I spent a little time getting this working under Gentoo last night. The only thing that worked for me was downloading the 1.2g nwresources, untarring that, and starting with that. Download the other stuff then do USE="nowin" emerge nwn (after you put all the files in/usr/portage/distfiles).
Or, you could just follow the instructions on nwn.bioware.com which are very detailed.
Just be sure to have DRI turned on in your XF86Config or it will go mega-slow
I gotta say kudos to Bioware for actually going out on a limb and making an official Linux version of their game. That just rocks.
Not only that, but I believe the company has totally raised the bar for computer game standards. An auto-updater is included, support for Mac and Linux, standalone servers, tons of downloads on their server (they even host a fan-made movie), etc, etc.
I hope they come out with more mods, or at the very least keep improving on a really fun game.
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AOL has stated (maybe it's even in a linked article) that a common reason given for cancellations is loss of access to a computer.
Have you ever tried to close an account with AOL before?
That's probably what everybody just said so that the AOL rep couldn't try to convince you for 15 minutes *not* to close the account.
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Next case, hidden bank and ATM fees...
I'll never use a bank again as long as I live. I've kept all my cash in a credit union since I was 15, and I've never gotten hit with any fees that weren't explicable in the least.
I don't do a lot of money transactions though -- mostly deposit and withdraw money at the ATM, but my credit union here is on a co-op system, so I can goto any credit union and use the ATM for free. Quite nice, really.
Everyone seems to be running around with their heads cut off as if DRM is the next doom-a-thon, but at the same time, how is it ever going to be widely implemented if no-one chooses to buy it and use it?
I think the idea has merit within obvious realms - such as inter-business documents or what-not, but I really don't see the point of using anything than just PGP to sign/decrypt and secure your files.
I'll admit, I haven't read the article yet, but I did want to comment on this: He also suggests we often approach the whole issue of encouraging migration to Linux from Windows entirely wrongly.
For what it's worth, every Linux zealot I've talked to can't remember the last time they used Windows, and wouldn't want to. Even if they do, they think it sucks.
It seems to me that the people who want Linux to overtake Windows on the desktop are those (like me) who are so used to MS DOS / Windows after using it for 20 years, and are finding it hard to do an instant migration. Instantly my difficulties in transitioning become "what's wrong with Linux."
I'm not a low-level C coder or anything spectacular, but I do enjoy fumbling my way through Gentoo and IceWM, trying to find the grail of replacing Windows, while still having fun with my OS and learning as much as I can.
I think that the people who want things to be "their way" are generally out of touch with what the underlying Linux community's goals always have been.
I could be wrong though. And as more people want to jump ship from Windows to Linux, I imagine that the sides will even out a bit, with a greater influx of novice Linux programmers.
I think something like _that_ would begin to influence the general direction of some projects. The fact alone that so many people want to ditch Windows anyway shows that some distros are trying very hard to make them very user-friendly.
But I find it hard to believe that was the goal of most long-term users/developers all along, or that it even is now.
I went and bought Diablo II from WalMart and when I did, they asked me my birthdate. At first I thought my credit card didn't go through or something, but later I realized they were just checking my age.
Something else I've noticed on a Sony DVD player I had, was that I could skip the commercials on ALL the DVDs except the ones by Columbia/Tristar (Sony Pictures). Odd, eh?
I really don't see why some ISPs don't step in a bit and offer a bit of education on this and many other things about the Internet.
Then at least they may clear themselves a bit from being the target.
At the very least, a courtesy e-mail to their customers might do something too. I'd much rather be warned that I was doing something wrong (assuming I didn't think it was a big deal, or I didn't know it was wrong at all) instead of suddenly being sued by some gigantic nameless corporation for thousands of dollars.
I was gonna say MyWay Mail, but this idea is actually much better... plus, as long as you don't post your email address anywhere, and send all other emails to the domain to blackhole, you'll be good to go.
I don't know where were you visiting, but in Buenos Aires it's DSL or cable, mostly. Some cafes even have dedicated fiber-optic lines.
Nequen and Patagonia... I actually only used it once myself, and that was when I was leaving Argentina. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if it was dialup or not. I do remember getting charged in minute increments.
But try telling that to the tens of thousands of Brazilians who regularly visit the 86 free "Telecentro" free computer centers in Sao Paulo, a sprawling city of 18 million. All the centers' computers use open-source software, and the Telecentros cater to working class Brazilians without the means to buy computers. They learn how to send e-mail, write resumes and cruise the Web.
Argentina has these things there, too (I lived there a few years). They're basically little stores where people go in and pay to get on the Internet. I can't remember the prices now, but the people there are so poor, that they only charged in increments of either 10 minutes or an hour.
