One of my past employers demanded that I install a virus scanning program on my Linux box that wasn't even connected to the network after a big Windows virus took out most the workstations at the company. I used it simply for reference when walking customers through fixing their own issues. Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid.
thats the one I was thinking of thats probably worse than Aladin 5. Yech, I have a TX-Pro board that I actually use, with a K6-166, but I use it as a Netware server. It flat can't run Windows or X, and leaving a monitor on it will fry the monitor. But Netware doesn't REALLY need a monitor and isn't to demanding on it. Runs stable as long as I don't ever have to turn it off.
I agree about bomberman on the SNES. Never have 7 hours gone by without me noticing so quickly. I walked out of that session with a game hangover having a hard time adapting back to reality.
I found this to be true on the socket 7 systems, K6-2 or higher. You're right, I agree, in those cases the chipset was liable. The Aladin 5 was the biggest piece of shit ever released, however with the K6 systems I had good luck. My first socket 7 system was a K6 166, I upgraded to a K6 233 and my mom is still using it. The K6 166 is still being used in my Netware file server with the only chipset that was worse, I can't even remember the name of it, but it seems like IBM was guilty somewhere along the lines.
However the only problem I've run into with all the Athlon systems I've built was cooling nForce chips. I've added lots of airflow to compensate, other wise very few problems from the slotted 750 up to the multi GHz rated range.
I've never actually seen a standard emerge other than being generally QWERTY
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people into retro gaming, or required to use other old software. I'm so glad we are slowly approaching this point. UT2K3 has Linux support out of the box. The demise of Loki is something that I initially thought was going to set back the Linux gaming community for years, but then I've seen games like UT2K3,Castle Wolfenstein, and if you want to count their late to the punch arrival Never Winter Nights come out native. If we could only get Blizzard on the bandwagon, and Maxis more firmly seated the other developers would have little choice but to jump onboard. gatesh8r is right. If Wine gets to good to fast not only will it slow some developers to adopt Linux natively, it may loose a couple that we already have. I'm counting Apple as our new Ace in the Hole. The Mac actually has the attention of the developers, and porting from BSD to Linux should be much easier than porting from Windows to Linux. Of course if everyone adopts and improves on SDL and OpenGL they will have little to worry about when porting anyways. Especially if OpenGL2 ever makes it way to daylight with all the Active X type replacements it's supposed to have available.
Considering some of whats been discussed I wonder if it would be possible to make external Future interface to ISA adapaters in much the same way they have devices that will add USB serial and parallel ports?
Could I defeat this nifty laser gun by simply wearing mirror chain mail under my clothes and a nice shiney tinfoil liner under my hat? The would help to keep out the mind control waves to!
I spent a few hours watching some of the extras, it will take at least an entire day to go through it all. The languages were covered in the part about the inspiration for Elvish, and how the language that inspired it is dying. The bad thing is I don't remember if it was on the National Geographic disk or one of the extras disk.
Lots of good technical behind the scenes stuff to. It's amazing what they did with perspective.
collectors set (extras) the number of languages being spoke in the world has been cut by half during the past 20 years.
I believe most of this is due to the world becoming more connected. English appears to be the universal language for the new world structure, probably due to the (former)vastness of the British empire and the influence of American media.
I don't think this is a bad thing. It will bring the whole world closer together, making it easier to solve regional economic problems. This will also help people from developing nations.
The old languages of course should be preserved in various forms for archelogical purposes and perhaps the development of a Star Trek style universal translator.
what other Linux game is going to force me to set all my graphics options to low, off, and take it easy on the weak system when I have a GeForce 2 Pro and an Athlon 850 with a Gig of Ram? Granted not the most up to date thing around but the original UT , Quake III, Theif II, Armagetron, and all my other 3D games look awesome on it. UT2K3 looks awesome to but only becomes really playable when all the settings are lowered, and I have the latest nVidia drivers.
