Its a total joke, slow slow slow slow. I browse the web weird, I like to run with 8 browsers at once. Not gonna happen with 6. And I have a dual celeron 400 and 256 megs of ram. If I keep under 3 windows, its fine, but past that, yuck. My ex-girlfriend's computer, which is a 466 with 64 megs of ram, can't even handle one window fo the bitch. It sends her load average up to like 2.3+ with nothing but that, afterstep, gaim, and X running, and a very minimal number of daemons.
Did I also mention it doesn't want to let me see the edge of the ext window I am typing this in, and its handling of style sheets is so "random" that it is completely useless.
well, asteroid scares only started getting big hype after that slew of awful awful movies about global horror came out. I don't think people cared before that, and these things are fairly spaced out, and when one does hit, we'll hear about it.
yeah, I really meant any big quake, where I live, middle of Ohio, we get nothing, little tremors, but we do sit on a very slow fault that can cause tremendous quakes once in a great while, new york gets them as well, not very often, but when it happens, buildings will fall, no such thing as quake proofing in nyc.
If you get your hands on released US Nilitary documents from years past, they track, and document 3 - 5 major collisions every decade! Major, megaton impacts aren't a once every few thousand years issue, they happen about every 3 - 4 years. Just bear in mind they are most likely to impact near polar regions, and there is a SHITLOAD of empty space on this planet, so no one ever seems to notice.
hell, events such as the Tunguska blast are predicted to happen every 200 years or so.... some people just need to stop watching those disaster movies. Should I mention that New York City sits on a pressure slip quake fault that triggers every 250 years or so..... and the last recorded quake in NYC was about 245 years ago, and the experts say it was like a 9.3 on the richtor scale..... Or would that cause a massive media hype as well......
BS, I can run Quake 3 in 32 bit color at 1600x1200 with my celeron 400 system, my best friend was a 3dfx fiend, until he saw how much my machine beat his pentium 3 550 with a voodo 3 3500 trhat runs quake 3 in 16 bit color and struggles behind me.
I say, NONE, cause I don't use desktop enviroments! Unless you count CDE, which they make me use at school, which is still better than Gnome or KDE. Gimme a straigh window manager, and I'm happy.
I make it a point to always buy the newest version of Red Hat, just to support my fav company, but occasionally, I have to wait for the store I get it from to get more in, because they say they sell Red Hat's stuff very quickly. To quote the guy at the cash register, "Yeah, I may wanna try it, people seem to be buying it a lot these days." Sure it could sit up and take up shelf space, but I see a lot of places selling it rather easily. Don't even ask me how long the local Media Play managed to keep their hands on 12 copies of Corel Office 2K for Linux....ahem gone in a week....
I think most vendors are just ignorant, the windows world has one company running the show, I think a lot of people just assume Red Hat runs the Linux world.
Hell, when I explained that Linux was not owned by Red Hat to my girlfriend's MS lovin, stick up his ass, father, he wondered why I hadn't contacted the proper authorities.
Okay, before I get pissed because you are a flaming dolt just like everyone else consider these facts:
1. Loads of websites turn of underlined links now 2. You can turn off style sheets. 3. Ever think some of us wish the whole web had no underlined text save that of for citing works? Links are a different color, ya can pick em out without underlines, and quite frankly, I have such awful vision, that even with glasses, underlined text is a bear on my eyes.
What it really boils down to is personal choice, you like em, I can barely read them, and I refuse to crank up my font when I can see the rest of the page just fine.
I just grabbed netscape 6 pre 1 while upgrading to Comm 4.74, and to my amazement, it still doesn't handle style sheets correctly! Now it does em like ie, unfollowed links still have underlines even if I use a style sheet to get rid of them, only after I click em once do the ugly underlines disapear.
What they don't publicise on tv is when they come back from low gravity enviroments, a matter fo days in space can render your heart in a near dead state, fit astronauts come back to earth and can't walk for a month, months in space can potentially kill a person, you think hollywood stars or joe six pack could survive being blasted into outer space? and no, the exercises they do in space don't help this, all they do is slow the process down a bit. Space travel is not for the even the slightest bit out fo shape person.
Well, it runs with wine I guess, so they didn't really do much in the way with porting, just tinkered it to work well with wine, I'm getting it now, well see how well it runs..... the installer of wp8 from the cd didn't even run, which makes me wonder how well this will work, since it apparently has *.exe's in its dir.
