Did you read the fucking parent post I replied too? You seem jealous, anyways...
He stated that Linux distros are 'bloated' and said he prefers BSD. I replied and told him about Gentoo.
In no way did I say "BSD is dead", but rather just described some flexible parts of Gentoo. Sure its inherits BSD ports ideas, but there is nothing wrong with other free OSs implementing good ideas.
Yes, the documentation is fresh and light, and some areas need more work -- you can't blame gentoo as they started recently while others have been on the map BSD/linux map for 5 years or so.
If you've ever installed a Linux distribution, you will immediately note the number of third-party libraries and applications installed on a 'base' system.
I found this true with redhat and suse, BUT you can use another meta distro: Gentoo.
You only merge(Gentoo-speak for fetch/compile/install packages) on what u need and satisfies your dependencies. Bootstrapping a gentoo system takes a couple of phases, however after the 3rd phase you have a base system close to 400mb(extra megabytes are due to having a development system needed to compile everything).
Plus, you can customize specific packages such as compiling in gtk/kde support, etc with USE variables. And if that don't work, you can edit the ebuild script file right then and there and customize you're own version right there(i.e. adding --msdfs configure flag to samba to compile in Microsoft DFS support)
I won't bore you with more details, but you can check out www.gentoo.org.
just excrete pure white snow directly. It would certainly make snowball fights more interesting.
Buddy #1: "I can't shit right now, and its almost recess" Buddy #2: "Here, eat some Taco Bell, you'll get bowel movement instantly!" Buddy #1: "Do you have vasaline?"
Is our water getting THAT dirty, such that water "reclaimed" from sewage is cleaner than regular used water?
LOL, times have changed. Water comes from top and falls to ground, and we drain it out. But now we get water from shit, and tell people, "well our regular source of water is contaminated, and your body acts like a water filter thats mixed with shit. Don't worry it's 100% the government and organization WHO, FDDA, CPPSDA and TDI, IANAL, etc."
"So when do I get to stick a funnel filter up my ass?"
my retirement years will be spent in a cardboard box underneath a freeway overpass
You mean you want to retire and become a troll underneat the bridge/overpass? Heck maybe trolltech is hiring:)
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Building on gentoo as we speak...
kde 3.0.2 took approx. 5 hours to build on my dual p3-500 rig(though I don't know if the ebuild ran with make -j2). So I assume 3.1 will take roughly the same time frame...I just hope a 3.1 ebuild is ready...can't wait to emerge my portage tree tonite!
Mozilla takes about 2-3 hours.
if any compile takes a while, it's OpenOffice. That fucker(excuse me language), takes 24+ hours to compile on me rig!!
I wonder how long it takes Microsoft to compile Windows XP with its 65 kajillion lines of code...
But yeah, certainly no one is expecting 8 years, but just one year is way too short.
Microsoft is sitting on 40 billion cash reserves, trying to acquire more markets and increasing market share to increase more profits.
Redhat on the hand is looking to reduce costs, so that it can turn out a respectable profit and continue to be in business and not suffer a fate like Mandrake.
yo home boy dont u try telling those n00bie rascals about the underground net...
hell, I give my bros glimpses of the golden internet: a place where you can trade,post, and download how much you like at full speed with 100s of gigabytes of songs in just one 'site'. They tell me "where? how?", and I tell 'em "fuck off, me never telling you the sacred code of usenet".
Well, if all P2P systems communicated using a standard/common protocol, then RIAA et all can do little to stop file sharing.
I mean, anyone(commercial,personal, or "warez kid" entity) can possibly code up a new p2p app given the specs...RIAA can't just go shutting down each p2p app one by one. This would be akin to battling software pirates on the net: you can't try outlawing ftp programs and http browsers 'cause it is used to dl possibly illegal content.
The way to police things: goto source of the problem. Since kazaa et all are decentralized(like the www/ftp sites), RIAA would go after the super nodes and try to shut 'em down. But being stupid as they are, they still think shutting down an app would eliminate the problems. Hey doesn't this sound like those gun control issues?? But that's another story another time....
When it first came out, most of the games sucked. Even for games where the same company made both a Genesis and an SNES version, the Genesis version was usually better. Take a look at Earthworm Jim if you don't believe me. It wasn't until games like StarFox and Donkey Kong Country came out that the SNES started to reach critical mass, but even then it always carried Nintendo's "kiddie" reputation thanks to the boatloads of games with cutesy characters (Mario, Yoshi, Kirby, etc.) that Nintendo churned out. Genesis remained the hardcore gamer's platform of choice for many years.
