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12-14-2007, 02:13 AM
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She does that, usually when you least expect it.
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12-15-2007, 02:32 AM
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Ohh, where'd she go now?
As bad as my Desktop. Just get used to it being like that, and whammo. Gone again. |
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12-16-2007, 03:14 AM
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What? Your desktop disappeared?
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12-17-2007, 09:51 PM
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What day is it?
Now I've got a Windows parody. Bad penguin.   I have 3 machines, only 1 runs Microsoft. Purely for gaming. That reminds me, I wonder how "Pleasantview" is getting along. Since I got my race simulator licensed and registered, I've been doing lots of practice laps. Need to. Stupid me, I sent my AI driver out into the net to practice race against other racer's AI. Now I have trouble keeping up to him,  , if I can't beat my own AI driver I'm stuffed in the world class. |
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12-17-2007, 11:50 PM
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Yeah... I am mighty annoyed that the ONLY game I want for Christmas needs XP or Vista
 and flatly refuses to run on anything less. I have 2000, which works very well and has recently been reinstalled, and Linux.  (Sim City Societies) |
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12-18-2007, 12:11 AM
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A new game? What a concept! Not counting the sundry incarnations of The Sims, I've been playing just one game for the past ten years!
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12-18-2007, 01:31 AM
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Sita, if you must, then install XP SP2. If you can still get it that is.
Microsoft have just released the first public trial of SP3 for XP. That might even get incorporated into a final sales release of XP, next year. If we are lucky, because nobody wants Vista. Still way too buggy. Which flavour Linux do you run? I like Mandriva myself, it runs nicely, on everything I put it at. Don't seem to be able to get my head around any of the Debian distro's. Greg, you really must try ShipSim 2008. Hmm, maybe 2007, even my big machine struggled with the demo of 2008. http://www.shipsim.com/home.php I am still trying to track the released disk set of that. Want to flu the shuttle? Orbiter, that one is right up your line of work. Even I, managed to get the shuttle back down in one piece.  Just.And it's free. Download at www.sourceforge.net Or, if you like to drive, fancy yourself as a race car driver, then try out "Live for speed". I like www.LFS.net BMW Sauber Formula 1 team helped put the physics engine together for that simulator. Or, a big rig driver? "18 wheels of steel" is the one for you there. |
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12-18-2007, 12:05 PM
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Ship Simulator 2008 looks really neat! My impression is that they developed it for use as a training simulator for ships' crews and decided to release it as a game.
A Space Shuttle simulator might be fun, too. I have about 2,000 hours logged in the real thing, but the game version might be more fun! 
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yes it is beginning to look as if I will have to get XP
Really don't wanna. Does it work with Sims 2 okay? with Sims 1? I know my work programs will work with it as we had XP at my last paid job and I used these programs there (apart from OpenOffice, and I hope that will be okay). It was more or less stable then at work, I was a beta tester for our local network. But I don't wanna lose my Sims! That would be too high a cost. Um... Debian. And Grub loader - but I actually know very little about Linux, techy son does all that stuff. I have an interface that looks rather like Windoze and does much the same. Just runs a few other programs than I can on Windoze. I would use it a lot more if they had ever fixed Sims 1 for Linux |
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12-18-2007, 05:49 PM
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Sims 2 and OpenOffice are fine with XP.
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Like the lady said. And Firefox, SeaMonkey, Gimp2. If you have an older program you must use, it can be run in 16 bit compatibility mode. I am not a big fan of Microsoft or its products, but, in honesty I have never had any kind of BSOD from Win XP. Yes. An application will crash, and XP will want to send a crash report to MS. But, I have never had the actual system crash, in over 3 years of use. But. Keep it up to date with all system security updates. It's called "Update Tuesday". Don't use the Windows Genuine Advantage Tool and don't use the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. They are cruddy things at best. Don't let windows do things on auto pilot, it will hurt itself. Set XP's internal Firewall to, ON. Set Automatic Updates to, Notify, but do not install. That way, you can go through the list of updates and uncheck the back door nasties. See the 2 Windows warnings above. Every month MS will attempt to install a new version of their Malicious Software Removal Tool. Make sure you do not install that one. Sounds like your Debian Desktop is KDE. I use that myself. |
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12-18-2007, 10:55 PM
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What's SeaMonkey? Any relationship to brine shrimp?
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All in one web application. By Mozilla, the Firefox people. Browser, email, IRC, you name it in one. And free as well. |
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