After installing Xfree86 4.0 and the latest Nvidia drivers I downloaded a demo of Heretic II. WOW! It made me all warm inside to see a HW rendered game in Linux. I quickly deleted the windoze partition and installed a slimmed down version of SUSE 6.4 that will be used for gaming only.
I'm now waiting for my copy of Heretic II to arrive in the mail:-)
On the flip side it was a pain in the butt the first time I tried to set up the new version of X and the NVIDIA drivers. But it was worth it to be rid of windoze.
I'm going to miss HL though:-(
heh heh... I'm using it right now. Not as bad as I thought it would be... but it's really lame that I gotta run it as root. Since I can't get into X though (trying to install 4.0 right now... w/o success), it's nice to have. I just wish they would open the source for it. But judging from the developers mailing list they are afraid some big company is going to steal it if they did that. Oh well. Much better than opera.
I really hate leaving comments like this (short w/ no substance), but man your server is fast now! Usually it takes about 10-15 seconds to load, but now it's up in about a second. Good job:-)
the above statement isn't necessarily correct. I work at the Cincinnati Public Library and we just purchased 3 rocket books so that patrons could read the new Stephen King story.
I'm using suse 6.2 and Opera runs fine (well... except that it segfaults all the time). I'm grateful that opera took the time to port the software but ( always a but;-) I'm going to wait for konqueror 2.0. I really think it's something to watch.
No actually it was the crappy 2.x. I have since tried the 3.x and yes that is far worse than the stable release. I run Linux all the time and have netscape crash at least once a day but it doesn't take down my whole system. And yes i can understand the plugin causing the problem when it crashes the system.
No I'm running 4.5 (x86) on a PII System. The last crash occured while running netpositive. Most of my crashes occur when trying to use the ext2 pluggin... especially when trying to copy large files (like my entire mp3 collection). Also Had it crash while using my wintv card. My hardware is pretty plain. PII 400mhz 64MB RAM 56k Modem Riva/TnT agp card Hauppauge WinTV card (404) NetGear FA310TX ethernet card
I really dislike 35mm. I'd like to see a book covering Polaroid Land Camera tips. One of the tips would have to be how to rewire the camera to accept AA batteries.
Here's the image I have in my head... A couple of M$ employees are really bored so they plant rumors on the net about certain M$ products being ported to linux. After a few hours they head on over to Slashdot.org and laugh as all of the Linux users babble over the possibility.... This is at least the third such rumour in 6 months. Give it a F**kin break! Who really gives a shit? Are you actually going to use it if it happens to be true? Quit reporting on this! Ignore it untill it happens. This is probally just vaporware.
that's so funny... Here in Cincinnati the Micro-Centers are doing the same thing. It must be some kind of policy. It is kind of a negative thing i suppose. Someone should complain. ciao, rimez
C'mon. I've been using computers for less than three years (Linux since July 98) and I can find all the info I could ever want. If it's not on the disks or manual I can always find the answer on the net. If I really can't seem to figure something out I can go out to the bookstore and look through the many books available. Linux requires the user to learn a little something about his/her computer... there is nothing wrong with this. It's a good thing really.
Though I kind of agree on the PnP stuff... you comment about the documentation for Linux sucking is completely stupid. I've tried almost all major dist's and have *NEVER* really had much of a problem finding documentation on any of it. Have you checked your local book store's shelves lately? There is a lot of documentation out there. If you actually bought your copy of Linux (not the $1.99 deals either) you should have received documentation. Of course this could never fully teach you the in's and out's of Linux (that would take volumes). If you knew how to search the internet you wouldn't even have to buy a book... Hell SuSE comes with so much documentation that I have had to delete it to make room on my HDD. That was a really dumb comment about Debian and Slackware BTW... I don't think they are targeting newbies... anyone using these dist's will know what they are doing... they can install the latest versions of X and the kernel on there own w/o going back to the Dealer . Shame on you.
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take this fucking link off, man!!!!! Fucking gross!
After installing Xfree86 4.0 and the latest Nvidia drivers I downloaded a demo of Heretic II. WOW! It made me all warm inside to see a HW rendered game in Linux. I quickly deleted the windoze partition and installed a slimmed down version of SUSE 6.4 that will be used for gaming only. :-)
:-(
I'm now waiting for my copy of Heretic II to arrive in the mail
On the flip side it was a pain in the butt the first time I tried to set up the new version of X and the NVIDIA drivers. But it was worth it to be rid of windoze.
