Jrockway gets a copy of UT2004 from some 1337 d00d who warezed it off KaZaA without getting bitchslapped by the BSA and school admin. Jrockway likes the game. Jrockway likes the game so much he forgets to write a couple of history papers. Jrockway likes the game so much, he buys it to support the developers and encourage future linux games.
Or what the fuck did you think "forced to buy" meant? You seem bitter too- are you perhaps a developer of some sucky single-player game that got warezed the day it came out, and forgoten within a week?
Mp3 compiler? I realize this may be seen as a troll... but in any language I can fathom (about 6 of them), "to compile" and "to encode" and pretty different...
Valid points, but don't insinuate on me being some sort of Mac zealot...
My first, only and likely last Mac ($$$:-() is a dual-604e clone I saved from getting LARTed by some luser. Frankly, since its now a Yet-Another-Debian-Box, I almost forgot it was PPC.
Architecutre-wise, its still easier to write an emulator for the PPC than for the IA-32. The IA-32 seriously has issues with the amounts of registers available - hence AMD increasing that amount in x86-64.
What do you think is easier to emulate? A low-register-count CPU on a high-register-count CPU, or vice versa? Similarly, its way easier to emulate a low-endian CPU on a low-endian CPU than on a big-endian. Its really pretty sad that the PPC-64 won't have the endian-switching instruction... but oh well.
I personally never had any typing or "basic computer skills" education. Since I started fiddling around with programming at 7 years of age, I have been a hunt-and-peck typer until probably around 11. At that point I stopped looking at the keyboard, and started paying more attention to the emacs buffer....
Touch typing is a skill that comes naturally... at least for me...
As an Orkut user, I must say its not a blog. Each user does not have a blog. Yes, there are "communities" on to which you can post messages. Yes, you can send private emssages. No, it doesn't let you blog like LJ/Xanga/Blogger.
And by the way - no need to be and obstinate asshole just because you feel elitist due to having been invited to Orkut. Its a POS... and I am not talking about a Point of Sale terminal here...
The internet IS like an addiction. I personally would go nuts without it - my mind just needs to be stimulated with the overabundant torrent of information... It gives us the ability to access anything, anywhere without much ado, and crutch or not, it gets pretty damn addictive - and is something the mind doesn't want to part with...
Take something as simple as a word dictionary. Are you more likely to page through a 600+ book or quickly pop onto www.m-w.com? Exactly... We get used to that. And when we get denied Internet, its almost like sensory deprivation - losing a sense of touch with the world...
No offense, but you should have reported the bug to Red Hat. This is clearly a distribution problem. Give another distro a whirl. Try SuSE, Gentoo, Debian or Slackware.
Uh yeah - but do realize that the Intel CPU will naturally be of a completely different design. Its not like they are rebadging AMD chips. I.e. you will feel like a winner if the Intel design is better than Athlon64/Opteron, otherwise you'll just feel like a loser stuck with overpriced sucky hardware.
Testing I agree. But unstable is pretty damn stable. Never broke any of my machines. Testing did though. The name scares people off. "Ooh its called unstable, thus it must be!"
labels such as "Woody" or "Sarge" have no real meaning to me since I tell apt to use "unstable" anyways.
Stable = Stale, unless you seek stability... or somthing. Unstable - Latest packages. NOT unstable but high quality releases. They HAVE been tested. Testing - this is the latest really unstable stuff. Installing from here will screw up your system eventually.
Well these/are/ G4s sitting cutely in a computer lab. This means one disgruntled student potentially rm -rf/'ing all the computers. And unless you want to shell-out money, there is no solution (unless something changed in the last 3 months). Thats not really acceptable. Hopefully that gets fixed in Tigger.
Ditto. The new installer kicks some major ass. I've tried both the x86 and PPC versions and they are both smooth.
Frankly, unless you're some sort of big-wig deploying Debian in your company, you don't really care about "new releases" per se. As long as the package repository under 'unstable' gets populated hourly with updated packages, all is good.
Some things are possible to repair - for example, shitty electrolytic capacitors that have blown/about-to-blow.
I had a bank of electrolytic caps in my 3Com Hub give up the ghost. Thankfully I could find higher-Temp rated ones in the junk I desoldered from a dead CRT.
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Use WINE + qEMU. http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
uh no you didn't... since ............. there is no mkfs.ext2
Actually you fucked with SOMETHING, so I had to clean it up and reboot the G4...
Boy, don't you have an issue reading.
Jrockway gets a copy of UT2004 from some 1337 d00d who warezed it off KaZaA without getting bitchslapped by the BSA and school admin. Jrockway likes the game. Jrockway likes the game so much he forgets to write a couple of history papers. Jrockway likes the game so much, he buys it to support the developers and encourage future linux games.
Or what the fuck did you think "forced to buy" meant? You seem bitter too- are you perhaps a developer of some sucky single-player game that got warezed the day it came out, and forgoten within a week?
