Appears to work, at least for now - we'll see if it's a real fix. libtxc_dxtn needs to be installed, at least it seems to have worked when I did it on Kubuntu. Of course I've had this weird error clear itself up before.
On second thought I might not wait. Last night I got to a side quest of some sort that appeared after killing a boss - it's outside the path of the main dungeon crawl but linked to from it - my game kept crashing every time I loaded it - but not immediately like the bug I mentioned before, on this one I actually have to start walking around and scrolling the screen. I figured something was hung up, I shut down my system and went to bed. Starting it up this morning didn't fix anything, usually a reboot fixes anything....
Looks like it's not on Ubuntu Software Center yet.
I've been playing with that for the most part, not sure if I truly like it or not, but at least it prevents the Microsoft style every application for itself style updates. My revision is torchlight 1.0+2012+09+18a-0ubuntu1 - I'm going to hold out for a bit see if they update it, I've been playing with the Software center system and I just want to see how it works out.I noticed Dustforce getting auto-updated yesterday - outside of Software Center - so it answered my lingering question about that. If they don't get to it I'm going straight to the page with your information in hand.
So obviously if there's a background chat some component of Steam is still running after the game is started, so it's less like Apt. I'll look at the source engine thing later, I'm at work now, they block all links to game companies, I'm half surprised games.slashdot.org isn't blocked just for the URL.
As someone who's used Linux nearly exclusively for more than a decade I'll proudly say:
Most of it. The better stuff anyways.
There's a lot of Alpha and cobbled together feeling stuff on there also. Still, when I go to work and use my Windows 7 machine I look at it and wonder how my coworkers could possibly go home and continue using that crap.
but as someone who ditched Windows back when Win2K was still new I'm not really up on it.
Is it closer to an iTunes like store, an Apt like installer, or is it some sort virtual machine running a standardized program, like Flash, Java, or a console emulator?
Also - how does it compare to something like the Ubuntu Software Center I used to install Torch Light and the rest of the recent Humble Bundle stuff.
The first game I've tried was the original Torch Light. I like it so much so far it's the only game I've played out of the bundle, despite some of the others looking quite appealing.
I've been playing it on my quite powerful desktop - but I noticed it had a "netbook mode" which for some reason was checked by default. I decided to put it on my netbook. For some reason it was NOT checked by default, but after clunking around with the graphics it is actually playable on my dual core Atom using Intel graphics on Kubuntu. I wouldn't exactly call it optimal and smooth, but it's still quite playable.
I loved the original Diablo back in the day, I even bought the expansion pack for it. Then Diablo II came out and I enjoyed it for a while. Not too long, shortly afterwards Blizzard pissed me off by dragging a personal friend into a lawsuit over BNetD, they started suing a bunch of Unreal modders they had previously helped, and I quite dual-booting Windows as I found it to be a waste of hard drive space.
In short Torchlight has offered me everything I liked about Diablo, it works on Linux, and I don't have the guilty sick to my stomach feeling that dealing with Blizzard products gives me.
I can't tell you enough - buy the thing. Go get the bundle, and as soon as a Linux version of Torchlight 2 is released I'll go get it. My only complaint about the original Torchlight - it sometimes crashes when a new area gets loaded up. No big deal, I start the program and I'm standing exactly where I should have been without the crash so - yeah, it's great. Also gem hunting isn't quite as frustrating as it was in Diablo 2.
I considered Linux something to play with on my spare time.
Then I bought a Magazine with a copy of SuSE 7.0 on it. I stuck with SuSE until 9 something, about the Novel buyout. I felt bad fleeing about the time Novel got them because I was a big fan of Netware.
A friend had been singing the praises of Debian to me for quite a while, so I jumped on board during etch. I fought tooth and nail to stay on Debian but after Ubuntu took off the Debian developers seemed to be okay with being the "parent" OS and starting breaking hardware support rampantly, the amount of work it took to keep my laptop working on it became more than I wanted to deal with so I went over to Kubunut. (I've been using KDE since 1.something). I've been Kubuntu every since. I did put Mint on my netbook for a while when Ubuntu announced they were going to defund KDE. I made noise about it here and actually got an on-Slashdot response. I'm still on Kubuntu now.
I have experimented with OpenBSD and some other specialty distros, but I gave up Windows shortly after 2000 came out. A friend talked me into going Apple for a while, but I still had my Linux stuff running. Apple is nothing but a bad memory to me now. (the company, the OS is actually great, but the company sucks rocks)
I seriously doubt we're actually being snooped on any less. When the watching is constant by certain agencies it no longer shows up as a separate look.
Then they should have sounded the horn in their advertising saying they actually pay fines for not using enough power, and link to proof.
See how long the power company keeps fining them, I don't care if they did sign a contract. A monthly minimum amount with the ability to buy more, like mobile phone minutes would have been the better option than a yearly amount with options to fine.
I've wondered that myself. The stuff I read on the bike version implies porous layers, I've wondered how long before they get clogged or water in them.
The tubes/tires do the work. The "valve" on the bike version at least simply sets the pressure. I'm pretty sure an older version of the bike one I saw the pressure was determined by the tube itself, the "valves" built into the tube itself stopped flapping open after a certain pressure.
