Ultimate Geek Contest -=Zombie VS V0.Wick3d=-

Swishy · Guru Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ

Just checkin lolol

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V0.Wick3d · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 36 Location: Mtl,qc.Canada

System news:
Wine 20020904r1
mosfet-liquid-widgets 0.9.5r1
connectiva-crystal icon
The Grey Matrix Theme From Kde-look.org
Keramik SplashScreen

Unreal Tournament 2003
Quake 3 arena with point release 1.32
The All Seeing Eye
BitchX

more to come:
Conveting / FS form EXT3 to ReiserFS
Setup a Local Intranet with Apache

lanark · Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:55 pm Post subject:

well, guys...
while I don't like KDE (really don't like any desktop environment) BUT zombie seems to be using fluxbox (my favorite WM, btw), almost as root, my vote goes to him
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phong · Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 8:49 pm Post subject:

Good move on going to Reiser - very speedy fs in my experience. I was able to inadvertantly delete more than 5 years of e-mail (800+ megs) in less than half a second using Reiser on my box.

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tj · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2002 1:03 pm Post subject:

this is a cool read

unfortunately, all my friends are computer illiterate and view me condescendingly as the friend with the silicon affliction, you know, the usual tokenism

...until their HORDC running windows 98/me irritates them more than the neighbor's poodle :wink:

)

they have pcs (I'm being charitable :lol:

) but no one is even aware of linux - even at work, I think my fondness for linux means that my every keystroke is monitored

I envy these 2 guys and their online competition, so please keep the updates coming so that I can derive some vicarious pleasure

zombie · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal

We aim to please

In the past 3 days I've installed, configured and tested several small things that mainly have to do with the desktop environment and the overall ease of use. I really want to make sure nothing of what's included feels complicated or starts crashing. I've considered downgrading to KDE 3.0.3 for that reason, because a lot of (very cool) multimedia capabilities are still too unstable for real life use. We also discussed the use of The Gimp vs. photoshop 7 and, although the gimp still is a impressive tool by my own standards, my girlfriend is convinced she could not switch from photoshop to gimp for the work she is actually doing. So I will definitely be using VMWare with winXP. I don't think there's anything else that will need vmware though.

I've tested gnome 2 and the basic configuration sucks so bad I immediately unemerged it. No anti-aliasing by default, and a window manager switcher that couldn't be found anywhere, add that to metacity's default theme... man, I am sooo sticking to KDE.

Samba is fully functionnal with VMWare and the other machines in the workgroup, but I still haven't found how to browse other machines with KDE LAN browsing, got some reading to do I guess. Browsing my own machine works though. Woo. Hoo. Am I a l33t H4X0R or what. (and it took me like 2 days before I figure out I had to add LISa to the default runlevel...)

There are three little things that bug me these days and even wake me up at night (one of which I am NOT telling you), questions you guys might be able to answer. Is it bad to compile components with different flags, ex.: compiling KDE with -march pentium4 -mcpu pentium4 but adding kdeaddons with -mcpu i686 because if I don't do that the emerge doesn't work? And also, are there altenatives to using the crossover plugin to play quicktime files? Thanx in advance if you can help me

I'm going back to emerging stuff now, updating tomorrow
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masseya · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2002 10:14 pm Post subject:

Here's another vote for Zombie based entirely off his Avatar.

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zombie · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal

My God, I never knew this little guy would become even just a little bit popular some day.

He's one of the characters I had created for an underground cartoon that never went anywhere, his name's Dwight, and he's pissed.

Funny how little things like that start getting attention years after they are dead.

Hey I just thought, I did not post any screenshots... gonna work on that today.

But coffee first...
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zombie · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal

You can find a screenshot of what my deskotp looks like these days. Not too sure about the color scheme but the rest seems clean and convivial enough. What do you guys think?

http://members.tripod.com/knivezout/
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Lovechild · Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 5:23 pm Post subject:

So people are voting on V0.Wick3d for techical merits and on Zombie for.... his avatar ???

:roll:

I don't get it.. but the avatar is cool

zombie · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal

Don't worry, I don't get it either... that tells us a lot about why people elect a particular politician. heh.

At first people were voting for vo.wick3d because he's got a desktop and I got a laptop, then I got votes for using fluxbox for the root account, then my "cool avatar factor" kicked in.

So people, from now on, please vote for me because I use XFS or something

Seriously, I'm almost done building a list of the apps I'll be using, what'll be included in KDE, etc. That should inject a bit of... technologicalliness?... technilicagilicaniillness, ah whatever, into the discussion.
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metalhedd · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 5:41 pm Post subject:

I vote for gwar!

Seriously though, when this contest is over the winner should create a crazy ebuild to turn any gentoo system into this "Not almost there anymore" linux.

zombie · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal

Yeah we have to fear and respect Gwar...

I think when this contest is over I'll just force my girlfriend to use redhat 5.0 with fvwm for a full month...

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rac · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 8:02 pm Post subject:

zombie · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal

Hahahahahahhahahaha
Yup...
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Curious · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 1:32 am Post subject:

V0.Wick3d · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 36 Location: Mtl,qc.Canada

Recent news.

My root is now using Fluxbox.

new package.
Eterm
xv viewer
kportage
kemerge
kget
cups
alsa-xmms

iam presently working on a flash web site i will post soon all my gentoo screenshot including kde and fluxbox

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 6:22 pm Post subject:

V0.Wick3d · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 36 Location: Mtl,qc.Canada

lol!
iam not going to cheat and earn vote with a funky avatar like Zombie!
i will win this challenge without a nice avatar! arg!
curse you zombie and your gwar little guys!

zombie · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal

As I said earlier, you ought to fear and respect (and also vote for) Gwar.

Because they've got plastic suits with fake muscles and spikes and sharp teeth. Raawwrrr...
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lanark · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:49 pm Post subject:

masseya · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 8:09 pm Post subject:

V0.Wick3d · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 36 Location: Mtl,qc.Canada

iam not using fluxbot because he did

i did because i like fluxbox.

look he use kde same as me!!

rac · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 9:43 pm Post subject:

I think this thread would have a lot more color if we could hear from the GFs. Any chance of persuading them to join the party?
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zombie · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal

You guys want a debate? I quit this darn challenge! I have fallen in love with windows 98!!!!!! Nothing else gives me that unique, sexy feeling when I boot, and reboot and reboot and reboot and reboot....
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