He probably met his foes online via one of WebTV's alt.discuss newsgroups
Here's how the script probably works, WebTV user clicks on link that says it will do "foo". The script changes the dialing number to 911 and grabs the logs and sends them out. The changes to the dialing number don't take effect till the next time the WebTV user logs on.
An 1802? I had a 1902A. Had my Playstation 2 hooked up to it. What a great solid picture, until it died.:-( Looked almost as good as S-Video on the old 25" Magnavox.
Actually WebTV's got some sort of wacky graphics chip which does a fine job of making a clear display. It anti aliases text among other things. Sure you want to S-Video or composite rather than RF but it's still a pretty good picture no matter what.
WebTv's real problem is the lack of a pointing device like a trackball or touchpad. That's why it doesn't do frames properly.
Of course the built in IRC client needs work and it needed a better spam filter and BCC (nope WebTV's can't do BCC) etc.
An improved set top might be a good idea but the Dark Lord of Redmond probably won't do it, might cannibilize Windows sales. There are lots of people who only use their computers for email and web surfing. WebTV was good for those people, though many WebTV's more advanced users moved on to PC's.
Yeah I'm a Phoenix/Firebird convert, been using it on my Playstation 2 Linux kit since March/April. Installed it on the Windows laptop in June, though try as I might, I cant get the family to use it. They hate popups but still use IE.
I love the simplicity of the interface, and tabbed browsing rocks. Firebirds spoiled me, I simply can't stand IE anymore.
Do you know why BGDA sold a million copies? Because it's a good game with a damn impressive graphics engine. A little short, but still a very good game. When I finished it I wanted a sequel (with internet play) so bad.
You see, there was a market for this kind of game, the PSone version of Diable was very well regarded. And when word got around through the various magazines and message boards that BGDA was a lot like it, the buzz spread. It wasn't because of the Baldur's Gate name, quite a few console owners weren't all that familiar with the PC games It was because it was like Diablo.
There are now four PS2 games coming out that use the BGDA engine, Champions of Norrath (with internet play), BGDA 2, Fallout Brotherhood of Steel and a Bards tale game. I intend on getting CoN and BGDA2 at least
Actually Blizzard was a console developer (Lost Vikings, Rock and Roll Racing) before it went PC only They are simply "returning to their roots"
Took them long enough though, I've emailed them a few times over the past year saying, "Hey how about a PS2 port of Diablo 2. Look at how well regarded the PSone port of Diablo was and look how well Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance did."
No response.
And now there are FOUR games using the BGDA engine coming out (Champions of Norrath, BGDA 2, A bard's tale game and a Fallout game) and one of them at least (Champions of Norrath) has internet play.
You should have installed everything, trust me, you're going to want something you didn't install someday. Especially KDE. Gnome has performance issues on the kit and KDE runs much better.
I own a kit too and you're quite correct in wanting to compile as little as possible. Bout the only things I compile frequently are newer versions of Xchat and Gaim.
I've compiled other things, newer versions of GIMP and Abiword. IIRC I've got a newer xpdf. I've got GTK2 of course, have to have that for Gaim and Xchat.
A version of KDE1 is included with the standard PS2 Linux distro. It's possible to compile KDE2 but the compiles take a looooong time and the extra eye candy of KDE2 makes it runs slower on the PS2 than KDE1. (But it's still faster than the Gnome version included with the kit)
KDE3 will not compile on the kit because QT3 will not compile.
I don't know whether Angband will work on PS2 Linux. Nethack does (very well), Falcon's Eye (just a tad slow) and noeGNUd (so slow it'a slmost impossible to play.)
Krogue for KDE1 does too.
You probably could work out a way to get the control pad to control the game. It works in X of course, once you enable it.
I use fvwm2 on my PS2 linux kit too. It seems to be one of the more popular wm's on it along with Icebox, Blackbox, Fluxbox, Windowmaker and the included version of KDE1.
