I managed a bunch of slimline Dell swervers once, I swear the hardware was *built* to run FreeBSD - sure it ran windows, but the SCSI controller, mobo, network.... shit everything was just supported in the CD boot of FreeBSD.
To this day I will quite happily recommend Dell hardware to the SME's I consult for. It's just built well.
You haveta agree that both the 2nd and the 3rd were pretty shitty. As for this boxset, I have a 2 cd thingy of Matrix, no idea what 8 extra cd's of stuff could be about, and honestly dont care.
I've been looking after Solaris and FreeBSD boxes for a few years, and recently decided to take the plunge and drop Windows. First thing I tried was FreeBSD 5.1, it was a breeze to setup - was running in an hour, sound was simple to get running even though I run an old Aureal Vortex2 card, X was up as quick as i could compile it and the nvidia drivers were simple to install. However, i'm a gamer so went shopping for a linux distro.
Previous experiences with Linux colored my opinion somewhat, so I wanted a pared down, sensibly organised distro, and came across an article about portage so picked up Gentoo.
It took a few goes to get it installed right, following the handbook at www.gentoo.org. The first go, I did a "stage 2" install, and realised that for my needs the only thing it gave me was an extra few hours compilation time. I'd picked 2.6.7 kernel on this install and once it was up and running I did an "emerge nvidia-kernel" and the drivers wouldn't start. I went off and got the latest ones from nvidia and those wouldn't work so I hrmmed and not really knowing linux reinstalled from stage 3 using the earlier 2.4.31 kernel. Bingo, nvidia drivers worked.
Now I wanted to get sound going and followed the guide in the handbook and nothing. After much faffing about, I enabled the CMI sound on my motherboard and switched to that and finally got it working with ALSA.
I really wanted to run the later kernel, as it had ALSA builtin and supposedly performed better, after digging around discovered there was a compile option in the kernel that nvidia needed to be at a different setting (the newer drivers fix this), so I upgraded to 2.6.7 again and compiled ALSA + CMI + Aureal + NVidia tweak and this time around the graphics were accelerated but boom, no sound.
More digging around, and I found out that Alsa was a bit broken in the kernel so recompiled again without Alsa builtin, ran through the Alsa install a few more times with reboots until the sound started working again.
All in all it took a few days to get a machine that did sound and accelerated graphics up and running. Really expected things to be a lot easier, perhaps it would have been with Redhat or Suse.
As to Gentoo itself, I like it - it's clean and fairly logical, portage is decent. The runcontrol scripts are taking a bit of getting used too, I do prefer the Solaris way of doing things but will adapt no doubt.
Still have a few annoyances though. I can't get audio cd's to play with sound (they are recognised, can rip em etc). I'd like to get my gamepad working too, but thats not really a priority.
Oh yeah, during initial boot the cd didn't detect my network card. Needed to do a modprobe 3c59x then net-config to get up and running.
Why? Do you really think Slate or MSNBC would have any credibility whatsoever if MS decided to excercise editorial content on them? I'd imagine Redmond gives them free reign to write what they want, if MS bashing comes up then thats the Zeitgeist and probably something they already know, care and are doing something about.
Linux / Mozilla / Evolution is not secure, it's just not a vector of attack. If 90% of the desktops ran one of those pieces of software then the same issue would arise. Windows is insecure primarily because it is the most widespread vector for attack.
Lara Croft: Feminist Icon or Cyberbimbo? On the Limits of Textual Analysis
by Helen W. Kennedy
As the title suggests, the feminist reception of Lara Croft as a game character has been ambivalent to say the least. The question itself presupposes an either/or answer, thereby neatly expressing the polarities around which most popular media and academic discussions of Lara Croft tend to revolve. It is a question that is often reduced to trying to decide whether she is a positive role model for young girls or just that perfect combination of eye and thumb candy for the boys. It is also increasingly difficult to distinguish between Lara Croft the character in Tomb Raider and Lara Croft the ubiquitous virtual commodity used to sell products as diverse as the hardware to play the game itself, Lucozade or Seat cars. What follows then is an analysis of the efficacy and limitations of existing feminist frameworks through which anunderstanding of the kinds of gendered pleasures offered by Lara Croft as games character and cultural icon can be reached. I will begin by analyzing Lara primarily as an object of representation - a visual spectacle - and then move on, considering the ways in which the act of playing Tomb Raider as Lara disrupts the relationship between spectator and "spectacle."
There is no doubt that Tomb Raider marked a significant departure from the typical role of women within popular computer games. Although a number of fighting games offer the option of a female character, the hero is traditionally male with females largely cast in a supporting role. In this respect alone Lara was a welcome novelty for experienced female game players. "There was something refreshing about looking at the screen and seeing myself as a woman. Even if I was performing tasks that were a bit unrealistic... I still felt like, Hey, this is a representation of me, as myself, as a woman. In a game. How long have we waited for that?" (Nikki Douglas in Cassell and Jenkins 1999).
