Textpad is probably the best text editor I've ever had the pleasure of using. That it also can also be extended to compile/debug code is the icing on the cake:)
quote Sure, 'Linux' means the kernel. There are not, however, very many people who bootstrap their boxes and build their own environments. /quote
You've never seen Gentoo then:) Very nice distro, and you get to choose what gets installed, and compile the whole thing yourself. You literally start out in a chroot of your / partition, and bootstrap it. Quite fun, even if it does take a full day to get X/Mozilla/KDE compiled.
You don't have the unfortunate problem of having to use some of Cisco's web GUIs then. Most of them require you to use IE, and in some, you can't configure all the features via the CLI, you have to use to web based GUI.
While I agree with you completely that Quake1 was revolutionary, I think Quake2 had a much better single player experience. And the Co-Op play online was identical to the single player, making it very fun. While DM has it's place, Quake2 IMO was great because of the very nice Co-Op mode. I spent many a night playing the game from start to finish with friends, which is what it's all about;)
I picked up a game a few weeks ago that I hadn't seen mentioned yet, and isn't really like anything else I've seen yet.
Sid Meir's Pirates, released by Atari.
Pirates I would say is a good mix of the adventure and sim genres. Most of it is an adventure game, with the sim part being the realistic wind and ship physics. Hell, it's almost a teaching game, as you'll learn more about sailing from playing this game than you thought possible.
OMG! I haven't even thought about zzt in years, but damn do I miss that game. Thanks for bringing back great memories, now I need to go hunt around and see if I can dig up a copy.
I have a Dell Precision 670n here at my desk, and I can't tell it's on. It's hosting a few databases and various vendor's IDS consoles, and so under a reasonable load 24x7. It's not at all loud or hot. Perhaps Dell fixed this in the 670 line, or maybe you just got a bad box?
The biggest issue with that is in a network larger than 1 subnet. The standard Wake on Lan uses a broadcast packet that any sane network administrator would be blocking from transiting routers. There are very few legitmate needs to route broadcast packets, so almost any network larger than a mom and pop shop will not route broadcasts. This makes it very difficult to do remote Wake on Lan.
There are some vendor-specific remote management protocols, but these normally show up in servers in the form of Lights-Out Management or LOM.
Microprose's F-117 game had a great boss key, not only would it bring up a great looking Lotus screen, it would allow you to type (although it didn't actually do anything), until you hit the boss key again. That way it actually looked like you were doing something, instead of just sitting there staring at a screen.
Personally, I play a little Nethack at work, which luckily looks enough like a busy console or top output that I can get away with it if someone notices before I can save+exit.
In the commercials they had on TV, they had fine print at the bottom that stated exactly what the terms were. They played those stupid commercials enough times, that it was easy to figure out what the fine print said.
If you don't take the time to read the details on a contract you're accepting (the rental contract you implicitly agree to when renting), then it's your own damn fault for getting screwed.
I love missing out on meteor showers and lunar eclipses because it's cloudy and raining. At least it's not cold, as we rarely get below freezing.
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I use an old Ratpad with my MX1000, with the only reason being that the mouse glides easier on it than it does on the cheap fiberboard desk I have. The MX1000 tracks very well on the desk, so if you have a smoother surface on yours then I do on mine, there is no need for a mousepad.
You've got spyware or other crap on your machine. No one has ever legitimately reported Steam as popping up ads, or anything like that. If you click on the buy games button, then yes, you will see pictures of the various games you can buy. But it doesn't pop it up, and you have to go into that menu to see them.
Pull your head out of your ass, scan your machine for the common spyware/adware, and use a web browser that doesn't allow that shit to be autoinstalled.
I don't think you realize that very few people in the US know much about history or other countries. A large part of the history problem is the decline of our public school system for the last 80 years, but the lack of foreign knowledge is a different beast. My guess is that because the US is isolated from Europe and Asia, the general population here doesn't learn about them. What they don't know about they don't care about, so in this case, Europe, Asia and Africa get little attention or care. The lack of schooling contributes I'm sure, but the real reason for a dearth of support would be "out of sight, out of mind".
The reason they sell them at Costco at least, is that the Costco warehouses use them in receiving. Apparently tablet pcs work well enough for Costco that they don't have a problem selling them. Plus, Costco has always been about selling higher-end* items, so that fits in with their philosophy. This is still somewhat surprising, as their computer buyer has historically been clueless when it comes to technology, maybe this is a sign that someone new is deciding what computer equipment to purchase for sale in the warehouses.
*Especially their wine department. I've picked up a number of great bottles of wine at my local Costco for dirt cheap. It's a shame that Washington State only sells liquor at state run stores, because otherwise I'd purchase my alcohol there as well.
There used to be an option in the older version of Real Player that would let you save everything to disk, and set a size to the amount of disk allocated for that cache. I haven't used Real Player since the version 5 days, so I don't know if they've left that in.
The benefit of going from 60-120fps would be that you could then knock the resolution up a notch or two, and get 45fps at 1600x1200. On the other hand, if you're already getting 60fps at 1600x1200, you could then turn up anti-aliasing, and make the game look good, as well as run fast.
Don't forget blink tags and marquees. If you didn't have at least 15 blinking pieces of text, a couple scrolling bits and half a dozen animated gifs, you didn't have a real website.
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That's how it is here. RedHat/Fedora = Linux to most.
You can still get HPUX, Solaris/Sparc and Mac versions of it.
