On Linux, once Ubuntu is installed, apt-get install gnome-backgrounds, set GNOME-curves, adjust the theme to match the curves, adjust some of the applets for the panel, and done. Fifteen Minutes (maby a little less).
At work, I have to use Windows on my second desktop which is controlled by the Ubuntu box via x2vnc. I gave up on making Explorer usable once I discovered bblean. Once installed, I grab http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean/, adjust a couple of settings, install a couple of extentions for bblean, make bblean the default shell, drag over GNOME-curves and set it as background, adjust the panel a bit, install Firefox, iTunes, and Cygwin. Probably half a day in total. Once bblean is installed I can get to work of course, but the system is hardly optimal until all my apps are installed.
Not as long as smart phones are as expensive as they are now. I can't justify spending 500 bucks on a phone, even thou it can be the only device I carry.
Plus, a button less phone seems counter-intuitive to me.
As for TV, most shows on TV are either shite or derivative shite [CSI, CSI NY, CSI MIAMI, CSI OKLAHOMA, CSI Alaska, etc...]. I get that they're trying to make the most amount of money without actually doing work, but sometimes that doesn't work.
Most stuff from all eras were shite. The good stuff will be remembered. Heck, if you watch tvland you would swear that the only thing on tv in the 70s was all in the family and the jeffersons. There was a lot of crap between timeslots. Ten years from now everyone will remember 24, Lost, and Jericho. I doubt anyone will remember CSI or According to Jim.
When I watch the prequels, the only one that really stands out as close to an "adult" oriented film is eps III. Its almost like episode I was written for 6 year olds.
It sounds to me like they are trying to charge for basically what I get for free with http://shoutcast.com/. Sure the content might be different, but there are TONS of channels available up there.
I think I'll stay away from this one. I have better things to spend 13 bucks on.
My wife and I have Verizon cell phones. We used to have virgin mobil phones. We switched to Verizon so we could call each other for free.
We got rid of one of our old virgin phones, and gave my daughter the other one. She has a pink faceplate for it and everything. Speed dial 1 is voicemail, 2 is momma, and 3 is daddy. She never uses it, but its a great piece of mind. Cheap too, every three or four months we have to add 20 bucks to it, and since she never uses it, she is up to a hundred bucks, literally.
Every child old enough to use a phone should have one.
Oh, and x2vnc lets me control my windows box from my Linux box. That way I can have my familiar Linux Desktop and the Windows desktop running in tandem. That helps. Controling Windows via x2x-like controls is pretty nice.
When I started my new job, I found myself having to use Windows for tech support. I've been using Linux since 1998, and before that was using OS/2 since 1996. My WindowPoision of choice is Window Maker. So after almost a decade of being out of the "windows" game, I had to start using XP. How painful. Here is my reply to him:
I'm a Linux user, more specifically a Window Maker user, who had to use
Windows. Window Maker has a simlar interface, as I understand it, to Mac OS/X. Here are the apps that help me suffer through my daily Windows experience:
* Productivity (spreadsheet)
I stay away from Microsoft Office in favor of OpenOffice.org. It runs
faster and preforms all the same tasks that I need to preform under
Office.
* Graphics
As far as Windows goes, you can't go wrong with Photoshop. On linux I use
the Gimp. For image viewing, I use gqview on both Linux and Windows
(windows version: http://gqview-win.sourceforge.net/). Its fast and
works well.
* Utilities (spam, anti-virus, FTP etc)
Spam identification should be done on the server side, but just in case
MailWasher is awesome (http://www.mailwasher.net./ For antivirus, I use
BitDefender. I'm old school, so WS_FTP is the only way to go.
* Games
Thats why I have Nintendo. Computers are my interface to the 'net and a
tool. Don't do much gaming.
* Online enhancements (e.g. toolbars etc)
FireFox. There is no better browser period.
* Other
Coming from OS/X your going to want YzDock. The homepage is missing, but you can download it from numerous locations, just google for YzDock. It is, as you probably have guessed, an implimentation of the OS/X dock on Windows. There are other docks out there but this one works the best, at least for me.
