Don't be fooled by the promise of connectivity and online registration! If you care at all about your sanity, go somewhere else! RPI is not a g -- asfedj;sah( &Gfsogf AGOYD SABDAISLHD!! MUST... KILL... LINCOLN.....
Probably the latter. 99% of the gamers that this new Prince of Persia is targeting probably don't know that Prince of Persia originally came out like 14 years ago, and probably don't really care. I'd say that it was a concious decision by marketing to ignore the earlier games.
Yes, exactly! I keep trying to explain this to all my PS2-worshiping friends, but everyone is different with what they like I guess. Personally, despite my roommates' and neighbors' claims of how much better the PS2 or X-Box is, my GC last year got played more than the PS2, the Dreamcast, and my neighbor's X-Box combined. Between me and two roommates, and the stream of people visiting our room to play video games, it was on pretty much 24/7 with:
Super Smash Brothers Melee MarioKart DoubleDash WarioWare, Inc Pacman VS F-Zero GX and lately, Custom Robo and PSO with Linux
I can't wait till Metroid Prime 2 and Star Fox come out.
Matrox isn't really in the market anymore. Their latest (as far as I can tell) card was constantly at the bottom of the performance heap on TomsHardware's last year's VGA Charts, and this year it didn't have a card on there at all.
Well, from my experience, to suspend a session, you must have xmessage installed on the machine that you're connecting to (ie, the one serving up the apps). Then you should be able to send a close to the NX window on the computer you're connecting from (the only way I know to do this for a fullscreen NX session is with a close keybinding) and the server will use xmessage to ask you whether you want to suspend or terminate the session.
If that fails, there's also the hackish way of suspending, which is to manually kill the local instance of nxssh.orig. Unlike killing the actual window, which causes NX to terminate the session, this will cause NX to completely lose connection without terminating, and it'll automatically suspend. The downside to this method is that there are some processes left running on the server that usually die when you suspend normally, but ssh'ing in and killing them usually does the job (these processes, for a server serving a single NX session, are everything owned by "nx" but the first four, I think). Sometimes you'll still get a message locally telling you that it lost connection to the session and that the session should be terminated, but just hit yes on that cause it can no longer talk to the server to do anything with your session.
The first method above works for me now, and I used to use the second before I figured out that I needed xmessage installed on the server. Now the only thing I can't figure out is how to have the mouse wheel forwarded.
VNC does exactly that in Windows, yeah, and I think that Mandrake's (KDE's?) Desktop Sharing stuff is just VNC, so I think it can do that in Linux as well.
A debian-centered site about this NX server can be found here. Its pretty easy to set this up (except for the lack of docs), so there's no exuse for not trying.
Oh, and I forgot. The suspend/resume feature of NX is simply amazing. Just send a close event to the window (such as alt-f4 or whatever) and NX will offer to suspent the session and keep the apps running until you reconnect. It'll also do this automatically if you lose connection.
I second that. I have FreeNX running on my desktop and use it as a home base for my laptop, and its amazing in terms of how responsive it is. I've connected from Starbucks to my desktop before and felt like I was sitting at the machine.
The only drawback of NX is the complete lack of docs available. Still if anyone is interested, there's a debian-centered site about NX at Kalyxo and there's always NoMachine's site at nomachine.com.
I don't particularly mind satellites, as long as they come in through the front door, whipe their feet on the welcome mat, and politely drink their tea. Its the kind that crash through your roof or window that I can't stand. They're just plain rude.
Ugh.. No, he didn't start from Minix. He wrote Linux from scratch, using Minix as a sort of model. Its like if you go into an elevator and take a ride, and then make your own elevator without looking through the elevator motors and the like.
Now all we need is a real-life version of Battlefield 1942, and we'll be all set! Of course, it needs a really catchy name. Something short, yet easy to remember. Hmm...
How about, "War!"?
Heck, soon we might even be able to make real-life versions of the Desert Combat mod for BF1942!
