Old-timers used to do this routinely, but for relative noobs like me, linuxfromscratch.org nothing beats the joy of rolling your own distro, boot-strapping the compiler, etc. I suppose, those old-timers still find joy in doing this.
I'm not too sure about the new Twinheads but my 1998 Twinhead was a workhorse. It was a P266 with 32MB RAM and a 3.2GB Hard Drive. It had Win98 and dual-booted into Mandrake 7.0. I used it primarily for programming. The battery died in 2001 and the CD-ROM drive in 2003. Otherwise, it was still going strong. It has endured a lot of (minor) falls. It wasn't until late last year till we put it out to pasture. We only did this because the LCD's hinges were starting to break off.
Kamusta? Yes, absolutely. Its all about politics. It's always been about politics. I do believe the FOSS bill will help our country a lot (and by default, further the cause of FOSS.)
(My apologies, I meant this whole thing was moronic, not us Pinoys in particular. Peace, man.)
It is even more moronic. Our country's very own Software Industry Association is opposing a gov't bill mandating educational institutions to offer open source training to prepare a possible shift to open source software in government, stating "Government has no business or expertise mandating the use of one technology platform over the other. Government's role is to partner with the private sector in providing the environment and business framework in which innovation, creativity and freedom of informed choice can thrive, especially in the area of technology which is characterized by dynamism and disruptive change."
If they bothered to read what they just said, it clearly shows a total lack of understanding of FOSS (which isn't even a platform in itself) and its principles.
While our third-world country seeks freedom in FOSS, our very own defenders of the faith, the very same people in the position to effect such change strongly oppose it. As with the case of Thailand, I smell Microsoft here, but that's another story.
Finally, an article on/. about a list of worst games, instead of the usual rehash of the "Top 5/10/20 best games of all time, etc ad nauseum" lists.
Hmmm. Nobody seemed to mention Ultima IX, a terribly bug-ridden game. From the README file alone: "Be certain you empty your Recycle Bin before installing the game." Or : "We recommend that you not save the game while you're poisoned; this has been somewhat problematic in the current version."
Wow, why didn't anyone mention that?
(Another game worth mentioning: Conquest Earth. Its not buggy but... hey, might as well have been.)
I live outside the continental US. If I were a teen, I couldn't buy from iTunes or Napster or Rhapsody, etc even if I wanted to. Heck, not even if I begged. Probably the only legal option available for us outside the USA is eMusic.com. (Which is also good since they sell regular non-DRM mp3s.) So teen or no teen, people living outside the US are far likelier to just get that stuff off illegal file-sharing.
Why not just make a Burger Time 3D? An updated Burger Time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_Time using a modern graphics engine like Doom3? Maybe a grittier version. I mean, if American McGee reinterpreted Alice? They can do it with Burger Time.
A 4GB Seagate HD that came with my system that I bought in September 1999 died literally just a few days before the warranty expired three years later, around August 2002. I had already lost the receipt long since but they replaced it with a brand new 20GB HD, no questions asked. A lot of shops these days have shortened the warranties from 3 to 1 year, and even then, make it hard for you to collect. (No scratches, etc.)
And would also be nice to export our cities into this. Ok, maybe not any of us, but professional urban planners, architects, etc. They could grab a "chunk" from the planned site, render the terrain, climate, etc, into SimCity (or something similar), build a city, and if it prospers/lasts, "export" it back.
And yes, completists like me, especially of some well-known franchises like Might and Magic, C&C, will always buy the sequels no matter how horrible the reviews are. In many cases, even no matter how horrible the actual games are. Even if some of them are buggy and unplayable, they'll always be there on my shelf.
One of the posts here said DNF will sell pretty well because of coverage. Heck, given its extreme coverage, if it actually comes out, I predict it will be one of the best-selling games of all time. (Many will play it, and those who don't, will still buy it for their collection.)
Granted, people who can't *afford* it should ignore my platitudes, unless you live in North America or some other well off nation and have confused not being able to feed your family with compulsive mall shopping and junk food binges (you don't have my sympathy).
I live in a country where the average person makes $200 USD monthly, that's less than $2,500 a year. Getting XP Home for $99 (and Office Basic for $200) is no joke. For us here, Linux is a Godsend. I make a little more than the average person here (ok, maybe almost double) but that still isn't enough to justify buying a $99 OS.
