In the first Call of Duty game, one mission in the British campaign has you play the role of a paratrooper who gets airdropped near the Eder Dam to destroy the flak cannons around it, in preparation for Operation Chastise. I have no idea how historically accurate the whole mission is, if at all, but it remains one of my favorites from the first game in the series, and did prompt me to investigate into the Dambusters and the operation. Who says games don't teach people anything?
The subsequent mission involving a car chase through the Alps with Jason Statham providing the voiceover of a Brit telling you to blow up the other cars is quite fun as well!
Oddly enough, I'm running Ubuntu because my machine's a laptop.
I got my start on Linux with Mandrake/Mandriva. I always have one Windows machine around for games and graphics work, but I use an alternate system for web browsing and chat, and I liked having Linux around for that. Mandriva was fantastic for me, a relative newb, for 6 years, until I decided to wipe XP off my laptop this summer (it's a similar machine from about the same time, a Compaq 1.3 Celeron I got cheap for small tasks). Mandriva would run fine, but after an indeterminate time it would completely freeze and I'd have to hard reset the machine. The shortest time I think was 10 minutes, the longest, 3 days. Though I'm no expert with Linux, I did everything I could to fix this problem. Ultimately, I wound up with the conclusion that something was wrong with the ACPI and I'd have to recompile the kernel, and with my knowledge I could easily have been wrong. Not worth the effort unless I needed to do it.
Fortunately, my brother was wanting to try out Linux, and had ordered a Live CD of Feisty from Canonical. Since they sent a spare, he handed this off to me and I loaded it up, and since then there hasn't been a single hiccup from Ubuntu - it even handled my Broadcom wireless card once I got the firmware loaded. It's been 31 days, 1 hour, 36 minutes since I switched from Mandriva to Kubuntu; I haven't needed to reboot even once, and the change from Mandriva was largely painless thanks to both distros being easy to get around in. If I have to install on another computer, I'd still likely give Mandriva another attempt, because I've always been pleased up to this point.
Notebooks seem finicky in general with Linux from reading around forums, but I have to say I had the completely opposite experience as the article you posted. Ubuntu saved me from having to reinstall Windows.
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Glass2k Also works well for transparency via keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+Shift+0-9. It's not in development anymore but still works like a charm. Uses about a 5MB footprint from my observations using it.
The Jefferson Library doesn't seem to think that credit belongs to Jefferson.
Also, you might like Thoreau if you've never read him. I find, I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least," to be a much more thoughtful quotation, especially the text following that short blurb (which makes it very similar to the "fear" quote) in Civil Disobedience. And it's another quote commonly misattributed to our third President.
Ok, those look kind of dated...but still funnyJust change "95" to "XP" in numbers 1 and 10 for a good list overhaul. And it'd be very much in the spirit of things Microsoft!
Not really. Vega Strike is a game unto itself with a similar "make money in space" premise; the Privateer remake is a mod using Vega Strike's engine, following very closely to the original Privateer.
I could echo most everyone else's "Dead? Right..." comments towards the article, but I didn't see any comments on performance measured in decibels.
Intel still handily beats AMD in the silent pc enthusiast market, with traditionally cooler running and more easily underclockable processors. With the excellent performance-to-wattage ratio of the Dothan line (21W, the upcoming Turion's 25-29, very good), they show no weaknesses in that small but steadily growing area.
AMD certainly looks like it has a contender in the Turion, but all the same there's a much wider and better selection from Intel for those interested in silence.
Find all the hip and trendy folks and celebrities to endorse the switch. On a white background. With the text "Watch Differently" at the end to summarize the commercials.
And then they can advertise new product with black TV silhouettes dancing and bouncing on a garish single-color background to a random U2 song, with popular reality TV show quotes spliced in for flavor.
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A common method for unlocking old Athlon and Duron processors was using a good old pencil to connect the bridges. They're catching on!
