Normally I just need to know file names, so I do something simple like du -ak / >/var/tmp/all so "all" is a catalog of all files.
If I need to do text search, I have a little for sh script that will look for a prefix in/var/tmp/all for the files I need and do quick egrep's. Saves me time when I need.conf files that have the line I need, or.hidden files that I need to source or read.
If I don't need to hit the FS for finding files, a catalog already speeds this up. I've started doing this in cygwin to speed up searchs also. (Gotta love having unix tools under windows):)
One of the things I do when I log onto a unix box is index all the files, so I can do quick searchs when I'm working. Even on a raid array, local file-system searchs are slow.
On my home network also, Windows boxes are extremely slow when you get over a few hundred gigs of space. With lots of pictures, mp3s, games, etc, searchs across multiple drives can take upto minutes. Enabling windows file-system indexing doesnt give the performance you would expect for a home user.
I'm looking to anything that can make my pack-rat of an existance quicker at home. Searching for files is a pain, I've already used different HD's for different types of projects to keep my searchs as quick as possible.
Ever download a funny picture or video clip and couldnt remember where you put it? Times that by a dozen years on the net, and its incredible the stuff you can pack away.
Of maybe you have a code snippet you wrote back in college that would fit the exact task you have now?
How many times do you use search/find in a day? Exactly, google is counting on this.
The TV industry is just as bad as the music industry, pushing top 40 crap, endless supply of boy band's, when there is a good population wanting Indy (sci-fi) type entertainment.
This is why Internet broadcasting is so important, people can choose, and smaller studios can make a profit. Unless the distribution models are broken, we are in for the common dominator of entertainment. Fast food entertainment, all the same.
I wish they would offer a paid Sci-fi tv channel for new running sci-fi shows like FireFly, Star Trek, and all the others that the sci-fi shows before they get canceled. (B5, FarScape, etc)
I'd pay 20 bux a month for a subscription to continue the shows. If they can have a golf-channel, they can have a true Sci-Fi series channel. Look how popular TechTV is (even though G4 ate them)...
I picked up Quake3 Arena for the Dreamcast, while visually and game play is the same, not using a mouse for a FPS is a horrible.
FPS's games on a console have to have enough of an fun factor to override the controller problems. Most multiplayer games dont need the reflex skills that are needed in FPS games, this is where a mouse/keyboard shine.
Just include PS2/USB ports on consoles, and support keyboards/mice. Its 2004, and most consoles are connected to the Internet anyways.
Mandrake 10 was crashing my nforce2 board all the time, read slashdot actually, that turning off acpi and apic fixed the issues. It did, my AMD box is stable now. Not sure why its on by default it not stable, not a good experience for a new distros with 2.6 kernels.
A buddy of mine was having the same issue with Gentoo, so I think its a common issue. Wonder how the BSD kernel support for nforce is stable?
I've stuck with the 2.4 kernel on my servers for now, if my workstation isn't stable on 2.6.x, its not touching my server. imho
What I'm wondering, doesn't some Slashdot reader work for a Telco that runs the 1-800 number that can "accidentally" disconnect it?
If you can find out what Internet relay they are using, "maybe caller ID" you could contact them about abusive practices. Ruin their whole business model.
This is America, SUE EVERYONE! It's a constitutional right.
Why can't Specops make plugins for wine, like WineX from transgaming? Transgaming doesn't release their source code for the copyrighted pieces, but they do release modifications to wine.
I don't see a problem, other than they don't mention they use wine. Of couse maybe there is a readme.txt that has all the wine information. It's not released yet.;)
Though if it is Wine, its not really true virtualization like they claim. Damn, too much guessing, without seeing the code.
I can tell upto about 80'ish FPS, but I run the refresh rate at 85 or 100 for no flicker. So yes there is a point for higher FPS. But you didnt say you played video games. And if you turn vsync off you get tearing.
I remember awhile back someone did quake2 benchmarks on accuracy vs FPS, and how 79FPS (i think) was the sweet spot, faster and lower refresh rate had a negative effect on accuracy.
