It easily rivals apt-get but I still stick with the regular ports system because I need to compile several packages (other than the dependancies) myself for the different options not available with binaries and I've never found compiling from source anywhere near as simple on linux distributions as it is on FreeBSD.
What happens when they go out of business and the authorization servers for the game go offline and they never released a patch to remove the DRM? I don't know about you but I still play some of my games from 10-12+ years ago were both the publisher and developer are long gone.
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If it doesn't do what I want though I may end up getting Photoshop CS3, which you can't get running on Linux without jumping through hoops.
Before going CS3 I'd recommend giving Pixelmator a try. It isn't quite ready to replace Photoshop yet for my needs but it is a very good start and I look forward to the day it can.
As for CS3 itself I was rather disappointed with it coming from PS7 on Windows XP to CS3 on OS 10.4. The interface behaves differently from other Mac applications and the keyboard shortcuts are pretty awful and downright akward to use - not to mention there is hardly any keyboard shortcuts for many things I use frequently. Even worse is the CS3 apps aren't consistent interface or behavior wise between each other. Scroll wheel doesn't scroll the layers box in Illustrator but it does in Photoshop, cmd+` cycles windows in every app except Photoshop were it just does nothing, etc. Considering how much money it costs one would think Adobe could produce a better quality set of applications.
I wish Apple would either buy them [Adobe] or produce their own competing equivalents of Illustrator and Photoshop.
the OS X interface is awful
I guess it depends on your taste. Neither I nor many other Mac users have a problem with it.
There are a few issues that I see frequently brought up by Mac users. The following are the few I consider major and really bother me:
Keyboard shortcuts do not exist for all menu items and navigating them quickly is not nearly as efficient as in Windows with a dedicated key for each one. The find as you type approach navigating them in OS X requires pressing one key or multiple keys together depending on your shortcuts setup to focus on the menu bar and then typing the first letter or more depending on the names of the menus starting the the same letter(s) or not, pressing return or down, and then repeating as needed. In Windows I just hold one dedicated menu key, alt, and press the underlined letter for each item in the menu which is much less keystrokes and considerably faster.
The menu bar is fixed on the primary display which doesn't work very well when using applications on secondary displays.
The lack of any appearance customization aside from graphite or aqua buttons/widgets. I find the UI very bright and all the white/off white begins to burn my eyes with LCDs even with the brightness down very low. Good thing for ctrl+opt+cmd+8 to invert the entire desktop for those long coding or reading sessions.
Despite this I still prefer OS X over both XP and Vista. I was rather disappointed that Leopard didn't so much as address even one of the issues and it seems resolution independence was dropped too.:|
Since Apple went intel the costs have been pretty much on par, sometimes a little cheaper and sometimes a little more, compared to competing systems from Dell and etc.
For instance, when I purchased my MacBook Pro 15/2.2 from Apple Canada last year in June it cost $2199 CAD before tax and comes with useful software out of the box. The equivalent spec'd laptop from Dell Canada which didn't have as good GPU and looked a hell of a lot uglier was $2300 CAD before tax and comes with Vista and no useful bundled software, just crapware.
Not to mention the edu discount brings it to $2000, plus the $200 'free' ipod rebate and then turning around and selling the ipod for $150 since I already had a better DAP helped bring things down to $1850.
You can already get it for $20 CAD as I got it for that many months ago. (Provided you can find it - futureshop doesn't carry it anymore. Unpopular games seem to dispear entirely once they go to the bargin bin. Maybe this is a reason for the piracy?:P) If you enjoyed the orginal, The Longest Journey, I'd recommend picking it up but don't expect any of those hard adventure style puzzles. Instead we get dumbed down boring puzzles opening locks and hacking - that and an awful clunky combat system that should have been dropped from day one. The story is good but a horrible cliff hanger of an ending.
Just a warning with LCD Projection sets. Roughly every four to six months you will need to replace the lamp which costs ~$400 CAD (at least for the one used in the panasonic unit I have). They are considered consumables and not covered under warranty.
The 7800 and 7900 line, other than one low end card, are all PCI-Express cards. Since the 9800pro is an AGP card, you'll have to get a new motherboard if you want any of the new cards. I haven't kept up with the intel sockets and CPUs, but you may or may not have to get a new CPU depending on if there is no PCI-Express boards for the socket your current CPU uses.
