Hear Hear. Mega Man 3 has a couple of extraordinarily catchy tunes as well. Although on the Mega Man Aniversery collection for PS2,
they remixed it, leaving out the very tune that was catchy in the first place!! Still a very good buy, but in some cases you can't go wrong with good old 8/16-bit Nintendo hardware. The waterfall music from Final Fantasy Mystic Quest is still one of the most inspirational tunes I've ever heard in a video game!
If you like Secret of Mana music (as do I) check out Seiken Denshutsu 3 (spelling?). It's like the sequel to SoM, only released in Japan. You can find translated roms...solid music as well. The game is amazing, too, imho.
I guess most sound apps just point to/dev/dsp.
I just ran a ls -l dsp* in/dev and got
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Nov 24 14:26 dsp -> sound/dsp
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Nov 24 14:26 dsp1 -> sound/dsp
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Nov 24 14:26 dsp2 -> sound/dsp
I am crossed on the issue of artsd. It's done me wrong a few times, yet I think it's mission is good and in fact it has started working well now. Given the fact that the maintainer isn't around anymore, I'd say go for it, let's go from scratch:)
Arts has improved immensely over the last couple of minor updates though. A year ago, aRts control panel was woeful and it was set up to hog the sound system no matter what. Now it is easy to set up alternate sound systems, actually turn artsd on and off, and the settings are such that now artsd will give up control of the sound server after a second or two. (No more being completely unable to play ut2004 with sound because artsd keep spawning evil demonic children everwhere).
Also, half the time it just didn't work. Xmms has a arts plugin and it just recently started working for me.
I guess I haven't noticed the latency issues too much, having in general stayed away from artsd sound due to these other issues:)
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In support of your claims, I heard on the radio that bagpipe "music" will draw mooses out.
The radio guy called the guy making the claims a "master-hunter".
My personal Theory is that the moose hear bagpipes and are like "Scottish people! I may get lucky!" and come out.
But still, unless you are hunting for food you need for substinance and are too inept to work at McDonalds....in this day and age... what is the point? Sure you have an excuse to have guns and shoot them at living creatures but is it needed, or recreational. "Oh I don't mind spitting out shotgun pellots from this pig I shot!"
I don't have a problem with tax dollars going to the military. I did hear someone complaining about the $300 million probe that crashed into the desert, saying that money could have been used in a more useful way. $300 million is a lot of money, but theres a lot of good science to be gained:) The fact that NASA scientists have been learning a lot from the crashed probe hasn't hit the front page like the crash did.
What major content? I woke up at like 4pm after falling asleep about 20 minutes before the first plane crashed. There really wasn't any major content, I learned all about it from A&E and MTV. MTV was starting their little flag in the top corner too.
ya windows is better for crummy computers. But we are talking VERY crummy. I have a cyrix 150 sitting here that completely chokes trying to run a modern linux, very slow. But win98 runs fine. (Never buying win2000 or winXP).
But on my p2 300 with about 6 times the memory of the cyrix, the newest cutting edge linux's ran fine. As responsive as win98? Well in some ways definitely. Comparing it to win98 isn't fair because it crashes far less often. However so much stuff is optimized by Microsoft in their OS's to the point of craziness, like in win98 on that computer clicking on windows explorer it would pop up super fast. For non-microsoft software it would depend on the aplications. Mozilla actually ran faster in some ways in windows on the p2 300 than linux, but with a semi-modern computer like I have now the difference is negligable. Personally the longest difference would be just a couple seconds and it is stabler than windows. (Also diss me for using win98 for comparisons but it has it's simularities to win98 and also that is the last version of windows I will probably buy:) .
