Wait...you mean that the Microsoft software I buy at the store ISN'T beta software? I always figured it was from how much it crashes. Whoa...if that's NOT beta, I don't think I want to see beta.
As opposed to the Capitalist Microsoft, who won't give sourcecode to their OS to the US Government claiming it would threaten national security, but will gladly hand the entire codebase to COMMUNIST CHINA. Real all-American apple pie goodness there.
I thought HOMR was the episode of the Simpsons where they remove a crayon from Homer's brain and end up making him as smart as Lisa... kind of contradicts the episode about the "simpson gene" though.
It's called a "jar that you put gumballs into." Gum is soft. And if you want it bulletproof, just use bulletproof glass for the jar. Where are my billions of dollars?
Perhaps "These are the kind of suds that can make your clothes MORE dirty!"
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I have much to bitch about aRts...Quake 3 for Linux crashes at startup with it on, and artsdsp doesn't work very well with Quake 3. Not only do you have to do "artsdsp -m quake3", but when you fire a shot, you see the shot, and about two seconds later you hear it. To alleviate that little problem, you have to turn down the buffer that the aRts server has. However, in doing that, you make the sound stutter like a mofo. OSS works properly with Quake3, but aRts is a stumbling block.
Remember: The first thing you should do when you log into KDE for the first time is go to the KDE sound server window and turn off the aRts server.
Hasn't anyone learned from War of the Worlds? The musical version from 1978 actually had an epilogue where they talk about the future where NASA control Pasadena is going to Mars, but then all communication with the guys get cut off, and they see cylinders with a green mist behind them going towards Earth...
And look at you, dumbass. You're spending all your time reading a fucking website with the express purpose of pissing people off. Way to post anonymously...makes you MUCH more credible. You claim that his life is meaningless and is revolving around pride associated with game scores, but all you're doing is taking pride over the fact that you can offend people. Why don't you get out of your parent's basement and go get this thing called a "job," where you make this thing called "money?"
The "net" is from the fact that a whole bunch of people worked together on the "net" to make the game. The "hack" part isn't from what they were doing to the code though...
I agree that it is an excellent distro and version, but I am having trouble with it. My copy of Wine won't play any sound in Half-Life, except for really really screechy, bad sound. I want to get out of Windows, but I can't have my beloved Half-Life, and I'm pretty sure that WCIII would do the same.
My bedroom has my Athlon 1600+ in it, which makes a lot of noise, but contrary to popular belief, you can actually TURN OFF a computer. I just use the shut down command in KDE, wait for it to finish halting, then i go to my power strip on the other side of my table, and turn it off with my big toe. Suddenly, the only thing in my room that's electronic is a gigantic digital alarm clock. It's really cool actually...the only thing that's NOT cool is being the farthest room from the air conditioner AND the furnace. I'm constantly at one temperature extreme or the other. I'm pretty sure I could solve the wintertime problem by keeping the computer on, but I just can't stand having those fans running all the time. It gets so annoying that I can't sleep...
From all the web-blocking services that my high school has on their network, they might as well just block port 80.
For instance, a teacher had to put up a big stink to unblock this very site because they claimed it was a "message board" site and not a news site. Although we can access the main page, we can't go onto any of the YRO pages. Kinda ironic.
Ok, if you want to game, you're going to need to get an AGP motherboard eventually. I suggest the ECS K7S5A ($50 or so). I use it and I haven't had any problems except for occasional CMOS checksum errors. All it takes to fix it is to reset the time and bus speed. Minor inconvienience, but otherwise a very nice motherboard. Besides, all my friends with the same board don't get that problem.
Yes, I WAS running KDE, and I already tried suspending the aRts server before running it. However, Quake uses some old mmap technology or something like that, so it would either play with aRts emulated mmap sound or no sound at all.
