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  2. Oldies you enjoyed

    in Games

    Posted

    Is that "Cyberia" or "Syberia"? Cause both exist.

     

    King's Quest - any of the early ones (up to V)

    Space Quest - I & II

    Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D

    Descent - 1,2,3

    Freespace - 1,2

    Cyberia 1 & 2

     

     

    I don't know if those last three are "oldies", but they're freakin' awesome anyways :P

  4. Program for jotting down and organizing thoughts?

    in Software

    Posted

    I'm looking for a program that allows you to jot down and organize unstructured thoughts, before you actually structure them. A bit like mind-mapping I guess, but not quite. Some app that helps you to 'brainstorm' that's another way to explain it.

     

    Nice-to-haves are the possibility to link between different entries, availability of some simple drawing tools and the possibility to create some simple table structures.

  5. Mandriva to play Windows games

    in Portal News

    Posted

    Sometimes I think, I'm a gamer, my games are fully functional, and run faster under Windows, therefore I must have a Windows install. Why even bother having Linux? But here I am ...

     

    For me Linux is getting to the point where it's actually much easier to do something I want to do in Linux compared to Windows...

     

    File management... KDE/Konqueror beats the crap out of Windows Explorer.

     

    I created a 'fake' newspaper for my girfriend in Scribus, I recorded a song for her and encoded it as mp3 with Audacity&Lame. No program in Windows beats Amarok. It can even import&export to my iPod Nano. I've been retagging my entire music collection with Kid3. I watch my videos with Mplayer (both Windows and Linux). Evolution gets all my web-based e-mail (Pop3 - although I prefer using the webbased interfaces e.g. gmail).

     

    I don't need to install drivers when connecting my digital camera and downloading pictures with Digikam.

     

    In Windows, it asks me for the WinXP CD, but I have to walk pretty far to fetch it, so I don't bother and just boot up in Linux to download them. And the retouching features of the latest Digikam version are superb (Red Eye Reduction, Unsharp Mask, Color Correction, ...).

     

    And I use Windows... for games. Although I did get Dreamfall running under Wine.

  13. Ogg vs mp3

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by Darkelve

    Now you've run out of one more excuse: http://www.rockbox.org/

     

    :P

     

    don't know about .ogg support for iTunes though?

     

    Edit: or *do* I?

    http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/about.html

    http://www.illadvised.com/~jordy/

    http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...021103065300430

     

    At my linux machine (work) I rip cd's as ogg. At home (OS X) it's AAC.

     

    AAC because it seems better than MP3 to my ear and because my iPod mini will play it. If ogg was an option for my iPod and iTunes then I would use it over MP3 or AAC.

  15. Audio Conversion tool

    in Software

    Posted

    I thought it would be useful to post this:

     

    http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12608

     

    audiokonverter is a small utility to easily convert from OGG, MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WMA, RealAudio, Musepack, Wavpack, WAV and movies to MP3, OGG, M4A, WAV and FLAC in Konqueror by right-clicking on them. It needs oggenc, oggdec, faac, faad, flac, mplayer and lame to work. id3lib is optional for full functionality. Also optional are vorbis-tools and metaflac for handling other metadata.

     

    This has been said before, but I will say it again:

     

    By converting a lossy file (e.g. mp3) into another lossy file (e.g. mp3), the file will LOOSE quality

     

    So one possible approach to counter this, is for example:

    - use FLAC when ripping files from a CD for storage on hard disk. FLAC is a compressed, but LOSLESS format, meaning that you will always have the best quality if you start FROM a FLAC file

    - convert the FLAC files to mp3 or ogg files to take with you on your portable mp3/media player

     

    Linux can recognize most mp3 players as '(USB) mass storage' devices. Functionality for iPods is provided in the music programs Banshee and Amarok.

  16. KDE and Gnome

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Yes, they are both Desktop Environments (hence the 'DE' in their names).... they take care of all the stuff that has to be done so you have a usable 'environment' to work in: drawing desktop wallpaper, window borders and buttons, notifications through system sounds, ...