But I wont argue 20FPS over 80, but 100 seems to be target. imho
With Dual Core CPU's going to be the norm, why not a Dual Core GPU for even faster gfx cards? With everyone wanting 16x antialiasing at 1600x1200 to get over 100fps, its gonna take some very powerful GPU's (or some dual cores).
Even with the ATI 800XT, 1600x1200 can dip below 30FPS with AA/AF on higher settings. Still a ways to go for that full virtual reality look.
Wasteland was great, but towards the end, someone gave me a character editor. I ruined the ending for myself as I gave my guys powerful weapons and didn't finish it correctly. (Good ole RedRider BB Gun)
It was one of my favorite games for the c64, for RPG's go, I really enjoyed the skill based, non-magic game. Which we had more of these today in RPG's.
Boy! I sure am glad I shelled out $50 for this 3 years ago!
Tribes2 is the game that actually burned me enough (Thanks Sierra), I never buy games on release date anymore. I pre-ordered 2 copies for a lan party release date, only to find out it wouldnt run on most of my computers. About 6 months later, I was finally able to play, also had to drop my voodoo5 for a geforce3.
Yes, its nice that Sierra released the game, but they screwed the pooch on this release. Basically it came down to money, they released knowing it was crippled, and had bugs. They fired developers, they really treated employees and gamers like shit. If it wasnt for the developers working on their own time, and working on weekends to fix this, it would of been even worse.
Sierra killed the Tribes market, a 3rd party developer had to show an almost finished product to get Sierra to release a new game.
So yes, people can be a little pissed about the whole Sierra Tribes experience.
For tribes2, I recommend getting some updated scripts to help things out. Panama Jack has some good scripts for T1/T2. I use Writers also.
Also not sure if they removed the cd check, but I used the no-cd patch tfc_t2v24834. I would figure they would, but I actually bought 2 copies of tribes2 for lan parties back in the day. Bot play is still fun, and on 2ghz+ machines, large bot matches with AA/AF turned on is smooth.
I'd love to upgrade to LCD, but when I have a 22inch CRT, nothing comes close yet. And 12ms isnt fast enough for 85hz refresh yet.
Also, I like some of the features of LCD's,, Widescreen or even ones that rotate for 90 degrees. Sony's 24 inch LCD is nice, but almost 2K for it, and its 40ms.
I forgot to mention before that you can even get a white version of this keyboard. So now all I'm waiting for is the natural version.
I agree, using natural keyboards for years, I hate switching back to formfactor. Too bad Microsoft ruined the layout of the new naturals, and logitech and everyone else cant make a simple natural layout anymore.
I hardly drink pepsi in the bottle, just the cans from the vending machine. The couple times I did buy bottles, the 24 ounce bottles where winners, the smaller bottles never won.
Bad thing, I never remembered to keep the bottle, I tossed it like normal. Dont know how many other people don't know, or don't care.
One of the most entertaining games had a plot and game play, the gfx didn't have to be top notch if the game play was fun. Qix, wasnt exactly the most eye catching game, but the game play and idea was quiet Interesting.
I'd love to see the C64 games make a comeback, even if java on a mobile phone.
I'd like to see for classic c64 games, Skate or Die, Bruce Lee, Karataka, Trolls and Tribulations, Exploding Fist, Last v8, into the eagles nest, green beret, turrican, archon, attack of the mutant camels.
I'm forgetting a game, the battledroid game I think. I couldn't find it on Lemon64.com.
The 64 had some pretty good games, and in the later years when they started pushing the hardware, some good gfx and sound for an 8bit system.
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Normally I just need to know file names, so I do something simple like du -ak / > /var/tmp/all so "all" is a catalog of all files.
/var/tmp/all for the files I need and do quick egrep's. Saves me time when I need .conf files that have the line I need, or .hidden files that I need to source or read.
:)
If I need to do text search, I have a little for sh script that will look for a prefix in
If I don't need to hit the FS for finding files, a catalog already speeds this up. I've started doing this in cygwin to speed up searchs also. (Gotta love having unix tools under windows)
One of the things I do when I log onto a unix box is index all the files, so I can do quick searchs when I'm working. Even on a raid array, local file-system searchs are slow.
