That's what I assumed, but I never actually checked. Since the linux demo was released at the same time as the windows demo, more or less, I figured they were coming out simultaneously.
It's possible to fight your way back, with luck, even from holding only your base. I've seen it done.
Plan 1: Send the raptor up the tower and get the redeemer. take out the node by your base. have someone standing by to build a node there immediately.
Take the raptor down and get the next node over from that, have one person delay people coming through the middle and converge everyone on the other corner node.
You can setup a second screen layout section in your XF86Config, called "Mono" or something, that only runs one monitor (I'd suggest the GeForce 4 one.) and then restart X when you want to play games. (startx -- -layout Mono)
It's a hassle, but it's quicker than restarting the computer.
The linux amd64 demo plays amazingly in mandrake amd64 cooker. I get 72 fps in the maxed-out demo settings -- which are, of course, only half of the maximum possible settings in the full game, so that won't be quite as nice.
The availability of an amd64 linux version shows just how great Epic Games is.
They're the same price at ebgames.com, or at least they were last week.
So the DVD pack, which also includes a logitech headset to take advantage of the new voice command (yes! you can give voice commands to the bots!) has my preorder.
Damn...I've been living in some sort of fantasy world all my life. I should have known; the clues were all there: the weird feelings of deja vu, the fact that everything was just too perfect. Open source has been like a dream...and how can you tell if you're having a dream if you never wake up?
Thank you for opening my eyes, stratjakt. Now I have seen the real world for what it is...a vast, dead wasteland ruled by soulless monsters.
Just please don't go around shirtless giving inane speeches about not being afraid.
It's called freedom. Anyone who wants to make a distro, can make a distro.
If we were to somehow shut down all the projects and only let the top three survive in the name of "concentrating efforts"...then we wouldn't be allowing users to do whatever they want with their software.
It doesn't need justification. It's the way it is, there's nothing to be done about it, and it's distro-makers' right. If they want to customize their Os for their needs, and publish it online in case other people happen to like the same things -- how does that harm anyone?
amd64 cooker is almost to 10.0. They're still working on the 2.6 kernel, and kde for amd64 seems permanently stuck at 3.1.4.
The best solution for now is to get the 9.2 amd64 isos, get on cooker servers and update everything (note, this won't be as easy as usual, you might have to manually urpmi a lot of packages), and then install the 2.6.3 kernel yourself.
If that's not something you're comfortable doing, waiting for the 10.0 amd64 iso to come out is probably a better idea. It may be a month or two though.
If you want to use the gui, it's completely painless. Open the Mandrake Configuration Wizard, go to packaging, click update. By default it only gets security fixes, you'll want bugfixes and general updates as well, so check those, and select all the updates, and click install.
If you have broadband, one of the first things you should do with mandrake is remove the cd's as package sources (in the gui, just to to packaging->manage media, or something like that, and delete the cd sources) and follow the directions at http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php to add ftp mirrors. Then you can install programs on the command line (as root) by saying "urpmi package." For instance, urpmi gaim will install gaim. "urpmi -y blah" searches. "urpme package" uninstalls. "urpmi --auto-select" updates everything. The gui tools can do all this too.
It runs a lot better on amd64, that's for sure. (2.4 series is deprecated, and may even have memory corruption issues if you're using devfs.)
Eventually, the udev system will make device management, especially for hotpluggable usb devices and stuff, much easier. Changing the order that things are plugged in won't change their device names, for example. There's even a script that gives cds names based on album and artist!
It's not quite ready for primetime yet, I don't think, but a couple more releases, along with initramfs, should see it working well.
It's supposed to be guh-noo. But given the catchphrases like "Brave GNU world" and "Choice of a GNU generation," you're still supposed to THINK of it as sounding like "new" even as you say it completely differently.
This makes sense. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
"and it was pronounced "S.C.O. Unix", as the letters were still an abbreviation. "
Yeah, abbreviations are always pronounced with individual letters...it would be really freakish if people didn't say G-N-U, or L-A-S-E-R, or A-S-C-I-I. As if those are words. That would be ridiculous, like Kramer trying to use "Quone" in a game of Scrabble.
But only when the current paradigm is in doubt, because values aren't coming out right or an experiment is demonstrating that assumptions were wrong (as with the Michelson Morley experiment, along with countless other famous examples) are new theories even considered; because otherwise they're unnecessary, and the status quo smothers innovation. Then, in the period of doubt, a sudden proliferation of lots of crazy new theories comes out. They battle it out for a while, and the one that best matches the facts wins.
You seem to think that we should just remove the "status quo smothering innovation" period and make science a constant roiling battle between new theories. The problem is that the period of status quo is necessary in order to develop tools of sufficient precision, to compile data and catalogues thorough enough to find the inconsistencies, and thus support the new theory. Without that period of status quo, there would never be sufficient evidence to support any of the new theories, and science would be in a constant state of argument and bickering while not actually GETTING anywhere.
(Hmm...that couldn't sound anything like theoretical physics today, could it?)
So, until string theory explains data otherwise unexplained, and until it makes prediction that disagree with the status quo and those predictions are validated, and until it's actually been rigurously mathematically defined (which, to the best of my knowledge, it has never been!) there's no reason to accept it.
Actually, claims like that are intriguing. Treating them as living beings (well, dead beings, I guess) will get much more interest than calling them "agents."
Well, if you're willing to use firefox instead of the full mozilla suite, you can download firefox with gtk2 and xft here.
