Well, that is not exactly true, PGP signatures are probably harder to reproduce than real ones, i cannot say impossible but highly improbable, unless someone steals your private key, but its not THAT hard to prevent that...
Well, that chair looks a bit excessive, but i would like to see you spend 6 hours sitting in my chair and say that, i would LOVE to have an ergonomic chair, but i cant afford it...
Windows does have it's problems, but what you are saying is not entirely accurate. Windows 95 and 98 both have a semi-multiuser mode where users login at startup, and each user gets his/her own desktop and system settings. You still do have to worry about so-and-so deleting this and that file, but at least you dont all have to have the same configuration. This even applies to programs (not all programs) for example, MS Office and Corel Wordperfect Suite each ahve seperate settings for each user.
Us giving mis-information about what windows can and can't do makes us look as bad as Microsoft. If we must always put down Windows to promote Linux (which I do not believe is a good idea, we should promote Linux on its merits by itself, not just on how much better than windows it is) we at least should get our information right.
OpenGL is not the best choice for 2d, it was designed for 3d and does not have much in the way of 2d features. But RTS games do not necessarily need to be 2d, Total Annihilation: Kingdoms is going to be a 3d-accelerated game, the units are all 3d objects in the origianl and the maps are 3d. (we might want to consider putting pressure on Cavedog for some Linux support, Total Annihilation is a great game and I always hate it that there not a Linux port) Another RTS game that I once saw a demo of was completely 3d (I forget the name of it, sorry). It used a diagonal view and all the units and buildings were full 3d objects (it was directx and I saw it running on a voodoo2, it looked very nice)
So, it certainly is possible to use OpenGL to it's full power in a RTS game, and, I think at least, preferrable. I find 3d games are generally nicer than 2d games (not to say that there are no great 2d games out there, I love the civ series, even though I have not tried CTP yet, I am sure I will love it)
Yes, but you would have to have *pure* alohol to do it, and that is a lot harder to get than mineral oil. The stuff you buy in stores is diluted with water.
And by that concept distilled water would do it too, until it started to dissolve the copper in the printed curcuits.
Don't certain non conductive materials start to superconduct at those tempratures? I have heard that some ceramics superconduct when supercooled. It would be bad if say, the coating on the CPU started to conduct.
I know some crackers, I personally dont agree at all with cracking, it is just a pain in the ass for the server admins, but what I have noticed about most crackers nowadays is that they generally use overly easy ways to crack the sites that they get in. Crackers used to have to have some skill, but now anyone who knows the win98 filesharing problem has a good chance of being able to crack many sites.
I guess its just what was said above about cracking being the instant gratification method, and hacking being the long, slow method.
A lot of them are, but debian is at 2.2 and slask, one of the oldest distros is still at 4.0,I think it mostly looks that way because all the hundreds of RedHat-based distros are going 6.x as well as some others.
I have once or twice disconnected my motherboard and run my power supply with no problems (accaching my drive to another machine). AT does not have a "smart" power supply, so it should not know whether it has a motherboard hooked up or not.
KDE is good for linux, it allows people who are clueless aobut computers to use linux. I find that the point of view that some people express, "if you don't know how to use it, don't" is completely unreasonable. All of us, at one point were pretty clueless and the only way er learned was to use it and get better at it.
I have no problems with redhat, or their distro. I personally use redhat and find it stable, not bloated and easy to administer. I have not heard of any commertial software that does not work on non-redhat distros, and even if some peice of software did nto work, it would be more likely library versions than file positions (files are not THAT hard to find) Which is again just another reason to keep up to date, no matter what distro you're using.
I downloaded it before teh announcement on/. (i had been refreshing the ftp all day) anyway, It has a nice feature set, but I find it uses up about 4-5 timesmore CPU power than the old one. Anybody have any clue what might have caused this HUGE jump in processor usage?
