I've noticed a lot of Windows people like Window Media Player. I can't stand it, I actually prefer BSPlayer on Windows. I know everybody rants and raves about mplayer, but that would be my pick on Linux. Make sure install or compile mplayer with the GUI and the skins pack. I find mplayer very easy to use with the GUI and it plays just about every format. A lot of people really like Xine, although I tried to compile it last week and kept messing up on compile errors.
So I actually find video playing easier or at least equal to Windows.
BTW, I use Gentoo Linux, maybe it's more of a pain on the distro you are using.
I've noticed something interesting since I've moved from FreeBSD to Gentoo. FreeBSD recommends make -j4 for single processor systems, but the Linux world recommends make -j( number of processors + 1). FreeBSD's resoning for a higher number is that your processor would spend more time working and less time waiting on the hard drive. Do you have any insight here?
Well if you've got at least more than 1 computer you may want to consider setting up a cluster. Given, it won't perform like a true SMP system, it's still cool. For compiling you will probably want to use distcc and then install an openMosix kernel. Of course a 100mb switch is recommended. If you've got SMP systems in the cluster then this will work even better.
I have just a p233 and p3 500 running Gentoo Linux with their openMosix kernel. It's much more bearable compiling on the 233 with help of the 500.
I wish I could put my Athlon 1800+ on the cluster, but I have it running Win2k for games. I don't feel like dealing with Wine or dual booting, maybe one day when I have more time.
I have a TNT2 Ultra running on a p3 500 on Linux. It was all pretty painless and easy. I did struggle a little getting X to use the TV-out optimally (It 's DVD player). Now it's stable as a rock, although I don't know how much DVD/Divx playing pushes the card.
I would recommend making sure the fan on yours is spinning ok, if it has one. A while ago the fan on my TNT2 built up so much dust that it stopped spinning. After a lot of trouble shooting (since the card sits upside down, I never see the fan), I finally pulled the card out and saw the horror. With some compressed air it resolved my problems. It was consistently locking up and showing strange artifacts, when accelerating, never got hot doing 2D.
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I agreed with you until I bought a Logitech MX300 USB mouse. Wow, that is one amazing piece of technology. It's only $30 too!
How many machines do you have? You may want to consider openMosix. Gentoo Linux has an already patched openMosix kernel. You could build your self a fully optimized divx encoding cluster. It may be worth the trouble, I'm sure with some googling you would be able to find all the tools you need.
I love this method, it's a big "selling" point for me. Made me like Debian, they do this as well. Even though I use Gentoo, I was disapointed to find that the smallest install that had was a 40MB iso.
Yea, if some one wants to email this guy they should at least go through the trouble of tracking down his email address. But, nope his email is basically on the frontpage of/. so he is going to get 300 emails about how *BSD is dying.
Yes, definatley. Finding help was the best thing about FreeBSD. I had like 4 pages bookmarked for resources (including the wonderful handbook). Rarely had to google with those resources.
I just recently switched from FreeBSD to Gentoo. I still love FreeBSD, but I realized that I was using FreeBSD for something much better suited with linux. Orginally I installed FreeBSD on what was going to be a headless server, which is perfect for FreeBSD. It ended up growing to a workstation for my girlfriend to check her email. What really did it was putting FreeBSD on my p3 500 which was going to be a DVD player. It has an Aureal soundcard and a TNT2. Actually I had that hardware working great. I found that a lot of software tended to have problems in FreeBSD. Mplayer has a bug only in FreeBSD that caused it to crash on exit (it was recnetly fixed). Snes9x wouldn't compile the last I tried and zsnes doesn't have USB joystick support. When discovering openMosix and found that it only worked on the linux kernel I decided that Linux was much more suited for my computer use. FreeBSD was fun while it lasted.
WOW, those features sound perfect. I wish KDE or some one would step up and implement that. I always find my self using a terminal and a GUI file manager at the same time.
Before my Linux days I had ran Win98 SE for 2 years straight without reformatting and no serious problems. It had it's fair share of lockups mostly from gaming. Even then uptime sometimes reached almost a month every once in awhile. But hell, it ran fast and I could laugh at my friends that had to reformat monthly. I think it had a lot to do with the hardware. It's a p3 500 with an Abit BE6. Yes one of those mobo's with the bad capacitors. Either I got a good batch or this thing is going to die any minute. I'll cry when that happens, this machine has been rock solid with anything that I've thrown at it. It's now running Gentoo Linux and will sit next to the TV playing divx files and DVDs.
One way I can tell in the new delta force demo - there is a guy on a mountain farther away than I can see with my scope (on any gun), and he picks me off with one shot. This is simply not possible without cheating. You can't hit a non-moving target at half the distance more than 1/3 tries.
I was talking about Counter-strike, many people assume because some one is a good shot (getting multiple head shots in a row, killing from far away, etc), that they are cheating. This is not probable cause, it's easy to get head shots in CS.
