Considering that your average Quake-playing geek can't even run a mile in under twenty minutes, virtual Quake would consist of mostly panting and water (or Bawls, if you enjoy poisoning your body) breaks rather than shooting and strafing.
One note for OpenBSD/NetBSD: if you use the Mac Booter/Installer - which is used by both OSes - you'll have to be very crafty with the partitions. Root can not be any larger than 1GB or so, and any other filesystems after that will probably have to be formatted and populated after the install is done.
I used to do OpenBSD and NetBSd on a Max IIcx, but installed with an ethernet card. In the case of NetBSD, if you can boot the sysinstall image (this is still marked experimental, but the old Mac Installer really should be dropped), you can probably install via PLIP/SLIP (sysinstall doesn't support PPP on mac68k AFAIK)on the Mac's serial/parallel ports.
If not, you can just use the CD-ROM. Booting the sysinstall image will get you into a NetBSD/mac68k generic kernel and install environment, and it probably should pick up your SCSI CD-ROM just fine.
Nubus Apple Ethernet cards on EBay are sometimes cheap, and sometimes expensive - it's a tossup. If you manage to get two though, Macs make good little routers (don't try to push any more than two 10mbit lines), especially with that permanent power switch that old Macs have.
There is one thing that keeps echoing through my mind, and I hope to God that the people working on this project are thinking it too: What the hell are we doing?
RtCW is pretty unusable on the MX without seriously lowering the options to the point where it looks like something from the Quake2 era.
I'm playing RtCW at 1024x768x16bit on my old TNT2 Ultra/Athlon 550, all default texture/geometry quality settings. No slowness at all. What's going on in your computer?
Yes, I don't understand why they just left three slots onboard and decided that it should be enough. Should it really be that hard to add a second PCI bridge so that there can be more than three PCI slots?
Twenty dollars seems a bit low to me. Chances are, MS is not going to offer network service to X-Box users through any local cable/DSL provider, or any other readily available network connection for that matter. Their "MSN Broadband" service is almost certainly tied into any sort of gaming service that is planned for the X-Box, and it is likely that you'll be paying for a line install and a new modem - that is unless MS strikes a deal with local broadband providers through some shady deal.
I honestly don't know what the cost would be, but I can say that it's surely to be more than just a crisp Twenty every month:
Weather.com already has those annoying popup, rootless Flash advertisements that take up your entire screen. If sites start doing this more often, I think I'll have to get rid of Flash.
Browsers that support this feature can display an icon which is stored on the web server (favicon.ico). I'm not sure if it's a 16x16 pixel bitmap or if it's 32x32 that gets scaled by the browser.
9AM: Roomate wakes me up to tell me that he just got a call in from the hospital that my parents were killed in a car crash, then yells April fools and laughs his way out of my room.
I would like to direct your attention to the following op-ed written by Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO of Disney. Mr. Eisner points out the profound historical significance of intellectual property rights and draws on one early and aggressive advocate of protecting such property rights, the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
If Abraham Lincoln were alive today, I doubt he would hesitate before spitting in the faces of Eisner and Hollings.
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An official Sun JDK native to FreeBSD exists, and should be available with FreeBSD 5.0.
frequent spelling and grammar mistakes. I'm not talking something really obscure or a minor technicallity in English, either.
Umm, I'll just leave it up to you to figure this one out.
Considering that your average Quake-playing geek can't even run a mile in under twenty minutes, virtual Quake would consist of mostly panting and water (or Bawls, if you enjoy poisoning your body) breaks rather than shooting and strafing.
Watch IBM patent this tech and send it careening towards another MCA-type failure....
One note for OpenBSD/NetBSD: if you use the Mac Booter/Installer - which is used by both OSes - you'll have to be very crafty with the partitions. Root can not be any larger than 1GB or so, and any other filesystems after that will probably have to be formatted and populated after the install is done.
I used to do OpenBSD and NetBSd on a Max IIcx, but installed with an ethernet card. In the case of NetBSD, if you can boot the sysinstall image (this is still marked experimental, but the old Mac Installer really should be dropped), you can probably install via PLIP/SLIP (sysinstall doesn't support PPP on mac68k AFAIK)on the Mac's serial/parallel ports.
If not, you can just use the CD-ROM. Booting the sysinstall image will get you into a NetBSD/mac68k generic kernel and install environment, and it probably should pick up your SCSI CD-ROM just fine.
Nubus Apple Ethernet cards on EBay are sometimes cheap, and sometimes expensive - it's a tossup. If you manage to get two though, Macs make good little routers (don't try to push any more than two 10mbit lines), especially with that permanent power switch that old Macs have.
There is one thing that keeps echoing through my mind, and I hope to God that the people working on this project are thinking it too: What the hell are we doing?
Correction: I'm in 32-bit color with 16-bit textures, as they load quicker on 192MB memory.
RtCW is pretty unusable on the MX without seriously lowering the options to the point where it looks like something from the Quake2 era.
I'm playing RtCW at 1024x768x16bit on my old TNT2 Ultra/Athlon 550, all default texture/geometry quality settings. No slowness at all. What's going on in your computer?
Ah yes, the days when professional football players had to look for a job when the season was through. Say.. Are you over fifty as well? :)
Please note that the Ford Mondeo is nearly identical to the Ford Contour which is sold in the US.
Then TURN OFF the Autoconnect feature in your Internet Connection Settings. Jesus Freaking Christ, people!
Yes, I don't understand why they just left three slots onboard and decided that it should be enough. Should it really be that hard to add a second PCI bridge so that there can be more than three PCI slots?
Twenty dollars seems a bit low to me. Chances are, MS is not going to offer network service to X-Box users through any local cable/DSL provider, or any other readily available network connection for that matter. Their "MSN Broadband" service is almost certainly tied into any sort of gaming service that is planned for the X-Box, and it is likely that you'll be paying for a line install and a new modem - that is unless MS strikes a deal with local broadband providers through some shady deal.
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I honestly don't know what the cost would be, but I can say that it's surely to be more than just a crisp Twenty every month
Nintendo is the only system left which still makes games and not graphical shows/interactive movies.
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Really, is that so? I think an injection of Grand Theft Auto 3 is what you need
Weather.com already has those annoying popup, rootless Flash advertisements that take up your entire screen. If sites start doing this more often, I think I'll have to get rid of Flash.
Browsers that support this feature can display an icon which is stored on the web server (favicon.ico). I'm not sure if it's a 16x16 pixel bitmap or if it's 32x32 that gets scaled by the browser.
9AM: Roomate wakes me up to tell me that he just got a call in from the hospital that my parents were killed in a car crash, then yells April fools and laughs his way out of my room.
Play it cool...
9:30AM: Urinated on roomate's razor blades.
He doesn't know yet.
And I can't believe that he let the terrible misspelling of "characters" slip through.
From Adam's letter:
I would like to direct your attention to the following op-ed written by Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO of Disney. Mr. Eisner points out the profound historical significance of intellectual property rights and draws on one early and aggressive advocate of protecting such property rights, the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
If Abraham Lincoln were alive today, I doubt he would hesitate before spitting in the faces of Eisner and Hollings.
I still can't even see the colors Cyan or Magenta without being nauseated.
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Then you must be talking about CGA
Hey, I own lots of guns. Email me.
Then maybe you can get this guy to donate some of his Sun "backups."
Hi. I'm just reminding you that Liberals and Libertarians are two different things.
You have obviously never had to manage Solaris machines for a living.