In the first Call of Duty game, one mission in the British campaign has you play the role of a paratrooper who gets airdropped near the Eder Dam to destroy the flak cannons around it, in preparation for Operation Chastise. I have no idea how historically accurate the whole mission is, if at all, but it remains one of my favorites from the first game in the series, and did prompt me to investigate into the Dambusters and the operation. Who says games don't teach people anything?
The subsequent mission involving a car chase through the Alps with Jason Statham providing the voiceover of a Brit telling you to blow up the other cars is quite fun as well!
Developers, Developers, Developers?
Oddly enough, I'm running Ubuntu because my machine's a laptop.
I got my start on Linux with Mandrake/Mandriva. I always have one Windows machine around for games and graphics work, but I use an alternate system for web browsing and chat, and I liked having Linux around for that. Mandriva was fantastic for me, a relative newb, for 6 years, until I decided to wipe XP off my laptop this summer (it's a similar machine from about the same time, a Compaq 1.3 Celeron I got cheap for small tasks). Mandriva would run fine, but after an indeterminate time it would completely freeze and I'd have to hard reset the machine. The shortest time I think was 10 minutes, the longest, 3 days. Though I'm no expert with Linux, I did everything I could to fix this problem. Ultimately, I wound up with the conclusion that something was wrong with the ACPI and I'd have to recompile the kernel, and with my knowledge I could easily have been wrong. Not worth the effort unless I needed to do it.
Fortunately, my brother was wanting to try out Linux, and had ordered a Live CD of Feisty from Canonical. Since they sent a spare, he handed this off to me and I loaded it up, and since then there hasn't been a single hiccup from Ubuntu - it even handled my Broadcom wireless card once I got the firmware loaded. It's been 31 days, 1 hour, 36 minutes since I switched from Mandriva to Kubuntu; I haven't needed to reboot even once, and the change from Mandriva was largely painless thanks to both distros being easy to get around in. If I have to install on another computer, I'd still likely give Mandriva another attempt, because I've always been pleased up to this point.
Notebooks seem finicky in general with Linux from reading around forums, but I have to say I had the completely opposite experience as the article you posted. Ubuntu saved me from having to reinstall Windows.
Glass2k Also works well for transparency via keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+Shift+0-9. It's not in development anymore but still works like a charm. Uses about a 5MB footprint from my observations using it.
These aren't the distributions you're looking for.
Brock: Don't you have anything else to do but harp on Dr. Venture? Why haven't you tried the World Domination thing, you afraid of the big leagues?
The Monarch: Please. How stupid do I look to you? World Domination. I'll leave that to the religious nuts or the Republicans, thank you.
But the current Apple Newtons are still quite delicious!
The Jefferson Library doesn't seem to think that credit belongs to Jefferson.
Also, you might like Thoreau if you've never read him. I find, I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least," to be a much more thoughtful quotation, especially the text following that short blurb (which makes it very similar to the "fear" quote) in Civil Disobedience. And it's another quote commonly misattributed to our third President.
As long as you don't open the box, there's always the Church of Schrödinger's Christ...
Ok, those look kind of dated...but still funnyJust change "95" to "XP" in numbers 1 and 10 for a good list overhaul. And it'd be very much in the spirit of things Microsoft!
Not really. Vega Strike is a game unto itself with a similar "make money in space" premise; the Privateer remake is a mod using Vega Strike's engine, following very closely to the original Privateer.
You forgot Cyrix.
I could echo most everyone else's "Dead? Right..." comments towards the article, but I didn't see any comments on performance measured in decibels. Intel still handily beats AMD in the silent pc enthusiast market, with traditionally cooler running and more easily underclockable processors. With the excellent performance-to-wattage ratio of the Dothan line (21W, the upcoming Turion's 25-29, very good), they show no weaknesses in that small but steadily growing area. AMD certainly looks like it has a contender in the Turion, but all the same there's a much wider and better selection from Intel for those interested in silence.
Find all the hip and trendy folks and celebrities to endorse the switch. On a white background. With the text "Watch Differently" at the end to summarize the commercials.
And then they can advertise new product with black TV silhouettes dancing and bouncing on a garish single-color background to a random U2 song, with popular reality TV show quotes spliced in for flavor.