Put a decent Linux server at every office and let each workstation run OpenOffice.org in an X-Term. Even if the internet/Wan connection went down it would still work on a per-office basis and achieve the same goal with better free software. OpenOffice.org could be installed on each workstation just as the old MS product was, run from a central server and it's free. Doesn't matter if the workstation are running some flavor of Unix or Windows it should work just fine, but of course that would make to much sense.
That was something unique about the SNES. I knew about the stereo AV cables and the RF switch and how to use both. I didn't exactly have a lot of money at the 14 years of age or so when I got my SNES but I wanted stereo. I had a 13" Magnavox TV which of course only had RF in, and a decent Sony portable boom box with detachable speakers AND RCA ins. Thanks to the Unique setup of the SNES I was able to use the RCA cables for sound and still get video through the RF switch.
Currently we still play the SNES at my house, granted the stereo abilities of the SNES isn't overly used but it is used quite a bit. My wife is currently hooked on the Legend of Zelda a Link to the past. When Link has full power the sound his sword makes when it shoots across the screen is followed by the speakers. My 5 year old also likes playing Uni-Racers, that music in it's entireity is stereo. Great thing about a system being out of date, I can go to GameStop on a night when nothing else is going on and load up on a handfull of SNES and N64 games for what a single modern game would cost, the games are old but they're still fun to play.
The GBA is a nice system, it's at least as powerfull as the old SuperNintendo therefore all the good old games are being ported. Where Nintendo screwed up isn't the physical look/size of the GBA, but the fact that they left out the X and Y buttons. This is only a problem due to the number of ports being made, such as the port of SuperMario world. The ability to bail off of Yoshi's back easily mid jump was one of the best tactics Mario had, the GBA kinda lacks that. I don't see why the new version couldn't have included them for furture ports. The older GBAs would still be able to play the games but like the old Sega Genesis when it went to six button controls from three they wouldn't have quite the same functionality. Nintendo are you listening? Not to late to stop the manufacture.
is there any real reason to have two different versions to begin with? DVDs have the ability to have both widescreen AND full screen on the same disk. If I'm not mistaken it's not even two different video tracks but the same track with a pan and scan formula built in that takes very little room, any experts care to correct me if I'm under a misconception?
Since it is for families and non-geek types you will probably find ebay to be one of the most visited destinations. I myself have used bidwatcher on ebay, and I found jbidwatcher to be handy when I'm not on a Linux box. Some times even when I am since it has a few features the Linux native version doesn't have. Some people say sniping is wrong, I'm part of the party that says use your truemax bid to begin with. I've made my to begin with to be the last few seconds of the auction since most people don't know how to make a truemax. The ebay moms of the world will thank you, assuming they know how to make it work in a JVM.
I was going to suggest this program. I was checking out my SuSE distro one day and found it by chance already installed. I speant 7 hours straight playing it, I ruined the whole day. Later on I got people up here at work hooked on it and we were playing 1st level vs. 2nd level helpdesk Tron for hours.
Notes Win vs. Linux.
The Linux version always seems to have a better AI in my opinion, the Windows version seems to have some minor differences like better randomization that I like better. I'm sure this varies by which revision. The Movie pack is always a nice addition. Note: this game uses Open GL to the extreame, the Linux version will tax your video card to the max and is barely playable in software mode on most systems. The Windows version of course prefers a good video card but Windows seems to have better software 3D.
No, the postman is doing his job. If they required snail mail spammers to deliver their letters by hand that may be a different story.
How about about creating an enhanced caller ID service that required telemarketers to submit enough info to it so we could easily sue/physicaly locate them while they're at it?
Re:Are you insane? What a crock of crap!
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No just some dork announcing getting married on UF, what was his name again?
Perhaps not for everyone describes it well?
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Thanks mostly to range of topics covered by the comic strip the base of UserFriendly regulars stretches across almost every profession (mostly white collar) to almost every skill level. This introduces quite a range of topics. Granted technology is usually right on top, but people from medical, political, legal, and about every other camp are present as well.
