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  1. Lugaru port complete! on Where Can I Find Linux Porters? · · Score: 1

    Didn't take him too long. Here's a screenshot from Ryan Gordon's ~/.plan.

  2. Re:Why not just download XP Pro, its just as illeg on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 1

    You're wrong. One is larceny, the other just breaks a contract. The police can't arrest you for the latter.

  3. Re:Any Reasons to get it? on Linux 2.6.9 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    The notes you just glanced at only show the minor changes between 2.6.9-rc4 and 2.6.9. There were a lot of changes between 2.6.8[.1] and the 2.6.9 release.

  4. Re:Why not use SDL? on Doom 3 for Linux Released · · Score: 1

    SDL doesn't do surround sound, OpenAL does. OpenAL is open source and works well with SDL applications. It is used in many games, including Unreal Tournament 2004 for Windows, Linux, and Mac. ID didn't use it in Doom 3 because they made their own mixing engine.

  5. Re:Just Washington? on Mt. St. Helens' Grumbling May Presage Eruption · · Score: 1

    It's more than just a few miles. It's a few hundred. It's near Cougar. Last time it blew, Portland (right on the border) wasn't affected besides some ash (not hot ash, just ash).

  6. Re:Yeah. on Possible 'Hazardous Event' At Mount St. Helens · · Score: 1

    Errr... 1986, I meant.

  7. Yeah. on Possible 'Hazardous Event' At Mount St. Helens · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I live less than 100 miles away from Saint Hellens. The local news is reporting that there have been hundreds of small earthquakes per hour, and they havn't been like this since it blew in 1980. I can't wait to see what happens!

  8. Re:Boo. Hiss. on A Tale in the Desert II Goes Open Beta · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why do you act like a OS X port would be smarter? More gamers use Linux than OS X, and OS X is a lot harder to port to, with the byte order and all.

  9. Re:Type-o? on Nvidia Releases Updated Drivers for FreeBSD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    PS: Sorry. That was rude.

  10. Type-o? on Nvidia Releases Updated Drivers for FreeBSD · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hahahahahaha WTF!!!

    Doesn't typo stand for typographical error? WTF was this guy thinking?

    Eye em smar-t lyk brsmith4!i!i!

  11. Re:Oh the audacity on Gene Therapy Turns Slackers Into Workaholics · · Score: 0

    No, I think you are incorrect. Monkeys split off into homanids, whcich spurred a few failed attempts (neandrathals, hom-habilis, etc) and then finally us. At least that's how I remember it from high school zoology.

  12. Re:I guess I will have to stop by.... on Linus Torvalds Moving to the Silicon Forest · · Score: 1

    I live in Vancouver, Washington, too. It's a neat place.

  13. Re:Slashdot redefines minimalism on Waimea Developer Returns From Beyond · · Score: 1

    Those screenshots are of Waimea. It's drawing the window decorations with Cairo.

  14. Re:Linux users, read: on Red Orchestra Mod Released For UT2004 · · Score: 1

    Heh, you are wrong. UnrealEngine 3 will have an OpenGL rendnder for Linux and Mac OS X folk, and Ryan Gordon (icculus) has said on IRC there will be a Linux release. Also, they're doing the editor with WxWidgets so that Linux folks can have a GTK2 build, and Mac guys can have an Aqua version.

  15. Linux users, read: on Red Orchestra Mod Released For UT2004 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here's how I got it installed and working in Linux:
    1. Download the .zip version ("ro_beta_v2.0_full_installer.zip")
    2. Extract to your ~/.ut2004 directory, so that it's in ~/.ut2004/RedOrchestra
    3. There's a bug with the current Linux release that causes the KarmaData dir in the mod's direcotry not to be searched, so you'll have to copy ~/.ut2004/RedOrchestra/KarmaData/redorchestra.ka to /where/ut2004/is/installed/KarmaData/ if you want people to ragdoll when they die
    4. Start the game with "ut2004 -mod=redorchestra"
    5. I've been playing this game all day, it's lots of fun.
  16. Re:I was wondering too on OS Independent Games? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not true. Gentoo's UT2003 and UT2004 gamecd uses the binary NVIDIA drivers. The license that came witht he drivers also specifically allows redistribution, even repackaging.

  17. Uhhhm, on Infinium Targets Gamers For Stock Purchase After Split · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wouldn't gamers be the last people they would want to target? I mean, we know (or think, at least.) that they have no future.

  18. Re:Drivers could be a problem for a long time. on Fedora Prepares For Xorg Instead of XFree86 · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. I saw that it was hosted at freedesktop.org and jumped to conclusions. Sorry.

  19. Re:Drivers could be a problem for a long time. on Fedora Prepares For Xorg Instead of XFree86 · · Score: 1

    You are wrong-wrong-wrong! The nvidia drivers do _not_ work with the fdo xserver. Their server is based on kdrive, which has been around over a year, and the actual fdo xserver has been around for about six months. They've made major changes, adding alpha-transparency and such.

  20. Re:drivers on Fedora Prepares For Xorg Instead of XFree86 · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are way wrong. The freedesktop.org xserver is based off kdrive. They have already implemented alpha-transparency and stuff via their new xcomposite extension.

  21. Re:Mac on Unreal Tournament 2004 Goes Gold · · Score: 2, Informative

    He is, MacSoft contracted him. He did UT2003 for MacSoft, too.

  22. Re:Pick me Pick me! on SCO Says They'll Sue A Linux User Tomorrow · · Score: 2, Funny

    They meant Linux-using companies.

  23. Re:XBox Emulation on the Mac on Xbox 2 SDK Released On Mac G5? · · Score: 1

    Uhhhhhhhhhhhh, I think I meant desktop processor. Sorry, it was late. :-/

  24. Re:XBox Emulation on the Mac on Xbox 2 SDK Released On Mac G5? · · Score: 1

    Except that the IA-64 is a completely different architecutre, and in no way shape or form a desktop browser. AMD has forced intel into doing an x86-64 compatable chip. (Check slashdot artical from a week ago)

  25. Re:Um...not quite on The Galaxy's Largest Diamond · · Score: 1

    I've heard that a teaspoon of a white-dwarfs matter would weight over 3 tons here on Earth.