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> I thought that was especially amusing, given that at that exact moment
> both of us were playing CSS - a game which exists only on the Windoze
> platform...
Wine AppDB lists "Counter-Strike: Source Retail / Steam" in the top-10
platinum list ("Applications which install and run flawlessly on an
out-of-the-box Wine installation").
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> The newer Word format is supposedly more open. It's an XML-based format,
> IIRC. I dunno what sort of proprietary stuff they've crammed into it,
> though.
It's a direct dump of the binary format internal structure into XML.
When you see a tag called <useWord97LineBreaks>, what should your
implementation do?
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> Wine AppDB lists "Counter-Strike: Source Retail / Steam" in the top-10
> platinum list ("Applications which install and run flawlessly on an
> out-of-the-box Wine installation").
*one raised eyebrow*
You're telling me a game making intense use of 3D hardware [not to
mention CPU-intensive physics simulations] will actually work under
software emulation?
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>> Similarly, do you know how to edit /etc/X11/Xconfig because you just
>> changed your video card and now X11 crashes on startup?
>>
> <irony> Back when Queen Victoria was a lad</irony> that is the way we
> all did it. If I've made any hardware changes I invariably boot into
> runlevel 3 then startx; if all looks good fine else fire up vi and away
> we go.
> Haven't used a distro's config for a few years now. Call me a dinosaur
> but at least if anything goes wrong I know what I did so I can reverse it.
Well, there are advantages to that too - but it does require you to be a
complete expert in exactly how everything on the entire machine works in
order to configure anything.
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>> And yet, I run Vista (Home Premium, even!) on a rather moderate machine.
>> 2.6 P4, 200GB harddrive, and 2.5G ram. It runs rather smoothly, actually.
>> I didn't notice any considerable performance drop from WinXP to Vista.
>
> In which universe is a machine with a 200 GB HD and more than 1 GB of RAM
> considered "moderate"? That sounds pretty high-end to me...
Well not your universe obvously ;-) In our universe on dell.co.uk you can
get a core2duo 2.3 GHz with a 20" LCD, 2GB RAM and 320 GB HD for 529 GBP
total. And as you keep telling us, Dell's prices are 73x more than
everywhere else, so I think that is a pretty moderate spec to me :-)
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>> In which universe is a machine with a 200 GB HD and more than 1 GB of
>> RAM considered "moderate"? That sounds pretty high-end to me...
>
> Well not your universe obvously ;-) In our universe on dell.co.uk you
> can get a core2duo 2.3 GHz with a 20" LCD, 2GB RAM and 320 GB HD for 529
> GBP total. And as you keep telling us, Dell's prices are 73x more than
> everywhere else, so I think that is a pretty moderate spec to me :-)
Damn. In my universe, anything that says Core 2 Duo on it is likely to
cost several hundred pounds by itself... :-(
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Damn. In my universe, anything that says Core 2 Duo on it is likely to
> cost several hundred pounds by itself... :-(
You mean like in weight?
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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Damn. In my universe, anything that says Core 2 Duo on it is likely to
>> cost several hundred pounds by itself... :-(
>
> You mean like in weight?
Well, I've never held an Intel CPU before, but the AMD Athlon X2 I had
the other week sure was damn heavy for such a tiny little thing...
[What's it made of? Lead??]
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>> Wine AppDB lists "Counter-Strike: Source Retail / Steam" in the top-10
>> platinum list ("Applications which install and run flawlessly on an
>> out-of-the-box Wine installation").
>
> *one raised eyebrow*
>
> You're telling me a game making intense use of 3D hardware [not to
> mention CPU-intensive physics simulations] will actually work under
> software emulation?
>
Software emulation???
Wine will convert the DirectX calls into OpenGL calls. (well, not
"convert"; it just has a DirectX "library" where all functions just call
OpenGL functions)
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"Mike Raiford" <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:47f0f7bb$1@news.povray.org...
>
> And yet, I run Vista (Home Premium, even!) on a rather moderate machine.
> 2.6 P4, 200GB harddrive, and 2.5G ram. It runs rather smoothly,
> actually. I didn't notice any considerable performance drop from WinXP
> to Vista.
Vista Ultimate here on a laptop. Slightly higher spec than yours, but then I
run virtual PC and server apps on it, so it has to be. It plays games pretty
well too.
The only glitch I've had so far is when StarForce copy protection tried to
install itself. One of the 3 drivers isn't signed, so Vista refused to
install it. Would have been fine if StarForce had undone the installation
properly. As it was, I was left with 2 of the 3 drivers installed and got
dumped to the recovery console the next time the laptop booted. Only took
about 5 min to fix, once I found what the problem was.
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