Ya but it's a matter of taste and personal opinion. Show me the option to rebuild windows to my system with compiler optimazations for my system? Anyways you can compile most of your stuff in the background (even though it can take days on say a p2 300, but rarely more than an hour or two for big things on my p4 1.8) and also you get the newest stuff the day it comes out or soon, compared to some linux distros where you are at the mercy of the official distrobution (or Microsoft in the windows world) or when someone just feels like getting it together. Anyways it's all a matter of personal opinion, I mean most Linux people like X and responsiveness as much as windows, but with the preemptive patch I've noticed that mp3 playback can be choppy. Vanilla Kernal for 2.4.* is smooth with practically everything. I've never compiled the 2.5 branch yet, I prolly will in few months, to try it out.
But ya if you feel like whoring out $250 ever couple years for the priviledge of running windows optimized for whatever yahoo's computer, feel free. If you give a crap, then compile everything on your computer:) But anyways the parent was stating an opinion, and personally, I think compiling everything from source is nice because you don't have to deal with whoever zipped up your program or packeged it our whatever with binaries didn't have a compatable computer as yours:)
hehe. That's about right. On my old box I used to download all the new beta versions of KDE and compile everything from scratch, and your right QT can take a long time to compile, but everything will on a slow kind of computer. I was using a p2 300 and it took 2-4 days to compile KDE sometimes. But what is this boohoo it takes forever to compile land, it is evil and inferior to windows? Personally I enjoy compiling everything to the optimization of the features of my processor, not just some generic 386. BTW with gentoo it's painless you just type emerge qt and voila it downloads the source, verifies it's authenticity, unpacks it,./configures it, and compiles it, then moves it to the location the developers intended, and deletes the source. That is hard:P
So what it is these guy's responsibility to introduce cheating software to the masses to ruin 400,000 people's enjoyment of a game just so they can have big ego's and feel like they can fight the big evil Sony ???? Hi I have news for you guys. This is the 21'st century. Hacking is considered terroism and can get you life in jail.
Well as I see it it isn't too difficult to get an old 486 or pentium and stick it up to run your little cheat server so you can feel all important and talk gloom and doom on how SOE's actions will cause the bannings of countless numbers of peoples who absolutely have to cheat to play that crackhead game. Granted you can run win98 on your little 486 or pentium 1 computer but linux is easy too and frankly I don't think it limits the masses. How many people who absolutely need to cheat to enjoy everquest aren't already running a stupid little packet sniffer.
I've logged over 10,000 hours on my mud, and while I dont pay a monthly fee (in fact you can't pay with a credit card, unlike everquest where you must have a credit card), I gladly donate 100 or 200 bucks every few months. I see where you are coming from on your defense of paying your monthly fee, I mean if you don't buy a bunch of $50 nintendo or playstation games every month whats wrong with putting your money where you spend your entertainment time? Well I do defend my "stupid enough to pay" statement in the regard that you just have to pay to play this game so you can cheat and have an unfair advantage over other people. Hi if you absolutely are addicted to this stupid game (Ya I think it's retarded compared to muds) then dont cheat retard.
I dont know, you have the right to enjoy everquest, but I still think it's a retarded game and I bet about 400,000 people could find better things to do with their time (like combing their hair, picking lint out of their belly button, masterbating, etc.).
I was reading some of the sourceforge forums on their little toy and the egotism and gloat of some of the developers of their little cheaters toy astounds me. For one thing, every time they asserted that keeping their program linux only was holding off the masses, my stomach turned over a little more. That is one of the most idiotic things I have ever heard. Also, who has the right to cheat to play a game which they are already stupid enough to pay a monthly fee with mommy and daddy's credit card. Third, Everquest SUCKS and these people are IDIOTS. Anyways I dont usually comment but this annoyed me.
What is the percentage of income the rich pay in America? Most of the people I know make below $30,000 a year, many less than $20,000, and all pay at least 25%-30% of their income in taxes. Also overtime is taxed at rate easily over 50%.
I think saying that the rich are punished in America
is a little extreme.
Hmm Yahoo reporting about the government cracking down on spam. Isn't that like getting pulled over for a shorty brake light then admitting yes I kill the asshole, he deserved it, heres the gun I used.