Outside these apps, I use a number of utilities you may or may not be
interested in as well. The quick utilities I use on every install can be found at http://arthur.jfmi.net/win/. WinRoll is used to shade windows. I find shading and not minimizing is far more productive. Cygwin.com is useful if your into the Unix interface. Cygwin provides a POSIX layer, X-server, Bash shell, and much much more. VNC is great for remotely managing desktops. VirtuaWin sets up virtual desktops. Tweakui is a great tool for ridding yourself of annoyances on Windows.
Narrator: No one really knows when, where, or how man landed on the moon... Fry: I do! Narrator:...but our Fungineers imagine it went something like this. [Animatronic whalers emerge from a lunar lander] Animatronic whalers: [singing] We're whalers on the moon. Animatronic gophers: We carry a harpoon. Animatronic gophers, Animatronic whalers: But there are no whales, so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune. Fry: That's not how it happened. Leela: I don't see you with a Fungineering degree.
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Why is this modded informative? He didn't even read teh article. The date on the post is from two days ago dingus. This is new news.
Thems sure was the good ol days. 11 years old, board out of your mind, too young to hit da ladies, too old for action figures. What else was a midwestern geek supposed to do?
Any o you COCO geeks remember Thexder? That game was TIGHT.
Back in da 80s the coco was the only way to roll for us cs gangstas. Every hardcore geek in my hood had one. We would hack on code, trade warez, and play tradewars over wildcat. Man them was good days. Hangin with the 1200 baud. Sending mail over Fidonet. Networking two or three together over serial wit OS-9. Punchin out holes in the floppies to make double sided disks. Those were the days. Men were men, women were women, and 128k of ram was enough for everyone. Damn I miss my coco.
I'm a pretty big fan of D&D and RPGs in general. I DM several ongoing campaigns, and even manage to get a little PC time in here and there. One day I was doing some world building, and my daughter came up to me and asked if she could play. Who could say no to a 5 year old? So we got some maps, minis, and dice and tell you what, we had a ball. Now she asks to play every other day and has her own dice and minis. We even roped the wife to the table, and now SHE has her own dice.
Gaming with the family is the best. Of all the campaigns, I enjoy the family one best.
I recently played D&D for the first time in a bazillion years, and it was something of a disappointment. I just wanted to do that first adventure, D&D basic, go down into the dungeon, and find some evil druids in the last room. Instead, we wandered around a town in the Forgotten Realms for a while, worried about boring minutiae ("What colour do you want the stitching in your robes to be?"), and in general had a boring old time.
Yeah, you need a new DM. Stuff like equipment purchases are best done "off-panel" so to speak. Only game the stuff that needs to be gamed. Join a community playgroup if you want to be an actor.
Parent is hardly insightful. d20 is the *NIX of the gaming world, or at least the BSD. The only reason Iron Heroes exists is because of the OGL, or Open Gaming License. Wizards of the Coast is the only reason why Tabletop games exist and enjoy the popularity they do today. They saved the industry from the real Microsoft TSR.
If your looking for RPGs, and you have a Palm or PocketPC, check out Crimson Fire Entertainment. They have just what the doctor ordered. I'm a big fan of the Kyle's Quest series of games. The first Kyle's Quest engine has over 50 games (called Maps or Levels by the creators) that would keep you busy for months. The origional KQ is in black/white but KQ2 and KQ3 are both in colour. KQ2 has over 30 games with it. They have great prices too. KQ1 costs only 15 bucks, as does KQ2.
Check them out. There's other games at their site too.
You know it. You can get a Linksys Router for about 50 bucks at Wal-Mart. I just picked one up to save a friend of the family fro dealing with Norton's bullshit intrustion detection, which for some off reason started blocking the user from surfing the internet.
Personally, I think ISPs are to blame for the lack of security out there. They are the ones hooking DSL and Cable modems out there directly to machines. They should offer cheap routers to their customers.
The basic set is somewhat limiting, and although similar to Dnd 3.5e, its not quite the same, and almost all players are on full 3.5e.
