Maikiro's Ranting

Cedega, Crossover and Wine.

maikiro — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:06:51 +0000

Ok, after the 18th October when the new Ubuntu has been unleashed from the depths of Linux Hell I will be looking at doing some guides for Cedega, Crossover and Wine. Biggest advice for everyone with Linux who want to run games is get an Nvidia Graphics Card. ATI drivers are rubbish and I have found are in general crap with Linux. I will admit I do prefer ATI over Nvidia but on Linux Nvidia rocks.

If people are reading this I will also post the findings on R4nger5 website which I have linked to. I will advise now that I am a complete NOOB with Linux, but have found Ubuntu to be the easier one to use for a new user.

Fubared – WordPress theme.

maikiro — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:01:36 +0000

For some reason everyone I have found that my theme is not working. Why? I aint got a clue.

I have tried to swap theme’s and still it dont work. Is it down to works PC’s or net access? Will try at home tonight and see.

MCP 70-290.

maikiro — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:50:14 +0000

Started college course last Wednesday for the Windows 2003 Server MCP 70-290. It is 12 weeks of good fun and hell. )

Work.

maikiro — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:49:55 +0000

What do you do when you come to hate someone at work.

Kill them? Strangle them, tourture them, stab them and the list goes on. Will have to feed the basta*d to my cat and hope she eats him up so no evidence.

Ubuntu 7.10

maikiro — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:45:40 +0000

Are you excited as I am? Are you cumming in ya pants? No?

Well on the 18th October Ubuntu 7.10 will be launched to the world. Plenty of new stuff to check out and play with. goto www.ubuntu.com

Holiday – Cornwall…

maikiro — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:43:23 +0000

Ok its been nearly two weeks since I have been back from Cornwall and yet I have not added anything to my blog. Tut Tut…..

Ok what can I tell you, galeforce winds and rain and plenty of sunshine in september. I stayed in a caravan/holiday park just out side of Hayle. The park was huge and with a caravan looking out to sea it was a lovely view of St Ives Bay.

The biggest downside but also plusside was being there with girlfriend, here children and her friend, hubby and daughter. Downside – I have been single most of my adult time and spending time with three kids and another three adults has hard going for me. I am so used to doing what I like and want to do and found it hard when other people where involed. Plusside – Learning to be with other people on holiday and having to cope with three children and three other adults. I will admit it was hard and at sometimes I just wanted to give up and go home, but I am glade that I stuck with it.

Next year is a trip abroad with nine of us… Gold help me please.

R4nger5 is Back up!!

maikiro — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:34:50 +0000

Yes R4anger5 is back up and running so anyone who wants to pop over and view there rantings and browse there info please go look.

Nvidia + Ubuntu 7.04

maikiro — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:36:40 +0000

Well as you will know if you have been following my rant on Nvidia and Cedega, Crossover and Wine that I have been having problems with Ati and then Nvidia graphics cards.

I went out and bought two Nvidia 8500GT’s and had problems when just one of them in my system crashed Ubuntu’s X server.

Well below is the solution!!

http://samiux.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/geforce-8500gt-on-ubuntu-704/

Zeitgeist & R4nger5

maikiro — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:33:29 +0000

Ok where to start.

After speaking to a friend who advised me to listen to the R4nger5 Pod Cast. The pod cast mainly deals with issues in the news and brings up things that the everyday people dont hear off. In the first Pod Cast they advised to watch the Zeitgeist video which I have done.

Zeitgeist Video.

The video is a single file and covers three chapters. Chapter 1 covers Religion, Chapter 2 covers 9/11 attack on the twin towers and also includes the 7/7 London bombings. Chapter 3 covers about the money industry.

After watching all three chapters I was very surprised on what was there. First off in chapter 1 it says that nearly all major religions are all the same. The same you say, well all the religions have cross references to other religions. These go from things like the date of birth, virgin birth, reserection of the son of god or the god/ess itself. Chapter 2 covers the 9/11 attacks and lots of things that dont sit right. The fall of the World Trade Towers, looked more like a controlled demolition than a free fall from a plane crash. Chemical tests that identified Thermite (which is a demolition explosive) as being used.

The video does argue alot and gives a lot of evidence that I believe cant be over looked.

Please do a goole search on Zeitgeist and take a look yourself. http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Also please listen to the R4nger5 Podcast:

http://www.archive.org/details/R4nger5R4nger5Radio-Episode1/

http://www.archive.org/details/R4nger5RadioR4nger5Radio-Episode2/

Cedega, Crossover & Wine…

maikiro — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:09:05 +0000

The difference’s well I have found that both Cedega and Crossover are more GUI based and Wine seems to be more command line based.

I have found that Crossover was better as World of Warcraft ran straight away where as I had problems with Cedega and Wine. I think the biggest problem I have had so far is to do with the graphics card drivers.

First off I had an ATI X1800XT and I had loads of problems getting it to work. The problem that I had was to do with either 3D acceleration and the ATI Drivers. Now to solve this I borrowed a friends Nvidia graphics card and low and behold it worked fine. So I went and bought a brand new Nvidia 8500 Graphics card.

Problems again…. My old installation of Ubuntu 7.04 had gone bad so I tried to reinstall and now the X server is not working. Reinstalled Ubuntu and then installed some of the Nividia-glx package and the did the SH command as stated. The problem after reboot it killed by X server again. So after the weekend I will try this again and kick the sh*t out of my PC.