeps fucking everyone and sending out its offspring to spread more bullshit and fuck everyone in the world. In the end, according to Microsoft's
My question resumes...When will the MIT X Consortium sue Microsoft over patent infringement for the use of XBox? XBox is a term used on Unix boxes running X (X Windows System aka X aka X11). Many people have been using XBox to label their Unix machines as running X, and for the past 10 years we've been using XBox and Microsoft has violated intellectual property of the MIT X Consortium. mono doesn't infringe on Microsoft's .NET by being named LINUX.NET. Lindows didn't infringe on Microsoft Windows by being called Linux Windows. Microsoft is trying to steal our classification of being the first to use XBox to describe our PC Gaming Desktop.
The arachnologists are smoking dope and the politicians are doing it too!
Let them make their own computer hardware and software. All computer technology is attributed to freedom and a free market which they despise. They can use type-writers for all I care and they can continue eating eachother's pet rat for all I care.
As much as I dislike Microsoft, I think they just dumped on Microsoft because it is based in the United States of America and is a testament of what freedom can allow to be created. Think of it...as much as all those Microsoft Windows machines crash and get corrupted by virii, someone has to be paid to fix all those Microsoft Windows machines. I think Microsoft is just aching to be replaced by Apple, SGI, Sun, BSD, BeOS, OS2, and Linux.
China is just expressing hostility to Micrsoft for political reasons, without any merit, on their age-old conflict with America and its freedom loving-exploiting workforce. China can go fuck itself.
(sorry, I'm so cruel. :) At least my friend from the "Empire" thought it was funny)
Now all they need is to re-invent booster chairs and they'll be safe to drive in a car and see over the dash.
(ouch another mean one. My friend just gave me a noogie for that)
And to imagine that current Japanese anti-smog laws force every Japanese citizen to buy a new car engine after 30,000 miles...maybe with more eyeballs they'll be able to look closer and notice their engines are fine and won't need to be replaced untill a more reasonable 200,000 miles...
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People who commit a crime like petty theft, petty vandelism, or other stupid little things, are arrested and put in these miniature hotels we call a low-security prison. They all have a bed, a toilette, two rolls of toilette paper a day, 3 meals a day, and a wooden desk and chair with a computer and internet access. But this is eclipsed by the even tougher, brawnier, more violent criminals who commit crimes like rape and murder. Take OJ Simpson for example. Even OJ Simpson had all this in prison WITH a library of books and a phone. LOL! I wonder if I'll get that when they arrest me for slaughtering and cooking my own beef on your front yard for everyone to see. My mouth is watering...
Hell, you can get Quake2 for MS Winblows for $10 in WalMart! At Fry's Electronics, you can buy the Linux version of Quake2 with both awesome Quake2 mission packs for about $30.00! And next to it is usually the Linux version of Quake1 with its mission pack included. Quake1 isn't a dark feeling for me. I just insert my Alice in Chains greatest hits CDROM, play it low, and listen to Art Bell interview and exorcist that enjoys going into houses and bringing out the dead in a family, at 1:00am. Quake1 providing a "dark feeling" isn't quite accurate... It's like watching the movies Friday the 13th, Puppet Master, or Poltergheist when you was 6 years old! The movie, Exorcist doesn't count because they were for real! Those other movies were the freaks that were meant to scare us! God help us all!
I know my friend AnonymousCowheard and you obviously are abusing our ethics of freedom of speech::freedom of code on a Linux forum. Linux is not communist. Linux is what you make of it and so far it has proven Microsoft a thief and a deceiver. You obviously don't have any bonified spaghetti code to contribute to Linux, so scram to a forum where people help contribute code to Microsoft, or perhaps people like you are the reason Microsoft software ends up flakey.
>Linux is definitely not one big party. It's a >flame-fest gathering for the socially challenged. >Just because I don't like linux, doesn't mean I >like microsoft any better. Iwould much rather >line the pockets of a billionare, than further >the advancement of an operating system, solely >for the political advancement of a communist.
