Yeah, that little speck on the map isn't just a potato chip crumb, it's New Hampshire dammit!! The best little state that I've ever had the pleasure of living in.
Yeah, I really miss living in NH, I grew up there, and moved to Pittsburgh (PA, not NH) with my parents a fwe years back... Now I'm stuck with a really good job that I'd hate to leave, but an extremely powerful urge to go back up there where there's real mountains, and so much more freedom... Stoopid seat belt and helmet laws... and income tax... so much income tax.. and sales tax.. I miss not having these things. I miss keeping my hard earned cash. I miss having legalized war driving;)
well, I'll attempt to answer this, since no one else has.
first let me point out that I'm more into linux coding than linux gaming, but one day (hopefully sooner rather than later) when there's as many great linux games as windows games, and when you can easily network a linux system to a windows system to play multi-player... I hope to be into it;)
ok, now I'm not sure what video card would be best. I've heard that ATI cards have better linux drivers. I'd also suggest staying a step or two behind "bleeding edge", to give time for drivers to be made. This also saves a LOT of money.
audio - I've never had a single problem with my onboard AC'97 audio that is on just about any mobo I've ever owned.
OS - I'd guess Mandrake, since it has wonderful support for all sorts of hardware. You might want to look into the (now slightly out dated) mandrake gaming edition. It's on their site if you care to check it out. It comes with the Sims. If it can handle that, then Majesty wouldn't be an issue at all. If I recall, Majesty only requires like a 90 MHz processor! Another obvious choice is RedHat, since it's the most prominent distro, I'm sure that the manufacturer tested on it at some point. Lastly, I'd *hope* that the company making Linux games gives out good instructions, and have good tech support.
that's all I can think of, but it's all my personal opinion, feel free to prove me wrong.
Man, if you don't see the big deal, then you have never played Majesty! I recently bought the Gold edition for windowz, and love it. I've been eagerly awaiting the linux release!!
Good point. I'm right handed, so I never really thought about lefty's. I dated a lefty, and she used her right hand forher mouse still, so she had no problem with it. I suppose for not-so-right-handed-people, it might not be all that comfortable. Sorry.
Ok, I'm actually going to not flame you. Everyone else did a good enough job of that;-). I've found my favorite mouse in the whole world, it's the IBM optical scroll point mouse. This mouse has 800 dpi percision, 3 buttons, and a scroll point that does 360 degree scrolling without having to keep cranking a wheel. It's incredible, and it's comfortable too. The scroll point glows a cool blue color too;)
well, I'm not sure I'd consider them really, really liberal... They censored BMXXX or whatever it was called, so that you can't see the nudity. Xbox allowed the full nudity. Now, I'm not trying to support MS in any way shape or form, I fully believe that just touching an Xbox may give me the plague... but that is one conservative decision Sony made, regardless of whether you personally see it as a right or wrong choice.
You bought the QCast Tuner from thinkgeek.com, and you didn't send them an action shot!? Thinkgeek thrives on action shots. It's people like you that have made this world into the inhospitable place it is today.:-P
Yeah, I've also noticed that I get many many more redhat patches... What's the deal? Well, redhat may have more patches, but they tend to be to less severe problems. Seems that every new MS security problem allows a website or virus to format your drive. I've seen far far less exploits of this severity in Linux. Also, it seems like MS just ignores the small bugs, the less important ones, where half of these patches redhat is releasing are for little things. Seems to me that compairing sheer quantity is not the best way to do this. Severity of the bugs, and necessity of the patches is a far better comparison.
well, I'd imagine that if you write up a few macros for it, mapping the correct characters to numbers and such, it might be a lot easier... That, or you could write a simple conversion shell script that takes code written in the form that they demonstrated on their site (eg. [LF][TAB]), and converts it to the actual chatacters... or simple L, S, and T, and maybe even automagically convert numbers. But overall, a language like this has an incredibly high "fun factor". I really like their code that works in both C and WS.
