what if I have a KVM switch which has a digital access method?.. this techically falls under this agreemnt, but it's a COMPLETEY seperate system... it's like saying "this broadcast may only be viewed on sony approved televisions. if you are using another television, turn off now"
I don't feel that's a fair comment for ANY distribution. If you're just talking about being able to resolve names, then there is almost no difference at over any distribution, or even across unices!
echo nameserver your.dns.ip.here/etc/resolv.conf
when I first tried to use redhat, X would only start in 320x204 on my ET6000... I'd say that's a slightly bigger issue. After I installed slackware (which worked perfectly) and used it for a while, I was then able to revisit redhat and other distributions with better knowledge about linux as a whole. So I started using debian and never looked back:)
So while your experience this time may have been bad.. learn from it, learn about the way linux works and be willing to try new things.. isn't that, after all, part of the reason why we're using linux? --------
I have run numerous lan parties, varying in size from 10 people to 80 people.
without exception, the rule has been to use headphones.
Headphones:
Don't annoy distract other gamers
Don't allow other gamers to 'listen in' eg: "nuclear missile launched". or water
Still allow you to hear other people/things
Don't create an unfriendly environment (I recently went into a lan gaming place which had subwoofers and speakers on all coimputers... it created a horrible environment)
oh, and on the network bandwidth thing, you'd need a local server because the server would get overloaded, not the uplink. Playing games on a lan doesn't overly utilise the network, but can hammer even a well specced server
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The new Cybex Switches all have a linux logo on it, which says linux and then in small print "linux-tested.com" This site provides linux testing and psuedo-certification.
This shows that:
Hardware Certification is important to linux
Cybex (and other companies) who get their hardware "certified" or at least tested, recognise linux.
three things in a list look much more credible than two.
I use a cybex SV-4 on 3 linux boxes daily, using an intellimouse, and have never had a problem. --------
Microsoft have an unofficial policy: "If they're going to pirate something, we'd rather they pirate our stuff"
It's simple. If 60% of people buy microsoft, and 20% of people pirate it, that's 80% market penetration, and can be leveraged to force competitors out of the market etc (see DOJ case)
This is related to the recent ask slashdot piece talking about leasing/hiring everything and nothing being permanent. It's very scary to see the way things have gone and even scarier to see where they may go --------
I been reading a lot of articles about great new techonology (in storage, or computing power, whatever)
but you know what? I'm still using a magnetic, motor driven drive and a silicon printed chip in my computer. The same technology that I had in my XT and 286 quite a number of years ago. I'm not saying these things will never materialise, but a lot of great new products never make it to the marketplace due to all sorts of reasons (money problems, stupid law problems etc) and those that due require a lot of time to get from the testing lab to a consumer product.
This is cool technology, but is there anything that's a little more here and now?
half life will not be ported. ever. The company involved (sierra or valve) has specicially stated they will not port it because they are worried that the port will be of inferior quality (and that this will reflect badly on the company?)
it is unfortunate, as myself and many of the people I know are playing counter strike a lot and it will not be possible to play this under linux. Descent 3 is a great game, I already own the windows version, but sadly I rarely play it, as it requires booting to windows. I'd love to be able to play it under Linux --------
no, that can't happen. what it DID do, was creat a program called su in your path before the default su, trapped the password, immeadietly became root and screwed your system.
I met my girlfriend about 2 years ago on IRC. It wasn't one of those "online romances", although we do email each other quite often, I met her online, and we started "romancing" irl. I have met many great people online and know many other people who have met their gf/bf online. I have also recieved a number of employment opportunities from IRC. The problem is, some people deliberately set out to go online and "pick up". If you just look for some nice people and a good chat, you're in fact much more likely to "pick up". Just choose a smallish server and join channels that interest you (such as #linux:) An unfortunate side affect is that the wider community has no real idea about IRC, online chat, online community and all the rest of it, so saying "we met through the internet" is often met by a shocked/rude/strange reaction, but that's just life I guess.
Matt. --------
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You will find this fixed in the latest version of E+GNOME, E progressed a lto through 0.15. Also, the CVS E 0.16 build is probably more stable and better than the 0.15.5 release. GNOME has also ironed out about 50000 bugs on it's way up to 1.0.10 (10? or is it 312?) and the upcoming release of 1.2 (which, IMO should have been 1.0) with redhat, they did a Bad Thing releasing their ditribution with E+GNOME as their standard desktop. I use GNOME, but there's no way I would recommend it to a newbie, KDE has much more polish (1,2,3,4 I declare a flame war) Regards, Matt.
sure, don't block ping but even worse don't block ICMP host unreachable as this is used for MTU path discovery and can cause some very wierd errors. (and some frustrated users who have no idea why their transit is screwy) - Matt.