The link you provided to their site doesn't seem to be working, probably the server configuration or my isp and the lack of the www prefix. http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/ for anyone else having the same problems.
I've been listening to them for years and and can highly recommend them to pretty much anyone. They are currently looking for a new publisher as their last one closed down unfortunately.
I can recommend Edgewall's trac for a svn server/wiki/project manager. It is F/OSS and very flexible in my experience. I am using it for a development community similar to the idea of sourceforge but much smaller and dedicated to extensions/distros/etc of a single OSS project. I am also using it for my own projects and I can highly recommend it.
Machinae Supremacy is one band that actually distributes their music for free, in mp3 and/Ogg Vorbis/.
You can head over to their download page with twenty-nine available songs. They also have a soundtrack containing twenty-eight songs available on the discography page along with songs from their first album.
Highly recommended that you check them out. Great band.
I live on the west coast of Vancouver island, Ucluelet, one of the areas that fell under the warning and we go absolutely no notice of it. They recently installed a new warning siren for the township but we didn't hear a thing. We didn't see any broadcasts about it on the local news channel either. Not until one hour after the warning was canceled did we recieve a phone call telling us about the warning. I messaged some of my friends to see if they heard anything about it and none of them heard about it. Its great knowing that when one really happens, they'll try and warn us after we are all dead.
I miss the days when games like Command & Conquer were released with their own original soundtracks that weren't the all ambient or orchestral. Sadly it does seem like they just don't make games like that anymore, at least the ones from the big publishers/developers.
Thankfully there is still independent developers out there making games with great soundtracks thankfully. One in particular that comes to mind is Jets'n'Guns. While the game might not be a high budget production with graphics that requires the latest and greatest hardware nor does it have the most deep and involving story ever created but it does have the most important aspect down, its fun, unlike most games released this day and age. Not only is it fun, but it has the best soundtrack I've ever heard in a game. (Even as good if not better than C&C TD/RA which I considered to be the benchmark which to compare all soundtracks to.) The soundtrack is by Machinae Supremacy and you can download it from their discography section and I highly recommend you check it out.
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There is always the new package manager if you don't need any special options and are fine with binaries:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng
https://mebsd.com/make-build-your-freebsd-word/pkgng-first-look-at-freebsds-new-package-manager.html
It easily rivals apt-get but I still stick with the regular ports system because I need to compile several packages (other than the dependancies) myself for the different options not available with binaries and I've never found compiling from source anywhere near as simple on linux distributions as it is on FreeBSD.
"Do NOT connect them to the net to update the AV, figure out how to do it with sneakernet."
Don't do that either. Malware propagating by removable storage is the hot new way to compromise SCADA systems.
Leaving some of the title bar makes for a much easier target to grab and drag a window around than a pixel or two for a border.
solution: all tlds must be porn sites
simple - everyone's happy
What happens when they go out of business and the authorization servers for the game go offline and they never released a patch to remove the DRM? I don't know about you but I still play some of my games from 10-12+ years ago were both the publisher and developer are long gone.
Today is a good day to Pi!
Before going CS3 I'd recommend giving Pixelmator a try. It isn't quite ready to replace Photoshop yet for my needs but it is a very good start and I look forward to the day it can.
As for CS3 itself I was rather disappointed with it coming from PS7 on Windows XP to CS3 on OS 10.4. The interface behaves differently from other Mac applications and the keyboard shortcuts are pretty awful and downright akward to use - not to mention there is hardly any keyboard shortcuts for many things I use frequently. Even worse is the CS3 apps aren't consistent interface or behavior wise between each other. Scroll wheel doesn't scroll the layers box in Illustrator but it does in Photoshop, cmd+` cycles windows in every app except Photoshop were it just does nothing, etc. Considering how much money it costs one would think Adobe could produce a better quality set of applications.
I wish Apple would either buy them [Adobe] or produce their own competing equivalents of Illustrator and Photoshop.
There are a few issues that I see frequently brought up by Mac users. The following are the few I consider major and really bother me:
Despite this I still prefer OS X over both XP and Vista. I was rather disappointed that Leopard didn't so much as address even one of the issues and it seems resolution independence was dropped too. :|
Since Apple went intel the costs have been pretty much on par, sometimes a little cheaper and sometimes a little more, compared to competing systems from Dell and etc.
