Hehe, ok, that told me, you should probably note that I am not making any claims at all about win64, that's entirely your doing, and unsubstantiated ones at that, there's really no need to get stroppy about it.
I've never used Win64; I've read other peoples comments that they thought it was better than WinXP32 (it sounded like there were features in WinXP64 not in 32, but I don't know one way or the other)
coupled with
The point is though that 64-bit windows isn't as much of a joke as you make it out to be.
Tremulous is excellent and really rather addictive, i used to be a big fan of onslaught in UT2k4 but i tend to find Tremulous more interesting.
Not sure that i'd agree with the comparison of Alien Arena 2006 to CUBE, Alien arena is quite nice to look at and a fast paced deathmatcher based on Quake(2 or 3, i forget), for some reason there aren't any good screenshots of it on the homepage so http://www.ratiatum.com/img/logiciel/502/502.jpg will give you a better idea. CUBE is mildly entertaining but Sauerbraten with coopedit is more fun.
Nexuiz does a good job with a heavily modified version of the original Quake engine as its codebase, again surprisingly attractive for such an old fashioned engine http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/
Warsow is fast paced Deathmatch with a twist, and quite nicely done in a cellshaded style http://www.warsow.net/
Most of those are free software, if not they're at least linux compatible. http://www.happypenguin.org/ despite looking a little dated, is still a good place to find new games.
And you get the bonus of having moderately interesting PPC based systems rather than overpriced commodity intel hardware like the replacement machines your friends are buying.
So what has kept you from running linux for so long then? Wouldn't that solve your malware issues?
I must say, a well secured windows PC has no reason to become infected, you generally need to sit an idiot down in front of it for that to happen. To make infection even quicker you should explain to them that should not download and install every program advertised on every webpage, this ensures that they ignore your advice and do completely the opposite.
The vast majority of words are made up from other words, and from Latin words especially, but these words have their own meanings and definitions, often distinct from those of their parents. Contractions, on the other hand, are just that, a shortened single word form of a common pairing of words, they are separated purposefully by apostrophe, to indicate that parts of the original words have been omitted, and are simply the sum of their parts. I'm not saying that contractions aren't words at all, just that they have no identity of their own, unlike asbo and chavtastic, the kind of words now gracing the dictionaries of our ever expanding and evolving language.
Actually it can be done, i did it some time ago but the peculiar behaviour of the actual viewing portal and the toolbars made it pretty cumbersome, http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=3254 had some tips.
Still, i'm very pleased that google have chosen to put the time and effort they have into their recent linux ports, this will be far more useful... ok, maybe just fun then, than picasa.
What would be very nice is if the Wii could connect to a WPA router and then act as bridge and WEP access point for the DS, having to leave the router using WEP purely for the sake of a DS is rather annoying.
Easy, these texans who'll be sat in front of their computers watching goings on with the new bordercams will be able aim and fire an RFID dart with the aid of a flash movie on the page.
Well i was actually after an answer to the questions posed, not simply trolling, oh well i guess this is/. and i did just criticise the worlds current favourite distro.
In the version i currently have installed it has no obvious wizard capable of transcoding an xvid video to MPEG2 before putting them in the right place and producing a custom menu for DVD use, this doesn't matter to me but it does to an awful lot of other users. Nero for linux, or at least the version i've used, offers no such bells and whistles, you'd be hard pressed to find a reason to use it over any of the Free linux burners.
Vibrant but still equally unpleasant, do you know if the screenshots on http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop are of the finished article or various pre-release stages?
Do we now treat ubuntu as a single user OS and assume everyone will be switching off rather than logging out, or is that not the message the sodding great power button and a 'Quit' caption gives? Are the icons all peculiarly mangled just for fun, i see a certain amount of Tango, some throwbacks to GNOME default and some pretty horrible ubuntu specific ones. OO.o still seems to have its set of GNOME style icons, does it make sense to change most of the system and leave the icons in one of its most important components? Oh, and what's the power button in the top-right corner for, is it a quick 'Quit' button?
I'm sorry to sound so negative, and i haven't actually downloaded the liveCD myself yet to find out, but what i've seen of the new graphics has yet to convince me that it was a good move.
