VirtualBox works great for me for when I need to use something Windows-Only. 3d acceleration for gaming does not work though so it still requires me to dual boot for gaming. That is a pain.
Repair installs seem to work fine for me. Sometimes some programs after the repair install needed to be installed again but for the most part it seems to run better retaining user settings. Although I agree that a fresh install is the best route. I like to have my OS behave in a way I like. I have to spend about 2 hours setting my desktop the way I want it to be. With Linux variants I get more control over things and I like that. If it was not for gaming and certain applications dependent on Windows I would be a full time Linux user. Wine has come a long way and so has Cedega but for the most part it does not cut it for me. I know I may of gone off topic somewhat but I had to get that thought out there...
When I play FPS games I also do not expect to solve puzzles. I expect to kill as much as possible. Maybe a mini game is nice like in GTASA but thats about all.
I have been playing Battlefield 2 for a while now and still play it from time to time. I don't like the game engine as much and the system requirements but I like the game because you can use army based tactics. This works best if you are part of a clan.
I played Doom 3 and liked the graphics and gameplay after getting through some of the game but it got old pretty quick. Plus the multiplay portion was a joke along with the system requirements at the time. I'll judge Doom 4 when it arrives...
I agree. Hand coding works for me. I created my site with a template design where I could adapt and add upon it easily. Its just a mix of HTML + CSS. I can't really go into too much detail on it as I'm tired and drunk but my main point is that if you design it right you could adapt it to other web sites easily with little modification. The site I have visually sucks but its undergoing a graphical redesign...
You could just easily download the source from a torrent on lets say a public library or some public location onto your portable storage. Then transfer it to your personal machine to work with. Or just leave it on the storage medium. I don't see how they can ban you for doing that. Or can they...? I myself don't play that game and am not interested in obtaining the source code. I'm just posting a scenario where they can't ban you.
I have not really worked in the IT industry much yet as I'm completing my degree but in my personal experience I always like to wait until others have tried newly released things such as service packs, new releases of Linux, whatever... Thats standard practice for me. I don't want to install an Operating system or something critical like that should it start deleting my files from some kind of bug or something. I want it to be stable and tested before I install. I like to wait a few months before I install something that is released stable. Thats just the way I see it and I know others do this to.
With that stated I think its not a bad idea that Penn State is taking the "wait and see" approach. They are running a business and want to see how the service pack handles in the wild before they deploy. I'm not a Vista fan but this kind of "wait and see" approach makes logical sense/business sense.
I said this before but here it goes again: I hope I continue to have access to delicious bookmarks for the long run. I would be disappointed should that fall apart. Then I'd have to find another bookmark service like that. I love accessing my bookmarks from anywhere:-)
Agreed... I use Debian 4 on two low end machines for the purpose of running my web servers, SSH, webmin, TeamSpeak,... Prior to using Debian I had Gentoo running. It ran fine for my purposes but ran into some issues when updating some packages. Took me too long to fix issues when updating broke things so I made the decision to go with Debian. I'm glad I made that choice because its been very stable and easy to manage. I leave it up for months at a time and are on a UPC.
For main use I use Kubuntu or Ubuntu with the GDM disabled which means I just use a text login. I Used to use Gentoo prior to that but took forever to install new packages and was pretty easy to screw things up when emerging some things. I learned a lot when I used Gentoo but Kubuntu is what I prefer at this moment in time. The only real annoyance with Kubuntu/Ubuntu is that when booting the text login comes up then other services start after that. Debian does it correct and starts all the services in the default runlevel before comming to the text login prompt. You know what I mean?
I'm attending college (USA) right now. When I have a difficult question I know two good options. The first is to go to the student learning center for help. The second is to ask students who seem to know what they are doing for some help.
Sometimes the student learning center is not a good source of help. The computer programming work is usually best done by yourself. Sometimes when I need help I would post my work progress on a programming forum and point out the problem. That works good. Other times I might make a few friends in class and exchange contact info. Then we would share our work with each other. I might have something wrong that he might of gotten right and goes the other way too. In each situation I am learning something. It is not cheating. Cheating would be if I just used another classmates work and not learn anything of the class work.
