Re:Obvious question:
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If you get the CVS version you have to use No-CD cracks for games that have SafeDisk or SecuRom.
You can find most No-CD cracks (legally!) from your local www.gamecopyworld.com mirror
I highly suggest paying the $5 a month though. I have been doing it since the first day Transgaming set it up - and I will continue to do so. It is a great community and a great project - and its benefits are direct (no more rebooting!).
Derek
Re:benchmarks...
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You can run 3dmark 2000 (not 2001... yet) in winex.
I already have 2.0 installed and will do this in WinXP and Winex tonight and post back here. Last time I did it with 1.0 there was a serious drop in FPS - but it was still well above playable (on my 1.2GHz Tbird with a Geforce3 TI500)
A calm, cool, AND collected response on Slashdot! Interesting...;-)
No, but really, it is good to see that you at least have your reasons - and in general KDE just doesn't do it for you, which is understandable (that is why we're using linux right - so we have a choice?)
And you are completely correct about sitting down a windows user in front of a bare E-Machine (that is funny to say!) - they would freak.
Since it seems that E is near and dear to your heart have you tried E17? I was looking into helping on the project for a while but couldn't ever quite get my feet wet (I still subscribe to the devel list - but man E17 is a mess to get started with). E17 is definitely going to be cool (if they ever get it finished)
First of all let me say I LOVE this distro! I just switched from Slack 3 or 4 weeks ago and I can't stop raving about it!
Ok now on to your problem. I went looking for an answer in the mailing list because several people have been asking this. Really I don't think there is an answer. You just need to add your most commonly used packages to that "world" file like it says in the new Portage Documentation and then run:
emerge --update world --emptytree
in order to recompile all of them. I know that won't do what you asked exactly - but if you put a couple of high level apps in there (like KDE or Gnome) it will pick up all the rest as dependencies and recompile/update those too. So just put some of your highest level apps in there and you should stay pretty up to date.
Other than that get on #gentoo on irc.openprojects.net and ask drobbins himself about it:-)
I used E for years (assuming you mean enlightenment - and no I don't mean behind Gnome or KDE - just straight E) - But now I have switched to KDE (about 6 months ago).
I loved E and could get a lot of work done - but then I found myself spending a *LOT* of time doing simple things (like adding a new program to the Programs Menu), also I found that it ate a lot of resources (and actually was making me skip frames in 3d games). I thought I could do better so I went looking...
I am a C++ programmer so I thought QT looked interesting anyways - and as long as I was going to learn QT I might as well use KDE. Upon my initial installation (KDE 2.1) I thought "This is bullshit" - it looked like some kind of childish cartooney crap. But seing as how thousands of people use it everyday I thought, "there must be more to this".
So I went ahead and customized it (just like I always did for E - which by the way it takes longer to COMPLETELY customize E than it does KDE). What I finally worked out is something that was setup just like I had E setup - except I have a taskbar and k-menu - that are both easily configured. This is not too mention the fact that now when I install a program it automatically adds itself to the k-menu - as opposed to me hunting down the path to the binary and editing txt files in order to add it to E's menu.
I have never really looked back - I have a sleek very functional desktop that doesn't take forever to do simple things in and allows me to play my 3d-games at their finest.
You obviously haven't TRULY tried to use KDE so you can't appreciate it or properly comment on it.
Everyone has their environment - use what you like - but don't knock my environment down as "newbie trash" just because you think it has "Easy customizability, nice look, better usability" which I really can't see as a fault anyway......
I would have to say that this is the single greatest creation in the history of time.
I started out with Enlightenment in Linux - which defaults to this sort of behavior. And nowadays I use KDE3 with this behavior.
Ever since I started using WM's with Sloppy Focus it is just painful to use anything else! Windows focusing irritates the shit out of me. I hate how every window seems to think it needs to be maximized and that overlapping windows so that you can see more than one bit of infromation at once is totally out of the question.
