TheBouleOfFools
04-22-2002, 09:09 PM
These are unrelated, but three cool things I got done lately. First came the WarCraft III Beta. I was one of the lucky few to get selected to play the War3 beta, but sad thing is it only runs in windows :( That is, until WineX 2.0 came out. I promptly logged into my subscribed transgaming account (well not really. My cable isp has been upgrading their stuff and lots of webpages were offline, including this one :( I had to ssh to a remote server then run transgaming in lynx to get the .rpm then ftp to my computer) and got the rpm and installed it. THen I tried War3 for the hell of it and wouldn't you konw it, it worked... perfectly. There is nothing wrong with this game except some graphical slowness and the settings don't work. 800x600 was just no good for me. In order to remedy this, I compared my Windows registry file to the WineX generated user.reg and made the proper modifications, and now I run War3 at 1600x1200 :) Next on the list... XawTV. I brought my Dreamcast to a lan party I attended yesterday, with getting XawTV to work in mind. I have a TV tuner card so I figured I'd just play my DC on my computer. I used portage :cool:Gentoo :cool: to get XawTV. It nicely downloaded, compiled, and installed everything for me. At first run, things were looking grim, but after messing around with the settings for awhile I got a nice full screen display and me and my friends duked it out in Soul Calibur. Finally... the MOSIX cluster. At the lan party I aquired a 933MHz from my friend whom graciously donated it to me. He recently got a Dual AMD XP 1800+ system and had no use for his 933mhz. It was only a case, ps, 933mhz w/fan/heatsink, 384mb ram, and a mobo. Since I host his webpage he offered to me. I accepted because he insisted ;) When I got home I promptly (well not really... it was an all night lan so I went to sleep for a few hours first) added a graphics card, 10mbit nic (all out of 100mbit :( ) and a 2gig hdd. I had to take the nic and hdd out of my 90mhz, so for now that computer is defunt. I think 933mhz for a 90mhz is a good trade off though :D Anyway I installed Gentoo with getting a MOSIX cluster running in mind. After gentoo was installed, just for the hell of it I did an emerge -s mosix, and what do you know MOSIX is in the portage tree. Excellent! I emerged the openmosix kernel patch on all 3 of my gentoo systems (800mhz workstation, 500mhz server, and new 933mhz comp) then compiled the new mosix enabled kernel. I rebooted, and installed the mosix user utilities, and within an hour or so I had a nice MOSIX cluster with 3 nodes. I'd want to use the 933mhz he gave me as my primary comp but it's not mine to keep... he's just letting me borrow it for a few months, but seeing as how I'm leaving for the summer I'll give it back before I leave. It'll be fun while it lasts.