Truly scary game. Random violent pictures flash up on screen with a distorted scream that terrify the pants off ya. Spooky music by Bach and an eery map to wander around. Play it with the lights off and volume up.
Re:For the non-hacker, how can you help this cause
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SCO DOS'ed
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classic!
Mr Burns - the new CEO of SCO
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"It will be like taking candy from a baby... hey, that sounds like a lark - let's try it right now!" - Mr Burns (aka the new CEO of SCO) talking about the IBM Lawsuit.
Re:Why? - re: easy Debian installs
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My first ever Linux experience was installing 'Potato' on some semi-weird hardware. As a complete newbie, I managed to get X setup and everything else with very few problems.
Installing 'Woody' was far easier. There is now a really good mini-cd (unofficial) with some damn fine h/w detection stuff to install a very basic Debian. The rest can be retrieved via apt.
There is a team of people working on an official redesign of the Debian installer.
Mhm, or would it be worth switching to another distro like debian or gentoo? I heard updates are not so problematic there... hard decission!
Debian is the way to go. No problemo to upgrade. With Gentoo you wait for ages while packages compile. If you really want that, you can compile your own optimized packages in Debian too. The Debian security and stability is second to none in the GNU/Linux arena.
I run the so-called "unstable" version (ie "Sid") of Debian so I get all the latest bells, whistles and sirens. Smooth as. I have become an update junkie, and download the latest version of everything daily.;-)
Hey c'mon this is normal. The budget NVidia cards have always supported advanced features, but when you actually use them they run like crap. I still have a Geforce 2 MX200 (a gift from a friend who got duped by a retailer). It supports 4x AA, but when this feature (and others eg: 32bit color on resolutions higher than 400x300) are activated, it craps out.
The thing overclocks nicely, and when running in "best performance" mode in 16bit, it flies, uh well kinda. The key with all NVidia budget cards is to run 'em without all the technical advanced features. The reviewer enabled all kinds of crap that the card only just supported. Perhaps NVidia would do well to not let their budget cards support these advanced features. Benchies would be higher, and I guess more realistic. Most gamers (or would-be gamers with crappy MX200's like me) try to squeeze as much juice from their cards as they can.;-)
> Instead of doing what this article describes, just get Mac OS X.
The reason why many don't just get MacOS is that we want a computer that has decent hardware that performs. We want powerful 3D hardware acceleration. PC's even run Photoshop better than Mac these days too. Why anyone still buys a jellybean-like computer these days is beyond me.
If the BSD (a UNIX variant much like Linux in many ways) guys just packed up and went home, then Apple would have no OS X.
> I don't understand why anyone wouldn't.
Of course you don't, you are a Mac user. MacOS is really made for the non-expert user (to put it nicely) - although some still use it for Photoshop and the likes. Apple has dumbed down the UI and restricted users to a single mouse button so that users can't get into trouble.
The parent thread is NOT redundant. The guy has posted a url so that people can simply click to view the movie, rather than telnetting from the console.
Toddlers might sometimes wonder why people need to learn so many words and learn to speak in complicated phrases, when it seems that all you really need to do is point and cry to get what you want. Then we grow up.
Well said!
In the beginning, Unix was never designed to be a desktop for general/office/gaming use. Initially, it was designed to be a powerful OS/environment for programmers. Commands are brief and terse, but powerful. "No news is good news" is the philosophy behind this also. This powerful commandline design is useful for piping/redirecting the output of commands. It was never meant to be MacOS. I guess this is what the Window Manager or Ddesktop Environment was designed for - to be run as a program over the top of Unix.
Slightly modified wording needed...
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"...I'm just an engineer who wants to make the best OS possible..." - Linus
Uh.... make that "the best kernel possible". Linux is a kernel not an OS. Unless of course you mean GNU/Linux - which is a complete OS (a GNU OS with a Linux kernel).
Or does the above statement imply that he believes that he is the only contributor to the Linux kernel even?
There was an excellent C-64 soccer game called "Microprose Soccer". It had an outdoor and an indoor version. Both had amazing gfx and 2 player gameplay! It had a in-the-sky-looking-down view, and the ball got bigger as it was kicked in the air towards the camera. The world cup tournament rocked - gave Oman a thrashing every time!
Its nice to see some games coming to linux - however they are clearly bargain bin games
But they' will soon be "our bargain bin games".. **cough** **cough** I mean, who's complaining, they've gotta be better than "trophy", "race", "rallyx", right? I am just glad it's not yet another tired rpg or fps.
I am glad to see more companies supporting GNU/Linux. Yay!