Ok, I might very well be confused, and not using the tool right, but I plopped two of the only pictures I could find into this thing; an areal shot of a bunch of houses, and a picture of a really good looking woman. The thing told me that the houses were much more likely biological. Strange. Unless it can see implants?
Yes, that works wonders, but any moment it's switched to "ON" it's using more power than this thing. And if you never use that setting, then it's pointless to even have this big paper weight.
He never claimed that this was a business solution. Everyone's talking about how he could never use this to manage multitudes of servers, and that's very true, but he never said he wanted to use it for managing any servers at all. He was using this so he can monitor CPU/Mem loads from his recliner across the room. If you read the article, and looked at the images, all his screen shots showed the WinXP System Monitor app in the task manager. It shows with, simple bar and line graphs, how much load the system has. He put VNC on to actually manage the beast.
Read the article!
~Jon~
P.S. I'm not saying that I agree with him running WinXP on a "server" though;-)
I started the download just before it was posted here on my work system. It was going well at 70kbps+, but a fwe minutes later this was posted, and dropped to 4kbps. Luckily, I can just leave it downloading as long as it takes. That is my secondary work system. I love having a CD burner at work now. Yay me. hehehe
Just thought I'd share that, even though none of you will care, and I'll most likely be modded down for off topic or overrated. =D
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Yeah, that little speck on the map isn't just a potato chip crumb, it's New Hampshire dammit!! The best little state that I've ever had the pleasure of living in.
Yeah, I really miss living in NH, I grew up there, and moved to Pittsburgh (PA, not NH) with my parents a fwe years back... Now I'm stuck with a really good job that I'd hate to leave, but an extremely powerful urge to go back up there where there's real mountains, and so much more freedom... Stoopid seat belt and helmet laws... and income tax... so much income tax.. and sales tax.. I miss not having these things. I miss keeping my hard earned cash. I miss having legalized war driving ;)
-Jon
well, I'll attempt to answer this, since no one else has.
;)
first let me point out that I'm more into linux coding than linux gaming, but one day (hopefully sooner rather than later) when there's as many great linux games as windows games, and when you can easily network a linux system to a windows system to play multi-player... I hope to be into it
ok, now I'm not sure what video card would be best. I've heard that ATI cards have better linux drivers. I'd also suggest staying a step or two behind "bleeding edge", to give time for drivers to be made. This also saves a LOT of money.
audio - I've never had a single problem with my onboard AC'97 audio that is on just about any mobo I've ever owned.
OS - I'd guess Mandrake, since it has wonderful support for all sorts of hardware. You might want to look into the (now slightly out dated) mandrake gaming edition. It's on their site if you care to check it out. It comes with the Sims. If it can handle that, then Majesty wouldn't be an issue at all. If I recall, Majesty only requires like a 90 MHz processor! Another obvious choice is RedHat, since it's the most prominent distro, I'm sure that the manufacturer tested on it at some point. Lastly, I'd *hope* that the company making Linux games gives out good instructions, and have good tech support.
that's all I can think of, but it's all my personal opinion, feel free to prove me wrong.
-Jon
wow, that rebuttal is awesome. I'm not "gay/doctor/investment banker/another doctor". I think I'd like majesty because of that. =D
LOL! That was great =D
Man, if you don't see the big deal, then you have never played Majesty! I recently bought the Gold edition for windowz, and love it. I've been eagerly awaiting the linux release!!
Fervus and Krypta together... a match made in heaven... or was it hell?
;-)
.:|Jon|:.
P.S. That's Fervus, the temple in Majesty, not Fruvous as in Moxy Fruvous
Wasn't there a recent Ask Slashdot thread about this, where the idea was thoroughly shot down?
.:|Jon|:.
Good point. I'm right handed, so I never really thought about lefty's. I dated a lefty, and she used her right hand forher mouse still, so she had no problem with it. I suppose for not-so-right-handed-people, it might not be all that comfortable. Sorry.
