[dundee] Broadband? Just Flush it down.
Lee Hughes
toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Apr 5 12:58:05 BST 2007
are you talking shit?
;-)
Jason Cormie <Jason-lug at wormwood666.demon.co.uk> wrote: On a similar note, there is currently plans to connect St Andrews and Dundee
Uni with a second fibre link, by running it through the sewer systems, think
this becoming common practise, saves digging up roads.
Lee Hughes wrote:
> http://www.google.com/tisp/
>
> me thinks it may be the month of april.
>
> however, this could actually work!!!
>
> Although you may experinces blockages if you have had a curry the night
> before.
>
> Laters,
> Lee
>
>
> */Lee Hughes /* wrote:
>
> Seems that Crysis uses DirectX 10,which is only avaible in Windows
> Vista.
> It's an API!!! there no reason why directX10 can't run on XP..seems
> that microsoil are using gamers to sell thier new flagship O/S!
>
> Shame about that,the only reason I duck back to windows is too play
> games.
>
> I think it may stay that way for sometime to come.
>
> :-(
>
> Lee
>
> */Arron Finnon /* wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Cedega, what a topic this can turn out to be. All though I'm not
> much of a
> gamer and in fairness i know less about gaming than i do about
> Linux (which
> i know isn't saying much), i understand the importance of this
> subject. I
> do speak to a lot of people about making the full time switch
> from Wind0ze
> to Linux, and most of them are gamers. They want to be able to
> continue
> their gaming and just feel that Linux is just too fair behind to
> do this,
> now I'm not saying this is the case (cause in fairness i
> wouldn't know, just
> what i have heard from people).
>
> However gaming commands a large user base of people and in my
> belief it is
> the final big hurdle, not just the ability to handle the games
> them self but
> rather bad P.R attached. I actually never hear a good word about
> Cedega,
> but this could be for a lot of reasons, but I'm left remember an
> incident
> when Cedega users where banned from a on-line game (can't
> remember the name
> of it, but it was big enough to make the Computering news) for a
> day,
> because the games company thought the Cedega users where either
> cheating or
> vulnerable to cheating. This kinda issue i think scares new
> users wanting
> to make the Linux jump i think. I think that a mass of new and
> enthusiastic
> users can't wait to ditch “sir bill of gates, and his dancing
> monkey boy
> palls†and stick a tux in their machines.
>
> Too often i have been told by people, “i use XP for my gamesâ€,
> “if i could
> I'd get rid of windows i would†so i do believe that more time
> needs to be
> invested into getting games working (be it either via WINE or
> Cedega). As a
> university society we have the chance to have a stall at
> freshers fair,
> where i imagine we'll get some computing students wanting to
> know more about
> Linux, and i too imagine that the issue of gaming will pop-up
> once again, so
> as a group of loosely associated Linux people it would be good
> if we could
> do a series of talks and presentations on it. I feel that the
> gaming bunch
> are being exposed to Linux on such a regular basis, especially
> with the
> PlayStation's running Linux and the likes.
>
> So i suppose the next step, if all of those interested in doing
> a Linux
> Gaming presentation email (and i have googlemail, for all of
> those that tut
> at me having a hotmail account) me, i have a few people that i
> could ask to
> help on it as well, then maybe we can do a series of
> presentations and
> workshops and see if we can gather a head of steam and get more
> new lambs
> into the fold.
>
> Let me know what you think, oh what am i saying of course you
> guys will :->
>
> Arron M Finnon;
>
> in breaking news: Home computers are being called upon to
> preform many new
> functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten
> by the dog
>
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