It is good to see that there are others who appreciate this!
As someone who is "subscribed" to another "club"(www.transgaming.com) of the same sort - I can say that as long as positive things are happening and progress is being made people will continue to pay.
Over at Transgaming over the past month there has been a lot of grumbling (read as people saying they are going to unsubscribe) because everyone wants release 2.0 - So the developers had to put a little more time into quieting the masses by giving regular reports about what is being worked on (I use the term "regular" loosely as TG still doesn't have this totally under control). And because of this almost all of the original subscribers are still there - because there is a feeling of progress.
If Mandrake ever ceases to progress - that is the point where people will begin jumping ship. Up until that point I am sure that the club members will feel as if their money is well spent.
The KDE3 maintainer already said that the ebuild for kde3 will be out tomorrow.
ebuilds are source++ you just do an "emerge kde3" and it downloads the source and compiles (with options perfect for your machine) it and installs it. It will also automatically download anything it depends on and do the same - ALL FROM SOURCE. So with one command you get a perfect build of KDE3 with no hassles.
Also note that we have had a kde3cvs ebuild for a while - where you just do "emerge kde3cvs" and it grabs the source from CVS and compiles/installs it - so if you want to live on the BLEEDING edge you can.
Gentoo really is amazing - you should check it out.
After you have played that game for 10+ hours a day for a month or so with every friend you can get to sit at the console with you - it becomes natural to walk around town and think of all the different grinds/jumps you could perform.
In reality this happens to me a lot - because I tend to focus very intensely on one game for a small amount of time and then discard it after a month or so. Only game to break that cycle has been Q3.
Don't go up to an Athlon XP board! If you already have an A7V under the hood then you have enough power to wait until next christmas to get a ClawHammer.
That's what I'm doing. I bought a 1.2Ghz Athlon with an Abit KT7A last summer (system is ROCK solid) - and I'm going to hold onto it until the ClawHammer comes out - then it is just a recompile of Gentoo and I will be running a 64-bit OS.
I personally use Mozilla and it has always worked with Exchange2000's webmail (and I know it works with 0.9.8 and 0.9.9
But I really don't use it too often because the IMAP support is just much better/faster and Mozilla's mail client is great - plus I can define filters and all that which you can't do through the webmail interface.
Are you crazy? Look at what is happening to organizations like ICANN right now. All voting does is slow down the process - it might, in the end come up with a good decision but the time it takes to get there overwhelms that.
Linux development cannot afford to be slow right now. Hard decisions are made everyday by people like Linus and Marcello - I am personally very grateful that we have people like this who are willing to make those decisions. If it were not for hard fast decisions in Linux development - Linux would fall behind and be lost in the fray.
root@friedmud:~# linuxconf su: linuxconf: command not found
Well, I don't have it - and I get along fine without it - so why the hell does does lycoris need it?? I am sure that this is something from the Hat/Drake land that people think is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. Nothing is necessary in linux - there is always a different/possibly better way to do it.
If you don't consider friction you get this: Kf-Ki=Uf-Ui (Change in Kinetic energy = change in potential)
Which is: 1/2M(Vf)^2 - 1/2M(Vi)^2 = MgHf - MgHi
And you can quickly see that you can divide both sides by the mass of the object (because the mass doesn't change).
And therefore the final velocty (Vf) is not dependent on the mass of the object at all.
Ok, so i'm a bored College Student that is sitting through Phys21 right now (yes that is our first physics class - for comparison the first Calculus class at my school is Math21 - and there is only 1 class below that, going to an engineering school is great fun!;-)
I am having the same problem. I have freetype on my system - and it is in the library path. I have edited the unix.js file and included 2 different paths to True-Type fonts (One is pointing the the ttfs on my windows partition, the other to the ttfs of StarOffice6 beta).
But I can't get the fonts to show up at all in mozilla.
Hell, I even got TTFs working back in netscape 4.7 with Xft - that took a whole week to get going perfectly. But, for some reason this process is kicking my ass.
