Finally some sense. Its an awful program that uninstalls as cleanly as gator. The dead horse that is "Norton Whatever" will stop moving as soon as marketing stops beating it.
PS: PKI ERROR! If you just jumped on your chair and missed a heartbeat, you know what i'm talking about.
And in fact, recently went to a true 3d environment ("Spring").
The Spring project is a gpl engine in the style of Total Annihilation but in true 3D. This engine has a lot of mods developed for it, some of them pretty mature. They have a linux version and provide debian and ubuntu packages. Linux players can't play multiplayer against win32 players yet but that's about to be fixed opening a nice community and game to linux users. The Spring project is free software and it welcomes your help.
Read the software license you agreed to when you installed most any software. Almost all of them have a clause in there that says you agree, at your expense, to let the software maker or their appointed agent come in at any time and audit you for license compliance.
That's the funny part! They supposedly had balmer and the top engineers working on it, doing it WRONG! Either Balmer's pride was too big to allow a reinstall, or they put top programmers making sysadmin decisions they haven't been familiar with in years... it doesn't matter. Its a disgrace that these are the top people so desperatelly pushing Windows on us and not a single one of them is a realist, or has the experience of having to make Windows work.
This charade can't last much longer. Vista will be the last Windows, and i didn't even say it first.
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If you had a better graphics card you would have been able to read when i wrote:
"Of course it works decently on the basic cases"
Now go try compiz on ATI and then come call me a fanboy again.
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My case was a Radeon 9600 on a regular desktop PC. Of course it works decently on the basic cases, but try dual-head with 3d acceleration. For me at least, that was extremelly painful to get going in linux, and trivial in windows. Dual-head with different resolutions on each monitor made such nasty graphical artifacts on the screens i was ashamed someone would see it and think linux sucked. Playing 2 videos at once was slow, it felt like 1999 again. Restarting X (without changing xorg.conf) would bring a random refresh rate for each monitor. This was with up-to-date software and drivers around March 2006.
Both Nvidia and ATI provide binary linux drivers. I use kubuntu dapper and on those forums i rarelly see any complaint about Nvidia. Also, most how-to forum posts range from "its one step on nvidia, and 3 pages of shit for ATI" to "if you even want to try this, get a Nvidia card".
Hell, i was as big a fanboy of ATI as anyone a few years ago when they finally fixed up their windows drivers and had better price/performance ratio than nvidia. But now i run linux. I moved on, and ATI didn't.
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Or at least prevent people from buying turds.
ATI i am looking at you, althout the image is corrupted by buggy drivers.
I make this obvious, dull joke and it gets modded up to +5 instantly. Lots of much better jokes, mine and by other ppl are right now rotting at +1 unmodded. You boys seriously need to touch up your humour skills. 14 year old kid humour doesn't fit slashdot, now that we all aged up.
Apple technologies may have merit, but this is just ridiculous:
"First off, Mac users on average pay more for their computers, are self-selected because they tend to know more about technology than your average PC buyer, and by and large are a bit more affluent than those who buy cheapo commodity Windows PCs... "
His points being:
1) I paid more, so more expensive must mean better, right? 2) I am smarter than you, and i say it in a non-specific way so that you don't instantly laugh at me, showing i'm smarter than you 3) I paid more, so more expensive must mean better, right? RIGHT?
I LOL at you, sir, from the depths of my xorg.conf file.
Xfire is an instant messenger whose only claim to fame is that it has an ingame interface, that overlays over your game and allows you to chat without alt-tabbing. It has a bunch of irrelevant features better done elsewhere, but that interface feature has made xfire a must have in the gaming community i play on - Battlefield 2.
"Now all the makers of Galactic Civilizations need to do is link to where people can illegally download Starforce-protected games with the protection removed."
That's when you realise the brilliance of starforce's move: their stuff is also on the site they linked.
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The younguest and most creative within legal limits wins the escalation. Go for it, and be merciless - your neighboor is old enough to know better.
Finally some sense. Its an awful program that uninstalls as cleanly as gator. The dead horse that is "Norton Whatever" will stop moving as soon as marketing stops beating it.
PS: PKI ERROR! If you just jumped on your chair and missed a heartbeat, you know what i'm talking about.
The Spring project is a gpl engine in the style of Total Annihilation but in true 3D. This engine has a lot of mods developed for it, some of them pretty mature. They have a linux version and provide debian and ubuntu packages. Linux players can't play multiplayer against win32 players yet but that's about to be fixed opening a nice community and game to linux users. The Spring project is free software and it welcomes your help.
http://taspring.clan-sy.com/
I welcome it too, as i play it and its half the reason i boot into windows sometimes.