I'm a registered GM with the RPGA (the organized play arm of WotC), so I can help you out:
1. Pick up Dungeons and Dragons for Dummies. I flipped through it, and it was a very good guide for learning Dnd if you know absolutely nothing about the game.
2. Pick up the Players Handbook. Make sure you get version 3.5e. You don't actually need the Dungeon Master's guide and Monster Manual right away, but do get them some day. Each of the core set can be had for around 20 bucks from Amazon, but if you can afford a little extra, buy them from a local game shop. Its important to support them.
3. Find a place to play. I would recommend a local hobby and/or game shop. Its the most popular game out there, and the oldest, chances are someone out there is playing it. Ask the shopkeep how to find a game. If you can't, you can always start with an online version of the game. The largest and most popular way to play Dnd online is play by post. One of the best sites for that is DNDOG. They have a great community and plenty of people who would love to get another player into the game.
Good luck! Your welcome to email me at dm@aerthon.com if you have any additional questions.
I know they're big and bulkey, but I dig my USB hard drive enclosure. Works with any IDE hard drive, and my 80 gig Seagate Barracuda gets over 25 MB/s transfer rates. This is my little baby:
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On Linux, once Ubuntu is installed, apt-get install gnome-backgrounds, set GNOME-curves, adjust the theme to match the curves, adjust some of the applets for the panel, and done. Fifteen Minutes (maby a little less).
At work, I have to use Windows on my second desktop which is controlled by the Ubuntu box via x2vnc. I gave up on making Explorer usable once I discovered bblean. Once installed, I grab http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean/, adjust a couple of settings, install a couple of extentions for bblean, make bblean the default shell, drag over GNOME-curves and set it as background, adjust the panel a bit, install Firefox, iTunes, and Cygwin. Probably half a day in total. Once bblean is installed I can get to work of course, but the system is hardly optimal until all my apps are installed.
Not as long as smart phones are as expensive as they are now. I can't justify spending 500 bucks on a phone, even thou it can be the only device I carry.
Plus, a button less phone seems counter-intuitive to me.
I'm so relieved I'm not the only one!
As for TV, most shows on TV are either shite or derivative shite [CSI, CSI NY, CSI MIAMI, CSI OKLAHOMA, CSI Alaska, etc...]. I get that they're trying to make the most amount of money without actually doing work, but sometimes that doesn't work. Most stuff from all eras were shite. The good stuff will be remembered. Heck, if you watch tvland you would swear that the only thing on tv in the 70s was all in the family and the jeffersons. There was a lot of crap between timeslots. Ten years from now everyone will remember 24, Lost, and Jericho. I doubt anyone will remember CSI or According to Jim.
When I watch the prequels, the only one that really stands out as close to an "adult" oriented film is eps III. Its almost like episode I was written for 6 year olds.
It sounds to me like they are trying to charge for basically what I get for free with http://shoutcast.com/. Sure the content might be different, but there are TONS of channels available up there.
I think I'll stay away from this one. I have better things to spend 13 bucks on.
My wife and I have Verizon cell phones. We used to have virgin mobil phones. We switched to Verizon so we could call each other for free.
We got rid of one of our old virgin phones, and gave my daughter the other one. She has a pink faceplate for it and everything. Speed dial 1 is voicemail, 2 is momma, and 3 is daddy. She never uses it, but its a great piece of mind. Cheap too, every three or four months we have to add 20 bucks to it, and since she never uses it, she is up to a hundred bucks, literally.
Every child old enough to use a phone should have one.
Two words: Uwe Boll
Oh, and x2vnc lets me control my windows box from my Linux box. That way I can have my familiar Linux Desktop and the Windows desktop running in tandem. That helps. Controling Windows via x2x-like controls is pretty nice.
heh, I still play Kirby's Dreamland and SMB. A good game is a good game.
Narrator: No one really knows when, where, or how man landed on the moon... ...but our Fungineers imagine it went something like this.
Fry: I do!
Narrator:
[Animatronic whalers emerge from a lunar lander]
Animatronic whalers: [singing] We're whalers on the moon.
Animatronic gophers: We carry a harpoon.