The bike on inflates itself simply by rolling. I would love to have these, but they're not exactly mass production yet and I've got a lot of goofy tire sizes on my bikes.
I'm going to agree with you on everything but the monitor. With a TV what you said makes sense - I'm going to go old school to leave the resolution argument out to keep it simple. In 1994 the difference between a 19" TV and a 32" TV at a 10' viewing distance was nothing more than vanity and how much you were willing to share out - unless you were visually impaired. The difference between a 17" and a 24" computer monitor is phenomenal no matter what you're doing if you adjust the resolution to match the screen size, and I don't care if we're talking CRT or LCD.
I don't think there's a lot of difference. Theoretically an SSD could fall on either side of a HDD weight wise, but densely enough packed with chips I think it has the potential to be heavier. I haven't really compared but I can't tell on my netbook.
I dropped a Mac Book Pro - that wasn't even on. HDD cratered, screen was fine. As a tech I've had to change out many, many bad hard disk on laptops. Yeah, there's broken screens too, but the HDD's seem to bite it quite regularly.
That being said I did notice significantly faster startup and shutdown times. I'm not going to complain about that. Once it's going there isn't much difference since I do spend most of my time in a browser on that thing, but less time from pressing the power button to useful or put away saves battery also.
If you're pushing the cloud so much is storage much of an issue at all? Seriously I can put Chromium OS on a 4GB thumb drive and boot up a laptop and do web stuff all day long.
Sometimes people don't have access to the internet but still need a computer. Remember the old days before the cloud existed? Yeah - you can't get on the Internet everywhere. Some of these rural areas people still think dial up is not only an option but they still think it's normal.
Remember, no spinning platter means you don't have to worry about bumping a gyroscope - an SSD is inherently more shock resistant. I'm under the belief an SSD uses less power than a HDD.
I have one SSD. It's in my netbook, I removed my perfectly functional factory HDD and replaced it with a smaller SSD since I really don't need my storage space, 90% of what I do with my netbook is on the web browser, and a netbook with Kubuntu and the netbook/tablet desktop is way cheaper than a Chrome book. I wish those were cheaper, I would practically be a marketing exec for those without the outrageous pricetag, but never mind that.
There's advantages other than performance to an SSD.
Slashdot Mirror
Meh, started crashing a couple of hours later again.
Crash fix found!
Appears to work, at least for now - we'll see if it's a real fix. libtxc_dxtn needs to be installed, at least it seems to have worked when I did it on Kubuntu. Of course I've had this weird error clear itself up before.
On second thought I might not wait. Last night I got to a side quest of some sort that appeared after killing a boss - it's outside the path of the main dungeon crawl but linked to from it - my game kept crashing every time I loaded it - but not immediately like the bug I mentioned before, on this one I actually have to start walking around and scrolling the screen. I figured something was hung up, I shut down my system and went to bed. Starting it up this morning didn't fix anything, usually a reboot fixes anything....
Looks like it's not on Ubuntu Software Center yet.
I've been playing with that for the most part, not sure if I truly like it or not, but at least it prevents the Microsoft style every application for itself style updates. My revision is torchlight 1.0+2012+09+18a-0ubuntu1 - I'm going to hold out for a bit see if they update it, I've been playing with the Software center system and I just want to see how it works out.I noticed Dustforce getting auto-updated yesterday - outside of Software Center - so it answered my lingering question about that. If they don't get to it I'm going straight to the page with your information in hand.
I'm a real tech.
They schedule company parties during my work shift and I don't get to go.
Of course the apartment party I was sort of the hero, they didn't expect a fat guy to beat that many skinny people in limbo.
So obviously if there's a background chat some component of Steam is still running after the game is started, so it's less like Apt. I'll look at the source engine thing later, I'm at work now, they block all links to game companies, I'm half surprised games.slashdot.org isn't blocked just for the URL.
As someone who's used Linux nearly exclusively for more than a decade I'll proudly say:
Most of it. The better stuff anyways.
There's a lot of Alpha and cobbled together feeling stuff on there also. Still, when I go to work and use my Windows 7 machine I look at it and wonder how my coworkers could possibly go home and continue using that crap.
but as someone who ditched Windows back when Win2K was still new I'm not really up on it.
Is it closer to an iTunes like store, an Apt like installer, or is it some sort virtual machine running a standardized program, like Flash, Java, or a console emulator?
Also - how does it compare to something like the Ubuntu Software Center I used to install Torch Light and the rest of the recent Humble Bundle stuff.
The first game I've tried was the original Torch Light. I like it so much so far it's the only game I've played out of the bundle, despite some of the others looking quite appealing.
I've been playing it on my quite powerful desktop - but I noticed it had a "netbook mode" which for some reason was checked by default. I decided to put it on my netbook. For some reason it was NOT checked by default, but after clunking around with the graphics it is actually playable on my dual core Atom using Intel graphics on Kubuntu. I wouldn't exactly call it optimal and smooth, but it's still quite playable.