I'm not sure where you can get the uncensored version. I'd rather just replace the monkey with my own monkey :-P
Ok, I'm actually going to not flame you. Everyone else did a good enough job of that ;-). I've found my favorite mouse in the whole world, it's the IBM optical scroll point mouse. This mouse has 800 dpi percision, 3 buttons, and a scroll point that does 360 degree scrolling without having to keep cranking a wheel. It's incredible, and it's comfortable too. The scroll point glows a cool blue color too ;)
.:Jon:.
well, I'm not sure I'd consider them really, really liberal... They censored BMXXX or whatever it was called, so that you can't see the nudity. Xbox allowed the full nudity. Now, I'm not trying to support MS in any way shape or form, I fully believe that just touching an Xbox may give me the plague... but that is one conservative decision Sony made, regardless of whether you personally see it as a right or wrong choice.
You bought the QCast Tuner from thinkgeek.com, and you didn't send them an action shot!? Thinkgeek thrives on action shots. It's people like you that have made this world into the inhospitable place it is today. :-P
.:Jon:.
Yeah, I've also noticed that I get many many more redhat patches... What's the deal? Well, redhat may have more patches, but they tend to be to less severe problems. Seems that every new MS security problem allows a website or virus to format your drive. I've seen far far less exploits of this severity in Linux. Also, it seems like MS just ignores the small bugs, the less important ones, where half of these patches redhat is releasing are for little things. Seems to me that compairing sheer quantity is not the best way to do this. Severity of the bugs, and necessity of the patches is a far better comparison.
~Jon~
Wait a minute... you mean people actually WANTED to pirate ME? I paid NOT to have it on my system!
One Hundred and twenty-first post!!
You could always put it up on a site and link to it *wink*
;)
:-P
P.S. yes, I realize that was a joke
well, I'd imagine that if you write up a few macros for it, mapping the correct characters to numbers and such, it might be a lot easier... That, or you could write a simple conversion shell script that takes code written in the form that they demonstrated on their site (eg. [LF][TAB]), and converts it to the actual chatacters... or simple L, S, and T, and maybe even automagically convert numbers. But overall, a language like this has an incredibly high "fun factor". I really like their code that works in both C and WS.
~Jon~
I was disappointed... I thought you linked to a poll about "What's your favorite use for gzip?". Maybe we should have one of them!
~Jon~
Ok, I might very well be confused, and not using the tool right, but I plopped two of the only pictures I could find into this thing; an areal shot of a bunch of houses, and a picture of a really good looking woman. The thing told me that the houses were much more likely biological. Strange. Unless it can see implants?
~Jon~
Yes, that works wonders, but any moment it's switched to "ON" it's using more power than this thing. And if you never use that setting, then it's pointless to even have this big paper weight.
~Jon~
He never claimed that this was a business solution. Everyone's talking about how he could never use this to manage multitudes of servers, and that's very true, but he never said he wanted to use it for managing any servers at all. He was using this so he can monitor CPU/Mem loads from his recliner across the room. If you read the article, and looked at the images, all his screen shots showed the WinXP System Monitor app in the task manager. It shows with, simple bar and line graphs, how much load the system has. He put VNC on to actually manage the beast.
;-)
Read the article!
~Jon~
P.S. I'm not saying that I agree with him running WinXP on a "server" though
I started the download just before it was posted here on my work system. It was going well at 70kbps+, but a fwe minutes later this was posted, and dropped to 4kbps. Luckily, I can just leave it downloading as long as it takes. That is my secondary work system. I love having a CD burner at work now. Yay me. hehehe
Just thought I'd share that, even though none of you will care, and I'll most likely be modded down for off topic or overrated. =D
~Jon~
umm... then get a life and leave us alone dude. we don't like you much either. =D
I love ewe.