It may not be dishonest, but it's certainly stupid enough to have me avoid bothering with the article. If ESR has written an explanation for why these rants are still titled "Halloween," someone kindly point to it.
The hero's catchphrase will of course be, "You think you can take me? Go'head on."
And they can save CPU cycles by repeating the same FMV death scene.
And jelly-filled donut powerups.
And whenever a friendly NPC receives newly developed pictures of his wife and child, well, save your game, you son of a [...]!
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The latest 2.6 kernels support Promise SATA with the sata_promise module. I'm using the TX2plus with a 160GB SATA drive in a hotswap enclosure. The only drawback to the free driver is that it doesn't yet support the PATA port on the card.
Promise has released the source to their SATA card drivers, but it's written for the 2.4 kernels and at least the build process would need to be updated for them to compile cleanly in 2.6. In any case, the only reason to do so would be to get the PATA port working, and that'll be done freely eventually.
As mentioned in the post, most of the things he desires to teach are road rules. The physical mechanics of driving cannot be simulated on a console, but it'd be an excellent tool for learning right-of-way, keeping an eye on your speed, possibly even an introduction to basic shifting without "blowing the tranny" in a real car (like Danny Bonaduce and Eddie Murphy.)
I've seen enough people stalling traffic at a flashing red light or all-way stop to know the general public needs a hell of a lot more edumacation on road rules.
It's not a substitute, but denying its usefulness is like saying he's not a good father if he studies the DMV manual with his son at home instead of passing down the driving magick strictly through oral tradition.
I agree, except that every time I try GNOME or KDE, I find a whole lot of crazy shit I don't need at all and go back to plain old Windowmaker. However, I've also tried GNUstep and found I don't need any of that either, which would be more comparable to a full desktop environment.
I installed GNOME on my home machine just to make things easier for my wife when she used the box, but Windowmaker is more than enough for me.
What really swung me to the South American hypothesis is the connection with cocaine found in some Egyptian mummies. Hard evidence is difficult to find due to the dearth of funding for Peruvian and Chilean archaeology, but circumstantial topographical evidence is abundant.
I'm not sure if it was PBS, or Discovery, or maybe the Science channel, but I also saw the special of which you speak, and it was very well done.
Maybe someone could explain the enigmatic "tellytubby-like" comment? Like, please don't say something like that and just assume everyone knows what the funk you're talking about? Like, especially when a google doesn't enlighten?
Great to see some new insight into how Wasteland was made, although somewhat disappointing to hear most of it was a bytecode scripting language. I guess we'll never see leaked source code for this old gem and port it to Linux. (But that would be so awesome my brain would explode like a blood sausage.)
Am I the only one who feels as if this is only a teaser for a real review? The reviewer mentions a "table of contents below" and his "score" which I don't see. Have I just never noticed that there's some other link to click on to see a full review, or am I freaking insane, or wtf?
Nobody's riding the golden parachute out of this disaster. The Frenchies ran Interplay into the ground. Turn to InXile and Troika for future enjoyment in the vein of the golden age of Interplay. RIP.
Me too!...at least in real-world retail outlets, and that's the first thing I thought when reading the summary. Maybe it's because I usually only consider buying CRPG. Unless it's an older, repackaged, or bundled add-on title, the games I want are consistently priced $40+.
Xf86 4.3 has been the only slow-to-accept Debian package which has really bothered me. I mostly just wanted to play with XRandR and get my Ti4800 to read in video. The closed NVidia driver works fine for games and DRI/OpenGL apps.
So, I installed 4.3 from the experimental release. (Check apt-get.org for details-- it's not an obvious branch to find.) X installed fine, but due to my sloppy dist-upgrade rather than a specific package target, I also got the latest apt, which includes authentication of packages. It still worked, but asked me every time if I was sure I wanted to grab "unauthenticated" packages.