They say they are all for it, but they don't have any MP3's on their site, they have crummy real audio. And now they start selling Napster merchandise that Napster can't ignore, and will look stupid as hell if they do take legal action. I think they wanted this to happen personally. Its harsh, as I love The Offspring.
I figure if I ask for enough stuff, maybe I'll get one or two of em.
Top of the list is difinately Starcraft, I would gladly buy the game all over again just to play it in Linux. I personally could care less about Diablo, but I know a lot of people would love it, and I'd buy it just to support more ports (hear that Blizzard? I'd buy it and never play it, so I'd never hog bnet!) Warcraft 2 BNE is another one I'd like to see, but not nearly as much as Starcraft.
Other goodies would be X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, Dungeon Keeper 2, Starcraft, Alpha Centauri and Alien Crossover, Starcraft, Worms 2, Ultima Online, Starcraft, Baldur's Gate, Starcraft, and the old Atari game Adventure.
Oh, and porting Starcraft would be really nice too.
A few people have asked abpout alternatives, well, I get my web hosting from some nice Linux geeks over at DreamHost. Well, they let us switch our email provider over to a custom provider, one of which is Big MailBox. I haven't used it, but I have a friend who runs his collage radio station's web page with DreamHost and the email with this Big MailBox deal, and he raves about it. Hope this is useful, I hate webmail, so I have never paid it much heed.
I grabbed M11 a while ago. I liked the html rendering capabilities, and most other things. But, is that what the interface is going to look like? Or is it just sitting like that until developement can be completed on the core engine, and more attention paid to the interface? In its current incarnation, it doesn't matter how fast/stable/whatever it is, its just too ugly.
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Its a total joke, slow slow slow slow. I browse the web weird, I like to run with 8 browsers at once. Not gonna happen with 6. And I have a dual celeron 400 and 256 megs of ram. If I keep under 3 windows, its fine, but past that, yuck. My ex-girlfriend's computer, which is a 466 with 64 megs of ram, can't even handle one window fo the bitch. It sends her load average up to like 2.3+ with nothing but that, afterstep, gaim, and X running, and a very minimal number of daemons.
Did I also mention it doesn't want to let me see the edge of the ext window I am typing this in, and its handling of style sheets is so "random" that it is completely useless.
Can we all start waving penguin flags, chanting tux has come again, and rejoice that a golden age is upon us yet?
well, asteroid scares only started getting big hype after that slew of awful awful movies about global horror came out. I don't think people cared before that, and these things are fairly spaced out, and when one does hit, we'll hear about it.
yeah, I really meant any big quake, where I live, middle of Ohio, we get nothing, little tremors, but we do sit on a very slow fault that can cause tremendous quakes once in a great while, new york gets them as well, not very often, but when it happens, buildings will fall, no such thing as quake proofing in nyc.
If you get your hands on released US Nilitary documents from years past, they track, and document 3 - 5 major collisions every decade! Major, megaton impacts aren't a once every few thousand years issue, they happen about every 3 - 4 years. Just bear in mind they are most likely to impact near polar regions, and there is a SHITLOAD of empty space on this planet, so no one ever seems to notice.
hell, events such as the Tunguska blast are predicted to happen every 200 years or so.... some people just need to stop watching those disaster movies. Should I mention that New York City sits on a pressure slip quake fault that triggers every 250 years or so..... and the last recorded quake in NYC was about 245 years ago, and the experts say it was like a 9.3 on the richtor scale..... Or would that cause a massive media hype as well......
BS, I can run Quake 3 in 32 bit color at 1600x1200 with my celeron 400 system, my best friend was a 3dfx fiend, until he saw how much my machine beat his pentium 3 550 with a voodo 3 3500 trhat runs quake 3 in 16 bit color and struggles behind me.
I have encountered a lot of pc's with these requirements in mind. We always went with the Voodoo 3 3000 pci, it worked pretty well.
Creative also sells a nice TNT2 Ultra pci now. Which I would prefer over the voodoo 3.
But I guess its whatever camp you ollow, 3dfx vs nvidia......
I say, NONE, cause I don't use desktop enviroments! Unless you count CDE, which they make me use at school, which is still better than Gnome or KDE. Gimme a straigh window manager, and I'm happy.
--N
If KDE is Abraham Lincoln, Gnome is president Taft, he was fat as hell.
And by that analogy, Afterstep is FDR.
Guess who I like best?
The next E release is going ot be VERY different from the current release, makes the time between releases differ quite a bit.
