don't tell me that ms tried to release a update to windows that patches many problems and lets programs opt-in to a system that lets it become the default program while hiding the MS programs, ohh no how dare they! next thing you'll know people will start to think that MS cares about the products they sale.
get real people, if this was redhat or debian releasing a SP everyone would be talking about how great they are for updating the os. It would be nice if they did that way when you do a fresh install you only have to run one rmp or deb to update the system, instead of trying to decide what updates you want from hundreds of choices.
as for the size of the update its because it contains all the security updates for every version of XP, if you goto windows update of course its a smaller download, chances are you already downloaded many of the updates already, not to mention you don't end up downloading the stuff for IIS if you don't have it installed or things for XP pro if you only have home.
I'm a very horrible speller, if you look at some of my past posts you can see that, but when I started using a spell checker I've have gotten a lot better not just because I spell check my posts its because the spell checker is actually teaching me the correct way to spell the words, every once in a while I spell a word so bad the spell checker wont pick it up for example I kept spelling the word enough as enofe the spell checker wouldn't give me the correct spelling, luckily some troll told me the correct spelling, in a normal troll fashion. I'm not a complete moron ether, I've done some web development in perl, was top in my class at ITT-tech in electronic engineering I ended up dropping out when they forced me to take english we had to do a lot of writing in class and the teacher kept failing me for my bad spelling
if you look at the page for the character templates you can use its pritty lame, Ive played UO and its very very easy to get those stats only a few days of playing a few hours a day will get you that high, Its not like they are setting you up with GM status, the stats they give you is about min for what it takes to fully explore the world, sure its cheating a little bit, but its not so much to give someone an advantage
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I was thinking the same thing, I used to drive a 3 cylinder chevy sprint around 130mph on my way to work, after about a week of this the block cracked and my max speed went down to 40;), I would think in a freefall the thing would go faster, I guess the wind ressitance
its from an episode of southpark, there was a talking towel caled towelie, whenever someone would mention water he would show up and say "and dont forget to bring a towel" he was also always high and asked other to get high with him
people believe what they see and know, as of now our current science tells us that life=water as we don't know of another chemical that's stable enofe to support life, I think a better search for life involves ones that look for methane as it rarely forms naturally and large enofe amounts to be detected from earth is a strong indicator of life
Its cool they found a method for finding water on other planets, but its no surprise that their is water, what earth was the only planet in the universe to be hit by a comet;)
I had a old 6xcdrw drive that would fubar on 8x disks a firmware update fixed this by corectly identifying the disk and adjusting the burning system so it would'nt fry the disk, the firmware for the dvdrw would do the same thing
I like the time travel plots, as well as the time cop idea. probably cause I've always been interested in time travel. I know 90% of the plots would end up causing a paradox, but I still find them fun to watch. I agree with what most people on the holodeck, why are they allowed to create holo-people knowing that if they find out they are not human they become alive?? as for the overacting and impulsive behavior of the crew I think they got the idea from ST:TOS as the crew was also out-spoken but not as much, showing that people humans became more and more tame as time goes on enterprise-TOS-TNG-DP9-voyager. They could have gotten a lot better person for the captain then Scott bakula, horrible actor , I keep hoping he'll "quantum leap" his ass out of their;)
if you live in or neer a city greater then 30k people chances are you have a computer parts store in the area, sure you could save a little more money buying online but its hell a lot easier to return to a local store, I've never spent more then 500$ setting up a system that kicks that pants off anything dell or gateway has to offer esp for gamming
I've been putting together computers for 6 years now, its was easy then and even easier now, back then cables could easily been put in upside down, fortunately this rarely hurt the device an easy way to tell is the hard drive or floppy light would come-on and stay on its a signal right away that you did something wrong, the hardest part was that damn at power connecter could be put in 2 ways luckily I've never burned out a MB putting them in backwards the most that would happen is the computer wouldn't turn on, modern pc are really easy to setup, if you buy the cpu&mb at the same place they'll be nice to you and set the jumpers for you (most of the time) the other parts are easy to plug in cables have notches so you cant plug them in upside down the hardest part is connecting the power and reset switch, but if you pay attention to the mb manual its a snap
I would but it looks like my disto (suse8) thought it would be a good idea to rename all the emu10k1 drivers, if i do a lsmod I get like 10 drivers loaded for it all of the start with snd- like snd-emu10k1, snd-emu10k1-synth, and bunch others, I cant even figure out how to restart them for when the sound realy goes to pot, if I try rmmod snd-emu10k1 I get that device or rseource busy error, I assume couse of the 9 other drivers loaded for it, if someone knows how to stop thoes drivers from loading so I can use the creative ones I will, as its one of the things thats keeps me out of linux, as all my audio sound like its being played thrue the pc speaker
Its always a good idea too look for Linux compatibility when getting new hardware even if you don't use Linux, I find Linux compatible hardware is 90% of the time higher quality hardware that's better supported even under windows, mostly do to the fact its not winmodem type hardware, I've seen so many windows only hardware that worked very poorly (mostly web cams) and support was non existent, no updated drivers, no faqs, nothing not even a download of the original drivers.
