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post #61 of 83
5/2/07 at 10:40pm
You know, for some reason I find it very funny that you are getting certified before I even bother ever glancing at that stuff. Sheesh I think I feel old or something One of these days I should actually glance at that stuff and see how likely I would be to pass it. Its kinda like my A+ cert, its one of those things where I just don't feel a need to be certified to explain what I already do.

And I will have you know I never finished the game I had 3 weeks to build a level, and played through the first third of the game to get a feel for it before I began. Unfortunatly that lost me a week of build time and I didn't finish the level anywhere close to where I wanted it, so I doubt I got the job. Here is to hoping I can reapply in a while.

Seablade
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post #62 of 83
5/2/07 at 10:41pm
dang it have I been here 3 years already? I am old dang it....

Seablade
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post #63 of 83
5/2/07 at 11:48pm
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Originally Posted by seablade
You know, for some reason I find it very funny that you are getting certified before I even bother ever glancing at that stuff.
The good news for me has been that everything I've been studying I've already encountered. It's just a matter of being able to troubleshoot without cheat sheets that's worrying me. Since the exam is mostly hands on (no multiple choice) it's going to be very intense. I have to start using Vi now, I have to build RH Enterprise from source and learn tons of other crap really well. I think this exam would be difficult for most seasoned Linux admins.

I actually used to work in the game industry about 8 years ago (30 is starting to feel old). I did freelance work on Civ III which sadly didn't make it into the final product. I created building animations for various structures. Near the end firaxis had some budgetary cuts and my work was part of it. The game industry is so difficult to break into so I had to ultimately give it up. I came really close to working on Medal of Honor with 2015 studios. I was just about ready to move out to oaklahoma, but things fell though.

BTW, Ubuntu Feisty kicks ass. ;-)
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post #64 of 83
5/3/07 at 12:05am
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The game industry is so difficult to break into so I had to ultimately give it up.
One reason I am really trying to hit it off with this company. Obviously my primary work is not in graphics or level design, but sound design, but I will do whatever I need to when I need to. But this company is nice cause I will be able to work from home and write my own hours as long as I get my work turned in on time... kinda like my current work in theater. They don't pay at all until the product is shipped, would be a turn off(MAJOR) if I wasn't as familiar with the company as I am, and am willing to take a risk on something they know will be a second job for me and are cool with it because even when they do pay, it isn't enough to live off of. But if I can get in doing level design work first off and move up to sound design etc later on, I will be very happy. Even if it takes a while Seablade Obviously I have a very decent amount of respect for this company to be willing to work this
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post #65 of 83
5/4/07 at 8:55pm
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well, its been 6 days since ive booted into feisty... I've been using some windows programs that i needed for the past week... and i have no intention of booting into linux. is something wrong with me :/

i dunno feisty just feels different from edgy, it actually seems a little more bloated... maybe its just me... but tomorrow im gonna install ubuntu hoary for the heck of it to see ubuntu's "roots" hehe
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post #66 of 83
5/5/07 at 8:17pm
well....i decided to see what all the fus about wine has been recently and installed the game Roller Coaster Tycoon... old school games like this are so fun works good, c'ept no sound
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post #67 of 83
5/5/07 at 8:21pm
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Originally Posted by BIGEE1212
i dunno feisty just feels different from edgy, it actually seems a little more bloated... maybe its just me... but tomorrow im gonna install ubuntu hoary for the heck of it to see ubuntu's "roots" hehe
I hope you're not serious. Hoary is terrible compared to current releases. Soooo many performance issues. Good luck getting DMA working.
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post #68 of 83
5/5/07 at 8:50pm
Well reinstalled Festy after stuffing it up, and got the fan control to work, so now my 9400 stays cool - Had to reinstall Beryl but its all good again. System is working better than before, will be mucking around with a few apps but still impressed.
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post #69 of 83
5/6/07 at 1:16am
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Originally Posted by abf
well....i decided to see what all the fus about wine has been recently and installed the game Roller Coaster Tycoon... old school games like this are so fun works good, c'ept no sound

Funny you should mention that...

Sound is actually a MAJOR issue being addressed by Google SoC projects. And he is working fast from what I can see on the Wine Newsletter. Give it till the end of summer when he is done and see if that doesn't fix it. In the meantime I would bet you are probably running it with OSS sound which was the default at one point.

Seablade
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post #70 of 83
5/7/07 at 11:38am
actually i tried both alsa and oss. under oss there is just no sound from the wine apps. if wine runs with alsa, there is no sound from wine still, and there is no sound from any other apps as well (aka..if i have amarok in the background, it will stay quiet, and then eventually crash)
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post #71 of 83
5/7/07 at 11:50am
Yep, wait for the ALSA changes to go in later this summer.

Also sounds like they depend on DMix to be setup correctly right now.

Seablade
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post #72 of 83
5/8/07 at 2:43pm
I'm holding out for Ubuntu Studio, personally. Should be any day now!
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post #73 of 83
5/12/07 at 9:46pm
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^^ studio is out

tried the live cd..
nothing special... just some specific programs and a black theme... sorta like edubuntu or ubuntu christian edition..
my suggestion wait until you can install it through your gnome environment...

i think the command will be ilke
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-desktop

not in the repos yet tho
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post #74 of 83
5/13/07 at 4:29pm
i installed feisty amd64 on my lappy. the speed difference between it and the i386 version is quite obvious actually... boot time, program start time, and general performance. Still not quite as fast as PCLOS2007 or ELIVE... but certainly quicker than regular ubuntu. i am NOT going to be installing beryl, and i am NOT going to run fglrx drivers. if anything, i'll throw in xubuntu-desktop to make it go easier on the ram.... maybe even go all the way to fluxbox. we'll see.
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post #75 of 83
5/13/07 at 5:05pm
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Originally Posted by abf
i installed feisty amd64 on my lappy. the speed difference between it and the i386 version is quite obvious actually
Maybe that's why no one believed me that Ubuntu is actually pretty fast. I've been running the 64bit vresion since Breezy. Once I couldn't notice a difference in performance between Ubuntu and Gentoo I dropped Gentoo.
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post #76 of 83
5/13/07 at 6:17pm
well..i can still see the diff between ubuntu and pclos. i just ran some tweaks (preload, disable ipv6, parallel init scripts).... and boot time is @ 48.5 seconds, vs pclos @ 32sec. besides boot time, actual application start time/performance is not that much worse.
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post #77 of 83
5/13/07 at 10:57pm
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^^ you're right, ubuntu is just too slow....

when i was on PCLOS everything was pretty good, but the repos sucked and im not a huge kde fan..
so im going to wait until final and install gnome under pclos hopefully everything will be better than ubuntu....
or maybe they'll even release a gnome version O_o
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post #78 of 83
5/13/07 at 11:04pm
something tells me you might like ARCH... it has its faults, but also a good system and a minimal install lets you "build to order" a distro your way. pretty damn fast too.
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post #79 of 83
5/14/07 at 12:50am
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Originally Posted by BIGEE1212

when i was on PCLOS everything was pretty good, but the repos sucked and im not a huge kde fan..
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post #80 of 83
5/14/07 at 9:45pm
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did this command to remove those black boxes when you minimize and maximize, but now it sorta made black boxes appear whenever i drag a window... anyone know how to reverse it

Code:
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/metacity/general/reduced_resources true


SOLVED... disregard
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