I make it a point to always buy the newest version of Red Hat, just to support my fav company, but occasionally, I have to wait for the store I get it from to get more in, because they say they sell Red Hat's stuff very quickly. To quote the guy at the cash register, "Yeah, I may wanna try it, people seem to be buying it a lot these days." Sure it could sit up and take up shelf space, but I see a lot of places selling it rather easily. Don't even ask me how long the local Media Play managed to keep their hands on 12 copies of Corel Office 2K for Linux....ahem gone in a week....
I fail to see why someone wasted time moding this down, I thought it was funny.
But sorry, I actually don't know my gf's father's email addy. And he knows my opinion of him....... Nano Micro Serf!
"Liiiiiiiinux! Where are yoooooooou!?!?!?!?"
Think "Scoobie Doo Where are you?"
I think most vendors are just ignorant, the windows world has one company running the show, I think a lot of people just assume Red Hat runs the Linux world.
Hell, when I explained that Linux was not owned by Red Hat to my girlfriend's MS lovin, stick up his ass, father, he wondered why I hadn't contacted the proper authorities.
Okay, before I get pissed because you are a flaming dolt just like everyone else consider these facts:
1. Loads of websites turn of underlined links now
2. You can turn off style sheets.
3. Ever think some of us wish the whole web had no underlined text save that of for citing works? Links are a different color, ya can pick em out without underlines, and quite frankly, I have such awful vision, that even with glasses, underlined text is a bear on my eyes.
What it really boils down to is personal choice, you like em, I can barely read them, and I refuse to crank up my font when I can see the rest of the page just fine.
get over it, your not perfect.
Thanks, I'll do that....
*sets course for moz.org*
I just grabbed netscape 6 pre 1 while upgrading to Comm 4.74, and to my amazement, it still doesn't handle style sheets correctly! Now it does em like ie, unfollowed links still have underlines even if I use a style sheet to get rid of them, only after I click em once do the ugly underlines disapear.
What they don't publicise on tv is when they come back from low gravity enviroments, a matter fo days in space can render your heart in a near dead state, fit astronauts come back to earth and can't walk for a month, months in space can potentially kill a person, you think hollywood stars or joe six pack could survive being blasted into outer space? and no, the exercises they do in space don't help this, all they do is slow the process down a bit. Space travel is not for the even the slightest bit out fo shape person.
Well, it runs with wine I guess, so they didn't really do much in the way with porting, just tinkered it to work well with wine, I'm getting it now, well see how well it runs..... the installer of wp8 from the cd didn't even run, which makes me wonder how well this will work, since it apparently has *.exe's in its dir.
Nuintari has no sig
They say they are all for it, but they don't have any MP3's on their site, they have crummy real audio. And now they start selling Napster merchandise that Napster can't ignore, and will look stupid as hell if they do take legal action. I think they wanted this to happen personally. Its harsh, as I love The Offspring.
I figure if I ask for enough stuff, maybe I'll get one or two of em.
Top of the list is difinately Starcraft, I would gladly buy the game all over again just to play it in Linux. I personally could care less about Diablo, but I know a lot of people would love it, and I'd buy it just to support more ports (hear that Blizzard? I'd buy it and never play it, so I'd never hog bnet!) Warcraft 2 BNE is another one I'd like to see, but not nearly as much as Starcraft.
Other goodies would be X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, Dungeon Keeper 2, Starcraft, Alpha Centauri and Alien Crossover, Starcraft, Worms 2, Ultima Online, Starcraft, Baldur's Gate, Starcraft, and the old Atari game Adventure.
Oh, and porting Starcraft would be really nice too.
Does this mean I don't have to share my cable modem with my mom anymore? Or will that "bring your own access feature" still work?
Kind of like the idea of not having to share my bandwidth.....
Nuintari
That evil site should smell like gunpowder and raw hamster guts..... either that or stinky cheese.
What happens when someopne gets the idea of using a nerve gas smell, a whole new level of cyber terrorism?
A few people have asked abpout alternatives, well, I get my web hosting from some nice Linux geeks over at DreamHost. Well, they let us switch our email provider over to a custom provider, one of which is Big MailBox. I haven't used it, but I have a friend who runs his collage radio station's web page with DreamHost and the email with this Big MailBox deal, and he raves about it. Hope this is useful, I hate webmail, so I have never paid it much heed.
I grabbed M11 a while ago. I liked the html rendering capabilities, and most other things. But, is that what the interface is going to look like? Or is it just sitting like that until developement can be completed on the core engine, and more attention paid to the interface? In its current incarnation, it doesn't matter how fast/stable/whatever it is, its just too ugly.