I've been playing sense beta3. I still do, actually. I have never cheated before, not even to try it out. I did download OGC and plan to use it at the next lan party of close friends, just to fuck with them. I think you should be picky about the servers you join, I generally don't knowingly encounter cheaters. I do have a problem with people calling me a cheater though. So I can either keep up with the cheater (which I doubt) or I am finding good servers.
It's just odd seems like some people claim there are cheaters all over the place. I can count the number of people I KNEW were cheating.
I have a friend who is a natural at any video game that requires hand-eye coordination. He's shown me many times shooting people in midair. A good example is Tribes/2. When that came out I sat there and watched him snipe people while flying and only tracking them for a few seconds. Same goes for Quake3, he's a big fan, and you just may have run into him before. Kinada423 is his alias.
I went to UT a couple years ago, my first year into college. Man, they had a damn nice net connection. I can't imagine complaining, but things could have change since then. I don't know how any one can get work done if they live in a dorm with a computer. Anyhow my grades went sour, now I'm going to Pellssippi (local community college). I'm actually quite impressed with it, it seems to be a much higher quality school.
I beat it with out cheating. It took about a month (not hours played). I found if fun actually, I liked the slower pace, but even enjoyed to first hitman with the crappy controls.
What?! How do you know that they are cheaters? Maybe they are good and have fast reflexes. A lot of people have been playing CS for a long time and know it inside and out. I'm tired of people accusing me of cheating, it happens all the time, and I see it happen to other players that are cleary not cheating as well.
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I normally stick to the same servers, usually the crowd on some are better than others. When I get familiar with the other players that are regulars I don't have to worry about playing exceptional. They can tell a cheater, they also have seen me play enough to know I have my good days and bad days.
The other day my favorite servers where full, so I went elsewhere. It was a clan operated server clan name was [CM] I believe. Sadly, people that are in a clan automatically think they are good, these people were not. Their movement was very predictable or nonexistent. Along with another player we were seriously killing these people and they outnumbered us 4:3. It wasn't long before we both were kicked. I immediately reconnected, just to see what the deal was (and make fun of them). They were convinced I was cheating, people act like it is hard to get head shots or something. The damn cheaters out there ruin the game for the good players.
Sorry for my rambling, I just get frustrated. When I come home from work, sometimes I just want to smoke some wacky tobaccy and shoot people in the head.
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I've noticed a lot of Windows people like Window Media Player. I can't stand it, I actually prefer BSPlayer on Windows. I know everybody rants and raves about mplayer, but that would be my pick on Linux. Make sure install or compile mplayer with the GUI and the skins pack. I find mplayer very easy to use with the GUI and it plays just about every format. A lot of people really like Xine, although I tried to compile it last week and kept messing up on compile errors.
So I actually find video playing easier or at least equal to Windows.
BTW, I use Gentoo Linux, maybe it's more of a pain on the distro you are using.
I've noticed something interesting since I've moved from FreeBSD to Gentoo. FreeBSD recommends make -j4 for single processor systems, but the Linux world recommends make -j( number of processors + 1). FreeBSD's resoning for a higher number is that your processor would spend more time working and less time waiting on the hard drive. Do you have any insight here?
Well if you've got at least more than 1 computer you may want to consider setting up a cluster. Given, it won't perform like a true SMP system, it's still cool. For compiling you will probably want to use distcc and then install an openMosix kernel. Of course a 100mb switch is recommended. If you've got SMP systems in the cluster then this will work even better.
I have just a p233 and p3 500 running Gentoo Linux with their openMosix kernel. It's much more bearable compiling on the 233 with help of the 500.
I wish I could put my Athlon 1800+ on the cluster, but I have it running Win2k for games. I don't feel like dealing with Wine or dual booting, maybe one day when I have more time.
I have a TNT2 Ultra running on a p3 500 on Linux. It was all pretty painless and easy. I did struggle a little getting X to use the TV-out optimally (It 's DVD player). Now it's stable as a rock, although I don't know how much DVD/Divx playing pushes the card.
I would recommend making sure the fan on yours is spinning ok, if it has one. A while ago the fan on my TNT2 built up so much dust that it stopped spinning. After a lot of trouble shooting (since the card sits upside down, I never see the fan), I finally pulled the card out and saw the horror. With some compressed air it resolved my problems. It was consistently locking up and showing strange artifacts, when accelerating, never got hot doing 2D.
I agreed with you until I bought a Logitech MX300 USB mouse. Wow, that is one amazing piece of technology. It's only $30 too!
Wanna make a /. convoy, eh?
How many machines do you have? You may want to consider openMosix. Gentoo Linux has an already patched openMosix kernel. You could build your self a fully optimized divx encoding cluster. It may be worth the trouble, I'm sure with some googling you would be able to find all the tools you need.
I love this method, it's a big "selling" point for me. Made me like Debian, they do this as well. Even though I use Gentoo, I was disapointed to find that the smallest install that had was a 40MB iso.
Yea, if some one wants to email this guy they should at least go through the trouble of tracking down his email address. But, nope his email is basically on the frontpage of /. so he is going to get 300 emails about how *BSD is dying.