Also, the point I'm trying to make here is that the poster was exclaiming that Linux makes everything so fast and so easy to install and such, but with Windows, I don't have to mess around with configuration files, I don't have to worry about aRts, and I don't have to find out how to make everything work in harmony. Also, I guess I don't see the RPMs or something, but there are no Mandrake 9 drivers for nVidia cards yet. So I had to rely on the mercy of some kind soul out there to make RPMs since I am not the kind that compiles all my software. All I can say is that it is MUCH quicker to get Quake III runnning in Windows and yields better results. I don't like having to mess with all the stuff I had to mess with in Linux.
Actually, last Saturday I installed Linux Mandrake 9.0 and Windows XP on a dual-boot configuration. I knew before I reformatted that on Quake 3, 640x480 with Vertex lighting, I could achieve nearly a constant 125 FPS. I installed the Loki version of Quake 3, which upon running froze up while it was initializing sound. Therefore, I had to deal with trying to get my sound working on Linux, which involved me having to read more documentation about my sound server than I ever really thought I'd need to know. Also, I had to make a shortcut to automatically run Quake properly with "artsdsp -m quake3" so that it would automatically emulate the old way of doing Linux sound. Even though I did this, the sound STILL lags behind the action of the game unless I set the buffer to be shorter, which wastes my time because I had to restart the sound server to do it.
Did I mention that I also had to use unofficial precompiled RPMs to install the nVidia drivers with ANY kind of convienience? Also, I had to mess around with an XFree86 configuration file.
Finally, when I was playing Quake, the same settings as before yielded a steady 80 fps. Whee.
I haven't used Windows very much, so I haven't really gotten around to installing Quake3, but normally it involves simply running nVidia's install EXE, then putting the CD in the drive and hitting install. No crashes, no problems, and it's faster.
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Oh, but trust me...we'll get them when we challenge the amendment that makes challenging the amendment illegal...
...the icon I'm staring at trying to look at this already-slashdotted page? Did she make this one too?
Wait...you mean that the Microsoft software I buy at the store ISN'T beta software? I always figured it was from how much it crashes. Whoa...if that's NOT beta, I don't think I want to see beta.
What is this number counting down from 10 that's over my head? Oh, I'm sure it's nothing impor
No need to duck. No women can hear you on Slashdot anyways...
I see that the TV (namely, the Simpsons) hasn't become automated yet...
Not really worth it unless it were the hottest spot north of Havana.
Better yet, it would have to be that Music and pashion were ALWAYS the fashion.
As opposed to the Capitalist Microsoft, who won't give sourcecode to their OS to the US Government claiming it would threaten national security, but will gladly hand the entire codebase to COMMUNIST CHINA. Real all-American apple pie goodness there.
I thought HOMR was the episode of the Simpsons where they remove a crayon from Homer's brain and end up making him as smart as Lisa... kind of contradicts the episode about the "simpson gene" though.
It's called a "jar that you put gumballs into." Gum is soft. And if you want it bulletproof, just use bulletproof glass for the jar. Where are my billions of dollars?
Perhaps "These are the kind of suds that can make your clothes MORE dirty!"
I have much to bitch about aRts...Quake 3 for Linux crashes at startup with it on, and artsdsp doesn't work very well with Quake 3. Not only do you have to do "artsdsp -m quake3", but when you fire a shot, you see the shot, and about two seconds later you hear it. To alleviate that little problem, you have to turn down the buffer that the aRts server has. However, in doing that, you make the sound stutter like a mofo. OSS works properly with Quake3, but aRts is a stumbling block.
Remember: The first thing you should do when you log into KDE for the first time is go to the KDE sound server window and turn off the aRts server.
I thought it was "I like my coffee like I like my women....hot!"
Hey, Heretic wasn't a bad game...
Hasn't anyone learned from War of the Worlds? The musical version from 1978 actually had an epilogue where they talk about the future where NASA control Pasadena is going to Mars, but then all communication with the guys get cut off, and they see cylinders with a green mist behind them going towards Earth...