Bottom line is ever since Walt Disney died, Michael Iesner has turned the outfit into a joke. I've researched Disney's park employment system and have discovered they give employment priority to people with mental retardation, AIDS/HIV, transvestites, and homosexuals. CEO Michael Iesner claims that it gives everyone in the world that Disney is a place of equal opportunity employment and all that BS... Funny to think of it, statistically, 66% of all park employees at DisneyLand, here in Southern California USA are homosexuals.
But, back to the movies and all the happy stuff...
the movie "Roger Rabbit" had, I counted, 2 pornographic images in the movie. Hell, search at yahoo.com for "Disneyland Movie Porn" and you'll find something like this, this, this or even at the extreme measures find the disneyland bloodlines document that comes to conclusions even about Mr. Walt Disney! Something is realy wrong with that company...
would be a great way to finish up the fox episodes. In my local newspaper, about 1 month ago, also with advertisements on Dish and public TV, there was a Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical being formed. At the verry second ,I questioned myself on the basis of 1)will they advertise Microsoft X-Box in this musical, and 2)is there a god?
I hope Joss makes an Anti-Buffy musical, lord willing.
Me, on the other hand, has only been sea-sick one time and it was way back in my childhood... I was about 5 years old and was fishing with my dad about 15 miles out in the ocean; just south of the Catalina Island Channel. I blew chunks simply because I was angry at my dad, didn't want to fish, and was pouting in the cabin. So, I got sick because I didn't focus on fishing and mainly because I went into the cabin.
Now let me tell you about the ocean and a boat's cabin to keep from getting sea-sick... STAY OUT OF THE CABIN! STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM IT AS POSSIBLE! AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHEN A SWELL MOVES UNDER YOU, AND THE BOAT BEGINS ROLLING OVER IT, YELL "YEEEHAWWWWW", AND YOU WILL NOT GET SEASICK. I think it has to do with not LOOKING at one object at any one time. A person who doesn't get sea-sick and has a great time will be a little dizzy when you get back on shore. That would be a good study... compare the amount of dizzyness of a person who doesn't get seasick, to a person who always gets sea-sick. It takes a good 30 minutes for your ears to adjust on land because they no longer have to compensate for the swells rolling and and shifting the boat.
I can see where your hypothesis is leading. It is a verry good one at that and let's bump heads together a little... Look at the past of USA; many families consisted of simple, but physically strenuous work. Farmers, metal working, carpenters, fishermen, and housebuilding topped the charts. Many people worked from night to night; no different than today. However, there is a big difference back then and now. For example, we are aware and can develop different forms of radiation. Long-range communication, high-tech urban development tools, genetic engineering of foods, excessive use of un-natural medications, and higher useage of automobiles have all risen as daily occurences. Look at all this technology we utilize and much of it is developed on theory. Electricicicians and ASIC engineers work on theories they have been taught based on a cause and effect series of studies in their education. Nobody knows what new-age technology's limits realy are.
So, let's compare ourselves with the rest of the world and then let's compare ourselves with the beloved Amish people who have outlawed electricity, cars, and any technology that doesn't utilize the motor skills provided by horses, goats, squirrels, and black powder. Some people I know honestly claim it is a side-effect of the industrial revolution. Alot of new, incompletely studied, but revolutionary technology dominates the USA and the rest of the world in mass production, etc. Even 3rd world countries that hire people for factory working are being affected somewhat. Silicon Valley is in the middle of it all.
The Amish people live everywhere throughout the midwest and central United States. All of them build barns in all times of the day and night and they get home and enjoy a dinner of steak, eggs, milk, and you name it. Autism is the result of something we can't see in the midst of the technology we created. The only way to prevent autism is to live like the Amish people: hard-working, eat wholesome food, work sun-up to sun-down, enjoy the company of your verry plain wife and kids, help eachother out of kindness, shun electricity and automobiles, keep yourself well-dressed in black clothing, don't shave ever again, and read the Bible and pray.