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Mp3 compiler? I realize this may be seen as a troll... but in any language I can fathom (about 6 of them), "to compile" and "to encode" and pretty different...
Your mileage may vary...
Valid points, but don't insinuate on me being some sort of Mac zealot...
:-() is a dual-604e clone I saved from getting LARTed by some luser. Frankly, since its now a Yet-Another-Debian-Box, I almost forgot it was PPC.
My first, only and likely last Mac ($$$
Architecutre-wise, its still easier to write an emulator for the PPC than for the IA-32. The IA-32 seriously has issues with the amounts of registers available - hence AMD increasing that amount in x86-64.
What do you think is easier to emulate? A low-register-count CPU on a high-register-count CPU, or vice versa? Similarly, its way easier to emulate a low-endian CPU on a low-endian CPU than on a big-endian. Its really pretty sad that the PPC-64 won't have the endian-switching instruction... but oh well.
The Swiss are the "Helvetians", so Switzerland would be the "Conferederation of Helvetians" or CH.
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I personally never had any typing or "basic computer skills" education. Since I started fiddling around with programming at 7 years of age, I have been a hunt-and-peck typer until probably around 11. At that point I stopped looking at the keyboard, and started paying more attention to the emacs buffer....
Touch typing is a skill that comes naturally... at least for me...
Which apparently explains why both UT2004 and Doom III have/will-have-shortly Linux binaries.
Oh wait. No it doesn't...
Oh yeah - you can also have a scrapbook and photo album...
As an Orkut user, I must say its not a blog. Each user does not have a blog. Yes, there are "communities" on to which you can post messages. Yes, you can send private emssages. No, it doesn't let you blog like LJ/Xanga/Blogger.
And by the way - no need to be and obstinate asshole just because you feel elitist due to having been invited to Orkut. Its a POS... and I am not talking about a Point of Sale terminal here...
The internet IS like an addiction. I personally would go nuts without it - my mind just needs to be stimulated with the overabundant torrent of information... It gives us the ability to access anything, anywhere without much ado, and crutch or not, it gets pretty damn addictive - and is something the mind doesn't want to part with...
Take something as simple as a word dictionary. Are you more likely to page through a 600+ book or quickly pop onto www.m-w.com? Exactly... We get used to that. And when we get denied Internet, its almost like sensory deprivation - losing a sense of touch with the world...
Or maybe I just need to get some sleep...
P.S: BTW, great excuse to avoid the army...
No offense, but you should have reported the bug to Red Hat. This is clearly a distribution problem. Give another distro a whirl. Try SuSE, Gentoo, Debian or Slackware.
No, I was just really pissed off to come back from school only to realize that none of the four computers in my room had Internet connectivity,
Uh yeah - but do realize that the Intel CPU will naturally be of a completely different design. Its not like they are rebadging AMD chips. I.e. you will feel like a winner if the Intel design is better than Athlon64/Opteron, otherwise you'll just feel like a loser stuck with overpriced sucky hardware.
Ok, I am stupid. Granted. Unstable worked pretty well for me though. I did manage to screw up my system with "testing" once though...
Testing I agree. But unstable is pretty damn stable. Never broke any of my machines. Testing did though. The name scares people off. "Ooh its called unstable, thus it must be!"
No clue.
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
labels such as "Woody" or "Sarge" have no real meaning to me since I tell apt to use "unstable" anyways.
Stable = Stale, unless you seek stability... or somthing.
Unstable - Latest packages. NOT unstable but high quality releases. They HAVE been tested.
Testing - this is the latest really unstable stuff. Installing from here will screw up your system eventually.
The latest ncurses installer isn't any more complicated than the Slack one. Give it a whirl.
Well these /are/ G4s sitting cutely in a computer lab. This means one disgruntled student potentially rm -rf /'ing all the computers. And unless you want to shell-out money, there is no solution (unless something changed in the last 3 months). Thats not really acceptable. Hopefully that gets fixed in Tigger.
Ditto. The new installer kicks some major ass. I've tried both the x86 and PPC versions and they are both smooth. Frankly, unless you're some sort of big-wig deploying Debian in your company, you don't really care about "new releases" per se. As long as the package repository under 'unstable' gets populated hourly with updated packages, all is good.
Its about as easy and painless as Slackware now. Which means they've got a user in me.
RTFA, dumbass. iTunes is run in what is essentially a beefed-up Wine. iTunes hasn't been touched.
Some things are possible to repair - for example, shitty electrolytic capacitors that have blown/about-to-blow.
I had a bank of electrolytic caps in my 3Com Hub give up the ghost. Thankfully I could find higher-Temp rated ones in the junk I desoldered from a dead CRT.
Yes, but the difference is that you won't have to deal with your computer chewing up everything around in order to propagate itself...