Same here. I have a v1.0 Abit BH6 board. I bought an MSI slotket and a 1.1gHz Celeron chip, and things are going fine. Just make sure you get a non-Tualitan version of whatever chip you get.
That's one the advantages of the ports-style system Gentoo uses. The ebuilds are just instructions on how to download and compile a package, they don't contain any actual source code or binaries. Thus Gentoo can have an ebuild for virtually any program, regardless of what license the program is under.
For Windows, check out Gnucleus. It supports downloading from multiple sources. It also supports SuperNodes and is open source.
I agree though that Kazaa beats out Gnutella right now for selection. I have a much easier time finding stuff on Kazaa and the downloads tend to be faster and more reliable. Things are getting better though.
Do you really want to play Civilization with 3000 other people? You'd be lucky to get one turn per week. Early in the game you'd spend a few months just waiting around for your first city to build a settler...:)
A real time strategy game like Warcraft would be interesting though. Have a huge world with plenty of room for hundreds to play, have a great diplomacy system to forge alliances with other players, and a good AI to hold the fort while you're asleep in case someone attacks.
The problem with most packaged software is you don't see the EULA until after you've opened the box, and many stores will refuse to refund money on opened software. Effectively, this means if you don't accept the EULA theres nothing you can do, aside from finding someone else to buy it off you, most likely at a loss.
As for this software, I can't see it holding up in any court. You can't say "I shut my eyes everytime I drove past a speed limit sign" and expect a judge to let you off the hook for going 120.
This also removes any incentive for companies to change their EULAs. After all, they're still getting $50 or whatever from you, whether you avoid the EULA or not. Vote with your wallet people...
I did the Celeron + slotket upgrade on my home PC, and can vouch that it's a good bang for the buck upgrade.
A Celeron 1GHz goes for $55 on Pricewatch. Look at $10 or so for no frills slotket. A 256MB stick of PC133 will set you back about $30. That's a little over $100 for a nice upgrade.
And as Tackhead said, it's a dead simple swap software wise. No hours of "New Device Found" hell that normally accompanies motherboard upgrades under Windows. You also get to keep your probably 440BX based motherboard with it's well tested and mature drivers.
Suggestion to all game writers. Allow your game to have a customizable title bar name. That way, when someone glances at your computer, they don't see "Minesweeper" in the task bar. Instead, they see "Q3 Earnings Report.xls".
I'm not sure how common this is in other states, but here in Pennsylvania, it is a standard practice for the police to send a 16-yr old into a Quickie-Mart to try to get the clerk to (illegally) sell them cigarettes.
In this case, it's more like the crooked Quickie-Mart mart employee walking up to random 16 year old and trying to sell her some cigarettes and then getting busted.
I don't think it's entrapment. Entrapment is encouraging a crime to happen. These cops aren't encouraging anything.
To the average law abiding person, it's just a car, nothing special. It's an average Accord/Camry/whatever, something you see a thousand times a day. Even if the doors were unlocked, so what? It's not like there's a neon light flashing above the car saying "I'm unlocked", you have to take a close look into the car to see. Most people don't look into every car they walk by.
This is a far cry from a undercover cop walking up to your car and offering to give you drugs or a blowjob for some money. In that case, the police are actively encouraging you to do a crime.
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Plain ole Wine does this for you (at least since the March versions, probably earlier too).
Wine itself doesn't add any menu items, but if you run a Windows installation program in it, when the installer trys to create the start menu shortcuts it goes in your KDE menu instead.
I've been using Gentoo for a few months now, and like others I've found it a great distro. It definately forces you to learn alot about your system, but does so in a nice way.
My biggest nit pick is that I wish Portage had a better way of tracking changes between package versions. Sometimes the only difference between two versions is a few lines of a Gentoo-supplied script or config file. When you upgrade the package it forces you you to recompile the whole thing, even though the changes didn't do anything that would have affected compilation.
Anyway, speaking of Portage, doesn't anyone know what the equivalent of the old-school "emerge --world update" is (to make it look up EVERY installed package)? During a world update the new Portage will only update packages that appear in your "favorites" file. If it does, only then will it update dependencies not in your "favorites" file.
The main benefit of Gentoo is that you get the latest versions of every package when you're installing.
You also get to choose to some extent what dependencies you want your programs to have. If you don't care about KDE, you can set it up so no programs with optional KDE support have it compiled in. This is unlike.rpms and.debs where you're at the mercy of whoever built the package.
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I'm not familiar with FreeBSD's mergemaster, but Gentoo has a nice utility named "etc-update". I think it's in the gentoolkit package. It'll find the config files that need updating, show you a diff between them and choose to keep your old one, use the new one, more merge them together.
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The name "Golden Sample" always makes me think of peeing in a cup. Those wacky Taiwanese marketing people!
Same here. I have a v1.0 Abit BH6 board. I bought an MSI slotket and a 1.1gHz Celeron chip, and things are going fine. Just make sure you get a non-Tualitan version of whatever chip you get.
That's one the advantages of the ports-style system Gentoo uses. The ebuilds are just instructions on how to download and compile a package, they don't contain any actual source code or binaries. Thus Gentoo can have an ebuild for virtually any program, regardless of what license the program is under.
