DOlson
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Wow, scary... I was listening to a song, and that head-banging smiley struck me as odd, since it was banging in time with the beat of the song... Eerie.
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s/yesterday/the\ other\ day/
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I tried Ion. Didn't like it, but I didn't give it a fair chance either. I prefer my eye-candy Gnome.
On one of my older systems (I just got two of them, IIRC they are both P233s) I use Blackbox through VNC.
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So........ Has anyone actually played MY games??? Or did you all just see "DOSBox" and go load up good ol' Underdogs??? ;) ;) ;)
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Hahaha.
Okay, here I am. I don't have much time to post on here anymore, that's why I'm not here.
Now, I would beg you don't use this opportunity to promote WineX, but I can't stop you and I don't really care much anymore. I'd rather see PC gaming die off altogether, but unfortunately, it won't happen soon. I have my reasons, and they aren't that hard to think of, so I'm not going to list them here (email me if you're enraged at this, and we can talk about it).
Feel free to use my article as a basis. I'm glad some people remembered about it too. That's very cool.
Also, UT2K4 had a demo release yesterday for Linux, if you weren't already aware.
Not sure what else you want me to say. Don't go looking in the WineX threads for advice on this... Some of the WineX users seem to be misinformed about some things. I can give examples: Quake 3 Arena can be played natively with the Windows CD. Soldier of Fortune was released by Loki and can still be purchased from various sources. WineX does not run hundreds of games. A dozen or two, tops. There have been ports killed off by WineX's existance - Sacrifice is a prime example. And so on.
Anyhow, I'm not a guru or anything these days, but I would be willing to proofread your article for you, if you want. Drop me a line at dana@xboxaddict.com and we can talk.
Anyhow, I should go. I have to do a review for a new game coming out next week, and I have only played it for about an hour. The review is due by tomorrow night. Look for it next week sometime, probably on the 17th. ;)
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Soldier of Fortune: There was supposed to be a port of this game before Loki went under. It never got farther than the demo stage, though. This game seems to work, it's been a while since I've installed it.
Er, what? I bought the Loki version from TuxGames. You must be thinking of Deus Ex, which did not have a demo release.
And on another note, I don't have any issues running The Sims on my Xbox...
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Not sure if anyone has discovered this yet, but I just did a quick glance and didn't see it here.
If you find yourself stuck, and can't burn CloneCD images (file sets with extensions .ccd, .img, and .sub) then all you need is ccd2iso. Yes, this is a great little program that you can use to convert CloneCD image sets to a single ISO file.
Syntax:
ccd2iso filename.img filename.iso
Here is the website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ccd2iso/
Download the tarball, extract it (tar zxvf filename.tar.gz), and then cd into the directory it creates (cd ccd2iso/). Now just run make and it will compile it (you need compiler software installed, duh). When it's done, go into the src directory (cd src) and you should see the binary in there (ls ccd2iso). That's the one you want, so you could copy it to your path, and you're all set (su -c cp ccd2iso /usr/local/bin/).
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These are the ones I tested a while back: http://pgshopping.com/mdkxp/rpm/WineXGames.html
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If you are familiar with DOSBox at all, then you'll know how cool and easy it is to use.
Well, I dug up a copy of my old games called Backstreet Boys Suck and Backstreet Boys Suck 2: Spice Girls Suck, and tried them out in DOSBox... Lo and behold, THEY WORK!
Pretty neat stuff, considering these were both MAJOR hassles to get working in a Windows 98 environment even... I haven't played these games for probably over 3 years until a couple of days ago.
Anyhow, if you want to try them, you can download them both from the Scapegoat Software website (link in sig).
Just extract the zip file, then open a terminal in the directory that you extracted it to, then run dosbox ./ to start the emulator. Then, at the prompt, run the EXE file just like you would on a normal DOS machine. It should work fine.
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Looks like fun :)
btw, does anyone know some good&modern *single* player games (or demos of games) for Linux?
Looking escpecially for RPG&Adventure
Neverwinter Nights... And the two expansion packs.
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Gnome, because it looks hot, and Novell is doubling the number of paid developers for Gnome, plus it's an official GNU project, and because the bounties out there that are being hunted are going to improve Gnome's tightness with my favorite apps, such as Evolution and Gaim.
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if the scsi emulation is compiled as modules, you said it won't work, but it will. you just need to put the module names into /etc/modules, one per line, and that's it:
scsi_mod
ide-scsi
This applies to any modules that you want to use at bootup... Good ones are:
usb-uhci
usb-storage
hid
input
8139too
printer
(this is what I use, since I use a USB mouse, an ethernet card that is based on the 8139 chipset, and I have a printer)
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I'd use Debian myself, but that's just me... Other distros I'd recommend are Peanut or Slackware.
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I did try Planescape Torment in WineX because everyone said it worked so great, but it doesn't.