I hope I made myself clear. Just woke up and decided to post on/. Gotta make coffee and get ready for work now... Spring break starts tomorrow for me:-)
I believe that libraries will exist for a long time into the future. I don't really see them dying. I picture more of a internet cafe style like the other poster mentioned. If there were programming books in digital format and in physical paper format I would always choose the physical. Largely because I feel that I can easily parse through a book and can mark it up, fold pages, etcetera. Digital formatting is still not my preference for certain things.
I too am a Gamer. You may want to try out Wine but be warned you may end up having to do more than you anticipated to get the game working. I myself love Wine but its not cut out for all the games I play. For Steam gaming its rather amazing. It pretty much enabled me to run HL2 EP2 just fine in full screen. I Played it at first in WinXPPro then decided to give it a go in Wine. I played most of the game to the end in Wine with no issues. Be warned that if you have an ATI card it may not be as supported as the Nvidia cards are. From what I read here and there ATI is more supported in Linux? Can anyone back me up on this?
With that stated... I find myself booting to Windows XP to play Battlefield 2. That game will run with Wine but Punkbuster always gives me some sort of crap. I don't want to chance myself to getting globally hardware banned. My machine can't support Vista but whenever I get the money to get parts for the machine I'll build I intend to either get a pirate version of Vista or if its offered through my school (thats how I got my legal XP) then school Vista it is.
Yep, I use Adblock Plus too but along with noscript. Haven't seen a AD since installation. Even if I didn't have these plugins installed I never click on any ADs. The ads that bother me the most are the ones that flash like a strobe light, make noises (those have scared the hell out of me before), are in the way of articles I am reading, and the ADs that are popup's...
I for one do not like dying in FPS games. If I do die I would rather die taking somebody down with me. The FPS game I play is BF2. Being bombed or C4 bombed by jeep or plain C4 in itself really gets me upset. Being killed by the chopper TV rocket or running over mines get me angry but less so. I think LAG just gets me real upset. I can say that I am not always angered by dying in the game. It largely depends on my mood prior to playing. I play the best when I can keep my cool and think clearly and of course have no LAG.
I don't like this type of deal as it will lock-in to proprietary formats. But hey I think money talks and maybe the negotiators are only looking into the short term benefits. In the long term there will probably be problems when M$ decides to change the format once again making the format used to create lots of documents in Office 2007 either useless, or conversion problems, or maybe the converter will work well? Only time shall tell if this actually goes through.
Well, I agree with you that XP will be the latest version of Windows I will use. I mainly use WinXP for gaming because wine and cedega are kind of silly to run the games I play. Although I am very happy they made as much progress as they have already. I am running a legal version of XP Pro that I got through my college.
As much as I do not like Vista I think it would be a very poor choice to not learn how to operate and fix Vista because corporations will probably make the switch to Vista if they don't switch to Linux. If you make money fixing machines your customers might be using Vista because thats what came with the machine. So it would be in my interest to learn Vista. It just makes good business sense... Knowing how to operate and fix Linux machines is also a valuable skill.
So... The more you know the better off you will be (Knowledge is power). Just look on current job postings and you'll see employers looking for people with Windows knowledge. Some will pay more for knowledge in Linux because it may be hard to find Linux experts. I plan on getting certificates in Linux and Windows. I only have an A+ 2006 right now. Working on my 4year CS degree right now.
I do not agree with M$ business practices and hope to live to see its demise (harharhar). Thats how I view Vista among other things.
I agree with you... When I drive my 5-speed manual car I always double de-clutch the car mainly to not put lots of stress on the gear box and to get a smoother gear change. It also saves the syncro mesh. Not only that I enjoy double de-clutching. Some people worry that the clutch will wear out more if you do that but I understand that it does not. Sure, your cars take off can be slower when you do this but I think the advantages outweigh your extra take off. I never really understood why everybody has to be in such a rush all the time. Why not leave early then you won't be in a rush. Sometimes thats how people are though. I live in New York so that could be another reason... always in a rush:-P
Yeah, I feel like a old man now (21yrs)... Used to go into arcades and saw all those intense battles. Used to bother parents to give me a bunch of quarters too.
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VirtualBox works great for me for when I need to use something Windows-Only. 3d acceleration for gaming does not work though so it still requires me to dual boot for gaming. That is a pain.