Plus, a lot of the shops are run by the monopolistic telephone company there - Telefonica Argentina. I think they are in other countries as well, but I'm not sure. Their rates are reasonable to get online, but usually it's dialup -- not highspeed, and for theirs you have to pay the phone charges too. It's not free to make local calls, which is a shame.
For people who open up their own shops, who actually have enough money, I can see absolutely no reason why they would want to use Microsoft Windows, when at the very *least* Linux can do everything it can for free, and at the very best... well, we all know the advantages.:)
I actually like personal websites for what some of they usually eventually turn into -- detailed information about one subject.
If someone's personal homepage mentions a certain hobby in detail, chances are other people will pick up on it and visit that website to see someone else's experience.
I love the homegrown websites about hobbies and cool stuff. It's the corporate websites that have choked the life out of the Internet by making giant sites that cover everything mildly, so I can never find the real content -- from the people!
It's Superman III where Richard Pryor steals all the money. Superman II is where the three bad guys from the Phantom Zone try to take over Earth while Superman falls for Lois Lane.
Well I guess it is a clue to who is running the show.
Actually, now that I think about it.... that kind of makes sense. Is it possible that the lawyers are the ones who are orchestrating this entire thing, and everyone else in SCO Source is just a puppet printing out press releases? I mean, obviously, the goal of the lawyers is to get SCO bought out, so they take this from a legal approach all the way -- the contract with IBM, the GPL, and then fudge when it comes to actually sending something legal back in the mail to IBM.
That, too, would explain that no one at SCO really seems to know what's going on, and why their story keeps changing.
When I read this "Microsoft says this is in response to concerns from its customers about how to prevent sensitive information from falling into the wrong hands." and this "Forwarding is obviously the key issue," said Mr Pryke-Smith. "This puts control into the hands of the person sending the e-mail, as opposed to allowing the proliferation of messages.", the first thing that came to mind was, wouldn't GNUPG solve this problem? You encrypt the email with someone's key, so only they can read it. Theoretically (not technologically) isn't it the same idea?
I'm just wondering... shouldn't that be 'licensing fees', not not 'copyright fees'? How are they going to legally enforce this anyway, or keep track of who is playing what, how much they owe them, etc, etc?
Ten dollars for a bag of popcorn and a pop?
Five dollars for a box of candy?
While it is the movie theaters that set and charge those prices, it's not unreasonable, because the studios actually get most of the ticket price anyway. I think its something like 90% for the first two weeks of a release, then it goes down to 70%, etc.
Anyway, the theaters have to set those prices because they're scraping the bottom of the barrel anyway. It's their main revenue.
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Agreed. Couldnt you just set yourself up as a non-profit organization? I wonder how hard that could be.
Looks like they finally fixed the Shuffle bug -- when you open a new .m3u with Shuffle preset, it used to always play the first file, then shuffle.
Or, you could just follow the instructions on nwn.bioware.com which are very detailed.
Just be sure to have DRI turned on in your XF86Config or it will go mega-slow
Good luck.
Not only that, but I believe the company has totally raised the bar for computer game standards. An auto-updater is included, support for Mac and Linux, standalone servers, tons of downloads on their server (they even host a fan-made movie), etc, etc.
I hope they come out with more mods, or at the very least keep improving on a really fun game.
Have you ever tried to close an account with AOL before?
That's probably what everybody just said so that the AOL rep couldn't try to convince you for 15 minutes *not* to close the account.
I'll never use a bank again as long as I live. I've kept all my cash in a credit union since I was 15, and I've never gotten hit with any fees that weren't explicable in the least.
I don't do a lot of money transactions though -- mostly deposit and withdraw money at the ATM, but my credit union here is on a co-op system, so I can goto any credit union and use the ATM for free. Quite nice, really.
Screw the banks.
I was thinking something along the same lines ...
Everyone seems to be running around with their heads cut off as if DRM is the next doom-a-thon, but at the same time, how is it ever going to be widely implemented if no-one chooses to buy it and use it?
I think the idea has merit within obvious realms - such as inter-business documents or what-not, but I really don't see the point of using anything than just PGP to sign/decrypt and secure your files.
You mean there's articles, too?
For what it's worth, every Linux zealot I've talked to can't remember the last time they used Windows, and wouldn't want to. Even if they do, they think it sucks.
It seems to me that the people who want Linux to overtake Windows on the desktop are those (like me) who are so used to MS DOS / Windows after using it for 20 years, and are finding it hard to do an instant migration. Instantly my difficulties in transitioning become "what's wrong with Linux."
