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Re: [Wlug] In regards to the 50% discount for lugs...

by Wesley T Allen

I just might be interested in doing that. One other question.... Would 9 people be interested in getting Alpha Centauri, if I can get both of these games for $20.00, that would be REALLY COOL. Wes On 20 Apr 2001 10:01:47 -0400, Keller, Tim wrote: > Would nine other people be interested in buying a copy of Tribes 2? > > I might just accidentally setup a tribes server out in our DMZ :-) > > Tim. > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

April 20, 2001

In regards to the 50% discount for lugs...

by Keller, Tim

Would nine other people be interested in buying a copy of Tribes 2? I might just accidentally setup a tribes server out in our DMZ :-) Tim.

April 20, 2001

Re: [Wlug] In regards to the 50% discount for lugs...

by Doctor Orbitz

Is Tribes 2 an FPS (liek Quake and such?) Sounds like fun. My only problem is games run at liek 7FPS on me. I have an Athlon 750mhz with a GeForce 256 running the Nvidia drivers (gotta check for latest) but Quake 3 runs like hell. I tried switchign to 16bpp, no go. I think maybe the problem is that I cannot change my Virtual desktop size lower then 1280x1024...any ideas? Orbitz "Keller, Tim" wrote: > Would nine other people be interested in buying a copy of Tribes 2? > > I might just accidentally setup a tribes server out in our DMZ :-) > > Tim. > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 20, 2001

Re: [Wlug] lilo

by doug waud

Hi > I was wondering if anyone can help me with lilo. When > I boot my machine it only displays LI. I seem to > remember this having to do something with the drive > geometry. Any Ideas? I also installed grub which > when I boot just displays GRUB. What could be wrong? Start with the Lilo User's guide, troubleshooting, Boot loader messages http://www.yggdrasil.com/bible/lilo/user/node68.html#SECTION006200000000000… (the main page is http://www.yggdrasil.com/bible/lilo/user/user.html in case I screwed up that more specific pointer) :-) I find this whole document is the "bible" for lilo. doug -- Douglas R Waud 17 Lantern Lane, Shrewsbury, MA, 01545-2006 http://www.ummed.edu/pub/d/drw/

April 19, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Need input re: developers tools

by Marc Hughes

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Doug Chamberlin wrote: > > Third, there are hundreds of thousands of developers using Delphi who now > can use their familiar development environment to do Linux applications. I > believe this will have a major impact on the Linux world and give C a run > for its money. Will it supplant C? Of course not! Will it provide a > credible alternative? You bet! Like Me! I've been doing Delphi for the past 4 years at my job. Up until now, it's been Delphi at work, PERL/C/PHP/etc. at home. This Monday I'm starting a Linux job... you better believe that I'm going to push to get a copy of Kylix there! I more relate Delphi (and hence Kylix) with Java in programming style. It just "feels" more like Java, just about everything passed by reference, meager garbage collection, and kick ass utility classes. But the real power is in the development environment, not the language. I can slap together a nice looking application that does something usefull in half a day. Using GTK or QT it takes me that long just to get the GUI right. Expect to see a lot more graphical applications (even tho most will be crap) as soon as the Free version is released. -Marc

April 19, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Need input re: developers tools

by Doug Chamberlin

At 4/16/2001 11:50 PM (Monday), Tom Guilderson wrote: >I won't proceed to thrash pascal since I have never really done any >development in pascal, but the linux/unix development world is dominated >by C. [more snipped] If you are going to do any >serious development in a Unix environment, you will need to know C. This has certainly been true for a long time. However, Kylix is a significant departure from that history and a significant event worth noting. Why? First, the version of Pascal that Borland has evolved is "not your father's Pascal". In it's Delphi form it is fully equivalent to C++ in power and efficiency. Second, Delphi (and it's Turbo Pascal ancestor) have never been ported from the DOS/Windows environment before (except for a brief aborted visit to the Mac OS). Therefore, no one using the Unix platforms has been able to evaluate it properly. With Kylix this will be possible. Third, there are hundreds of thousands of developers using Delphi who now can use their familiar development environment to do Linux applications. I believe this will have a major impact on the Linux world and give C a run for its money. Will it supplant C? Of course not! Will it provide a credible alternative? You bet! Interesting times, indeed!