I'm going to miss HL though
Thanks man.... never saw that before. Quite funny.
heh heh... I'm using it right now. Not as bad
as I thought it would be... but it's really
lame that I gotta run it as root.
Since I can't get into X though (trying to
install 4.0 right now... w/o success), it's
nice to have. I just wish they would open the
source for it. But judging from the
developers mailing list they are afraid some
big company is going to steal it if they did
that. Oh well.
Much better than opera.
All it's going to do is get your ass beaten down by a bunch of redneck drunks. Have fun.
I really hate leaving comments like this (short w/ no substance), but man your server is fast now! Usually it takes about 10-15 seconds to load, but now it's up in about a second. Good job :-)
"no more borrowing one from the public library"
the above statement isn't necessarily correct. I work at the Cincinnati Public Library and we just purchased 3 rocket books so that patrons could read the new Stephen King story.
--rimez
and/or Team Fortress 2 (when it finally comes out). Of course this requires better 3D support... especially for my riva/tnt ;-)
I'm using suse 6.2 and Opera runs fine (well... except that it segfaults all the time). ;-) I'm going to wait for konqueror 2.0. I really think it's something to watch.
I'm grateful that opera took the time to port the software but ( always a but
No actually it was the crappy 2.x. I have since tried the 3.x and yes that is far worse than the stable release.
I run Linux all the time and have netscape crash at least once a day but it doesn't take down my whole system.
And yes i can understand the plugin causing the problem when it crashes the system.
rimez
No I'm running 4.5 (x86) on a PII System. The last crash occured while running netpositive. Most of my crashes occur when trying to use the ext2 pluggin... especially when trying to copy large files (like my entire mp3 collection).
Also Had it crash while using my wintv card.
My hardware is pretty plain.
PII 400mhz
64MB RAM
56k Modem
Riva/TnT agp card
Hauppauge WinTV card (404)
NetGear FA310TX ethernet card
..yeah and it (BeOS) crashes almost as much as windoze on my box. I like BeOS but I think it's got some growing to do.
I really dislike 35mm. I'd like to see a book covering Polaroid Land Camera tips. One of the tips would have to be how to rewire the camera to accept AA batteries.
Here's the image I have in my head...
A couple of M$ employees are really bored so they plant rumors on the net about certain M$ products being ported to linux. After a few hours they head on over to Slashdot.org and laugh as all of the Linux users babble over the possibility....
This is at least the third such rumour in 6 months. Give it a F**kin break! Who really gives a shit? Are you actually going to use it if it happens to be true?
Quit reporting on this! Ignore it untill it happens.
This is probally just vaporware.
geez,
rimez
that's so funny... Here in Cincinnati the Micro-Centers are doing the same thing. It must be some kind of policy. It is kind of a negative thing i suppose. Someone should complain.
ciao,
rimez
C'mon. I've been using computers for less than three years (Linux since July 98) and I can find all the info I could ever want. If it's not on the disks or manual I can always find the answer on the net. If I really can't seem to figure something out I can go out to the bookstore and look through the many books available.
Linux requires the user to learn a little something about his/her computer... there is nothing wrong with this. It's a good thing really.
ciao,
rimez
a non-tech Linux user
Though I kind of agree on the PnP stuff... you comment about the documentation for Linux sucking is completely stupid.
I've tried almost all major dist's and have *NEVER* really had much of a problem finding documentation on any of it.
Have you checked your local book store's shelves lately? There is a lot of documentation out there.
If you actually bought your copy of Linux (not the $1.99 deals either) you should have received documentation. Of course this could never fully teach you the in's and out's of Linux (that would take volumes).
If you knew how to search the internet you wouldn't even have to buy a book...
Hell SuSE comes with so much documentation that I have had to delete it to make room on my HDD.
That was a really dumb comment about Debian and Slackware BTW... I don't think they are targeting newbies... anyone using these dist's will know what they are doing... they can install the latest versions of X and the kernel on there own w/o going back to the Dealer . Shame on you.
ciao,
rimez
am I getting worked up over a troll?