hey, i don't have a usb joystick... actually, last night i said screw it and installed debian (as sole OS), but the installation messed up. then i found the freeBSD CD someone had secreted in my laptop case (while furiously tearing apart the house looking for my Progeny CD) and tried installing that, only to realize half way through that it wasn't going to support my sound or video. now Progeny's dead (as an OS), my debian CD's just aren't going to work and freeBSD doesn't look like it's going to do it for me either.
so i figure i'll just stop by mr. o's tonight and nab some red hat cd's. what kind of beers y'all like? i figure i owe everybody here one by now... i'll pick up a half ~ rack of whatever you want, and if i can swing it, some genuine home-made lawn-chipper-washing-machine apple-pear cider. -----Original Message----- From: Mr O [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 6:46 PM To: Justin Bengtson Subject: Re: [EUG-LUG:3395] Re: the windoze XP-erience Hmm.... XMMS isn't expendable? Oops, better stop flipping through my playlist with my USB joystick while in virtual consoles or on my other box. :-) You can get plug-ins up the... well you know. Skins? Uses Winamps and it's own. You really want Winamp? Okay, it's in beta on the Linux version I think. 3-D modeling? Okay, I suck at that but there's alway Blender. Not to mention Hollywood makes extensive use of Linux these days. Especially Dreamworks. Try www.tucows.com for some linux sound stuff. Between there and Sourceforge you can find anything. Then there's always the advocates way - write it yourself. I can't program either so I won't go there. Ah, games. Another frontier being conquered by many. More and more games are being ported and Wine is growing in it's support of M$ API's for DirectX enabled games. Long live OpenGL. Aren't I a geek? Oh, and... all my CD-burning, game playing, and even DVD watching are done under linux too. All this and I've only been taking my linux usage seriously since I restarted using it this year. On Wednesday 24 October 2001 09:47 am, you wrote: > oh, like lightwave 6. nothing i've seen (which isn't much, i admit) can > handle free-form point movement and placement. i rarely need to carve > anything, just make a box with a couple extra points, move 'em around and > suddenly i have a pleasing shape. it is surprisingly easy to come up with > a completed model. > > there are also a few games that i still play that probably won't make it to > linux either (thief, thief 2, x-wing alliance), but playing games isn't > that big of a deal. and, as far as i know or have seen, XMMS doesn't hold > a candle to winamp for sheer expandability. not saying winamp is better > (memory leaks out the ass!) but it has all of the features i want. i also > asked about sound editing programs and such, but no one has replied (or > knows what i'm talking about, or just plain doesn't use them...) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