For Windows, check out Gnucleus. It supports downloading from multiple sources. It also supports SuperNodes and is open source.
I agree though that Kazaa beats out Gnutella right now for selection. I have a much easier time finding stuff on Kazaa and the downloads tend to be faster and more reliable. Things are getting better though.
Do you really want to play Civilization with 3000 other people? You'd be lucky to get one turn per week. Early in the game you'd spend a few months just waiting around for your first city to build a settler... :)
A real time strategy game like Warcraft would be interesting though. Have a huge world with plenty of room for hundreds to play, have a great diplomacy system to forge alliances with other players, and a good AI to hold the fort while you're asleep in case someone attacks.
What, would you rather have her run around naked?
Oh, wait...
How can they make a QWERTY keyboard when there's only five keys across? It'd just be a QWERT.
Anyway, since there are only 5 keys across, I doubt the QWERTY arrangement will help any, as the keys will be in different places anyway.
I didn't have to. The managers in my department took our whole group out to see it Thursday, and paid for the tickets. :)
I guess it's one of those "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" things.
Texas's is at www.texasnocall.com. I don't know about other states.
Foxtrot beat you to it.
The problem with most packaged software is you don't see the EULA until after you've opened the box, and many stores will refuse to refund money on opened software. Effectively, this means if you don't accept the EULA theres nothing you can do, aside from finding someone else to buy it off you, most likely at a loss.
As for this software, I can't see it holding up in any court. You can't say "I shut my eyes everytime I drove past a speed limit sign" and expect a judge to let you off the hook for going 120.
This also removes any incentive for companies to change their EULAs. After all, they're still getting $50 or whatever from you, whether you avoid the EULA or not. Vote with your wallet people...
I did the Celeron + slotket upgrade on my home PC, and can vouch that it's a good bang for the buck upgrade.
A Celeron 1GHz goes for $55 on Pricewatch. Look at $10 or so for no frills slotket. A 256MB stick of PC133 will set you back about $30. That's a little over $100 for a nice upgrade.
And as Tackhead said, it's a dead simple swap software wise. No hours of "New Device Found" hell that normally accompanies motherboard upgrades under Windows. You also get to keep your probably 440BX based motherboard with it's well tested and mature drivers.
How about an option to hide the always annoying, never clever CowboyNeal option in the poll? That'll get some people subscribing...
Suggestion to all game writers. Allow your game to have a customizable title bar name. That way, when someone glances at your computer, they don't see "Minesweeper" in the task bar. Instead, they see "Q3 Earnings Report.xls".
Not to mention VBScript and JScript. As well as PerlScript if you install ActiveState's Perl.
In this case, it's more like the crooked Quickie-Mart mart employee walking up to random 16 year old and trying to sell her some cigarettes and then getting busted.
I don't think it's entrapment. Entrapment is encouraging a crime to happen. These cops aren't encouraging anything.
To the average law abiding person, it's just a car, nothing special. It's an average Accord/Camry/whatever, something you see a thousand times a day. Even if the doors were unlocked, so what? It's not like there's a neon light flashing above the car saying "I'm unlocked", you have to take a close look into the car to see. Most people don't look into every car they walk by.
This is a far cry from a undercover cop walking up to your car and offering to give you drugs or a blowjob for some money. In that case, the police are actively encouraging you to do a crime.
Plain ole Wine does this for you (at least since the March versions, probably earlier too).
Wine itself doesn't add any menu items, but if you run a Windows installation program in it, when the installer trys to create the start menu shortcuts it goes in your KDE menu instead.
I've been using Gentoo for a few months now, and like others I've found it a great distro. It definately forces you to learn alot about your system, but does so in a nice way.
My biggest nit pick is that I wish Portage had a better way of tracking changes between package versions. Sometimes the only difference between two versions is a few lines of a Gentoo-supplied script or config file. When you upgrade the package it forces you you to recompile the whole thing, even though the changes didn't do anything that would have affected compilation.
Anyway, speaking of Portage, doesn't anyone know what the equivalent of the old-school "emerge --world update" is (to make it look up EVERY installed package)? During a world update the new Portage will only update packages that appear in your "favorites" file. If it does, only then will it update dependencies not in your "favorites" file.
You made a family of four cram into a Mustang for a cross country trip?
:)
I hope the two in the back were kids
More importantly, if one .com means having negative income, does .com.com mean having positive income?!
The main benefit of Gentoo is that you get the latest versions of every package when you're installing.
.rpms and .debs where you're at the mercy of whoever built the package.
You also get to choose to some extent what dependencies you want your programs to have. If you don't care about KDE, you can set it up so no programs with optional KDE support have it compiled in. This is unlike
I'm not familiar with FreeBSD's mergemaster, but Gentoo has a nice utility named "etc-update". I think it's in the gentoolkit package. It'll find the config files that need updating, show you a diff between them and choose to keep your old one, use the new one, more merge them together.
Mandrake, regarding the Mandrake Club:
"All membership levels enjoy the same benefits."
Now it's "almost the same benefits".