Since I saw the whole thing, from NES to SNES, with Genesis popping in between, I'll give you my account:
I'll tell you why the SNES sucked in the beginning. Firstly, it sucked 'cause it had intense amounts of flicker and bogged down when there were too many sprites on screen. This made it less appealing for action games, sport games, shoot-em-ups, etc. No one wants their players to flicker and bog down when you're trying to do a long pass in football. SNES was only good for those 'bopping' style of games(i.e. mario).
Secondly, Sega Genesis came out ~6 months earlier than SNES(fuzzy memory -- don't know exactly), and kinda wedged itself into the new hip machine for teens. It was 16-bit, 8bpp/w 15-bit color palette, had a new sleek look from the system to the controllers(with more buttons than just "A" and "B"). In simple terms, a new sexy system with good games.
When SNES was reviewed on Electronic Gaming Magazine(EGM), it recieved an average score of 6 while Genesis recieved a score of 9.5.
Fast-forward one year and things have changed drastically. Programmers now understood how to take advantage of SNES' architecture and effectively reduced/removed the flickers and slow-down(case in point: R-Type). Now Nintendo flexed it muscles - it brought out all the awesome games like F-ZERO, Zelda, Castlevania4, Super Contra3, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Final Fantasy 1,2, and 3, Mega Man, Act Raiser 1 & 2, Blackthorne, NBA Jam, Pilotwings,Starfox(much better than N64 shit version),Super Adventure Island, Mario Cart, BattleToads, killer instinct, Super Double Dragon, Super PunchOut,Super SmashTV, and finally the Street Fighter 2 series.
SNES was da bomb. After the first year, SNES was getting 9 and 10s on EGM while Genesis was stepped down to 7 and 8s. Genesis was good -- in the sports genre and when it released Mortal Kombat, but it was never the "hardcore gamer's platform" IMHO. SNES was technically superior and had all the great games.
N64 on the otherhand was pure fucking shit. GameCube is good, but it doesn't have the Nintendo magic anymore -- all the goods devs moved to Sony giving us kick ass games like FFX and Devil May Cry(this is contra's brother).
There were even plans in the works for a 3DO add-in card for PCs.
I believe they did release that, as I saw ads and reviews for it. But it was expensive, and you needed a genuine creative labs cd-rom player(costly back in the days).
It makes PC gaming look so much more attractive than consoles, knowing that I had software portability; that one title could be played on any of the PCs.
First of all Software Portability means it's OS and hardware independent. Secondly, games are released exclusively for Windows, and later on if their good enough they'll be ported to Mac. Since Microsoft owns 95% of the market, there are no "exclusives" because pratically there is only ONE PLATFORM.
Now I fail to understand why you are bickering about exclusives -- the console market doesn't have a monopoly and you have a CHOICE between 3 systems. I like to have choice -- this is the reason why I don't want the fucking M$ bastard to enter another market and fuck it up.
Yes, this means we won't get all the exclusives, but that's life as each company needs something to draw an audience and make money. Besides, what's really important is that each console is putting out quality titles. And there is nothing wrong with being different. As long as good games are coming out for PS2, I'm happy -- I don't need every fucking hyped-up exclusive. And it's nice to know GC has good games, and that Xbox just started to ramp up on awesome games.
What sex? The closest thing to sex on video game screens is Lara Croft and WWF bikini-clad girlies in Smack Down! And now we're getting DOA Extreme Beach Volley Ball...
Tell me where the sex is. I have yet to see a game where it tells me "Press the (X) button repeatedly to rub her harder..." and when that happens u can be sure it's an Xbox exclusive.
This government weapon will be tuned to the frequency of silicon atoms. It'll burn people up close I suppose but be mostly harmless to flesh further out while still frying transistors.
How about if a woman has silicon breast implants? Would it actually make their hooters explode? So that means people vendictive again the p0rn industry can simply cause an EMP blast and no more sticky fingers?
Where Kamen goofed is he got broader laws passed declaring the Segway to not be a vehicle and thus, according to state and national laws IT IS NOT ALLOWED ON THE ROADS.
I consider this a blessing. Since I commute to work everyday by car, the last thing I want is a fucking segaway hogging half a lane(unlike a bike which takes much less) driving at a grand-ma-ma speed at 12mph...
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But pr0n doesn't require a brain. You just need your eyes and hands plus some lube and your set to go.
Did you read the fucking parent post I replied too? You seem jealous, anyways...
He stated that Linux distros are 'bloated' and said he prefers BSD. I replied and told him about Gentoo.
In no way did I say "BSD is dead", but rather just described some flexible parts of Gentoo. Sure its inherits BSD ports ideas, but there is nothing wrong with other free OSs implementing good ideas.
Yes, the documentation is fresh and light, and some areas need more work -- you can't blame gentoo as they started recently while others have been on the map BSD/linux map for 5 years or so.
If you've ever installed a Linux distribution, you will immediately note the number of third-party libraries and applications installed on a 'base' system.