Most responses to this post so far mentioned XMLTV, which is an icky solution that's no longer supported by MythTV. The far more elegant one is to use MythTV's relatively new Zap2Itsupport.
All XMLTV did anyways for North America was query Zap2It, and the DataDirect service of Zap2It that Myth uses now is much less errorprone and much faster, although you have to take a survey every 3 months if you want a free account there.
Ah, I know your pain, and there are others like you!
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Vandoravp, if you care about girls or anything social at all, stay away from RPI. Same goes for decent weather and a decent college town. Troy, NY is like a hellhole, I swear.
If you don't care about any of that, the CS classes at RPI are pretty good. I guess it all depends on your priorities, but I'd advice looking seriously at a different place.
If you do end up going here, finger shoshy on the network. I'll get you some alcohol or something to ease the pain.
I decided to go to RPI because RPI requires that all students have relatively new laptops, and my family would have to no choice but buy me one. Boy do I wish that RPI's laptop program had never come around...
Tech freebies are good and all, but people should really choose their college based on how much they like the location and education and such. Tech freebies will only keep one entertained for so long.
Out of curiosity, where does Slashdot render improperly? I can't see any errors (using Firefox.8 or.9). In Konqueror, Slashdot renders horribly (the user pages), but not in Firefox on my computer.
He just did, in that post! That'll show that stupid teacher, all that time teaching the difference between "to" and "too" and then that post for the world to view!
Just because something is copyrighted doesn't mean that it can't be shared. The GPL and the Creative Commons and pretty much every other license depends on you owning the copyright to the work that you're licensing (otherwise, how can you say who can or can't distribute it?). Not all copyrights are bad.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't be fooled by the promise of connectivity and online registration! If you care at all about your sanity, go somewhere else! RPI is not a g -- asfedj;sah( &Gfsogf AGOYD SABDAISLHD!! MUST ... KILL ... LINCOLN.....
Probably the latter. 99% of the gamers that this new Prince of Persia is targeting probably don't know that Prince of Persia originally came out like 14 years ago, and probably don't really care. I'd say that it was a concious decision by marketing to ignore the earlier games.
Yes, exactly! I keep trying to explain this to all my PS2-worshiping friends, but everyone is different with what they like I guess. Personally, despite my roommates' and neighbors' claims of how much better the PS2 or X-Box is, my GC last year got played more than the PS2, the Dreamcast, and my neighbor's X-Box combined. Between me and two roommates, and the stream of people visiting our room to play video games, it was on pretty much 24/7 with:
Super Smash Brothers Melee
MarioKart DoubleDash
WarioWare, Inc
Pacman VS
F-Zero GX
and lately, Custom Robo and PSO with Linux
I can't wait till Metroid Prime 2 and Star Fox come out.
Matrox isn't really in the market anymore. Their latest (as far as I can tell) card was constantly at the bottom of the performance heap on TomsHardware's last year's VGA Charts, and this year it didn't have a card on there at all.
Well, from my experience, to suspend a session, you must have xmessage installed on the machine that you're connecting to (ie, the one serving up the apps). Then you should be able to send a close to the NX window on the computer you're connecting from (the only way I know to do this for a fullscreen NX session is with a close keybinding) and the server will use xmessage to ask you whether you want to suspend or terminate the session.
If that fails, there's also the hackish way of suspending, which is to manually kill the local instance of nxssh.orig. Unlike killing the actual window, which causes NX to terminate the session, this will cause NX to completely lose connection without terminating, and it'll automatically suspend. The downside to this method is that there are some processes left running on the server that usually die when you suspend normally, but ssh'ing in and killing them usually does the job (these processes, for a server serving a single NX session, are everything owned by "nx" but the first four, I think). Sometimes you'll still get a message locally telling you that it lost connection to the session and that the session should be terminated, but just hit yes on that cause it can no longer talk to the server to do anything with your session.
The first method above works for me now, and I used to use the second before I figured out that I needed xmessage installed on the server. Now the only thing I can't figure out is how to have the mouse wheel forwarded.