And look at you, dumbass. You're spending all your time reading a fucking website with the express purpose of pissing people off. Way to post anonymously...makes you MUCH more credible. You claim that his life is meaningless and is revolving around pride associated with game scores, but all you're doing is taking pride over the fact that you can offend people. Why don't you get out of your parent's basement and go get this thing called a "job," where you make this thing called "money?"
The "net" is from the fact that a whole bunch of people worked together on the "net" to make the game. The "hack" part isn't from what they were doing to the code though...
This event BETTER have had Tom Cruise in it, and in the most intense parts of the action, they better have played "Danger Zone"...
I agree that it is an excellent distro and version, but I am having trouble with it. My copy of Wine won't play any sound in Half-Life, except for really really screechy, bad sound. I want to get out of Windows, but I can't have my beloved Half-Life, and I'm pretty sure that WCIII would do the same.
My bedroom has my Athlon 1600+ in it, which makes a lot of noise, but contrary to popular belief, you can actually TURN OFF a computer. I just use the shut down command in KDE, wait for it to finish halting, then i go to my power strip on the other side of my table, and turn it off with my big toe. Suddenly, the only thing in my room that's electronic is a gigantic digital alarm clock. It's really cool actually...the only thing that's NOT cool is being the farthest room from the air conditioner AND the furnace. I'm constantly at one temperature extreme or the other. I'm pretty sure I could solve the wintertime problem by keeping the computer on, but I just can't stand having those fans running all the time. It gets so annoying that I can't sleep...
Ok, you guys can wake up. I'm done rambling.
From all the web-blocking services that my high school has on their network, they might as well just block port 80.
For instance, a teacher had to put up a big stink to unblock this very site because they claimed it was a "message board" site and not a news site. Although we can access the main page, we can't go onto any of the YRO pages. Kinda ironic.
Ok, if you want to game, you're going to need to get an AGP motherboard eventually. I suggest the ECS K7S5A ($50 or so). I use it and I haven't had any problems except for occasional CMOS checksum errors. All it takes to fix it is to reset the time and bus speed. Minor inconvienience, but otherwise a very nice motherboard. Besides, all my friends with the same board don't get that problem.
Yes, I WAS running KDE, and I already tried suspending the aRts server before running it. However, Quake uses some old mmap technology or something like that, so it would either play with aRts emulated mmap sound or no sound at all.
Also, the point I'm trying to make here is that the poster was exclaiming that Linux makes everything so fast and so easy to install and such, but with Windows, I don't have to mess around with configuration files, I don't have to worry about aRts, and I don't have to find out how to make everything work in harmony. Also, I guess I don't see the RPMs or something, but there are no Mandrake 9 drivers for nVidia cards yet. So I had to rely on the mercy of some kind soul out there to make RPMs since I am not the kind that compiles all my software. All I can say is that it is MUCH quicker to get Quake III runnning in Windows and yields better results. I don't like having to mess with all the stuff I had to mess with in Linux.
Actually, last Saturday I installed Linux Mandrake 9.0 and Windows XP on a dual-boot configuration. I knew before I reformatted that on Quake 3, 640x480 with Vertex lighting, I could achieve nearly a constant 125 FPS. I installed the Loki version of Quake 3, which upon running froze up while it was initializing sound. Therefore, I had to deal with trying to get my sound working on Linux, which involved me having to read more documentation about my sound server than I ever really thought I'd need to know. Also, I had to make a shortcut to automatically run Quake properly with "artsdsp -m quake3" so that it would automatically emulate the old way of doing Linux sound. Even though I did this, the sound STILL lags behind the action of the game unless I set the buffer to be shorter, which wastes my time because I had to restart the sound server to do it.
Did I mention that I also had to use unofficial precompiled RPMs to install the nVidia drivers with ANY kind of convienience? Also, I had to mess around with an XFree86 configuration file.
Finally, when I was playing Quake, the same settings as before yielded a steady 80 fps. Whee.
I haven't used Windows very much, so I haven't really gotten around to installing Quake3, but normally it involves simply running nVidia's install EXE, then putting the CD in the drive and hitting install. No crashes, no problems, and it's faster.
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