I haven't played around with the settings much though. I'm running with the updated version of Xgsx so I have a 640x448 screen. Which is a heck of a lot better than the standard 610x404
I run it on a 294 MHz R5900 with 32 MB of RAM.(Playstation 2 Linux kit) It's not fast by any means but the speed has improved from Minotaur (which is what I was using) and Thunderbird.1 (had UI issues)
Win XP has "issues" with samba. And they are intentional. My understanding is that WinXP does not logoff of samba shares in the expected way. It will do so properly with other Win systems but not with systems it knows are not Win based.
I solved some of my problems by using the upgrading to a newer Samba version. Playstation 2 Linux is based on Red Hat 6 so it's got a very old version of samba. It worked, but not very well. Supposedly the included version works just fine with Win ME and earlier versions.
The skull of this new "ape" looks more like that of a primitive hominid, like the pithecines. I don't think this thing will turn out to be a chimp. It's no gorilla either, I didn't see a sagittal crest. It's bipedal, larger than 6 ft, and has a flat face. Might be a descendant of one of the robust pithecines or Gigantopithecus.
I'm personally of the belief that the chimps and gorillas are descendants of the Australopithecines who returned to the forest. Makes perfect sense, one larger and one smaller australopithecine become one larger, one smaller great ape.
My local hospital is weird. It seems most of the machines are running what looks like Win 98 from a quick glance (but is probably NT/2000) But I have seen a machine in the phlebotomy room (where they take out blood for tests) running Sunquest Rhumba Unix. So they have some sort of 'nix server there. They've got a Wireless B network too, as I found out while sitting in a waiting room with my laptop, but they've got their WEP enabled and probably have MAC filtering up.
This hospital was just recently built and serves a small town and surrounding rural area. The've got hordes of RJ-45 jacks everywhere, even in the cafeteria.
The secretaries have to be doing something with their time. It probably goes like this:
Secretary want's to play Bejeweled but the machine is locked down. Secretary plays around and tries to figure out how to play Bejeweled. Secretary asks geek son/husband/brother about how she can play Bejeweled on her locked down box. Geek hands her books/websites etc. Secretary has nothing better to do so becomes an l33t windows hacker. Begins running an IRC channel for other l33t secretary hackers. All this so she could play Bejeweled.
And yes, Dillo is very speedy and small, great for systems with limited RAM.
If you need a smaller browser with frames support there is always links-graphic. Though not as speedy as dillo, it is faster than Firebird and it has SSL support built right in. One caveat is that links-graphic does not support cut and paste and dillo does.
For basic day to day browsing I use Firebird. Admittedly it is not fast on my Playstation 2 Linux kit, but I think it has the best compromise between features and performance. And tabbed browsing is one feature I really like. I also prefer Firebirds simpler UI to that of Mozilla.
Yes, if your box is older, slower or doesn't have a lot of RAM phoenix/firebird is better. Mozilla is slow on my 294 MHz R5900 box, but Firebird is usable. Admittedly, speedwise, Dillo kicks all their butt's but Dillo does not support Javascript or frames. Firebird could still use a bit more optimization though.
Oh, you're not wrong. It slices, it dices, it edits, it prints, it runs Mozilla, it runs Everquest Online Adventures. It's the can do, go to, fun do, black box of wonder.
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The Playstation 2 has two USB ports. The console version Final Fantasy XI is Playstation 2 only..
My EQOA (Everquest Online Adventures)cleric has a similar macro that just does the announcing bit.
The dialing number changes wouldn't take effect till the next login. So the script would change the numbers and grab the info at the same time.
He probably met his foes online via one of WebTV's alt.discuss newsgroups
Here's how the script probably works, WebTV user clicks on link that says it will do "foo". The script changes the dialing number to 911 and grabs the logs and sends them out. The changes to the dialing number don't take effect till the next time the WebTV user logs on.