     

    Most distributions come with either KDE or Gnome pre-installed, some with both, and a lot of them allow you to easily install the other one during installation or later with a package manager.

     

    If I got it right then:

    - At the lowest level, X11/X.Org is the thing that allows your Linux computer to draw things on the screen

    ||

    \/

    - KDE and Gnome are the things that make use of that to give you a workspace for your programs to work in, and make sure everything works well together (for example, moving and resizing windows)

    ||

    \/

    - your programs run inside that desktop environment

     

    But in short, yes KDE and/or Gnome are grahical desktops, which come with almost all popular distributions. In fact, first time you login to your desktop, there's a very big chance that you just arrived into either KDE or Gnome 'land'...

  17. Mac OSX - Leopard video presentation at WWDC 2006

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    I don't know... Steve Jobs said in his keynote there was some 'Top Secret' stuff that's yet to be reveiled... don't know if I should just take his word for it though...

     

    As a Mac user for a bit over 18 months I'm a bit ho-hum about Leopard. The versioning file system is kinda neat and spaces (obviously in other *nix since forever) could be quite cool if it works well with expose. Everything else is pretty underwhelming for me, perhaps some under-the-hood changes like launchd from tiger will grab my attention.

  18. iPod Problems

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by Darkelve

    The screen doing that is normal.

     

    Amarok crashing isn't. Maybe you could try updating Amarok?

    I've used it a couple of times now, and it works great... but

    I'm running the latest version of Amarok, updated with Smart.

     

    Also, before you disconnect it, go to 'My Computer', right-click

    on the entry 'ipod' and choose 'safely remove'.

     

    You might also give Banshee a try, it works with ipods too.

    Will also tell you if the crash is specific to amarok. Not 100%

    sure, but I think Banshee also synchs automatically.

     

    I prefer the way it's done in amaroK since my entire music collection

    would NEVER fit on my 1GB ipod nano... so I can selectively copy and

    delete songs to and from the ipod.

     

    When I plug my iPod into the computer, the iPod stays on its "Do Not Disconnect" screen. I've tried it on other computers, and it works fine. Another thing; when I try to do anything with it on AmaroK, AmaroK craps out on me and quits entirely. :wall:

     

    Any advice is greatly appreciated.

  20. Woot! I'm playing Dreamfall... In Linux!

    in Games

    Posted · Edited by Darkelve

    I got Dreamfall running on Linux.

     

    There are some visual problems, (due to wine’s 3D implementation still being very much in the works) and it’s not very stable yet… but it’s definitely playable… playable, but a bit buggy.

     

    Most things work (pixel shaders, volumetric fog, special kind of lighting, e.g. 'halo' effect for lamps), except for certain lighting effects. The most serious bug is that the in-game videos don't work, which means you might miss out on some crucial parts in the story. Oh, and anti-aliasing doesn't work... :|

     

    But still, to be able to actually play this recent title on Linux! Amazing... I'm at chapter 4 ATM and didn't encounter any real problems yet...

     

    Needed to run it:

    - Wine version 0.9.19

    - Copy 2 dll’s from your Windows XP system directory into your wine’s fake_windows directory, as explained here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217780

    - start winecfg and check the box ‘enable pixel shaders’ (or something like that) under the ‘Graphics’ tab.

    - run the game: wine dreamfall.exe (dreamfall.exe being an, erm 'modified' exe ... attention! This may or may not be legal in your country, check your local laws before trying this!)

     

     

    Wine FTW!

     

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  21. Ogg vs mp3

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Does RockBox support Ogg? I heard that it's the 'safer' project of the two... though you can't make your Nano play videos with that... :)

     

    I did and I support the idea but my mp3/avi/jpg player doesn't support ogg.... :o

    neither does mine...though i imagine if i installed ipodlinux it would...

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