Just seems a little strange considering Yahoo sells it's subscribers off to spammers after promising "Yahoo for life!" and offering a spam filter (ya right):) Also for 2 years every email I sent to my friends had a little advertisement for Yahoo which could be considered spam then they decided to charge for the service they promised free.
Ya, the old way I just got used to opening several pages in tabs in the background, then clicking on the rightmost tab then closing to eventually get back at the beginning. It was kindof annoying though, to read my pages in backward-order of how I clicked on them:) I too like the new way a lot better, although like you it took me a few days to get re-used to the direction.
Actually the nukes at the end of world war two were more of a gamble to end the war than a sure thing as you imply. America only had a limited amount of bomb-ready uranium if I remember correctly, certainly not enough for many nukes at all. Considering the blood-thirsty nature of the Japanese propaganda machine during the war, the use of a nuke wasn't a sure way to end the war at all. You have to remember that in battles like at Iwa Jima, there were dozens and dozens and dozens of thousands of both American and Japanese casualties. Japan had been using their own soldiers as kamakazis and they were ready to use their own civilian population as a blanket should the war have progressed to the mainland.
You're obviously not am American but if your European then ask yourself how the firebombing of Dresden where people were literally melting into the streets and similar number of civilians died as with the nukes was any more ethical than the use of a small nuclear bomb.
War is horrible, and I would ask you look at the circumstances before entirely bashing the United States. The nuclear arms race between America and the USSR was scary and evil, but it potentially held off a horrible conventional war between the nations.
I just hope and pray that noone ever uses a nuclear bomb again.
I think I can kinda relate to you as well. I think I came across to you as a close minded linux zealout, but actually I never have had a problem with microsoft except when it's software does incredibly stupid things (like rudely rewriting the hard drive MBR or reformatting the slave 40 gig hd as 1 2 gig partition and leaving the master 2 gig hard drive alone). Also I am poor and have found linux being free (except for wanting to support a distrobution I like and use) is a lot better for me than paying $250 for the newest windows with all the EULA's which would probably make my desire to use linux on another partition illegal or something:) The last windows I bought was win98 and I still have it on a partition, so I'm not a total hypocrite:) Just thought I'd take the opportunity to apologize for jumping all over your ass for dissing linux one time hehe.
I quit using winamp about a year ago, when I started spending most of my time with Linux booted instead of windows. Xmms is a very good winamp clone for linux, although I know there are a lot of other alternatives as well. About the only reason now I'd download winamp is to run cool plugins like the Son of the beach plugin or the cthugha plugin:)
I haven't done any checks on how much memory xmms is using, but it hasn't really slowed me down with anything else I'm doing on my p2 300 with 160 megs of ram (even compiling something in the background usually). Winamp was an excellent program though, back in the day. (although I run into some people who still refused to ever touch it after it had a release with the virus).
I dunno, I basically switched to linux because I found a mud client which blows away mudmaster or zmud on windows. It's called Mcl, and it uses perl or python for it's scripts, so you can be quite creative:)
Also Quake 3 (about the last game I figure I'll be really getting into for awhile) runs awesome on Linux.
If your into emulators, I've found excellent emulators for nes and snes. I've yet to find a emulator that can come close to the best windows genesis emulator, and haven't even tried to find a good neogeo or turbographix emulator.