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Well, that is not exactly true, PGP signatures are probably harder to reproduce than real ones, i cannot say impossible but highly improbable, unless someone steals your private key, but its not THAT hard to prevent that...
Well, that chair looks a bit excessive, but i would like to see you spend 6 hours sitting in my chair and say that, i would LOVE to have an ergonomic chair, but i cant afford it...
Windows does have it's problems, but what you are saying is not entirely accurate. Windows 95 and 98 both have a semi-multiuser mode where users login at startup, and each user gets his/her own desktop and system settings. You still do have to worry about so-and-so deleting this and that file, but at least you dont all have to have the same configuration. This even applies to programs (not all programs) for example, MS Office and Corel Wordperfect Suite each ahve seperate settings for each user.
Us giving mis-information about what windows can and can't do makes us look as bad as Microsoft. If we must always put down Windows to promote Linux (which I do not believe is a good idea, we should promote Linux on its merits by itself, not just on how much better than windows it is) we at least should get our information right.
OpenGL is not the best choice for 2d, it was designed for 3d and does not have much in the way of 2d features. But RTS games do not necessarily need to be 2d, Total Annihilation: Kingdoms is going to be a 3d-accelerated game, the units are all 3d objects in the origianl and the maps are 3d. (we might want to consider putting pressure on Cavedog for some Linux support, Total Annihilation is a great game and I always hate it that there not a Linux port) Another RTS game that I once saw a demo of was completely 3d (I forget the name of it, sorry). It used a diagonal view and all the units and buildings were full 3d objects (it was directx and I saw it running on a voodoo2, it looked very nice)
So, it certainly is possible to use OpenGL to it's full power in a RTS game, and, I think at least, preferrable. I find 3d games are generally nicer than 2d games (not to say that there are no great 2d games out there, I love the civ series, even though I have not tried CTP yet, I am sure I will love it)
Yes, but you would have to have *pure* alohol to do it, and that is a lot harder to get than mineral oil. The stuff you buy in stores is diluted with water.
And by that concept distilled water would do it too, until it started to dissolve the copper in the printed curcuits.
Don't certain non conductive materials start to superconduct at those tempratures? I have heard that some ceramics superconduct when supercooled. It would be bad if say, the coating on the CPU started to conduct.
I know some crackers, I personally dont agree at all with cracking, it is just a pain in the ass for the server admins, but what I have noticed about most crackers nowadays is that they generally use overly easy ways to crack the sites that they get in. Crackers used to have to have some skill, but now anyone who knows the win98 filesharing problem has a good chance of being able to crack many sites.
I guess its just what was said above about cracking being the instant gratification method, and hacking being the long, slow method.
A lot of them are, but debian is at 2.2 and slask, one of the oldest distros is still at 4.0,I think it mostly looks that way because all the hundreds of RedHat-based distros are going 6.x as well as some others.
I have once or twice disconnected my motherboard and run my power supply with no problems (accaching my drive to another machine). AT does not have a "smart" power supply, so it should not know whether it has a motherboard hooked up or not.
KDE is good for linux, it allows people who are clueless aobut computers to use linux. I find that the point of view that some people express, "if you don't know how to use it, don't" is completely unreasonable. All of us, at one point were pretty clueless and the only way er learned was to use it and get better at it.
I have no problems with redhat, or their distro. I personally use redhat and find it stable, not bloated and easy to administer. I have not heard of any commertial software that does not work on non-redhat distros, and even if some peice of software did nto work, it would be more likely library versions than file positions (files are not THAT hard to find) Which is again just another reason to keep up to date, no matter what distro you're using.
I downloaded it before teh announcement on /. (i had been refreshing the ftp all day) anyway, It has a nice feature set, but I find it uses up about 4-5 timesmore CPU power than the old one. Anybody have any clue what might have caused this HUGE jump in processor usage?
I have the EXACT same problem, 2.1.131 mounted fine, but 2.2.0pre3 won't mount at all.