in defense of nvidia the drivers are open source enofe to compile on many different distros and kernel/xfree versions, the only thing that's closed is the actual opengl stuff as opengl is still copyrighted and closed src, nvidia would be sued big time if they opened the src, they could use mesa3D but the performance drop is too much for it to be worth the time porting to it
Re:How does the FPS compare to Windows??
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I dont know how to get fps in ut2003 so I cant tell you exactly, but to me it seems to run exactly the same, the original UT runs about 5fps faster on linux , I have a pritty fast computer (2ghzp4,512M DDR,geforce4 ti4200) so the overhead of the OS is not a problem, from my exp on older hardware linux runs games much faster, for example I remember getting around 10fps more in Q3 on a k6 300 and a voodoo3 under linux (xfree 4.0 vrs WinMe)
what if a person has oddball hardware, or notfully supported hardware, for example I have a sb audigy, that sounds like crap under linux. if they try this live cd only to find UT2003 runs or sounds like crap compared to win32 they are going to think linux=crapy performance, and not try it again
tell me if you recorded the Simpsons, remove the commercials put in your own adds and rebroadcast it, is it theft? yes by far it is, just because you copied for next to nothing doesn't mean that its yours to do as you please, and to use your example, a better one would be like if you owned a furniture store and wanted to sale lazyboy chairs but you dint want to pay for them so you made your own chair that looks exactly the same and then put a lazyboy logo on it and sold it for next to nothing, is it theft?, yes
having never heard of ACL I did a little look up of it, it appears to be away of extending attributes so that you can have multiple users per file and adjusting the attributes for each user, what I want is mime typing so that the file system know what type of file it is , for example being able to set the attributes so that a jpg file is recognized as a jpg and typing./image.jpg will open up the proper image viewer, second I don't want to use links soft or otherwise, for example if I want to put all my.so files in one place or sorted by lib, I don't want to have links all over the place pointing to it, if I wanted a file to be there I would not have moved the file in the first place, ya I know I could change the path, but thats somthing that shood be transparent esp. if you move just one file
something similar to Macs HFS+, support for extended file attributes, and the ability to move files and have the file system point to the new location when a program looks for it, I know this would add a lot of overhead to the file system, but it would make it so much easier to customize the file system. Linux needs to break away from many things that slow progress, and one of these is the "magic numbers" method of file typing, a exe tab, a user tab, and a read-only tab, just is not powerful enofe
I don't, in fact ive had many tv tuner cards over the years and none of them had tv out, unless you count ATIs all-in-wonder, but thats a all-in-one video card , not a stand alone tv tuner card, my video card has a svideo out, but my tv doesnt support svideo
if done correctly, for example I much rather see someone drinking a can of coke then someone drinking a can of what looks exactly like a coke can but is labeled cola (or whatever). I like the idea of Mc Donalds, as long as its not the only hamburger place, same with pizzahut, its harder to control pizzahut thoe as the Sims order pizza on their own and it would suck to see a the pizzahut logo on every pizza box, I don't like the idea of the Intel inside logo unless they plan on making it life size ( 1"x1") so you really cant see it without zooming in really close, it would suck, if it was a big ass logo on the side of the computer, as it would not look real
ether the games based on AMD's 3dnow (damn pent4) or there is something wrong with my video card, I dont think its my drivers as I get the same performance under linux&windows
what sucks is I have a 2ghz cpu and a geforce4 ti4200, and I have to set the res down to 800x600 just for a decent framerate, that or set the quality down to low ether way, I was expecting at least 30fps at 1024x768, but its more like 15, seems like false advertising
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don't tell me that ms tried to release a update to windows that patches many problems and lets programs opt-in to a system that lets it become the default program while hiding the MS programs, ohh no how dare they! next thing you'll know people will start to think that MS cares about the products they sale.
get real people, if this was redhat or debian releasing a SP everyone would be talking about how great they are for updating the os. It would be nice if they did that way when you do a fresh install you only have to run one rmp or deb to update the system, instead of trying to decide what updates you want from hundreds of choices.
as for the size of the update its because it contains all the security updates for every version of XP, if you goto windows update of course its a smaller download, chances are you already downloaded many of the updates already, not to mention you don't end up downloading the stuff for IIS if you don't have it installed or things for XP pro if you only have home.