This doesn't set well with some people, especially those looking for a specialized group. I personally like the diversity of the boards. Where else can someone ask an HTML question and get five friendly answers telling them five different ways to solve their problem without getting flamed for not having bought a book or knowing a particular basic in one thread, while a conversation about the Bill of Rights being ignored is going on in another? This "Lack of focus" is hard for some people but to me it builds a warmer atmosphere.
I'm not going to say my boards better than your board, it's not. I like my board better than I like your board but that doesn't mean it's better. Everyone has a different opinion of what they like. I like to browse/. and the Register for all types of technology news, I browse the Cruel Site of the Day to feel synacal and feed my twisted side, and I hang out on UserFriendly because the wide range of people there bring me to interesting stories that I would have never found sticking to boards that were only focused on one subject. Some people aren't intersted in news outside of their area of focus, personally I'm curious about just about everything and UserFriendly feeds that curiousity. I like the way/. has pictures next to the headline to denote which part of the tech industry each TLP covers, that concept wont work on UserFriendly, we could never come up with enough pictures to cover all the subjects we cross, but yes if we tried personal mushy stuff and hugs would be amoung the first subjects with pictures.
As others have said if you don't like it don't fscking read it. I'm not going to say that, I'm going to say drop in and check it out when you feel like it. If you've got a question about anything and don't know where to post it try us, if we can't help we can probably tell you who can. I read the comic for a couple of years before I ever posted, the only reason I started reading the boards was the extream slowdown news sites experienced during 9/11 and I wanted to try to stay up on the news. I knew enough about the boards to know it had a global community so I started watching UF and/. since CNN wasn't going to happen. I'm glad I did, I found out what was going on a lot easier that way since I didn't have access to a radio or TV while I was at work and the bandwidth was killed by everyone else trying to get webcast.
Just my brain dump, not trying to change your opinion about the board, but please don't think of us as a bunch of uneducated clowns.
I live in Houston and I built my sister a computer and had to ship it back to West Texas. It was one of the old style Athlon slot processors. UPS dropped it hard enough for the processor to fall out of the slot. I personally found it rather hard to get the Athlon out of the slot by hand when I wanted to, and I don't know how they got past the releases at the top. Fortunately it appeared to have been dropped flat and there was no other damage done and the PC booted right up after a friend of hers put the processor in on the other side.
Along with the same shipment I sent a 15in IBM monitor, it's colors where off loosing red after being on for about an hour. We had this sytem partialy built and in burn in testing for nearly a month at my apartment (Diablo and Unreal are excelent burn in tools) and the monitor had no problems. Unfortunatly she didn't alert me to this until she had the thing nearly three months.
I won a 19" Dell monitor on UBid that came via UPS. The first one the box looked okay but it lost blue after about a week. I shipped it back (about $75) and the supplier sent me a new one. The new one was shipped so poorly that the monitor actually dislodged from the styrofoam packing and the monitor actually had dents on three different cornors and a scuff mark down one of the front edges. This monitor had discoloration left of center. This time I got smart and called UPS, they sent a guy to my apartment to look at it and the box, which he certified to be UPS at fault. This time they got a replacement for me and picked up the damaged one when they delivered the new one in perfect shape, and it didn't cost the horendous ship back fee.
4 of the 5 other people that I have on my team at work are former UPS employees, they told me when a new shipment comes in the first one off the truck becomes the "corner stone". Traditionaly the person who lays down the corner stone hold up the box at shoulder level and yells "corner stone" and drops it, reguardless of how it's marked. The hub that the package goes through also has a lot to do with it, the SweetWater hub here in Texas being amoung the worst and the Mesquite hub being amoung the best in the state. When I asked what the best way to ship through UPS was they said air, not that it was safe but that less people had their hands on it.
So far I've never had any problems with USPS, to bad I don't always get that type of choice when I order. The only good thing that came out of all of this is the monitor I bid on wasn't a Trinitron, but the replacements where.
