I'm in favor of putting linux on this computer, but ubuntu will not run on any computer with a "Designed for XP" sticker. I doubt you could run it with any kind of efficiency with less than 1GB of RAM and a pentium 4 or maybe high end pentium 3. XP stretches back further than that.
Virtualization? This is an xp era machine, those usually don't go beyond Pentium 4 era stuff. It's damn near impossible to get ubuntu running with any kind of speed in a VM unless you've got pretty nice specs which probably wouldn't exist or be any kind of common pre-2006.
Sigh. Perhaps you've heard of the phrase bullshit? I doubt it. I can install XP on a pentium 2 or 3 with 384-512Mb of RAM and it will run perfectly. Good fucking luck getting 7 to run, it can barely scale down to the Atom, which is actually somewhat more powerful than a pentium 4. Not that there's anything wrong with that- well there is to me, but windows bloat is just what you deserve for running it. But don't go astroturfing with broad statements like that.
Bullshit, it's been brainless to use ubuntu since at least hardy. For people who have never used a computer before, ubuntu or mint is much much easier to learn than windows from scratch. Trust me, I've seen it. Though she doesn't use a computer often, I set my grandmother up with xubuntu 8.04 on the desktop years ago. Solid as a rock, been working ever since, and she's had no trouble either. With some flavor of windows on it though, it could easily become a doorstop to someone who doesn't know anything about not clicking links.
A bit more than two steps I think. I've got a machine with 3GB DDR2 RAM, 2.5GHz pentium, and intel graphics, and it's outperformed by upwards of 30fps in ioquake3 games by a 2.4GHz P4 machine with a gig of some pre-ddr ram, and a Ti4200 from '03. That was not a high end card in '03, barely above nvidia's entry level stuff. By the way, I'm not talking about some hardly noticeable 50 fps vs 70 fps, I'm talking 20fps vs 50.
It's not dead, but hardly in common use anymore. Mesh networking would work great over short distances, but in anything larger than a subdivision, you're going to need a longer range link.
My copy of oblivion had some horrible form of Secure rom drm or something. I just said "to hell with it" and downloaded a pirated copy since I'd already bought it after the 5th failed attempt to get it running in wine because of the DRM.
Protip: Hydorgen cars are electric, they just use a denser, yet harder to make energy storage medium. Also, Lithium electric cars take nowhere near that long to charge/range.
When do you "always hear" about games getting their source code released? I rarely hear anyone other than id doing that. As for who it helps- see earlier commenters.
There's world of padman. Open arena and urban terror have way different themes, warsow is a cell-shaded, cartoon-like beast... seriously, have you never looked at any free shooters?
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I'm in favor of putting linux on this computer, but ubuntu will not run on any computer with a "Designed for XP" sticker. I doubt you could run it with any kind of efficiency with less than 1GB of RAM and a pentium 4 or maybe high end pentium 3. XP stretches back further than that.
Virtualization? This is an xp era machine, those usually don't go beyond Pentium 4 era stuff. It's damn near impossible to get ubuntu running with any kind of speed in a VM unless you've got pretty nice specs which probably wouldn't exist or be any kind of common pre-2006.
If a box will run XP it will run Win 7.
Sigh. Perhaps you've heard of the phrase bullshit? I doubt it. I can install XP on a pentium 2 or 3 with 384-512Mb of RAM and it will run perfectly. Good fucking luck getting 7 to run, it can barely scale down to the Atom, which is actually somewhat more powerful than a pentium 4. Not that there's anything wrong with that- well there is to me, but windows bloat is just what you deserve for running it. But don't go astroturfing with broad statements like that.
Bullshit, it's been brainless to use ubuntu since at least hardy. For people who have never used a computer before, ubuntu or mint is much much easier to learn than windows from scratch. Trust me, I've seen it. Though she doesn't use a computer often, I set my grandmother up with xubuntu 8.04 on the desktop years ago. Solid as a rock, been working ever since, and she's had no trouble either. With some flavor of windows on it though, it could easily become a doorstop to someone who doesn't know anything about not clicking links.
Department of american freedoms? Sounds more 1984ish to me.
A bit more than two steps I think. I've got a machine with 3GB DDR2 RAM, 2.5GHz pentium, and intel graphics, and it's outperformed by upwards of 30fps in ioquake3 games by a 2.4GHz P4 machine with a gig of some pre-ddr ram, and a Ti4200 from '03. That was not a high end card in '03, barely above nvidia's entry level stuff. By the way, I'm not talking about some hardly noticeable 50 fps vs 70 fps, I'm talking 20fps vs 50.
But if we're talking movie DVDs, you've got CSS to deal with. That would probably ensure that none of our pop-culture survives millennia. Thank god...
At least there's still a significant number of people interested in space.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!
True- though it makes me wonder why. With encryption hardwired into so many things now, why does the regulation still stand?
I'll wait for the movie.
Too soon?
It's not dead, but hardly in common use anymore. Mesh networking would work great over short distances, but in anything larger than a subdivision, you're going to need a longer range link.
That's an understatement. They've made claims that are greater than the GDP of the entire world.
Well he's got troll in his username. Do the sarcasm tags need to be in caps, too?
Anyone interested in resurrecting packet radio?
True, but reduction in the US's credit rating is somewhat more powerful than a recession imo.
...that this could end the culture of borrowing the US has?
My copy of oblivion had some horrible form of Secure rom drm or something. I just said "to hell with it" and downloaded a pirated copy since I'd already bought it after the 5th failed attempt to get it running in wine because of the DRM.
Protip: Hydorgen cars are electric, they just use a denser, yet harder to make energy storage medium. Also, Lithium electric cars take nowhere near that long to charge/range.
When do you "always hear" about games getting their source code released? I rarely hear anyone other than id doing that. As for who it helps- see earlier commenters.
There's world of padman. Open arena and urban terror have way different themes, warsow is a cell-shaded, cartoon-like beast... seriously, have you never looked at any free shooters?
Darkplaces has been better than idtech4 for quite a while now IMO. But yeah, still a good thing.
.... I can understand not RTFA, but not reading the damn comment you're replying to? That's sad. Let me quote this for you:
I tried to check this - can you point to a reference that confirms that format shifting is legal in the US?
Post it?
An MMORPG without the MMO? Around here, we call that an RPG.