Drilixer wrote:

Mogura that is a little off topic

I completely disagree with you Drilixer. If people are making fundamental mistakes when talking about the nature of Planeshift then it seems very sensible to correct those misunderstandings in the same thread.

Very nice work Mogura !!!

I am sure many people will find this useful.

hook wrote:

Are you sure you\'re telling the right prize? i mean 8000? is more then 8000$ you know? ...i would never ever pay that much for a desktop PC

I don\'t quite understand where this $8,000 came from.
7,900 swedish crowns at a conversion rate of $1 US = 0.85 comes to a figure of US$ 929 (roughly).

Thats seems a bit more reasonable  

Niber wrote:

if a remembered correctly the game has no rain sound.. I hope that will change.

Hmmm. There better bloody be a rain sound !!!
And thunder too ... damn that thunder gave me nightmares for a while.
*grins at Venge*  

Ravenmaster wrote:

You said \"traditional\". Does that mean you have heard this argument before? I thought I had not only come up with the idea behind it, but also the example of the bar.

Hmmm, sorry, but neither the idea nor the example are original. I\'m pretty sure the idea has been around for a looooooong time indeed ....

Yes, SuSE includes MPlayer, and I use that for MPEG and AVI files. You do need to download the codecs from the net, but it\'s pretty easy, and you have the same issue with Windows (needing to get the codecs). So the answer is a definate yes. MPlayer also does DVD etc.

Installation is very easy, all graphical, you just click the language, country, enter your user name and password. If you want you can of course click on the advanced buttons and start to configure things like how the disk is formatted etc, but of course it generally makes sensible choices itself so no real need to bother unless you are a control freak. So the answer is it\'s a pretty easy install, no command line stuff, but it\'s worth checking the database of supported hardware at the SuSE site FIRST !

Dual booting, yes I can dual boot Of course, this assumes you have got your disk formated in FAT32 format, not NTFS. I think the default for Win XP is NTFS (not sure though, never used it), in that case SuSE cannot reformat the disk to put linux on. What you will need to do is back up your files to a CD (ie personal stuff in My Documents, and save game files or whatever), then do a fresh install of Win XP, but this time install it under FAT32. Once done reinstall whatever files you used to have, then go into your BIOS, change boot options to boot from CD and put in the SuSE 8.2 disk, click on the next button a few times during the install, 20 minutes later you should have a dual booting Win XP and GNU/Linux system.

Worth it IMHO.

Hope that helps.

This is being looked at. My understanding is that there were some compile problems or some such thing ...

Hopefully it won\'t be too far away, but things happen that you don\'t expect I guess.

We\'re all chomping at the bit to get to this MB release, yeah it\'s damn annoying that the windows users are miles ahead of the GNU/Linux folk in the crystal hunt, but spare a thought for the mac users ... (although, again, people are busy working on this as we speak)

And spare a thought for devs who have yet to see the MB release too (hint)  ;(

AendarCallenlasse wrote:
 

Hmmmm I\'d like to round up every peace demonstrator and send them over to Iraq so that they can see what Saddam does to his people

Perhaps we can round up Americans for a world tour:

How about My Lai ?
500 unarmed civilians raped and murdered by US troops, and attempted cover up
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/Myl_intro.html
http://pathfinder.com/photo/essay/mylai/mylaihp.htm

Or how about the 17 million tons of agent orange dropped on Vietnam, still causing birth defects ?

Guatemala ?
CIA backed death squads
http://www.worldworks.org/ramblings/ciadeath.htm

Actually, lets throw in most of South America for CIA backed and trained deathsquads:
http://alexconstantine.50megs.com/an_international_guide.html

The site below is comprehensive, but disturbing (has an ex CIA and marine talking about what they do to civilians *shudder*)
http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/usgenocide/CrbnCnSthAmrc.html

How could we forget Nicaragua, where the US was found guilty by the world court of practising international terrorism, and fined $17 billion. Every administration has refused to recognise the ruling, and at the time, the administration actually increased their attacks on the country.
http://www.ibon.org/news/if/02/17.htm

How about Laos ? (350,000 civilian deaths due to US bombing) - not the highest estimate

Cambodia ? (600,000 civilian deaths due to US bombing) - again, not the highest estimate.For example, Operation \"Speedy Express\" resulted in 10,899 \"enemy\" deaths ... curiously, the enemy were standing around, unarmed, in rice paddies. You figure it out.

Hmmm, I need to make another message, I\'m running out of space for all the other countries that the US has bombed:

http://www.human-net.org/war-issue/en/facts/usabomb.htm

never mind the ones that they went into and overthrew DEMOCRATICALLY elected governments using violence. The US prefers dictatorships because they are easier to control.

You also said:

Now I\'m sure some you know what a nuclear weapon is. If not I\'ll simplify it

Thanks. The US was nice enough to not waste their time dropping nuclear bombs on military targets. A waste of time indeed ! They just went straight for the civilian populations, so now we now. This had the postive effect of showing all the other countries that they were QUITE insane. Unfortunately, it also means that many foreigners now have a hard time taking the US seriously when they talk about \"human rights\" or nasty terrorists who \"deliberately\" target civilians during a war ...

And Iraq has only got a few missles that extend just past the allowed 150km range. Last time I checked, the US was further away than that. The only \"experts\" you\'ll find who believe Iraq has a real shot at nuclear arms are the same clowns who insist there is a link between Iraq (secular state) and Al-Qa\'ida (devout religious). They can\'t stand each other.