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One of my past employers demanded that I install a virus scanning program on my Linux box that wasn't even connected to the network after a big Windows virus took out most the workstations at the company. I used it simply for reference when walking customers through fixing their own issues. Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid.
thats the one I was thinking of thats probably worse than Aladin 5. Yech, I have a TX-Pro board that I actually use, with a K6-166, but I use it as a Netware server. It flat can't run Windows or X, and leaving a monitor on it will fry the monitor. But Netware doesn't REALLY need a monitor and isn't to demanding on it. Runs stable as long as I don't ever have to turn it off.
I agree about bomberman on the SNES. Never have 7 hours gone by without me noticing so quickly. I walked out of that session with a game hangover having a hard time adapting back to reality.
I found this to be true on the socket 7 systems, K6-2 or higher. You're right, I agree, in those cases the chipset was liable. The Aladin 5 was the biggest piece of shit ever released, however with the K6 systems I had good luck. My first socket 7 system was a K6 166, I upgraded to a K6 233 and my mom is still using it. The K6 166 is still being used in my Netware file server with the only chipset that was worse, I can't even remember the name of it, but it seems like IBM was guilty somewhere along the lines.
However the only problem I've run into with all the Athlon systems I've built was cooling nForce chips. I've added lots of airflow to compensate, other wise very few problems from the slotted 750 up to the multi GHz rated range.
isn't that an oxy-moron?
I've never actually seen a standard emerge other than being generally QWERTY
people into retro gaming, or required to use other old software. I'm so glad we are slowly approaching this point. UT2K3 has Linux support out of the box. The demise of Loki is something that I initially thought was going to set back the Linux gaming community for years, but then I've seen games like UT2K3, Castle Wolfenstein, and if you want to count their late to the punch arrival Never Winter Nights come out native. If we could only get Blizzard on the bandwagon, and Maxis more firmly seated the other developers would have little choice but to jump onboard. gatesh8r is right. If Wine gets to good to fast not only will it slow some developers to adopt Linux natively, it may loose a couple that we already have. I'm counting Apple as our new Ace in the Hole. The Mac actually has the attention of the developers, and porting from BSD to Linux should be much easier than porting from Windows to Linux. Of course if everyone adopts and improves on SDL and OpenGL they will have little to worry about when porting anyways. Especially if OpenGL2 ever makes it way to daylight with all the Active X type replacements it's supposed to have available.
Considering some of whats been discussed I wonder if it would be possible to make external Future interface to ISA adapaters in much the same way they have devices that will add USB serial and parallel ports?
Could I defeat this nifty laser gun by simply wearing mirror chain mail under my clothes and a nice shiney tinfoil liner under my hat? The would help to keep out the mind control waves to!
I spent a few hours watching some of the extras, it will take at least an entire day to go through it all. The languages were covered in the part about the inspiration for Elvish, and how the language that inspired it is dying. The bad thing is I don't remember if it was on the National Geographic disk or one of the extras disk.
Lots of good technical behind the scenes stuff to. It's amazing what they did with perspective.
collectors set (extras) the number of languages being spoke in the world has been cut by half during the past 20 years.
I believe most of this is due to the world becoming more connected. English appears to be the universal language for the new world structure, probably due to the (former)vastness of the British empire and the influence of American media.
I don't think this is a bad thing. It will bring the whole world closer together, making it easier to solve regional economic problems. This will also help people from developing nations.
The old languages of course should be preserved in various forms for archelogical purposes and perhaps the development of a Star Trek style universal translator.
what other Linux game is going to force me to set all my graphics options to low, off, and take it easy on the weak system when I have a GeForce 2 Pro and an Athlon 850 with a Gig of Ram? Granted not the most up to date thing around but the original UT , Quake III, Theif II, Armagetron, and all my other 3D games look awesome on it. UT2K3 looks awesome to but only becomes really playable when all the settings are lowered, and I have the latest nVidia drivers.
