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Comment Re: Maybe Their Time Has Come (Score 1) 104

Blockbusterâ(TM)s heyday isnâ(TM)t a good comparison to today. It was a hassle, you had to drive to the video store, browse for the movie you wanted to see, then hope it was in stock. Then you go home to watch a low def VHS on your 27â television set. You then have to remember to rewind the tape and return it in time or else face more fees.

Today you open an app on your TV and watch a movie on your 55â HDTV. I think thatâ(TM)s good enough for most people.

Comment EQ helped me learn Linux.... (Score 4, Interesting) 144

Funnily enough, EQ helped me learn Linux. There was "cheat" program called ShowEQ that would draw a map of the zone you're in and tell you whats around you and what loot each monster had because it sniffed Everquest's packets. In only ran on Linux so I ended up having to build a whole separate PC from scratch, installing Linux (I think it was Red Hat 7?), and hunting down and figuring out everything it needed to work. Since ShowEQ was passive I had to use a hub to mirror the packets to my Linux PC. Once everything was working, it was amazing. I had a whole dedicated "GPS" box that would tell me everything going on the zone, which was really helped as a solo player. Eventually SOE caught on and started to encrypt their protocol, I'm not sure what happened after that. It would be a fun project to see how the protocol works and see how the traffic encrypted with what we know now (if it hasn't been done already). It might be easy to crack if they never updated bothered to update key stretch/ciphers/etc.

Comment Re: duke nuken (Score 1) 128

They most certainly had onboard graphics by the time these games came out. My Packard Bell POS 9000 with a 75mhz pentium had one. The onboard Cirrus Logic card took away 1mb out of my 8mb of system memory. Quake was the reason behind my first computer upgrade - - it needed at least 8mb to run.

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