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    Re: NeverWinter Nights

    The really important thing to check that you have the 3D acceleration set up properly, then just follow the instructions, and it just works. If you have an ATI card, give up now... It'll run too...
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    Re: What apps being used here?

    Well, you would assume it would be adesklets...

    Just a guess... Although some of them look SuperKaramba-ish
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    Re: Windows programs you can't live without...

    But I can do all of those with stuff built into KDE... To be perfectly honest, can do all apart from the gestures with WinXP with nothing else loaded, and since I don't like gestures, this is hardly...
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    Re: What are you reading (right now)?

    Personally, I just have a bookshelf... Well, several bookshelves, stacked several books deep, but they are in author order, so I can find anything quickly. Never found a program I liked...
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    Re: What are you reading (right now)?

    "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane
    Before that was "Thud" by Terry Pratchett, and next up is "Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction" by Sue Townsend

    These don't seem particularly...
  6. Poll: Re: What is the best CMS to the new UbuntuGames site?

    Out of the choices in the poll, I'd go with Joomla, but have a play on http://www.opensourcecms.com/ and get a feel for a few before choosing.
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    Re: Word association

    Dyspepsi-cola

    (spot the KoL player...)
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    Re: OK what AGP card REALLY works?!?!

    I've got an NVidia fx5600XT which was a cast off from a hardcore gamer friend. Took about 30 seconds to get working perfectly in Linux, compared to about 4 hours getting the old Radeon 9000 working...
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    Re: How do commercial 3D videogames work?

    All C++. Honestly. The "hardware-to-software interface" is the graphics card driver, which takes polygons and turns them into pixels, using the GPU.
    The trick, really, is to use a toolkit like...
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    Re: Word association

    police
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    Re: favorite irc clients

    I'm a fan of Konversation, apart from the resizing it does to itself if you start getting lagged out. On Windows (main box is Kubuntu, laptop is WinXP so as not to scare clients too much) I use a...
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    Re: XChat now shareware

    Has been for quite a while now, IIRC. Certainly there are a lot of third party projects building X-Chat for Windows for free though:
    http://ovelha.kernel.ws/puto/...
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    Re: Official Backports Launched!

    Shouldn't need to, given that all the hoary-backports were from things that were in the breezy development tree, and hence should be in breezy without needing backports...
    If something is missing,...
  14. Thread: MP3 Licensing

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    Re: MP3 Licensing

    Because you can install Ubuntu in a commercial environment?
    Because they distribute it in an almost commercial manner?
    There is a whole page about the issue on the Ubuntu wiki if you want all the...
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    Re: 10 Things I Wish I Could Fix in Linux

    Windows only games are an issue, but MS Office compatibility in OpenOffice and Abiword is at such a high level now that it is only really an issue with Publisher and Access files. I get a lot of Word...
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    Re: Ubuntu logo ripped off!!! Again!!!

    Why does it have to be a rip off? More likely to be a rip off of the MS version...

    And if we're going to go for logophobia, how about Joomla's logo?
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    Re: HOW TO INSTALL OPERA 8.5 in Ubuntu 5.10

    These are the pure Debian repositories, not the one that Ubuntu needs. You'd want


    deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ etch non-free

    for the Ubuntu version.
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    Re: HOW TO INSTALL OPERA 8.5 in Ubuntu 5.10

    Seems very complicated... Why not just download the Breezy one from the Opera.com page, and install with a simple dpkg? It works! Don't need to complicate matters!
  19. Re: Is it possible to get the Breezy iso on thursday?

    I'd suggest pulling the Release Candidate (ideally via Bittorrent) then doing a dist-upgrade through synaptic (Reload, then Mark All Upgrades). At some point, you will have a complete Ubuntu 5.10...
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