Just a quick post to pimp my favourite Diku-based MUD, Turf.
Not many people seem to be on there nowadays, you virtually have the server to yourself. Unfortunately, that means it sucks for grouping when you're trying to level up.
At work, we're starting to use SLES8 and 9 on some of our servers. As my experience is on Red Hat and Fedora I tend not to know my way around a SUSE system. A lot of things are where I expect to find them, but there are some subtle differences. To that end I'd like to install SUSE on a spare machine at home so that I can learn its ways. Is SUSE Pro similar enough to SLES to allow me to do so? If it was Red Hat, I could always grab a copy of CentOS and use that. Is there an equivalent project for SLES?
Bizarrely, I never get good BitTorrent download rates. I'm on a 1Mb down/128kb up cable modem. I can feed people quite happily at 12KB/s yet my incoming is often around the 6KB/s mark. Go figure.
Using FTP and an uncrowded server, I get to use my full incoming bandwidth, approx. 120KB/s.
I have a email with a date/timestamp of 2005-06-13 15:36 (BST) officially announcing the availability of this release. This story is timestamped 16:11 (GMT), how are/. jumping the gun?
Managed to snarf a copy over the weekend from an unsecured official mirror. Four CDs, each about 630MB.
Installed it onto my ThinkPad T23, 733MHz/1.13GHz with 512MB RAM. Familiar graphical installation procedure, auto-detected everything in my laptop. Didn't expect it not to, as previous Fedora Core releases did so. When setting up the soundcard though, couldn't hear the test sounds but booting into KDE produced the familiar jingle. SELinux option during installation is Enabled or Disabled, no halfway house as in FC3. Compiling with GCC4.0 has made a noticeable speed difference, especially in KDE 3.4. Start-up time seemed quicker as well.
As always, read the release notes. They have taken the decision to move some stuff off into the Fedora Extras project. XMMS was the main one I noticed. And yes, this being Red Hat-influenced, there is no support for MP3 or DVD playback straight off the installation discs.
If you have a Matrox-based card that requires you to use the Matrox-sourced mga_hal module, you're not going to have much luck configuring X until they release a new version for X.org 6.8.2. I get lovely vertical bars every 1cm on my TFTs using a G550 DVI.
There was a DVD ISO for FC2 and FC3 if memory serves. I managed to find one unsecured FTP site that had a DVD ISO for FC4, but as I was only getting 10KB/s from that site and maxing out my bandwidth downloading the CD ISOs from another site, I went for the CDs.
On Friday night I managed to find an FTP server where the admin hadn't secured the Fedora Core 4 directory. Grabbed the four ISOs and by Saturday afternoon, I was enjoying a fresh FC4 installation.
I know that a lot of people don't bother to play with their Sims but rather prefer to use the game as a house design tool.
Granted that the grid-based system that The Sims employs for house design means you cannot get an exact scale model of a property. However, you do get a variety of different furniture items with the game and it is possible to design and import your own wallpapers and floor coverings.
Downloaded linux-2.6.10 to see if a vanilla kernel would fix the problem I'm having with a video capture card rather than a vendor-supplied one. It took 3 hours to compile on a Celeron 400 w/ 384MB and ATA66 HD. Mind, that was with all the options switched on. Don't know yet if it has fixed the problem, did a remote reboot and it didn't come back up.
We have Sony Centres. As the name implies, they only stock Sony products. As far as I'm aware they are franchises and not directly operated by Sony. However, whenever a particular Sony line is in short supply, the Sony Centres never seem to suffer.
And before I get modded a troll for this, it's a well-known fact in the Acorn community. Acorn being the company that helped start ARM and produced a range of desktop machines using said chips. He/she also was involved with the design of the BBC microcomputer.
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Just a quick post to pimp my favourite Diku-based MUD, Turf.
Not many people seem to be on there nowadays, you virtually have the server to yourself. Unfortunately, that means it sucks for grouping when you're trying to level up.
At work, we're starting to use SLES8 and 9 on some of our servers. As my experience is on Red Hat and Fedora I tend not to know my way around a SUSE system. A lot of things are where I expect to find them, but there are some subtle differences. To that end I'd like to install SUSE on a spare machine at home so that I can learn its ways. Is SUSE Pro similar enough to SLES to allow me to do so? If it was Red Hat, I could always grab a copy of CentOS and use that. Is there an equivalent project for SLES?