It was simple enough to downgrade apt back to where it was with `apt-get install apt=X.X.X' where X.X.X was the old version. (You can also use `apt-get install pkgname/release' to grab a package from a particular release, eg. apt/unstable, apt/stable, apt/testing.)
Anyway, it turns out it was easier for me to use my bttv card for video capture, so I didn't need the latest 4.3 after all, can keep my NVidia drivers for UT2K4 and NWN, and capture pictures of my baby daughter with my Pinnacle card all at the same time.
Those footprints beside me? Those were the times Debian was carrying me. Praise Jebus.
Yeah, I'll admit the lack of 4.3 kinda bothers me, inasmuch as I was wanting the RandR extension, but unstable has never given me any stability problems.
I guess this boils down to BSD being a true "system" whereas Linux is really just a kernel which is usually distributed with GNU tools. There's no accepted definition of what constitutes a "base" Linux system. Is it whatever was installed? Whatever it takes to be POSIX-compliant? Whatever some consortium of distributors says?
For me,/usr/local is stuff I can't just apt-get back after a crash.
Yeah, and "I like software that isn't 3 years old" as an argument against Debian is a better troll.
I don't know what the official filesystem definition of/usr/local is, but I use it for anything I personally install. Everything managed by the package manager goes into/usr, and everything I bring in and compile goes to/usr/local. That makes sense to me.
Ha! That'll be a collector's item for any Fallout fan. It was thrashed by the folks at nma-fallout.com. Was it just the videotape, or the entire tin? IIRC, the original press kit included condoms.
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It may not be dishonest, but it's certainly stupid enough to have me avoid bothering with the article.
If ESR has written an explanation for why these rants are still titled "Halloween," someone kindly point to it.
The hero's catchphrase will of course be, "You think you can take me? Go'head on."
And they can save CPU cycles by repeating the same FMV death scene.
And jelly-filled donut powerups.
And whenever a friendly NPC receives newly developed pictures of his wife and child, well, save your game, you son of a [...]!
The latest 2.6 kernels support Promise SATA with the sata_promise module. I'm using the TX2plus with a 160GB SATA drive in a hotswap enclosure. The only drawback to the free driver is that it doesn't yet support the PATA port on the card.
Promise has released the source to their SATA card drivers, but it's written for the 2.4 kernels and at least the build process would need to be updated for them to compile cleanly in 2.6. In any case, the only reason to do so would be to get the PATA port working, and that'll be done freely eventually.
As mentioned in the post, most of the things he desires to teach are road rules. The physical mechanics of driving cannot be simulated on a console, but it'd be an excellent tool for learning right-of-way, keeping an eye on your speed, possibly even an introduction to basic shifting without "blowing the tranny" in a real car (like Danny Bonaduce and Eddie Murphy.)
I've seen enough people stalling traffic at a flashing red light or all-way stop to know the general public needs a hell of a lot more edumacation on road rules.
It's not a substitute, but denying its usefulness is like saying he's not a good father if he studies the DMV manual with his son at home instead of passing down the driving magick strictly through oral tradition.
WDTV Clarksburg?? 'Sup hillbilly brother? :)
A Linux based media player with a site served by Windows/ASP.
That does not bode well.
I agree, except that every time I try GNOME or KDE, I find a whole lot of crazy shit I don't need at all and go back to plain old Windowmaker. However, I've also tried GNUstep and found I don't need any of that either, which would be more comparable to a full desktop environment.
I installed GNOME on my home machine just to make things easier for my wife when she used the box, but Windowmaker is more than enough for me.
What really swung me to the South American hypothesis is the connection with cocaine found in some Egyptian mummies. Hard evidence is difficult to find due to the dearth of funding for Peruvian and Chilean archaeology, but circumstantial topographical evidence is abundant.
I'm not sure if it was PBS, or Discovery, or maybe the Science channel, but I also saw the special of which you speak, and it was very well done.
Maybe someone could explain the enigmatic "tellytubby-like" comment? Like, please don't say something like that and just assume everyone knows what the funk you're talking about? Like, especially when a google doesn't enlighten?