I don't like the idea of shoveling £100 into the machine and watching in horror as your purchase is pushed unceremoniously to the edge, from where it plumets 2 or 3 feet to the bottom with an unsettling crash before being pulled out through a door flap which mangles both the packaging and your arm.
"I'm a mac, i feel comfortable wearing blue canvas shoes, even though i look a bit of a prat in them, i don't mind because steve jobs says i'm cool."
Obviously, as a Linux PC user i can't view these ads as apple wont provide me with a legal means to decode their quicktime videos, for this reason i don't actually know what they consist of.
I don't see these ads appealing to PC owners, is it purely an opportunity for smug, self satisfied mac fans to go "Heh, that's so right"?
Yep, nothing but a screenshot tour, and not a very interesting one, of KDE, what a waste of time. The fact that we can see no difference on the surface between this and Linux makes me wonder what its purpose is, besides offering an alternative for those geeks who feel linux is too mainstream but aren't bright enough to install BSD without copious quantities of hand-holding. I suppose it is compatible with pictosniff http://lekernel.lya.eu/pictosniff_en.html so maybe it's a good option for DS users.
"I thought everybody agreed that this was the purpose of dual core CPUs for Windows machines. One to run the bundled Norton crud, one to run the apps."
That hadn't occured to me, it could certainly make a big difference cutting down the effect of the overhead from norton antivirus and firewall software, not to mention the worms it feels like letting in to join the party.
"Of course some people follow the advice of their more enlightened friends/neighbours/family and switch to other products or other systems."
most can't manage it without help though, norton/symantec AV and the various internet security packages, and mcafee to a lesser extent, are pretty insidious and can sometimes be a real pain to remove, most likely a deliberate attempt by the software publishers to stop users from switching to a free version when their demo expirese a few months after purchasing the new PC it came with. At this point an average user will invariably glance at their windows security center with a look of fear and simply pay to extend the subscription.
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Hehe, ok, that told me, you should probably note that I am not making any claims at all about win64, that's entirely your doing, and unsubstantiated ones at that, there's really no need to get stroppy about it.
Please do quote some sources then, or is there a need to keep their identity a secret?
coupled with
Doesn't exactly help your argument, does it?
Tremulous is excellent and really rather addictive, i used to be a big fan of onslaught in UT2k4 but i tend to find Tremulous more interesting.
Not sure that i'd agree with the comparison of Alien Arena 2006 to CUBE, Alien arena is quite nice to look at and a fast paced deathmatcher based on Quake(2 or 3, i forget), for some reason there aren't any good screenshots of it on the homepage so http://www.ratiatum.com/img/logiciel/502/502.jpg will give you a better idea. CUBE is mildly entertaining but Sauerbraten with coopedit is more fun.
Nexuiz does a good job with a heavily modified version of the original Quake engine as its codebase, again surprisingly attractive for such an old fashioned engine http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/
Warsow is fast paced Deathmatch with a twist, and quite nicely done in a cellshaded style http://www.warsow.net/
Most of those are free software, if not they're at least linux compatible. http://www.happypenguin.org/ despite looking a little dated, is still a good place to find new games.
And you get the bonus of having moderately interesting PPC based systems rather than overpriced commodity intel hardware like the replacement machines your friends are buying.
So what has kept you from running linux for so long then? Wouldn't that solve your malware issues?
I must say, a well secured windows PC has no reason to become infected, you generally need to sit an idiot down in front of it for that to happen. To make infection even quicker you should explain to them that should not download and install every program advertised on every webpage, this ensures that they ignore your advice and do completely the opposite.
The vast majority of words are made up from other words, and from Latin words especially, but these words have their own meanings and definitions, often distinct from those of their parents. Contractions, on the other hand, are just that, a shortened single word form of a common pairing of words, they are separated purposefully by apostrophe, to indicate that parts of the original words have been omitted, and are simply the sum of their parts. I'm not saying that contractions aren't words at all, just that they have no identity of their own, unlike asbo and chavtastic, the kind of words now gracing the dictionaries of our ever expanding and evolving language.