UT2K3==The new killer ap
Put a decent Linux server at every office and let each workstation run OpenOffice.org in an X-Term. Even if the internet/Wan connection went down it would still work on a per-office basis and achieve the same goal with better free software. OpenOffice.org could be installed on each workstation just as the old MS product was, run from a central server and it's free. Doesn't matter if the workstation are running some flavor of Unix or Windows it should work just fine, but of course that would make to much sense.
That was something unique about the SNES. I knew about the stereo AV cables and the RF switch and how to use both. I didn't exactly have a lot of money at the 14 years of age or so when I got my SNES but I wanted stereo. I had a 13" Magnavox TV which of course only had RF in, and a decent Sony portable boom box with detachable speakers AND RCA ins. Thanks to the Unique setup of the SNES I was able to use the RCA cables for sound and still get video through the RF switch.
Currently we still play the SNES at my house, granted the stereo abilities of the SNES isn't overly used but it is used quite a bit. My wife is currently hooked on the Legend of Zelda a Link to the past. When Link has full power the sound his sword makes when it shoots across the screen is followed by the speakers. My 5 year old also likes playing Uni-Racers, that music in it's entireity is stereo. Great thing about a system being out of date, I can go to GameStop on a night when nothing else is going on and load up on a handfull of SNES and N64 games for what a single modern game would cost, the games are old but they're still fun to play.
The GBA is a nice system, it's at least as powerfull as the old SuperNintendo therefore all the good old games are being ported. Where Nintendo screwed up isn't the physical look/size of the GBA, but the fact that they left out the X and Y buttons. This is only a problem due to the number of ports being made, such as the port of SuperMario world. The ability to bail off of Yoshi's back easily mid jump was one of the best tactics Mario had, the GBA kinda lacks that. I don't see why the new version couldn't have included them for furture ports. The older GBAs would still be able to play the games but like the old Sega Genesis when it went to six button controls from three they wouldn't have quite the same functionality. Nintendo are you listening? Not to late to stop the manufacture.
is there any real reason to have two different versions to begin with? DVDs have the ability to have both widescreen AND full screen on the same disk. If I'm not mistaken it's not even two different video tracks but the same track with a pan and scan formula built in that takes very little room, any experts care to correct me if I'm under a misconception?
Since it is for families and non-geek types you will probably find ebay to be one of the most visited destinations. I myself have used bidwatcher on ebay, and I found jbidwatcher to be handy when I'm not on a Linux box. Some times even when I am since it has a few features the Linux native version doesn't have. Some people say sniping is wrong, I'm part of the party that says use your truemax bid to begin with. I've made my to begin with to be the last few seconds of the auction since most people don't know how to make a truemax. The ebay moms of the world will thank you, assuming they know how to make it work in a JVM.
You beat me to it!
I was going to suggest this program. I was checking out my SuSE distro one day and found it by chance already installed. I speant 7 hours straight playing it, I ruined the whole day. Later on I got people up here at work hooked on it and we were playing 1st level vs. 2nd level helpdesk Tron for hours.
Notes Win vs. Linux.
The Linux version always seems to have a better AI in my opinion, the Windows version seems to have some minor differences like better randomization that I like better. I'm sure this varies by which revision. The Movie pack is always a nice addition. Note: this game uses Open GL to the extreame, the Linux version will tax your video card to the max and is barely playable in software mode on most systems. The Windows version of course prefers a good video card but Windows seems to have better software 3D.
No, the postman is doing his job. If they required snail mail spammers to deliver their letters by hand that may be a different story. How about about creating an enhanced caller ID service that required telemarketers to submit enough info to it so we could easily sue/physicaly locate them while they're at it?
No just some dork announcing getting married on UF, what was his name again?
Thanks mostly to range of topics covered by the comic strip the base of UserFriendly regulars stretches across almost every profession (mostly white collar) to almost every skill level. This introduces quite a range of topics. Granted technology is usually right on top, but people from medical, political, legal, and about every other camp are present as well.