I have a P133 with some sort of award BIOS, which boots without a video card without problems. It beeps three times when starting up and then continues with the boot process. of course you can't change the BIOS settings, but it's simply a case of getting them right before you take the gfx card out. Matthew Parslow
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what if I have a KVM switch which has a digital access method? .. this techically falls under this agreemnt, but it's a COMPLETEY seperate system... it's like saying "this broadcast may only be viewed on sony approved televisions. if you are using another television, turn off now"
when I first tried to use redhat, X would only start in 320x204 on my ET6000... I'd say that's a slightly bigger issue. After I installed slackware (which worked perfectly) and used it for a while, I was then able to revisit redhat and other distributions with better knowledge about linux as a whole. So I started using debian and never looked back
So while your experience this time may have been bad.. learn from it, learn about the way linux works and be willing to try new things.. isn't that, after all, part of the reason why we're using linux?
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without exception, the rule has been to use headphones.
Headphones:
- Don't annoy distract other gamers
- Don't allow other gamers to 'listen in' eg: "nuclear missile launched". or water
- Still allow you to hear other people/things
- Don't create an unfriendly environment (I recently went into a lan gaming place which had subwoofers and speakers on all coimputers... it created a horrible environment)
oh, and on the network bandwidth thing, you'd need a local server because the server would get overloaded, not the uplink. Playing games on a lan doesn't overly utilise the network, but can hammer even a well specced server--------
It's not that hard, you can break the connection in a number of ways, the key is to not break your CPU at the same time :-)
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This shows that:
- Hardware Certification is important to linux
- Cybex (and other companies) who get their hardware "certified" or at least tested, recognise linux.
- three things in a list look much more credible than two.
I use a cybex SV-4 on 3 linux boxes daily, using an intellimouse, and have never had a problem.--------
Microsoft have an unofficial policy: "If they're going to pirate something, we'd rather they pirate our stuff"
It's simple. If 60% of people buy microsoft, and 20% of people pirate it, that's 80% market penetration, and can be leveraged to force competitors out of the market etc (see DOJ case)
This is related to the recent ask slashdot piece talking about leasing/hiring everything and nothing being permanent. It's very scary to see the way things have gone and even scarier to see where they may go
--------
but you know what?
I'm still using a magnetic, motor driven drive and a silicon printed chip in my computer. The same technology that I had in my XT and 286 quite a number of years ago.
I'm not saying these things will never materialise, but a lot of great new products never make it to the marketplace due to all sorts of reasons (money problems, stupid law problems etc) and those that due require a lot of time to get from the testing lab to a consumer product.
This is cool technology, but is there anything that's a little more here and now?
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It's quite possible that some framework was there to implement the linux client, but it never got further than that.
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The company involved (sierra or valve) has specicially stated they will not port it because they are worried that the port will be of inferior quality (and that this will reflect badly on the company?)
it is unfortunate, as myself and many of the people I know are playing counter strike a lot and it will not be possible to play this under linux.
Descent 3 is a great game, I already own the windows version, but sadly I rarely play it, as it requires booting to windows. I'd love to be able to play it under Linux
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no, that can't happen.
what it DID do, was creat a program called su in your path before the default su, trapped the password, immeadietly became root and screwed your system.
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I met my girlfriend about 2 years ago on IRC. It wasn't one of those "online romances", although we do email each other quite often, I met her online, and we started "romancing" irl. :)
I have met many great people online and know many other people who have met their gf/bf online. I have also recieved a number of employment opportunities from IRC.
The problem is, some people deliberately set out to go online and "pick up". If you just look for some nice people and a good chat, you're in fact much more likely to "pick up". Just choose a smallish server and join channels that interest you (such as #linux
An unfortunate side affect is that the wider community has no real idea about IRC, online chat, online community and all the rest of it, so saying "we met through the internet" is often met by a shocked/rude/strange reaction, but that's just life I guess.
Matt.
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You will find this fixed in the latest version of E+GNOME, E progressed a lto through 0.15.
Also, the CVS E 0.16 build is probably more stable and better than the 0.15.5 release. GNOME has also ironed out about 50000 bugs on it's way up to 1.0.10 (10? or is it 312?) and the upcoming release of 1.2 (which, IMO should have been 1.0)
with redhat, they did a Bad Thing releasing their ditribution with E+GNOME as their standard desktop. I use GNOME, but there's no way I would recommend it to a newbie, KDE has much more polish (1,2,3,4 I declare a flame war)
Regards,
Matt.
sure, don't block ping but even worse don't block ICMP host unreachable as this is used for MTU path discovery and can cause some very wierd errors. (and some frustrated users who have no idea why their transit is screwy) - Matt.
I have a P133 with some sort of award BIOS, which boots without a video card without problems. It beeps three times when starting up and then continues with the boot process. of course you can't change the BIOS settings, but it's simply a case of getting them right before you take the gfx card out.
Matthew Parslow