Repair installs seem to work fine for me. Sometimes some programs after the repair install needed to be installed again but for the most part it seems to run better retaining user settings. Although I agree that a fresh install is the best route. I like to have my OS behave in a way I like. I have to spend about 2 hours setting my desktop the way I want it to be. With Linux variants I get more control over things and I like that. If it was not for gaming and certain applications dependent on Windows I would be a full time Linux user. Wine has come a long way and so has Cedega but for the most part it does not cut it for me. I know I may of gone off topic somewhat but I had to get that thought out there...
When I play FPS games I also do not expect to solve puzzles. I expect to kill as much as possible. Maybe a mini game is nice like in GTASA but thats about all.
I have been playing Battlefield 2 for a while now and still play it from time to time. I don't like the game engine as much and the system requirements but I like the game because you can use army based tactics. This works best if you are part of a clan.
I played Doom 3 and liked the graphics and gameplay after getting through some of the game but it got old pretty quick. Plus the multiplay portion was a joke along with the system requirements at the time. I'll judge Doom 4 when it arrives...
I agree. Hand coding works for me. I created my site with a template design where I could adapt and add upon it easily. Its just a mix of HTML + CSS. I can't really go into too much detail on it as I'm tired and drunk but my main point is that if you design it right you could adapt it to other web sites easily with little modification. The site I have visually sucks but its undergoing a graphical redesign...
I'll drink to that!
You could just easily download the source from a torrent on lets say a public library or some public location onto your portable storage. Then transfer it to your personal machine to work with. Or just leave it on the storage medium. I don't see how they can ban you for doing that. Or can they...? I myself don't play that game and am not interested in obtaining the source code. I'm just posting a scenario where they can't ban you.
indeed... I don't like starbucks coffee and the prices are pretty high. I'd rather make my own coffee or go get one from Dunkin Donuts.
Ugh, I hate the idle layout too. I'm viewing it at 1280x1024 in FF.
I have not really worked in the IT industry much yet as I'm completing my degree but in my personal experience I always like to wait until others have tried newly released things such as service packs, new releases of Linux, whatever... Thats standard practice for me. I don't want to install an Operating system or something critical like that should it start deleting my files from some kind of bug or something. I want it to be stable and tested before I install. I like to wait a few months before I install something that is released stable. Thats just the way I see it and I know others do this to.
With that stated I think its not a bad idea that Penn State is taking the "wait and see" approach. They are running a business and want to see how the service pack handles in the wild before they deploy. I'm not a Vista fan but this kind of "wait and see" approach makes logical sense/business sense.
Just my 2 cents...
I said this before but here it goes again: I hope I continue to have access to delicious bookmarks for the long run. I would be disappointed should that fall apart. Then I'd have to find another bookmark service like that. I love accessing my bookmarks from anywhere :-)
Agreed... I use Debian 4 on two low end machines for the purpose of running my web servers, SSH, webmin, TeamSpeak, ... Prior to using Debian I had Gentoo running. It ran fine for my purposes but ran into some issues when updating some packages. Took me too long to fix issues when updating broke things so I made the decision to go with Debian. I'm glad I made that choice because its been very stable and easy to manage. I leave it up for months at a time and are on a UPC.
For main use I use Kubuntu or Ubuntu with the GDM disabled which means I just use a text login. I Used to use Gentoo prior to that but took forever to install new packages and was pretty easy to screw things up when emerging some things. I learned a lot when I used Gentoo but Kubuntu is what I prefer at this moment in time. The only real annoyance with Kubuntu/Ubuntu is that when booting the text login comes up then other services start after that. Debian does it correct and starts all the services in the default runlevel before comming to the text login prompt. You know what I mean?
I'm attending college (USA) right now. When I have a difficult question I know two good options. The first is to go to the student learning center for help. The second is to ask students who seem to know what they are doing for some help.
/. Gotta make coffee and get ready for work now... Spring break starts tomorrow for me :-)
Sometimes the student learning center is not a good source of help. The computer programming work is usually best done by yourself. Sometimes when I need help I would post my work progress on a programming forum and point out the problem. That works good. Other times I might make a few friends in class and exchange contact info. Then we would share our work with each other. I might have something wrong that he might of gotten right and goes the other way too. In each situation I am learning something. It is not cheating. Cheating would be if I just used another classmates work and not learn anything of the class work.