I'm not a low-level C coder or anything spectacular, but I do enjoy fumbling my way through Gentoo and IceWM, trying to find the grail of replacing Windows, while still having fun with my OS and learning as much as I can.
I think that the people who want things to be "their way" are generally out of touch with what the underlying Linux community's goals always have been.
I could be wrong though. And as more people want to jump ship from Windows to Linux, I imagine that the sides will even out a bit, with a greater influx of novice Linux programmers.
I think something like _that_ would begin to influence the general direction of some projects. The fact alone that so many people want to ditch Windows anyway shows that some distros are trying very hard to make them very user-friendly.
But I find it hard to believe that was the goal of most long-term users/developers all along, or that it even is now.
I went and bought Diablo II from WalMart and when I did, they asked me my birthdate. At first I thought my credit card didn't go through or something, but later I realized they were just checking my age.
Something else I've noticed on a Sony DVD player I had, was that I could skip the commercials on ALL the DVDs except the ones by Columbia/Tristar (Sony Pictures). Odd, eh?
Then at least they may clear themselves a bit from being the target.
At the very least, a courtesy e-mail to their customers might do something too. I'd much rather be warned that I was doing something wrong (assuming I didn't think it was a big deal, or I didn't know it was wrong at all) instead of suddenly being sued by some gigantic nameless corporation for thousands of dollars.
I tend to think it's because it comes pre-installed on everything. Windows is the dominant OS, that's true, but it's not necessarily by choice.
I was gonna say MyWay Mail, but this idea is actually much better... plus, as long as you don't post your email address anywhere, and send all other emails to the domain to blackhole, you'll be good to go.
The other side of the coin, though, is that every developer doesn't always sign their packages, and provide an md5sum.
Nequen and Patagonia ... I actually only used it once myself, and that was when I was leaving Argentina. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if it was dialup or not. I do remember getting charged in minute increments.
Argentina has these things there, too (I lived there a few years). They're basically little stores where people go in and pay to get on the Internet. I can't remember the prices now, but the people there are so poor, that they only charged in increments of either 10 minutes or an hour.
Plus, a lot of the shops are run by the monopolistic telephone company there - Telefonica Argentina. I think they are in other countries as well, but I'm not sure. Their rates are reasonable to get online, but usually it's dialup -- not highspeed, and for theirs you have to pay the phone charges too. It's not free to make local calls, which is a shame.
For people who open up their own shops, who actually have enough money, I can see absolutely no reason why they would want to use Microsoft Windows, when at the very *least* Linux can do everything it can for free, and at the very best ... well, we all know the advantages. :)
If someone's personal homepage mentions a certain hobby in detail, chances are other people will pick up on it and visit that website to see someone else's experience.
I love the homegrown websites about hobbies and cool stuff. It's the corporate websites that have choked the life out of the Internet by making giant sites that cover everything mildly, so I can never find the real content -- from the people!
It's Superman III where Richard Pryor steals all the money. Superman II is where the three bad guys from the Phantom Zone try to take over Earth while Superman falls for Lois Lane.
Actually, now that I think about it .... that kind of makes sense. Is it possible that the lawyers are the ones who are orchestrating this entire thing, and everyone else in SCO Source is just a puppet printing out press releases? I mean, obviously, the goal of the lawyers is to get SCO bought out, so they take this from a legal approach all the way -- the contract with IBM, the GPL, and then fudge when it comes to actually sending something legal back in the mail to IBM.
That, too, would explain that no one at SCO really seems to know what's going on, and why their story keeps changing.
Don't you mean, down?
I have to agree with you though .. IM is a major distraction at work.
I just encrypt all my outgoing email's with an md5 hash. That way, nobody's gonna snoop on my messages!
When I read this "Microsoft says this is in response to concerns from its customers about how to prevent sensitive information from falling into the wrong hands." and this "Forwarding is obviously the key issue," said Mr Pryke-Smith. "This puts control into the hands of the person sending the e-mail, as opposed to allowing the proliferation of messages.", the first thing that came to mind was, wouldn't GNUPG solve this problem? You encrypt the email with someone's key, so only they can read it. Theoretically (not technologically) isn't it the same idea?
I'm just wondering ... shouldn't that be 'licensing fees', not not 'copyright fees'? How are they going to legally enforce this anyway, or keep track of who is playing what, how much they owe them, etc, etc?
While it is the movie theaters that set and charge those prices, it's not unreasonable, because the studios actually get most of the ticket price anyway. I think its something like 90% for the first two weeks of a release, then it goes down to 70%, etc.
Anyway, the theaters have to set those prices because they're scraping the bottom of the barrel anyway. It's their main revenue.