On my home network also, Windows boxes are extremely slow when you get over a few hundred gigs of space. With lots of pictures, mp3s, games, etc, searchs across multiple drives can take upto minutes. Enabling windows file-system indexing doesnt give the performance you would expect for a home user.
I'm looking to anything that can make my pack-rat of an existance quicker at home. Searching for files is a pain, I've already used different HD's for different types of projects to keep my searchs as quick as possible.
Ever download a funny picture or video clip and couldnt remember where you put it? Times that by a dozen years on the net, and its incredible the stuff you can pack away.
Of maybe you have a code snippet you wrote back in college that would fit the exact task you have now?
How many times do you use search/find in a day? Exactly, google is counting on this.
Yes, that's exactly the problem.
The TV industry is just as bad as the music industry, pushing top 40 crap, endless supply of boy band's, when there is a good population wanting Indy (sci-fi) type entertainment.
This is why Internet broadcasting is so important, people can choose, and smaller studios can make a profit. Unless the distribution models are broken, we are in for the common dominator of entertainment. Fast food entertainment, all the same.
I wish they would offer a paid Sci-fi tv channel for new running sci-fi shows like FireFly, Star Trek, and all the others that the sci-fi shows before they get canceled. (B5, FarScape, etc)
I'd pay 20 bux a month for a subscription to continue the shows. If they can have a golf-channel, they can have a true Sci-Fi series channel. Look how popular TechTV is (even though G4 ate them)...
I picked up Quake3 Arena for the Dreamcast, while visually and game play is the same, not using a mouse for a FPS is a horrible.
FPS's games on a console have to have enough of an fun factor to override the controller problems. Most multiplayer games dont need the reflex skills that are needed in FPS games, this is where a mouse/keyboard shine.
Just include PS2/USB ports on consoles, and support keyboards/mice. Its 2004, and most consoles are connected to the Internet anyways.
I'd rather have a Pocket Bike. Cheaper too, 249 on ebay.
Mandrake 10 was crashing my nforce2 board all the time, read slashdot actually, that turning off acpi and apic fixed the issues. It did, my AMD box is stable now. Not sure why its on by default it not stable, not a good experience for a new distros with 2.6 kernels.
A buddy of mine was having the same issue with Gentoo, so I think its a common issue. Wonder how the BSD kernel support for nforce is stable?
I've stuck with the 2.4 kernel on my servers for now, if my workstation isn't stable on 2.6.x, its not touching my server. imho
What I'm wondering, doesn't some Slashdot reader work for a Telco that runs the 1-800 number that can "accidentally" disconnect it?
If you can find out what Internet relay they are using, "maybe caller ID" you could contact them about abusive practices. Ruin their whole business model.
This is America, SUE EVERYONE! It's a constitutional right.
Transgaming doesn't release their source code for the copyrighted pieces, but they do release modifications to wine.
Thats what I said!
Why can't Specops make plugins for wine, like WineX from transgaming?
;)
Transgaming doesn't release their source code for the copyrighted pieces, but they do release modifications to wine.
I don't see a problem, other than they don't mention they use wine. Of couse maybe there is a readme.txt that has all the wine information. It's not released yet.
Though if it is Wine, its not really true virtualization like they claim. Damn, too much guessing, without seeing the code.
I can tell upto about 80'ish FPS, but I run the refresh rate at 85 or 100 for no flicker. So yes there is a point for higher FPS. But you didnt say you played video games. And if you turn vsync off you get tearing.
I remember awhile back someone did quake2 benchmarks on accuracy vs FPS, and how 79FPS (i think) was the sweet spot, faster and lower refresh rate had a negative effect on accuracy.
But I wont argue 20FPS over 80, but 100 seems to be target. imho
Video cards are already able to run many things in parallel- they are beyond dual-core.
There where dual ATI GPU's or Matrox or even the old Voodoo2 SLI. Seems you can increase speed with more cores.
With Dual Core CPU's going to be the norm, why not a Dual Core GPU for even faster gfx cards? With everyone wanting 16x antialiasing at 1600x1200 to get over 100fps, its gonna take some very powerful GPU's (or some dual cores).