LIKE, YOU KNOW???
All of these strange words just make me sad. Whatever happened to just writing code?
Great to see some new insight into how Wasteland was made, although somewhat disappointing to hear most of it was a bytecode scripting language. I guess we'll never see leaked source code for this old gem and port it to Linux. (But that would be so awesome my brain would explode like a blood sausage.)
Am I the only one who feels as if this is only a teaser for a real review? The reviewer mentions a "table of contents below" and his "score" which I don't see. Have I just never noticed that there's some other link to click on to see a full review, or am I freaking insane, or wtf?
It doesn't really get any worse. You can rape a corpse, but it's still a corpse.
It'd be nice if someone munged the Fallout license out of it, but eh, still dead.
Nobody's riding the golden parachute out of this disaster. The Frenchies ran Interplay into the ground. Turn to InXile and Troika for future enjoyment in the vein of the golden age of Interplay. RIP.
Me too! ...at least in real-world retail outlets, and that's the first thing I thought when reading the summary. Maybe it's because I usually only consider buying CRPG. Unless it's an older, repackaged, or bundled add-on title, the games I want are consistently priced $40+.
Very well written review. I probably won't ever read the book, but you did a nice job reviewing it. Kudos. KUDOS.
I was ball-gagged and ass-balled by a supermutant in Broken Hills. True story.
Xf86 4.3 has been the only slow-to-accept Debian package which has really bothered me. I mostly just wanted to play with XRandR and get my Ti4800 to read in video. The closed NVidia driver works fine for games and DRI/OpenGL apps.
So, I installed 4.3 from the experimental release. (Check apt-get.org for details-- it's not an obvious branch to find.) X installed fine, but due to my sloppy dist-upgrade rather than a specific package target, I also got the latest apt, which includes authentication of packages. It still worked, but asked me every time if I was sure I wanted to grab "unauthenticated" packages.
It was simple enough to downgrade apt back to where it was with `apt-get install apt=X.X.X' where X.X.X was the old version. (You can also use `apt-get install pkgname/release' to grab a package from a particular release, eg. apt/unstable, apt/stable, apt/testing.)
Anyway, it turns out it was easier for me to use my bttv card for video capture, so I didn't need the latest 4.3 after all, can keep my NVidia drivers for UT2K4 and NWN, and capture pictures of my baby daughter with my Pinnacle card all at the same time.
Those footprints beside me? Those were the times Debian was carrying me. Praise Jebus.
Yeah, I'll admit the lack of 4.3 kinda bothers me, inasmuch as I was wanting the RandR extension, but unstable has never given me any stability problems.
:)
In any case, agreed to disagree.
perl -pi -e 's/(\bstable\b)/un$1/g;' /etc/apt/sources.list
I guess this boils down to BSD being a true "system" whereas Linux is really just a kernel which is usually distributed with GNU tools. There's no accepted definition of what constitutes a "base" Linux system. Is it whatever was installed? Whatever it takes to be POSIX-compliant? Whatever some consortium of distributors says?
/usr/local is stuff I can't just apt-get back after a crash.
For me,
Yeah, and "I like software that isn't 3 years old" as an argument against Debian is a better troll.
/usr/local is, but I use it for anything I personally install. Everything managed by the package manager goes into /usr, and everything I bring in and compile goes to /usr/local. That makes sense to me.
I don't know what the official filesystem definition of
Ha! That'll be a collector's item for any Fallout fan. It was thrashed by the folks at nma-fallout.com. Was it just the videotape, or the entire tin? IIRC, the original press kit included condoms.
That was for Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (*), the console action/RPG universally hated by Fallout fans everywhere and blamed for the demise of FO3.
(* Not to be confused with Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, released for the PC several years ago.)
Screenshots had been released, and the developers commented often both on Interplay and nma-fallout.com forums. It was never officially announced, no.