I agree that Metroid has nice music, but I Shadowgate's music was what stood out the most to me. Of course, it was fairly easy to memorize how to beat the game (I don't remember who told me how to do it, but I was still able to pull it off ever since) =). Hell, Nintendo liked it so much they made a version for the Gameboy Color! I couldn't even find the game listed once in the article!
It's evil, I tell ya...you just don't do that...
Shut-up, I'm not crying! I just have something in my eye...
From my experiences, the first problem you mentioned didn't seem to be a problem with the kernel but was a problem in the motherboard BIOS.
I had purchased an Athlon 600 with a BCM/GVC motherboard (QS750) around the time the Athlons came out. I had a lot of problems for some time with programs crashing in Windows at random times. I installed Red Hat 6.0 at that time after I was unable to boot Mandrake Linux 6.0. AFAIK, the only difference between the kernels in the two distributions (in ver. 6 of each, at least) is that it is optimized for Pentium processors in Mandrake (along with all the other packages in Mandrake), but I could be wrong (did Mandrake 6 come out later with possibly a more recent kernel?). I had no problems running anything in Red Hat.
In December last year, BCM/GVC finally released a patch to their motherboard that was made to fix problems with Athlon 700's & 750's. Not stated on the site was that it also fixed many problems with running things with ALL processor speeds. Programs didn't crash anymore in Windows, so I decided to try installing Mandrake again. Sure enough, it booted and ran with no problems.
Other people may have had different results, but this is at least what happened for me...
Of course, PDA's would be able to do more...probably just about the same stuff the PC can do. I'm talking about stuff like instant messenger, Quake deathmatches, e-mail, etc. to anyone (who has one), anywhere (within whatever zones are covered), anytime (he/she has it on). You could probably be able to attach a microphone and headphones to it and get involved in a realtime chat with someone else (or a group of people).
Of course stuff like the Palm VII can already send e-mail and browse the web, but you get charged by the byte. Prices will probably drop once more people use this stuff (like how online services and ISPs used to charge by the hour and now charge just a flat monthly fee for unlimited time usage).
On the other hand, with all this information going over airwaves, privacy would be a bigger concern. Information could be received by anyone who has access to the brodcast signals. Governments could also have access to whatever is being sent between people. Hell, someone's EXACT location could be pinpointed whenever they have their PDA on.
Kinda like cell phones, I guess...It's not like your telephone conversations can't be tapped into anyway or your position triangulated by your distance from broadcast towers. The main difference is the fact that this is all dealing with computers. Large corporations get bitchy when it comes to computers as evident with MP3 crackdowns, DeCSS, etc. Companies are gonna make a big scare about X, Y, and Z being able to be done (or even being done) on PDAs that are almost as powerful, if not as powerful, as the desktop PC.
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PS1="\[\033[33m\][\[\033[32m\]\u\[\033[36m\]@\[\03 3[1;32m\]d\[\033[0;32m\]u\[\033[1;32m\]b \[\033[34m\]\w\[\033[0;33m\]]\[\033[31m\]\\$\[\033 [0m\] "
The hostname for my work computer is "dub"...didn't use \h since I wanted the different colors...
It's almost symbolic...man, am I pathetic... =]
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I agree that Metroid has nice music, but I Shadowgate's music was what stood out the most to me. Of course, it was fairly easy to memorize how to beat the game (I don't remember who told me how to do it, but I was still able to pull it off ever since) =). Hell, Nintendo liked it so much they made a version for the Gameboy Color! I couldn't even find the game listed once in the article!
It's evil, I tell ya...you just don't do that...
Shut-up, I'm not crying! I just have something in my eye...
From my experiences, the first problem you mentioned didn't seem to be a problem with the kernel but was a problem in the motherboard BIOS.
I had purchased an Athlon 600 with a BCM/GVC motherboard (QS750) around the time the Athlons came out. I had a lot of problems for some time with programs crashing in Windows at random times. I installed Red Hat 6.0 at that time after I was unable to boot Mandrake Linux 6.0. AFAIK, the only difference between the kernels in the two distributions (in ver. 6 of each, at least) is that it is optimized for Pentium processors in Mandrake (along with all the other packages in Mandrake), but I could be wrong (did Mandrake 6 come out later with possibly a more recent kernel?). I had no problems running anything in Red Hat.
In December last year, BCM/GVC finally released a patch to their motherboard that was made to fix problems with Athlon 700's & 750's. Not stated on the site was that it also fixed many problems with running things with ALL processor speeds. Programs didn't crash anymore in Windows, so I decided to try installing Mandrake again. Sure enough, it booted and ran with no problems.
Other people may have had different results, but this is at least what happened for me...
Of course, PDA's would be able to do more...probably just about the same stuff the PC can do. I'm talking about stuff like instant messenger, Quake deathmatches, e-mail, etc. to anyone (who has one), anywhere (within whatever zones are covered), anytime (he/she has it on). You could probably be able to attach a microphone and headphones to it and get involved in a realtime chat with someone else (or a group of people).
Of course stuff like the Palm VII can already send e-mail and browse the web, but you get charged by the byte. Prices will probably drop once more people use this stuff (like how online services and ISPs used to charge by the hour and now charge just a flat monthly fee for unlimited time usage).
On the other hand, with all this information going over airwaves, privacy would be a bigger concern. Information could be received by anyone who has access to the brodcast signals. Governments could also have access to whatever is being sent between people. Hell, someone's EXACT location could be pinpointed whenever they have their PDA on.
Kinda like cell phones, I guess...It's not like your telephone conversations can't be tapped into anyway or your position triangulated by your distance from broadcast towers. The main difference is the fact that this is all dealing with computers. Large corporations get bitchy when it comes to computers as evident with MP3 crackdowns, DeCSS, etc. Companies are gonna make a big scare about X, Y, and Z being able to be done (or even being done) on PDAs that are almost as powerful, if not as powerful, as the desktop PC.
I'd still consider getting one...