I hope I made myself clear. Just woke up and decided to post on
I believe that libraries will exist for a long time into the future. I don't really see them dying. I picture more of a internet cafe style like the other poster mentioned. If there were programming books in digital format and in physical paper format I would always choose the physical. Largely because I feel that I can easily parse through a book and can mark it up, fold pages, etcetera. Digital formatting is still not my preference for certain things.
I too am a Gamer. You may want to try out Wine but be warned you may end up having to do more than you anticipated to get the game working. I myself love Wine but its not cut out for all the games I play. For Steam gaming its rather amazing. It pretty much enabled me to run HL2 EP2 just fine in full screen. I Played it at first in WinXPPro then decided to give it a go in Wine. I played most of the game to the end in Wine with no issues. Be warned that if you have an ATI card it may not be as supported as the Nvidia cards are. From what I read here and there ATI is more supported in Linux? Can anyone back me up on this?
With that stated... I find myself booting to Windows XP to play Battlefield 2. That game will run with Wine but Punkbuster always gives me some sort of crap. I don't want to chance myself to getting globally hardware banned. My machine can't support Vista but whenever I get the money to get parts for the machine I'll build I intend to either get a pirate version of Vista or if its offered through my school (thats how I got my legal XP) then school Vista it is.
Yep, I use Adblock Plus too but along with noscript. Haven't seen a AD since installation. Even if I didn't have these plugins installed I never click on any ADs. The ads that bother me the most are the ones that flash like a strobe light, make noises (those have scared the hell out of me before), are in the way of articles I am reading, and the ADs that are popup's...
I for one do not like dying in FPS games. If I do die I would rather die taking somebody down with me. The FPS game I play is BF2. Being bombed or C4 bombed by jeep or plain C4 in itself really gets me upset. Being killed by the chopper TV rocket or running over mines get me angry but less so. I think LAG just gets me real upset. I can say that I am not always angered by dying in the game. It largely depends on my mood prior to playing. I play the best when I can keep my cool and think clearly and of course have no LAG.
I don't like this type of deal as it will lock-in to proprietary formats. But hey I think money talks and maybe the negotiators are only looking into the short term benefits. In the long term there will probably be problems when M$ decides to change the format once again making the format used to create lots of documents in Office 2007 either useless, or conversion problems, or maybe the converter will work well? Only time shall tell if this actually goes through.
Well, I agree with you that XP will be the latest version of Windows I will use. I mainly use WinXP for gaming because wine and cedega are kind of silly to run the games I play. Although I am very happy they made as much progress as they have already. I am running a legal version of XP Pro that I got through my college.
As much as I do not like Vista I think it would be a very poor choice to not learn how to operate and fix Vista because corporations will probably make the switch to Vista if they don't switch to Linux. If you make money fixing machines your customers might be using Vista because thats what came with the machine. So it would be in my interest to learn Vista. It just makes good business sense... Knowing how to operate and fix Linux machines is also a valuable skill.
So... The more you know the better off you will be (Knowledge is power). Just look on current job postings and you'll see employers looking for people with Windows knowledge. Some will pay more for knowledge in Linux because it may be hard to find Linux experts. I plan on getting certificates in Linux and Windows. I only have an A+ 2006 right now. Working on my 4year CS degree right now.
I do not agree with M$ business practices and hope to live to see its demise (harharhar). Thats how I view Vista among other things.
--George
I agree with you... When I drive my 5-speed manual car I always double de-clutch the car mainly to not put lots of stress on the gear box and to get a smoother gear change. It also saves the syncro mesh. Not only that I enjoy double de-clutching. Some people worry that the clutch will wear out more if you do that but I understand that it does not. Sure, your cars take off can be slower when you do this but I think the advantages outweigh your extra take off. I never really understood why everybody has to be in such a rush all the time. Why not leave early then you won't be in a rush. Sometimes thats how people are though. I live in New York so that could be another reason... always in a rush :-P
whoops... second line meant to be #killall MicroSoft. Sorry.
$su
#kill MicroSoft
#Segmentation Fault (Core Dumped)
I agree and I will drink to that!
Correction: Huzzah!
Yeah, I feel like a old man now (21yrs)... Used to go into arcades and saw all those intense battles. Used to bother parents to give me a bunch of quarters too.