I live in Maine (and I'm 18 now). The closest place of employment I could find was nearly twenty miles away.
Yeah, bikes don't work up here; everything's too remote. (And I totaled my first car, too--didn't have the experience necessary, panicked, and locked up the brakes. Taught me a lot about safe driving.)
What I've heard in the Linux community is to stay away from anything ATI if you plan to use it with Linux. Too bad really, because they really do make nice cards.
I've got an Ubuntu (Dapper) laptop running an ATI Radeon X1300. Works great. All I needed was to point EasyUbuntu at it, and it's worked like a charm ever since.
Even plays F.E.A.R. under Cedega very smoothly.
Don't listen to the F/OSS zealots. The binary drivers have worked fine on my new laptop, worked fine on my old laptop, and worked fine on my old desktop before that. I've never seen a machine that has trouble with that. Yeah, I know, blah blah, anecdotal evidence doesn't count--but show me a machine with those problems that can't be diagnosed as installation screwups and I'll eat my hat.
I bought lots of RAM so I could run Photoshop at the same time that I ran my dev tools (the only things that keep me on Windows--awesome development tools and Photoshop).
Firefox, after about eight hours of browsing with 4-6 tabs, glomps about 600-700MB of RAM. Yeah. NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Rune Walsh and Chaz Ashley from Phantasy Star IV. One with explodey magic of doom, one with a sword that doesn't look like it's seriously overcompensating for something (Cloud, I'm looking at you).
Or Wren from PSIII. Turn into a plane and dive-bomb the other players!
...why rms thinks it's okay for him to dictate to me, one of the users he so fervently believes needs to be "free," what I can and cannot do--with software I have written and worked on.
I could insert a comment here about academia being entirely out of touch with reality, but that'd just be poor sporting.
I've never understood the complaint behind the bundling of Mail, News, etc. with Netscape (and subsequently the Moz Suite). I used Moz and then SeaMonkey on my ThinkPad, and when I got my new machine for school I got Firefox.
I still think I like SeaMonkey more. It may be a bit more baroque, but it's a more familiar interface to me and far more comfortable. I dislike Firefox primarily because it's different from what I'm used to; YMMV.
I'm an avid gamer, and Shadowrun's my flat-out favorite system ever created. (I like it because, not in spite of, its weirdnesses, so take what I say with a pound or two of salt.)
FanPro has turned it from an obscure cult favorite into an attempt at mass-market appeal. The system has gotten moronically simple (yay for newbies, boo for old-timers) and much of the flavor of the game has been replaced by "XTREME attitude!"
And we've got a Shadowrun first person shooter in the works, for God's sake...
RIP, Shadowrun. Fortunately, me and SR3 will keep on truckin'.
It's free, it's solid (I also have another driver that I use to convert my Linux swap partition into a usable partition under Windows, where its swap is stored too), and it stores files up to, what, 2 TiB?
If there's a Mac ext2/3 driver (and there's gotta be, eh?), this might help you out.
I meant a choice during the install procedure, when I finish a install of fedora I can have my system correctly installed with all the options I need, gcc, dev packages and etc.
Yes, because how hard is it to pop open a terminal and type the following lines to solve your problem:
apt-get install gcc-4.0 apt-get install make apt-get build-dep gnome
There ya go--all the gnome-dev headers, gcc, and make. Just about EVERY program in the Ubuntu and Debian repositories honors build-dep.
Also if the program is already packaged I usually don't need to compile it, so the apt-get command you refered is not very usefull, but it is good to know it exists.:-D
See above. Obviously build-dep would be useful in the very circumstance you mentioned in your previous point.
Granted, I'm less interested in a video-only arcade than most people, in favor of a ticket-giving, redemption-counter sort of deal, but swipe-card machines suck for a number of reasons.
- A lot of ticket-spewing games use the coin/token to hit a target. You've just ruled out those games. - Tokens and coins appeal to kids. Same deal with tickets. Kids like collecting tickets and (apparently) bouncing around with the coins in hand. The invention of those Ticket Eater machines that count tickets, shred them, and print out a receipt are GENIUS for people who have to work ticket counters. - I don't have to worry about card readers and all of that crap with mechanical coin mechs. If a card reader breaks, I can't fix it. If a mechanical coin mech breaks, I can fix it, and generally pretty easily.
Dave and Buster's generally sucks, in my experience. I would never go there. The staff at the ones I've been to has been uniformly uninformed and clueless. A game hung, and they taped the thing over--instead of power cycling it...
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Sounds like Amazon to me. Has all the hallmarks of it.
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Uhm, yeah. Strange.
I live in Maine (and I'm 18 now). The closest place of employment I could find was nearly twenty miles away.
Yeah, bikes don't work up here; everything's too remote. (And I totaled my first car, too--didn't have the experience necessary, panicked, and locked up the brakes. Taught me a lot about safe driving.)
What I've heard in the Linux community is to stay away from anything ATI if you plan to use it with Linux. Too bad really, because they really do make nice cards.
I've got an Ubuntu (Dapper) laptop running an ATI Radeon X1300. Works great. All I needed was to point EasyUbuntu at it, and it's worked like a charm ever since.
Even plays F.E.A.R. under Cedega very smoothly.
Don't listen to the F/OSS zealots. The binary drivers have worked fine on my new laptop, worked fine on my old laptop, and worked fine on my old desktop before that. I've never seen a machine that has trouble with that. Yeah, I know, blah blah, anecdotal evidence doesn't count--but show me a machine with those problems that can't be diagnosed as installation screwups and I'll eat my hat.