But "isn't" isn't really a word in its own right, it's a contraction of "is not"
From TFA it IS wiping HDDs using powerful magnets
I don't know if it's of any use in this situation but you might want to look into AxCrypt
http://axcrypt.axantum.com/
Actually it can be done, i did it some time ago but the peculiar behaviour of the actual viewing portal and the toolbars made it pretty cumbersome, http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=3254 had some tips.
Still, i'm very pleased that google have chosen to put the time and effort they have into their recent linux ports, this will be far more useful... ok, maybe just fun then, than picasa.
What would be very nice is if the Wii could connect to a WPA router and then act as bridge and WEP access point for the DS, having to leave the router using WEP purely for the sake of a DS is rather annoying.
Easy, these texans who'll be sat in front of their computers watching goings on with the new bordercams will be able aim and fire an RFID dart with the aid of a flash movie on the page.
Well i was actually after an answer to the questions posed, not simply trolling, oh well i guess this is /. and i did just criticise the worlds current favourite distro.
What if they'd allowed use of the redhat brand, Redhat Fedora for instance, would that have been a better move?
In the version i currently have installed it has no obvious wizard capable of transcoding an xvid video to MPEG2 before putting them in the right place and producing a custom menu for DVD use, this doesn't matter to me but it does to an awful lot of other users. Nero for linux, or at least the version i've used, offers no such bells and whistles, you'd be hard pressed to find a reason to use it over any of the Free linux burners.
Vibrant but still equally unpleasant, do you know if the screenshots on http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop are of the finished article or various pre-release stages?
Do we now treat ubuntu as a single user OS and assume everyone will be switching off rather than logging out, or is that not the message the sodding great power button and a 'Quit' caption gives? Are the icons all peculiarly mangled just for fun, i see a certain amount of Tango, some throwbacks to GNOME default and some pretty horrible ubuntu specific ones. OO.o still seems to have its set of GNOME style icons, does it make sense to change most of the system and leave the icons in one of its most important components? Oh, and what's the power button in the top-right corner for, is it a quick 'Quit' button?
I'm sorry to sound so negative, and i haven't actually downloaded the liveCD myself yet to find out, but what i've seen of the new graphics has yet to convince me that it was a good move.
I don't like the idea of shoveling £100 into the machine and watching in horror as your purchase is pushed unceremoniously to the edge, from where it plumets 2 or 3 feet to the bottom with an unsettling crash before being pulled out through a door flap which mangles both the packaging and your arm.
Off topic now i know but what's with this ad?
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
"I'm a mac, i feel comfortable wearing blue canvas shoes, even though i look a bit of a prat in them, i don't mind because steve jobs says i'm cool."
Obviously, as a Linux PC user i can't view these ads as apple wont provide me with a legal means to decode their quicktime videos, for this reason i don't actually know what they consist of.
I don't see these ads appealing to PC owners, is it purely an opportunity for smug, self satisfied mac fans to go "Heh, that's so right"?
Yep, nothing but a screenshot tour, and not a very interesting one, of KDE, what a waste of time. The fact that we can see no difference on the surface between this and Linux makes me wonder what its purpose is, besides offering an alternative for those geeks who feel linux is too mainstream but aren't bright enough to install BSD without copious quantities of hand-holding. I suppose it is compatible with pictosniff http://lekernel.lya.eu/pictosniff_en.html so maybe it's a good option for DS users.
all this talk of cheesy porn music and hard discs reminds me of http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/hdspeakers/hdspe akers.htm
Isn't it common knowledge that Infinium have poured all available resources into development of the CowboyNealBox3?
That hadn't occured to me, it could certainly make a big difference cutting down the effect of the overhead from norton antivirus and firewall software, not to mention the worms it feels like letting in to join the party.
most can't manage it without help though, norton/symantec AV and the various internet security packages, and mcafee to a lesser extent, are pretty insidious and can sometimes be a real pain to remove, most likely a deliberate attempt by the software publishers to stop users from switching to a free version when their demo expirese a few months after purchasing the new PC it came with. At this point an average user will invariably glance at their windows security center with a look of fear and simply pay to extend the subscription.
Well, they'd actually been on display in the local planning office for the last 9 months, but close enough :)
Well that and FF vulnerabilities have this tendency to get fixed in a timely fashion.