But as Linux becomes more and more mainstream, you can find a lot of binary only software available for Linux (games come first to mind), which can't be a part of the official Debian repositories, and therefore can't be audited and trusted as opensource programs.
And these new binary only software packages won't be able to be audited by "Trusted" Debian either and could contain any number of vulnerabilities (or trojans in worse case scenario). Obscure buffer overflow exploits are of least concern. Basically any system is not "trusted" when there is closed source software installed that has been developed by someone who has yet to have a good track record as being trustworthy. I'd trust a few closed source software companies, but many newcomers are an unknown quantity.
It only takes one dodgy download and make the whole system vulnerable and it does matter what OS.
So you can feel secure by having an OS with the word "trusted" in it's name, even though it doesn't boast an excellent and vigilant security team such as the real Debian organization.
So what if you PC has only a handful of open ports. If the hacker cannot do anything with these ports, big deal.
Real security in Linux is about ensuring the software you install is not full of holes (ie: don't install just any crap on the net), keep uptodate with patches, and last of all - configuring your services adequately. The last step is the most often overlooked.
The name implies "secure out of the box". But what use is "Trusted" Debian to the guy who installs an email server on an adsl connection, but incorrrectly configures it so that every spammer in the world can hook onto it and send a million emails? Well, he's safe from many buffer overflows......
Using the standard and thoroughly tested officialDebian is just as safe, so long as you don't install unofficial packages. If you do things the Debian way, then none of these issues will be a problem. If any security holes are discovered, then they are patched pretty damn quick. This fork of Debian is redundant IMO.
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> > I've been puzzled by transparent/translucent window fluff.What is the point? Other than chewing up graphics card cycles
Gotta justify to my wife somehow why I needed that 3.0ghz CPU and 2gig of RAM.... now I can show her! Incase you didn't realize, women like these bells and whistles (especially shiny sparkly things). I could never get her near the pc when I used console/DOS.;-)
Slashdot Mirror
"Uh another visitor. Stay a while. Stay forever!!!!"
Truly scary game. Random violent pictures flash up on screen with a distorted scream that terrify the pants off ya. Spooky music by Bach and an eery map to wander around. Play it with the lights off and volume up.
classic!
"It will be like taking candy from a baby... hey, that sounds like a lark - let's try it right now!" - Mr Burns (aka the new CEO of SCO) talking about the IBM Lawsuit.
My first ever Linux experience was installing 'Potato' on some semi-weird hardware. As a complete newbie, I managed to get X setup and everything else with very few problems.
Installing 'Woody' was far easier. There is now a really good mini-cd (unofficial) with some damn fine h/w detection stuff to install a very basic Debian. The rest can be retrieved via apt.
There is a team of people working on an official redesign of the Debian installer.
Does it have a webcam? ;-)
Always backup config files (eg: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ) to floppy. That way you can install/update as you like with minimal starting over.
With SuSE is pays to format and start over rather than upgrading from one to another. With Debian, not so.
With Gentoo I have heard bad stories about long compile times with updates also.
Mhm, or would it be worth switching to another distro like debian or gentoo? I heard updates are not so problematic there... hard decission!
;-)
Debian is the way to go. No problemo to upgrade. With Gentoo you wait for ages while packages compile. If you really want that, you can compile your own optimized packages in Debian too. The Debian security and stability is second to none in the GNU/Linux arena.
I run the so-called "unstable" version (ie "Sid") of Debian so I get all the latest bells, whistles and sirens. Smooth as. I have become an update junkie, and download the latest version of everything daily.
Hey c'mon this is normal. The budget NVidia cards have always supported advanced features, but when you actually use them they run like crap. I still have a Geforce 2 MX200 (a gift from a friend who got duped by a retailer). It supports 4x AA, but when this feature (and others eg: 32bit color on resolutions higher than 400x300) are activated, it craps out.
;-)
The thing overclocks nicely, and when running in "best performance" mode in 16bit, it flies, uh well kinda. The key with all NVidia budget cards is to run 'em without all the technical advanced features. The reviewer enabled all kinds of crap that the card only just supported. Perhaps NVidia would do well to not let their budget cards support these advanced features. Benchies would be higher, and I guess more realistic. Most gamers (or would-be gamers with crappy MX200's like me) try to squeeze as much juice from their cards as they can.
> Instead of doing what this article describes, just get Mac OS X.
The reason why many don't just get MacOS is that we want a computer that has decent hardware that performs. We want powerful 3D hardware acceleration. PC's even run Photoshop better than Mac these days too. Why anyone still buys a jellybean-like computer these days is beyond me.
If the BSD (a UNIX variant much like Linux in many ways) guys just packed up and went home, then Apple would have no OS X.
> I don't understand why anyone wouldn't.