Works fine in Firebird.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux mips; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031015 Firebird/0.7
An 1802? I had a 1902A. Had my Playstation 2 hooked up to it. What a great solid picture, until it died. :-( Looked almost as good as S-Video on the old 25" Magnavox.
Actually WebTV's got some sort of wacky graphics chip which does a fine job of making a clear display. It anti aliases text among other things. Sure you want to S-Video or composite rather than RF but it's still a pretty good picture no matter what.
WebTv's real problem is the lack of a pointing device like a trackball or touchpad. That's why it doesn't do frames properly.
Of course the built in IRC client needs work and it needed a better spam filter and BCC (nope WebTV's can't do BCC) etc.
An improved set top might be a good idea but the Dark Lord of Redmond probably won't do it, might cannibilize Windows sales. There are lots of people who only use their computers for email and web surfing. WebTV was good for those people, though many WebTV's more advanced users moved on to PC's.
Yeah I'm a Phoenix/Firebird convert, been using it on my Playstation 2 Linux kit since March/April. Installed it on the Windows laptop in June, though try as I might, I cant get the family to use it. They hate popups but still use IE.
I love the simplicity of the interface, and tabbed browsing rocks. Firebirds spoiled me, I simply can't stand IE anymore.
It does. or at least the extension you can grab via the extensions page via the Options panel does.
Do you know why BGDA sold a million copies? Because it's a good game with a damn impressive graphics engine. A little short, but still a very good game. When I finished it I wanted a sequel (with internet play) so bad.
You see, there was a market for this kind of game, the PSone version of Diable was very well regarded. And when word got around through the various magazines and message boards that BGDA was a lot like it, the buzz spread. It wasn't because of the Baldur's Gate name, quite a few console owners weren't all that familiar with the PC games It was because it was like Diablo.
There are now four PS2 games coming out that use the BGDA engine, Champions of Norrath (with internet play), BGDA 2, Fallout Brotherhood of Steel and a Bards tale game. I intend on getting CoN and BGDA2 at least
Actually Blizzard was a console developer (Lost Vikings, Rock and Roll Racing) before it went PC only They are simply "returning to their roots"
Took them long enough though, I've emailed them a few times over the past year saying, "Hey how about a PS2 port of Diablo 2. Look at how well regarded the PSone port of Diablo was and look how well Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance did."
No response.
And now there are FOUR games using the BGDA engine coming out (Champions of Norrath, BGDA 2, A bard's tale game and a Fallout game) and one of them at least (Champions of Norrath) has internet play.
Just visited your site, still up. :-)
You should have installed everything, trust me, you're going to want something you didn't install someday. Especially KDE. Gnome has performance issues on the kit and KDE runs much better.
I own a kit too and you're quite correct in wanting to compile as little as possible. Bout the only things I compile frequently are newer versions of Xchat and Gaim.
I've compiled other things, newer versions of GIMP and Abiword. IIRC I've got a newer xpdf. I've got GTK2 of course, have to have that for Gaim and Xchat.
A version of KDE1 is included with the standard PS2 Linux distro. It's possible to compile KDE2 but the compiles take a looooong time and the extra eye candy of KDE2 makes it runs slower on the PS2 than KDE1. (But it's still faster than the Gnome version included with the kit)
KDE3 will not compile on the kit because QT3 will not compile.
I don't know whether Angband will work on PS2 Linux. Nethack does (very well), Falcon's Eye (just a tad slow) and noeGNUd (so slow it'a slmost impossible to play.)
Krogue for KDE1 does too.
You probably could work out a way to get the control pad to control the game. It works in X of course, once you enable it.
Great post Yaz
I'm not a programmer but the PS2 Linux kit was the best 200 bucks I've spent in a looong time.I boot the thing up every day.
See you on the PS2 Linux forums.
You can always add your PS2 to a network via a wireless connection with a Linksys WET11.