Bizarrely, I never get good BitTorrent download rates. I'm on a 1Mb down/128kb up cable modem. I can feed people quite happily at 12KB/s yet my incoming is often around the 6KB/s mark. Go figure.
Using FTP and an uncrowded server, I get to use my full incoming bandwidth, approx. 120KB/s.
I have a email with a date/timestamp of 2005-06-13 15:36 (BST) officially announcing the availability of this release. This story is timestamped 16:11 (GMT), how are /. jumping the gun?
Managed to snarf a copy over the weekend from an unsecured official mirror. Four CDs, each about 630MB.
Installed it onto my ThinkPad T23, 733MHz/1.13GHz with 512MB RAM. Familiar graphical installation procedure, auto-detected everything in my laptop. Didn't expect it not to, as previous Fedora Core releases did so. When setting up the soundcard though, couldn't hear the test sounds but booting into KDE produced the familiar jingle. SELinux option during installation is Enabled or Disabled, no halfway house as in FC3. Compiling with GCC4.0 has made a noticeable speed difference, especially in KDE 3.4. Start-up time seemed quicker as well.
As always, read the release notes. They have taken the decision to move some stuff off into the Fedora Extras project. XMMS was the main one I noticed. And yes, this being Red Hat-influenced, there is no support for MP3 or DVD playback straight off the installation discs.
If you have a Matrox-based card that requires you to use the Matrox-sourced mga_hal module, you're not going to have much luck configuring X until they release a new version for X.org 6.8.2. I get lovely vertical bars every 1cm on my TFTs using a G550 DVI.
There was a DVD ISO for FC2 and FC3 if memory serves. I managed to find one unsecured FTP site that had a DVD ISO for FC4, but as I was only getting 10KB/s from that site and maxing out my bandwidth downloading the CD ISOs from another site, I went for the CDs.
On Friday night I managed to find an FTP server where the admin hadn't secured the Fedora Core 4 directory. Grabbed the four ISOs and by Saturday afternoon, I was enjoying a fresh FC4 installation.
And a propos is two words, not one.
Wrong. Apropos
You can get a 1U rackmount case that will let you fit 2 mini-ITX motherboards side-by-side.
I know that a lot of people don't bother to play with their Sims but rather prefer to use the game as a house design tool.
Granted that the grid-based system that The Sims employs for house design means you cannot get an exact scale model of a property. However, you do get a variety of different furniture items with the game and it is possible to design and import your own wallpapers and floor coverings.
/me raises hand.
Downloaded linux-2.6.10 to see if a vanilla kernel would fix the problem I'm having with a video capture card rather than a vendor-supplied one. It took 3 hours to compile on a Celeron 400 w/ 384MB and ATA66 HD. Mind, that was with all the options switched on. Don't know yet if it has fixed the problem, did a remote reboot and it didn't come back up.
Nice troll there.
"A note of caution: reading this thing may cause temporary brain damage."
Do they mean the manuscript or Slashdot?
... check to see if this story was submitted by Roland Piquepaille?
I agree, people don't realise Trek's always been inconsistent with itself. See TOS klingons vs future klingons.
:)
That was sort of explained in the DS9 episode Trials and Tribble-ations. Except they (Klingons) don't wish to talk about it
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=viruses
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=virii
Easy enough to check for yourself.
Ah but, did they remove both Shift keys?
Note to mods too lazy to click thru to Amazon - it's a book entitled "The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Men"
Why do I get this rather annoying feeling that a rather large segment of slashdot is rooting for the warezers, as though they're doing something good?
Ironically, it is because of the warezers that Valve have resorted to the authentification method.
Disk storage has increased tremendously in the past 5 years and the blatant insecurities in the antiquated LM hashing technique have not gone away;
Maybe I'm being a bit thick here but how does the first part of that sentence relate to the other?
I am personally sick of windows worms and viri.
You are sick of windows worms and men? What is the plural of 'virus'?
We have Sony Centres. As the name implies, they only stock Sony products. As far as I'm aware they are franchises and not directly operated by Sony. However, whenever a particular Sony line is in short supply, the Sony Centres never seem to suffer.
The blog started on 25th July 2004. This date plus 227 gives me a finishing date of 9th March 2005. This is well short of 1st April.
You can't fool me. There ain't no sanity clause.
Actually, Sophie Wilson is a transsexual.
And before I get modded a troll for this, it's a well-known fact in the Acorn community. Acorn being the company that helped start ARM and produced a range of desktop machines using said chips. He/she also was involved with the design of the BBC microcomputer.