Sounds like 1,000 years ago doesn't it? And 1,000 years ago most people died early because of disease, war, or starvation. What is different from today and way back when? Possibly our bodies were never meant to realize their full lifetime, were are choosing wives and husbands from different races of people, our food's genetics is being altered. I think there is a thin line between progress and regression and most of the technology created today is not progress. It is affecting us all somehow. Some way that we will not be able to see unless, lord-willing, we continue our current work causing these genetic problems and see-through to its treatment and removal; that may take another 1,000 years, so why waste that time? We'll propabley develop bigger tomatoes somewhere along the way and that might be the only positive progress. Let's just try to live simple lives and stay away from electricity as much as possible, like the Amish people do.
Incorporate some bonified Free Software that can syncronize with this database of the internet and you have just another program with a purpose. A good puprose! Have a plan for developers of every software package in existance to submit their helping text to this database. This way, you don't have to visit a program's author and download a compressed archive, extract files, read the INSTALL and README instructions, and run the three or four de-facto commands to build and install.
That was my bone with Linux, see... To get a program, I search freshmeat.net, search Linuxgames.com, and happypengiun.org for something of use and I find something that is a pain to install. Why not make a database that project authors can submit their documentation, provide some easy-to-use URL's, and a GUI for installing the program or at the verry least an intelligent Makefile that uses some calls to gtk-shell, TCL-TK, Perl, or Python; or anything you can think of that won't segfault or crash in its own installation scripts. We need that, and better for all authors to have the help menu on their program to point to this helper database.
Now, now... You trolls are all going to tell me that is the purpose of freshmeat.net and sourceforge.net. Well, those two websites are environments suited for web-browsers and they are both tailored mainly to developers and enthusiasts. Slashdot is such a place where we cann all discuss software, events, and all kinds of stuff. In fact, many Linux programs are first planned from a good idea from a slashdot reader; we are a good development forum I might add. Back to the software I'm talking about, let's think of our grandparents and cousins that don't understand what "compile" and "symbolic link" means. They should be using a help database system that lets them search for a peice of software based on search criteria and the database says simply what a peice of software does and provides a 1-click button for testing your system for compatibility, compilation, installation, setup, and more supporting text on howto use a software package; like flipping through the pages of an encylopedia, not like using xpdf, man, emacs, vi, and all the popular legacy software I forgot to mention.
Microsoft has a help database in their operating system. It isn't used much, but we should improve on that idea with it being built upon a gui, searchable, etc.
Their submarines are simply known for their size and noisiness. Their Typhoon class submarines are just that: big and noisy. I have read quite a few documentaries on the Typhoon class and it appears more as an insult to the art of war. Inside each Typhoon is a swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, entertatinment room, and more for the crew's enjoyment and leisure. Although they are all nulear-powered, for their size and noise it is justified because they would need a large source of energy to bring all that shit with them.
Compared to the US Navy's Trident class submarine, the Russian Typhoon class is a bad joke taken to extreme measures. The Trident call submarine is more than two times smaller, holds the same ammount of crew members with one crew sleeping and one crew in operation, the Trident class submarine is nuclear powered with silent operation. I visit San Diego and go fishing quite often through the harbor. The US Navy has dry docks for the Trident submarines right there and you can see them docked! They have each and every Trident class submarine's rudder and propeller hidden with a large tarp because its silent operation is in the design of its propulsion system entirely.
I read in another documentary about how a submarine's crew can distinguish between civilian, cargo, and naval wartime vessels all underwater. Companies that build marine grade engines are ordered to build the propeller a certain way so it is distinguishable. Makes you wonder about the FBI and Magic Lantern virus. They are tracking everyone everywhere!