Way to totally not understand A MOVIE.
I bought lots of RAM so I could run Photoshop at the same time that I ran my dev tools (the only things that keep me on Windows--awesome development tools and Photoshop).
Firefox, after about eight hours of browsing with 4-6 tabs, glomps about 600-700MB of RAM. Yeah. NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Keep going, fanboy.
"Her"? Sir, you are on Slashdot!
:( )
(Now please don't kill me for my funny!
I'd guess he didn't know too much about the BSD license when he put Linux under GPL. But I don't know for sure.
Rune Walsh and Chaz Ashley from Phantasy Star IV. One with explodey magic of doom, one with a sword that doesn't look like it's seriously overcompensating for something (Cloud, I'm looking at you). Or Wren from PSIII. Turn into a plane and dive-bomb the other players!
...why rms thinks it's okay for him to dictate to me, one of the users he so fervently believes needs to be "free," what I can and cannot do--with software I have written and worked on. I could insert a comment here about academia being entirely out of touch with reality, but that'd just be poor sporting.
He's overprivileged and spoiled, though. Everyone else has to wait between posts!
Then you can either get a company to open-source (Netscape), you can write your own, or you can suck it up and deal with it.
Where, exactly, is the problem? You have the freedom to write your own, don't you?
I've never understood the complaint behind the bundling of Mail, News, etc. with Netscape (and subsequently the Moz Suite). I used Moz and then SeaMonkey on my ThinkPad, and when I got my new machine for school I got Firefox. I still think I like SeaMonkey more. It may be a bit more baroque, but it's a more familiar interface to me and far more comfortable. I dislike Firefox primarily because it's different from what I'm used to; YMMV.
The Boy Scouts already won. Everyone else is fighting for second place.
I'm an avid gamer, and Shadowrun's my flat-out favorite system ever created. (I like it because, not in spite of, its weirdnesses, so take what I say with a pound or two of salt.)
FanPro has turned it from an obscure cult favorite into an attempt at mass-market appeal. The system has gotten moronically simple (yay for newbies, boo for old-timers) and much of the flavor of the game has been replaced by "XTREME attitude!"
And we've got a Shadowrun first person shooter in the works, for God's sake...
RIP, Shadowrun. Fortunately, me and SR3 will keep on truckin'.
Awake 2062 - a damn fine Shadowrun MUD
Don't you young punks watch Saved by the Bell anymore?
I think that was my point...
Here's a partial solution (note I have no Macintosh, so my struggles are Windows Linux):
IFS ext2/3 drivers
It's free, it's solid (I also have another driver that I use to convert my Linux swap partition into a usable partition under Windows, where its swap is stored too), and it stores files up to, what, 2 TiB?
If there's a Mac ext2/3 driver (and there's gotta be, eh?), this might help you out.
HTH
-Ed
Wow, you must be old. I'm 18, and I had to go to Wikipedia to get that reference.
:( )
(All in good fun. Please don't kill me, Mr. Oldperson.
-Ed
His 4 are smaller than your 4, so shut up! ;)
Slashdot: The only place where you can say "mine's smaller, so it's better!"
(And how appropriate when speaking of really small things (CmdrTaco?)...captcha: particle)
I meant a choice during the install procedure, when I finish a install of fedora I can have my system correctly installed with all the options I need, gcc, dev packages and etc.
:-D
Yes, because how hard is it to pop open a terminal and type the following lines to solve your problem:
apt-get install gcc-4.0
apt-get install make
apt-get build-dep gnome
There ya go--all the gnome-dev headers, gcc, and make. Just about EVERY program in the Ubuntu and Debian repositories honors build-dep.
Also if the program is already packaged I usually don't need to compile it, so the apt-get command you refered is not very usefull, but it is good to know it exists.
See above. Obviously build-dep would be useful in the very circumstance you mentioned in your previous point.
I'm working on this very thing, geared primarily toward computer wonks like ourselves.
E-mail me if you're interested in getting in on the beta testing/bulletproofing.
-Ed
You just shot yourself in the foot. Franken is a joke.
Mod this troll or flamebait if your biases compel it--but do mod the parent as well on similar grounds.
It's called "legality". Ever heard of it?
Granted, I'm less interested in a video-only arcade than most people, in favor of a ticket-giving, redemption-counter sort of deal, but swipe-card machines suck for a number of reasons.
- A lot of ticket-spewing games use the coin/token to hit a target. You've just ruled out those games.
- Tokens and coins appeal to kids. Same deal with tickets. Kids like collecting tickets and (apparently) bouncing around with the coins in hand. The invention of those Ticket Eater machines that count tickets, shred them, and print out a receipt are GENIUS for people who have to work ticket counters.
- I don't have to worry about card readers and all of that crap with mechanical coin mechs. If a card reader breaks, I can't fix it. If a mechanical coin mech breaks, I can fix it, and generally pretty easily.
Dave and Buster's generally sucks, in my experience. I would never go there. The staff at the ones I've been to has been uniformly uninformed and clueless. A game hung, and they taped the thing over--instead of power cycling it...
I have an irrational desire for this product right now. I'd be PERFECTLY happy if all it did was send "nickel pulses" and let the code handle it...
Where can I get 'em these days? (Obviously I've Googled, but maybe you know somewhere cheap?