We can game on Linux too. Gaming with Unreal Tournament 2004 on Debian GNU/Linux shows that you can play games on the free operating system as well as on Windows. UT 2004 has huge levels reminiscent of Tribes and sniping other players in those Duke3D styled flying machines and running on the ground is heaps … Read more
I have just bought Lord of the Rings The Two Towers on DVD and it is amazing how much stuff they cut out of the theatrical release of the films. Especially Sam & Pippin discovering Saruman’s stash of food and Longbottom leaf. This blog is still going ahead despite all of the haters and trolls … Read more
This is looking to be an awesome Linux release, including Video codecs and flash plugins in the release means that you can be online and watching the OSGUI tech show in no time, in Windows XP, which I have recently re-installed, I have had to go online and download the flash plugins to get Youtube … Read more
So an error with the CpanelX has wiped out my database, I need to start again, but it will be possible and I will look on the bright side and not get bogged down. I can recover some of my posts from a google cached page and keep going from here. It is annoying enough … Read more
Google Tech TalksJune, 5 2008 ABSTRACT The Linux Kernel, who is developing it, how they are doing it,and why you should care. This talk describes the rate of development for the Linuxkernel, and how the development model is set up to handle such alarge and diverse developer population and huge rate of change.It will detail … Read more
Lloyd Pye details how absurd it is to believe that primitive people using fiber ropes and stone tools were responsible for building the World’s Megaliths. Material c/o LloydPye.co Site powered by RSS.
Another great testimony from our long-gone Carl Sagan. A great thinker like only few have been. You are gone now, but we cherish and remember the gift you brought to us. The gift of vision. *Notice – This video is not of my own making and it is not my own property. I originally found … Read more
I just bought a 7 port USB hub that plugs into a USB port and gives you 7 USB ports, and I can use it perfectly on Fedora Core 13 and Gentoo, but it will not work at all on Windows XP service pack 3.? I am thinking that if I re-plug it in Windows, … Read more
StarDestroyer.Net BBS • View topic – Armageddon?? (chapters 1-85 Epilogue) Site powered by RSS.
Gnome desktop installed. Just installed the Gnome desktop on Linux Mint. Quite like it actually and definitely preferable to KDE4.2.2.
Just replaced my 160GB hard disk with another of the same size, a Western Digital 7200RPM drive with 8MB cache as the original drive was about to fail. I copied the whole Linux directory structure across to the new drive, using Midnight Commander: /usr, /lib, /sbin & friends as well as the /boot directory and … Read more
I am typing this in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx alpha and despite the problems I had with the Nvidia drivers and having to use the driver downloaded from the Nvidia website instead of the supplied driver which failed to install, I am happy with it so far, the grub2 menu is not as slow as the … Read more
Just switched to the AmiWM desktop for my Linux installation, I am typing this in a custom build of Emacs. I built this from source and it is good for a first try, I need to get the Xaw3d development packages and some more X development packages to get more features, but it works very … Read more
I have just installed Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope once more, and I will see how I go with this, I have just installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras package and I should be able to play just about any format I want to. My Windows XP installation is playing up so I sacrificed the disk space occupied by Windows … Read more
If only quake2 looked like this. Site powered by RSS.
I have found a site here I found useful when I had to install Xmms on Ubuntuu. http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/ I ran apt-get update after following the instructions and it worked. Site powered by RSS.
I have been working on my website and fixing up the title picture and various html fixes and keeping busy. I hope you like it. Site powered by RSS.
New Metacity theme. I have just added a new metacity theme at: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=62338. This is a theme using SVG graphics. It is different looking, but quite good too. My own take on a Gnome Metacity theme.
I have just got more work done on my facility.wad and I have got some 256*256 pixel textures which works very well with prboom 2.4. I tried this with the latest Zdoom and it crashes, so better to use prboom to play this wad. http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=15922. This map is quite a good looking level and worth … Read more
Just upgraded to a new 80 gigabyte hard drive to replace my old and worn drive which was quite small and not very fast. Here is my partition layout. 2-:$> df -Hla Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 33G 2.4G 30G 8% / proc 0 0 0 – /proc sysfs 0 0 0 … Read more