When Tomb Raider hit the games market, it did so with a good degree of corporate muscle behind it: indeed the game was launched as a significant part of the Sony Playstation offensive. It was a game which deployed the latest in technical advances in games design. Featuring a navigable three-dimensional game space, a simple but atmospheric soundtrack and a level of cinematic realism previously unattainable.[1] The game also made use of a familiar and popular adventure-based narrative format. A great deal has been said already about the extent to which Tomb Raider pillages the Indiana Jones movies for its narrative structure and setting. The success of the game is arguably attributable to this synchronicity between new techniques, a highly immersive and involving game space and game narrative and the controversial (and opportunistic) use of a female lead. Lara is provided with a narrative past appropriate to her status as an adventurerwhy ital? and an aristocratic English accent - a greater degree of characterization than the norm. Certainly, fans and critics suggest that none of these factors alone can explain the world beating success of the first game and its many sequels. "Lara's phenomenal success wasn't just about a cracking adventure, other games had that too. Lara had something that hooked the gamers like nothing has before. At the center of Tomb Raider was a fantasy female figure. Each of her provocative curves was as much part of the game as the tombs she raided. She had a secret weapon in the world of gaming, well... actually two of them" (Lethal & Loaded, 8.7.01). For this fan, judging from the tone, it seems that Lara herself is at least as significant as the story or gameplay. This comment also signals Lara's status as an object of sexual desire, a factor which the marketing/advertising of Tomb Raider was keen to reinforce.
It is clear that the producers of Lara wanted to market her as a character potentially appealing to women; her arrival on the game scene dovetailed nicely with the 9
48DD tits, hipster pants and skintight tshirt != totally sexless.
I bet it was more like this:
Game Designer: Lets make a game that really sells, what do 14 year old boys like? Game Programmer: Tits! Women! Naked Women! Game Designer: We cant do the naked women thing, lets exagerrate sexual features instead and glove her, should we dress her in corset with suspenders? Game Programmer: No thats too overtly sexual and Geri Haliwell would kill us, we could try a minidress with the Union Flag on it? Game Designer: Nah I got it, skin tight short clothing and big boobs!... time passes... Game Designer: Well we have this game with some stupid bint showing ass and if you maneuver her right also pointy polygonal tits, how the hell are we gonna sell this? (Marketer walks in the door) Marketer: Well we could be post ironic, thats big this year - lets take the piss and market the game as a Feminist statement Game Designer: yeah that will work!
Stuff your face with pills and chase the ghosts away, it was no accident they turned blue when on the run (blue = police geddit?) But even when you were tripping your nuts of you should remember to eat fresh fruit for the Vitamin C.
Tombraider as ironic campaign against the objectification of women my arse, cynical cash in on "Girl Power" more like.
It isn't a Lowid, I think I subscribed with this acount maybe 4 or 5 years ago? Don't remember, had another account before but lost the details for it.
As to the Windows geek question, no I never was a Windows geek, or Linux geek - just a regular computer geek. I've tried linux on and off over the years as a Desktop O/S strating with early versions of Slack, everytime i lasted maybe a week at most.
This time round it seems to be a bit better, the only thing i'm missing now is games and that looks to be improving.
We also realized that you don't understand the words you are using. This tends to reduce our opinion of your writing.
And like I give a fuck? Excuse me I used a wrong word in an incorrect context whilst writing off the top of my head. 90% agreed with the overall sentiment, 10% disagreed with the grammatical structure. But if you will excuse me, Gnome is 85% done compiling and I should attend to it. (but I think the installer made that number up)
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Ideally you want a demo of realtime breasts jiggling, raytraced of course. Maybe texture map them with the output of a linux kernel compile?
Install Quake then hire someone to come along and say, "I know this - this is Unix!"
YHow the hell did you manage to install it that quickly?
I managed a bunch of slimline Dell swervers once, I swear the hardware was *built* to run FreeBSD - sure it ran windows, but the SCSI controller, mobo, network.... shit everything was just supported in the CD boot of FreeBSD.
To this day I will quite happily recommend Dell hardware to the SME's I consult for. It's just built well.
So put swap in RAM.
You haveta agree that both the 2nd and the 3rd were pretty shitty. As for this boxset, I have a 2 cd thingy of Matrix, no idea what 8 extra cd's of stuff could be about, and honestly dont care.
I've been looking after Solaris and FreeBSD boxes for a few years, and recently decided to take the plunge and drop Windows. First thing I tried was FreeBSD 5.1, it was a breeze to setup - was running in an hour, sound was simple to get running even though I run an old Aureal Vortex2 card, X was up as quick as i could compile it and the nvidia drivers were simple to install. However, i'm a gamer so went shopping for a linux distro.
Previous experiences with Linux colored my opinion somewhat, so I wanted a pared down, sensibly organised distro, and came across an article about portage so picked up Gentoo.
It took a few goes to get it installed right, following the handbook at www.gentoo.org. The first go, I did a "stage 2" install, and realised that for my needs the only thing it gave me was an extra few hours compilation time. I'd picked 2.6.7 kernel on this install and once it was up and running I did an "emerge nvidia-kernel" and the drivers wouldn't start. I went off and got the latest ones from nvidia and those wouldn't work so I hrmmed and not really knowing linux reinstalled from stage 3 using the earlier 2.4.31 kernel. Bingo, nvidia drivers worked.