I bought an el-cheapo Chinese-made notebook last year (a 1.3GHz Celeron) and installed my old Win98 (taken from an even older machine) on it. It dual-boots to Ubuntu 6.06. My one and only reason for bothering to install Win98 on it is to play my older games. (That's another story though. And no, Wine still doesn't cut it.) When this machine dies on me one day, chances are I'll still install Win98 on a partition on my newer box for the same purpose. I'll be repeating the process till machines no longer run 98.
Thanks for the link man. I've checked it out and I recognize some of the names from the mp3.com of old. I personally buy from emusic.com, which has some big names in its selection.
I hope I don't get modded to hell for this, but if you're a true/.er, you'd vehemently agree with me. Myspace is the dumbest of them all. Well, Friendster is a notable mention.
And here I thought that more and more countries in the EU are going Linux and FOSS. I do assume, if the study is true, that European copies of Vista won't be including Windows Media Player.
I'm not having any illusions of Linux being the #1 OS in two, three, maybe even five years but its inevitable that someday it will be. Second-best is good enough. Extrapolate that mathematical model by a few more years and will be the best. While hundreds of millions of PCs ship each year, not counting the DIY PCs (that don't have Windows installed), this time people have a choice. The Linux revolution won't necessarily begin in the US. There are lots of 2nd, 3rd world countries where $99 a pop isn't a joke.
Games are the only reason I (and lots others I suspect) haven't totally switched to Linux. This was exactly the same reason a lot of people in the early to mid 90s didn't entirely switch to Windows from DOS yet, till it became a viable gaming platform.
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Old-timers used to do this routinely, but for relative noobs like me, linuxfromscratch.org nothing beats the joy of rolling your own distro, boot-strapping the compiler, etc. I suppose, those old-timers still find joy in doing this.
I'm not too sure about the new Twinheads but my 1998 Twinhead was a workhorse. It was a P266 with 32MB RAM and a 3.2GB Hard Drive. It had Win98 and dual-booted into Mandrake 7.0. I used it primarily for programming. The battery died in 2001 and the CD-ROM drive in 2003. Otherwise, it was still going strong. It has endured a lot of (minor) falls. It wasn't until late last year till we put it out to pasture. We only did this because the LCD's hinges were starting to break off.
It was pretty strong for me and served me well.
Testing testing. frist post. Oh wait, it didn't work. Folks, it doesn't work.
Once perfected, this will ensure first posts in /.
Kamusta? Yes, absolutely. Its all about politics. It's always been about politics. I do believe the FOSS bill will help our country a lot (and by default, further the cause of FOSS.)
(My apologies, I meant this whole thing was moronic, not us Pinoys in particular. Peace, man.)
It is even more moronic. Our country's very own Software Industry Association is opposing a gov't bill mandating educational institutions to offer open source training to prepare a possible shift to open source software in government, stating "Government has no business or expertise mandating the use of one technology platform over the other. Government's role is to partner with the private sector in providing the environment and business framework in which innovation, creativity and freedom of informed choice can thrive, especially in the area of technology which is characterized by dynamism and disruptive change."
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If they bothered to read what they just said, it clearly shows a total lack of understanding of FOSS (which isn't even a platform in itself) and its principles.
While our third-world country seeks freedom in FOSS, our very own defenders of the faith, the very same people in the position to effect such change strongly oppose it. As with the case of Thailand, I smell Microsoft here, but that's another story.
TFA:
http://technology.inq7.net/infotech/infotech/view
The idea of Steam is good. Another site that carries downloads of Civ IV ($49) and Civ III ($29)
is Trygames.com.
There lots of titles, big and small. Big titles like FEAR, Empire Earth II, etc. There are smaller casual-gamer titles like Luxor, etc.
Command and Conquer 3, coming soon to a gamestore near you! Looks good so far. ...and I wish Blizzard would finally come out with StarCraft 2.
This http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earplugs ought to work just as well, if not better.
Cheaper too I'd suppose.
Finally, an article on /. about a list of worst games, instead of the usual rehash of the "Top 5/10/20 best games of all time, etc ad nauseum" lists.
Hmmm. Nobody seemed to mention Ultima IX, a terribly bug-ridden game. From the README file alone: "Be certain you empty your Recycle Bin before installing the game." Or : "We recommend that you not save the game while you're poisoned; this has been somewhat problematic in the current version."
Wow, why didn't anyone mention that?
(Another game worth mentioning: Conquest Earth. Its not buggy but... hey, might as well have been.)