This is the installerless version, btw, so just uncompress it to/opt, and either symlink/opt/firefox/firefox in/usr/bin, or better yet, find a firefox launch script that works around the stupid profiles.
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That's what I assumed, but I never actually checked. Since the linux demo was released at the same time as the windows demo, more or less, I figured they were coming out simultaneously.
What? We've only had one map to play on for 2 weeks, what better things do we have to do than balance a manta on a plane?!?
Plan 1: Send the raptor up the tower and get the redeemer. take out the node by your base. have someone standing by to build a node there immediately.
Take the raptor down and get the next node over from that, have one person delay people coming through the middle and converge everyone on the other corner node.
Suddenly the tables have turned.
It's a hassle, but it's quicker than restarting the computer.
The availability of an amd64 linux version shows just how great Epic Games is.
So the DVD pack, which also includes a logitech headset to take advantage of the new voice command (yes! you can give voice commands to the bots!) has my preorder.
(It's basically rugby.)
If the linux installer isn't on the same CDs, I have a preorder to cancel.
Damn...I've been living in some sort of fantasy world all my life. I should have known; the clues were all there: the weird feelings of deja vu, the fact that everything was just too perfect. Open source has been like a dream...and how can you tell if you're having a dream if you never wake up?
Thank you for opening my eyes, stratjakt. Now I have seen the real world for what it is...a vast, dead wasteland ruled by soulless monsters.
Just please don't go around shirtless giving inane speeches about not being afraid.
I know that the guy running the mandrake amd64 project has asked for people to test some ati dri stuff he put online, so they are working on it.
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/*.so from a 32-bit
To quote:
"Hi,
People with 3D accelerated cards through xf86 drivers (ATI), please try
the following kernel + XFree86 for testing 32-bit libGL acceleration.
Files: kernel-2.6.3, XFree86-4.3-28.2mdk
You will also have to copy
XFree86-server package.
I have just tested it with an ATI Radeon 9000 + tuxracer, that's nice.
Bye,
Gwenole."
If we were to somehow shut down all the projects and only let the top three survive in the name of "concentrating efforts"...then we wouldn't be allowing users to do whatever they want with their software.
It doesn't need justification. It's the way it is, there's nothing to be done about it, and it's distro-makers' right. If they want to customize their Os for their needs, and publish it online in case other people happen to like the same things -- how does that harm anyone?
Oh, only Linus Torvalds.
They've never provided download dvd images before. I think that "convenience" is part of what you're supposed to pay for.
What? You've always been able to format...that's one thing linux distros EXCEL at doing to windows partitions ;-)
The last Mandrake ppc release was indeed 9.1.
The best solution for now is to get the 9.2 amd64 isos, get on cooker servers and update everything (note, this won't be as easy as usual, you might have to manually urpmi a lot of packages), and then install the 2.6.3 kernel yourself.
If that's not something you're comfortable doing, waiting for the 10.0 amd64 iso to come out is probably a better idea. It may be a month or two though.
I never did get my winmodem working, though, so i went back to windows then. It was 3 more long years before I came to my senses again.
If you absolutely can't wait a week...pay them money. They deserve it.
If you want to use the gui, it's completely painless. Open the Mandrake Configuration Wizard, go to packaging, click update. By default it only gets security fixes, you'll want bugfixes and general updates as well, so check those, and select all the updates, and click install.
If you have broadband, one of the first things you should do with mandrake is remove the cd's as package sources (in the gui, just to to packaging->manage media, or something like that, and delete the cd sources) and follow the directions at http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php to add ftp mirrors. Then you can install programs on the command line (as root) by saying "urpmi package." For instance, urpmi gaim will install gaim. "urpmi -y blah" searches. "urpme package" uninstalls. "urpmi --auto-select" updates everything. The gui tools can do all this too.
Eventually, the udev system will make device management, especially for hotpluggable usb devices and stuff, much easier. Changing the order that things are plugged in won't change their device names, for example. There's even a script that gives cds names based on album and artist!
It's not quite ready for primetime yet, I don't think, but a couple more releases, along with initramfs, should see it working well.
This makes sense. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Yeah, abbreviations are always pronounced with individual letters...it would be really freakish if people didn't say G-N-U, or L-A-S-E-R, or A-S-C-I-I. As if those are words. That would be ridiculous, like Kramer trying to use "Quone" in a game of Scrabble.
You seem to think that we should just remove the "status quo smothering innovation" period and make science a constant roiling battle between new theories. The problem is that the period of status quo is necessary in order to develop tools of sufficient precision, to compile data and catalogues thorough enough to find the inconsistencies, and thus support the new theory. Without that period of status quo, there would never be sufficient evidence to support any of the new theories, and science would be in a constant state of argument and bickering while not actually GETTING anywhere.
(Hmm...that couldn't sound anything like theoretical physics today, could it?)
So, until string theory explains data otherwise unexplained, and until it makes prediction that disagree with the status quo and those predictions are validated, and until it's actually been rigurously mathematically defined (which, to the best of my knowledge, it has never been!) there's no reason to accept it.
Actually, claims like that are intriguing. Treating them as living beings (well, dead beings, I guess) will get much more interest than calling them "agents."
This is the installerless version, btw, so just uncompress it to /opt, and either symlink /opt/firefox/firefox in /usr/bin, or better yet, find a firefox launch script that works around the stupid profiles.