Animatronic gophers, Animatronic whalers: But there are no whales, so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune.
Fry: That's not how it happened.
Leela: I don't see you with a Fungineering degree.
Why is this modded informative? He didn't even read teh article. The date on the post is from two days ago dingus. This is new news.
Any o you COCO geeks remember Thexder? That game was TIGHT.
Back in da 80s the coco was the only way to roll for us cs gangstas. Every hardcore geek in my hood had one. We would hack on code, trade warez, and play tradewars over wildcat. Man them was good days. Hangin with the 1200 baud. Sending mail over Fidonet. Networking two or three together over serial wit OS-9. Punchin out holes in the floppies to make double sided disks. Those were the days. Men were men, women were women, and 128k of ram was enough for everyone. Damn I miss my coco.
I'm a pretty big fan of D&D and RPGs in general. I DM several ongoing campaigns, and even manage to get a little PC time in here and there. One day I was doing some world building, and my daughter came up to me and asked if she could play. Who could say no to a 5 year old? So we got some maps, minis, and dice and tell you what, we had a ball. Now she asks to play every other day and has her own dice and minis. We even roped the wife to the table, and now SHE has her own dice.
Gaming with the family is the best. Of all the campaigns, I enjoy the family one best.
And yet, the Brittish have very low church attendance:
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I recently played D&D for the first time in a bazillion years, and it was something of a disappointment. I just wanted to do that first adventure, D&D basic, go down into the dungeon, and find some evil druids in the last room. Instead, we wandered around a town in the Forgotten Realms for a while, worried about boring minutiae ("What colour do you want the stitching in your robes to be?"), and in general had a boring old time.
Yeah, you need a new DM. Stuff like equipment purchases are best done "off-panel" so to speak. Only game the stuff that needs to be gamed. Join a community playgroup if you want to be an actor.
Parent is hardly insightful. d20 is the *NIX of the gaming world, or at least the BSD. The only reason Iron Heroes exists is because of the OGL, or Open Gaming License. Wizards of the Coast is the only reason why Tabletop games exist and enjoy the popularity they do today. They saved the industry from the real Microsoft TSR.
Check them out. There's other games at their site too.
Dr Wierd: Release the phone spiders!!!
You know it. You can get a Linksys Router for about 50 bucks at Wal-Mart. I just picked one up to save a friend of the family fro dealing with Norton's bullshit intrustion detection, which for some off reason started blocking the user from surfing the internet.
Personally, I think ISPs are to blame for the lack of security out there. They are the ones hooking DSL and Cable modems out there directly to machines. They should offer cheap routers to their customers.
I'm a registered GM with the RPGA (the organized play arm of WotC), so I can help you out:
1. Pick up Dungeons and Dragons for Dummies. I flipped through it, and it was a very good guide for learning Dnd if you know absolutely nothing about the game.
2. Pick up the Players Handbook. Make sure you get version 3.5e. You don't actually need the Dungeon Master's guide and Monster Manual right away, but do get them some day. Each of the core set can be had for around 20 bucks from Amazon, but if you can afford a little extra, buy them from a local game shop. Its important to support them.
3. Find a place to play. I would recommend a local hobby and/or game shop. Its the most popular game out there, and the oldest, chances are someone out there is playing it. Ask the shopkeep how to find a game. If you can't, you can always start with an online version of the game. The largest and most popular way to play Dnd online is play by post. One of the best sites for that is DNDOG. They have a great community and plenty of people who would love to get another player into the game.
Good luck! Your welcome to email me at dm@aerthon.com if you have any additional questions.
I know they're big and bulkey, but I dig my USB hard drive enclosure. Works with any IDE hard drive, and my 80 gig Seagate Barracuda gets over 25 MB/s transfer rates. This is my little baby:
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N8
Cheap, fast, and as much storage as I want to put in it.
Quick details of the IBM vs. Phoenix case can be found on this page:
R ight-or-Wrong/article/Emulation-Right-or-Wrong-App endix-B--by-The-Scribe-.html
http://www.emuhq.com/idx/62/015/Series-Emulation-
Aloung with a number of other interesting legal cases.