Its cool. Linus is welcome in my house anytime!
Oh, just because the americans no longer have a functioning justice system for large corporations it doesn't mean that they are not guilty.
If they ever get that fine, its only because they tought they could just not comply and it would go away, US style.
The media player related demands are clearly misguided, but the API ones are fundamental.
Yes, please let us know what new, undeveloped Emacs features you're looking forward to.
"Several require a CD; while the usual pirate NOCD patches exist, the NOCD versions can't be used to play via the Blizard.Net servers."
Actually, if you do have a valid cd-key, you can play online with the nocd cracks. Its very much a necessity under wine.
That's the funny part! They supposedly had balmer and the top engineers working on it, doing it WRONG! Either Balmer's pride was too big to allow a reinstall, or they put top programmers making sysadmin decisions they haven't been familiar with in years... it doesn't matter. Its a disgrace that these are the top people so desperatelly pushing Windows on us and not a single one of them is a realist, or has the experience of having to make Windows work.
This charade can't last much longer. Vista will be the last Windows, and i didn't even say it first.
If you had a better graphics card you would have been able to read when i wrote:
"Of course it works decently on the basic cases"
Now go try compiz on ATI and then come call me a fanboy again.
My case was a Radeon 9600 on a regular desktop PC. Of course it works decently on the basic cases, but try dual-head with 3d acceleration. For me at least, that was extremelly painful to get going in linux, and trivial in windows. Dual-head with different resolutions on each monitor made such nasty graphical artifacts on the screens i was ashamed someone would see it and think linux sucked. Playing 2 videos at once was slow, it felt like 1999 again. Restarting X (without changing xorg.conf) would bring a random refresh rate for each monitor. This was with up-to-date software and drivers around March 2006.
Both Nvidia and ATI provide binary linux drivers. I use kubuntu dapper and on those forums i rarelly see any complaint about Nvidia. Also, most how-to forum posts range from "its one step on nvidia, and 3 pages of shit for ATI" to "if you even want to try this, get a Nvidia card".
Hell, i was as big a fanboy of ATI as anyone a few years ago when they finally fixed up their windows drivers and had better price/performance ratio than nvidia. But now i run linux. I moved on, and ATI didn't.
Or at least prevent people from buying turds.
ATI i am looking at you, althout the image is corrupted by buggy drivers.
"The law depicts intervention in a manner patently offensive to prevailing standards in the liberty-mined community (...)"
At first i tought you had mistiped "minded" but then i understood.
I make this obvious, dull joke and it gets modded up to +5 instantly. Lots of much better jokes, mine and by other ppl are right now rotting at +1 unmodded. You boys seriously need to touch up your humour skills. 14 year old kid humour doesn't fit slashdot, now that we all aged up.
"where's 'Crazy Crapper'?"
We usually refer to it by its commercial name, Windows XP.
The program that copied the DVD to the harddrive was probably decrypting it on the fly. Either that, or god intervined and decrypted your burned DVDs.
"Vista may well mark the end of the Windows era."
So, that's why they are delaying it so much.
Now that i think of it, i'm only half kidding.
Apple technologies may have merit, but this is just ridiculous:
... "
"First off, Mac users on average pay more for their computers, are self-selected because they tend to know more about technology than your average PC buyer, and by and large are a bit more affluent than those who buy cheapo commodity Windows PCs
His points being:
1) I paid more, so more expensive must mean better, right?
2) I am smarter than you, and i say it in a non-specific way so that you don't instantly laugh at me, showing i'm smarter than you
3) I paid more, so more expensive must mean better, right? RIGHT?
I LOL at you, sir, from the depths of my xorg.conf file.
Xfire is an instant messenger whose only claim to fame is that it has an ingame interface, that overlays over your game and allows you to chat without alt-tabbing. It has a bunch of irrelevant features better done elsewhere, but that interface feature has made xfire a must have in the gaming community i play on - Battlefield 2.
I'm guessing she doesn't like her vibrator to run out midsession. These are the things that make having a geek boyfriend so great.
Grandparent didn't suggest anything inapropriate for a 12 year old (as much as testing batteries with the tongue is appropriate).
:D
So yeah, killer, relax.
Try unison.
Vera Sans is where the heart is at.
So true, but you gotta admit, we've seen much worse bullshit fly.
Oh, you work for McAfee.
"Now all the makers of Galactic Civilizations need to do is link to where people can illegally download Starforce-protected games with the protection removed."
That's when you realise the brilliance of starforce's move: their stuff is also on the site they linked.