Morning Discussion

by Alice O'Connor, Mar 19, 2010 5:00am PDT

Here is a selection of stuff I done saw and did liked:

Digital: A Love Story is a brilliant "computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988." Centred around BBSs, Digital features love, hacking, phreaking, mystery and a whole lot of splendidness. I'm pushed for time so I can't write more but Amiga Power's Kieron Gillen wrote some nice words over on Rock Paper Shotgun. We have the Windows, Mac and Linux versions mirrored on FileShack.

This child says he is fat and nobody likes him but I do. He is a liar, which I don't like.

I forgot to mention earlier this week that a video replay of Team Liquid's first StarCraft 2 'Liquibition' exhibition match is now online. It is.

Lovely podcast Shift Run Stop continues to close its pincers around Armando Iannucci by infiltrating his circle of colleagues.

I ran out of time. Here's your Morning Discussion. Be happy--it's Friday.

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Spent hours last night compiling Wine to get SC2 beta to install and run. It wouldn't install under crossover so I downloaded latest wine and compiled that plus a few packages then the installer worked.

Patcher seemed busted so then I downloaded macports and compiled that version of wine-devel. Got everything installed/patched but when I run it all I see is the green cursor and a white screen. I can move the cursor around the screen and hear the buttons and see where it changes to text.

Tonight I'll futz with it some more. I will die before I install windows.

Mar 19, 2010 6:25am PDT

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Spent hours last night compiling Wine to get SC2 beta to install and run. It wouldn't install under cros... : multisync
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  Last night I spent hours playing the SC2 beta. : maulla
  - ^^^^^^^^^^ : slickdoody
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  I love reading these stories about how difficult people make their gaming experiences instead of just doi... : LoioshDwaggie
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    I don't think I could produce a windows CD if i even wanted to. and i'm not gonna go buy windows for a b... : multisync
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      uhh maybe you never heard of a little thing called SOFTWARE PIRACY : boring gegtik
      
      hahaha this is awesome : sreyes22
      
      I haven't. What is it? It sounds sexy. : Haxim
      
      piracy sounds too sexy! : Jikim
      
      it's OK when it doesn't involve games : MamiyaOtaru
- you are such a dumbass sometimes : mwasher
- I on the other hand played 2 games and watched 2 replays. At this point it'd be easier to install windows... : boomstickah
- give me your beta account plz, I will gladly play it on my Windows 7 PC : Patch-e
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  "Linux is free if your time is worth nothing." : Dynotaku
  - Agreed. Another gem. "Linux is simple. It just takes a genius to understand it's simplicity." : SgtPepper78
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    not sure how this applies. trying to install software on a platform it was not designed or developed for... : mwasher
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      It still stands. Linux can be a real PITA. Oh, you want to install this? Well you need this, this and... : JohnnyRey
      
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      I very rarely run into this anymore, and while a lot of that may be due to experience, Linux is typically... : mwasher
      
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      You're right. I can vouch for APT's awesomeness. I stopped sampling the various distros years ago after f... : reelbk
      
      ^^ I'm running Ubuntu and have never had a depedency issue when using APT. : tboomer2
      
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      yeah apt helps install things. Too bad what there is to install is crap (former long time debian user)... : MamiyaOtaru
      
      The stable release definitely aren't state of the art. I run it on my house file/media server and it's pe... : reelbk
      
      linux opinions from 1999 : boring gegtik
  - I used to think this saying was clever six years ago it's still true : Halen
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    Considering he is most likely talking about his macbook, I am going to laugh before I find out for sure. : loboca
    - macbookpro baby! : multisync
  - he is talking about Mac OS X : ErneX
- looool : zebosausamite
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  doesn't it work on a mac? : azenmaster
  - no mac client yet! next month : multisync
- lol : abrasion
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  So SC2 won't run under VMWare/Parallels? : briandubau
  - that means installing windows - HOMEY DONT PLAY THAT : multisync
  - Parallels needs a windows license : ryuuseki
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  If you haven't used your key yet, I'll take it. Just give up man. It's too hard. : kek
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    i had to use it to get the odnwload thing linked to my battlenet : multisync
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      Stop being that mac guy and just install windows for games. I am not sure jow many more posts I can lol ... : abrasion
      