Yes, definatley. Finding help was the best thing about FreeBSD. I had like 4 pages bookmarked for resources (including the wonderful handbook). Rarely had to google with those resources.
Thanks! I'll check it out when I get home. Depending on functionality it may be just what I need.
Actually kdebase installs mostly basic stuff including Konqueror. The Mails suite is part of kdenetwork.
I just recently switched from FreeBSD to Gentoo. I still love FreeBSD, but I realized that I was using FreeBSD for something much better suited with linux. Orginally I installed FreeBSD on what was going to be a headless server, which is perfect for FreeBSD. It ended up growing to a workstation for my girlfriend to check her email. What really did it was putting FreeBSD on my p3 500 which was going to be a DVD player. It has an Aureal soundcard and a TNT2. Actually I had that hardware working great. I found that a lot of software tended to have problems in FreeBSD. Mplayer has a bug only in FreeBSD that caused it to crash on exit (it was recnetly fixed). Snes9x wouldn't compile the last I tried and zsnes doesn't have USB joystick support. When discovering openMosix and found that it only worked on the linux kernel I decided that Linux was much more suited for my computer use. FreeBSD was fun while it lasted.
WOW, those features sound perfect. I wish KDE or some one would step up and implement that. I always find my self using a terminal and a GUI file manager at the same time.
I think you need stronger coffee ;)
Before my Linux days I had ran Win98 SE for 2 years straight without reformatting and no serious problems. It had it's fair share of lockups mostly from gaming. Even then uptime sometimes reached almost a month every once in awhile. But hell, it ran fast and I could laugh at my friends that had to reformat monthly. I think it had a lot to do with the hardware. It's a p3 500 with an Abit BE6. Yes one of those mobo's with the bad capacitors. Either I got a good batch or this thing is going to die any minute. I'll cry when that happens, this machine has been rock solid with anything that I've thrown at it. It's now running Gentoo Linux and will sit next to the TV playing divx files and DVDs.
Haha, you get an informative for supplying a goatse link. Absolutely wonderful!
4:3, 4 on the other team, 3 on the team I was on, including me. I was playing Counter-Strike.
One way I can tell in the new delta force demo - there is a guy on a mountain farther away than I can see with my scope (on any gun), and he picks me off with one shot. This is simply not possible without cheating. You can't hit a non-moving target at half the distance more than 1/3 tries.
I was talking about Counter-strike, many people assume because some one is a good shot (getting multiple head shots in a row, killing from far away, etc), that they are cheating. This is not probable cause, it's easy to get head shots in CS.
I haven't played delta force.
I've been playing sense beta3. I still do, actually. I have never cheated before, not even to try it out. I did download OGC and plan to use it at the next lan party of close friends, just to fuck with them. I think you should be picky about the servers you join, I generally don't knowingly encounter cheaters. I do have a problem with people calling me a cheater though. So I can either keep up with the cheater (which I doubt) or I am finding good servers.
It's just odd seems like some people claim there are cheaters all over the place. I can count the number of people I KNEW were cheating.
I have a friend who is a natural at any video game that requires hand-eye coordination. He's shown me many times shooting people in midair. A good example is Tribes/2. When that came out I sat there and watched him snipe people while flying and only tracking them for a few seconds. Same goes for Quake3, he's a big fan, and you just may have run into him before. Kinada423 is his alias.
I went to UT a couple years ago, my first year into college. Man, they had a damn nice net connection. I can't imagine complaining, but things could have change since then. I don't know how any one can get work done if they live in a dorm with a computer. Anyhow my grades went sour, now I'm going to Pellssippi (local community college). I'm actually quite impressed with it, it seems to be a much higher quality school.
I beat it with out cheating. It took about a month (not hours played). I found if fun actually, I liked the slower pace, but even enjoyed to first hitman with the crappy controls.
What?! How do you know that they are cheaters? Maybe they are good and have fast reflexes. A lot of people have been playing CS for a long time and know it inside and out. I'm tired of people accusing me of cheating, it happens all the time, and I see it happen to other players that are cleary not cheating as well.
I normally stick to the same servers, usually the crowd on some are better than others. When I get familiar with the other players that are regulars I don't have to worry about playing exceptional. They can tell a cheater, they also have seen me play enough to know I have my good days and bad days.
The other day my favorite servers where full, so I went elsewhere. It was a clan operated server clan name was [CM] I believe. Sadly, people that are in a clan automatically think they are good, these people were not. Their movement was very predictable or nonexistent. Along with another player we were seriously killing these people and they outnumbered us 4:3. It wasn't long before we both were kicked. I immediately reconnected, just to see what the deal was (and make fun of them). They were convinced I was cheating, people act like it is hard to get head shots or something. The damn cheaters out there ruin the game for the good players.
Sorry for my rambling, I just get frustrated. When I come home from work, sometimes I just want to smoke some wacky tobaccy and shoot people in the head.