I live outside the continental US. If I were a teen, I couldn't buy from iTunes or Napster or Rhapsody, etc even if I wanted to. Heck, not even if I begged. Probably the only legal option available for us outside the USA is eMusic.com. (Which is also good since they sell regular non-DRM mp3s.) So teen or no teen, people living outside the US are far likelier to just get that stuff off illegal file-sharing.
Why not just make a Burger Time 3D? An updated Burger Time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_Time using a modern graphics engine like Doom3? Maybe a grittier version. I mean, if American McGee reinterpreted Alice? They can do it with Burger Time.
A 4GB Seagate HD that came with my system that I bought in September 1999 died literally just a few days before the warranty expired three years later, around August 2002. I had already lost the receipt long since but they replaced it with a brand new 20GB HD, no questions asked. A lot of shops these days have shortened the warranties from 3 to 1 year, and even then, make it hard for you to collect. (No scratches, etc.)
import this information into my SimCity game
And would also be nice to export our cities into this. Ok, maybe not any of us, but professional urban planners, architects, etc. They could grab a "chunk" from the planned site, render the terrain, climate, etc, into SimCity (or something similar), build a city, and if it prospers/lasts, "export" it back.
And yes, completists like me, especially of some well-known franchises like Might and Magic, C&C, will always buy the sequels no matter how horrible the reviews are. In many cases, even no matter how horrible the actual games are. Even if some of them are buggy and unplayable, they'll always be there on my shelf.
One of the posts here said DNF will sell pretty well because of coverage. Heck, given its extreme coverage, if it actually comes out, I predict it will be one of the best-selling games of all time. (Many will play it, and those who don't, will still buy it for their collection.)
Granted, people who can't *afford* it should ignore my platitudes, unless you live in North America or some other well off nation and have confused not being able to feed your family with compulsive mall shopping and junk food binges (you don't have my sympathy).
I live in a country where the average person makes $200 USD monthly, that's less than $2,500 a year. Getting XP Home for $99 (and Office Basic for $200) is no joke. For us here, Linux is a Godsend. I make a little more than the average person here (ok, maybe almost double) but that still isn't enough to justify buying a $99 OS.
I bought an el-cheapo Chinese-made notebook last year (a 1.3GHz Celeron) and installed my old Win98 (taken from an even older machine) on it. It dual-boots to Ubuntu 6.06. My one and only reason for bothering to install Win98 on it is to play my older games. (That's another story though. And no, Wine still doesn't cut it.) When this machine dies on me one day, chances are I'll still install Win98 on a partition on my newer box for the same purpose. I'll be repeating the process till machines no longer run 98.
We're calling LFS a distro now?
In a manner of speaking, yes. Its on distrowatch http://www.distrowatch.com/ currently at the #56 spot.
Thanks for the link man. I've checked it out and I recognize some of the names from the mp3.com of old. I personally buy from emusic.com, which has some big names in its selection.
Date Microsoft? Oh, you'd need to bring some protection, especially the first time. ;) (Antivirus, firewall, etc.)
Hmmm. Right. Just saw it now. And with all the ads I had to go thru to read that, PC World should be part of the list.
"23. InmatesForYou.com
This site helps you find that special someone, even if you have to wait 13 years for her parole to come up."
I tried clicking on the link but it says "Service Unavailable."
I hope this wasn't slashdotted.
I hope I don't get modded to hell for this, but if you're a true /.er, you'd vehemently agree with me. Myspace is the dumbest of them all. Well, Friendster is a notable mention.
And here I thought that more and more countries in the EU are going Linux and FOSS. I do assume, if the study is true, that European copies of Vista won't be including Windows Media Player.
I'm not having any illusions of Linux being the #1 OS in two, three, maybe even five years but its inevitable that someday it will be. Second-best is good enough. Extrapolate that mathematical model by a few more years and will be the best. While hundreds of millions of PCs ship each year, not counting the DIY PCs (that don't have Windows installed), this time people have a choice. The Linux revolution won't necessarily begin in the US. There are lots of 2nd, 3rd world countries where $99 a pop isn't a joke.
Games are the only reason I (and lots others I suspect) haven't totally switched to Linux. This was exactly the same reason a lot of people in the early to mid 90s didn't entirely switch to Windows from DOS yet, till it became a viable gaming platform.
AI style:
Randy Wozniak: "C'mon dawg! S'da right language selection, needs to be a bit optimized here but its ok."
Steven Abdul: "You have great potential and your code just moves me. The UI looks fabulous! Just keep shining, win or not, you're l337!"
Steve Cowell: "Appalling, simply appalling. Dreadful. It's a no."