I'm a very horrible speller, if you look at some of my past posts you can see that, but when I started using a spell checker I've have gotten a lot better not just because I spell check my posts its because the spell checker is actually teaching me the correct way to spell the words, every once in a while I spell a word so bad the spell checker wont pick it up for example I kept spelling the word enough as enofe the spell checker wouldn't give me the correct spelling, luckily some troll told me the correct spelling, in a normal troll fashion. I'm not a complete moron ether, I've done some web development in perl, was top in my class at ITT-tech in electronic engineering I ended up dropping out when they forced me to take english we had to do a lot of writing in class and the teacher kept failing me for my bad spelling
if you look at the page for the character templates you can use its pritty lame, Ive played UO and its very very easy to get those stats only a few days of playing a few hours a day will get you that high, Its not like they are setting you up with GM status, the stats they give you is about min for what it takes to fully explore the world, sure its cheating a little bit, but its not so much to give someone an advantage
I was thinking the same thing, I used to drive a 3 cylinder chevy sprint around 130mph on my way to work, after about a week of this the block cracked and my max speed went down to 40 ;), I would think in a freefall the thing would go faster, I guess the wind ressitance
its from an episode of southpark, there was a talking towel caled towelie, whenever someone would mention water he would show up and say "and dont forget to bring a towel" he was also always high and asked other to get high with him
people believe what they see and know, as of now our current science tells us that life=water as we don't know of another chemical that's stable enofe to support life, I think a better search for life involves ones that look for methane as it rarely forms naturally and large enofe amounts to be detected from earth is a strong indicator of life
"you wanna get high"-Towelie
Its cool they found a method for finding water on other planets, but its no surprise that their is water, what earth was the only planet in the universe to be hit by a comet ;)
I had a old 6xcdrw drive that would fubar on 8x disks a firmware update fixed this by corectly identifying the disk and adjusting the burning system so it would'nt fry the disk, the firmware for the dvdrw would do the same thing
heh, I would be more then bitching if a 5$ 4xdvd disk broke a 300-400$ dvd burner
I like the time travel plots, as well as the time cop idea. probably cause I've always been interested in time travel. I know 90% of the plots would end up causing a paradox, but I still find them fun to watch. I agree with what most people on the holodeck, why are they allowed to create holo-people knowing that if they find out they are not human they become alive?? as for the overacting and impulsive behavior of the crew I think they got the idea from ST:TOS as the crew was also out-spoken but not as much, showing that people humans became more and more tame as time goes on enterprise-TOS-TNG-DP9-voyager. They could have gotten a lot better person for the captain then Scott bakula, horrible actor , I keep hoping he'll "quantum leap" his ass out of their ;)
if you live in or neer a city greater then 30k people chances are you have a computer parts store in the area, sure you could save a little more money buying online but its hell a lot easier to return to a local store, I've never spent more then 500$ setting up a system that kicks that pants off anything dell or gateway has to offer esp for gamming
read the article, its a joke, lego men put the thing together
I've been putting together computers for 6 years now, its was easy then and even easier now, back then cables could easily been put in upside down, fortunately this rarely hurt the device an easy way to tell is the hard drive or floppy light would come-on and stay on its a signal right away that you did something wrong, the hardest part was that damn at power connecter could be put in 2 ways luckily I've never burned out a MB putting them in backwards the most that would happen is the computer wouldn't turn on, modern pc are really easy to setup, if you buy the cpu&mb at the same place they'll be nice to you and set the jumpers for you (most of the time) the other parts are easy to plug in cables have notches so you cant plug them in upside down the hardest part is connecting the power and reset switch, but if you pay attention to the mb manual its a snap
I would but it looks like my disto (suse8) thought it would be a good idea to rename all the emu10k1 drivers, if i do a lsmod I get like 10 drivers loaded for it all of the start with snd- like snd-emu10k1, snd-emu10k1-synth, and bunch others, I cant even figure out how to restart them for when the sound realy goes to pot, if I try rmmod snd-emu10k1 I get that device or rseource busy error, I assume couse of the 9 other drivers loaded for it, if someone knows how to stop thoes drivers from loading so I can use the creative ones I will, as its one of the things thats keeps me out of linux, as all my audio sound like its being played thrue the pc speaker
Its always a good idea too look for Linux compatibility when getting new hardware even if you don't use Linux, I find Linux compatible hardware is 90% of the time higher quality hardware that's better supported even under windows, mostly do to the fact its not winmodem type hardware, I've seen so many windows only hardware that worked very poorly (mostly web cams) and support was non existent, no updated drivers, no faqs, nothing not even a download of the original drivers.