/. and the Register for all types of technology news, I browse the Cruel Site of the Day to feel synacal and feed my twisted side, and I hang out on UserFriendly because the wide range of people there bring me to interesting stories that I would have never found sticking to boards that were only focused on one subject. Some people aren't intersted in news outside of their area of focus, personally I'm curious about just about everything and UserFriendly feeds that curiousity. I like the way /. has pictures next to the headline to denote which part of the tech industry each TLP covers, that concept wont work on UserFriendly, we could never come up with enough pictures to cover all the subjects we cross, but yes if we tried personal mushy stuff and hugs would be amoung the first subjects with pictures.
/. since CNN wasn't going to happen. I'm glad I did, I found out what was going on a lot easier that way since I didn't have access to a radio or TV while I was at work and the bandwidth was killed by everyone else trying to get webcast.
This doesn't set well with some people, especially those looking for a specialized group. I personally like the diversity of the boards. Where else can someone ask an HTML question and get five friendly answers telling them five different ways to solve their problem without getting flamed for not having bought a book or knowing a particular basic in one thread, while a conversation about the Bill of Rights being ignored is going on in another? This "Lack of focus" is hard for some people but to me it builds a warmer atmosphere.
I'm not going to say my boards better than your board, it's not. I like my board better than I like your board but that doesn't mean it's better. Everyone has a different opinion of what they like. I like to browse
As others have said if you don't like it don't fscking read it. I'm not going to say that, I'm going to say drop in and check it out when you feel like it. If you've got a question about anything and don't know where to post it try us, if we can't help we can probably tell you who can. I read the comic for a couple of years before I ever posted, the only reason I started reading the boards was the extream slowdown news sites experienced during 9/11 and I wanted to try to stay up on the news. I knew enough about the boards to know it had a global community so I started watching UF and
Just my brain dump, not trying to change your opinion about the board, but please don't think of us as a bunch of uneducated clowns.
I live in Houston and I built my sister a computer and had to ship it back to West Texas. It was one of the old style Athlon slot processors. UPS dropped it hard enough for the processor to fall out of the slot. I personally found it rather hard to get the Athlon out of the slot by hand when I wanted to, and I don't know how they got past the releases at the top. Fortunately it appeared to have been dropped flat and there was no other damage done and the PC booted right up after a friend of hers put the processor in on the other side.
Along with the same shipment I sent a 15in IBM monitor, it's colors where off loosing red after being on for about an hour. We had this sytem partialy built and in burn in testing for nearly a month at my apartment (Diablo and Unreal are excelent burn in tools) and the monitor had no problems. Unfortunatly she didn't alert me to this until she had the thing nearly three months. I won a 19" Dell monitor on UBid that came via UPS. The first one the box looked okay but it lost blue after about a week. I shipped it back (about $75) and the supplier sent me a new one. The new one was shipped so poorly that the monitor actually dislodged from the styrofoam packing and the monitor actually had dents on three different cornors and a scuff mark down one of the front edges. This monitor had discoloration left of center. This time I got smart and called UPS, they sent a guy to my apartment to look at it and the box, which he certified to be UPS at fault. This time they got a replacement for me and picked up the damaged one when they delivered the new one in perfect shape, and it didn't cost the horendous ship back fee.
4 of the 5 other people that I have on my team at work are former UPS employees, they told me when a new shipment comes in the first one off the truck becomes the "corner stone". Traditionaly the person who lays down the corner stone hold up the box at shoulder level and yells "corner stone" and drops it, reguardless of how it's marked. The hub that the package goes through also has a lot to do with it, the SweetWater hub here in Texas being amoung the worst and the Mesquite hub being amoung the best in the state. When I asked what the best way to ship through UPS was they said air, not that it was safe but that less people had their hands on it.
So far I've never had any problems with USPS, to bad I don't always get that type of choice when I order. The only good thing that came out of all of this is the monitor I bid on wasn't a Trinitron, but the replacements where.