I found this true with redhat and suse, BUT you can use another meta distro: Gentoo.
You only merge(Gentoo-speak for fetch/compile/install packages) on what u need and satisfies your dependencies. Bootstrapping a gentoo system takes a couple of phases, however after the 3rd phase you have a base system close to 400mb(extra megabytes are due to having a development system needed to compile everything).
Plus, you can customize specific packages such as compiling in gtk/kde support, etc with USE variables. And if that don't work, you can edit the ebuild script file right then and there and customize you're own version right there(i.e. adding --msdfs configure flag to samba to compile in Microsoft DFS support)
I won't bore you with more details, but you can check out www.gentoo.org.
just excrete pure white snow directly. It would certainly make snowball fights more interesting.
Buddy #1: "I can't shit right now, and its almost recess"
Buddy #2: "Here, eat some Taco Bell, you'll get bowel movement instantly!"
Buddy #1: "Do you have vasaline?"
Is our water getting THAT dirty, such that water "reclaimed" from sewage is cleaner than regular used water?
LOL, times have changed. Water comes from top and falls to ground, and we drain it out. But now we get water from shit, and tell people, "well our regular source of water is contaminated, and your body acts like a water filter thats mixed with shit. Don't worry it's 100% the government and organization WHO, FDDA, CPPSDA and TDI, IANAL, etc."
"So when do I get to stick a funnel filter up my ass?"
my retirement years will be spent in a cardboard box underneath a freeway overpass
You mean you want to retire and become a troll underneat the bridge/overpass? Heck maybe trolltech is hiring:)
Building on gentoo as we speak...
kde 3.0.2 took approx. 5 hours to build on my dual p3-500 rig(though I don't know if the ebuild ran with make -j2). So I assume 3.1 will take roughly the same time frame...I just hope a 3.1 ebuild is ready...can't wait to emerge my portage tree tonite!
Mozilla takes about 2-3 hours.
if any compile takes a while, it's OpenOffice. That fucker(excuse me language), takes 24+ hours to compile on me rig!!
I wonder how long it takes Microsoft to compile Windows XP with its 65 kajillion lines of code...
I don't know about you, but every time I hear the word 'kerberos' I think of those keebeler cookies...[insert homer simpson sound here]
I wonder why SGI's FailSafe didn't get any kind of award either...
But yeah, certainly no one is expecting 8 years, but just one year is way too short.
Microsoft is sitting on 40 billion cash reserves, trying to acquire more markets and increasing market share to increase more profits.
Redhat on the hand is looking to reduce costs, so that it can turn out a respectable profit and continue to be in business and not suffer a fate like Mandrake.
yo home boy dont u try telling those n00bie rascals about the underground net...
hell, I give my bros glimpses of the golden internet: a place where you can trade,post, and download how much you like at full speed with 100s of gigabytes of songs in just one 'site'. They tell me "where? how?", and I tell 'em "fuck off, me never telling you the sacred code of usenet".
Ph3ar m3!!!
As a canadian, I'm just looking forward to the funny commercials and placing bets on which commercial Britney Spears will appear on...place your bets!
Only if we could bet with our mod points...(not that I have any, but still.)
Well, if all P2P systems communicated using a standard/common protocol, then RIAA et all can do little to stop file sharing.
I mean, anyone(commercial,personal, or "warez kid" entity) can possibly code up a new p2p app given the specs...RIAA can't just go shutting down each p2p app one by one. This would be akin to battling software pirates on the net: you can't try outlawing ftp programs and http browsers 'cause it is used to dl possibly illegal content.
The way to police things: goto source of the problem. Since kazaa et all are decentralized(like the www/ftp sites), RIAA would go after the super nodes and try to shut 'em down. But being stupid as they are, they still think shutting down an app would eliminate the problems. Hey doesn't this sound like those gun control issues?? But that's another story another time....
I stand corrected...I should have added a desclaimer about my poor memory ;)
Ahh, those were the console days...I always found that 2D games had more depth than their 3D counterparts in N64/PSX.
When it first came out, most of the games sucked. Even for games where the same company made both a Genesis and an SNES version, the Genesis version was usually better. Take a look at Earthworm Jim if you don't believe me. It wasn't until games like StarFox and Donkey Kong Country came out that the SNES started to reach critical mass, but even then it always carried Nintendo's "kiddie" reputation thanks to the boatloads of games with cutesy characters (Mario, Yoshi, Kirby, etc.) that Nintendo churned out. Genesis remained the hardcore gamer's platform of choice for many years.
/w 15-bit color palette, had a new sleek look from the system to the controllers(with more buttons than just "A" and "B"). In simple terms, a new sexy system with good games.