in defense of nvidia the drivers are open source enofe to compile on many different distros and kernel/xfree versions, the only thing that's closed is the actual opengl stuff as opengl is still copyrighted and closed src, nvidia would be sued big time if they opened the src, they could use mesa3D but the performance drop is too much for it to be worth the time porting to it
I dont know how to get fps in ut2003 so I cant tell you exactly, but to me it seems to run exactly the same, the original UT runs about 5fps faster on linux , I have a pritty fast computer (2ghzp4,512M DDR,geforce4 ti4200) so the overhead of the OS is not a problem, from my exp on older hardware linux runs games much faster, for example I remember getting around 10fps more in Q3 on a k6 300 and a voodoo3 under linux (xfree 4.0 vrs WinMe)
what if a person has oddball hardware, or notfully supported hardware, for example I have a sb audigy, that sounds like crap under linux. if they try this live cd only to find UT2003 runs or sounds like crap compared to win32 they are going to think linux=crapy performance, and not try it again
tell me if you recorded the Simpsons, remove the commercials put in your own adds and rebroadcast it, is it theft? yes by far it is, just because you copied for next to nothing doesn't mean that its yours to do as you please, and to use your example, a better one would be like if you owned a furniture store and wanted to sale lazyboy chairs but you dint want to pay for them so you made your own chair that looks exactly the same and then put a lazyboy logo on it and sold it for next to nothing, is it theft?, yes
having never heard of ACL I did a little look up of it, it appears to be away of extending attributes so that you can have multiple users per file and adjusting the attributes for each user, what I want is mime typing so that the file system know what type of file it is , for example being able to set the attributes so that a jpg file is recognized as a jpg and typing ./image.jpg will open up the proper image viewer, second I don't want to use links soft or otherwise, for example if I want to put all my .so files in one place or sorted by lib, I don't want to have links all over the place pointing to it, if I wanted a file to be there I would not have moved the file in the first place, ya I know I could change the path, but thats somthing that shood be transparent esp. if you move just one file
something similar to Macs HFS+, support for extended file attributes, and the ability to move files and have the file system point to the new location when a program looks for it, I know this would add a lot of overhead to the file system, but it would make it so much easier to customize the file system. Linux needs to break away from many things that slow progress, and one of these is the "magic numbers" method of file typing, a exe tab, a user tab, and a read-only tab, just is not powerful enofe
I don't, in fact ive had many tv tuner cards over the years and none of them had tv out, unless you count ATIs all-in-wonder, but thats a all-in-one video card , not a stand alone tv tuner card, my video card has a svideo out, but my tv doesnt support svideo
if done correctly, for example I much rather see someone drinking a can of coke then someone drinking a can of what looks exactly like a coke can but is labeled cola (or whatever). I like the idea of Mc Donalds, as long as its not the only hamburger place, same with pizzahut, its harder to control pizzahut thoe as the Sims order pizza on their own and it would suck to see a the pizzahut logo on every pizza box, I don't like the idea of the Intel inside logo unless they plan on making it life size ( 1"x1") so you really cant see it without zooming in really close, it would suck, if it was a big ass logo on the side of the computer, as it would not look real
ether the games based on AMD's 3dnow (damn pent4) or there is something wrong with my video card, I dont think its my drivers as I get the same performance under linux&windows
what sucks is I have a 2ghz cpu and a geforce4 ti4200, and I have to set the res down to 800x600 just for a decent framerate, that or set the quality down to low ether way, I was expecting at least 30fps at 1024x768, but its more like 15, seems like false advertising