Anyone out there have it working?
I am on a HIGHLY modified Slackware8.0 with XFree 4.2 (or whatever the newest is - I just got it last week and compiled it myself). I have an NVIDIA card with the newest drivers that were released a couple of days ago.
If everyone would go to www.congress.org and write their senators and representatives I guarantee you it would have an impact.
Here is what I wrote - feel free to copy/edit:
------------- I have written to you before on this topic but I thought I would remind you that the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA) is a horrible idea for America, and there is a hearing about it tomorrow morning.
This is a bill that Senator Fritz Hollings from South Carolina is advocating on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). It seeks to severely limit the freedoms of Americans by imbedding Digital Rights Management (DRM) hardware - into every single electronic device.
Not only does this bill limit the freedoms of Americans but it is going to be a nightmare to enforce - which means it is going to end up costing ME, the person who has his rights stripped away, money in the form of tax dollars.
Please do not allow this atrocious bill to ever make it to the Senate floor. I am a VOTING American and you can bet that my next vote will be riding on topics such as this.
Here is a news article on this bill: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50702,00.html ----------------
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If you get the CVS version you have to use No-CD cracks for games that have SafeDisk or SecuRom.
You can find most No-CD cracks (legally!) from your local www.gamecopyworld.com mirror
I highly suggest paying the $5 a month though. I have been doing it since the first day Transgaming set it up - and I will continue to do so. It is a great community and a great project - and its benefits are direct (no more rebooting!).
Derek
You can run 3dmark 2000 (not 2001... yet) in winex.
I already have 2.0 installed and will do this in WinXP and Winex tonight and post back here. Last time I did it with 1.0 there was a serious drop in FPS - but it was still well above playable (on my 1.2GHz Tbird with a Geforce3 TI500)
Derek
To install Max Payne - so far it is working flawlessly on my Gentoo Linux setup (installed using the RPM with --nodeps)
Will write back with the results!
Derek
Ah!
;-)
What is this???
A calm, cool, AND collected response on Slashdot! Interesting...
No, but really, it is good to see that you at least have your reasons - and in general KDE just doesn't do it for you, which is understandable (that is why we're using linux right - so we have a choice?)
And you are completely correct about sitting down a windows user in front of a bare E-Machine (that is funny to say!) - they would freak.
Since it seems that E is near and dear to your heart have you tried E17? I was looking into helping on the project for a while but couldn't ever quite get my feet wet (I still subscribe to the devel list - but man E17 is a mess to get started with). E17 is definitely going to be cool (if they ever get it finished)
Derek
Hey,
:-)
First of all let me say I LOVE this distro! I just switched from Slack 3 or 4 weeks ago and I can't stop raving about it!
Ok now on to your problem. I went looking for an answer in the mailing list because several people have been asking this. Really I don't think there is an answer. You just need to add your most commonly used packages to that "world" file like it says in the new Portage Documentation and then run:
emerge --update world --emptytree
in order to recompile all of them. I know that won't do what you asked exactly - but if you put a couple of high level apps in there (like KDE or Gnome) it will pick up all the rest as dependencies and recompile/update those too. So just put some of your highest level apps in there and you should stay pretty up to date.
Other than that get on #gentoo on irc.openprojects.net and ask drobbins himself about it
Derek
I used E for years (assuming you mean enlightenment - and no I don't mean behind Gnome or KDE - just straight E) - But now I have switched to KDE (about 6 months ago).
I loved E and could get a lot of work done - but then I found myself spending a *LOT* of time doing simple things (like adding a new program to the Programs Menu), also I found that it ate a lot of resources (and actually was making me skip frames in 3d games). I thought I could do better so I went looking...
I am a C++ programmer so I thought QT looked interesting anyways - and as long as I was going to learn QT I might as well use KDE. Upon my initial installation (KDE 2.1) I thought "This is bullshit" - it looked like some kind of childish cartooney crap. But seing as how thousands of people use it everyday I thought, "there must be more to this".