But as my mud client and quake3 runs great on linux, I'm happy:) (i'm easy to please:) )
I don't know anything about Debian, but Gentoo gives you three options I believe for your boot cd. Two small ( 50mb) options, and a 120 or so mb option. So technically even if you go with the third option (which has the gcc and system already bootstrapped to save on some compiling time for i686 cpus) your still only technically getting like a fifth of a cd. However I was reading the documentation for Gentoo's portage system and I believe you can package all the programs you have compiled using emerge into a single dir to burn onto cd's, so you can technically define a gentoo install cd as 1/5 of a cd to however many packages you want to compile for your system and however many cds it takes to hold them:)
Since you mention KDE, I'll mention that I've been compiling it for like the last 2 days on my Gentoo installation. I agree with what you assert regarding upgrading a normal distro, updating KDE on Redhat was a big pain as well, with all the dependencies and what-not. That is what I like about Gentoo mostly. Since I compile everything using emerge and the/usr/portage tree, all the required packages are downloaded and compiled in order, no headache:) I installed SuSE again this weekend and it was only on my hard drive for like an hour, I'm so used to everything working so smoothly and correctly with Gentoo!
Actually I can install windows just fine thank you:)
I've done it dozens of times, this was just the first time I've done it kosher with the boot option, rather than just going to the spot on the CD and running setup.exe.
Actually by the time 12 hours had passed I had installed SuSE entirely from ftp, installed Gentoo twice, and yes, installed Winsuxmyass on/dev/hda4.
So now that we have that issue out of the way I still believe that you've come to the wrong place to preach the goodness that is Micro-shit!
Ya you will get a lot of respect by railing about how you are hard working on Saturday and you are just compelled to write a slashdot post about how it offends you so deeply that a lot of people are much more interested in reading about the new kernel release then anything about microsoft. Obviously you are suffering from an inferiority complex. Fuck Microsoft. This weekend I hooked up a 2 gig hd to my master, formatted it, and hooked my 40 gig hd with all my data on it as a slave. So I put in the Microsoft CD and boot from the CD and it tells me it's about to get the "first hard drive" ready. So it repartitions my 40 gig hd as a 2 gig hard drive and leaves my 2 gig master hd empty. It then proceeds to need to reboot real quick although it didn't change the boot sector to reflect it just wiped out my computer. So if your gonna come preaching to a predominately anti-microsoft crowd about how you deserve so much respect for sucking Bill Gates dick well fine, it's a free country, Micro-fuckhead!
Well in 5 years when Microsoft has shot itself in the foot enough and nobody bothers spending $250 to "upgrade" anymore well........ Why would a company be assholes to the people who buy their product when they have $40 billion in the bank is what I want to know.
On the contrary, I am two weeks into trying
out Gentoo and have discovered that having
a mostly bare naked kernel configuration to start
with it takes about 1/4 to 1/5 the time it took
to recompile the linux kernel as it did with
distrobutions that have modules and hard-wired
support for practically every computer configuration under the sun.
I don't really want i386 packages to start
with, for one thing they aren't optimized
for my pentium II 300 and also I've been
having more success with programs getting along
with each other compiling it all as I go. Also I can check out the default settings Gentoo has for the./configure part of the install and change before installing, which has helped a few times.
Besides even with my old p2 300 cpu with 160 megs of ram I have no problem with running other programs while letting emerge download, compile, and install other things. I like to check on that virtual terminal from time to time to see what package it's finally got around to compiling
but it certainly doesn't slow down mozilla, xmms, or anything else to a noticeable point:)
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Hear Hear. Mega Man 3 has a couple of extraordinarily catchy tunes as well. Although on the Mega Man Aniversery collection for PS2, they remixed it, leaving out the very tune that was catchy in the first place!! Still a very good buy, but in some cases you can't go wrong with good old 8/16-bit Nintendo hardware. The waterfall music from Final Fantasy Mystic Quest is still one of the most inspirational tunes I've ever heard in a video game! If you like Secret of Mana music (as do I) check out Seiken Denshutsu 3 (spelling?). It's like the sequel to SoM, only released in Japan. You can find translated roms...solid music as well. The game is amazing, too, imho.
I guess most sound apps just point to /dev/dsp.