Textpad is probably the best text editor I've ever had the pleasure of using. That it also can also be extended to compile/debug code is the icing on the cake :)
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:) Very nice distro, and you get to choose what gets installed, and compile the whole thing yourself. You literally start out in a chroot of your / partition, and bootstrap it. Quite fun, even if it does take a full day to get X/Mozilla/KDE compiled.
Sure, 'Linux' means the kernel. There are not, however, very many people who bootstrap their boxes and build their own environments.
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You've never seen Gentoo then
They are also known as Beer Goggles :)
You don't have the unfortunate problem of having to use some of Cisco's web GUIs then. Most of them require you to use IE, and in some, you can't configure all the features via the CLI, you have to use to web based GUI.
Yeah, this is a couple days late :)
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While I agree with you completely that Quake1 was revolutionary, I think Quake2 had a much better single player experience. And the Co-Op play online was identical to the single player, making it very fun. While DM has it's place, Quake2 IMO was great because of the very nice Co-Op mode. I spent many a night playing the game from start to finish with friends, which is what it's all about
I picked up a game a few weeks ago that I hadn't seen mentioned yet, and isn't really like anything else I've seen yet.
Sid Meir's Pirates, released by Atari.
Pirates I would say is a good mix of the adventure and sim genres. Most of it is an adventure game, with the sim part being the realistic wind and ship physics. Hell, it's almost a teaching game, as you'll learn more about sailing from playing this game than you thought possible.
OMG! I haven't even thought about zzt in years, but damn do I miss that game. Thanks for bringing back great memories, now I need to go hunt around and see if I can dig up a copy.
I have a Dell Precision 670n here at my desk, and I can't tell it's on. It's hosting a few databases and various vendor's IDS consoles, and so under a reasonable load 24x7. It's not at all loud or hot. Perhaps Dell fixed this in the 670 line, or maybe you just got a bad box?
The biggest issue with that is in a network larger than 1 subnet. The standard Wake on Lan uses a broadcast packet that any sane network administrator would be blocking from transiting routers. There are very few legitmate needs to route broadcast packets, so almost any network larger than a mom and pop shop will not route broadcasts. This makes it very difficult to do remote Wake on Lan.
There are some vendor-specific remote management protocols, but these normally show up in servers in the form of Lights-Out Management or LOM.
Microprose's F-117 game had a great boss key, not only would it bring up a great looking Lotus screen, it would allow you to type (although it didn't actually do anything), until you hit the boss key again. That way it actually looked like you were doing something, instead of just sitting there staring at a screen.
Personally, I play a little Nethack at work, which luckily looks enough like a busy console or top output that I can get away with it if someone notices before I can save+exit.
In the commercials they had on TV, they had fine print at the bottom that stated exactly what the terms were. They played those stupid commercials enough times, that it was easy to figure out what the fine print said.
If you don't take the time to read the details on a contract you're accepting (the rental contract you implicitly agree to when renting), then it's your own damn fault for getting screwed.
I play Space Trader far too much. I'm working on the Hard level, but find myself dieing far too quickly. Still, it's a challenge, and I like it :)
I love missing out on meteor showers and lunar eclipses because it's cloudy and raining. At least it's not cold, as we rarely get below freezing.
I use an old Ratpad with my MX1000, with the only reason being that the mouse glides easier on it than it does on the cheap fiberboard desk I have. The MX1000 tracks very well on the desk, so if you have a smoother surface on yours then I do on mine, there is no need for a mousepad.
And the 8 mouse buttons are nice.
I think that was actually a BBSpot article, not an Onion article.
You've got spyware or other crap on your machine. No one has ever legitimately reported Steam as popping up ads, or anything like that. If you click on the buy games button, then yes, you will see pictures of the various games you can buy. But it doesn't pop it up, and you have to go into that menu to see them.
Pull your head out of your ass, scan your machine for the common spyware/adware, and use a web browser that doesn't allow that shit to be autoinstalled.
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I don't think you realize that very few people in the US know much about history or other countries. A large part of the history problem is the decline of our public school system for the last 80 years, but the lack of foreign knowledge is a different beast. My guess is that because the US is isolated from Europe and Asia, the general population here doesn't learn about them. What they don't know about they don't care about, so in this case, Europe, Asia and Africa get little attention or care. The lack of schooling contributes I'm sure, but the real reason for a dearth of support would be "out of sight, out of mind".
The reason they sell them at Costco at least, is that the Costco warehouses use them in receiving. Apparently tablet pcs work well enough for Costco that they don't have a problem selling them. Plus, Costco has always been about selling higher-end* items, so that fits in with their philosophy. This is still somewhat surprising, as their computer buyer has historically been clueless when it comes to technology, maybe this is a sign that someone new is deciding what computer equipment to purchase for sale in the warehouses.
*Especially their wine department. I've picked up a number of great bottles of wine at my local Costco for dirt cheap. It's a shame that Washington State only sells liquor at state run stores, because otherwise I'd purchase my alcohol there as well.
There used to be an option in the older version of Real Player that would let you save everything to disk, and set a size to the amount of disk allocated for that cache. I haven't used Real Player since the version 5 days, so I don't know if they've left that in.
I miss having three video cards in my computer, using up all my precious PCI slots.
The benefit of going from 60-120fps would be that you could then knock the resolution up a notch or two, and get 45fps at 1600x1200. On the other hand, if you're already getting 60fps at 1600x1200, you could then turn up anti-aliasing, and make the game look good, as well as run fast.
Don't forget blink tags and marquees. If you didn't have at least 15 blinking pieces of text, a couple scrolling bits and half a dozen animated gifs, you didn't have a real website.