So I went ahead and customized it (just like I always did for E - which by the way it takes longer to COMPLETELY customize E than it does KDE). What I finally worked out is something that was setup just like I had E setup - except I have a taskbar and k-menu - that are both easily configured. This is not too mention the fact that now when I install a program it automatically adds itself to the k-menu - as opposed to me hunting down the path to the binary and editing txt files in order to add it to E's menu.
I have never really looked back - I have a sleek very functional desktop that doesn't take forever to do simple things in and allows me to play my 3d-games at their finest.
You obviously haven't TRULY tried to use KDE so you can't appreciate it or properly comment on it.
Everyone has their environment - use what you like - but don't knock my environment down as "newbie trash" just because you think it has "Easy customizability, nice look, better usability" which I really can't see as a fault anyway......
Derek
Holy shit really???
I used to use enlightenment(only) and got very used to this behavior then about 6 months ago I switched to KDE and sorely missed this option.
Now I have KDE3 and you say I can do it! That is awesome - thanks for the info.
Derek
"(sloppy focus, just as an example!)."
I would have to say that this is the single greatest creation in the history of time.
I started out with Enlightenment in Linux - which defaults to this sort of behavior. And nowadays I use KDE3 with this behavior.
Ever since I started using WM's with Sloppy Focus it is just painful to use anything else! Windows focusing irritates the shit out of me. I hate how every window seems to think it needs to be maximized and that overlapping windows so that you can see more than one bit of infromation at once is totally out of the question.
It is good to see that there are others who appreciate this!
Derek
Bah!
Slack is a lost cause.
Go see what what tons of Slackers (including myself) are moving to: www.gentoo.org
Derek
As someone who is "subscribed" to another "club"(www.transgaming.com) of the same sort - I can say that as long as positive
things are happening and progress is being made people will continue to pay.
Over at Transgaming over the past month there has been a lot of grumbling (read as people saying they are going to unsubscribe) because everyone wants release 2.0 - So the developers had to put a little more time into quieting the masses by giving regular reports about what is being worked on (I use the term "regular" loosely as TG still doesn't have this totally under control). And because of this almost all of the original subscribers are still there - because there is a feeling of progress.
If Mandrake ever ceases to progress - that is the point where people will begin jumping ship. Up until that point I am sure that the club members will feel as if their money is well spent.
Derek
"no one can write a book or article on how to evolve the software to gurantee it will work better than its competitor."
Maybe - but trying telling that to some of my upper CS Professors around here....
Why don't you try another distro like Gentoo?
The KDE3 maintainer already said that the ebuild for kde3 will be out tomorrow.
ebuilds are source++ you just do an "emerge kde3" and it downloads the source and compiles (with options perfect for your machine) it and installs it. It will also automatically download anything it depends on and do the same - ALL FROM SOURCE. So with one command you get a perfect build of KDE3 with no hassles.
Also note that we have had a kde3cvs ebuild for a while - where you just do "emerge kde3cvs" and it grabs the source from CVS and compiles/installs it - so if you want to live on the BLEEDING edge you can.
Gentoo really is amazing - you should check it out.
Derek
All I have to say is Tony Hawk Pro-Skater...
After you have played that game for 10+ hours a day for a month or so with every friend you can get to sit at the console with you - it becomes natural to walk around town and think of all the different grinds/jumps you could perform.
In reality this happens to me a lot - because I tend to focus very intensely on one game for a small amount of time and then discard it after a month or so. Only game to break that cycle has been Q3.
Derek
Sex...
P2P DNA Sharing
You guys should try it sometime!
Don't go up to an Athlon XP board! If you already have an A7V under the hood then you have enough power to wait until next christmas to get a ClawHammer.