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You could just put the modules into /etc/modules and it'll load them at boot up. No need to reinstall just for this.
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why does linux have to be user friendly DOlson? i am no fricken linux whiz nor have ever been but i know when it is more beneficial to do something my self instead of the computer holding my hand. you mistake hardware detection and gui this and that as user friendly.
what most people are promoting is laziness and lax system security. if you have the sytem do everything for you in linux you are completely screwed if you pretty little detection system gets screwed up. what will you do when your x breaks? it is not fricken ahard to be aware of what your system contains and it takes about the same time to set up your system if you know what you have as it does to have some stupid system detect your crud via some slow interface.
really take your head out of your butt. user friendly only comes with user experience and good documantation not some stupid ass tool
Yeah, you're absolutely right. Shit, I'm not even gonna use a GUI for anything anymore. Not even to browse the web! Hell, I'm not even gonna use a pre-made OS, I'll make my own! But shit, why stop there? I'm gonna actually reinvent the computer from scratch because maybe there is a backdoor in my hardware! And who should be allowed to use a computer who didn't invent it anyhow? No one. So everyone, destroy your computers, and build your own from scratch! And don't even use pre-built capacitors or resistors or transistors to do it either because you don't understand how they were made! You gotta make them from scratch. Do it, or else you are a user and a poser using lame-o tools built by others!
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In my experience, the best firewall tool out there is ipkungfu. It's great. No GUI, so it's good for servers, and it's very simple to configure in the text files, so you don't need to know a lot of syntax...
I love it. It's easy to forward ports, setup vhosts, etc.
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Or you could download from CVS and compile yourself....
Ofcourse this is not as easy as a RPM but, its with-out-charge.
There where some sites that had RPMs for WineX but, Transmeta emailed them to put down this as it was bad for their bussiness...
<cursing>transmeta</cursing>
What does Linus' former employer have to do with WineX?
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DAMNED HARDWARE DETECTION AND GENERAL USER-FRIENDLINESS!!! ALL THOSE WHO WANT TO SPEND TIME USING THEIR SYSTEMS INSTEAD OF MAINTAINING AND FIGURING OUT HOW TO PROBE A MODULE WILL BURN!
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Yeah, gotta love the true drag-n-drop abilities of Gnome. :)
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Sweet deal.
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When I had mdk9.1 I tried Gnome, but it kept crashing, so I stayed with KDE... now I reinstalled my PC with KDE only (yes, Gnome is on my download Edition, I just chose not to install it).
What are the advantages with Gnome? Why do people choose Gnome over KDE, is it just the look, or?
I use Gnome because it doesn't crash anymore like it used to, it's faster to start up and run than KDE, it's easy to configure (although not as many options as KDE), it's pretty, and it's an official GNU product... Not to mention that it's supported by Red Hat, and Novell is going to double the number of paid developers working on it, as well as those bounties for nice desktop integration with other apps such as Evolution and Gaim... GTK2 just looks a lot nicer on the eyes than Qt... PLUS, I can drag and drop files from my desktop or filemanager into Gimp! That's my main reasons.
KDE is cool and all, but it's not for me.
The philosophy of Gnome is to basically do everything perfectly, whereas KDE's is to do more... So, depending on what you want... I am quite impressed with Gnome 2.4. One major version ago, it was very brutal, crashing left, right, and center. But not anymore, for me at least.
Magical disappearing disk space?!
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Okay, if I run the command df -h then I see this output:
/dev/hda4 37G 28G 7.8G 78% /usr/local/games
Yes, that is a 37GB games partition, yes, with 28GB used. The problem is that 37 - 28 <> 7.8. I checked it exactly, and this is the output of the df command:
/dev/hda4 38474484 28369340 8150736 78% /usr/local/games
Again, the problem is that 38474484 - 28369340 <> 8150736. There should be 10105144 instead of 8150736. I am unsure where this space went.
I did some searching, and I checked the output of lsof | grep games and found that a few files were open, yet deleted. I had some windows open so I closed them and unmounted the partition. I then ran fsck.ext3 -f /dev/hda4 on it. When it was done, the same output was shown.
Now, the question here is, did this free space magically disappear, or is it hidden somewhere? I got to thinking, and I figure it's in the journal, but that's pretty dumb to let yourself think you have more space than you actually do like that. I am thinking it's time to backup my partitions and start them over as reiserfs, since that's the partition type I prefer anyhow... And actually, I was sorta surprised that I am still on ext3 for my games and home directories... I forgot, since it's been a long long time simce I had to reformat and reinstall Debian, and I don't even remember using ext3 in the first place, lol. I use reiser for my root and backup partitions... I don't get it.
Anyhow, if anyone can confirm or deny that it's the ext3 journal's fault, please let me know.
Thanks!
Edit: moved from Software by spinynorman