Now I wanted to get sound going and followed the guide in the handbook and nothing. After much faffing about, I enabled the CMI sound on my motherboard and switched to that and finally got it working with ALSA.
I really wanted to run the later kernel, as it had ALSA builtin and supposedly performed better, after digging around discovered there was a compile option in the kernel that nvidia needed to be at a different setting (the newer drivers fix this), so I upgraded to 2.6.7 again and compiled ALSA + CMI + Aureal + NVidia tweak and this time around the graphics were accelerated but boom, no sound.
More digging around, and I found out that Alsa was a bit broken in the kernel so recompiled again without Alsa builtin, ran through the Alsa install a few more times with reboots until the sound started working again.
All in all it took a few days to get a machine that did sound and accelerated graphics up and running. Really expected things to be a lot easier, perhaps it would have been with Redhat or Suse.
As to Gentoo itself, I like it - it's clean and fairly logical, portage is decent. The runcontrol scripts are taking a bit of getting used too, I do prefer the Solaris way of doing things but will adapt no doubt.
Still have a few annoyances though. I can't get audio cd's to play with sound (they are recognised, can rip em etc). I'd like to get my gamepad working too, but thats not really a priority.
Oh yeah, during initial boot the cd didn't detect my network card. Needed to do a modprobe 3c59x then net-config to get up and running.
There's no telnetd on my machine which is a out of the box install.
What the heck are you doing posting?!? Unplug your computer from the network and pur concrete into the case now!
I thought the main interest was that it had an atmosphere that could possibly be within Terran norms of pressure etc?
Why? Do you really think Slate or MSNBC would have any credibility whatsoever if MS decided to excercise editorial content on them? I'd imagine Redmond gives them free reign to write what they want, if MS bashing comes up then thats the Zeitgeist and probably something they already know, care and are doing something about.
Rubbish.
Linux / Mozilla / Evolution is not secure, it's just not a vector of attack. If 90% of the desktops ran one of those pieces of software then the same issue would arise. Windows is insecure primarily because it is the most widespread vector for attack.
It's a whole new operating system, for 99% of people the windows experience will be harder, faster, better etc.
There have been ongoing issues with corporate, XP server users tho, will installing this hose my application?
I just replaced the OS on my home machine from XP 2k3 server (XP is a very solid product btw) with mainboot of Gentoo & second boot of 98SE.
The only thing i'm missing in Linux was Windows gaming, so 98SE seemed like the no brainer choice.
Wasn't there a screensaver that emulated it?
Netscape didn't become a verb. Google did. You can't redefine verbs with dollars.
apart from that did pacman have any sound other than wacka wacka wacka woowoowoo?
You could do a presidential blowjob game or who assasinated me or how do i spell potatoe or cough up a pretzel before it chokes you game.
all of those would be fun.
Way off topic, who else remembers Al Gore and the Potatoe?
48DD tits, hipster pants and skintight tshirt != totally sexless.
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I bet it was more like this:
Game Designer: Lets make a game that really sells, what do 14 year old boys like?
Game Programmer: Tits! Women! Naked Women!
Game Designer: We cant do the naked women thing, lets exagerrate sexual features instead and glove her, should we dress her in corset with suspenders?
Game Programmer: No thats too overtly sexual and Geri Haliwell would kill us, we could try a minidress with the Union Flag on it?
Game Designer: Nah I got it, skin tight short clothing and big boobs!
time passes
Game Designer: Well we have this game with some stupid bint showing ass and if you maneuver her right also pointy polygonal tits, how the hell are we gonna sell this?
(Marketer walks in the door)
Marketer: Well we could be post ironic, thats big this year - lets take the piss and market the game as a Feminist statement
Game Designer: yeah that will work!
And who could forget the message in Pac Man?
Stuff your face with pills and chase the ghosts away, it was no accident they turned blue when on the run (blue = police geddit?) But even when you were tripping your nuts of you should remember to eat fresh fruit for the Vitamin C.
Tombraider as ironic campaign against the objectification of women my arse, cynical cash in on "Girl Power" more like.
It isn't a Lowid, I think I subscribed with this acount maybe 4 or 5 years ago? Don't remember, had another account before but lost the details for it.
As to the Windows geek question, no I never was a Windows geek, or Linux geek - just a regular computer geek. I've tried linux on and off over the years as a Desktop O/S strating with early versions of Slack, everytime i lasted maybe a week at most.
This time round it seems to be a bit better, the only thing i'm missing now is games and that looks to be improving.
Rubbish, the Japanese economy has been trashed for a long time.
We also realized that you don't understand the words you are using. This tends to reduce our opinion of your writing.
And like I give a fuck? Excuse me I used a wrong word in an incorrect context whilst writing off the top of my head. 90% agreed with the overall sentiment, 10% disagreed with the grammatical structure. But if you will excuse me, Gnome is 85% done compiling and I should attend to it. (but I think the installer made that number up)