Since I saw the whole thing, from NES to SNES, with Genesis popping in between, I'll give you my account:
I'll tell you why the SNES sucked in the beginning. Firstly, it sucked 'cause it had intense amounts of flicker and bogged down when there were too many sprites on screen. This made it less appealing for action games, sport games, shoot-em-ups, etc. No one wants their players to flicker and bog down when you're trying to do a long pass in football. SNES was only good for those 'bopping' style of games(i.e. mario).
Secondly, Sega Genesis came out ~6 months earlier than SNES(fuzzy memory -- don't know exactly), and kinda wedged itself into the new hip machine for teens. It was 16-bit, 8bpp
When SNES was reviewed on Electronic Gaming Magazine(EGM), it recieved an average score of 6 while Genesis recieved a score of 9.5.
Fast-forward one year and things have changed drastically. Programmers now understood how to take advantage of SNES' architecture and effectively reduced/removed the flickers and slow-down(case in point: R-Type). Now Nintendo flexed it muscles - it brought out all the awesome games like F-ZERO, Zelda, Castlevania4, Super Contra3, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Final Fantasy 1,2, and 3, Mega Man, Act Raiser 1 & 2, Blackthorne, NBA Jam, Pilotwings,Starfox(much better than N64 shit version),Super Adventure Island, Mario Cart, BattleToads, killer instinct, Super Double Dragon, Super PunchOut,Super SmashTV, and finally the Street Fighter 2 series.
SNES was da bomb. After the first year, SNES was getting 9 and 10s on EGM while Genesis was stepped down to 7 and 8s. Genesis was good -- in the sports genre and when it released Mortal Kombat, but it was never the "hardcore gamer's platform" IMHO. SNES was technically superior and had all the great games.
N64 on the otherhand was pure fucking shit. GameCube is good, but it doesn't have the Nintendo magic anymore -- all the goods devs moved to Sony giving us kick ass games like FFX and Devil May Cry(this is contra's brother).
Heh...on the Fox News Channel's ticker, they had the following tidbit of information:
Well, on CNN's headline newsticker they have:
"[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Operation canceled
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Timeout expired
ODBC: Msg 0, Level 16, State 1
Communication link failure
Connection Broken"
Personally, I think 20 million of .com are all porn sites. Why don't they just have their own domain altogther? Like .sex?
So that's why you have to fill out a long form and tell those canadian internet people why you want a .ca domain.
There were even plans in the works for a 3DO add-in card for PCs.
I believe they did release that, as I saw ads and reviews for it. But it was expensive, and you needed a genuine creative labs cd-rom player(costly back in the days).
Kashif
It makes PC gaming look so much more attractive than consoles, knowing that I had software portability; that one title could be played on any of the PCs.
First of all Software Portability means it's OS and hardware independent. Secondly, games are released exclusively for Windows, and later on if their good enough they'll be ported to Mac. Since Microsoft owns 95% of the market, there are no "exclusives" because pratically there is only ONE PLATFORM.
Now I fail to understand why you are bickering about exclusives -- the console market doesn't have a monopoly and you have a CHOICE between 3 systems. I like to have choice -- this is the reason why I don't want the fucking M$ bastard to enter another market and fuck it up.
Yes, this means we won't get all the exclusives, but that's life as each company needs something to draw an audience and make money. Besides, what's really important is that each console is putting out quality titles. And there is nothing wrong with being different. As long as good games are coming out for PS2, I'm happy -- I don't need every fucking hyped-up exclusive. And it's nice to know GC has good games, and that Xbox just started to ramp up on awesome games.
Protect Children from Video Game Sex
What sex? The closest thing to sex on video game screens is Lara Croft and WWF bikini-clad girlies in Smack Down! And now we're getting DOA Extreme Beach Volley Ball...
Tell me where the sex is. I have yet to see a game where it tells me "Press the (X) button repeatedly to rub her harder..." and when that happens u can be sure it's an Xbox exclusive.
This government weapon will be tuned to the frequency of silicon atoms. It'll burn people up close I suppose but be mostly harmless to flesh further out while still frying transistors.
How about if a woman has silicon breast implants? Would it actually make their hooters explode?
So that means people vendictive again the p0rn industry can simply cause an EMP blast and no more sticky fingers?
Where Kamen goofed is he got broader laws passed declaring the Segway to not be a vehicle and thus, according to state and national laws IT IS NOT ALLOWED ON THE ROADS.
I consider this a blessing. Since I commute to work everyday by car, the last thing I want is a fucking segaway hogging half a lane(unlike a bike which takes much less) driving at a grand-ma-ma speed at 12mph...
Can the porn market ever reach full saturation? Has anyone ever said "y'know what? I think I have enough porn already"?
As disgusting as this may sound, as long guys can churn out sperm, there will be porn:)