The Wu Tang translator called me Lazy-ass Destroyer. I find that offensive. I may be lazy-ass, but I prefer to call myself "dangerously curious, well-meaning individual" rather than "Destroyer".
When I decided to buy a new mouse a few weeks ago, I thought about getting a USB mouse rather than PS/2 because I play alot of q3 and wanted a fast reaction time. But it turns it USB mice are currently *slower* than PS/2 mice. Thus, I would never want to own all USB devices if the mouse is slower under that port. That stinks. Maybe firewire is faster- that would be cool.
Hello, John. First of all, Quake 3 is the best game ever.
Second of all, heres my question: Is Linux in any way limiting as a game developement platform compared to Windows DirectX? If so, is Linux moving in the right direction to have a faster, better, more standard game API? (ie. Opengl, mesa, xfree86 4.0)
Does anyone have a link to a dvorak keyboard retailer? I would love to try one of these puppies out. I've never in my life seen an advertisement for a dvorak keyboard. damn shame...
I have always been almost proud of nintendo's hard-rock systems. I have dropped my gameboy out of a car-window, dropped a chair on my NES, spilled soda on my SNES, and dropped my N64 off the coffee table. They all work perfectly fine (yes even the 10 year old NES!). The only thing that seems to break sometimes with N64 is the joystick control. Other than that, I'd say N64 was made pretty damn well.
I think Caldera OpenLinux is underrated. I was extremely impressed by LIZARD, its robust GUI-based install program. I personally think it destroys Redhat's, Suse's, and Debian's installer. I would have used it instead of Redhat if it wasn't for the pain in the ass of getting certain programs to compile that needed particular libraries. Redhat is much more standard and supported than Openlinux unfortunately.
Putting LIZARD under the GPL, or even a less appealing license is awesome. Caldera is doing the linux community a favor. However, they are not obligated to release any of their code under the GPL. That is not what Linux/OSS is about. Its about choice. Let Caldera do what they want, and smile about LIZARD, don't whine!
PS: Name one other installer for linux that is not only GUI, but you can configure your system while the packages are installed, and play tetris if you finish early!!
There are four Dell Dimension XPS's at the place I work. I had to install SCSI cards in them. Piece of cake. One screw for the cover, push the tabs and tada! Today I installed a cd-r with a scsi card in another dell dimension. Same deal. Its a little more tricky to get the front cover off, but I got no impression of a "DON'T OPEN THIS" attitude.
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I came across the The Y Window System awhile back. Seems to be more average-user oriented then X anyway. Has direct hardware access and all that sort of stuff. Its developement speed is less than ideal though. Anybody ever fool around with it? I am curious about your experiences.
This is a perfect time for me to pleadingly request help with getting my matrox g200 card to work with quake 3 / linux. It works fine under windows, but in linux I get a sig 11, if anything at all, with redhat 6.0. Does matrox opengl work at all in linux? I downloaded the rpm of q3test, and it installed alright.
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This is contrary to American policy! An individual is entitled to his ideas. He can do whatever the hell he wants with them, not be dictating by a stupid corporation. If Bill Gates wishes to make a billion dollars off his idea, so be it. If Linus Torvalds wishes to make his software free for all to use and modify, so be it. BUT don't tell either one they must submit their own creation to your governing!
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The Wu Tang translator called me Lazy-ass Destroyer. I find that offensive. I may be lazy-ass, but I prefer to call myself "dangerously curious, well-meaning individual" rather than "Destroyer".
When I decided to buy a new mouse a few weeks ago, I thought about getting a USB mouse rather than PS/2 because I play alot of q3 and wanted a fast reaction time. But it turns it USB mice are currently *slower* than PS/2 mice. Thus, I would never want to own all USB devices if the mouse is slower under that port. That stinks. Maybe firewire is faster- that would be cool.
Hello, John. First of all, Quake 3 is the best game ever.
Second of all, heres my question:
Is Linux in any way limiting as a game developement platform compared to Windows DirectX? If so, is Linux moving in the right direction to have a faster, better, more standard game API? (ie. Opengl, mesa, xfree86 4.0)
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Does anyone have a link to a dvorak keyboard retailer? I would love to try one of these puppies out. I've never in my life seen an advertisement for a dvorak keyboard. damn shame...
I have always been almost proud of nintendo's hard-rock systems. I have dropped my gameboy out of a car-window, dropped a chair on my NES, spilled soda on my SNES, and dropped my N64 off the coffee table. They all work perfectly fine (yes even the 10 year old NES!). The only thing that seems to break sometimes with N64 is the joystick control. Other than that, I'd say N64 was made pretty damn well.
I think Caldera OpenLinux is underrated. I was extremely impressed by LIZARD, its robust GUI-based install program. I personally think it destroys Redhat's, Suse's, and Debian's installer. I would have used it instead of Redhat if it wasn't for the pain in the ass of getting certain programs to compile that needed particular libraries. Redhat is much more standard and supported than Openlinux unfortunately.
Putting LIZARD under the GPL, or even a less appealing license is awesome. Caldera is doing the linux community a favor. However, they are not obligated to release any of their code under the GPL. That is not what Linux/OSS is about. Its about choice. Let Caldera do what they want, and smile about LIZARD, don't whine!
PS: Name one other installer for linux that is not only GUI, but you can configure your system while the packages are installed, and play tetris if you finish early!!
There are four Dell Dimension XPS's at the place I work. I had to install SCSI cards in them. Piece of cake. One screw for the cover, push the tabs and tada! Today I installed a cd-r with a scsi card in another dell dimension. Same deal. Its a little more tricky to get the front cover off, but I got no impression of a "DON'T OPEN THIS" attitude.
I came across the The Y Window System awhile back. Seems to be more average-user oriented then X anyway. Has direct hardware access and all that sort of stuff. Its developement speed is less than ideal though. Anybody ever fool around with it? I am curious about your experiences.
This is a perfect time for me to pleadingly request help with getting my matrox g200 card to work with quake 3 / linux. It works fine under windows, but in linux I get a sig 11, if anything at all, with redhat 6.0. Does matrox opengl work at all in linux? I downloaded the rpm of q3test, and it installed alright.
This is contrary to American policy! An individual is entitled to his ideas. He can do whatever the hell he wants with them, not be dictating by a stupid corporation. If Bill Gates wishes to make a billion dollars off his idea, so be it. If Linus Torvalds wishes to make his software free for all to use and modify, so be it. BUT don't tell either one they must submit their own creation to your governing!