I just ran a ls -l dsp* in /dev and got
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Nov 24 14:26 dsp -> sound/dsp
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Nov 24 14:26 dsp1 -> sound/dsp
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Nov 24 14:26 dsp2 -> sound/dsp
I am crossed on the issue of artsd. It's done me wrong a few times, yet I think it's mission is good and in fact it has started working well now. Given the fact that the maintainer isn't around anymore, I'd say go for it, let's go from scratch :)
Arts has improved immensely over the last couple of minor updates though. A year ago, aRts control panel was woeful and it was set up to hog the sound system no matter what. Now it is easy to set up alternate sound systems, actually turn artsd on and off, and the settings are such that now artsd will give up control of the sound server after a second or two. (No more being completely unable to play ut2004 with sound because artsd keep spawning evil demonic children everwhere). Also, half the time it just didn't work. Xmms has a arts plugin and it just recently started working for me. I guess I haven't noticed the latency issues too much, having in general stayed away from artsd sound due to these other issues :)
In support of your claims, I heard on the radio that bagpipe "music" will draw mooses out. The radio guy called the guy making the claims a "master-hunter". My personal Theory is that the moose hear bagpipes and are like "Scottish people! I may get lucky!" and come out. But still, unless you are hunting for food you need for substinance and are too inept to work at McDonalds....in this day and age... what is the point? Sure you have an excuse to have guns and shoot them at living creatures but is it needed, or recreational. "Oh I don't mind spitting out shotgun pellots from this pig I shot!"
I don't have a problem with tax dollars going to the military. I did hear someone complaining about the $300 million probe that crashed into the desert, saying that money could have been used in a more useful way. $300 million is a lot of money, but theres a lot of good science to be gained :) The fact that NASA scientists have been learning a lot from the crashed probe hasn't hit the front page like the crash did.
What major content? I woke up at like 4pm after falling asleep about 20 minutes before the first plane crashed. There really wasn't any major content, I learned all about it from A&E and MTV. MTV was starting their little flag in the top corner too.
ya windows is better for crummy computers. But we are talking VERY crummy. I have a cyrix 150 sitting here that completely chokes trying to run a modern linux, very slow. But win98 runs fine. (Never buying win2000 or winXP). But on my p2 300 with about 6 times the memory of the cyrix, the newest cutting edge linux's ran fine. As responsive as win98? Well in some ways definitely. Comparing it to win98 isn't fair because it crashes far less often. However so much stuff is optimized by Microsoft in their OS's to the point of craziness, like in win98 on that computer clicking on windows explorer it would pop up super fast. For non-microsoft software it would depend on the aplications. Mozilla actually ran faster in some ways in windows on the p2 300 than linux, but with a semi-modern computer like I have now the difference is negligable. Personally the longest difference would be just a couple seconds and it is stabler than windows. (Also diss me for using win98 for comparisons but it has it's simularities to win98 and also that is the last version of windows I will probably buy :) .
Ya but it's a matter of taste and personal opinion. Show me the option to rebuild windows to my system with compiler optimazations for my system? Anyways you can compile most of your stuff in the background (even though it can take days on say a p2 300, but rarely more than an hour or two for big things on my p4 1.8) and also you get the newest stuff the day it comes out or soon, compared to some linux distros where you are at the mercy of the official distrobution (or Microsoft in the windows world) or when someone just feels like getting it together. Anyways it's all a matter of personal opinion, I mean most Linux people like X and responsiveness as much as windows, but with the preemptive patch I've noticed that mp3 playback can be choppy. Vanilla Kernal for 2.4.* is smooth with practically everything. I've never compiled the 2.5 branch yet, I prolly will in few months, to try it out. But ya if you feel like whoring out $250 ever couple years for the priviledge of running windows optimized for whatever yahoo's computer, feel free. If you give a crap, then compile everything on your computer :) But anyways the parent was stating an opinion, and personally, I think compiling everything from source is nice because you don't have to deal with whoever zipped up your program or packeged it our whatever with binaries didn't have a compatable computer as yours :)
So what it is these guy's responsibility to introduce cheating software to the masses to ruin 400,000 people's enjoyment of a game just so they can have big ego's and feel like they can fight the big evil Sony ???? Hi I have news for you guys. This is the 21'st century. Hacking is considered terroism and can get you life in jail.
