It's Slashdot; just use 'the gripping hand' for the third hand...

As long as I see 'SAMSUNG' on Chelsea's kit? DIAF Samsung.

Maya rocked, fool.

Fallen Angels!

The life of a repo man is always intense.

A big 'ol pile of THIS. The Obama Administration didn't exist for the first four months of fiscal year 2009.

Protip: E = mc^2

Admittedly, keygens are probably among the most likely software to contain a trojan or something. However, that sort of hand-hacked code does quite often throw up false positives. I've quite often found AVG complaining about cygwin executables or scene demos (Which usually have convoluted compressed executables, probably similar to trojans)

Yeah, I could have moderated you, but thought I'd agree with my 2 cents. I run Kaspersky, and it IS mostly free. I pick it up at Fry's when it's on sale, and there's a rebate (for the upgrade, so I guess I paid something at one point). But it's, if not 100% free, pretty cheap, usually gets pretty good marks on the various comparisons, and seems to be keeping my computer safe. And the license has been for 3 copies, so all the computers I have run it. For maybe $10-20 bucks to start, and not much more than $10 a year after that, if anything. I had been using AVG, I find I like Kaspersky a little better. But I have sent money to AVG in the past, I'm not averse to paying for good software.

"Hey, our infrastructure might be falling apart, our education system is an intentionally inadequate rote memorization nightmare, and we recently had a bloodless coup by the corporations (which wasn't reported on much, cause our news all comes from corporations), but at least we have McDonalds and Cable TV!

AMERICA, FUCK YEA!"

Dirty Progressive, hao dare u talk smack about Amurrica!

To be fair, the motion also mentioned limits on what could be in ACTA, including compliance with existing EU copyright terms.

> Ask Transgaming about Cedega. As a former subscriber, I can say that while its better than nothing, the majority of games I want to play on Linux still do not work. So i found it kinda pointless.

I knew somebody would eventually make this type of argument, so as of late August last year I've been keeping score of the games I've *finished*. As you'll see, most of my gaming is done under WINE. I'm not talking Transgaming or CodeWeavers - I'm talking the official WINE, maybe with some patches, the odd registry tweak and winetricks.

2009-08-29: BlackSite (WINE + mousepatch)
2009-08-30: F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin (WINE)
2009-09-11: Quake 4 (native GNU/Linux)
2009-09-13: Unreal (WINE)
2009-09-14: Frontlines: Fuel of War (WINE + mousepatch)
2009-12-12: Unreal II: The Awakening (WINE)
2009-12-13: Wolfenstein (WINE)
2009-12-20: Crysis (WINE + regression patch)
2009-12-25: Crysis Warhead (WINE + regression patch + crack)
2009-12-28: Red Faction (WINE 1.1.33)
2010-01-03: Red Alert 3 (WINE)
2010-01-08: Red Faction II (WINE 1.1.35)
2010-01-30: Half-Life (WINE 1.1.37)
2010-02-02: Half-Life 2 (WINE 1.1.37)
2010-02-02: Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (WINE 1.1.37)
2010-02-05: Half-Life 2: Episode 1 (WINE 1.1.37)
2010-02-06: Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (WINE 1.1.37)

Currently playing: WarCraft 2 Battle.Net edition. Also just brought Majesty 1 (native GNU/Linux version) and Majesty 2 (rated Gold under WINE's appdb).

Most of my PC games were brought when I had a Windows install kicking around. I spent a long time reinstalling all of my games under WINE, and found that around 60% of my collection worked. In the end, since most worked I simply deleted my Windows install altogether. I'm exclusively a GNU/Linux and console gamer now.

Lastly, Id Software, Linux Game Publishing and others seem to have no problems dealing with all the different GNU/Linux distros out there. I've still got the old GNU/Linux version of Quake II which was working fine last time I tried.

Generally no. I got out of the business around 2001/2002. I'd simply built enough machines(personal, business desktop and servers), seen enough hardware(reading over facts/figures/advantages of *insert array type* and so on), pushed enough units out of the door to businesses(upto 10k/mo). That I didn't care to see what hardware was what anymore. I was glad I didn't have to worry about configuring fibre arrays, tinkering around with SCSI chains and wondering why *insert here* wasn't working on the chain but later drives were. Getting screwed around by vendors on mobo prices/cpus/memory at every turn.

I'd had enough, and I simply said that when I was done no more. I built a new machine back about 5mo ago. It ran me $200 in parts(I kept everything else HDD's, CD/DVD Recorder, etc), it's a good mid-range machine. When I went hunting for what I was looking for it still took me 3 days to figure out what was my best options. I actually miss the days when you could plug a Cyrix/AMD/Intel chip into one motherboard and they'd all work. Either by auto-configuration, or by dip switches/jumpers.

Also: Sawyer makes the con game look well sexy.