I use fvwm2 on my PS2 linux kit too. It seems to be one of the more popular wm's on it along with Icebox, Blackbox, Fluxbox, Windowmaker and the included version of KDE1.
I haven't played around with the settings much though. I'm running with the updated version of Xgsx so I have a 640x448 screen. Which is a heck of a lot better than the standard 610x404
I run it on a 294 MHz R5900 with 32 MB of RAM.(Playstation 2 Linux kit) It's not fast by any means but the speed has improved from Minotaur (which is what I was using) and Thunderbird .1 (had UI issues)
Win XP has "issues" with samba. And they are intentional. My understanding is that WinXP does not logoff of samba shares in the expected way. It will do so properly with other Win systems but not with systems it knows are not Win based.
I solved some of my problems by using the upgrading to a newer Samba version. Playstation 2 Linux is based on Red Hat 6 so it's got a very old version of samba. It worked, but not very well. Supposedly the included version works just fine with Win ME and earlier versions.
The skull of this new "ape" looks more like that of a primitive hominid, like the pithecines. I don't think this thing will turn out to be a chimp. It's no gorilla either, I didn't see a sagittal crest. It's bipedal, larger than 6 ft, and has a flat face. Might be a descendant of one of the robust pithecines or Gigantopithecus.
I'm personally of the belief that the chimps and gorillas are descendants of the Australopithecines who returned to the forest. Makes perfect sense, one larger and one smaller australopithecine become one larger, one smaller great ape.
My local hospital is weird. It seems most of the machines are running what looks like Win 98 from a quick glance (but is probably NT/2000) But I have seen a machine in the phlebotomy room (where they take out blood for tests) running Sunquest Rhumba Unix. So they have some sort of 'nix server there. They've got a Wireless B network too, as I found out while sitting in a waiting room with my laptop, but they've got their WEP enabled and probably have MAC filtering up.
This hospital was just recently built and serves a small town and surrounding rural area. The've got hordes of RJ-45 jacks everywhere, even in the cafeteria.
The secretaries have to be doing something with their time. It probably goes like this:
Secretary want's to play Bejeweled but the machine is locked down. Secretary plays around and tries to figure out how to play Bejeweled. Secretary asks geek son/husband/brother about how she can play Bejeweled on her locked down box. Geek hands her books/websites etc. Secretary has nothing better to do so becomes an l33t windows hacker. Begins running an IRC channel for other l33t secretary hackers. All this so she could play Bejeweled.
There is a way to patch Dillo with SSL support.
And yes, Dillo is very speedy and small, great for systems with limited RAM.
If you need a smaller browser with frames support there is always links-graphic. Though not as speedy as dillo, it is faster than Firebird and it has SSL support built right in. One caveat is that links-graphic does not support cut and paste and dillo does.
For basic day to day browsing I use Firebird. Admittedly it is not fast on my Playstation 2 Linux kit, but I think it has the best compromise between features and performance. And tabbed browsing is one feature I really like. I also prefer Firebirds simpler UI to that of Mozilla.
Depends on what you consider interesting. You could always use it to:
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Read and Post to
Write the great "whatever country you're from" novel
Run a webserver on it.
Run a ftp server on it.
Run a mail server on it.
Use it as an mp3 server on a home network.
Play nethack or rogue on it.
Use it for photo editing (Hey, I've done it and it's not too slow).
Run a distributed computing client on it.
Who knows what other things people are doing with them besides actually coding on them.
Yes, if your box is older, slower or doesn't have a lot of RAM phoenix/firebird is better. Mozilla is slow on my 294 MHz R5900 box, but Firebird is usable. Admittedly, speedwise, Dillo kicks all their butt's but Dillo does not support Javascript or frames. Firebird could still use a bit more optimization though.
Oh, you're not wrong. It slices, it dices, it edits, it prints, it runs Mozilla, it runs Everquest Online Adventures. It's the can do, go to, fun do, black box of wonder.