I've logged over 10,000 hours on my mud, and while I dont pay a monthly fee (in fact you can't pay with a credit card, unlike everquest where you must have a credit card), I gladly donate 100 or 200 bucks every few months. I see where you are coming from on your defense of paying your monthly fee, I mean if you don't buy a bunch of $50 nintendo or playstation games every month whats wrong with putting your money where you spend your entertainment time? Well I do defend my "stupid enough to pay" statement in the regard that you just have to pay to play this game so you can cheat and have an unfair advantage over other people. Hi if you absolutely are addicted to this stupid game (Ya I think it's retarded compared to muds) then dont cheat retard.
I dont know, you have the right to enjoy everquest, but I still think it's a retarded game and I bet about 400,000 people could find better things to do with their time (like combing their hair, picking lint out of their belly button, masterbating, etc.).
I was reading some of the sourceforge forums on their little toy and the egotism and gloat of some of the developers of their little cheaters toy astounds me. For one thing, every time they asserted that keeping their program linux only was holding off the masses, my stomach turned over a little more. That is one of the most idiotic things I have ever heard. Also, who has the right to cheat to play a game which they are already stupid enough to pay a monthly fee with mommy and daddy's credit card. Third, Everquest SUCKS and these people are IDIOTS. Anyways I dont usually comment but this annoyed me.
What is the percentage of income the rich pay in America? Most of the people I know make below $30,000 a year, many less than $20,000, and all pay at least 25%-30% of their income in taxes. Also overtime is taxed at rate easily over 50%. I think saying that the rich are punished in America is a little extreme.
Just seems a little strange considering Yahoo sells it's subscribers off to spammers after promising "Yahoo for life!" and offering a spam filter (ya right) :) Also for 2 years every email I sent to my friends had a little advertisement for Yahoo which could be considered spam then they decided to charge for the service they promised free.
Yahoo? My ass!!!!
Ya, the old way I just got used to opening several pages in tabs in the background, then clicking on the rightmost tab then closing to eventually get back at the beginning. It was kindof annoying though, to read my pages in backward-order of how I clicked on them :) I too like the new way a lot better, although like you it took me a few days to get re-used to the direction.
You're obviously not am American but if your European then ask yourself how the firebombing of Dresden where people were literally melting into the streets and similar number of civilians died as with the nukes was any more ethical than the use of a small nuclear bomb.
War is horrible, and I would ask you look at the circumstances before entirely bashing the United States. The nuclear arms race between America and the USSR was scary and evil, but it potentially held off a horrible conventional war between the nations.
I just hope and pray that noone ever uses a nuclear bomb again.
I think I can kinda relate to you as well. I think I came across to you as a close minded linux zealout, but actually I never have had a problem with microsoft except when it's software does incredibly stupid things (like rudely rewriting the hard drive MBR or reformatting the slave 40 gig hd as 1 2 gig partition and leaving the master 2 gig hard drive alone). Also I am poor and have found linux being free (except for wanting to support a distrobution I like and use) is a lot better for me than paying $250 for the newest windows with all the EULA's which would probably make my desire to use linux on another partition illegal or something :) The last windows I bought was win98 and I still have it on a partition, so I'm not a total hypocrite :) Just thought I'd take the opportunity to apologize for jumping all over your ass for dissing linux one time hehe.
I haven't done any checks on how much memory xmms is using, but it hasn't really slowed me down with anything else I'm doing on my p2 300 with 160 megs of ram (even compiling something in the background usually). Winamp was an excellent program though, back in the day. (although I run into some people who still refused to ever touch it after it had a release with the virus).
I dunno, I basically switched to linux because I found a mud client which blows away mudmaster or zmud on windows. It's called Mcl, and it uses perl or python for it's scripts, so you can be quite creative :)
Also Quake 3 (about the last game I figure I'll be really getting into for awhile) runs awesome on Linux.