All these other countries think they can jump on the band-wagon and claim Linux for their Personal and Public Security and act as though they are pioneers against Microsoft. Fat chance. These other countries think as though they are boycotting a part of USA that represents capitalism, ala Microsoft, and in fact they are inducting capitalism into their markets; pooch-screwing themselves in the ass. Unix and all things associated with it is relative to good ol' USA. Linus Torvalds didn't move to Russia or China to release his software; Russia and China are strictly communist and wouldn't allow him to do what he does best. Mr. Torvalds moved to USA because it is the last bastion of 100% freedom. Freedom ringing so loud that the government has grasped its own freedom to violate other people's freedom, allow Microsoft to produce dirty software, and the FBI is allowed to bypass the Constitution by confiscating everyone's guns; removing any chances of upholding freedom. What made Linus Torvalds move to USA and not China or Russisa? He knew the USA, no matter what state of its union, has potential for reform from any kind of corruption. He knew that in USA, all of its government is being watched tentatively by the eyes of freedom fighters that uphold the real checks and balance system. In the United States of America, you can uphold your freedom while China and Russia prance on our coat tails by claiming Linux as their own when they realy mean to corrupt it. What a bunch of clowns they are; we, the United States of America, is freedom and they are not.
.plan on their distributions. Can anyone agree more?
What's next? Convict Linux? Red Storm Linux? RedHat Linux? What is up with all these shitty naming conventions for Linux distributors? I suggest we hoist a 100% GPL'ed Linux optimized for different uses while supporting the same uses all by itself, unlike other distributors, and call it either "FreeLinux", "NetLinux", or "openLinux". BSD has a good
Stop covering these MP3 players and help these people by writing their story about how the Arabs have been enslaving them.
Nothing makes better music than a free person's self-expression of happiness. God loves us all making our music daily and not recording it once and sitting on our duffs doing nothing.
Help free the slaves! Visit Reverend Rod Parsley's website at www.breathrough.net to help buy these slaves back their family and their freedom! Visit Hal Lindsey's website at www.hallindsey.com and read why the United Nations is the platform for the Anti Christ and how they are an organization that does nothing to help people. Act now and act quickly!
I am still using this real nice Dual Pentium Pro 200MHz box with 512MB of RAM, a Voodoo3 3000, and I am thinking of paying $50 each for two Pentium Pro/II 333MHz Overdrive processors. This week I upgraded to a bigger IBM UltraWide SCSI harddrive and my system is fast, stable, and renders openGL verry smoothly with these simple 200MHz CPUs.
These Pentium Pro systems are real nice. Above all, they are stable with the latest 2.4.16 linux kernel and XFree86-4.1. Many people are complaining about this article not showing some cheaper hardware for 3D modelling well I have a suggestion... goto ebay. You can either purchase a complete Dell Optiplex Pentium Pro or Pentium II complete computer system or buy the parts separately at your discretion and build your own. I recommend buying the Dell Optiplex because it is complete nd you can buy one for a measley $100!!! Yes, you can buy them that cheap on eBay right now! Or, expect to build your own with the nicer parts and some nice SCSI drives as i listed the following with the cost of tax and shipping charges included:
$40 - Micronics W6li or Intel PR440FX; Dual CPU motherboard
$90 - two Pentium Pro Overdrive CPUs for 300MHz x 2 performance
$70 - 256MB Compaq EDO ECC DIMM
$80 - Adaptec or Mylex SCSI Ultra/Ultra Wide RAID controller
$50 - Two 4,500 MegaByte Seagate SCSI-2 Wide Harddrives
$100 - HP or Yamaha SCSI-2 Ultra CD RW Drive
$100 - SCSI-2 Ultra DVD Drive
$20 - Creative Labs SB128 or Ensoniq equivalent soundcard
$70 - 3Dfx Voodoo2 and Matrox G400 or Voodoo2 and ATI All in Wonder or a simple Voodoo3; depending on your neads / compatibility.
$50 - Antec 5 bay/3 bay ATX Tower and 250 watt Powersupply
$30 - Two Antec Harddrive Fans and two internal fans for circulation.
$100 - 17 inch SVGA Monitor
TOTAL: about $700 at most for a system like this... and if you want to use today's RAM, CPUs, videocards, SCSI drives, and soundcards, then imagine doubling this cost.
You can't go wrong with the Dell Optiplex systems you can get on eBay. They are nice and just need more RAM and maybe use a better videocard. $100 wow!