I loved the original Diablo back in the day, I even bought the expansion pack for it. Then Diablo II came out and I enjoyed it for a while. Not too long, shortly afterwards Blizzard pissed me off by dragging a personal friend into a lawsuit over BNetD, they started suing a bunch of Unreal modders they had previously helped, and I quite dual-booting Windows as I found it to be a waste of hard drive space.
In short Torchlight has offered me everything I liked about Diablo, it works on Linux, and I don't have the guilty sick to my stomach feeling that dealing with Blizzard products gives me.
I can't tell you enough - buy the thing. Go get the bundle, and as soon as a Linux version of Torchlight 2 is released I'll go get it. My only complaint about the original Torchlight - it sometimes crashes when a new area gets loaded up. No big deal, I start the program and I'm standing exactly where I should have been without the crash so - yeah, it's great. Also gem hunting isn't quite as frustrating as it was in Diablo 2.
and I dual booted.
I considered Linux something to play with on my spare time.
Then I bought a Magazine with a copy of SuSE 7.0 on it. I stuck with SuSE until 9 something, about the Novel buyout. I felt bad fleeing about the time Novel got them because I was a big fan of Netware.
A friend had been singing the praises of Debian to me for quite a while, so I jumped on board during etch. I fought tooth and nail to stay on Debian but after Ubuntu took off the Debian developers seemed to be okay with being the "parent" OS and starting breaking hardware support rampantly, the amount of work it took to keep my laptop working on it became more than I wanted to deal with so I went over to Kubunut. (I've been using KDE since 1.something). I've been Kubuntu every since. I did put Mint on my netbook for a while when Ubuntu announced they were going to defund KDE. I made noise about it here and actually got an on-Slashdot response. I'm still on Kubuntu now.
I have experimented with OpenBSD and some other specialty distros, but I gave up Windows shortly after 2000 came out. A friend talked me into going Apple for a while, but I still had my Linux stuff running. Apple is nothing but a bad memory to me now. (the company, the OS is actually great, but the company sucks rocks)
Current government?
I'm pointing back to at least FDR, probably Taft
I seriously doubt we're actually being snooped on any less. When the watching is constant by certain agencies it no longer shows up as a separate look.
Then they should have sounded the horn in their advertising saying they actually pay fines for not using enough power, and link to proof.
See how long the power company keeps fining them, I don't care if they did sign a contract. A monthly minimum amount with the ability to buy more, like mobile phone minutes would have been the better option than a yearly amount with options to fine.
I've wondered that myself. The stuff I read on the bike version implies porous layers, I've wondered how long before they get clogged or water in them.
The tubes/tires do the work. The "valve" on the bike version at least simply sets the pressure. I'm pretty sure an older version of the bike one I saw the pressure was determined by the tube itself, the "valves" built into the tube itself stopped flapping open after a certain pressure.
The bike on inflates itself simply by rolling. I would love to have these, but they're not exactly mass production yet and I've got a lot of goofy tire sizes on my bikes.
You walk away with some good games to boot.
Hey what do you know? A new one just started!
I'm going to agree with you on everything but the monitor. With a TV what you said makes sense - I'm going to go old school to leave the resolution argument out to keep it simple. In 1994 the difference between a 19" TV and a 32" TV at a 10' viewing distance was nothing more than vanity and how much you were willing to share out - unless you were visually impaired. The difference between a 17" and a 24" computer monitor is phenomenal no matter what you're doing if you adjust the resolution to match the screen size, and I don't care if we're talking CRT or LCD.
I don't think there's a lot of difference. Theoretically an SSD could fall on either side of a HDD weight wise, but densely enough packed with chips I think it has the potential to be heavier. I haven't really compared but I can't tell on my netbook.
I wonder what percentage of those reading this get the reference?
Withdrawn? Maybe maybe not. Citation. He's pretty much chilled out on it any which way you want to look at it.
I dropped a Mac Book Pro - that wasn't even on. HDD cratered, screen was fine. As a tech I've had to change out many, many bad hard disk on laptops. Yeah, there's broken screens too, but the HDD's seem to bite it quite regularly.
That being said I did notice significantly faster startup and shutdown times. I'm not going to complain about that. Once it's going there isn't much difference since I do spend most of my time in a browser on that thing, but less time from pressing the power button to useful or put away saves battery also.
If you're pushing the cloud so much is storage much of an issue at all? Seriously I can put Chromium OS on a 4GB thumb drive and boot up a laptop and do web stuff all day long.
Sometimes people don't have access to the internet but still need a computer. Remember the old days before the cloud existed? Yeah - you can't get on the Internet everywhere. Some of these rural areas people still think dial up is not only an option but they still think it's normal.
Remember, no spinning platter means you don't have to worry about bumping a gyroscope - an SSD is inherently more shock resistant. I'm under the belief an SSD uses less power than a HDD.
I have one SSD. It's in my netbook, I removed my perfectly functional factory HDD and replaced it with a smaller SSD since I really don't need my storage space, 90% of what I do with my netbook is on the web browser, and a netbook with Kubuntu and the netbook/tablet desktop is way cheaper than a Chrome book. I wish those were cheaper, I would practically be a marketing exec for those without the outrageous pricetag, but never mind that.
There's advantages other than performance to an SSD.