btw , on the side note ... you do need money to run servers ...


thats is why i dont do servers things ...


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And your PC runs on thin air? And the ISP serves you for free?
That aside, what has that got to do with anything in this thread?


Cheers,
Tink

what i meant was i dont run servers ... thats not possible ... too much difficult works ...


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[BTW ::] cant just grab the whole piece of cake for yourself , must leave some to share with all ... ^_^


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Anarchy Online! I know some people have got it to work with WINE and I'm hoping to someday join them, but untill then I will continue to be found on my wife's XP box sneaking around sniping people with my tiny little Opifex Agent. I loved my free trial of EVE Online, but considering I can't get anything but a black screen after the splash using WINE or WINEX CVS, I'm sticking to Vendetta Online with it's native Linux client. Costs the same for a game that's not quite as enjoyable to me, but you vote with your dollar so I'm paying the people who had enough consideration to put a client out for Linux, Mac & Windows.

Then vote with another few dollars and try cedega:
http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/games...l?game_id=4144
http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/games...l?game_id=2380
They are not expensive, help to develop wine and have developed an interface which makes it very easy for game companies to port win32 games to linux.
They get a lot of criticism for not being open source, I have tried their source release and am impressed, but they are doing more to get games native to linux than anyone.

Cheers,
Stan

I may well do that next time I get paid. I've heard lot good and bad things about cedega, but if both of my favorite games run under it without all the headache of compiling it myself and hunting down deps I'd never even heard of till I started playing around with it it'd be well worth the money.

[KIA]aze: I just got done reading http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/...chnical/linux/ and haven't stopped laughing yet. Thanks for posting the link.

OK. I have read a couple of these "articles" now and I have one question, are we supposed to believe this crap? I worked on puters a long time ago and I may be a bit behind the times but that is rubbish. Some of it is just plain wrong and the opposite is true for the rest.

Is this person on drugs, maybe they need a rubber room for a while so a Dr can shine a light in her ears or maybe she is Bill Gates. O_O

I also like that you can't see who owns it with whois or netcraft. I wonder if this person has something to hide?

I'm just curious.

never never never have your meals on the internet , no-matter who that person was ... things dont come that easy ...

ok , seems that now we are going into the "finacial" things a little bit ... heres is one of them :: http://www.dillo.org/donations.html

would be a great blessing if it can do everything and yet its still what it is in the first place ...


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I found this:

http://whois.domaintools.com/shelleytherepublican.com

It's on godaddy.com. If it helps any, their traffic is dropping. LOL

Shame, nearly wet myself after I realized it was tongue in cheek

what esle to believe if you guys are not going to believe it ... ??


//must believe it ... trust me ...


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i understand that initialy, linux was a unix alternative, but its so much more today, i look at distrow like lindows and kubuntu that are put out as desktop os for everyone. granted they are much easier to use and more compatible than they were five years ago, but still, they are a bit wanting in the 3 things i quoted in my first post to TRULY be for everyone. and i dont expect it to be "like windows". but i do want it to be a replacement for windows, for it to just work the way windows just works(i know there are many M$ horror stories out there,ive had a few myself).

one day, i would like to put together a new computer with band new parts, plug in the latest edition of my favorite linux distro, install it, and if my vendor only included windows drivers,it would be no problem, cause i could use those in place of linux drivers, so i pop in my windows driver disc, and whatever wine like program/service i have in that distro, would just automaticaly assimilatee the driver, then i would pop in a game, and it would automaticaly do it for a game mabey with a wizard of somekind, but minimal technical knowledge from me. and then when my drivers and games and apps, weither it be designed for linux or windows is done, i can start customizing the desktop,menus, all of my mediaplayers and everything the way i want it to work and function
i would be able to be as technical or technicaly illiterate as i wanted or needed

i think one day it will happen, and ill be in a pc store and there will be the new copy of M$ on the shelf and some sales rep will tell me all about it, and ill reply,"why, ive got linux and it runs all of my windows games apps and drivers, and even better open sorce programs than i can get for windows and its free!" at that point the sales reps will just quit,knowing full well he has lost another sale to linux, and then he will try and sell me beter hardware, and thats were ill pay more attention

i cant wait for that day
one day,but not today

Its unfortunate that you didn't read any of the responses to your original comment, since they already included answers to the stuff you just posted now.....

If thats what you want, start learning to program. Emulating other systems, good. Wizards, if you want, but dont even think of taking away the config files.
If I wanted a nintendo I would buy one.
Stan.