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      if blizzard wasn't making an OSX client i'd be tempted. But they are so I'd rather just wait! OSX to w... : multisync
      
      It's a partition not a circumcision. : abrasion
      
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      Great. You'll wait for the mac client and sit on your key while lots of other folks are jonesing for it.... : kek
      
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      Seriously. It's even more LOL for me because I work with the motherfucker who gave it to him and it shoul... : sigpro
      
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      Waste of a key. : Godhatesfatpeople
      
      Not really. In the long run once the mac client is out multisync will play the game way more than I would... : sigpro
      
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      i like to start it up and listen to the music. : multisync
      
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      You could have done that without a key :D : Godhatesfatpeople
      
      but then i couldn't incite the rage of internet nerds! : multisync
      
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      yea that is retarded : mwasher
      
      of course the most msync would play would probably be about 5 games until he realized it is yet another g... : mwasher
      
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      i may just take a laptop from work to play it : multisync
      
      I don't think that complies with your companies acceptable use policy. : sigpro
      
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      No! Not a single key! How will we live! : geedeck
      
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      geedeck stepping in with another awesome post! : mwasher
      
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      but truthfully, single keys are pretty important right now to a lot of people so i can see it would be an... : mwasher
      
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      It's a single key. Before you know it, it won't matter at all. What so ever. But hey, you want a Goog... : geedeck
      
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      That's a great analogy geedeck!! No one was making a huge deal about it anyways, it's just lols that h... : mwasher
      
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      You love my analogies so hard. Anyway, of course it's lols. It's multisync. I think by knowing him so ... : geedeck
      
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      Oh yea we have a higher douche acceptance for msync just because it is him, that is true. :) : mwasher
      
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      we keep you around, don't we? : geedeck
      
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      primarily for returning the snark the mods give the plebs : mwasher
      
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      I understand, people need saving from the tyranny of myself, brickmatt and raoul duke. It's a good job yo... : geedeck
      
      helvetica! the thought of such a duty leaves me quivering. : mwasher
      
      can you not deny its the classic dog in a manger scenario? Especially since the keys are so pined after. ... : boomstickah
      
      until the mac client is released and he would be without a key. its not going to go unused. : maulla
      
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      m`sync, what is your beef with Windows? OS X blows if you're a gamer. : CrustaR
      
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      IT JUST WORKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! : abrasion
      
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      abrasion are you seriously making fun of someone else for an OS related issue : boring gegtik
      
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      I think so, let me check. Yes. : abrasion
      
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      ______________________________OK : boring gegtik
      
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      __________so____last year - and you of all posters, one of my favourite and freshest - I guess even the t... : abrasion
      
      FUCKING SERVED GEGTIK : pancake humper
      
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      Hot off the presses: replying "it just works" to OSX posts : boring gegtik
      
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      From you, the most cliche poster here, come now gegtik, surely you jest! : abrasion
      
      oh you two clowns : multisync
      
      gegtik, I apologise, you're still one of my faves, I was drunk and lashing out like an angry schoolgirl! : abrasion
      
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      No it's not. Maybe OS X to WinXP is a downgrade, but OS X and Win7 are extremely comparable in terms of i... : slickdoody
      
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      i'm still not going to spend $100+ to install a beta that will have a client for my os in a few weeks :) : multisync
      
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      has there even been confirmation that the beta will even involve mac people at all? also, if you asked... : mwasher
      
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      blizzard said the mac beta will start in april. : multisync
      
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      april of 2011 in blizzard time lolllll! : mwasher
      
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      SHUT UR FACE : multisync
      
      I am sorry msync. I really hope to rape your face with zerglings soon. :( : mwasher
      
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      you can run win7 for 90 days without a key : feek
      