If your into emulators, I've found excellent emulators for nes and snes. I've yet to find a emulator that can come close to the best windows genesis emulator, and haven't even tried to find a good neogeo or turbographix emulator.
But as my mud client and quake3 runs great on linux, I'm happy :) (i'm easy to please :) )
I don't know anything about Debian, but Gentoo gives you three options I believe for your boot cd. Two small ( 50mb) options, and a 120 or so mb option. So technically even if you go with the third option (which has the gcc and system already bootstrapped to save on some compiling time for i686 cpus) your still only technically getting like a fifth of a cd. However I was reading the documentation for Gentoo's portage system and I believe you can package all the programs you have compiled using emerge into a single dir to burn onto cd's, so you can technically define a gentoo install cd as 1/5 of a cd to however many packages you want to compile for your system and however many cds it takes to hold them :)
Since you mention KDE, I'll mention that I've been compiling it for like the last 2 days on my Gentoo installation. I agree with what you assert regarding upgrading a normal distro, updating KDE on Redhat was a big pain as well, with all the dependencies and what-not. That is what I like about Gentoo mostly. Since I compile everything using emerge and the /usr/portage tree, all the required packages are downloaded and compiled in order, no headache :) I installed SuSE again this weekend and it was only on my hard drive for like an hour, I'm so used to everything working so smoothly and correctly with Gentoo!
Actually I figure I'm prolly not gonna ever figure out anything too insiteful or informative to say so I'm not too worried about Karma.
The reason I would make a kinda random-offtopic anti-microsoft post is because, frankly, it sucks my ass, and it sucks your ass.
So instead of sucking Bill G's peter all the time why dont you get a Macintosh, I hear they have some pretty nice graphics and 3d software!!!!!
Actually I can install windows just fine thank you :)
I've done it dozens of times, this was just the first time I've done it kosher with the boot option, rather than just going to the spot on the CD and running setup.exe.
Actually by the time 12 hours had passed I had installed SuSE entirely from ftp, installed Gentoo twice, and yes, installed Winsuxmyass on /dev/hda4.
So now that we have that issue out of the way I still believe that you've come to the wrong place to preach the goodness that is Micro-shit!
Ya you will get a lot of respect by railing about how you are hard working on Saturday and you are just compelled to write a slashdot post about how it offends you so deeply that a lot of people are much more interested in reading about the new kernel release then anything about microsoft. Obviously you are suffering from an inferiority complex. Fuck Microsoft. This weekend I hooked up a 2 gig hd to my master, formatted it, and hooked my 40 gig hd with all my data on it as a slave. So I put in the Microsoft CD and boot from the CD and it tells me it's about to get the "first hard drive" ready. So it repartitions my 40 gig hd as a 2 gig hard drive and leaves my 2 gig master hd empty. It then proceeds to need to reboot real quick although it didn't change the boot sector to reflect it just wiped out my computer. So if your gonna come preaching to a predominately anti-microsoft crowd about how you deserve so much respect for sucking Bill Gates dick well fine, it's a free country, Micro-fuckhead!
Well in 5 years when Microsoft has shot itself in the foot enough and nobody bothers spending $250 to "upgrade" anymore well........ Why would a company be assholes to the people who buy their product when they have $40 billion in the bank is what I want to know.
I don't really want i386 packages to start with, for one thing they aren't optimized for my pentium II 300 and also I've been having more success with programs getting along with each other compiling it all as I go. Also I can check out the default settings Gentoo has for the ./configure part of the install and change before installing, which has helped a few times.
Besides even with my old p2 300 cpu with 160 megs of ram I have no problem with running other programs while letting emerge download, compile, and install other things. I like to check on that virtual terminal from time to time to see what package it's finally got around to compiling but it certainly doesn't slow down mozilla, xmms, or anything else to a noticeable point :)