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Xubuntu is the first operating I chose to test out since my troubles with Vista. Now that I’ve used it for a bit, I don’t think I would like it much. Regardless of what I do, I need to have windows, and why is that? I love to play RTS games. My all time favorite game is of course, Warcraft 2. I play it on the Russian server, and about once or twice a week. I stopped playing it for a while, but I recently played it and I got hooked again.
gaming linux slow · linux mouse click lag · slow mouse response under linux · xorg mouse click slow
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Warcraft 2/Starcraft Battle.net working under Xubuntu
No comments · Posted by A.K. in Gaming, Software
Well, since I am trying out different operating systems now, I want to see if it is possible to do some gaming under Linux. You can install Warcraft 2 under Linux using the latest Wine or Cedega (I opted for this and compiled from cvs). Once I have everything compiled and configured properly with Cedega, I tried to run Warcraft 2 from Linux. Immediately, I had a few problems.
battle net linux · warcraft 2 battle net linux · warcraft 2 linux
I know that for my experience, it was a slight pain to get compiz working. On top of that is the Nvidia bug that makes compiz not work so well on my computer. Overall, my experience with it has not been too good. Don’t get me wrong, it’s beautiful when it’s working right. I can see how some of these features can improve productivity by a lot since it gives you a grasp on "where" the desktop is. I would expect the cube to be very productive when you get used to it. Some people like scale, which is used with expose. Some may even like the wobbly windows, but I cannot find how this can help you to be more productive.
compiz fusion · switch to linux for compiz · thoughts on compiz fusion
I’ve tried using Vista for slightly over two months now, and I keep on having issues with it. At this point, I find that working with Vista has caused more headaches for me than XP, so I’ve decided to use something else. My current problems with Vista and my Dell M1330 are many, but here are a couple of major ones. If my computer goes to sleep, sometimes it will not wake up. That is, the screen turns black and when pushing the power button, it remains black. I’ve had to do a hard reset on this computer more times than necessary.
The computer science major as part of the Washington State University’s EECS department has been declining in the past few years (but it is improving rapidly this year). This was due to a combination of lack of a proper director, hard teachers, and the domination of the IEEE club in the department. The IEEE group, although supposed to also represent the computer science students also, has been focusing on the engineering students, mainly the EE people. Thus for quite a number of years now, the computer science students have lacked leaders as well as weak bonds among the students. This year, we are to make a difference.
The last time I talked about the problems with porting mrxvt to SUA, I had a lot of problems getting SUA installed and working properly. On top of that, was the problem of porting mrxvt, but now that I’ve got it working under Vista, I’ll document what I did incase anyone else wants to do the same thing I did.
My original intent to use SUA was that I wanted a good tabbed terminal under Windows. Although I love PuTTY, it has served me nicely throughout the years, and still do, but it lacks one thing I use the most, tabs. The only way I can get this is to port mrxvt over to Windows. Of course, one of my previous posts explained why I prefer SUA over Cygwin, so I wont go over that anymore, but the simple explanation is that it is faster.
cygwin · mrxvt · sua · windows vista
Unlike the rosy picture I had painted about SUA in my previous post, I’ve ran into a lot of problems with it once I have installed it on my new version of Vista Ultimate. First off, I enabled SUA through the Control Panel, then I went to download the SDK and utilities off of Microsoft’s Website. After I installed everything (by doing default and clicking Next), it told me to restart my computer. It turned off fine, but it couldn’t turn back on!
It went to the recovery screen because it could not start Windows Vista properly. Talk about problems eh? It then asked me if I wanted to go back to previous settings, I was pissed at this point and opted no, just for the hell of it to see. It still attempted the repair process, taking about 20 minutes, could not find anything, then restarted. This time, it restarted fine…wtf? After all that installations of the SDK and utilities, I have the C shell and the K shell on my start menu, neither of which I prefer. So I went to install bash…but I don’t know how to use their pkg utilities. (more…)
bash shell · mrxvt sua · porting mrxvt · rxvt · vista sua
I tried and tried to work with Vista Home to find a good alternative to Vista’s SUA (Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications), and I really can’t find a good alternative. I had to shell some cash out of my own pocket to get Vista Ultimate, but I got it for cheap since I have student discount. There are a few things that I look for when looking for a *nix in windows type of environment. First off, I would like to have a fast shell and that it’s multi-tabbed. Reason being for this tabbed feature is that it increases my productivity by a lot! (more…)
cygwin · sua · windows vista
I was getting ready to test Interix/SFU/SUA under my new computer running Vista Home Premium. What I found was really disappointing. There are NO support for SUA under Home Premium. I looked at this closer and realized that there are no support in any versions of Vista Home along with Vista Business. Only Enterprise and Ultimate supports SUA. For those of you who aren’t into *nix, you may be asking yourself, "What the hell is SUA?" (more…)