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      just download it from their website? : multisync
      
      yeah, im sure it's for download somewhere. someone must have a link : feek
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  You could just wait for the Mac client to come out. : rudds
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    well yes i can but now it's like a challenge that i must overcome! i mean 'spending hours compiling wine'... : multisync
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      it's gonna run like shit and look terrible even if you do get it to work. this was overwhelmingly my exp... : electroly
      
      meh I don't care about that really - at this point I just want to defeat the wine 'White Screen of Death' : multisync
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  Install Windows, problem solved. : NexusOne
  - lol : fsck
  - A Google Phone suggesting to install a Microsoft OS on a Apple computer. Most meta post i've seen in a lo... : Neech
- All those hours spent compiling to play in inferior version you could have just installed windows within ... : Godhatesfatpeople
- haha what a waste : kelerian
- It's like the kid in high school who always wore a black armband on his arm. "Oh wow," he thought, "I'll... : Omaha
- keep fighting the good fight : xxiv
- Even I'm kind of lol on this, wine is a pain and when you compiled it the first time you probably missed ... : Yanks
- macs r just ez 2 use. it just works. M$ sux : Downforce
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  You hate Windows because... why? It's a pain? And look at all you went through, and still no SC2 playing. : David Craddock
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    #1 reason - i didn't want to have to reboot. #2 reason - don't want to partition my (oh so tiny) drive o... : multisync
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      also it was kind of nerdy fun trying to get all the stuff compiled and working! : multisync
      
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      I'm telling your "girlfriend" this right now!!!!!!!!!!!! NERD ALERT : Downforce
      
      i installed plants vs zombies on her macbook and she was busy playing that all night and ignoring me : multisync
      
      If you had just said this in the first place there wouldn't be a giant thread of OMG YOU'RE WASTING THAT ... : yosemiteclimber
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      when you remove boot camp, it removes the partition too. the boot camp install is also much faster than ... : electroly
      
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      really? is that new in snow leopard because it didn't do that in tiger/leopard. so it gives me the parti... : multisync
      
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      yes it did. i uninstalled Boot Camp back in Tiger and got my 10GB back. : electroly
      
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      it may have been after i installed snow leopard, i don't actually remember. but it definitely does it no : electroly
      
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      oh wow http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/01/26/how-to-delete-a-boot-camp-partition/ : multisync
      
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      yeah it's kinda anticlimactic. you don't even have to reboot
      
      Mar 19, 2010 8:53am PDT
      
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      yeah it's kinda anticlimactic. you don't even have to reboot : electroly
      
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      if you install a windows volume via bootcamp can you access it with parallels/vmware or do you have to ac... : multisync
      
      it'll work with parallels/vmware. they can boot directly from the boot camp partition : electroly
      
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      the armor is cracking. My offer stands : boomstickah
      
      goddamnit fine but i will try a few more things with wine first! : multisync
      
      nope it worked in Leopard too, I blew away at least two Win7 beta installs (soon to be a third since I ha... : mikecyb
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      Doesn't Microsoft allow you download an evaluation version of Windows 7? : pancake humper
      
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      No but I am pretty sure you get 90 days to activate : Yanks
      
      Ah, it's through my enterprise account you are allowed to do this evaluation program :/ : pancake humper
- haha multisync good thread. lets go drink some beer or something : aurealis
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  This is me begging for a SC2 key! I didn't get a WE, so this is your chance to make it up to me. :) : StolenNosferatu
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    you are barking up the wrong thread : multisync
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      did you finally get it installed then? : StolenNosferatu
      
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      no but i had to enter the key to get the download to appear on my account! : multisync
      
      well no one else is going to enjoy that key besides you, so hurry up and install windows. SC2 is worth th... : StolenNosferatu
- lol : Phil
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  what a waste of an invite. : Hoax
  - This. WTF. : daVinci1980
- it's obvious your time is completely worthless : TPSReport
- Jesus. : lightly inclined
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  i finally got it installed and playing last night. first thing i've run on my new computer. it's really p... : dahanese
  - I am installing bootcamp but I can't find a windows cd :( : multisync
- You're such a fucking nerd. : Rauol Duke
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  You are my hero...hey fellow Wine buddy!! : Caoster007
  - i've finally been shot down - battle.net dlls don't work with it :( : multisync
- hey mysync Im gonna go play a few matches. : maulla

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