VNC does exactly that in Windows, yeah, and I think that Mandrake's (KDE's?) Desktop Sharing stuff is just VNC, so I think it can do that in Linux as well.
A debian-centered site about this NX server can be found here. Its pretty easy to set this up (except for the lack of docs), so there's no exuse for not trying.
Oh, and I forgot. The suspend/resume feature of NX is simply amazing. Just send a close event to the window (such as alt-f4 or whatever) and NX will offer to suspent the session and keep the apps running until you reconnect. It'll also do this automatically if you lose connection.
Of course, this was all previously covered on Slashdot.
I second that. I have FreeNX running on my desktop and use it as a home base for my laptop, and its amazing in terms of how responsive it is. I've connected from Starbucks to my desktop before and felt like I was sitting at the machine.
The only drawback of NX is the complete lack of docs available. Still if anyone is interested, there's a debian-centered site about NX at Kalyxo and there's always NoMachine's site at nomachine.com.
I don't particularly mind satellites, as long as they come in through the front door, whipe their feet on the welcome mat, and politely drink their tea. Its the kind that crash through your roof or window that I can't stand. They're just plain rude.
I'm not, sorry. Its just something I stumbled onto a few days ago for some reason.
*robot-played drumroll*
Introducing.... MirrorDot!
Ugh.. No, he didn't start from Minix. He wrote Linux from scratch, using Minix as a sort of model. Its like if you go into an elevator and take a ride, and then make your own elevator without looking through the elevator motors and the like.
Now all we need is a real-life version of Battlefield 1942, and we'll be all set! Of course, it needs a really catchy name. Something short, yet easy to remember. Hmm...
How about, "War!"?
Heck, soon we might even be able to make real-life versions of the Desert Combat mod for BF1942!
Don't be silly, there aren't any computers outside of America :-).
I meant to add something about my post being only valid for America, but then forgot to. Forget me own web browser next.
Most responses to this post so far mentioned XMLTV, which is an icky solution that's no longer supported by MythTV. The far more elegant one is to use MythTV's relatively new Zap2It support.
All XMLTV did anyways for North America was query Zap2It, and the DataDirect service of Zap2It that Myth uses now is much less errorprone and much faster, although you have to take a survey every 3 months if you want a free account there.
No, all the intelligent people are piss drunk.
The first rule of the DMCA: you don't talk about the DMCA.
The second rule of the DMCA: you don't talk about the DMCA.
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Well, we have the solution for you! Our 100% natural pills garauntee to reduce your size by up to 5 inches, in just two weeks! If you click now, we'll send you 8 bottles for just $19.99! That's an 80$ value!
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Vandoravp, if you care about girls or anything social at all, stay away from RPI. Same goes for decent weather and a decent college town. Troy, NY is like a hellhole, I swear.
If you don't care about any of that, the CS classes at RPI are pretty good. I guess it all depends on your priorities, but I'd advice looking seriously at a different place.
If you do end up going here, finger shoshy on the network. I'll get you some alcohol or something to ease the pain.
I decided to go to RPI because RPI requires that all students have relatively new laptops, and my family would have to no choice but buy me one. Boy do I wish that RPI's laptop program had never come around...
Tech freebies are good and all, but people should really choose their college based on how much they like the location and education and such. Tech freebies will only keep one entertained for so long.
Out of curiosity, where does Slashdot render improperly? I can't see any errors (using Firefox .8 or .9). In Konqueror, Slashdot renders horribly (the user pages), but not in Firefox on my computer.
He just did, in that post! That'll show that stupid teacher, all that time teaching the difference between "to" and "too" and then that post for the world to view!
Some speculations as to the reason behind there not being a Nobel Prize for math are here.
Just because something is copyrighted doesn't mean that it can't be shared. The GPL and the Creative Commons and pretty much every other license depends on you owning the copyright to the work that you're licensing (otherwise, how can you say who can or can't distribute it?). Not all copyrights are bad.