That's what I'm doing. I bought a 1.2Ghz Athlon with an Abit KT7A last summer (system is ROCK solid) - and I'm going to hold onto it until the ClawHammer comes out - then it is just a recompile of Gentoo and I will be running a 64-bit OS.
This chip is going to rock.
Derek
I personally use Mozilla and it has always worked with Exchange2000's webmail (and I know it works with 0.9.8 and 0.9.9
But I really don't use it too often because the IMAP support is just much better/faster and Mozilla's mail client is great - plus I can define filters and all that which you can't do through the webmail interface.
Derek
Voting??
Are you crazy? Look at what is happening to organizations like ICANN right now. All voting does is slow down the process - it might, in the end come up with a good decision but the time it takes to get there overwhelms that.
Linux development cannot afford to be slow right now. Hard decisions are made everyday by people like Linus and Marcello - I am personally very grateful that we have people like this who are willing to make those decisions. If it were not for hard fast decisions in Linux development - Linux would fall behind and be lost in the fray.
Derek
Ah, thanks for clearing that up!
I figured it was some new GUI based "DO-ALL" programs a lot of the new distros are shipping with.
Derek
Is it the Beta or what? www.sun.com/staroffice still says 5.2 is the newest version - anyone have the info?
Derek
Nope - that directory had the rc1 files in it try this directory instead - it looks like the real deal.
Sorry,
Derek
I don't use Mandrake - but I think my school in Missouri already has it mirrored.
Try here
Derek
(me typing it into my Slackware 8.0 machine)
root@friedmud:~# linuxconf
su: linuxconf: command not found
Well, I don't have it - and I get along fine without it - so why the hell does does lycoris need it?? I am sure that this is something from the Hat/Drake land that people think is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. Nothing is necessary in linux - there is always a different/possibly better way to do it.
Derek
Ya, it doesn't take much physics to do this...
;-)
If you don't consider friction you get this:
Kf-Ki=Uf-Ui (Change in Kinetic energy = change in potential)
Which is:
1/2M(Vf)^2 - 1/2M(Vi)^2 = MgHf - MgHi
And you can quickly see that you can divide both sides by the mass of the object (because the mass doesn't change).
And therefore the final velocty (Vf) is not dependent on the mass of the object at all.
Ok, so i'm a bored College Student that is sitting through Phys21 right now (yes that is our first physics class - for comparison the first Calculus class at my school is Math21 - and there is only 1 class below that, going to an engineering school is great fun!
I am having the same problem. I have freetype on my system - and it is in the library path. I have edited the unix.js file and included 2 different paths to True-Type fonts (One is pointing the the ttfs on my windows partition, the other to the ttfs of StarOffice6 beta).
But I can't get the fonts to show up at all in mozilla.
Hell, I even got TTFs working back in netscape 4.7 with Xft - that took a whole week to get going perfectly. But, for some reason this process is kicking my ass.
Anyone out there have it working?
I am on a HIGHLY modified Slackware8.0 with XFree 4.2 (or whatever the newest is - I just got it last week and compiled it myself). I have an NVIDIA card with the newest drivers that were released a couple of days ago.
Thanks!
Derek
If everyone would go to www.congress.org and write their senators and representatives I guarantee you it would have an impact.
0 .html
Here is what I wrote - feel free to copy/edit:
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I have written to you before on this topic but I thought I would remind you that the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA) is a horrible idea for America, and there is a hearing about it tomorrow morning.
This is a bill that Senator Fritz Hollings from South Carolina is advocating on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). It seeks to severely limit the freedoms of Americans by imbedding Digital Rights Management (DRM) hardware - into every single electronic device.
Not only does this bill limit the freedoms of Americans but it is going to be a nightmare to enforce - which means it is going to end up costing ME, the person who has his rights stripped away, money in the form of tax dollars.
Please do not allow this atrocious bill to ever make it to the Senate floor. I am a VOTING American and you can bet that my next vote will be riding on topics such as this.
Here is a news article on this bill: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50702,0
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