Even with the ATI 800XT, 1600x1200 can dip below 30FPS with AA/AF on higher settings. Still a ways to go for that full virtual reality look.
Nope, good ole c64, the editor hex edited the 5¼ inch player floppy, and I didn't copy my play disk before I modified my characters. (lesson learned)
Also, I didn't like fallout, just wasn't the same game.
Wasteland was great, but towards the end, someone gave me a character editor. I ruined the ending for myself as I gave my guys powerful weapons and didn't finish it correctly. (Good ole RedRider BB Gun)
It was one of my favorite games for the c64, for RPG's go, I really enjoyed the skill based, non-magic game. Which we had more of these today in RPG's.
I played that what game 17 years ago? Wow.
Boy! I sure am glad I shelled out $50 for this 3 years ago!
Tribes2 is the game that actually burned me enough (Thanks Sierra), I never buy games on release date anymore. I pre-ordered 2 copies for a lan party release date, only to find out it wouldnt run on most of my computers. About 6 months later, I was finally able to play, also had to drop my voodoo5 for a geforce3.
Yes, its nice that Sierra released the game, but they screwed the pooch on this release. Basically it came down to money, they released knowing it was crippled, and had bugs. They fired developers, they really treated employees and gamers like shit. If it wasnt for the developers working on their own time, and working on weekends to fix this, it would of been even worse.
Sierra killed the Tribes market, a 3rd party developer had to show an almost finished product to get Sierra to release a new game.
So yes, people can be a little pissed about the whole Sierra Tribes experience.
For tribes2, I recommend getting some updated scripts to help things out. Panama Jack has some good scripts for T1/T2. I use Writers also.
Also not sure if they removed the cd check, but I used the no-cd patch tfc_t2v24834. I would figure they would, but I actually bought 2 copies of tribes2 for lan parties back in the day. Bot play is still fun, and on 2ghz+ machines, large bot matches with AA/AF turned on is smooth.
See you on a server soon!
Everyone uses 1-2-3-4-5, I use 5-4-3-2-1.
0-0-0-0-0 also works.
I'd love to upgrade to LCD, but when I have a 22inch CRT, nothing comes close yet. And 12ms isnt fast enough for 85hz refresh yet.
Also, I like some of the features of LCD's,, Widescreen or even ones that rotate for 90 degrees. Sony's 24 inch LCD is nice, but almost 2K for it, and its 40ms.
Pictures of Watercar and Aquada. http://www.jetski.com/article.cfm?id=433
:)
Nice to see that the watercar is 150K while the other Aquada is 235K.
Now lets see something a slashdot reader can afford.
Conclusion:
I forgot to mention before that you can even get a white version of this keyboard. So now all I'm waiting for is the natural version.
I agree, using natural keyboards for years, I hate switching back to formfactor. Too bad Microsoft ruined the layout of the new naturals, and logitech and everyone else cant make a simple natural layout anymore.
I hardly drink pepsi in the bottle, just the cans from the vending machine. The couple times I did buy bottles, the 24 ounce bottles where winners, the smaller bottles never won.
Bad thing, I never remembered to keep the bottle, I tossed it like normal. Dont know how many other people don't know, or don't care.
Hmmm .... will it have a proper SID chip in it?
Did those games even have much music in them? I dont think they where on par to the music of Skate or Die.
Found it, Heavy Metal Paradroid.
One of the most entertaining games had a plot and game play, the gfx didn't have to be top notch if the game play was fun. Qix, wasnt exactly the most eye catching game, but the game play and idea was quiet Interesting.
I'd love to see the C64 games make a comeback, even if java on a mobile phone.
I'd like to see for classic c64 games, Skate or Die, Bruce Lee, Karataka, Trolls and Tribulations, Exploding Fist, Last v8, into the eagles nest, green beret, turrican, archon, attack of the mutant camels.
I'm forgetting a game, the battledroid game I think. I couldn't find it on Lemon64.com.
The 64 had some pretty good games, and in the later years when they started pushing the hardware, some good gfx and sound for an 8bit system.