Of course you don't, you are a Mac user. MacOS is really made for the non-expert user (to put it nicely) - although some still use it for Photoshop and the likes. Apple has dumbed down the UI and restricted users to a single mouse button so that users can't get into trouble.
The parent thread is NOT redundant. The guy has posted a url so that people can simply click to view the movie, rather than telnetting from the console.
Telstra is Australia's largest ISP
Methinks it sounds like AOL Australia is trying to muscle-in on more of the Australian ISP market?
Toddlers might sometimes wonder why people need to learn so many words and learn to speak in complicated phrases, when it seems that all you really need to do is point and cry to get what you want. Then we grow up.
/. readers would do well to read the first chapter of Unix System V - A Practical Guide - by Mark G. Sobell as it covers a brief history of Unix and it's intent.
Well said!
In the beginning, Unix was never designed to be a desktop for general/office/gaming use. Initially, it was designed to be a powerful OS/environment for programmers. Commands are brief and terse, but powerful. "No news is good news" is the philosophy behind this also. This powerful commandline design is useful for piping/redirecting the output of commands. It was never meant to be MacOS. I guess this is what the Window Manager or Ddesktop Environment was designed for - to be run as a program over the top of Unix.
Perhaps many
2nd hand auction for Windows version can't find a bidder at US$2.50 (NZ$5.00). LOL
u ction-3657085.htm
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Gaming/PC-games-Action/a
"...I'm just an engineer who wants to make the best OS possible..." - Linus
Uh.... make that "the best kernel possible". Linux is a kernel not an OS. Unless of course you mean GNU/Linux - which is a complete OS (a GNU OS with a Linux kernel).
Or does the above statement imply that he believes that he is the only contributor to the Linux kernel even?
There was an excellent C-64 soccer game called "Microprose Soccer". It had an outdoor and an indoor version. Both had amazing gfx and 2 player gameplay! It had a in-the-sky-looking-down view, and the ball got bigger as it was kicked in the air towards the camera. The world cup tournament rocked - gave Oman a thrashing every time!
r oprosesoccer.htm
http://s64.emuunlim.com/maps/microprosesoccer/mic
Someone tell me that I can now put away my C-64.
Its nice to see some games coming to linux - however they are clearly bargain bin games
But they' will soon be "our bargain bin games".. **cough** **cough** I mean, who's complaining, they've gotta be better than "trophy", "race", "rallyx", right? I am just glad it's not yet another tired rpg or fps.
I am glad to see more companies supporting GNU/Linux. Yay!
But as Linux becomes more and more mainstream, you can find a lot of binary only software available for Linux (games come first to mind), which can't be a part of the official Debian repositories, and therefore can't be audited and trusted as opensource programs.
And these new binary only software packages won't be able to be audited by "Trusted" Debian either and could contain any number of vulnerabilities (or trojans in worse case scenario). Obscure buffer overflow exploits are of least concern. Basically any system is not "trusted" when there is closed source software installed that has been developed by someone who has yet to have a good track record as being trustworthy. I'd trust a few closed source software companies, but many newcomers are an unknown quantity.
It only takes one dodgy download and make the whole system vulnerable and it does matter what OS.
So you can feel secure by having an OS with the word "trusted" in it's name, even though it doesn't boast an excellent and vigilant security team such as the real Debian organization.
So what if you PC has only a handful of open ports. If the hacker cannot do anything with these ports, big deal.
Real security in Linux is about ensuring the software you install is not full of holes (ie: don't install just any crap on the net), keep uptodate with patches, and last of all - configuring your services adequately. The last step is the most often overlooked.
The name implies "secure out of the box". But what use is "Trusted" Debian to the guy who installs an email server on an adsl connection, but incorrrectly configures it so that every spammer in the world can hook onto it and send a million emails? Well, he's safe from many buffer overflows......
The pure "woody" is more trusted, ain't it? Who are these other guys? Do I trust them?
"Trusted Debian"....Hmm... Does this name also imply that the real Debian is untrusted or full of security holes? :-(
Using the standard and thoroughly tested official Debian is just as safe, so long as you don't install unofficial packages. If you do things the Debian way, then none of these issues will be a problem. If any security holes are discovered, then they are patched pretty damn quick. This fork of Debian is redundant IMO.
Amen brother! I totally agree!
> > I've been puzzled by transparent/translucent window fluff.What is the point? Other than chewing up graphics card cycles
.... now I can show her! Incase you didn't realize, women like these bells and whistles (especially shiny sparkly things). I could never get her near the pc when I used console/DOS. ;-)
Gotta justify to my wife somehow why I needed that 3.0ghz CPU and 2gig of RAM