For instance, when I purchased my MacBook Pro 15/2.2 from Apple Canada last year in June it cost $2199 CAD before tax and comes with useful software out of the box. The equivalent spec'd laptop from Dell Canada which didn't have as good GPU and looked a hell of a lot uglier was $2300 CAD before tax and comes with Vista and no useful bundled software, just crapware.
Not to mention the edu discount brings it to $2000, plus the $200 'free' ipod rebate and then turning around and selling the ipod for $150 since I already had a better DAP helped bring things down to $1850.
You can use conditional comments to target specific CSS to IE7 instead of relying on parsing bugs such as * html in previous versions.
Reverse the polarity and there should be plenty of new smoke.
You can already get it for $20 CAD as I got it for that many months ago. (Provided you can find it - futureshop doesn't carry it anymore. Unpopular games seem to dispear entirely once they go to the bargin bin. Maybe this is a reason for the piracy? :P) If you enjoyed the orginal, The Longest Journey, I'd recommend picking it up but don't expect any of those hard adventure style puzzles. Instead we get dumbed down boring puzzles opening locks and hacking - that and an awful clunky combat system that should have been dropped from day one. The story is good but a horrible cliff hanger of an ending.
Not only are they close, but in the reflow branch Firefox passes ACID2.
I did the same thing, just keep playing and eventually the fish will respawn.
Just a warning with LCD Projection sets. Roughly every four to six months you will need to replace the lamp which costs ~$400 CAD (at least for the one used in the panasonic unit I have). They are considered consumables and not covered under warranty.
Firefox does pass the Acid 2 test: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28948 0#c98
The 7800 and 7900 line, other than one low end card, are all PCI-Express cards. Since the 9800pro is an AGP card, you'll have to get a new motherboard if you want any of the new cards. I haven't kept up with the intel sockets and CPUs, but you may or may not have to get a new CPU depending on if there is no PCI-Express boards for the socket your current CPU uses.
Can always look forward to Star Trek Online for that. Let's hope they don't butcher it like, oh I don't know, Star Wars Galaxies?
M ed.html - One of the decks on a ship.
http://startrek.perpetual.com/GalClassHubDeck7Sci
Niether of which will play back without a gap on an iPod. http://www.pretentiousname.com/mp3players/
This has been an issue for some time, well before 1.0 was ever released.
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2209
No. You can check the status @ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22090 0
The link you provided to their site doesn't seem to be working, probably the server configuration or my isp and the lack of the www prefix. http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/ for anyone else having the same problems.
I've been listening to them for years and and can highly recommend them to pretty much anyone. They are currently looking for a new publisher as their last one closed down unfortunately.
I can recommend Edgewall's trac for a svn server/wiki/project manager. It is F/OSS and very flexible in my experience. I am using it for a development community similar to the idea of sourceforge but much smaller and dedicated to extensions/distros/etc of a single OSS project. I am also using it for my own projects and I can highly recommend it.
Machinae Supremacy is one band that actually distributes their music for free, in mp3 and /Ogg Vorbis/.
You can head over to their download page with twenty-nine available songs. They also have a soundtrack containing twenty-eight songs available on the discography page along with songs from their first album.
Highly recommended that you check them out. Great band.
I live on the west coast of Vancouver island, Ucluelet, one of the areas that fell under the warning and we go absolutely no notice of it. They recently installed a new warning siren for the township but we didn't hear a thing. We didn't see any broadcasts about it on the local news channel either. Not until one hour after the warning was canceled did we recieve a phone call telling us about the warning. I messaged some of my friends to see if they heard anything about it and none of them heard about it. Its great knowing that when one really happens, they'll try and warn us after we are all dead.
I miss the days when games like Command & Conquer were released with their own original soundtracks that weren't the all ambient or orchestral. Sadly it does seem like they just don't make games like that anymore, at least the ones from the big publishers/developers.
Thankfully there is still independent developers out there making games with great soundtracks thankfully. One in particular that comes to mind is Jets'n'Guns. While the game might not be a high budget production with graphics that requires the latest and greatest hardware nor does it have the most deep and involving story ever created but it does have the most important aspect down, its fun, unlike most games released this day and age. Not only is it fun, but it has the best soundtrack I've ever heard in a game. (Even as good if not better than C&C TD/RA which I considered to be the benchmark which to compare all soundtracks to.) The soundtrack is by Machinae Supremacy and you can download it from their discography section and I highly recommend you check it out.