April 19, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Need input re: developers tools

by Dennis Payne

> I won't proceed to thrash pascal since I have never really done any > development in pascal, but the linux/unix development world is dominated > by C. If it is not written in C, then the interpreter, byte code > interpreter/virtaul machine for the language was likely written in C > (perl, tcl/tk, python, java etc etc). C is also the language that gives > you the best interfaces for system calls into the low level aspects of > unix such as the file systems, I/O etc. If you are going to do any > serious development in a Unix environment, you will need to know C. Pascal and C are so similar in capabilities, the argument presented here is confusing. Except for strings there is no reason, Pascal couldn't directly interface the system calls as C. The free pascal compiler has a C string type and can do just what I suggested (or at least that is what the documentation suggests). The language that the interpreter, compiler or whatever is written in doesn't disprove the viability of languages only proves the flexibility of C. Assuming that's true, free pascal is written in pascal. (Perhaps instead of BSD/Linux where the GNU tools are replaced with BSD tools someone could make a distribution using only Pascal, ADA, etc.) (I don't mean to start a holy war. Considering the author suggested python, tcl/tk, etc. as tools, he obviously doesn't believe C is the best tool for every job. These statements just bothered me.) Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com

April 19, 2001

Cable modem/lilo

by William Hine

The version of SUSE linux I was running seemed to give me a problem with DHCP. Ive yet to figure out what it is, and cable modems should be simple to setup. Anyways I installed mandrake 8.0 beta 3. The installation utility is great. I booted in the system for the first time and was able to use my modem. Thanx for the reccomendation. I was wondering if anyone can help me with lilo. When I boot my machine it only displays LI. I seem to remember this having to do something with the drive geometry. Any Ideas? I also installed grub which when I boot just displays GRUB. What could be wrong? TIA Bill __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/

April 19, 2001

[Fwd: Your 4/19 LUG meeting]

by Andy Stewart

HI gang, Would somebody who attends the WLUG meeting on Thursday be willing to write up something which can be posted on LWN, LinuxToday, and LinuxUsersGroups.org? Kara has asked, and I told her that we'd come up with something. Thanks in advance, Andy -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Your 4/19 LUG meeting Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:24:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Kara Pritchard <kara(a)luci.org> To: <andystewart(a)mediaone.net> Hi Andy, Looks like you have a fun evening planned for your next LUG meeting. I'd be interested if you (or someone in your group) would do a write-up about the special meeting, or perhaps an interview. I'll host it at LinuxUsersGroups.org and have it posted to LWN and LinuxToday. It'll be a good opportunity both for your group and for Ziegler's book. -- Kara Pritchard Phone: 618-398-7360 Author, RHCE Exam Cram Director of Exam Development http://www.lpi.org/ Site Manager http://www.LinuxUsersGroups.org/ --

April 19, 2001

Re: [Wlug] max memory?

by ccb＠acm.org

> > Is linux limited to 4GB memory? > > Nope, not 2.4 anyways. I don't remember the limit, but it's a big > number. ;-) > > > I have inherited some boxes with 5GB each and I'm planning on loading linux. Some things to remember - if these are x86 architecture boxes, you still have a 3GB per process user space limit. Even with 64GB of RAM, no single process can see more than 4GB and the top 1GB of that is mapped as kernel space. Big memory means that you get to have lots of large virtual address spaces that can remain mapped in physical RAM. For virtual address spaces with wider than 32-bit addresses, you need 64-bit processors. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 ccb(a)valinux.com www.valinux.com

April 18, 2001