![]() ![]() Shouldn't the people who are doing a little better pitch in to help that poor fellow who lost his job pay for some health care, after all? But if those people with more don't want to help out, shouldn't the government do something?Īs I've gotten older, I've begun to really question this form of idealism. It seemed to me that some people had too much, others had not enough, and somebody really needed to do something to even the scales a little. When I was a kid, I always looked to government as a way to solve all sorts of problems. ![]() I rather like that.įreeBSD feels very "clean" to me, and it's rather growing on me. but other than that, it's almost entirely standard Unix tools. You have your pkg_ utilities to deal with packages, and your cvsup and portupgrade utilities to deal with ports. But when it comes to crazy system config tools. It has an incredible manual, far better than anything I've seen for any Linux flavor. Ports I just have less faith in, but I'm not sure my lack of faith is really justified. It's been tested, and it will work (well, not always in Unstable.). With Debian, when I get a package, I know people have used the exact same package on tons of other systems. I mean, it's ungodly snappy from a system this old - of course, I *am* running Fluxbox, so it's supposed to be snappy, but I was running BlackBox with Debian so I don't think I can blame the window manager. I had previously been running Debian Unstable (my favorite Linux distribution), and I now feel a noticable speed boost in X since I switched. Let me say this - FreeBSD is flipping fast on this machine. Have I mentioned that before? If you're using Gentoo, you should probably be using Free or OpenBSD instead (unlease, of course, you're a GPL zealot.) I installed X and had Fluxbox, Thunderbird, and Firefox working in short order (all pulled from the FreeBSD package repository).įreeBSD is the system that Gentoo wants to be. Network card "just works", and I got connected without having to do a damn thing. So far as I could tell, all of my hardware was working as it should out of the box. I did a minimal install and was up and running with a basic system in about 30 minutes. I've messed with FreeBSD in the past, and have some degree of familiarity with it, so this time I wasn't going in blind. So, I threw FreeBSD on my IBM Thinkpad T20 the other day for shits and giggles. And here I was, thinking I was done with games entirely. Hopefully the honeymoon is almost over and I'll start playing less, but I'm already starting to feel the first symptoms of MMORPG addiction. I'm wondering if it's even possible for me to play this game reasonably, without sitting my ass down in front of the computer and pounding through 8-hour marathon sessions as I've been doing so far. I find myself being pulled into WoW the way I was originally pulled into EQ, only this time around the stupid annoyances that always drove me away from EQ are absent. At level 17 now, I am still gaining levels without even noticing it, and I'm just flat out enjoying almost everything about the game. Yet, even though I know what's happening, I just don't care. Of course, as the levels increase, I do start to feel the Skinner Box closing in around me - quests involve killing more monsters, levels take longer to complete, and you have to rest longer after tough battles. Now along comes WoW, the game that I always wanted EQ to be, and I find myself simply loving it - combat is fun and fast, quests are interesting and varied, and talents and skills are actually powerful against the monsters you're fighting. Very few games had even held my attention beyond a day or two, and I had begun to suspect I was done with gaming entirely. ![]() The rewards became more infrequent, the tasks more monotonous, until you were left just scratching your head asking why you were bothering - but you'd keep playing, because you just had to get that next level.Īfter leaving EQ, I simply hadn't encountered another game that had that kind of hold on me. You did repetitive tasks to get more power, over and over. What happens when it's actually fun inside the Skinner Box?ĮQ was, well, not very fun. ![]()
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